Dignity incarnate

Postby xtc » Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:52 pm

Nothing to do with TUGs but I'd hate to think there was anyone who hadn't seen this:
http://www.studentbeans.com/video/wow-freakout.html

Enjoy!
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby TUfriend » Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:54 pm

Yes, I have seen it. It makes me glad I don't play WOW. Although, this kid does seem a little... off his rocker. There's a whole channel with 20 other videos of this kid freaking out about things, sometimes provoked by his brother, other times, acting like a brat. Click Here to see more.
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby xtc » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:23 pm

Thanks for posting the link but you must agree that certain of the others lack that certain "spontenaity".
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:35 pm

I kind of wonder how spontaneous this video actually was. The kid is either psychotic, incredibly spoiled, or was acting. I didn't get this upset even when my mom told me she was getting married to my stepfather, for crying out loud - and believe me, that deserved this kind of over-reaction way more than getting a stupid videogame account cancelled!!!
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby TUfriend » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:36 pm

I agree with Jason, a video game is not worth something like this. But I think he is a little messed up in the head, seeing the other videos, I don't think he was acting. Although, I'm sure there are spoiled brats in this world that are "normal" and would have similar reactions. I don't usually do bad things and I've never been grounded, but one time my mom took away a computer game and I was a bit upset, but I didn't do anything this crazy.
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:52 pm

Apparently I'm not the only one who wonders if this video was faked.
Get a load of this, which shows clips from the same video - with commentary - that I ran across while searching for similar! :big:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyM3nz1g ... re=related
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby TUfriend » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:53 pm

Interesting. I still feel like they're real. There's no one you can act that emotionally disturbed. In one video, they're on a small boat in the Bahamas and the kid starts arguing with the tour guide. I mean like serious disrespect. And the tour guide pushes him overboard. Look on his channel for number 20.
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Re: Dignity incarnate

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:12 pm

Actually I was reasonably sure it was all an act before I was halfway through that first video. For one thing, I have seen genuinely and seriously disturbed people acting out and... well, it's hard to describe it but there is a different feel to it when *they* act out their anger. Scary, rather than funny, is the only way I can describe it.
Second, why is it that someone like this lets his tantrums be videotaped?
Also, I used to be in a dramatics club, and I have seen other students convincingly act out all sorts of strange things that they were not really feeling; I've done it myself. In fact (and I am embarrassed to say this) I once pretended I was having an epileptic fit to keep some big bully from beating up on me when I was in 8th grade; I was apparently quite convincing, but it was all a fake. So if *I* could do it, any really talented kid probably could do better. And from my (granted limited) experiences on stage, I am almost convinced that this kid was acting. At least in the few videos I sat through (I didn't see them all; four were quite enough).
That's my opinion, anyway.
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