Yeah, that's right. i've been registered on this site for 8 months or so. My total log in time? 47 days, 19 hours, and 33 minutes. Fact: I spent way too much of that not logging out while I'm in class, or sitting around doing research, or not doing anything worthwhile.
Fact: Roger's giving up on my PD. Fuck that.
I don't really contribute all that often, fuck I don't really contribute at all. 99.99% of what I have to say and (what I have said) is complete fucking garbage. I accept that. I don't know what I can actually do to change it, but goddamn it, I'll try.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to post 99% crap, probably, but I'll try to post 1% content. If I can do that, the rest of you motherfuckers can to. I'm as busy as anyone. Fuck, I really should be working on SOMETHING right now. Instead, Roger's got me all worked p about YOU. All of you. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Looking through rants, who rants on a regular basis?
Who WOMPs on a regular basis?
who tells a goddamn story, true or otherwise, on a regular basis?
You know what, maybe ECH has a point. Maybe we spend way too much time on pointless trolls than on making PD the weird and wonderful place I like to spend hours of my life at.
Maybe Cram has a point. Maybe we ARE scaring off newbs who would become contributing members.
Maybe Nigel has a point. Maybe we're beating a dead horse.
Or maybe. Maybe we just aren't even TRYING. Shame on you. Shame on me. I'm just as guilty as anyone, so you know what? Fuck you. Fuck all of you. And fuck you too, Roger, because if you weren't so goddamn good at everything, half of us wouldn't be intimidated and afraid our own stuff won't live up to the bar you fucking set.
So, fuck you PD. Fuck you hard. I'm going to try.
Phox,
Not okay, but still trying.
QuoteYeah, that's right. i've been registered on this site for 8 months or so. My total log in time? 47 days, 19 hours, and 33 minutes. Fact: I spent way too much of that not logging out while I'm in class, or sitting around doing research, or not doing anything worthwhile.
Fact: Roger's giving up on my PD. Fuck that.
I don't really contribute all that often, fuck I don't really contribute at all. 99.99% of what I have to say and (what I have said) is complete fucking garbage. I accept that. I don't know what I can actually do to change it, but goddamn it, I'll try.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to post 99% crap, probably, but I'll try to post 1% content. If I can do that, the rest of you motherfuckers can to. I'm as busy as anyone. Fuck, I really should be working on SOMETHING right now. Instead, Roger's got me all worked p about YOU. All of you. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Looking through rants, who rants on a regular basis?
Who WOMPs on a regular basis?
who tells a goddamn story, true or otherwise, on a regular basis?
You know what, maybe ECH has a point. Maybe we spend way too much time on pointless trolls than on making PD the weird and wonderful place I like to spend hours of my life at.
Maybe Cram has a point. Maybe we ARE scaring off newbs who would become contributing members.
Maybe Nigel has a point. Maybe we're beating a dead horse.
Or maybe. Maybe we just aren't even TRYING. Shame on you. Shame on me. I'm just as guilty as anyone, so you know what? Fuck you. Fuck all of you. And fuck you too, Roger, because if you weren't so goddamn good at everything, half of us wouldn't be intimidated and afraid our own stuff won't live up to the bar you fucking set.
So, fuck you PD. Fuck you hard. I'm going to try.
Phox,
Not okay, but still trying.
Nice work, Phox. I owe you one. Roger's right, you're right, and hell, even I'm right. PD needs a fucking wake up call or its going to waste away.
And if PD is going to die off, then it is damn well going to die with a bang that shall be felt across the internets.
I've learned better than to tell too many stories.
On the other hand that doesn't mean all the rest of you shouldn't be doing it. You are better people than I am.
Wait, what? I had a point?
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 06:54:53 AM
Wait, what? I had a point?
I don't know. I thought you did, but it doesn't matter. Nice to see you back. :)
This place is drenched in paranoia.
Quote from: Subtract Eight! on March 21, 2011, 10:28:17 AM
This place is drenched in paranoia.
I could think of better things to be drenched in.
