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Episode III of the Sock Wars saga...

"Ogith", the racist troll seems to be at a loss of words. And since his last strategy of pretending I sent him a death threat (see Episode II) didn't work out that well his "brain" (well, I still have to call it that - but I have already sent some tissue samples to our laboratory that will finally prove my suspicion that instead of a real brain Ogith instead is housing a fatty, displaced extension of his liver in his skull) spit out a new way to go:

He started flagging down videos of me and other youtube users. Actually it's quite likely he already sunk to that level before I ever met him, but this is the first time I came across him doing so. His obvious targets, of course, were the first two videos I made about him - which earned me two strikes on my youtube account and got me locked out of it for two weeks. Also he started doing the same to some other users who mirrored one or two of the videos in support.

In return I sent my computer's new mobile Multicore unit after him... And, boy, did Multicore mess up! It appeared on Ogith's screen just when his favourite TV show was about to begin and for some reason it still was in Demo mode, using the Aperture Science branding even though I had already registered it! Also it seemed to be under the impression that Ogith was an employee of Aperture Science and thus required to follow Aperture Science protocol regarding secrecy of documents...

And instead of asking Ogith for a calm discussion of our differences as instructed it kept on making fun of him, even calling him "stupid"! Man, Ogith - I'm really sorry for this! Also I gave it no permission to check out your private collection of gay hardcore porn! I found it in the next morning with a wiped browser history and heavily panting and claiming to "have done nothing wrong!"... I have no idea what exactly went on, but maybe you should have a doctor check your computer for sex viruses...

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Yes, yes, I know - that's a GLaDOS memory core from the amazing game "Portal" by Valve (buy it! buyyyy iiiit!) with some colour adjustment and it even has the "Aperture Science"-logo in it...

But as I stated previously - I like toying around with stuff, and I am still in search of THE voice for my starship's computer. And well - just recently I came across a tutorial that explains how to create your own "GLaDOS voice" that's preeetty close to the original. I think I will stick with this one - personalizing it a little so it will still be similar to GLaDOS, but not exactly the same...

But I totally love the sliiiightly (just a tad!) twisted mentality behind GLaDOS, and think that a similar character for my computer character in my videos would work quite well, right? What do you think?

Oh - and yes, I know this video doesn't have the starship-view-screen in it, but there's a simple reason for that: It's, after all, not taking place on my bridge, but in Ogith's living room, on his TV - and I couldn't bring myself to actually SHOW that place... It's just too vile... ;) Oh - and that's his own voice replying to multicore, simply taken from some of his videos... ;)

To be continued...

The Sock Wars Saga:
The story of my encounters with the saddest troll I've ever met on the world wide web since I came here in '92...
Sock Wars Episode I: One Man and his Socks
Sock Wars Episode II: Who let the Socks out?
Sock Wars Episode III: Socks 3D!

The Sock Wars Holiday Special:
"The Sock Wars Holiday Special" is a series of videos that aren't part of the main "Sock Wars" series, but that still are strongly related to it.
pt.1: On what does youtube base their decision whether a flaging is justified?
pt.2: Ogith has got friends?
pt.3: Ogith declares "total war"...

ps:

### Explanation: The youtube flagging system. (if you know how this works you can simply skip this paragraph). Youtube, like any other social media webpage has Terms of Service and User Guidelines that tell you what you can and can't do. Also like many other social media pages they have a "flagging system", that allows you to report videos, channel or video comments that in your opinion break those terms of service. Youtube claims that, if you do so, one of their employees will review the flagged video or comment and decide whether it really does break the TOS or not and based on that will either acknowledge the flag as justified, leading to the video etc. to be removed and earning the offending channel a "strike" (1 strike: warning, 2 strikes: 2 week suspension from the channel, 3 strikes: you're out, channel and all videos on it get removed) ... or, if the flagging wasn't justified, not. When you get flagged and think this happened unjustified you can apeal said flag which will then lead to yet another youtube employee re-view the video/comment and the TOS violation claimed in the flag and then do another judging. Apparently this is not exactly what happens behind the scenes at youtube though: their staff isn't big enough to really do that for every single flag. To many users it's much more likely that most of the flagging systems right now either runs on "automatic", or that the staffers reviewing flagged topic do an extremely poor job, just checking - for example - whether a video contains a racist swearword and not in what context; take for example a racist proclaiming that "all niggers must hang" versus a satire that makes fun of such racists and while doing so is using the same phrase. Whatever the reason: it is quite possible to get your account flagged into deletion on youtube without them apparently once reading your appeals, or really taking a look at videos that can be the most obvious satire.###