There are things that immediately make me hate someone.

Ok, so... this seems to happen very often online, and not very often in person. Probably because anonymity makes people feel like they can be ignorant, hateful dicks and no one will do anything about it.

In particular, the word "fag" sure seems to get tossed around the internet a lot... FAR more often than it does in daily conversation. When someone calls someone else online a "fag," the name-caller pretty much loses all value to me as a human-being, and I imagine that they are that angry german kid from that one youtube video.

Seriously!? People... you need to realize that people hate you. If someone is being annoying online, and you call them out on it, people are going to be on your side 99% of the time. When you call them a name that basically alerts the world that you hate a particular group of people (in this case homosexuals) and you are comparing this person to the prejudices you have for that group, no one is on your side. I don't care how obnoxious that other person was being, everyone is now focused on you being an asshole.

I love calling people out when they're being dumb or annoying (for example, in a game yesterday a guy--named Capt. Awesome or something stupid like that-- asked "Why does the GreatAxe of Ebon Hold look like an axe?" which was super funny, for obvious reasons.) Just pointing out their mistake or annoying behavior will amuse most people, and their defense usually just makes your point stronger. (In this example, the guy's response to, "You do realize it ~is~ an axe, right?" was, "u do relize ur a 12 yr old, wholl never get laid, rite?" I. laughed. so. hard. I didn't respond, so I'm sure he felt like he had won, and that I really was some virgin little boy. I don't care. Too be honest, responding would've just made him look right anyway) Don't call someone a name. It makes you look like an idiot, and/or a jerk. If it makes you feel empowered, then you ~are~ an idiot and/or a jerk.

Ugh. I wish you could punch someone through the internet. like if there was a < /punch > command or something.