Okay, Enough is Enough. It Ain't Even February, Yet.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Discordia isn't dying, of course...Let's just be clear about that.  No, it's going through one of the phases that make up the whole, one of those phases that nobody particularly likes.  It's like when you eat a 9 course meal, and they bring out that fucking cold potato soup that the French have foisted off as "food" as a joke.  Some people grit their teeth and hang around, some leave for a while, and some start gnawing on their neighbors in an attempt to get the France out of their mouths.

This too, shall pass.

Some users have indeed fucked off more or less permanently.  Remington, who claims to have business in "real life", Dr James Semaj, whom I suspect has met with misfortune of one kind or another, Charley, who left for reasons that seemed to include "YARGANARG!", etc.

Some users, on the other hand, seem to be hiding from February.  February has come early this year, as anyone can see.  Endless bickering, personal misfortune, low-quality trolls, and mostly just the fact that nobody admits to having anything to say.

Well, I DO have something to say, so open your pance and get your spittle-rags ready.

We've lost our weird.  Plain and simple.  Something must be done.  Of course, before we can do anything, we have to analyze the problem...Define what "weird" is and what it isn't.  I'd like to make a few suggestions about that definition.

•   Flirting isn't weird.  Sorry.  It's painful.  It's one reason we have PMs.
•   Stating what a badass you are isn't weird, even if done by inference.  There is nothing weird about your alleged mastery of edged weapons, or what you or your friends do to people that annoy you.
•   Kai is weird, in all the right ways, even if he's lost some of his Slack™.  He posts about shit that I've never heard about, geeks out like a champ, and still has time – occasionally – to get his monkey on in strange, somewhat self-destructive ways.
•   LMNO is mostly weird, in his insistence of being up for any program.  Unfortunately, he only posts once or twice a day now.
•   Richter is a fucking freak.  I think everyone can agree on that.  He is a stone weirdo that would, in any civilized society, be bastinadoed for his own good.  However, we do not live in a civilized society, and he is therefore free to run amok.  Unfortunately, he never does it here, anymore.
•   Responding to weak-ass trolls is not weird.  I myself am guilty of this, though I plead the mitigating circumstances of boredom.  We really have to stop this, folks.
•   Posting threads from the "verboten list" is not weird.  It's been done.
•   Constant in-fighting is not weird, it's the whole fucking internet.  I am therefore discontinuing all current fights/drama.  If it's someone I can't stand, I'll just ignore them completely.  February is coming, but I don't have to be responsible for it.
•   Creative shit is almost always weird, whether that be rants, video, music, flyers, etc.  We used to do this shit all the time.  Now we just wait for everyone else to do it.  And then we wonder where some of our regulars have fucked off to.

In the last 6 months, this place has turned into Facebook for not-so-weirdos.  I'm not going to go into the various shit that makes me say that...The guilty parties know who they are.  What we NEED to do is set aside our petty grievances and start creating again.  There's nothing stopping you but ancient butthurt and excuses.

Or Kill Me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Awesome post, and true.

I am hoping that my impending transition into studenthood will help kick-start my writing again.

Maybe February will bring positive changes, this year.

[LMNO]

Say what you want Roger, vichyssoise is certainly weird.  Especially when it gets on your taint.



LMNO
-spent WEEKS cleaning that up.




PS - I found a particularly difficult roadblock in the "Handcuffs" thread.  Which means I have to do a lot more thinking before I can post again.  Although, maybe a general spew of horror might clear out the pipes.

[Cain]

I have lots to say (lots to say = lots to write = lots of time needed), and my life is awesome.

In fact, the worst thing that has happened to me all week is that I accidentally had caps locks on when I started this post, and that when I tried to play Mass Effect 2 on Insanity mode, I got my ass kicked by the computer AI and I cried like a little bitch.

That said, a lot of what goes on here seems to be "I exist, does anyone else exist?" and, well lame flirting and sub-par trolling, right now.

[Slurrealist]

I have some ideas and thoughts, but when I write them down they look like shit to me. Maybe it's time to let them flow without really thinking too much about it.
I also got some writing going on, but I am not ready to share it here. It's way too stupid; it looks life the work of an extreme RAW fan who decided to drop more than 1200 micrograms of acid, and then play kiddie video games while listening to Shpongle.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Post anyway. Even if it looks like shit we can riff off of it.

[Pæs]

I missed this. I agree with most of it.

It would be really nice to see the constant bickering stop. Not because it's upsetting me and I'm about to "throw a Paes" or something, but because it's really just not interesting.
Surely we're all clever enough to handle conflict in a manner which is conductive to continued conversation?

I'll get to thinking on ways to get content pumping again. I've got a bunch of half-done pieces I'll be sharing, but in developing them I'm doing a lot of reading old threads for inspiration to provide useful metaphors to use, which ends up being much the same as constantly hitting refresh.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I missed this. I agree with most of it.

It would be really nice to see the constant bickering stop. Not because it's upsetting me and I'm about to "throw a Paes" or something, but because it's really just not interesting.
Surely we're all clever enough to handle conflict in a manner which is conductive to continued conversation?

