I for one, am sick and tired of people deducing what is a scam and what isn't and how we should react and how we shouldn't, and what our interests should be and what they shouldn't be especially when their exposure to telemarketers is very slim at best, as if one people are one entity that must "understand" everything. My life story. It always comes off as thinly veiled elitism to me, even if used jokingly.
Bepbo has his thing, Esch has his thing, Demi has his thing, and I have my thing.
So the next time Van Cruncheon makes a post about laptops I'm going to make fun of him for advertising products that could be a "scam" depending on your perspective on CPUs and embedded graphics. And I'm going to drill this into his head every time he posts something that goes against the electronics status quo. Because you know, that's funny as shit and not obnoxious, right? But you see, notice how people only make these observations about people falling for scams as if they have certain expectations. And they'll try to convince you they're not elitist.
I have to deal with this shit as it is in real life, please stop bringing up scams into online conversations on a nerd message board that stands as one of few institutions where I can feel comfortable "nerding out".
