[quote=Tdarcos post_id=112407 time=1595193804 user_id=829]
What is it with you lately? [/quote]

You are absolutely right here and I am completely wrong. How I've been treating you is inexcusable, and if I didn't make it clear enough in my last post here then I hope to make it clear now, I would like to apologize for all of it.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=112366 time=1595089981 user_id=1042]
[quote=Tdarcos post_id=112363 time=1595074132 user_id=829]I mean, for example, take myself and my opinions of others.[/quote]

This was the shittiest and most retarded breakdown of anything I have ever read in my entire life. [/quote]
Then you're due for an eye check. What is it with you lately? I say something, then you say something to the effect of "You're wrong, but either I can't explain why or I don't want to bother saying why and I don't want to admit either." You gave the most flippant dismissal of everything I said with absolutely no explanation of reasons why you disagreed with it.

If you're so smart and I'm so dumb, why don't you try educating me? Then maybe we could both benefit. You'd show your magnanimous generosity in allowing me to learn something and allowing me to understand how what I said was wrong, and I would learn where I had made a mistake.

But no, you didn't do that, you just dismissed everything I said as if it was so meaningless as to be beneath you to explain why, as if doing so was the equivalent of cleaning up someone else's vomit barehanded.

I said, (1) Some people here may have been a little thin skinned and maybe need to be a little more tolerant or understanding; (2) Finn was a nasty person but I have a thick skin; (2) Pinback seems to draw negative emotions but we still care about him; (3) Aardvark seemed to be excessively touchy for reasons I don't understand; (4) Jonsey's problem is we give him ulcers and headaches. According to you, all of this is wrong. The reason? Dead silence.

You seem to be physically unable to explain what I said that was wrong, misguided, or improper. Often this sort of behavior as you displayed is the hallmark of someone who doesn't want to admit the other person is right. If that isn't the case, then you could have offered us all a "teachable moment," and offered me the opportunity to learn from my mistakes and grow.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=112366 time=1595089981 user_id=1042]
How many one sentence posts have you seen from these people and you said TL;DR and just went ahead and posted 19 paragraphs of completely random and false bullshit? It's like you're on a completely different planet.
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I think you're the one departing Uranus because what you just said makes no sense. It's a pure [i]non sequitur[/i]. The result does not follow from the premise. Someone else made a one-line statement and I felt it was too long, and instead wrote 19 paragraphs. So, you're saying I think a long block of text is shorter than one line.

If you wanted to make a rational argument it would have been better if you had said that I talk too much, where someone else uses one line and i would uae several pages. That would have made sense.

When you can start making sense I'll start listening to you. Until then...

[quote=Jizaboz post_id=112381 time=1595148010 user_id=910]
[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=112366 time=1595089981 user_id=1042]
[quote=Tdarcos post_id=112363 time=1595074132 user_id=829]I mean, for example, take myself and my opinions of others.[/quote]

This was the shittiest and most retarded breakdown of anything I have ever read in my entire life. How many one sentence posts have you seen from these people and you said TL;DR and just went ahead and posted 19 paragraphs of completely random and false bullshit? It's like you're on a completely different planet.
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Well, he did make a cocaine reference
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As an AArdvark supporter, I should have known better than to stoop to the level that I did there. I regret doing it. That is the sort of uncalled for nastiness that pinback supporters such as Casual Observer, The "Happiness" Engine, and RetroRomper always resort to. What a group of disgusting, horrible people they are. It makes me wonder how Finsternis ever got banned in the first place considering the norm here.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=112366 time=1595089981 user_id=1042]
[quote=Tdarcos post_id=112363 time=1595074132 user_id=829]I mean, for example, take myself and my opinions of others.[/quote]

This was the shittiest and most retarded breakdown of anything I have ever read in my entire life. How many one sentence posts have you seen from these people and you said TL;DR and just went ahead and posted 19 paragraphs of completely random and false bullshit? It's like you're on a completely different planet.
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Well, he did make a cocaine reference

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=112363 time=1595074132 user_id=829]I mean, for example, take myself and my opinions of others.[/quote]

This was the shittiest and most retarded breakdown of anything I have ever read in my entire life. How many one sentence posts have you seen from these people and you said TL;DR and just went ahead and posted 19 paragraphs of completely random and false bullshit? It's like you're on a completely different planet.

[quote=pinback post_id=112329 time=1595010921 user_id=5]
NICE JOB, Sysop. Oh well, at least we still have... [i]siiiiiiighhhhhhh[/i] Billy.
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Hey!

