How well would this actually work? Since how many banned members would still even come back to this site? Over the years, I'm sure some people who used to frequent here have now completely forgotten it, and will never remember it.

Besides, only the cool kids get banned. Anyway, I suppose it could be called The Breakfast Forum.

CM lifts ban on everyone and sends a mass e-mail explaining their new playground to storm around in. We could even do it gladiator style and have 1v1 thread duels, with the ultimate winner of the tourney getting freedom to post within the normal boards.

Personally, I would love to see Pugler vs DJ Yoshi.

Assuming that most of these people still have the same email, I've changed email 3 or 4 times in the last 4 years.

DJ Yoshi is never gonna happen, last I heard he scammed NoESC out of money to buy Meth or summat.

No, he scammed mscbuck out of cash for heroin addiction. He even posted a few months after the event, explaining his actions.

I didn't know he ever explained himself. I thought he was just perma-banned. What was his explanation, and what became of him?

He definitely scammed Ryan out of something, I rememeber people in a few hours of him saying they;d go to help get the cash back,

Well, IIRC buck made this thread about how Yoshi scammed him by letting buck American Union a few hundred bucks, then Yoshi paid it back via Paypal, then reversed the transaction. A few months (maybe longer even) later, Yoshi suddenly showed up in the thread, explaining he did it because he was hooked on heroin at the time. I can't remember if he ever paid him back... I think Buck tried to get Paypal to get him the money back, no idea if it worked. I'm not sure if Yoshi even got banned, or when exactly.

It didn't work. Paypal is a black hole. Not just for money, but also talent and intelligence. Paypal is basically one of the worst human endeavours ever, nestled somewhere between finance and the holocaust.

Paypal sucks big time, no doubt about it. I hate the fact that transferring funds from my account to my bank takes 4-6 days, even though they are using my inter-bank transfer code (I'm quite sure I'm translating this incorrectly so please tell me what term I'm looking for), which is used for instantly transferring funds from bank to bank.

Wookie I thought you might get a kick out of this (if you haven't already seen it):

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9munYYoqQ

So, I figured it best to move the discussion to this thread, which really isn't about anything specific anyway.

Many thoughts have gone through my mind since the events in the other thread and I'll try to be short and to the point in this one.

I really don't understand why a rather brief point of mine regarding my memory of Star Wars as a small child and an opinion that kids today may not be experiencing things that inspire them to the same degree was anything to get so worked up about. I believe I tried to keep things civil between Antony and myself and he seemed to be overly hostile and aggressive toward me. Fine, I was going to leave it at that but then...

You might feel I overreacted to CM. Perhaps I did. However, I'll briefly explain from my perspective. The comment about child psychologists was hardly the "crux of my argument". I don't even really feel I had an argument. Antony was dismissing my opinions and I was mostly dismissing his remarks. In a post meant to effectively say, "Hey buddy, other people hold this view and I actually do basically exactly what you say I should". So then CM stated a citation was needed. I figured there were a few motivations that were most likely behind his post. I refused to provide links, Antony didn't care for any, and then was told my word carries no weight and other things. So I felt like "**** it". I'm not here to fight with people and I've forgiven the sins of the past and expect others should do the same or at least leave things in the past and see what happens now.

So I posted what I did. I've explained my view in greater detail to CM. He most likely thinks I'm insane but I see he's not pulled the ban trigger so perhaps he is giving me the benefit of the doubt. Or he could be planning for it to be epically entertaining. Time shall reveal all, I suppose.

For those who feel my past behavior requires some sort of contrition or apology I will offer this onetime apology: sorry, ain't gonna happen. There are exactly two people that have received apologies for things that I regret. Those apologies are sincere and stand regardless of what the future brings.

To any of the rest of you with whom I have had confrontations with in the past. I'm over it and you should be to. Nobody is innocent in these matters.

