Percy’s Reviews > Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers > Status Update

“The Internet [...] is not built to mitigate conflict; in fact, it seems like it’s built to sustain it. I had so deeply bought into the game, thinking that winning would start a conversation. But it was the game itself, and my allegiance to it, that obscured the humanity of the people I was playing against. It obscured my own humanity, too.”