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=112357 time=1595055103 user_id=3]
I think I took Aardvark for granted and now I am paying the price for my selfishness.
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Well, of course you took him for granted. Some emotions are too powerful to sustain for long periods, like gratitude, if you try to force them you can get worn out.

I think some people here need to grow thicker skin, maybe be a little more tolerant even if - or especially if - the other person is being an asshole. People make mistakes, and that can cut both ways, both in someone doing something and in other people's reactions to them and their behavior.

I mean, for example, take myself and my opinions of others. (Or don't take them if you disagree.)

Finn was an irritating prig but I could live with him. I never asked for him to be banned, I actually had fun with his deflections. In almost every case, when he accused or criticized someone here, he had been doing the exact same thing. And he accuses me of being afflicted by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect]Dunning-Kruger effect[/url]! (I also knew of what it was before he mentioned it.)

RetroRomper has never said anything Insulting to me and I have, in fact, found his comments often entertaining. I hope to see more of his content in the future.

Pinback is a hate sink, of course, which is why we love him so much. Outside of maybe me, he gets a lot of negative energy here. Whether or not that is deserved is a subject I'm not going to investigate at this time.

Aardvark, I don't know, seemed to be a bit too sensitive, maybe that's related to his drawings. Or perhaps he was upset at the symbols picketing him, especially when i pointed out to them he's not in the collective bargaining agreement.

And then there's Jonsey, whose biggest expense in having this board (and Caltrops) is not the hosting costs or the HTTPS certificate or the problems with PHPBB, it's all the money he has to spend on cases of Maalox and Zantac for the ulcers the users cause him, and the bottle or two of aspirin a day he has to take because of all the headaches he has to deal with. I understand it's so bad he has his pharmacy on speed dial to let them know to order more supplies.

"I guess this was a bad week to quit snorting coke."

I think I took Aardvark for granted and now I am paying the price for my selfishness.

This reminds me of the time I jailed a guy who didn't do shit in Ultima Online as staff. Please do not quit. Mistakes were made lol

AArdvark really left? I thought this was all some kind of inside joke or something. He was our biggest content creator behind Flack. So are we just going to pack it up now? Is it time to just pack all of it up and move on with our lives? Is [i]this[/i] over?

NICE JOB, Sysop. Oh well, at least we still have... [i]siiiiiiighhhhhhh[/i] Billy.

Oh, and this is definitely not your fault, Robb. You just forgot to do something. No lives were lost and it should not have been a big deal.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=112287 time=1594959066 user_id=3]
Ah fuck. I think I left a Shadow Topic in the old forum.

This was my fault. And now Vark is gone.
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Damn it, did he say something? It's official? There's nothing we can do? This sucks.

[quote=AArdvark post_id=111587 time=1593737935 user_id=20]
wait a second....right now.. go into Orcs Head Tavern and look just below my Snowblower thread and tell me if that's the same Pinback Fat Thread that is s'posed to be locked up in the Best Of base
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Ah fuck. I think I left a Shadow Topic in the old forum.

This was my fault. And now Vark is gone.

[quote=AArdvark post_id=111578 time=1593733247 user_id=20]
Wondering how it is that you promised yourself that you'd stay away from teh booze and then not six months later there's Narragansett in your life.
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Are you really wondering how that is? Is that the question you wanted to ask, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4z9hIn08A]Drinky the Drunk Guy?[/url]

HOW IS IT that I promised myself that and am now drinking beer.

Well, I made a number of New Years Resolutions, and I stuck to some, and not to others. That's HOW IT IS, you oozing sack of shit.

"How is it". What an asshole. What a jackass.

How is it. How is it [i]now[/i], fuckhead?

Well we don't have a fairy hanging around here to let us know so I don't know what options we have left.

I dont care about his drinking, in fact, I applaud him for having a couple cold ones, even if it is canoe beer. It's the wrong base thing thats bugging me

[quote=AArdvark post_id=111578 time=1593733247 user_id=20]
Wondering how it is that you promised yourself that you'd stay away from teh booze and then not six months later there's Narragansett in your life.
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I don't think Ben's goal was to become an absolute teetotaler. It was more about changing his mindset so he wasn't looking to food and alcohol to find happiness given that those things are incapable of providing anything but momentary escape. I doubt that mindset has changed, but he might be lapsing back into old habits a little bit which is a very, very easy thing to do.

wait a second....right now.. go into Orcs Head Tavern and look just below my Snowblower thread and tell me if that's the same Pinback Fat Thread that is s'posed to be locked up in the Best Of base

Pinback is right. I had moved it to the Best of Base.

I will move the offending post.