Bannings
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Also, no one needs to post anything on Derp’s Echo Chamber. Post it here. They’re all reading.
I feel a weird combination of amusement and pity that hobos is still on about me calling him a creep who doesn’t think other people are real. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to him that maybe I’ve had life experiences, plural, that cause me to interpret his behavior as a series of bright red flags from the kind of guys who are so self-righteous they can’t see the difference between red and green. He only knows that from his perspective, he is innocent of whatever he thinks I accused him of, and his perspective is the only one that matters. After all, it’s only possible for other people to be wrong or self-deluded, not him.
So since my perspective has no value in his consideration of what criticisms I have for him, I would like to post a few accusations for hobos to screenshot as proof that I am out to get him despite having to double check the other forum just to be sure I remembered the name of the dude I’m talking about.
hobos is a serial killer who keeps four small children chained in his basement. Every night, he dresses up in the costume of a French chevalier and picks one by chanting Eeny Meeny Miney Moe in a bad French accent. He uses a hacksaw to remove two inches from the legs of his chosen victim. No one has caught him because when his victims die, he cooks their meat in chili which he donates to homeless people, which local monster hunters have not realized is the cause for the sudden steep increase in the local wendigo population.
hobos once broke into his local news channel with a gun and a live endangered African white rhino. He took the camera crew hostage and forced them to live broadcast him beheading the rhino with a chainsaw, then wearing its head as a codpiece. The videos are on YouTube, but hidden behind age gates due to the graphic content.
hobos is not human. He is the result of Argentinean Nazi scientists cloning Hitler’s brain into the bodies of thirteen stray cats, who are now piled together inside a complicated human suit to masquerade as a man until it is time for them to rule at the head of the Meowth Reich.
hobos is personally responsible for all global warming. If we can just find and eliminate hobos, CO2 emissions will fall every year and the ozone layer will replenish itself. It is every human’s moral responsibility to hunt hobos, for the sake of all life on this planet.
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This is mostly why I don’t read MSB. I refuse to allow those people to live rent-free in my head. I don’t like giving people that kind of satisfaction.
Because clearly they can’t or won’t show that same level of restraint.
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OK but at this point I’m a little of jealous of hobos, and I think it’s unfair that he got rewarded with a badass backstory for his bad behaviour. Where do I sign up to get custom lore?
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I am seriously going to stop poking at this but I’m on vacation right now so here’s the illustrated guide to the remaining “community” on Derp’s echo chamber. An X means they either haven’t posted since the dust-up or just posted their “peace out” message and left.
Out of the top-24 most liked - not most prolific, but most agreed with posters - only five remain who weren’t banned at some point. And four of them are either current or former board admin.
Do with that info what you will. To me, it lays bare the fact that this was never about the health of the community.
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I am seriously going to stop poking at this but I’m on vacation right now so here’s the illustrated guide to the remaining “community” on Derp’s echo chamber. An X means they either haven’t posted since the dust-up or just posted their “peace out” message and left.
Out of the top-24 most liked - not most prolific, but most agreed with posters - only five remain who weren’t banned at some point. And four of them are either current or former board admin.
Do with that info what you will. To me, it lays bare the fact that this was never about the health of the community.
Pyre was banned??
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I am seriously going to stop poking at this but I’m on vacation right now so here’s the illustrated guide to the remaining “community” on Derp’s echo chamber. An X means they either haven’t posted since the dust-up or just posted their “peace out” message and left.
Out of the top-24 most liked - not most prolific, but most agreed with posters - only five remain who weren’t banned at some point. And four of them are either current or former board admin.
Do with that info what you will. To me, it lays bare the fact that this was never about the health of the community.
Same energy.
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@tsar oh nope, i got happy with the banned text. very skillfully edited the image so no one will be the wiser (even though you quoted it)
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@KarmaBum lol I was like MAN how did I miss that because that of all bans would have been the most baffling of them all
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@Kestrel was genetically engineered in a laboratory to be the world’s greatest warrior, but was raised in England as part of a social experiment to see if the nation’s “what would the neighbors think” culture could override her genetic programming. It has not occurred yet to the scientists that neither is the case; that Kestrel might have chosen a life of peace of her own free will and morality.
