re: SC Diplomacy Thread

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SECFanatics is an old site that had too much cliques between certain fanbases, which kept them from drawing newer members and keeping the forums active. So it's not something I miss much. But I truly think SCgamecock2988 is a true Gamecock fan, if a rather negative-slanted one....

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... if he is a "true" Gamecock fan, which I doubt because "true Gamecock fan" means something entirely different to me - then he's still a dick.

He's one of those idiots you wanna drag outta the stands and stomp the shite out of because they are 100% negative about everything and they want everyone around them to be just as miserable as they are ... that's not a true Gamecock fan. That's a sign of being a truly miserable person in all aspects of life. He's self loathing and he projects it onto something that he sees others interested-in on a social level in which he feels is above him. So what he is doing is simply drawing attention to himself and trying to argue that he is taking the more realistic approach to the common theme with his negativity.

Googling "common traits of miserable person" returned the following, among many more clinical descriptions of their actions and habits:

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So if you aspire to make yourself miserable, what are the best, most proven techniques for doing it? Let’s exclude some obvious ways, like doing drugs, committing crimes, gambling, and beating up your spouse or neighbor. Subtler strategies, ones that won’t lead anyone to suspect that you’re acting deliberately, can be highly effective. But you need to pretend that you want to be happy, like everybody else, or people won’t take your misery seriously. The real art is to behave in ways that’ll bring on misery while allowing you to claim that you’re an innocent victim, ideally of the very people from whom you’re forcibly extracting compassion and pity. This may include passive self-mutilation, intentional destruction of one's marriage or relationships with friends, family members and office cohorts. Self-destructive behavior in like-minded social groups where common interests are shared. Frequent and open disdain towards a majority who fail to agree with, or show empathy towards, a negative view on a particular topic, situation or current event. All of these might be viewed as attempts to garner attention to the pathologically miserable person.

Being miserable can give the impression that you’re a wise and worldly person, especially if you’re miserable not just about your life, but about society in general. You can project an aura of someone burdened by a form of profound, tragic, existential knowledge that happy, shallow people can’t possibly appreciate.

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I do not even want to be around someone like him ... IRL I never would be - I'd walk away and avoid him like the plague.