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[rusted hydra]

Hi. popping in to see how things are here.
Hello people who joined in the last 2 months I am Sakul
People who already here Hi

Sort of coming in cause I've forgotten why I took leave of the forum.
What's changed? Who's together now? anyone pregnant? Who's dead? Who slapped who?

[Flaxney]

Welcome back Sakul, as far as I know no one is pregnant and there are no confirmed fatalities.

[Leeward]

Hey, I was wondering where you'd gone off to. What have you been up to? Not much has changed here, still the same old loony bin.

[Sev]

He did say that he was going to take a break from this forum.

Welcome back, SE!

[rusted hydra]

Welcome back Sakul, as far as I know no one is pregnant and there are no confirmed fatalities.

Aw damn... wanted to have a snack (up to you to figure if I mean the baby or dead body)

Hey, I was wondering where you'd gone off to. What have you been up to? Not much has changed here, still the same old loony bin.

Well I got a job... then left the job cause they wanted to pay me less than R10/an hour with zero overtime options
Then I got a job... then left the job cause I really couldn't do it.
And found another site to hang around
Further drawing a whole bunch and getting my wisdom teeth removed Friday

[Flaxney]

Wasn't your fursona biologically male before you left? Unless this is a new fursona.

[rusted hydra]

Wasn't your fursona biologically male before you left? Unless this is a new fursona.

I have several personae, you'll have to be specific which. And this is a new persona

[Sticky_Fingers]

welcome back anyway then.

[rusted hydra]

Suddenly remembered. Goodbye

[Leeward]

??? Would someone mind explaining?

[Sev]

Well, that was... odd.

[Raven Song]

nope... that was pretty normal...

[Fluke]

lol

[Helios_phi]

I imagine he mistook our discussion on the boards today to be "Drama"

[Leeward]

As far as I'm concerned that was a friendly debate...

[Raven Song]

not everyone sees things like that...

[Helios_phi]

not everyone sees things like that...

I'm sure it's because tone and flow of conversations get lost when everything's typed out in a message. I imagine ever one sounds angrier than they are because it's how your mind would imagine someone defensively.
My friends and I all talk and engage and debate like that so to me it just seems like a conversation with some playful jibes here and there.
I'm imagine if you re-read that, but imagine us all in the same room, having a beer and passing around a bowl of chips, it would be quite different.

[Contrast]

I think it might be because nobody responded to his RPG thread asking for side characters. If I remember correctly (I might be wrong here), he once got very pissed because nobody responded to a story (or maybe it was a poem) he posted a long while back. This might be more of the same.

[Sev]

That could very well be it, Contrast.

[Raven Song]

well no one responded to my story i posted! I'ma rage quit right now...

[Leeward]

Maybe nobody felt like they could add anything of value to those threads, so the end result was that they were "ignored" but not out of anyone's malice. I understand how that can be upsetting.

[Helios_phi]

Guess that's why the "like" button is so popular. You get to acknowledge somebody else with very little input from your side, but they still feel good about it.

[Sev]

And that is precisely why I do no like "like" buttons. They don't actually contribute anything, and stifle discussion.

[Helios_phi]

And that is precisely why I do no like "like" buttons. They don't actually contribute anything, and stifle discussion.

*Helios_phi likes this*

[Ivic_Wulfe]

It is actually amazing that Helios' *like* actually killed the conversation for a day. :3 Well done.

[Sev]

See, that's exactly what I was saying. It completely killed the flow of the discussion.

[Leeward]

I think that was the point. Likes don't add anything of value, but at least they serve as an acknowledgement or nod at the author, and can be used as a collection mechanism. It's like favourites on art pieces or stars on code repositories.

[Sev]

They do serve as a way of "rating" something, but they are also the lazy alternative to actually contributing.

[Darq]

On the other paw, the original purpose of the "like" was to encourage more meaningful discussions.

Rather than having a multitude of messages all reading something along the lines of "I like this" diluting the rest of the conversation, you get a aggregated "like" number and a more concentrated conversation below it.

[rusted hydra]

Ya know what? Its 23:56 now as I start typing. I just had a wonderful 2 hour session of drawing. After more than a month of depression I feel good. And I wanted to come back to some other things. Stand up and do what I want. First here. Then I move on to my relatives and my boss.

The reason I left. The reason I remembered when I came back. Is this: I fucking hate people here, I truly dispise them. I honestly don't want anything to do with them. And instead of doing something proper about it, I just leave. Fuck you.

But there are people here that I like. People I want to be friends with. People I might have snapped at or given the wrong first impression and I want to see about fixing that.

I'm a lil crazy. A few screws loose. And some points afriad of doing anything to enteract with people, and sometimes I get so infuriated I just nuke everything. I need to fix that