Top 10 Worst Types of People

As the readership of Old-Wizard knows, we have gripes with many different types of people. The most often cited people who we dislike are the Sega-heads who consistently claim that the Sega Genesis was better than the SNES. We have addressed this numerous times throughout many of our articles (top 5 worst video game websites), but we also gave them their due in our “top 5 best Sega games of all time“. What the Old-Wizard reader may not know though is that we have a lot of heat for more than just the Sega-head. We come across people every day that make us ask ourselves “Why do we have to live in this time”? While this may seem like too much of a gloomy disposition on our part, it is not without reason that certain people just tend to piss us off. We’ll go through these “types” in this list. We just hope that you’re not one of them!

10. People who try to defend the Sega Genesis over the SNES

We’ve had numerous encounters with these people throughout Old-Wizard history, yet they never seem to give up. The Sega lovers continually try to defend Sega over the SNES with Sonic and Shining Force as their main arguments as to why the Genesis was better. All the while they don’t realize the greatness of games like Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Evermore, and the Donkey Kong series. We don’t know if the Sega lovers just like taking the underdog’s side, or if they just like bad games. Is there ever point where they will give up their attachment to sub-par video games? From our experience, not in this lifetime. We do like Toe Jam and Earl though. Sega-heads never talk about this game though. This is curious as its one of the few good games for the system.

9. People who think the latest Star Wars movies were good

Some Star Wars fans just won’t admit that the latest Star Wars movies were dung. They can’t admit that the characters employed by Lucas in the prequel trilogy were geared more towards garnering a wider audience rather then being created for the loyal follower. These movies get boring after the first 30 minutes, and all the special effects and CGI do nothing to save the below average acting and even worse writing. The populace current that resides throughout these movies hinders the experience that we once gained through the original movies, where passion and purpose were the main expression of Lucas and Co. Some people get too attached to who they recognize when something is shit. These Star Wars fans piss us off.

8. Bands who allow magazine writers to make them hold beer cans in photo shoots

We can understand why magazine publishers and writers want pictures of bands that look like they’re wasted. This modern culture that prides itself on the imperative to enjoy is a signifier for these publishers to try to find these bands. But what band who really cared about its music would allow some cameraman to make them put a beer can in their hand during a photo shoot? You see this all the time too. Check out an edition of NME or Alternative Press and you’ll see what we mean. They are being forced to look like they’re having a fun time. This party rock attitude first stemmed from 60′s excess and the Stones imagery. While they came across as genuine in their hedonistic lifestyle, these new bands look like their trying to hard, and their music suffers for it. Take a closer look at the pictures and the music these bands play and you will see how shit they are.

7. People who tie their hopes to a politician

During this political season especially, people have tied their dreams to certain politicians to a sickening extent. All these canards of “hope and change” from these candidates are nothing but rhetoric founded in Greek sophistry. Man is responsible for himself. When things are going shit, its up to them to change their own outcome. No grandiose sounding politician is going to change anything for you. Sure, they may fool you into thinking everything is going to be great after they’re elected, but these promises usually end up as being empty speeches given in desperate attempts for power and recognition. Going to one of these political rallies is nothing but bread and circuses. People cheer like it’s a high school pep rally. Man doesn’t evolve with age. They just displace their immaturity to more commonly accepted social acts.

6. People who don’t appreciate 16 bit gaming

We consistently hear from people that our tastes on video games are too retro. While this was the point of the website to begin with, this isn’t the only reason why someone saying this would anger us. 16 bit gaming was the best era of video games of all time. It was the height of RPG’s, it was the introduction to the greatest video game system of all time in the SNES (which we cover in the top 10 video game systems of all time list). It was where we were introduced to Mario Kart. It’s where the greatest rivalry in gaming history happened between Sega and the SNES. In terms of quality of games, the best came from the 16 bit era. Who could argue against Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 3, and Mario Kart as some of the greatest games of all time? Surely, games will advance in graphics and technology, but they will never have the soul and story lines of the 16-bit era.

5. Business Suit-Wearers

These sons-of-a-bitches are the most arrogant bastards you can ever encounter. The dress they wear symbolizes some significance for others in society when all they are is a bunch of middle-men talking with other middle-men about middle-men issues. They never produced anything of any significance in their life. All they are good for is “talking to people”. They hire people to do jobs they can’t do but yet are respected in most peoples’ eyes because of how they dress. It’s the manufacturer and laborer though who are in the grind producing what these middle men use for a “career”. Call us purist Faux-Saints in the style of St. Wittgenstein, but we think these people need to come back down to the ground to work in the soil they came from. It’s the height of arrogance to be self-satisfied because you wear professional dress.

4. People who drink a beer with one hand and have their other hand in their pocket with their belly out

Are these people not the most irritating people on the face of this planet? You see these types at generic family parties being so self-satisfied with themselves that it makes you want to vomit. Their banal $50,000 a year jobs make them feel entitled to pose in these relaxed positions throughout the duration of these dry events. They have nothing to talk about except subjects as boring as sports and how their slow-moving non-risk-taking stocks are going. They always have a tucked in collared shirt on and wear khakis with a black belt on. These people are the epitome of a self satisfied culture that sees the best of itself in a boring job with an average salary. God help anyone who has to be in a conversation with these soporific agents of humanity.

3. People who wear tight jeans and like Indie music

Scene-sters is what we could appropriately call these people. They stand outside clubs looking like storks in tight jeans and tight t-shirts that usually have some retro product brand on their shirt. They don’t know much about anything, nor like anything in particular besides fitting into a group of people who can’t fit in anywhere else. They look like morons to everyone else except the other morons who look like them who don’t even notice them because they’re too involved noticing their own image. This waste of time pisses us off because it’s a waste of humanity. Instead of standing outside a shit-hole pretending to be punk, they could be working on figuring out a Wittgenstein mind problem or writing inventive pieces on Husserlian scholarship…or they could simply be playing a video game. Fortunately for us at Old-Wizard, we haven’t had to experience these types in the past year because we have all moved away from the city where these buffoons generally roam.

2. Super-Religious types

The super-religious types can be just as annoying as anyone else on this list. We don’t dislike everyone who’s religious, just the real fanatics (Christian or Muslim). Their heights of hubris are on par with the business suit wearer. Always the jurors of proper conduct, these idiots will condemn someone at the slightest falsehood of action, or their perception of a falsehood. These people supposedly never sin, or if they do, they repent their sins to God and are forever forgiven, making them able to sin every second of the day as long as they “repent” for their sins later at night. My, how convenient religion has become for a liaise-faire society who has no time for any real spiritual practice. Don’t confuse the Super-Religious type though with the true believer. The true believer wouldn’t go out of his way to let everyone know about his spirituality and conviction in something greater than himself. Like most people on this list, the super-religious type is in need of an identity, and in this case, its to supplement their inner fear of what is other than themselves.

1. Bohemian Liberals

The bohemian liberals are numerous in type. Mostly you’ll see them on college campuses with people who have no identity so they need to find it in some fake political reality that they conjure up through the internet and by reading an introduction to a Chomsky book. They look and smell bad. They think peace is something that can actually be achieved by humanity. They erroneously mistake Jesus’s parables of individual pacifism for a large scale call for peace. They listen to alternative music and sit on street corners with signs protesting something no one cares about, showing that they don’t really care about changing anything, except their own identity devoid of anything substantial. It’s these people that need a healthy dose of Homeric storytelling and Machiavellian politics to smash their idealistic and limited notions of humanity into the ashes where they came from. You will encounter this type of person at one point in your life. The key is to never listen to a word they say.