GEE THIS THREAD SURE IS FRIENDLY.

I'm surprised you've left this unlocked. :|

I feel it necessary to recount that I witnessed APC (one of my highest ranking and widely respected channel operators) rant here in the rant thread about DD's Bug issues out of frustration, which is what this thread is for. I then saw Skool attack him with threats instead of addressing his issues professionally, using a “I'm going to get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” tone. So I felt the need to editorialize that lapse in professionalism. I mean, sure APC can be an asshole, but do what I do and use that to your advantage. He makes an excellent watch dog. But in this instance, he was doing what the thread allowed… ranting in frustration and was chastised for it.

Back to Skool. (heh, punny) I'm not saying she doesn't do a good job for DD (that was her misinterpretation). I think the all the admins do quite well with the paper-clips and tinfoil they've had to McGuyver this site with. The admins aren't the problem, this whole thing has been about bug fixes, not admins. It has been long established that if you're bitching about the bugs, your bitches are not directed at admins, but T. Dylan Squires (aka Volte6) and the Platinum management team… which does not include DD site admins. To make a long story short, after some heated back and forth, I tried to make peace and in return got my intelligence and stature within the community insulted, a whole bunch of people missed the point which got lost in a rabid mudslinging fest. All because of a rant about bugs that go unfixed. Nobody said, “Skool, this is your fault.” She came to that conclusion on her own. It is unfortunate that she assumed this gross misunderstanding. At no time in his original rant did APC say “Skoolmunkee”.

She flung the first mud and cried foul when someone (me) called her on it and flung it back. Yes, after that, things got personal… because she changed the focus and the rules of engagement. Again, crying foul when someone called her on it. Normally, she's a good admin and I'm not calling her dedication to DD into question here. I never did. She should feel proud of her standing in the community and as an administrator. Because of this, she needed to take the higher road and didn't. That's all I'm saying. Instead, she's gotten you all to lose focus of what happened here and turn it around so that you're all now ganging up on APC (and to a lesser extent, myself). He's been a part of Drunk Duck for a long time. He has invested a lot of time and energy into this community and like a lot of us, he is frustrated that it is broken and not showing signs of being fixed. So please stop treating he and myself as upstart trollers who just cropped up to cause trouble and need to be ran out on a rail.

This is not me stoking the fire. This is me asking you to all put your torches and pitchforks down, take a step back and look at the situation as a whole. I'm not asking you to turn on Skoolmunkee. I'm not asking you to stick up for APC. Take a look at the title of the thread. “Rant or vent here” not “flame the users who voice legitimate frustration.” Look at that. Recognize that his initial rant was legitimate… that it is aimed at Volte6 and Platinum, not admins like Skool or Spang or Ozone… and let it go.

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Hmm. It would appear for the most part you have and I chimed in a little late. Still, I feel it needed to be said and will not retract my post. Also… no, I wasn't trying to reopen wounds or get tempers up or point fingers, though it may look that way if you don't pay close attention to what I wrote.

Moving on, I think a partial remedy to the tension would be a weekly blog from volte6, just one to five minutes of his time each week, where he covers what's going on with the bugs, which ones he's focusing on, when he expects them to be handled, or even “sorry, no time to work on it this week.”
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This is me posting from work…

“Grrrrrr”

:) now I'll go back to work…


Hmm, nothing in my inbox…
>.>
<.<

I think I'll do some Pinky TA instead :kitty:

Wow that guy is such a drama queen…Christ. I know how to beat a dead horse but at least i don't say ‘I’m not beating it lol' and post a 6 paragraph essay on said dead horse…

Skullbie
Wow that guy is such a drama queen…Christ. I know how to beat a dead horse but at least i don't say ‘I’m not beating it lol' and post a 6 paragraph essay on said dead horse…

Easy to say for someone who isn't as longstanding or prominent a member, and hasn't had said status trivialized. Even easier to say for someone who wasn't ganged up on by several members, site admins and the site founder just for sticking up for someone. Also, as anticipated, you read it as a drama rant and not as a petition to stop a witch hunt.

