1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.
2a. The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class.
2b. Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.
I'm sure many who play online games are familiar with this term. Are you? Frankly speaking, not only gamers behave this way, but even people in real-life behave this way sometimes. Otherwise how would we get those unreasonable customers, who thinks they are the cream of the crop and therefore deserves nothing but the best, while the rest of the population "deserves" the "lousier" things in life?
In every game, I'm sure there is always that bunch, who thinks very highly of themselves. You know what I mean: that bunch that always keeps to their own clique only, who do not bother to talk or stand near to you because of your noobish-looking character, because you're new in the game, because you're not one of those influential peeps or have friends who are influential, because you're not seen as "hip" or "powerful" enough. So they just ignore you, (be glad if they are even willing to talk to you), "dump" you to one-side or just treat you as if you ate glass while growing up (i.e. transparent). Its quite saddening when elitists are that powerful, that they can even threaten someone else due to their status in-game "if you want to continue playing this game, then you better watch out......"
So what happens then? Just ignore these people and play the game enjoyably (if you can take it). But sometimes it is hard to continue without any friends to play and chat with, talk rubbish to or just joke around. And that, is almost always the reason, why games come to be stagnant after some time. Nobody new joins the game because there are no other friends to be made, the regulars are unfriendly (and friendly only amongst themselves) and the loneliness gets so boring.
Sometimes its all too sad and hurtful, even for myself to take. As much as I want to be thick-skinned, or be more patient for me to "get to know" or wait for others to "warm up to me". For most females, the most hurtful someone else can do to them, is to exclude them from a group. To not allow them to have a sense of belonging. I've experienced that a few times myself in life. I guess I have never been much of a social person, as much as I wanna be, otherwise I would have like dozens of friends or acquitances by now. Someone asked me recently, "How come you don't have much friends? You dao (snobbish) izzit?" I don't think so. Or I hope to think that the opposite is true.
I wonder how long more I need to persevere, in order to see the light at the end of the tunnel. How much longer should I wait? Or should I just jump to somewhere my company is much more enjoyed and appreciated? And how would I know whether I'm much more appreciated there? Perhaps happiness is the key. When I'm happy, I know at least I've got somethings right.....
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