K Syndrome

Ok, let's get this out of the way first off: this only faintly relates to Gaming in the fact that you may run into people who suffer from K Syndrome or one of its close variations in your adventures in Cyberspace.

K Syndrome is the term I coined on TBB for a good reason. What is it you may ask? Well my dear readers, have a seat...and get yourself (and me) an Irish Coffee so we can walk the planes of experience. It all started on Friday, January 9th. A user known as iKase joined the site. He was welcomed like any other user and he behaved like any newcomer thus far. At least that is how it began.

Turns out iKase had this habbit of continually spewing crap out into the main Battle Center at his opponent that continually got him warned by the admin staff. I witnessed quite a bit of this personally. Things progressed and iKase was negative repped, suspected of cheating in a game of Madden, and he had this deal where he would call out TBB|James in Battle Chat for riding his back. James was trying to keep the BC clear of unnecessary trash talk (and in this case excessive).

Things just continually progressed, and it was the night of January 11th that I was talking to TBB|Victor and decided to coin the phrase Kase Syndrome or K Syndrome for short. It is a term to be used to describe anyone who is just plain stupid or just appears to be stupid, people who decide to try to boss the admins around on their own site, or any number of things that can be considered just plain dumb.

Now, while I was writing my explanation out for K Syndrome...one of the most unlikely of things happened. I was forced to add an amendment to K Syndrome...effectively making it an umbrella term for many other things to come. This amendment will be called Dice Complex.

Dice Complex is where you take what skills you have, no matter how basic they could be, and try your absolute hardest to elevate yourself to near mythical standing in order to get a job. This just happened to TBB and I sat through the entire thing alternating between cringing, shaking my head, and laughing my ass off at how much this guy started to portray himself as an idiot. He insisted on becoming a dev for the site's user interface because he could take the site and make it "smarter" which as the minutes droned forward he was doing the exact opposite to himself. Dice Complex also entails that the subject makes the assumption or at least appears to be making the assumption that the person he is speaking to knows zippo about whatever skills he has elevated to the fake mythical level. A side effect of Dice Complex is anyone listening to the subject speak may actually feel their intelligence hurt when they try to make sense of the subject's topic of choice. Also a minor side effect for the subject is a complete unprofessional attitude despite wanting to get a job.