Kestrel once saved four babies from a burning orphanage. She didn’t rush into the fire or anything silly like that. Rather, she rebuked the fire sharply to stop being such a little attention-seeker, and the flame, humiliated, slinked off into a river to think about what it had done.
Kestrel posts so rarely on this board because she spends most of her time in outer space, visiting the sun. She has discovered the sun is actual a titanic labyrinth made of plasma, which she has been mapping off and on for the last three years. Many alien species are assisting her efforts in exchange for access to her data and to her music recommendations, which they seem to consider a form of currency.
Once per year, Kestrel may summon an army of gerbils to do her bidding. She does not know where, when, or how she acquired this power, but the gerbils know, and they refuse to speak of it.
Kestrel refuses to watch “white savior” movies because it reminds her of the time she personally unified China thousands of years ago. In retrospect, she wishes she’d let them unify themselves, but it’s too late to fix that now. All she can do is try to avoid the embarrassment.
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I am seriously going to stop poking at this but I’m on vacation right now so here’s the illustrated guide to the remaining “community” on Derp’s echo chamber. An X means they either haven’t posted since the dust-up or just posted their “peace out” message and left.
Out of the top-24 most liked - not most prolific, but most agreed with posters - only five remain who weren’t banned at some point. And four of them are either current or former board admin.
Do with that info what you will. To me, it lays bare the fact that this was never about the health of the community.
Hm, I do think some of those red X’s hadn’t posted quite a bit before the dust up, too. Can I make a request that maybe they be grey X’s, if they hadn’t posted in a while before the dust up?
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@Meg wtf what is this??? some place where we’re not just allowed to make shit up to suit the narrative?!
christ, you ppl with your demands for accuracy and truth. no wonder derp banned you.
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@Meg wtf what is this??? some place where we’re not just allowed to make shit up to suit the narrative?!
christ, you ppl with your demands for accuracy and truth. no wonder derp banned you.
I think technically, too, that Coin should have an X. He was unbanned but never went back.
I would also like an X; I went back just to post some corrections, but I posted a goodbye! (twice)
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@KarmaBum lol I was like MAN how did I miss that because that of all bans would have been the most baffling of them all
Pyre is the mastermind behind all, lurking in the shadows and planning every move, every possible contingency, the Xanatos of text roleplaying game messageboards. Unfortunately, they were found out when they couldn’t resist flying about Tastes Less Game-y in a robot suit with glowing eyes and laser guns, which, to be fair, is understandable.
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A couple days of AWOL and things go wild.
All I gotta say is I still think they are the ones trying to keep the dramas going. It seems like as soon as the subject of MSB starts to drop from here, they do something to stir it up again. I’m not saying the posts ‘finish’ but the conversations in them just wander off to jokes/a new direction.
So, to me they want to pad their board with posts by stirring up those that pay attention to both here and MSB.
Or
They are trying to prove they are the superior board by constantly pointing out ‘flaws’ of people on here.
Either way, to me, they come off as very much the more petty and unethical group for it. I don’t think I am really part of any ‘clique’ on either board. Except maybe with @Narson on account of knowing him forever and @Tributary . I don’t think I really know anyone else beyond the occasional chitchat with 'em. I could be wrong about not knowing people well because I’m bad at keeping in touch, no matter how much I like a person (this 100% includes family and offline friends), and ALWAYS forget how I know someone.
I don’t read most posts here but also don’t turn them off because I sometimes get caught in by the little snippet the ‘recent’ has of the latest post and want to see what it is about (which I regret because it takes me forever to figure out where it all started). I did the same on MSB.
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@Meg some women just never satisfied, geez
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@Meg some women just never satisfied, geez
ok, now time to do the second page.
ETA: omg, i just noticed the edit under coin. That’s gold.
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@Meg wtf what is this??? some place where we’re not just allowed to make shit up to suit the narrative?!
christ, you ppl with your demands for accuracy and truth. no wonder derp banned you.
It’s a little disconcerting to see myself with a big red X over me, like it’s a list of Known Associates who have been whacked.
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@Pavel You’re a Mean Girl now, like it or not.
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