Funniest Threads on Stratics

[Angel of Sonoma]

This is one of my all time favorites. I still laugh when I read it.
Hi everyone please help me

 

[Luc of Legends]

OMG!!! i spit coke, and almost wet myself reading that post. TY TY i need a good laugh..

 

[Captn Norrington]

Whoever posted that thread deserves an award lol.

 

[Taylor]

I was going to post the "Please Add Dancing to the Game" thread, but Imageshack deleted all free-hosted images in January.

 

[WootSauce]

I was unable to link to the original Stratics thread, but this one still makes me laugh

UO Thief | Episode 0264: Poor, poor trammy...

 

[Zuckuss]

Unfortunately the best material usually doesn't last very long on the forums.

 

[Eärendil]

There was a very funny thread some years ago where people posted pictures of their desktops and the computers they played UO with. That was funny!

 

[Tjalle]

The Bieber thread was just a troll though...

 

[whitesmith]

@ uo thief story, poor guy

 

[Acid Rain]

@ uo thief story, poor guy

Yea, I've read that before and abusing some poor dude in a 3rd world country that just wanted to play a modern (at the time) game
instead of wondering where his next meal would come from wasn't my idea of humor either.

 

[WootSauce]

Yea, I've read that before and abusing some poor dude in a 3rd world country that just wanted to play a modern (at the time) game
instead of wondering where his next meal would come from wasn't my idea of humor either.

That's a whole lot of assumptions on your end...

 

[Acid Rain]

That's a whole lot of assumptions on your end...

Not really. The number one concern in most 3rd world nations is clean drinking water and food (medical care also but that's related to poor nutrition and drinking water).

 

[WootSauce]

Not really. The number one concern in most 3rd world nations is clean drinking water and food (medical care also but that's related to poor nutrition and drinking water).

And you know that King Alan or whoever was the subject of this thread was in that boat? Show your work.

 

[Acid Rain]

Not exactly sure what your getting at with this statement...

And you know that King Alan or whoever was the subject of this thread was in that boat? Show your work.

I then tried to have him read the book i wrote about training a thief, but he didn't understand it.
It turns out that his native language is Indonesian, and he couldn't understand English very well.
If he would've understood English better...

I thought it pretty straight forward. This game is played all over the world (even more so at the time this "funny" thing occurred years ago) & this noob seemed obviously not from the USA or an English speaking country. Is it a far stretch to think he logged on from home?

You can Google yourself whether Indonesia is considered a 3rd world country.
1 + 1 = 2 ?

 

[Captn Norrington]

Not exactly sure what your getting at with this statement...




I thought it pretty straight forward. This game is played all over the world (even more so at the time this "funny" thing occurred years ago) & this noob seemed obviously not from the USA or an English speaking country. Is it a far stretch to think he logged on from home?

You can Google yourself whether Indonesia is considered a 3rd world country.
1 + 1 = 2 ?

I think his point was that not everyone in a 3rd world country is poor and unable to get food. Of course there is a significant portion of the population where that is true, but 3rd world countries have middle class and rich people as well. To assume that just because he lives in Indonesia he is poor and starving is a pretty big stereotype that in a lot of cases isn't true.

It would be like someone in another country saying that it's wrong to harass Americans in a game because all Americans must hide in their houses all day living in fear of being mugged or killed because the United States has such a high crime rate. Which clearly isn't true in most cases.

 

[Acid Rain]

American crime rate,while admittedly high, isn't that high compared to other nations. Statistically speaking, the percent of Americans shut-ins is relatively low.
Your argument would be much stronger if you had said "Americans are in fear of death from firearms." Recently addressed in one of my daily read websites
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160202090811.htm[/BCOLOR]
Americans are 10 times more likely to die from firearms then citizens in other developed countries.

That aside, if my perceived error comes off as a mere assumption I apologize. I tend to go with numbers/statistics. While there are always outliers to every Bell curve, my assumptions were based strictly off statistical analysis. I disregarded the upper class due to its negligible percentile in 3rd world countries (and most upper class Indonesians are taught English from an early age) and bulked in the middle class with the lower class because both are commonly affected by the conditions I presented.

I'm sorry if this offended anyone and seemed purely conjecture. Work shown