What follows is an email I received from Electronic Arts this afternoon after playing a little game called Lottso!
on the Pogo.com game service, a place I often visit to decompress and
play Scrabble and Monopoly (almost as vital as oxygen to me but only
played with good friends for strangers are the worst). It would be fine
as a great diversion aside from the fact I simply cannot suffer the
fools (discussed to an extent here)
in the chat bar on each page. It’s an example of the very worst
bullshit the internet has to offer and I simply cannot let these grown
up people [seriously, this has to be housewives, out of work folks, old
people, and people abusing their time at work] use the English language
the way they do without repercussions.
So
I have some fun. Typically I try to coerce them from using emoticons.
Then I try to get them to use complete sentences. Then I try to have
them engage in normal discussion or not at all.
I fail miserably.
These
people are close-minded, low in intellect, and all about circling their
wagons against interlopers like me who want to break their stupid
little mold.
Today
I said “I love you, whore!” in a room. Mind you, the word whore looked
like ^$%#^ but I did use that word. One you can hear on any channel on
the dial and one that if you screamed it in church would have the
congregation staring at Mrs. Kelly, the woman everyone knows takes the
neighborhood sperm count to task every week.
The LOL’rs did not like my sentence. The evidence to follow:
Dear nicknunziata,
Your Electronic Arts Pogo account has been issued a warning for violating the Terms of Service for Electronic Arts Online.
Violation: Use of inappropriate language
Transmit or facilitate distribution of Content that is harmful,
abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit,
defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity
rights, or in a reasonable person’s view, objectionable. Hate speech is
not tolerated.
Chat Log:
nicknunziata 18:24:30 I love you, whore!
You can read the Terms of Service for Electronic Arts Online by going to the following web address.
http://www.ea.com/global/
If you feel that this warning is unwarranted, or if you wish to dispute
the claims of this email, please submit a dispute form by using the
following link: http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/
The Electronic Arts support team is available at http://support.ea.com
should you have any general questions or concerns about the rule or its
enforcement in the game, as we feel it is important to understand the
rule completely before returning to the game world.
Sincerely,
Customer Support
Electronic Arts, Inc.
EA.com Customer Relations
This happened!
I said “I love you, whore!” and had my PAID membership threatened by Electronic Arts.
Because some cunt in Provo, Utah had her lottery game not interrupted at all by a stranger whose hieroglyphic censored text didn’t really offended her at all. These people wield their ability to tattletale like Mjolnir and it makes me wonder if I could turn the tables on these people.
I
mean, I’d love to be able to find their real names, locate them, visit
them, beat them, and then cut their internet cable off and force them
outdoors. In lieu of that I wonder if I too could complain to Big
Brother about their sullying of human communication. Of their
disability to adapt. Of their overvalue of an online lottery game to
the point where they form LEAGUES and keep track of their scores.
These
people threaten the Earth and all her charms. These people make the
2012 Doomsday predictions a sweet science I hope comes true. These
people are like fat, poorly dressed Al-Qaeda members except they have
the power not only to ambush us as we live in peace but also organize
PTA meetings.
WWIII
will not happen at sea, the sky, or in trenches. It is already being
fought in suburbia by ignorant, misguided fools with too much free time
on their hands.
Gotta go. Scrabble’s calling.
3 comments
I was banned for doing something I unknowingly did. I told people about tokens.grabber
i received a warning in my pogo e-mail 9/17/20010 i did nothing or said anything use or spelled no vulgar words this player start calling me bad names such as idiot if i'm not mistaken everyone in the room asked her to leave because she used mean rude words throughout the entire game i typed no vulgar words we waited for her to to play for a while when she returned she said it has been reported i had no idea she was talking to me i would like to read the transcript form the beginning to the end of that game because she was very rude normally when any layer gets rude i leave at the end of the game i have been playing on pogo for many years and met lots of nice players i never had a complaint before that i know of i would not have seen this on had i not went to remove old e-mails because some of my co-players said they tried to e-mail me if i'm on suspension please let me know i'm really surprised she reported that after calling me names as i typed before if it is at all possible i would like to read the comments from that game period i meant no harm i think she said she was leaving or remarks to that if i'm not mistaken players at the table said it first i know it was end of the game but lots of remarks was made to her from that table because she was so rude to us Respectfully submitted
After being verbally abused in a backgammon room, it continued in the lobby, I eventually called the non-paying member an ignorant bitch and received the same warning.For the longest time I have petitioned for members only rooms in backgammon to no avail. So us paying members have to put up with abuse from non members because they just create another free account and continue their abuse. Bull shit to say the least.
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