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"Overly long speech" revenge fantasies

RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
edited 2011-10-28 20:36:51 in General
At least gouging out someone's eyes is guaranteed to produce the desired physical effect.

Comments

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Man if only people would sit still and listen while I give my long diatribe about why I'm superior to them.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Lol Atlas Shrugged
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    How Atlas Shrugged should have ended.

    Option 1:

    "Hey our electric torture device broke down"

    "I can teach you how to fix it, rendering you a useless sheep!"

    "Nah, it's cool. We've got thumb screws."

    Option 2:

    "Hey our electric torture device broke down"

    "I can teach you have to fix it, rendering you a useless sheep!"

    "Gee thanks for showing us, John!" (turns on Machine)

    "YAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
  • AHRAHR
    How Atlas Shrugged should have ended:

    Bioshock.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/393124.html
  • GlowsquidGlowsquid
    Silence is golden.
    whenever people sperg out their ridiculous "The reason you suck" speech or w/e, I alway read them in this voice.

    it's invariably an improvement,
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    How Atlas Shrugged should have ended:
    Bioshock.

    Were you any other person, I would love you forever.

    You shall be satisfied with the knowledge that in another universe, I might.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    As a planeswalker/timelord/etc, I can attest that AHR's unlovability is a constant across all possible worlds.

    :P
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Only Zelretch can see alternate possibilities. You are not a possesor of the Second Magic, liar. 
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Gelzo is Doc Scratch.  He can see alternate universes if he wants to.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Whenever I hear of these, I think to myself "wow, how pathetic".
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    This probably won't surprise anyone much, but in real life people who take brutal revenge don't usually give you a big speech about it beforehand, for the obvious reason that they don't want to tip you off that they're about to take brutal revenge.


    To quote Henry Hill from Goodfellas: "If you're part of a crew, nobody tells you they're about to kill you. There aren't any great arguments or curses. Your murderers come with smiles."


    Which is actually a lot scarier than some enraged nerd diatribing at you.

  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-10-29 14:25:56
    Loser
    I am not really familiar with Atlas Shrugged, but I think that Ishmael is pretty bad about rants. I guess the difference is that the entire book seems to basically be just one long rant about the "takers" and the "leavers" and how people have wrecked the earth (as opposed to a long speech of revenge). I feel like it can be especially annoying when the people who are giving such speeches have a token straw opponent or listener who basically just says "okay," "yes," and such too. Ishmael features a lot of that kind of reaction actually, so I guess that is part of the reason why it bugs me so much.

    I think it is generally a better idea to just write a series of essays if you want to make a point like that instead of awkwardly inserting it into a narrative. That being said, I suppose the narrative technique is actually somewhat effective. I hear that plenty of people have said that reading Atlas Shrugged or Ishmael changed their lives forever. Personally, that worries me a bit, but whatever.

    Revenge fantasies in general just seem counterproductive to me. I believe that forgiving other people can actually make you feel better. Imagining disturbing ways of getting back at people will only keep how you have been wronged in your head and thus make it that much harder to let go. In the extreme, I think this can mean that you start dividing people into overly simplified good and bad categories and ultimately never give people a second chance once they do something to harm you.
  • AHRAHR
    JC: D:

    WHAT DID I DO WROOONNNNG?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Not worshipping me. Duh. :p
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^ Juan, nobody worships you

    We all fear you and your awesome might
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