I'll get to thinking on ways to get content pumping again. I've got a bunch of half-done pieces I'll be sharing, but in developing them I'm doing a lot of reading old threads for inspiration to provide useful metaphors to use, which ends up being much the same as constantly hitting refresh.

The secret to the bickering is easy, and comes right from the book.

"Oh, then stop."

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I missed this. I agree with most of it.

It would be really nice to see the constant bickering stop. Not because it's upsetting me and I'm about to "throw a Paes" or something, but because it's really just not interesting.
Surely we're all clever enough to handle conflict in a manner which is conductive to continued conversation?

I'll get to thinking on ways to get content pumping again. I've got a bunch of half-done pieces I'll be sharing, but in developing them I'm doing a lot of reading old threads for inspiration to provide useful metaphors to use, which ends up being much the same as constantly hitting refresh.

The secret to the bickering is easy, and comes right from the book.

"Oh, then stop."

If only it worked that way......   

Unfortunately it takes more than one person saying stop and that never seems to happen.

[Juana]

Don't rise to the bait, Khara. I personally find it much funnier to watch someone freak out because I'm ignoring them than to get into a stupid fight over something retarded.

[Richter]

•   Richter is a fucking freak.  I think everyone can agree on that.  He is a stone weirdo that would, in any civilized society, be bastinadoed for his own good.  However, we do not live in a civilized society, and he is therefore free to run amok.  Unfortunately, he never does it here, anymore.

Roger spoke truth. 

This society lacks the balls to bastinado anyone on grounds of being made uncomfortable.  Ironically, this also keeps me free of any reasonable cause to put my detractors to the knife. 

Oh, they're threatened. 
Management sent out the company wide notice about the new whipping post in the middle of the call center floor.  The HR people came to my desk, and in very REASONABLE tones, explained what they wanted to do, how it wold help overall discipline, and why I should really go along with it.

I just smiled. 

You see, they'd broken the surface tension first.  They had decided that medieval brutality was the new thing, but didn't have the sand to follow it up with force, horror, and steel.  I offered to show them how it ought to be done, but they just sort of melted away.  They would have gotten me too, if one or two didn't mind the sort of wrassling where you realize to late that the guy has a knife. (serves them right for not wearing chainmail.)

"Thieves World" really should be required reading.

SO there's the "Badass" post, but what of the board?  I wish I could be here more.  REally need to send myself home more stuff to post.  PD needs ideas.  The kind of ideas that the corporate email police will skin you for thinking or looking up.  The kind that get you on "lists" for quick roundup to a camp, or beating with big fucking saps when things get to the wall.

Where ARE your ideas?

[Reginald Ret]

•   Richter is a fucking freak.  I think everyone can agree on that.  He is a stone weirdo that would, in any civilized society, be bastinadoed for his own good.  However, we do not live in a civilized society, and he is therefore free to run amok.  Unfortunately, he never does it here, anymore.

Roger spoke truth. 

This society lacks the balls to bastinado anyone on grounds of being made uncomfortable.  Ironically, this also keeps me free of any reasonable cause to put my detractors to the knife. 

Oh, they're threatened. 
Management sent out the company wide notice about the new whipping post in the middle of the call center floor.  The HR people came to my desk, and in very REASONABLE tones, explained what they wanted to do, how it wold help overall discipline, and why I should really go along with it.

I just smiled. 

You see, they'd broken the surface tension first.  They had decided that medieval brutality was the new thing, but didn't have the sand to follow it up with force, horror, and steel.  I offered to show them how it ought to be done, but they just sort of melted away.  They would have gotten me too, if one or two didn't mind the sort of wrassling where you realize to late that the guy has a knife. (serves them right for not wearing chainmail.)

"Thieves World" really should be required reading.

SO there's the "Badass" post, but what of the board?  I wish I could be here more.  REally need to send myself home more stuff to post.  PD needs ideas.  The kind of ideas that the corporate email police will skin you for thinking or looking up.  The kind that get you on "lists" for quick roundup to a camp, or beating with big fucking saps when things get to the wall.

Where ARE your ideas?

Oh YES!
My ideas sadly cannot pass the KYFMS filter.

[Luna]

My last job wouldn't even let me hang a sword on the wall behind my desk.  Hardly fair, I tell ya.  MUCH more functional than any motivational poster I've ever seen.

[EK WAFFLR]

My last job wouldn't even let me hang a sword on the wall behind my desk.  Hardly fair, I tell ya.  MUCH more functional than any motivational poster I've ever seen.

I can see a Damocles' Sword being motivational.

[Luna]

My last job wouldn't even let me hang a sword on the wall behind my desk.  Hardly fair, I tell ya.  MUCH more functional than any motivational poster I've ever seen.

I can see a Damocles' Sword being motivational.

I was thinking more of the, "keep standing there asking me stupid questions while I'm trying to work and I'll part your hair clean to your navel" use, but I suppose that would work, too...