[quote=pinback post_id=115632 time=1602263346 user_id=5]
Our handling of the emails has been the kindest you could possibly imagine. Too kind, some will say, once the authorities are poring over them looking for clues.[/quote]LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

Our handling of the emails has been the kindest you could possibly imagine. Too kind, some will say, once the authorities are poring over them looking for clues.

So... no spirit of kindness?

[quote=RetroRomper post_id=115510 time=1602095042 user_id=879]
I'm done. Logging out.
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Thankfully, since this unfortunate event, he has been able to focus on his other, more satisfying projects, and has been able to bring a renewed sense of positive energy to his daily life.



HAHAH just kidding, since mere hours (or less?) after the above post, he has been continually barraging ICJ and me with page-long, hysterical, psychotic emails, and also monitoring all of the public bases he still has read-access to here while lying about it ("someone told me Pinback made a poll about me" -- later admitted to be a quite obvious lie).

Also, they're not there.

[i]Signed,

The Also, They're Not There Fairy[/i]

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=115595 time=1602193841 user_id=3]
Okay, they should be there now.
[/quote]

[b]WRONG THREAD!![/b]

[i]Signed,

The Wrong Thread Fairy[/i]

Okay, they should be there now.

In his defense, he never hid it from his wife.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=115575 time=1602175614 user_id=829]I know the tendency toward addiction exists in my own family and I've caught myself leaning toward addictive behaviors. I am very appreciative that I find alcoholic beverages intolerable. It prevents me from having any interest in alcohol. I do know I have compulsive programming syndrome . . . .[/quote]
Um, how about your food addiction???? The reason you lost your fucking leg?

[img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-8eICEjBX7w/maxresdefault.jpg[/img]

Addicts never want to admit to their own addiction, yours truly included.

Well, I feel like if he didn't have "me hiding drinking" to continually reference, we'd lose about 90% of his participation on this BBS.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=115575 time=1602175614 user_id=829] all kinds of stunts to hide your drinking, maybe to some extent trying to hide it from yourself. In such a case, if you hid it well, other people might not know or notice.[/quote]

I'm the most outside person in this group and even I knew about his drinking, he brings it up more often than you do cobol and even created a thread to talk about beers he enjoys.

When is the last time you even read a post by someone here? I think you just see a block of words and immediately inject whatever you feel like talking about at that time. It's the only explanation.

The kind thing to do was to give Retro a bit of a break.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=115575 time=1602175614 user_id=829]
[quote=pinback post_id=115518 time=1602095841 user_id=5]
They were private conversations between him and us, Paul. He had them because they were his.[/quote]
Well, that brings up another question. You guys have history with him, and knew he's unstable from his time as DraalRanger, why would you trust him with things? Maybe I'm more cynical, but if I knew someone was unstable I'm not going to trust them with anything confidential or personal.
[/quote]

Nobody shared anything confidential or personal, that's why his posts weren't immediately deleted.

[quote=pinback post_id=115518 time=1602095841 user_id=5]
They were private conversations between him and us, Paul. He had them because they were his.[/quote]
Well, that brings up another question. You guys have history with him, and knew he's unstable from his time as DraalRanger, why would you trust him with things? Maybe I'm more cynical, but if I knew someone was unstable I'm not going to trust them with anything confidential or personal.

Now if you did not know he was unstable, that's a different matter. But if you gave him these e-mails probably any time in 2020 I have to think that maybe you need to contemplate why you would trust someone who is compromised. You yourself admitted that you pulled all kinds of stunts to hide your drinking, maybe to some extent trying to hide it from yourself. In such a case, if you hid it well, other people might not know or notice. But if someone figured it out, they should not trust you as when one is an addict they might do things they'll regret later.

This is not intended to criticize you; I know the tendency toward addiction exists in my own family and I've caught myself leaning toward addictive behaviors. I am very appreciative that I find alcoholic beverages intolerable. It prevents me from having any interest in alcohol. I do know I have compulsive programming syndrome, most good programmers have it, and in our case, it tends to be a good "problem" to have as it will make us laser focused on our work, unfortunately sometimes to the exclusion of everything else. I discovered I had it when I read about it in [url=https://smile.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silver-Anniversary-ebook/dp/B004R9QACC/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=the+psychology+of+computer+programming&qid=1602175317&sr=8-3]The Psychology of Computer Programming[/url] by Gerald Weinberg, which I read around 1982 because it was an assigned book for one of my college courses, and I recommend it highly.

Thus if you know someone is mentally unstable or psychologically unstable (as in the case of an addict) you might not want to trust them over sensitive things until you know they have come out of and/or been treated for it.

So perhaps that's something you should consider in the future.

On the scale of bipolars I know, he's not currently "falling down the stairs naked in front of his family, his daughter, and her friends". So we got that going for us.

It's not an easy disease to treat.

[quote=RetroRomper post_id=115502 time=1602094146 user_id=879]
You need serious help
[/quote]

HaHahAHaHahAHaHahA!!!

I will leave you all to your own conclusions with this one.

They were private conversations between him and us, Paul. He had them because they were his.

[quote=pinback post_id=115506 time=1602094732 user_id=5]
You guys I bought vodka one weekend. You can tell from that private conversation Retro posted without my permission up there.[/quote]
Just one thing, if that's a private conversation, how the hell did he get access to it? When Flack sends me his address in a PM, the only other person who can see it is Jonsey and maybe AArdvark who, since he has co-moderator privileges here I presume has power to take over in an emergency.

So, presuming, of course, that you did not give this to him, either it's not a private conversation (the way this is not), you held it where Retro is a sysop, or the other guy leaked it to him, Q.E.D.
[quote=pinback post_id=115506 time=1602094732 user_id=5]
At this point all I'm worrying about emerging from intact is you mailing a bomb to my house, you raging lunatic.[/quote]
How does he have your address? Now, of course, since he gave it to me, I know Flack's address, but, in my case, the only bomb he has to worry about me mailing him are bombed-out hard drives.
[quote=pinback post_id=115506 time=1602094732 user_id=5]
Oh, and don't post people's private emails and conversations without their permission, asshole.[/quote]
Valid point, but, again, if they are private, [u]how is he getting them[/u]?

The other possibility is that he's making shit up trying to get me fired, because I was mean to him on the internet. In an [i]extraordinarily[/i] generous gesture, I'm going to assume that isn't it.

For now.

I'm done. Logging out.