try to inflict pain onto others, because they themselves are suffering

Even knowing a little about the brain processes that would drive this monumentally stupid mentality doesn't stop me from considering it monumentally stupid.

because there is pseudonymity, *consistency isn't required

Yes it is (says the person who has been using this exact combination for about half their life, I occasionally think about varying the avatar but so far have been too lazy, and also known people blah blah blah).

But then again I'm also from that era where is was normal and natural to use pseudonyms online and you were "begging for trouble" if you were "silly" enough to use your real name.

how similar are you to your Hive persona?

I'm much more eloquent in text than I am face to face. Unless I'm telling a story, I'm reasonably good at that. As long as it doesn't have to be "child friendly", I'm really not good at that.