Study shows that being ignored causes pain.

[theweaselking]

harald387 posted this with the note that he feels it's more that the person in the study feels ignored by two *people* since he doesn't know those are computers, but the principle remains!

This research has given me something I've always wanted: The ability to physically hurt people OVER THE INTERNET.

I must now take up IMing.

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[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of friendslist people I wish would get AIM, and you're one of them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There's a problem with that.

I don't install spyware.
I don't install adware.
I don't install programs with critical security flaws.
I don't install resource-hogging crapware.

This means I don't install IM clients.

(Especially not AIM. Sorry, man, nothing from AOL or Nutscrape *touches* my machine. I like being the sole user here and I like being able to use my machine properly.)

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

Trillian.
Trillian.
Trillian.
Trillian.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Or Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/).

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, it fell under "resource-hogging crapware".

Of course, my new toy would probably not even notice it, but that's not the point.

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

My profiler tells me it's smaller than MSN/AOL/ICQ official-client individually, and on a par with most IRC/Jabber clients, memory-processor-usage-wise (5.3M and 13s/3h, respectively). Given that it does all of 'em, complaining on that front would be a little churlish, so.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Scientists at California University in Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered computers can cause heartache simply by ignoring the user. When simulating a game of playground catch with an unsuspecting student, boffins showed that if the software fails to throw the ball to the poor student, he is left reeling from a psychological blow as painful as any punch from a break-time bully.

I was first going to reply to this with a "bwaaaaahahahaha."

Then I remembered how I reacted to the French that kept attacking me in Medieval: Total War and how I reacted when I finally whupped their sorry backsides.

Methinks I have a little bit of hard thinking to do... well, even though the computer-controlled French weren't ignoring me at that moment, quite otherwise...