This stuff was easier to do back when I was just a married guy, with no kids, working retail hell hours. When I worked night shifts, I had all morning to do PD.
Now, I'm a married guy, with two little kids, and a 9-5, semi-public service job.
Yeah, I guess I primarily stay here to keep in touch with the spags I've known since I started all those years ago. But, it doesn't mean I've given up on Discordia. I guess I've offlined it more and more and I've tried to work it into my daily life, more and more. Not that I do anything terribly shocking, but, just a little Disco nugget here and there to try to wake people up a bit. And I also focus a lot of my efforts on making sure my kids are able to enjoy the art of playing games for as long as they can, before the REALLY REAL WORLD FOR REALNESS tries to grab them by the neck and cram them into Super Serious World for Seriousness, 3.0.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on March 21, 2011, 12:29:14 PM
Quote from: Subtract Eight! on March 21, 2011, 10:28:17 AM
This place is drenched in paranoia.
I could think of better things to be drenched in.
I can think of worse.
Smartass comments aside...
I'm newer than you are, and I'd hate to see the forum die off. I like it here. Couple points:
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 02:07:54 AM
I don't really contribute all that often, fuck I don't really contribute at all. 99.99% of what I have to say and (what I have said) is complete fucking garbage. I accept that. I don't know what I can actually do to change it, but goddamn it, I'll try.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to post 99% crap, probably, but I'll try to post 1% content. If I can do that, the rest of you motherfuckers can to. I'm as busy as anyone. Fuck, I really should be working on SOMETHING right now. Instead, Roger's got me all worked p about YOU. All of you. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Doing my best. Working through shit in the way, and figuring out why I CAN'T shit out a decent rant. Not here, not face to face...
QuoteLooking through rants, who rants on a regular basis?
Who WOMPs on a regular basis?
who tells a goddamn story, true or otherwise, on a regular basis?
Looking forward to playing with WOMPs... But, until the divorce is over with, I'd rather keep a reasonably low profile while I slander my husband around here, and, as I understand it, it's bad juju to WOMP without offering up a photo for others to molest. Rants? Working on it. Stories? Most of what I've got are boring as hell, but... I'll try.
QuoteYou know what, maybe ECH has a point. Maybe we spend way too much time on pointless trolls than on making PD the weird and wonderful place I like to spend hours of my life at.
Maybe Cram has a point. Maybe we ARE scaring off newbs who would become contributing members.
Maybe Nigel has a point. Maybe we're beating a dead horse.
Pointless trolls? Dunno if I'd call them pointless... Trouble is, seems to me (and, again, I'm new, maybe I'm talking out my ass, here) that what's NOT happening is that people aren't working together with the trolling. Strikes me as an interesting way for people to go out and do shit together, rather than staring at each others' faces ALL the time around here. Just need a bit more work on doing that kind of shit as a team, as opposed to stepping on each others' dicks.
Maybe some of the newbs wandering in are TRYING to stir shit, and scarper once they realize that it's going to be handed to them with a birthday candle stuck in it while the rest of the board snickers. I'm still here, nobody's gone out of their way to be particularly nasty at me. I've got little sympathy for people who wander into a new forum swinging their e-peen to try to prove they're the nastiest motherfucker on the 'Net... and less for ones who do it here, without taking a quiet look around to see what that kind of shit will get them.
Beating a dead horse? Maybe... but horsehide makes a fine drum head, and can still make beautiful music.
QuoteOr maybe. Maybe we just aren't even TRYING. Shame on you. Shame on me. I'm just as guilty as anyone, so you know what? Fuck you. Fuck all of you. And fuck you too, Roger, because if you weren't so goddamn good at everything, half of us wouldn't be intimidated and afraid our own stuff won't live up to the bar you fucking set.
Yeah, I've run into that one, too. Get a post ready to go, log in, and there's a new "Voices from the Basement" installment, and I wimp out on posting.
I'll get better about that. No shame in not having shit better than anybody else's.
