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Post by Pineappler on Mar 19, 2005 9:40:38 GMT -5
Such is life in and out of the internet. Power IS Corruption. It's simply a matter of who can and can't resist its effects.
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Post by arigax on Mar 19, 2005 16:42:03 GMT -5
True, and it's just any given moment that at least ONE person in each forum across the Information Superhighway will go mad with it. Not to mention in the real world. Bush has already gone mad with his war-starting priveleges.
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[looks down at GM's post]
Hmm, all of that's not very good on a soul. She could put some of these problems on the side, but... we can all relate to family problems. When you hit your knees tonight, give a little prayer for Pris, even if you don't know her in person.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 19, 2005 17:46:23 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to retract some of what I've said recently: I just learned yesterday that Prismaya's got a crapload of personal/family problems right now, all on top of her 3 webcomics, a graphic novel she's working on, and running TFS. She's essentially working so hard & getting so stressed that it's putting a huge strain on her psyche & affecting her personality in VERY bad ways. She's even trying to handle it on her own & not let her massive fanbase know she needs their support, from what little I've seen so far. I kinda feel bad for her, now: my fighting the ban certainly didn't help things much for her.
But I do know that I'll probably NEVER get the chance to apologize: she's shut me out like she does to everyone else that even marginally gets on her nerves, even blocking me on AIM. If I tried to pop in on another screenname, there's a good chance I'd get flamed & blocked again. And rejoining TFS on a different name is simply out of the question: that's illegal through & through.
I really don't know what to think of her right now... :-\
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Post by Wade Monroe / MaelstormM on Mar 19, 2005 18:58:15 GMT -5
If she's stressing herself out by taking on more than she can handle, taking out said stress on others, won't accept an apology for taking something the wrong way, and won't probably won't let you rejoin the forum ... then in my book that'd classify her as a 5 letter word starting with the letter 'B' with a major . Just my opinion of how the situation sounds from your description.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 19, 2005 22:33:25 GMT -5
Wade, I'd like to see you try & tell HER that. She's got a fanbase so rabidly loyal you wouldn't believe. And besides, you all know I tend to be a little paranoid at times. I'm probably overestimating how much they all really dislike me. ...Although I do know from others that there had at times been talk about me right after I left an AIM chat along the lines of "what is wrong with that freak?" <shrugs> I don't really know what to think. But I'm pretty sure that it's not smart to mention me to the staff. Actually, TFS has an IRC channel I would normally be able to enter & show those mods I'm not as stupid as they think. The problem is that one of the mods who has issues with me is a pal of the server's owner, and was given control over the TFS channel. I'm banned from there, and this mod is hellbent on keeping me out, despite the fact that members banned from TFS are still welcome on the channel as per the orders from the server's owner. So I've really only got one stubborn ass of a human roadblock preventing me from attempting to make peace with the members of TFS. As for Prism, I don't know, but Halo120 got yelled at for mentioning me, so I wonder if I'm still dispised... It's confusing, I know. But aren't women confusing by their very nature?
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Post by arigax on Mar 19, 2005 23:20:05 GMT -5
Truthfully, yes and no. I'll give you my answer.
A woman is only confusing depending on the very things going on around her. In a serene territory, they could be at peace or in the grunge of LA, paranoid. This, however, depends on the female's natural personality. There's a really bubbly girl in my classroom who seems to always be making friends with everyone around her, no matter who the person is.
Take Prism's family issue. There may be a dispute between her mom and dad. Now, knowing the latter, fathers are meant to be at least 56%+ hotheaded by nature. The very sound of the father's fury-fueled yell can leave a person traumatized, unable to be themselves for a given time.
So, if Pris was a nice girl by nature and rarely chewed people's heads off, this is her way of showing shock.
There you go. And I'm not confirming or clarifying whether or not the true reason for her bad mood is trauma. It's only my assumption.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 20, 2005 12:36:15 GMT -5
Ariga, you don't get it. Her mom is mental & her dad has terminal cancer. She's got 3 webcomics she works on, and from what one TFS member has told me, she may wind up being given complete ownership of The Fallout Shelter soon. That's a lot on your plate, even without factoring in her jobs in real life. She's hurting her psyche, and I don't know how anyone can stop her from continuing to push herself too hard.
