[Borodog]

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My real life personality is very much like my online one, except I'm much less of a dick because I tend to avoid people who irritate me rather than get involved in stupid arguments like I do here. In a lot of ways, my online persona here is like a caricature of me in real life with lots of parts hyper-exaggerated. I also use this place to vent a lot, which reduces my stress IRL.

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Wow. This is almost exactly the way I would describe, and have described, the difference between my IRL personality (genuinely nice guy) and my online personality (pro bono a-hole). I attribute the fundamental causal difference to the fact that "none of you people matter." I avoid people that I genuinely would not get along with in IRL, but have also learned that real life interpersonal relationships with family, friends, coworkers and bosses are too important to damage or destroy just to be right.

Also, my understanding is that El Diablo is 10 feet tall and shoots fireballs out of his arse.