Tempers were still hot when I wrote that, but I forgot to hit send, fell asleep and hit the post button when I woke up. In conclusion, bite me. :)

Still nothing to do… Well I had some things to do, did them, ate a cheesecake and here I am again.
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That's enough on this ting now please Randal.
Please? :)
It's not good :(

I know you're just ‘splainin things to Skull, but… all the others are explanations too.

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Heh, I remember back when Randal could goad me into having to ’splain myself like that. Man, that was ages ago. I was a noob then… :(
Still I didn't mind, he was one of the first guys to comment on Pinky TA :)

ozoneocean
Still nothing to do… Well I had some things to do, did them, ate a cheesecake and here I am again.
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That's enough on this ting now please Randal.
Please? :)
It's not good :(

I know you're just ‘splainin things to Skull, but… all the others are explanations too.

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Heh, I remember back when Randal could goad me into having to ’splain myself like that. Man, that was ages ago. I was a noob then… :(
Still I didn't mind, he was one of the first guys to comment on Pinky TA :)

There there, ozone. You'll be a noob again someday.

*rests hand on shoulder, stares into eyes with looks of false hope*

I'm a normally shy guy who would barely speak and stutter alot. At least for most of my early life.

But now I have no problem getting into “lecture mode” when I'm talking to a group of people. And when I talk I just seem to have this magical ability to get everyone to focus their attention on me.

Strange isnt it. Opening of the throat chakra? Cellular memory (this is the whole concept of learning the ability of an ancestor who has long been dead before you are born)? I had this grandpa who was a lieutenant in the Phil Army during the American occupation. During WW2 he was a commander of a resistance cell against the Japs. After the war he had a short lived career in politics. Became a congressman at one point.

Then during the time of Ferdinand Marcos, he somehow fell out of favor. You know… dictators are fond of playing favorites. He wasnt killed or imprisoned… he just lost his political status in society. Otherwise I woulda been a rich kid or something if he didnt lose his political status.

He died 3 years before I was born. As a poor man.

And you know what, I highly suspect that people like Marcos… and perhaps most of the Philippines ruling elite are affiliated with the Illuminati.

Back there, I kept on hearing stories of insane hazing rituals in order to join a so-called ‘frat’. Then later on I learned about skull and bones. And wtf. I thought its just Filipino frats who do those crazy shit since we're such a badass race or something. I was proven wrong.

Anyway I suspect that he fell out of favor because he didnt have the heart to do evil. You know, things like ‘disappear’ the political opponents and other acts of corruption.

So I think if I didnt spend most of my younger life as a friggin school loner and focusing my thoughts and energy towards negative suicidal thoughts… and instead focused on developing that skill at an earlier age, who knows what I could be by now.

I have my grandpa to thank. I think I inherited his skill and its still in its infancy stage of development. I still have a problem organizing my thoughts and conveying them into words. How could he have been a guerilla commander and have a political career in the first place without the skill of talking to people.

kyupol
But now I have no problem getting into “lecture mode” when I'm talking to a group of people. And when I talk I just seem to have this magical ability to get everyone to focus their attention on me.

Are you sure it has nothing to do with you being absolutely fucking nuts and that lunatics stick out in a crowd?

Lol internets. So many people, so many tiny ego's.


I feel guilty lol, I looked up a girl I had a crush on a year ago on myspace and my face was ‘<8D’ when I saw she had new pics with cleavage. I feel guilty because i feel like i've moved on-yet I actually looked up her myspace hoping for pics. -.- (She's a real looker- I'd post her pic for people to drool over but then I'd officially be an ultra-creepy perv.-_-) it's not official yet lol

Randal

kyupol
But now I have no problem getting into “lecture mode” when I'm talking to a group of people. And when I talk I just seem to have this magical ability to get everyone to focus their attention on me.

Are you sure it has nothing to do with you being absolutely fucking nuts and that lunatics stick out in a crowd?

being nuts is relative.

For example, David Icke is considered insane by mainstream society. I thought that at first when I first heard about him for talking about lizards running the planet, hating jews, and for calling himself the ‘son of God’. The normal human reaction for that is HAHAHAHAHA HE'S BATSHIT INSANE!!!

