joe twisted wrote on 03/29/13 at 23:46:47:
I definitely listened to that from start to finish, and I'm not ashamed
You are not alone Joe so don’t feel ashamed. I think everyone is guilty of jock rocking their life from time to time with a good old 80’s movie montage style power ballad.
“No censorship? I don't think TMA should be used as a place to post porn (if that's what you mean). I would expect it is offensive to the female posters we have (and have had/lost), and I wouldn't think this would be the right place for it. I haven't been around to police that when it happened here, but from this day forth I want absolutely zero porn on TMA. If BOG allows that then it does have a purpose after all (but again, there are tons of porn sites on the internet...)”
We don’t just post straight up porn but we had a thread here and have one at BoG where Playboy level pictures and links only to anything controversial are posted in it. We try and keep it classy even though it doesn’t matter at BoG but to be honest, it’s a pretty popular thread. Nightshade always allowed it here as long as we weren’t crossing the line and we always tried to respect that. Female posters aren’t offended by this, or at least not Nina, and Roadie is always free to post sexy dudes in it to keep things equal.
“Clearly there is some animousity against me because I was not invited, the whole thing was kept from me. P7 told me diddly squat, infact went out of his way to tell people NOT to tell me that he was involved. How do I not take this as disloyalty and a slam against me? We were supposed to be friends.”
Come on man. Do you really think anyone wanted to be the one to hurt your feelings and tell you we started another site made up almost entirely of ex-TMA members from the regulars all the way up to the staff? Of course they didn’t. And you can be mad at P7 all you want for what seems like stabbing you in the back but to be honest he was just looking out for the community because we all thought TMA was just a lost cause at that point in time.
Again, you are making it seem like the point was to get away from you when you clearly know better. You weren’t invited for what should be a plethora of obvious reasons, but the main one is simply that, like you’ve admitted, you were never concerned with being apart of the Brawl crowd. You haven’t posted on Brawl in an eternity. What on earth would make any of us think you would suddenly be interested in joining the group other than to just poke around and see if anything was being said about you at the other site?
And that last line “we were supposed to be friends”. Yeah, we WERE supposed to be friends. A few people here are your friends, but most of us are just your “friend” by association and don’t really know you all that well, especially the newer posters. Let me put it to you this way. Have you ever had a good friend who you didn’t talk to for many years, and then when you see them again later on down the line you’re like “oh, hey, what’s up man” and you respect each other and the history you shared together, but its not quite the same. You’ve both probably changed and you’ve been out of touch for so long that you don’t really know how to properly relate any more? That’s sort of what this is like if that makes any sense. The Brawl crowd has changed a bit since you last remember it. Different people, different vibe, new posters that you don’t know and a whole four year history of things that you don’t have a clue about from inside jokes, to important events that shaped us into what we’ve become. So to expect everyone to be your best friend just because you showed up suddenly is a bit unrealistic. Again, please, please don’t think I’m being an ass. I’m not saying that to be mean at all. Just trying to give you a different perspective on it.
“I'm here now, you can't keep harking back to the fact I wasn't here before as a defense to every argument.”
We don’t mean to keep harking back to that, but it is a perfectly reasonable argument that is the root cause of almost all these problems. We’ve squashed that at this point I think and we understand that you regret that you weren’t around, but admitting it doesn’t change the fact.
And to be honest, personally, I don’t find your reason/excuse to be completely foolproof. I mean, I understand you were working hard on 2.0 all this time, but didn’t you ever just take a break and make a sandwich and think, “you know, I’m working on this new TMA thing, I wonder what the actual TMA is up to”? No? Never? You never had a single minute of free time just to pop in ever? No one can refute how hard you were working on 2.0 or Project X because we don’t really know, but to say you NEVER had time to post here? Come on. That’s ludicrous.
“TMA is dead right now, because you guys orchestrated a swift exit lol.”
OH! Look who is right on the cusp of admitting who is the real lifeblood around here. Go on. Tell us how pretty we all are and how much you love us. I myself am not above flattery Mr. Mort.
“You sound like the perfect admin, where were you all this time? You could have simply banned HB and saved me all this headache. YOU'RE HIRED! It pays in dimes too so you'll like that.”
Uh….I was here, fighting Hellbent in the trenches like the rest of us but I didn’t have the power to strike the final blow. And I sound like the perfect Admin? Duh. That’s because I would be.
I also feel like DARKFORCE’s terms are pretty reasonable and agreeable.
“Now you're making me feel like I'm on probation, that I need to prove myself.”
That’s right Mortimer. YOU’RE ON MODERATION SUCKA!