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Flask

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So, basically, I contributed to a horror film wiki on Fandom, which was called Wikia before, and I made a lot of contributions with an alias. Or quite often, I edited anonymously without logging in. If you're busy, there's an option to say, it's a work in progress.

Sometimes, I just make a page and don't really add much content on it straight away, because I'm doing it on my phone, and editing wikis on a phone is a pain in the neck. Once I get online with my laptop, I'm sure they know I normally will update everything I add. However, I don't believe in just copying and pasting stuff, because that's kind of lazy, and I think they prefer it if you try to be more original. So I added a page the other day for "Jill Valentine", who is a major character from the Resident Evil franchise, but I took a lot of time to type up stuff that sounded like it was factual, but written in such a way that it was original, and not just copy and pasted BS, and I got this guy deleting it. Then I saw him editing and categorizing other stuff to do with the same series, which was odd. So I questioned him about it. His reply was that it was not "horror related" - despite everyone not living under a giant rock, knowing, that Resident Evil is a survival horror, video game series, as well as a movie franchise too.

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So, um. I see he actually deleted most of the Resident Evil associated edits I made over the past week, and he just created some of these entries again, only to re-write them slightly. And all he added in bad English, in a trivia section, was this...

Originally, she was only a video game character and the entire Resident Evil franchise only a video game.

In plain English, that means what exactly? I wish I was kidding. So, he deleted my huge wall of text on all of these pages, spanning her and other characters, and their full history, just to add that and nothing else. Really? I thought wikis were meant to be encyclopedic.

I remember on Wikipedia, I edited the Zack Ryder page. He is a wrestler, and I argued that his WWE Internet Championship (despite being a crappy toy with social media related stickers on it) was still considered to be an unsanctioned belt, much like Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Championship, which was seen on TV and even held by his son, and also Virgil, and Steve Austin early in his WWF run. Ryder's title was even included in some of the WWE video games, but without the Facebook, YouTube and Twitter logos. So that is still info worthy of being in his list of titles. But I remember the pompous moderators would revert me on a bunch of pages, that one included, and this carry on only happened on hugely popular pages. Never did this occur on articles that nobody cares about.

And IMDb is poor as well. God, that site sucks ass. I paid £100 a year to host a "professional acting" profile, and all that occurred was that one troll would edit it and add fake film posters. I'd grass him up, but they didn't remove one of them. I've even contacted his ISP several times, in New Zealand. He normally creates accounts on forums with low activity levels and posts scat images, or insults me over and over again in regards to personal matters I've gone through, like that gives him an edge.

I found Sylvester Stallone in a shitload of movies that maybe "1" out of 9721 people knew about, and I provided proof. Yes, EDIVENCE. All the staff on the 'Get Satisfaction' support forum did was lock my threads after I complained, and members would say crap like, "That can't be him. That guy has bigger cheek bones!" and all manner of stupid, stupid stuff. "We deleted all the other entries from his page, because we need to be sure it's him" and blah, blah, blah. Really, probably just to be vindictive because I knew about it before they did. And they said a page from a book wasn't proof either. They even thought it was dumb that I 'thanked' him in my web series, because he was my inspiration for getting into acting. Then "Michelle" (a staff member) said that it still counts, and the dude responding said, 'I thought I saw his shadow' or some hooey.

I don't know. The Internet really just feels like a huge waste of time in general. It's like you're doing a good turn and people just spit all over that, and if they sense you're socially dense, they'll keep it up. On YouTube for example, you run the risk of arseholes with a lot of followers deliberately making videos about you if you say your piece, but then Google won't delete their videos if you flag them, because the abusers get around that by saying they're for criticism, since apparently America thinks that's their national philosophy.

Currently, I'm active on only a few message boards now, with no intentions of signing up to any more forums. I don't really count this one, because I hadn't been on here in like forever, and I don't think people on here are really into amateur film-making either. But on the relatively few forums I do post at all of the time, it feels so dead and pointless when it's just the same few users who post, and usually it's only happening in other topics unrelated to the ones I am posting in. Like, I know some forums where only the topics for modding games are active, and everything else is being neglected. Even when a new game gets released, you hardly see any users discussing that at all, unlike the early days of forums when this is all people ever did. Man, I just miss all those old debates. They really kept you up all night.

Then when you go on really active ones like NeoGAF, hoping that it will be more worth your while, because the list of users is usually greater than those on the more niche fan sites, you get eaten alive by trolls if you speak out about how you feel about the direction of a gaming series. As if you aren't supposed to be honest. Like, there's this one guy who derails my threads to the point where they get closed, and that's annoying, because other members gave genuine opinions in those topics, and that's the posts I value over the two word replies and idiotic spam, like people just posting nothing but emoticons and not saying a great deal else. This dude was being a prat, but the moderators there are clearly clueless and they temporarily banned me (again) until the 5th of May for replying, yet he never got banned.

Anyway, these are the films with Stallone that the people running imdb.com didn't want to add to his official page. Seems like the Internet is run by colossal jackasses in 2019 that either get jealous, or just spite people over nothing. I'm glad I'm retiring from forums forever come the end of this year. There's no way I'll ever run a successful YouTube channnel anyway, so YouTube is dead in the water as well. Hundreds of people already have popular gaming related channels, and they know how to edit and display a huge degree of charisma, and I don't possess any of those qualities. I'm never going to be done with nuisances bothering me either, because I know trolls would come and subscribe with hidden profiles to deliberately vote down the videos, as they've already been doing. Plus, I don't think viewers can even understand my accent anyway. So... it's really rather pointless to do anything with forums, wikis, or YouTube in this day and age, unless you're REALLY super talented, and have lots of friends already, which can give you that much needed boost. Even sites for hiring escorts are degrading, not just for the women that advertise on them, but mainly because the people on these adult sites are generally weirdos, and their attitude stinks. Trying to hire someone genuine is like trying to win the lottery. It's not to say that I've never met nice women on there in the past, but it's about as rare as hen's teeth in its modern state.

I really don't know. The Internet just ain't what it used to be. And to be honest, I don't care about Resident Evil any more either. They've just been milking it and doing remakes that all these people seem to praise royally, but they aren't the same, and these fanboys are always so quick to judge anybody that says otherwise. It's not even just Resident Evil nonsense either. People are always being super ignorant online over nothing.







 
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