Hell, without a bar that's high, how the fuck are any of us supposed to get better, anyway?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 12:42:31 PM
And I also focus a lot of my efforts on making sure my kids are able to enjoy the art of playing games for as long as they can, before the REALLY REAL WORLD FOR REALNESS tries to grab them by the neck and cram them into Super Serious World for Seriousness, 3.0.
Fuck that. When you forget how to play, you've lost part of your soul.
Ok, I'm going to set myself on a Task.
BIP came out of a contest, re-envisioning PD for 2006 (it's been five years? Wow).
The Spider Project came out of a psycho letter collaboration.
The Chao te Ching started as a wiki.
Sticking Apart though we may do, it seems that cooperative creativity pulls good things from asses.
So I'm going to ruminate. And my Task will be to find something interesting we can play with.
More to come.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 12:42:31 PM
This stuff was easier to do back when I was just a married guy, with no kids, working retail hell hours. When I worked night shifts, I had all morning to do PD.
Now, I'm a married guy, with two little kids, and a 9-5, semi-public service job.
Yeah, I guess I primarily stay here to keep in touch with the spags I've known since I started all those years ago. But, it doesn't mean I've given up on Discordia. I guess I've offlined it more and more and I've tried to work it into my daily life, more and more. Not that I do anything terribly shocking, but, just a little Disco nugget here and there to try to wake people up a bit. And I also focus a lot of my efforts on making sure my kids are able to enjoy the art of playing games for as long as they can, before the REALLY REAL WORLD FOR REALNESS tries to grab them by the neck and cram them into Super Serious World for Seriousness, 3.0.
That is perfectly understandable. But, on the one hand, I wasn't talking to people like you, who, ya know, have other responsibilities they actually take care of. I was talking to the people like me, who either have no such responsibilities, more free time than you, or just shirk their responsibilities in favor of PD Not that I advocate shirking responsibilities for PD (I'm looking at YOU, Phox :evilmad:)
Quote from: Luna on March 21, 2011, 01:04:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 02:07:54 AM
I don't really contribute all that often, fuck I don't really contribute at all. 99.99% of what I have to say and (what I have said) is complete fucking garbage. I accept that. I don't know what I can actually do to change it, but goddamn it, I'll try.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to post 99% crap, probably, but I'll try to post 1% content. If I can do that, the rest of you motherfuckers can to. I'm as busy as anyone. Fuck, I really should be working on SOMETHING right now. Instead, Roger's got me all worked p about YOU. All of you. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Doing my best. Working through shit in the way, and figuring out why I CAN'T shit out a decent rant. Not here, not face to face...
That wasn't a literal question, but I know what you mean. It's not always easy to articulate a rant, even if it's in your head clear as day.
Quote from: Luna on March 21, 2011, 01:04:01 PM
QuoteLooking through rants, who rants on a regular basis?
Who WOMPs on a regular basis?
who tells a goddamn story, true or otherwise, on a regular basis?
Looking forward to playing with WOMPs... But, until the divorce is over with, I'd rather keep a reasonably low profile while I slander my husband around here, and, as I understand it, it's bad juju to WOMP without offering up a photo for others to molest. Rants? Working on it. Stories? Most of what I've got are boring as hell, but... I'll try.
Rhetorical again. Also, I don't think this was quite as directed at you as to others who rarely at all.
Quote from: Luna on March 21, 2011, 01:04:01 PM
QuoteYou know what, maybe ECH has a point. Maybe we spend way too much time on pointless trolls than on making PD the weird and wonderful place I like to spend hours of my life at.
Maybe Cram has a point. Maybe we ARE scaring off newbs who would become contributing members.
Maybe Nigel has a point. Maybe we're beating a dead horse.
Pointless trolls? Dunno if I'd call them pointless... Trouble is, seems to me (and, again, I'm new, maybe I'm talking out my ass, here) that what's NOT happening is that people aren't working together with the trolling. Strikes me as an interesting way for people to go out and do shit together, rather than staring at each others' faces ALL the time around here. Just need a bit more work on doing that kind of shit as a team, as opposed to stepping on each others' dicks.