**BTW if any of this info on Prismaya leaves the forum, I will beat the crap out of whoever spread it on both the random projectile thread & Choosing Sides over at the subforum.**
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Post by arigax on Mar 20, 2005 14:14:51 GMT -5
Oh, that's the situation with her parents... that's not very healthy to juggle with 3 webcomics.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 20, 2005 23:52:00 GMT -5
D@mn right it's not, Ariga. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even know how much damage all the stress is doing to her personality. I mean, no one on the TFS staff seems able to see it. They just keep telling everyone they can't judge Prism for being hostile because of all the stuff she's dealing with. Now many like to call me out for trying to use my ADD as a "crutch", but it really sounds like they're trying to use her troubles as an excuse to let her vent on the forum since they all don't like most of the people she lashes out at. This is what I tend to call a "kangaroo court": everyone in charge just unites against certain people & power-kicks them out of sight where the poeople can't offend them just by being present. UPDATE: Well, it looks like the majority of TFS's members were all nothing but @ssholes: I got an email from one of the few people there who respects me containing a conversation on IRC that indicates they all seem to delight in mocking my memory & any attempts I make at settling differences with them. They're also still making false assumptions about me without checking for facts AT ALL, which pisses me off to no end. Anyone who knows somone who can hack, tell them to have at these pricks with my blessing. Burn TFS to the ground. I never knew people could be such f-wads... >_< Halo, Blazeman, if you read this, know that I tried to settle peacefully, but that there are some who simply WANT to be pricks & treat others like they have no right to exist. I am NOT pleased with your fellow forum members at TFS in the least, and it will take all of my self-control to keep from lashing out at them, even though they nearly deserve it. You know what's funny? Prismaya always said she hated people talking about her behind her back. Yet now every time I show my face, that is EXACTLY what happens to me. Can you see the irony in this?
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 21, 2005 23:42:48 GMT -5
This really pisses me off: Prismaya's fiancee, who goes by the name of Toujiron on TFS, and happens to be one of the mods there as well, just came out of nowhere & confronted me on IRC. He all but flat out said he intended to try & convince the server's owner, SDF of BC, to boot me without justfiable cause. I told him I thought the mods were trying to pretend I didn't exist, and noted that HE was the one who started the conversation. His response: in the IRC server, my name comes up on the user lists, which the mods can all see, and this apparently interpheres with the whole "GM doesn't exist" crap they're trying to impose on themselves. My mere presence on the server seems to offend them, even when I stay out of their way. Can someone please tell me what the flawed logic is in that? Touji even openly admitted none of the mods that were against gave a crap about the opinions of TFS's regular members: they might even be willing to ban a whole group of people if they decided to stick up for me. And it's this fear of being banned that I think has all but destroyed any support I ever had.
I'm getting a little peeved with their actions, now. Soon enough, I'm gonna have to think that they've let their vendettas against me blind them to nearly all reason. And if they do something stupid... their power will be horribly shaken, and I'll have a foothold once more.
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Post by Wade Monroe / MaelstormM on Mar 22, 2005 3:17:57 GMT -5
Still, just by my opinion given how things sound... but they're all [censor].
Also GM, seems like you're learning the hard way that idiots don't need to use logic to make a decision. If it's their site/forum/room/whatever, then they can do whatever they want for the most part, reason or no reason. Stop being concerned about trash that behaves like that. Lick your wounds and move on. I mean once a person puts themselves up on a throne in their little world you can't do much to talk them down since they think they're better than you.
If what you're saying is true about their actions then just leave'm to rot. If they really are [censor]'s then in time others'll come to see that.
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Post by Pineappler on Mar 22, 2005 7:44:35 GMT -5
Eating yourself out with anger at incompetent fools is no better for your health, in the long run, than acting in the same, stupid, power-abusive manner. Constantly spying on them, having contacts watching them, or showing up on IRC is only going to do one of 2 things: A: Anger them even more B: Anger you even more
The best solution... is to relax. Put TFS aside for now... quit paying any attention whatsoever to them. Just leave them be, and come back maybe in a year, see if things have cooled down. If you constantly pester them, they'll never be pleased, and you'll never see whether they truly can atone. Not to mention, if you constantly pester them, you're also never going to be pleased. This may only be a temporary thing, after all...
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 22, 2005 10:14:55 GMT -5
<bursts out laughing> Temporary my G-Modding ass, ShaMan! XD And I really can't leave the server, since another forum I go to has a channel there, and the admins gave me Super Operator rank in their channel, since they can't be there much right now: one of em's grounded, the other one is being bullied by her control freak dad. If don't stay on their forum's channel, normal members won't be safe in there from being attacked by TFSers. SDF apparently lives in Europe, so he can't be on the server looking after them as easily as me.
In other news, SDF set an auto-kickban on Touji's IP address if he ever sets foot in the channel for that other forum, so that's one prick down, many to go. And Mantis, I'm not entirely angry at them, anymore, just disgusted that they have the capacity to be this crackheaded.