It seems over the years I keep reading comments on here about opening ones mind to other thinking. Fine, then stop being hypocrites about it. SF Gold, while not particularly eloquent nor compelling, has opined about race and gay marriage issues rather innocently and has been ridiculed and attacked for it. He didn't seem to be talking as any sort of extremist so why not engage him and influence and guide him toward your view? I like to be legitimately challenged but nobody likes to be rudely dismissed or attacked.

Members have opined about how boring this place has gotten, especially post-ban. It's probably the only reason CM overturned bans he considered to be quite permanent. From my observation this place basically turned into an intellectual circle-jerk.

I'm only planning to stick around if this is a healthy social experience for me. You might be surprised with what you learn about me if you care to just as I'd like to know more about many of you. However, I'm not going to be posting at anywhere near the amount that I did before. I think I spent an unhealthy amount of time on this board before.

I've tried to be brief here and likely haven't explained much to many's satisfaction. Also, I'm not going to debate anything I just posted. They're my thoughts on these matters and I really do welcome yours as well.

FYI, and because I really don't feel like starting threads on it, Godzilla was pretty good and Amazon Prime has got all kinds of HBO goodness on there now. Cool. No Game of Thrones yet, though.

I was holding my breath reading that Amazon Prime announcement, waiting for them to list Game of Thrones. Bastards! Oh well, I've never seen The Sopranos, The Pacific, or Boardwalk Empire, but always intended to check them out at some point, sooo... now I can, I guess. Still haven't seen the last season and a half of the Wire, either.

I thought Godzilla was p. terrible, though. :-|

It was slow to get rolling but that's pretty much par for the course on introduction movies. King Kong 76 and 05 were both like that. The 05 King Kong is probably my favorite monster movie.

tl;dr: bury the hatchet (and don't make me defend myself)

Which is fine, although I'll be more motivated to read your posts if you plan to stand by them. And if you make them shorter. Some posts don't even need to be made at all. The internet isn't supposed to be that serious.

In other words, just relax, try not to take things personally, and everything will be fine.

but that's why I come here

Well aren't you a well mannered young man? Generally speaking, pretty good advice, just a decade too late with regards to this place.

In 2004 most of us were in high school or college. The idea that that demographic could possibly be civil on the Internet cracks me up.

What brought you to Massassi, Mr. Jones?

Interesting. What is that?

Are you serious?

HOW DID I MISS THIS THREAD 2 WEEKS AGO?

Well, relatively speaking, there were a lot more threads two weeks ago.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure the reason these boards look so inactive isn't that we don't have enough posters, it's that we're not posting enough threads. The Game of Thrones thread and my stupid ****ing text adventure didn't exactly lack for traffic once they were up.

dis but a tenth as long and somebody read it

Wookie is a liar. I have on good authority that he has, in his personal possession, the following games: X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Rebel Assault II, Yoda Stories, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, MotS, JO, JA, and Galactic Battlegrounds.

You were too busy touching yourself.

Touching the rats.

Touching yourself with the rats.

We'd all have read it before the destructive influence of new media on people's attention spans.

Still not sure how the term "intellectual" is a pejorative to some people.

Someone should make a thread about net neutrality.

..."Ryan"?

I know it's terribly long but at about one minute for each of the three years I was banned to make my position clear and give others the opportunity to respond, rather than every time they have a problem with anything I post, maybe not too long.



Actually, the "circle-jerk" term would be what I consider a pejorative in that point. Of course we tend to gravitate towards those we agree with but in a forum like this it leads to stagnation. Which is of course why most topics don't catch wind unless there's some sort of conflict.



Well, if you're relying on information that I would have had to have been the initial source of to prove me a liar, have you actually done so? If I stated I own those games and I am a liar, do I own those games? And if I do in fact own those games, am I then a liar? Keep digging, Mr. Jones. Perhaps one day you shall expose the truth.

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So since everyone disagrees with you it's suddenly an intellectual circle jerk? Do you even attempt to not sound condescending when you post, or does it just occur naturally on your way to pretending like you're persecuted?

At no point does anyone have to be outside to exercise. This is as dumb as suggesting in the other thread that children are somehow better off if they play outside than they are if they play with electronics.