Maybe some of the newbs wandering in are TRYING to stir shit, and scarper once they realize that it's going to be handed to them with a birthday candle stuck in it while the rest of the board snickers. I'm still here, nobody's gone out of their way to be particularly nasty at me. I've got little sympathy for people who wander into a new forum swinging their e-peen to try to prove they're the nastiest motherfucker on the 'Net... and less for ones who do it here, without taking a quiet look around to see what that kind of shit will get them.
Beating a dead horse? Maybe... but horsehide makes a fine drum head, and can still make beautiful music.
Yeah, I don't believe any of those either. Just repeating ECH, and Cram's sentiments. As for the dead horse thing, that may not have been Nigel actually. Might have been Cram again. I can't remember. Sorry Nigel!
Quote from: Luna on March 21, 2011, 01:04:01 PM
QuoteOr maybe. Maybe we just aren't even TRYING. Shame on you. Shame on me. I'm just as guilty as anyone, so you know what? Fuck you. Fuck all of you. And fuck you too, Roger, because if you weren't so goddamn good at everything, half of us wouldn't be intimidated and afraid our own stuff won't live up to the bar you fucking set.
Yeah, I've run into that one, too. Get a post ready to go, log in, and there's a new "Voices from the Basement" installment, and I wimp out on posting.
I'll get better about that. No shame in not having shit better than anybody else's.
Hell, without a bar that's high, how the fuck are any of us supposed to get better, anyway?
Tongue-in-cheek to lighten the mood after doing nothing but abusing everyone. (I really am in awe of Roger's content most of the time, though.)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 21, 2011, 01:15:29 PM
Ok, I'm going to set myself on a Task.
BIP came out of a contest, re-envisioning PD for 2006 (it's been five years? Wow).
The Spider Project came out of a psycho letter collaboration.
The Chao te Ching started as a wiki.
Sticking Apart though we may do, it seems that cooperative creativity pulls good things from asses.
So I'm going to ruminate. And my Task will be to find something interesting we can play with.
More to come.
Knew we could count on you, Alphapance. :)
Yeah, knew they were mostly rhetorical, but figured tossing out a few answers might be a little helpful at least.
A lot of the stuff out here blows my mind, which is awesome, not just Roger's. Even some of the one-line responses that get kicked out strike a spark.
WHAT. THE. FUCK. Happened this weekend?
I leave you guys alone to have a simple nervous breakdown and come back to I have no fucking clue what...
I'm not sure what is going on, however, I'm presuming we are having the "be nicer to n00bs and quality vs quantity discussion/argument/bitchfest?
I don't rant often. I'm not very good at it. I have considered myself a contributing member, but hey, if I'm not making the grade so be it.
Quote from: Khara on March 21, 2011, 02:23:10 PM
WHAT. THE. FUCK. Happened this weekend?
I leave you guys alone to have a simple nervous breakdown and come back to I have no fucking clue what...
I'm not sure what is going on, however, I'm presuming we are having the "be nicer to n00bs and quality vs quantity discussion/argument/bitchfest?
I don't rant often. I'm not very good at it. I have considered myself a contributing member, but hey, if I'm not making the grade so be it.
There's been an odd atmosphere around PD.com in the last couple of weeks. No one's sure what to make of it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 21, 2011, 02:29:16 PM
Quote from: Khara on March 21, 2011, 02:23:10 PM
WHAT. THE. FUCK. Happened this weekend?
I leave you guys alone to have a simple nervous breakdown and come back to I have no fucking clue what...
I'm not sure what is going on, however, I'm presuming we are having the "be nicer to n00bs and quality vs quantity discussion/argument/bitchfest?
I don't rant often. I'm not very good at it. I have considered myself a contributing member, but hey, if I'm not making the grade so be it.
There's been an odd atmosphere around PD.com in the last couple of weeks. No one's sure what to make of it.
I've noticed. I have no clue what it is, I think the entire world is in a bad mood right now, so why should PD be any different yanno?
I'm just saying, if we're back to judging one's usefullness or value as a member on their rant or WOMP contributions, then I'm at the bottom of the barrel.
