BattyMan's Feel Good Article of the Year ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Ryan ." Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:44:40 -0400 After submitting my Harpie article I received a good amount of Emails in response to it, some good some not so good. I had no idea people would feel personally insulted when I bashed Harpies. When I submitted the article I never expected to anger anyone, I thought people would just find it funny. But many readers did not laugh, instead they sent me Emails explaining in detail how low my I.Q. is. One Email said: “You conveniently left out one of the keys to the decks success, Harpies Hunting Ground.” Uh oh, he found out my angle. The whole reason I made that article was to trick people into thinking that Harpie decks are horrible. And the motives behind my actions are so devious they remain a mystery even to me. One email started of with “u r so wrong” (interesting side note: it is theoretically impossible to make a weaker argument than that). Another Email said: “First of all you suck. Second if you think that a Harpie deck is only going to have a bunch of ladies and some sisters you need to grab your ears and pull”. (Don’t feel bad if that ear thing confused you, I don’t know if that was an insult or not either) “Most of the people that I know that play that deck have slate warrior duh”. That’s just perfect! Someone tells me that you can use Slate Warrior in a Harpie Deck after I submit the article! Man, I feel like an idiot. Anyway, there was a point to all that. I wanted to give a small example of the way duelists feel towards each other. Why do we do this? Duelists need to stick together. Just look at my findings: When I entered “Yu-Gi-Oh sucks” into Google I got over 1,200 matches. That means that more than 1,200 hundred people dislike Yu-Gi-Oh so much that they felt the need to say so on the internet. On a side note: I looked at the first result and it was a petition to keep Yu-Gi-Oh on the air. Many people were signing it saying Yu-Gi-Oh sucks. I even found some people misspelling curse words on purpose in order to describe their displeasure towards the show without getting in trouble, very clever. Or maybe people who sign online petitions simply lack the education required to spell words correctly. Interestingly enough, however, people who signed with names like “Yamigirl” and “Dark Magician Freak” do in fact want the show to stay on the air. On a side note to the previous side note: When I searched for "Yu-Gi-Oh Jelly Beans" on Google I got no results. This tells me that we are all in dire need of a tasty, Yu-Gi-Oh themed, fruit snack. As trite as it might sound, we need to stop bickering with each other. I only searched for “Yu-Gi-Oh sucks” and came up with over 1,200 results. What if I had searched other anti Yu-Gi-Oh phrases? As anyone who has ever used a message board should know, if people on the internet have learned anything it’s how to say they hate something in hundreds of different ways. Thanks to the internet there are now more synonyms of the word “hate” than any other word in any language. If I typed those next to “Yu-Gi-Oh” and searched we’d be talking about results in the millions. Just look at this disgusting, biased, article of hatred I found! Copy and paste the address into your browser to see this piece of garbage: http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/CCGTips/April2005/Yugi-07/BattyMan%20says%20Just%20Say%20No%20to%20Harpies.txt So when you’re on the Pojo forums just because someone posts a deck you don’t like there’s no need to say “u suck, i hope u die” (actual quote from someone on the boards whose avatar was a smiling anime character). Or if you see a deck opinion you disagree with I know you may become filled with murderous rage, but resist the urge to respond with an unintelligible string of curse words. And when you start that argument (actual argument I found on the boards) about whether Phoenix God of Nephthys is the actual god or simply the Phoenix of the god, Nephthys, don’t go to library to do extensive research on foreign deities just so you can prove the other guy wrong. Simply admit to each other that you both need to immediately stop arguing, go do something completely unrelated to Yu-Gi-Oh, and take at least a two week break from the boards. And if you’re talking to someone online and you’re not sure what you’ve typed is good or bad here’s what you do: Imagine the person you’re talking to being right in front of you instead of being miles away. Now, if you were to say to him what you want to type how would he react? If the answer is “punch you in the face” than hold of on what you were going to say. Whether you’re talking at a tournament, on a forum, or to your super-intelligent dog that you taught how to play Yu-Gi-Oh keep it civil. When you’ve got something like Yu-Gi-Oh in common with someone else there’s no reason to get angry with them. So I guess the point of this article was: If you send me hate mail I’ll sarcastically mock you in one of my articles. I mean, don’t look at other duelists as enemies look at them as friends. Just remember, whenever you feel the need to notify someone that they suck and have a bad deck stop and think to yourself “What Would Yugi Do?” This is BattyMan saying, am I the only one who thinks “What Would Yugi Do?” would look awesome on a t-shirt? Email me if you liked the article at BlueYoshi2187@hotmail.com