Then I realized he was misunderstood by this dumbed down ‘mainstream’ media. His basic philosophy is that all humans are infinite consciousness. That we are part of this same big whole. Therefore we are all one and the same and we are all like sons of god. Including him including you. Thats how he was misquoted.

And the anti-semitism when he says lizards, he MEANS lizards and NOT jews.

I got curious and actually read his books and listened to his radio interviews and watched his presentations. Then I was like “hmmm… interesting”.

Then I done research on his stuff. While I disagree with him on some things I still think he is a BRILLIANT man and we'd probably be friends. He is not insane to me at all.

People who are insane are people who call for the death and destruction of a particular group. Icke didnt call for something like an armed rebellion or mass riots. Otherwise he would have been arrested long ago. His whole idea is to generate the frequency of LOVE in the world in order to destroy the evil conspiracy. Its not just the illuminati and the lizards but also the 5-sense conspiracy and the whole human perception of this reality.

kyupol

Randal

kyupol
But now I have no problem getting into “lecture mode” when I'm talking to a group of people. And when I talk I just seem to have this magical ability to get everyone to focus their attention on me.

Are you sure it has nothing to do with you being absolutely fucking nuts and that lunatics stick out in a crowd?

being nuts is relative.

For example, David Icke is considered insane by mainstream society. I thought that at first when I first heard about him for talking about lizards running the planet, hating jews, and for calling himself the ‘son of God’. The normal human reaction for that is HAHAHAHAHA HE'S BATSHIT INSANE!!!

Then I realized he was misunderstood by this dumbed down ‘mainstream’ media. His basic philosophy is that all humans are infinite consciousness. That we are part of this same big whole. Therefore we are all one and the same and we are all like sons of god. Including him including you. Thats how he was misquoted.

And the anti-semitism when he says lizards, he MEANS lizards and NOT jews.

I got curious and actually read his books and listened to his radio interviews and watched his presentations. Then I was like “hmmm… interesting”.

Then I done research on his stuff. While I disagree with him on some things I still think he is a BRILLIANT man and we'd probably be friends. He is not insane to me at all.

People who are insane are people who call for the death and destruction of a particular group. Icke didnt call for something like an armed rebellion or mass riots. Otherwise he would have been arrested long ago. His whole idea is to generate the frequency of LOVE in the world in order to destroy the evil conspiracy. Its not just the illuminati and the lizards but also the 5-sense conspiracy and the whole human perception of this reality.

…

…

…

Once again, no.

Um. Wow. Just… wow. I've so totally been proven wrong. It's you that's sane and the rest of us that are crazy. Thanks, Kyupol, for putting it into perspective for me.
<__<

kyupol
People who are insane are people who call for the death and destruction of a particular group. Icke didnt call for something like an armed rebellion or mass riots. Otherwise he would have been arrested long ago.

No, he's insane because he thinks that there are reptile people secretly running the world. Besides if he called for the destruction of the lizard people I'm not sure he'd attract a large enough group to help out, besides how would he know if they were real people or hybrid lizard people trying to take him down?

Kyupol is the internet equivalent of the crazy hobo who yells things at you on street corners. Don't attempt to reason with him, or tell him he's nuts, because he'll just throw a whiskey bottle at your head.

Custard Trout
Kyupol is the internet equivalent of the crazy hobo who yells things at you on street corners. Don't attempt to reason with him, or tell him he's nuts, because he'll just throw a whiskey bottle at your head.

Is it a full whiskey bottle?

Ya, haha, he's crazy. -_-
Stop picking on him now. k? :)
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My rant: why are there so many different bloody size systems for jeans? Not just between countries, but brands and styles??? It's anoying.

And how come the backside on men's jeans tends to hang right down in such a stupid way?

Blues
Is it a full whiskey bottle?

Yes, but not with whiskey.

As much as I like the band Megadeth, I don't why they release a greatest hits album after they release a full length. Quite pointless.

Plus, Greatest Hits albums are the most useless albums a music artist have. Since, it's the age of mp3 leaching… who needs them?

my rant of the day :p

simonitro
Plus, Greatest Hits albums are the most useless albums a music artist have. Since, it's the age of mp3 leaching… who needs them?