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Post by BaerkKonnevala on Mar 22, 2005 18:04:07 GMT -5
A'last... Some good news. Keep that mild press up and keep defending that other forum against those TFS pricks.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 22, 2005 18:22:15 GMT -5
Keep in mind, Baerk, that not all of TFS's members are dimbulbs. Most of the other forum's members actually are from TFS, but were invited to join. Hell, even the forum's 2 admins are TFS members. And there are some decent people still at TFS, who I keep track of on AIM. The problem is that the moderation staff is composed of many people who have serious issues & like picking on lesser members for fun. Some of the mods are alright, and the global mods are perfectly decent people from what little I've heard from them, but a lot of the board mods & the only currently active admin are very opinionated & have forced their views about people onto both TFS & its channel on SDF's IRC server.
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Post by Gameshrk90 on Mar 25, 2005 7:48:05 GMT -5
Sounds like those people are jerks.
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Post by BaerkKonnevala on Mar 25, 2005 15:24:54 GMT -5
No offense but I think you have a nOObish tinge Gameshrk. I took a look around in the TFS forum... they got it a lot worse than you and I didn't look around that deep... only a couple threads (only looking through a couple pages at most on each thread) and it became glaring. The start of that quote of the day thread has got it really bad.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 25, 2005 21:17:53 GMT -5
This may scare some of you, but a few of the punks over at TFS on their worst days can make even ZighailZD seem semi-civilized. Yes, they can be that bad. Even worse is that a lot of these folks are Board Mods: imagine Ziggy times two with my powers -plus a few more that Invisionfree, TFS's provider, allows- and you've got a decent picture of what some of the mods are like. There ARE three Board Mods that are decent people, but the rest are near-total pricks.
And Ariga, Prismaya is in college, just so you know. She's no spoiled little girl.
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Post by arigax on Mar 25, 2005 22:11:36 GMT -5
What I think is that those f*gs over at TFS are off their nut. OK, you've heard that from the others before, but y'know, people like to pick on 'tards. Not that I'm calling you one, it's just that they must have the a s sumption that just because of your ADD and extreme paranoia, they must think you're a retard. As in "downs syndrome". No offense.
But you know, you really should keep a low profile over there. You're the one of the guys who's caught in the undertow, as Linkin Park says. As for these Moderajerks, I can only but ask DavidBurgess how the Mods treat 'em. Yes, the Moderajerks.
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Post by Gameshrk90 on Mar 25, 2005 23:07:26 GMT -5
This may scare some of you, but a few of the punks over at TFS on their worst days can make even ZighailZD seem semi-civilized. Yes, they can be that bad. Even worse is that a lot of these folks are Board Mods: imagine Ziggy times two with my powers -plus a few more that Invisionfree, TFS's provider, allows- and you've got a decent picture of what some of the mods are like. There ARE three Board Mods that are decent people, but the rest are near-total pricks. That many!? That bad!? Man, if they had an idiots board there, it'd be overloaded!
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 26, 2005 8:13:48 GMT -5
There are around 7 or so Board Mods at TFS. Only three of them are fair, decent, and generally neutral as a good Mod should be, as far as I know, at any rate. They could've switched out some people, but I wouldn't know that: I stopped visiting TFS a month ago, and I am NEVER going back, not even if someone begs me. And they used to have a "Wall of Shame" forum where active members could all laugh at the crimes of people who were banned, but it was taken down because the flaming got WAY too intense. I imagine that if it was still up, my thread would be rife with arguments & Mods would be handing out Forum Warnings (an Invisionfree Forums ability) almost like party favors. They might've even had to lock it. Ariga, if they really do think that, I sincerely hope someone comes along & hacks them all through that forum. I'll only be one of many standing to the side laughing my ass off when that happens.
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Post by WatcherCCG on Mar 27, 2005 20:18:15 GMT -5
On an infinitely LIGHTER note, this forum currently has 100 topics. Yay!
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Post by 009 on Apr 5, 2005 17:39:28 GMT -5
And you know what that means GM! *throws confetti* Party! Well I heard worse reasons to break out my drinks. *drinks soda*
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Post by WatcherCCG on Apr 13, 2005 15:16:49 GMT -5
ALERT! ALERT! We have a semi-noob running around the subforum! Go here to this post to see.Wade, Mantis, I can't affect that board. One of you needs to get in there & deal with him. THAT IS ALL.
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Post by Darmagician on Apr 13, 2005 15:19:26 GMT -5
So Thats where all the Rps went huh?
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