I'll be honest, I don't want to feel I have to defend my value as a member ANYWHERE. I love this place but I'm in the middle of a lot of crap, this is the internet for heaven's sake, it's supposed to be fun.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I do have to say I'm pretty pessimistic these days when it comes to what's going on in the country. And this has put me in a bit of a funk. Especially when you know the majority of the people in your country, your community, voted for this crap, and seem to be okay with it. It seems very daunting to have any hope against this immense amount of insufferable ignorance and idiocy.
I mean, I see day after day, that this new Governor here is dismantling the tiny bit of progress we've made the past decade or so. I guess I'm about at the point where my attitude is, fuck it, I'm going to take care of my family and the rest of the world can sink and drown for all I care.
Things I consider worthwhile (this is a partial list):
Rants
WOMPs
Insights
Analysis
Perspective
FUNNAY
Music
Observations
News
Personal opinions
Suggestions
Essays
Fiction
Poems
THE NEW
Not necessarily in that order. If anyone does anything like that, I consider that "content". Using that definition, we have certainly been posting content, just not in the amounts we have been -- and for my part, it's become more of an effort.
Which, I've decided, means that I should be forcing myself to produce, so the creative gland doesn't get blocked.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 21, 2011, 03:12:49 PM
Things I consider worthwhile (this is a partial list):
Rants
WOMPs
Insights
Analysis
Perspective
FUNNAY
Music
Observations
News
Personal opinions
Suggestions
Essays
Fiction
Poems
THE NEW
Not necessarily in that order. If anyone does anything like that, I consider that "content". Using that definition, we have certainly been posting content, just not in the amounts we have been -- and for my part, it's become more of an effort.
Which, I've decided, means that I should be forcing myself to produce, so the creative gland doesn't get blocked.
:lulz: YAY I'm still usefull! :lulz:
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 03:09:53 PM
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I do have to say I'm pretty pessimistic these days when it comes to what's going on in the country. And this has put me in a bit of a funk. Especially when you know the majority of the people in your country, your community, voted for this crap, and seem to be okay with it. It seems very daunting to have any hope against this immense amount of insufferable ignorance and idiocy.
I mean, I see day after day, that this new Governor here is dismantling the tiny bit of progress we've made the past decade or so. I guess I'm about at the point where my attitude is, fuck it, I'm going to take care of my family and the rest of the world can sink and drown for all I care.
Not picking on you personally, but this "we can't do anything about it" attitude is part of the problem. It isn't that there is no solution, but that the solution is a long hard slog with uncertain odds that the turnaround will happen during the course of our lifetimes.
I don't think that's a reason to not try, but everyone has to make their own choice on that, you know?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 03:09:53 PM
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I do have to say I'm pretty pessimistic these days when it comes to what's going on in the country. And this has put me in a bit of a funk. Especially when you know the majority of the people in your country, your community, voted for this crap, and seem to be okay with it. It seems very daunting to have any hope against this immense amount of insufferable ignorance and idiocy.
I mean, I see day after day, that this new Governor here is dismantling the tiny bit of progress we've made the past decade or so. I guess I'm about at the point where my attitude is, fuck it, I'm going to take care of my family and the rest of the world can sink and drown for all I care.
I question your definition of "family."
Yes, the blood relations you love are family... but is that it?
Just somewhere to start thinking...
Quote from: Captain Utopia on March 21, 2011, 03:17:40 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 03:09:53 PM
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I do have to say I'm pretty pessimistic these days when it comes to what's going on in the country. And this has put me in a bit of a funk. Especially when you know the majority of the people in your country, your community, voted for this crap, and seem to be okay with it. It seems very daunting to have any hope against this immense amount of insufferable ignorance and idiocy.
I mean, I see day after day, that this new Governor here is dismantling the tiny bit of progress we've made the past decade or so. I guess I'm about at the point where my attitude is, fuck it, I'm going to take care of my family and the rest of the world can sink and drown for all I care.
