Paranoia drives me insane.

[TonicBH]

So, after getting home from randomly socializing with somebody, I go check my 1UP.com page as usual.

Except something wasn't right in the clubs page. I usually have three clubs, one dedicated to a community, another to a (three month old) contest I won, and another club related to that contest that's basically "Where's my game?!".

But suddenly, there was a fourth club. "Gaymerz". Some gay gamers club. I never remember joining it, I don't drink so I didn't join it in some drunken stupor, and I only access 1UP.com from my own computer.

So, I do the following things:

• Leave the club in question.
  
• Change my password.
  
• Activate the Windows firewall since the hardware's firewall wasn't enough.
  
• Go into a random stage of panic.
  
• Change my password at GameSpot too.
  
• Print out my text file with all my accounts and passwords on it.
  
• Delete said file (literally permanently delete it).
  
• Still be in a random stage of panic.
  

The same stuff happens to me when something else goes wrong, such as a game severely glitching or hardware failures. I mean, that's shit that I live with, and something I'd rather not lose

(EDIT 1:30PM: According to this forum post some script kiddy found out ways to make people join clubs.

Something needs to be changed if it's that easy to exploit. And now that I realized it wasn't something THAT severe...)

[NeroKid]

lol gaymerz

[Robert]

Haha, wow. That's a pretty intense reaction. I don't know about 1Up, but is there any chance you just accidentally clicked a joining link somewhere once? Maybe even one immersed in something else?

Anyway, the statement "Paranoia drives me insane" is very interesting. This is also a true statement, very often. My paranoia usually comes from other people, unfortunately... that is, if I don't trust someone, I usually end up making up stuff about them that they're doing to me without any factual evidence base.

[Evan]

This reminds me of the VIRUSSSSS I got in September that drove me to insane depression for a month or two until I finally figured out how to get rid of it. I know how you feel, dude EXCEPT MINE WAS REAL. That virus had the same effect as a real virus on my state of being.

You know...It's amazing how much one file can screw your computer XD