And yeah, when you leave a forum, better to have people ask "Whatever happened to X?" than say "Good riddance." Just leave. At least Gus had the class to do that until some of you losers stalked him.
Which may be why someone feels the need to announce if they wont be here as much, so they wont get followed around to other forums or places online and get asked what happened.
Also, I want to report that I have now received a cat gif. No one can ever convince me this is a terrible community. Ever!
Not to be the guy who continues something even when he said it was done, but when people said that about Gus, others started calling bullshit on it, creating a whole stupid thread which seemingly forced Gus to make a comeback just to do what Repo just did. The inconsistencies don't really make any sense (not saying you're at cause Jerri, just saying in general).
I sent you five emails while you were shopping. I feel shunned that you responded to none of them! I can't wait until that show is back off of hiatus.
I only got one and it contained no visual depiction of a cat within. By the way, I bought toothpaste, shaving cream and tea. It was quite the adventure.
I kind of love you maybe. I believe "an exposed flank ripe for an insult strafing run" is the preferred nomenclature.
'I'm leaving' threads seem pretty natural for a place where you all hang out together. If someone you knew was leaving to move to Wisconsin, they'd announce it and you'd have a while of 'Why are you going? Why Wisconsin? Is it me? Is it the cheese? Etc. And they'd be all yes it's you or yes it's the cheese and it would be, you know, a chat. I think that's ok in a forum that has threads on pigeon dating.
You're absolutely correct in this statement. The difficulty is that this isn't a place where we all hang out together - the community is too big for that. Hence the announcement that any one member is leaving is likely to be met by complete bafflement by 90-99.9% of the people who might be around to listen. Honestly, placed at gunpoint I think I'd struggle to give the username more than about thirty of you, and I generally struggle to attach actual associations to the usernames of more than about a hundred. As such, an "I'm leaving" post from almost any poster save the actual moderator smacks of vainglory; it makes it seem that you thought yourself more significant to the general forum population than you probably actually are. I'm betting a good chunk of people reading this thread wouldn't have been able to pick RepoMan out of a line-up before this thread - I know I had only the haziest of associations around the username prior to this. TL;DR in a small tightly-knit group what you're saying make sense; on a bustling forum, much less so.
It's threads like this that make me contemplate a hiatus. That and seeing the word "feels" used as a fucking noun all the fucking time.
When I left Qt3, I sent Tom a PM welcoming him to toggle my account for my convenience, and I sent PMs to a couple of other people with whom I'd gotten a little closer, to say goodbye, and that was that. Like Mesarach said, on a forum that size, most people didn't know me anyway. So no post, no thread, no drama, no fucks given. Worked out great.
I thought this meant he would enjoy a little ribbing, it's never seemed to bother him in the past. Like, not ever. You people just joining us wagging your fucking sanctimonious fingers at us know that, right? He's usually a goddamned good sport. I wouldn't think for a minute he'd flip out like this, but he did and that sucks. Then again I have no idea what possessed him to make a thread like this. We all wax and wane to an extent in our posting habits. Also he's basically framing this huff he's now left in around one Bahimiron post, which is like the US deciding its foreign policy with Russia based on Boris and Natasha from old Bullwinkle cartoons. All I can say is: hey, I sure wasn't trying to hurt his feelings, I thought I'd lighten the thread a little with a silly gif, but I guess that's too mean. How is that too mean? If something happened IRL that's coloring his take on things, then I wish he'd shared that. It sure didn't seem like it. I was shocked when he PMed me over that silly gif I posted. I got the notice through my gmail while on my tablet while I was out (where I have yet to set up a login to BF, because I am lazy), and thought I accidentally posted this (which I had been showing someone else). I was aghast! But it was a silly Didn't Read LOL gif and I thought he'd chuckle and reply "Yeah, I love you too Beel!" and we'd both know that it wasn't meant in anything but fun because I haven't thrown a harsh word his way in years. I save those for the truly worthy. Like Brett. Brett, you big whiny fucking asshole. Fuck you. I have given you more benefits of the doubt than any internet person I have ever known, and this includes Rimbo. Go fuck yourself. Go somewhere else if we're all too mean for you. You're the fucking mean one. You're the one who starts shit all the time then cries bully. Fuck you. Don't shit in our threads anymore. Participate with good intent for once in your misery-crusted life. Stop fulfilling your own pessimistic inner anxiety about group acceptance and beating everyone to the punch to validate them. No one except Pogo really hates you, and even he'd stop if you'd just act like a decent human being for once. It's not like it's not in you. Start with not giving a fuck that anyone's a liberal for fuck's sake. But you won't. Fuck you too BaconTastesGood. I'm sick of you choking back fake tears of eternal butthurt because I dunno, someone called you on your shit once here or on Qt3. No one cares. Get over it. Stop having to defend other people when they step on their own dicks (or vaginas, I'll be fair here). I expect better from you, you know goddamned well people need to own up to their mistakes and drop the overblown rhetoric about how BALLS NASTY this place is. This place is so nice a Care Bear could give birth to a kitten and we'd make it our mascot. Oh you guys are all so MEAN and you never shut up about TOM and one time someone stole my seat at the lunch table boohoohoboohoo And to everyone else whining about this: did you forget we welcomed in pure-strain weeaboos just a month or so ago? Fuck off, we're the friendliest fucking forum on the internet. This is dogs and cats living together shit we've got here. Oh my Gawrsh it's not a 100% sanitized super-PC hugbox. Name somewhere that is. And then go there. God. And what the fuck is musical hacking?!?!
Part of why I even spoke up at all is that RepoMan cancelled his account, so my vision's probably colored. I didn't much care for RepoMan's original post (which, frankly, sounded more like a public press conference announcement than a farewell), but I did -- and still do feel -- some of the posts went overboard. More so than the usual rate, anyways. Not asking for a "super-PC hugbox," god knows I turn to sarcasm often enough, but I can't envision this ending well even if RepoMan had taken responsibility, so to speak.
If RepoMan had come back in here, made a huge joke at his OWN expense and given some of the shit back to us, I guaranteed this would have ended much differently. His first post invited people to make fun of him, but when - horror of horrors - they actually DID, he couldn't handle it. Again, IT DOES NOT PAY TO TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY ON AN INTERNET FORUM.
Most likely true, as a hate filled internet troll like you most likely has no real feelings to hurt. So it makes sense that you want to be like Pogo I guess.
You have made an art form out of ducking under the point. At this point I picture you with hair permanently parted from how often things fly right over your head.
Bill, it was a really excellent post you laid down (especially that last question. I mean really, wtf?), but I don't think it's terribly useful to play Old Ones vs. Noobers. Unless the Old Ones are flashing eldritch powers, in which case, carry on.
I bet I can hurt Bill's feelings. Hey Bill, you kind of remind me of Brett without the debilitating brain damage.
It's not, but I didn't start that fight, now did I? Here, I've got one. Someone say right now if we're being too mean to someone who hasn't left yet. So many people act like it was SO OBVIOUS and the THE WARNING SIGNS WERE THERE after someone leaves, well what about before? I mean let's prevent this stuff from happening if we're all worried about it.
Well if receiving an actual stuffed helium didn't send Nute flying out into orbit, can't help you. But I totally knew Gus was gonna be pissed. It was in my blog two years ago.
Hold up. That was entirely a joke at Tom's expense. I was playing off how he "toggled" Lum's account "for [his] convenience" despite the fact that Lum still used said account. I was not expecting it to actually happen.
I can't believe Elyscape threw RepoMan's feels in the toilet and made him leave forever. What a jerk.