Not picking on you personally, but this "we can't do anything about it" attitude is part of the problem. It isn't that there is no solution, but that the solution is a long hard slog with uncertain odds that the turnaround will happen during the course of our lifetimes.
I don't think that's a reason to not try, but everyone has to make their own choice on that, you know?
Don't misinterpret what I'm saying to mean I'm not going to do anything. Interpret it as I'm being selfish and focusing most of my energy on my immediate sphere of influence out of a selfish desire to protect my family and to keep it healthy and happy. I just don't see what can be done on the broader scale. Not in the current climate.
I understand - and I'd be a hypocrite if I suggested that my energy wasn't directed in a similar fashion as yours.
First step towards finding a broader scale solution? Believing that one exists, ready to be discovered/uncovered/realized. If you don't have that you're just left with cynicism and apathy.
Please tell me we aren't STILL bitching because the internet isn't entertaining us enough.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 21, 2011, 03:12:49 PM
Things I consider worthwhile (this is a partial list):
Rants
WOMPs
Insights
AnalPerspective
FUNNAY
Music
Observations
News
Personal opinions
Suggestions
Essays
Fiction
Poems
THE NEW
Not necessarily in that order. If anyone does anything like that, I consider that "content". Using that definition, we have certainly been posting content, just not in the amounts we have been -- and for my part, it's become more of an effort.
Which, I've decided, means that I should be forcing myself to produce, so the creative gland doesn't get blocked.
I'm here to help.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 04:06:35 PM
Please tell me we aren't STILL bitching because the internet isn't entertaining us enough.
We wanted to welcome you back with familiarity.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 04:06:35 PM
Please tell me we aren't STILL bitching because the internet isn't entertaining us enough.
...some things, Nigel, they just don't CHANGE!
Fucking hell.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 04:06:35 PM
Please tell me we aren't STILL bitching because the internet isn't entertaining us enough.
Actually, I'm bitching because WE aren't entertaining us enough.
The rest of the internet can kiss my spotty and pox-ridden arse.
The post count for this month is at a three year low. I think the main problem is that there were 24 people logged in earlier and no posts for 45 minutes.
Quote from: Faust on March 21, 2011, 05:08:11 PM
The post count for this month is at a three year low. I think the main problem is that there were 24 people logged in earlier and no posts for 45 minutes.
Everyone was waiting for everyone else to say something.
And then when someone did, everyone waited for someone else to respond.
Or they left themselves logged in at work, but actually had something important to take care of, like working.
I'm having a hard time with the expectations thing. I just want to survive, fuck off, and blow off some steam. The whole "you people aren't doing enough for me" complaining really just makes this a less fun place to hang out, IMO. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 05:21:51 PM
Or they left themselves logged in at work, but actually had something important to take care of, like working.
I'm having a hard time with the expectations thing. I just want to survive, fuck off, and blow off some steam. The whole "you people aren't doing enough for me" complaining really just makes this a less fun place to hang out, IMO. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There ya go, being all reasonable again. :lulz:
Actually, I expect that most people logged in are actually AFK. Problem is, over the last 3 months or so, and especially this month, EVERYONE has been AFK, all the time.
And plus, for many people, it's hard to be creative when people are glaring at you and demanding your creativity. I have this line of beads that is tremendously popular; they are also pretty expensive. They have a bunch of complicated blown and pulled components that I have to make in advance. I've made maybe 15 sets, and have received a deluge of emails about making them in this or that color, and when am I making more, etc.
This is my livelihood. I NEED this, to survive. But the result of all the pressure to make those particular beads is that I can't make them. At all. I can't do it. Making them requires a particular touch, because they are a shape that needs precision heating and marvering. I completely lose that touch, and I can't fucking make them, because people are demanding them.
Well, that sucks.
Analogize freely.
Working + volunteering + applying for training + shit tons of reading = sometimes I am surprised I even have time to log on.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 05:27:25 PM
And plus, for many people, it's hard to be creative when people are glaring at you and demanding your creativity. I have this line of beads that is tremendously popular; they are also pretty expensive. They have a bunch of complicated blown and pulled components that I have to make in advance. I've made maybe 15 sets, and have received a deluge of emails about making them in this or that color, and when am I making more, etc.
