Plus I Got Depression

[Doktor Howl]

I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.

Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives.  To a point.  

Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.


I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.

I distinctly remember this same argument, only you and I were in reversed roles.

that doesn't surprise me.

This place is a swirling vortex - we may be moving forward, but we're constantly passing familiar points.

I mean, I was just reading posts from 2007 and found a diatribe I wrote about why everybody who dislikes RAW can eat ten dicks. And now I want to bump that thread just to flame myself. All of us are doomed to go round and round the goatse vortex.

I know.  That's one reason I killed TGRR.

[Salty]

I need guilt to be creative.
I tend to feel guilty about posting anything but quality content.
I feel like what I contribute is often worth it.

Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots.

I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point.  

[BabylonHoruv]

I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots.

I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point.  

Wow, that sucks. You don't even get fun drugs for that.

[Jenne]

Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.

Dude, don't limit yourself like that.  I know it's intimidating, and I held back (still do, actually, since I hate boardwar drama shit, for all I sometimes get sucked into that OTHER vortex) for a long, long time here as well.  It really does no good, in the end.

That's not to say don't spag up threads that really shouldn't be spagged up, be considerate, blah blah, but really, from what I've read of your posts, you rarely go off where you'd garner a STUFN00B, etc.

[Jenne]

I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots.

I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point. 

  That is quite sick.  Hope the meds work!

[Freeky]

Sorry if I'm interrupting a good debate, but I'd just like to complain that I got threw up on and will have no time at all to take a shower until tonight. Ew.

[Doktor Howl]

I need guilt to be creative.
I tend to feel guilty about posting anything but quality content.
I feel like what I contribute is often worth it.

Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.

My first rants - this BOARD'S first rants - went unanswered for weeks, back in 2002/2003.

I damn near gave up.

Don't give up.

[-Kel-]

Life sucks. Get a helmet.

I have an helmet!!!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.

In fact, I am doing my part by posting in this thread.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't know if this is a complaint or an amusing observation, but I just got two texts from the hippie asking me what I'm up to and whether I've watched my Netflix movie yet.

The one I had not watched as of last night, when we talked about it, because I was hanging out with him.

So, he thinks that either I stayed up until 2 am to watch a movie by myself, or that I spent two hours sitting on my fat ass watching it today, instead of working, even though he asked about my work hours again yesterday.

I think he's just too stoned to remember anything, ever, and he thinks it's totally reasonable to think that I might be sitting around on Monday morning toking some green and watching a movie. We're basically in different worlds.

[Doktor Howl]

I am now complaining about the side effects of my damn sleeping pills.

Fucking face tics, shooting pains, and irritability.   

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was.  I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.

WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?

[Doktor Howl]

I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was.  I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.

WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?

I have.

And I haven't seen LMNO post in a while, either.

[Faust]

I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was.  I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.

WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?

When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.