Quote from: ImperatorHey, I just took a break from posting due to excessive amount of work. Should I had made an announcement or something? I think that I can yet blame you all for the shitload of work I've had. Let's try:

Damn you all! If you've had more interesting discussions, I would have not be obliged to take a break in order to get a ton of work done! You're fucking up my life, mates! What's wrong with you? I really expect the quality of discussion around here to improve drastically, so I won't have to do any work anymore!

I don't know. It doesn't convince me.

What the fuck is wrong with you?  No one knew where you went for that period of time!  You inconsiderate bastard!  Your mother was worried sick!  She called the police twice and the hospital three times!

March right up to your room little mister, you're grounded!

Things I found out regarding my personal journey:

We have a small-scale swine invasion going on, at the moment.

This site has lost ALL it´s memory.

Not only because of new people- but even people who have been around at the time of debate behave like they never had the argument. Concerning not opinions, but facts. This is especially true for most things related to D&D history.

Add to that a relatively vocal base of new people with their RPG.Net manners and WoDdy interests and a healthy dose of relativism makes this place pretty obnoxious to me. The only thing to do would be to fight, insult and educate for hours and hours, with the aim to drive people out of the forum. I have no interest in that. So the days of me being a dependable poster here are pretty much over at the current situation.

BTW: If you read this, and think you must mock the drama, you´ve lost. Cause it´s YOU, the reader, who´s CRAVING the drama. Elsewise you wouldn´t have clicked. So, catch-22.
I´m honest: To me it´s a bit emotional, as I´ve invested so much into this forum, and learned even more, got more in return. But now, I´m not only getting no new insights, I´m also watching people getting dumber. I tried to fight it with enlargening my Ignore List, but it became ridiculous recently. And I even un-ignored some of the older chestnutties!

Also, the group hygiene isn´t working anymore. blakkie is on a posting spree and everyone is trying to discuss with him. But it´s pointless! And everybdy used to know that! Why is everybody so bad with remembering things? Are folks getting dumber? I don´t get it. Even TonyLB, who has been clearly driven off last time, and who clearly has bad intentions is treated as if he was just a naive poster. But he´s not! Have you forgotten? We had PROOF of him being a spearhead for their tiny, ugly pyramid scheme. He´s a shill, and everybody agreed on that!

Really, a shame. There ALREADY is an RPG.Net. I don´t understand why so many posters bring discussions down to that level. And why so much of their Swine-tastes are becoming acceptable here. But it´s a free forum and those who post, they decide.

I think most of you play games (like) I never ever would want to play them.
This place has slowly become as alien to me as Story-Games.
Only on Story-Games, I understand why people behve like they do.

So, bye, talk to all of you elsewhere or here after the idiots have left.

Quote from: SettembriniBTW: If you read this, and think you must mock the drama, you´ve lost. Cause it´s YOU, the reader, who´s CRAVING the drama. Elsewise you wouldn´t have clicked. So, catch-22.

The difference is that for you it's drama, for us it's comedy.

You should spend your time doing something useful and productive, like translating FtA! into German.

Kyle,
I´m sure you wrote a full page about life & posting and how you are a better human being than everyone else.

Honestly: This is an RPG site, where Internet-dudes with avatars shoot the bull about cool games, fight over editions and elucidate on gaming history. And, who fought the pretentious idiots destroying our hobby by making it into a self-validation exercise and a lifestyle unto itself.

But you are one of the main actors who made POSTING HERE into a self validating way of life, writing treatises on kitchen psychology on everyone and their mother. You think I´m lacking perspective when getting worked up on games? Sir, it´s you with the perspective problem. You don´t know what this site was supposed to be about. It´s not your living room.

Anyway this site has lost most of it´s qualities and allures to me. I fought hard to prevent the current slide into lameness and JimBobbery. But the blakkies and Davids and droogs and Swine infiltrators were stronger. I´ll fight on somewhere else. Stupidity and tastelessness have won, at least they did win many crucial battles on this site.

Fighting on would make me look like a moron and troll, as I would need to fight 15 of the most active posters. So it´s better that I go.

Again, for the sure-to-come-mockers: I cared about the site and helped build it in a certain way. I have no problems with expressing emotional attachment and disillusionment when such a fine venue goes to hell. THose who mock are the real probelamtic guys. because they hang out in the OT, and have made this a hang out place. It used to be a discussion room. If you have time reading this and mocking this, and see this as your entertainment, then you have already lost. You are hanging out, instead of being valueable to the hobby.

As you can see, I´m using this to let off steam. Steam that built up by that huge influx of douchebags. I can´t tell everyone of you how wrong, mislead and generally uninformed or tasteless you are in RPGs. So assume I think very lowly of you. I think there´s ten people of the active posters left thsat I respect. You know if you are one of them. Everyone else: :rolleyes:, yeah and that includes JimBob.

No, I just wrote two lines this time

I thought you were going? "Just one last post...!"

My experience is that people who loudly announce they're leaving a forum will be back. The ones who really are going just disappear without a word, except perhaps an email to one or two posters they like and want to keep in touch with.

Sett -

 Are you a Drama Queen or what?

My memory is pretty good (better than some maybe)


What the FuQ are you going on about?


- Ed C.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

- Harlan Ellison -

Regards,
David R

Quote from: KoltarSett -

 Are you a Drama Queen or what?

My memory is pretty good (better than some maybe)


What the FuQ are you going on about?


- Ed C.

Keep your Klingon language to yourself, you filthy Trekkie.

Wait, is this the thread where we bemoan Stett leaving?

Oy Vey!!
 Who's speaking "klingon" ?   - thats just the word "fuck" spelled with letter 'Q'.

{{{:-)

So how did that sex change work out for you Sett? They let that woman inside you out? Or is it still cage your rage time?

Joking aside, Sett, I'd like a clearer explanation of the way the site was that you liked so much.  The majority of your posts in this thread are about what is now wrong and bad (and a lot of that is jargon).  I'm not getting what was so good before that is gone now.  Could you elucidate, if you are still here?

Or where he'd like to see the site going would be good, too.

At the moment he's reminding me of this guy we get at our Geektogethers.
"This pub is terrible. Can't we go somewhere else next time?"
"Sure. Where would you like to go?"
"Not here."
"Yes, we've established that you don't like this place. Which place do you like?"
"Not here."
"Well, when you think of another place -"
"I don't want to come here!"
"We have to have the Geektogethers somewhere. You can always just not come... but I'd rather you told us where you do like."
"Not here. This place stinks!"
"..."

I won?

It feels hollow. Cold. Middlebrow.

If you want a place where you can lock discussion down to the things you want to talk about and keep the "swine" out, get a Livejournal account and lock comment priviliges.

Otherwise, stop whining and bitching about the internet being the internet.

Oh noes!  People who LIKE STUFF I DON'T are coming here and posting!

Why couldn't we keep those blacks and jews out of the country club???

It's important to have a diversity of views and people around, so that we have someone to make fun of.