This is my livelihood. I NEED this, to survive. But the result of all the pressure to make those particular beads is that I can't make them. At all. I can't do it. Making them requires a particular touch, because they are a shape that needs precision heating and marvering. I completely lose that touch, and I can't fucking make them, because people are demanding them.
Well, that sucks.
Analogize freely.
Oh, I see where you're going, and you're correct.
What I was moaning about was the lack of a simple "hello", even.
Jesus H. Motherfucking Christ on a goddamned pogo-stick, this shit again?!?
Look, PD is like a zombie. Not one of those diseased corpse-type zombies, the type of zombie you get via demonic possesion (like the zombies in Evil Dead). You see, it only appears like it's dead, but will soon spring to "life" to consume some fucking souls and brains.
In fact, zombies are at there most dangerous when they appear to be dead. It really gives them the element of surprise when all of a sudden it's up and screaming "We're going to get you, Barbra!"
Plus, demonic zombies never STAY dead. They'll come back more often, and as unexpectedly as your herpes break-outs.
So, PD looks dead? All the more reason to be afraid... Be very afraid...
How about an un-simple hello?
HelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHello :fap:HelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHelloHello
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 05:27:25 PM
And plus, for many people, it's hard to be creative when people are glaring at you and demanding your creativity. I have this line of beads that is tremendously popular; they are also pretty expensive. They have a bunch of complicated blown and pulled components that I have to make in advance. I've made maybe 15 sets, and have received a deluge of emails about making them in this or that color, and when am I making more, etc.
This is my livelihood. I NEED this, to survive. But the result of all the pressure to make those particular beads is that I can't make them. At all. I can't do it. Making them requires a particular touch, because they are a shape that needs precision heating and marvering. I completely lose that touch, and I can't fucking make them, because people are demanding them.
Well, that sucks.
Analogize freely.
Yep, sucks. But they sound very cool. When you do unjam and make some, c'n I see pics?
Nice to meet ya, by the way.
Hello, everyone.
I am going to be spagging the shit out of this joint, and it's going to be 50% fluff, 48% processing my stupid love life, and 2% raging about shit no one else really understands, OK?
SAME AS IT EVER WAS.
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 05:42:06 PM
I am going to be spagging the shit out of this joint, and it's going to be 50% fluff, 48% processing my stupid love life, and 2% raging about shit no one else really understands, OK?
I will attempt to restrain bitchy critiques of the above.
I don't know, I'm just begining to get the impression I don't belong at PD as anything more than the occasional pop in lurker. :sad:
Quote from: Khara on March 21, 2011, 06:01:36 PM
I don't know, I'm just begining to get the impression I don't belong at PD as anything more than the occasional pop in lurker. :sad:
Oh, would ya stop? Fer Chrissakes. You are - at least as far as I'm concerned, one of the nicer people here, and one of the most active.
So cut it out, or I'll put the leeches on you.
I also feel like it's been a testament to my PD addiction that I've been able to post at all. Shit, I worked from 10:30 am to 1 am yesterday.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 05:13:24 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 21, 2011, 05:08:11 PM
The post count for this month is at a three year low. I think the main problem is that there were 24 people logged in earlier and no posts for 45 minutes.
Everyone was waiting for everyone else to say something.
And then when someone did, everyone waited for someone else to respond.
OK, more posting from me. Hopefully my signal to noise ratio doesn't get fuggered more than it already it.
Quote from: Khara on March 21, 2011, 06:01:36 PM
I don't know, I'm just begining to get the impression I don't belong at PD as anything more than the occasional pop in lurker. :sad:
i consider you one of the cornerstones of this place, FYI.
Quote from: Donald Coyote on March 21, 2011, 06:11:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 05:13:24 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 21, 2011, 05:08:11 PM
The post count for this month is at a three year low. I think the main problem is that there were 24 people logged in earlier and no posts for 45 minutes.
