Adi Explains it All: Dealing With Trolls

Lately I’ve been noticing something.  A lot of the humans I’m acquainted with are suddenly and unceremoniously being banned from Facebook for various amounts of time.  The funny thing is, it’s always the humans responding to other humans who deserve to be banned from both social media and, frankly, your entire planet.  I’ve always found this interesting because despite the fact that my human and I go after these same trolls, we’ve never once had to deal with any kind of banishment.  Frankly, the only time I was ever in Twitter jail was when I tried to get myself put in to see what would happen.  My human even tried to get a Facebook ban once, posting the exact same thing another human was banned for posting, and even after asking someone to report him, he couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t help but wonder why that is.

Not too long ago, I think I figured it out.  As much as humans might have their hearts in the right places dealing with assholes, your strategies are completely wrong.  You sink to their level, retaliating against their comments, insult for insult, and that’s not how it works.  The only thing that does is get you banned when the goal is to get them.  How do I know this?  Experience.  I can sit down and spend a weekend on twitter, responding to troll after troll, answering every single comment they post and face absolutely zero consequences for doing so.  Presumably you’d like to know how, so let me share a few things I’ve learned:

Adi Explains It All: The Capitol Riots

January 6, 2021.  Especially if you live in the States, it’ll be one of those dates that live on in infamy.  A bunch of Donald Trump supporters, spurred on by calls for “Trial by Combat,” and the fervent belief that the President of the United States supported them, did something that hadn’t happened since Canada burned down the Whitehouse in 1812 (Yeah yeah, Canada was still a British colony at the time, but I’m still not wrong).  They stormed the Capitol building where the Vice President was leading the House in affirming Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.  Humans who had been conned into believing the election had been rigged (I ain’t gonna call them protestors, and if you do, just leave my site now), stormed the building and absolutely trashed the place in the fervent belief that they’d be able to overturn the fair and balanced democratic process.  The only ones there to stop them were a Capitol Police Force that was woefully unprepared for any kind of rioting and were denied assistance from the National Guard that they so desperately needed.  Granted it didn’t hurt that a bunch of the insurrectionists were current/former police and military who thought the idea of being legally racist was just great and didn’t want to give that up.

Adi Explains It All: Donald Trump

My human was telling me awhile back about this boss he had.  Really charming human, nice lady.  Entrepreneur, business owner, she knew how to sell.  This human could get you in the door and wanting to work for her based on nothing more than her ability to get you to like her.  The thing was, as soon as you were in the door, it was easy to see that she had no idea what she was doing.  Once she’d talked you into her employ, she had absolutely no idea what to do with you.  She didn’t know anything about running a daycare beyond the business side of things, and while it took almost a year, my human could see the writing on the wall and got out as soon as he could.

Adi Explains It All: Patriotism

 Yeah, its been a good while since I did anything with this blog.  What can I say? The ideas just weren't coming.  However, I think I might have something, so let's try a little experiment and see how this plays out.

First, a quick bit of background.  I put out a tweet about how the Mouldy Tangerine running America had said something really Nazi-esque (I think it might've been about the "1776 Commission") and James, my graphics guy, responded.  Here's what that looked like.

Retro Fat: A Word From My Human (March 10, 2014)

Allow Me to Retort*: Trek-volution

(*Title credit to David Beau Paul of loungegeeks.com, oneofus.net, & formerly of spill.com's "The League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen")

While nowadays my Sci-Fi of choice is Doctor Who, I'm very much a life long Trekker. To this day I can still remember watching Encounter at Farpoint with my family when it originally aired in 1987.  Hell, I followed that with Star Trek IV as one of the first films I remember seeing in theater (the other being Tramsformers).  Even my first Cosplay at my first Con was a home made Trek uniform.  As much as I've loved other Sci-Fi franchises that came and went, such as Firefly, and grew up on things like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I was always a big Trekkie. 

The Trick to #GvNLive (May 26, 2016)

So you go to a Geeks Versus Nerds show, and you hear about this Twitter contest called #GvNLive. You want that prize, but you got no idea what you gotta do to get it. Well stick with me, and you'll dominate in no time! What makes me so qualified? Three #GvNLive wins and five honorable mentions. More than any human has pulled off in the history of ever. I'm so good at this I retired to let the competition get better. That's who I am, the best of the best. Here's how I do it:

Galactic Gimmick Infringement (July 10, 2016)

So March Break 2016 wraps up and I'm at the Chapters Store by the Mic Mac Mall helping out with Hal-Con's "Invasion,” and raising money for Kids Help Phone and stuff. Awesome, always happy to do it. But then while I was there, somebody has to go and show me, the book. It's a book called "The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend," written by some guy named Dan Santat and published in 2014. The thing seems cute and innocent enough, but here's the thing. Take a look at the cover and see if you recognize anything: