Not sure yet either, I stopped going during GT5 because the drag community acted like I've seen in real life. Alot of chest beating and slang talking with no real results. So I didn't bother with it after a while and I'd hate to do so when PD actually (if they do) add a drag strip. Drifting wasn't as bad but it could be just not as frequent.
Good point. I mean I think of the tricked out mobs showin' off their cars that I'd see in the downtown in the city where I lived years back. I'd noticed a guy with the crowd that I'd known in my youth, and he was acting like a silly teenager, even though he was already in his 30s by this point.
When he was around 20, he was a skater dude running with the punk crowd (in the early 90s), in the early 00s, he was 30 & running around with the souped up car crowd doing much the same thing. The trash talkin', the braggin', the boastin', the nonsense.
Anyway, it's a general attitude is what I'm getting at. Or maybe a lifestyle or culture, something like that.
They consider that and the drag sections to be "the armpits of the site"
Is this the proverbial "they"?
Just pointing out that lots of like equate to a popular view, not necessarily the right view. Otherwise America would have nothing but great presidents...
Well, again, that's a matter of opinion. Another area where "I like so it must be right" comes in.
You pick any president & there are going to be people who liked that president. And maybe they have their reasons in that maybe that president really did do stuff they approved of, regardless of what other people think about it. I've seen people commending Nixon occasionally, to this day, after all. I guess they have their reasons. I mean no one is 100% bad. Or that would be very rare anyway. Nixon was pretty thoroughly disgraced, but I'll admit that he had the occasional halfway decent idea here & there probably. That he was generally a nutball is another matter.
My personal example is this... I live in an area SATURATED with people of Italian heritage. They're maybe the 1st or 2nd, or maybe 3rd generation in this country, of immigrant ancestors from Italy.
We have MANY fantastic authentic Italian restaurants & pizza parlors. Really, like the most wide range of pizza parlors anywhere, with whatever kind of pizza you'd want. And Italian restaurants of every "grade", for every budget, from walk-in take-away deli style places, to sit down fancy high-end luxury fine dining. Places run with care by families, where they treat their employees with respect, and their customers like family.
Yet we still have Olive Garden, Pizza Hut, and Dominos. And to me, all those are actually more expensive than the local small business restaurants, and Olive Garden is bland, Pizza Hut is over-microwaved, and Dominos has cardboard crust... Yet people are lining up at those places.
If those people said that Olive Garden or Pizza Hut were
better than the local places they'd never even eaten at, I would call them
ignorant, but I wouldn't call them "wrong".
I would call them rude though, if they went around bashing local pizza parlors without ever having tried them!
I'm doing my best not to feed trolls, but they feed off each other as well, so I don't think just ignoring them does any good really.
Yeah.
Well, in full disclosure, I've hit the "like" button on more than one sarcastic post.
That probably wouldn't earn me a Good Upstanding Citizen award on its own.
On the other hand, this is definitely not a distinctly "black or white issue" with a clear line. Generally trolling is more about quantity in my mind. The occasional sarcastic comment is not, to me, trolling. But when I see the same person in a variety of threads on different topics, pushing their one particular beef over & over again in a rude manner, that's when the term "troll" pops to mind.