Everyone was waiting for everyone else to say something.
And then when someone did, everyone waited for someone else to respond.
OK, more posting from me. Hopefully my signal to noise ratio doesn't get fuggered more than it already it.
Or at least tell the new people when they arrive and ask who the ghosts who haunt the old threads were explain they all got jobs for us.
I remember when I had free time, life was good.
HOLY FUCK! What have i done!? People are posting and talking!
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 06:43:47 PM
HOLY FUCK! What have i done!? People are posting and talking!
Shit like that happens, sometimes...
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 06:43:47 PM
HOLY FUCK! What have i done!? People are posting and talking!
Well at least we now know who to blame.
Today, I am making free time.
I will regret it later.
Quote from: Cain on March 21, 2011, 05:28:57 PM
Working + volunteering + applying for training + shit tons of reading = sometimes I am surprised I even have time to log on.
And you still manage to be my favorite thing about PD.
I know everyone loves Roger's work. I do too of course, and there are plenty of other people doing really worthwhile stuff, but it's your analysis and knowledge of what is going on in the world that makes me eager to find out what may have been posted on the board.
Thank you.
Tonight I'll be making free time too.
To paint walls.
RWHN,
Making a new lair in the basement.
It's true; Cain is my go-to for political and world event analysis, as well as a touchstone for perspective on the person I think my oldest daughter is becoming. I will be very proud if she turns out similar.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 21, 2011, 07:02:53 PM
Tonight I'll be making free time too.
To paint walls.
RWHN,
Making a new lair in the basement.
Mmmmm, basement!
Mine is a leaky mess. I half-finished it a few years ago, and there's a bar, a couch, a TV, and a puddle of fucking rainwater in it.
99% crap, 1% content. That is all. :mrgreen:
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 07:25:56 PM
99% crap, 1% content. That is all. :mrgreen:
You're a good egg, Phoxy. I like your 99% crap, because it's enthusiastic, and it usually makes me smile. And not in that face rictus smile that the real World seems to demand more and more of these days, but a proper smile that makes stuff a little bit brighter, and more bearable when things are weighing a bit heavy, or cutting up rough. Like they have been lately. I seem to be stretching myself too thin to work up much enthusiasm at the moment. But you know how sometimes you feel if you stop and just do nothing for a while, you'll never get up again? Yeah. That one. It usually gets easier once the "F" Month is out the way. But it just seems harder to find any good shit going on anywhere in the World at the moment. I know there is still good stuff going on, even if I can't see it, but the trick is not to do the obvious, and look harder, (Sometimes that just makes the shit stuff stand out more) but to look better.
To look past the shit, instead of sifting through it. That way, the nuggets of gold have less to compete with, their shiny.
Anyway, like I said, your 99% crap is good medicine. Or it is for me.
Your 1% content on the other hand, . . . . . . :lulz:
Quote from: BadBeast on March 22, 2011, 09:42:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 21, 2011, 07:25:56 PM
99% crap, 1% content. That is all. :mrgreen:
You're a good egg, Phoxy. I like your 99% crap, because it's enthusiastic, and it usually makes me smile. And not in that face rictus smile that the real World seems to demand more and more of these days, but a proper smile that makes stuff a little bit brighter, and more bearable when things are weighing a bit heavy, or cutting up rough. Like they have been lately. I seem to be stretching myself too thin to work up much enthusiasm at the moment. But you know how sometimes you feel if you stop and just do nothing for a while, you'll never get up again? Yeah. That one. It usually gets easier once the "F" Month is out the way. But it just seems harder to find any good shit going on anywhere in the World at the moment. I know there is still good stuff going on, even if I can't see it, but the trick is not to do the obvious, and look harder, (Sometimes that just makes the shit stuff stand out more) but to look better.
To look past the shit, instead of sifting through it. That way, the nuggets of gold have less to compete with, their shiny.
Anyway, like I said, your 99% crap is good medicine. Or it is for me.
Your 1% content on the other hand, . . . . . . :lulz:
:tgrr:
Is fantastic.