By that logic, why make albums at all?

Oh wow, what the fuck did I miss?

Not going to add to it. My rant is about my roommate. As some of you may know I am stuck in a crap college. Too much money for too little, I'm going poor fast, blah blah blah. I had a shitty roommate at one point in time. He was like a dog. Territorial as fuck, would often say the entire room was HIS because he paid his tuition off in full (ignoring the fact that the dorm fee only pays for half of a room, hence two people living in one room and no fee for RA's who are bunked one per room). Anyway, his dumbass dropped out, and he lost all his money, and I laughed, and it was glorious.

But now I have have a new roommate. Things are going Ok, I guess, he's a really cool guy and I get along with him just fine. Except his sleeping habits are insane. He insists on staying up till noon, all the God damn time. His classes are early, mine are late, and since I'm a light sleeper, he's been keeping me up on his schedule. I've been absent from countless classes, should be ejected from at least two, and have had two C's drop to F's. I'm slightly losing my mind, calling people at five am to babble on about random stupid nonsense, sweating and shaking constantly, etc. I honestly think it's doing physicle damage to me, as on average I'll get 15 or so hours of sleep per week. They're spaced out too, in about two hour naps through out the day. I only get decent rest on the weekends when I'm upstate with MY GIRLFRIEND.

To make matters worse, I don't ever get the room to myself except for 1am to 3am. He's sleeping all the fucking time during the day, often leaving me to quietly type, not watch TV or play games, and sit in the dark for hours until he gets up. Three weeks. Three fucking weeks he's been doing this and I can't take it. If I don't kill him before this month is up, he can count himself lucky.

I'm actually seeing a therapist now for this. Desperately trying to get sleeping pills. I've talked to him, so don't bother bringing that up. He gives me the whole “I'm sorry I know I'm keeping you up” thing, but fuck if he changes it.

Can't fucking wait to move out.

Also apparently I have anger issues. And here I was thinking I was a beautiful butterfly, or a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.

Is there anyone in the world who sleeps properly? Anywhere?

I keep missing classes because I seem to be nocturnal. I just find it so much easier to sleep during the day than at night. Even if I'm knackered by evening, I just can't get to sleep if the sun's down. I am failing because of this.

Lefarce, you should murder your roommate. In the face. Repeatedly.

I can sleep night or day. With building work next door, with someone in the same room, same bed, in heat, cold… I have trouble getting to sleep sometimes like anyone else, but the situation doesn't matter, it's worries or sickness that affect it for me.

Sleeping is fine with me but I hate it when I oversleep… it bugs me when that happens especially on a day off or the weekend.

I love making most of the time that I have.

I told my colleague last week that when Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, there was actually a tenth level. It's called high school and it is the most horrific level of all. You would think that the sufferers of that place would be the students but oh no. You see, students actually graduate from this hellish state. The real inhabitants are teachers who are forever stuck in this cleverly disguised place.

When I was in high school, I had to memorize over 50 slides of art history. And it wasn't presented to me in some interesting and imaginative manner either. It was shown to me on a screen (and sometimes the slide are blurry too) and the teacher would read off what it was, who it's by, what year it was made, what period it was from, and then a small blurb about it. And I would write it all down and desperately try to sketch it out in my notebook because he's just about to press that button now for the next slide and oh God! Wait sir! Just one more…

Nowadays? Some of them can't even remember what a line is. Has time really changed so much? Am I totally old now? ;___;

They also have no sense of humour. ;___; I totally made the most awesome Renaissance PowerPoint and linked prominent artists to the Ninja Turtles. What a way to break this nerdy teacher's heart. </3

Black_Kitty, a few years ago when I was still in high school, one of the teachers asked me if I wanted to get into teaching as a career. I said no. She told me that this was a very wise decision.

Thank you for inadvertently backing up her claim.

Well, I'm a highschool teacher and I like it just fine, but of course here in Switzerland, the pay doesn't suck…

call me insane all you want.

You only validate everything I've believed in all along.

I am me. I am free.

Ok if I am insane, I wonder who is MORE insane.

lol look at those previous posts full of whining about this site. And in a rude hateful way too.