A quick word about the Dtoid melodrama, please read

[Budr]

But we're no more a part of them than Canada is a part of Britain.

I do not like the connotations of this, I've never acted like a dick and tried to steal back Canadians

[hawtpawkithero]

[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=672.msg17160#msg17160 date=1214718410]
I can't really say anything, since I just ended up on the servers one day and then joined BRB,U following joining WTF. Sounds like you guys have it harsh with recent issues with your "fellow" group or something, though. D: Well, um... Keep a stiff upper lip

They aren't really a "fellow group", per se. For the most part, they're where and why BRB, Uninstalling came about. But we're no more a part of them than Canada is a part of Britain. We separated peaceably.

The real tragic thing, I have to say, is seeing Destructoid - this thing that was for a months or two months or three months spectacular and wonderful - decay from the inside. It's not about the trolls or about the backlash or the conflicts or any of that shit: daily, I'm telling you, DAILY, I have to see a site and a community that I used to take a lot of pride in being dissolved from the inside out, and we're as much a part of that as anyone. If you keep talking about how not responding to them makes us superior, then you're just fighting them back in a different way. And these are people we used to not have any problem with, maybe even be close to.

Everybody used to take a lot of pride in Destructoid, whether we liked everything about it or not. You should have seen it's second birthday party. And now we're devolving into a finger-snapping Jets-and-Sharks street war over... something. I don't know what, exactly, anymore. The conflict has simply gone on so long nobody knows what it was about in the first place and it's just about retaliating towards retaliation towards retaliation, et-fucking-cetera.

And it's actually very shocking to see people on BRBU who used to be very involved in Destructoid treating it as flamebait; it's tough when you realize that most people's allegiances have changed.

Also, cocks.
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Agreed, I haven't worn my Dtoid t-shirt in a couple of weeks now. Don't plan on it anytime soon. Maybe I should burn it and post a video on the cblogs?

[rumsfald]

[quote author=cannedpeaches link=topic=672.msg17188#msg17188 date=1214731074]
But we're no more a part of them than Canada is a part of Britain.

I do not like the connotations of this, I've never acted like a dick and tried to steal back Canadians
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Cause they still keep the queen mum on their monies.

[cannedpeahes]

[quote author=cannedpeaches link=topic=672.msg17188#msg17188 date=1214731074]
But we're no more a part of them than Canada is a part of Britain.

I do not like the connotations of this, I've never acted like a dick and tried to steal back Canadians
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No. Your grandparents held onto us but good, though.

Agreed, I haven't worn my Dtoid t-shirt in a couple of weeks now. Don't plan on it anytime soon. Maybe I should burn it and post a video on the cblogs?

You can guarantee they'd take that the wrong way.

[fyre]

[quote author=hawtpawkithero link=topic=672.msg17257#msg17257 date=1214753384]
Agreed, I haven't worn my Dtoid t-shirt in a couple of weeks now. Don't plan on it anytime soon. Maybe I should burn it and post a video on the cblogs?

You can guarantee they'd take that the wrong way.
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What would be the right way to take?

...you can't solve things on the internet the same way you do in person....I am a 6 foot 300 lb. guy... I probably would have chased him down and suffered charges of assault...

Actually, that's not a good way to solve things in real life either IMO. Of course, I've never really had the option, being the 5'10" tall 125 pound type.

[rumsfald]

...being the 5'10" tall 125 pound type.

[cbre88x]

[quote author=cbre88x link=topic=672.msg17110#msg17110 date=1214705672]
...you can't solve things on the internet the same way you do in person....I am a 6 foot 300 lb. guy... I probably would have chased him down and suffered charges of assault...

Actually, that's not a good way to solve things in real life either IMO. Of course, I've never really had the option, being the 5'10" tall 125 pound type.
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I've never had to solve them that way. People tend not to pick fights with me so I can only dream of how I would beat the snot out of stupid people.

[cannedpeahes]

[quote author=cannedpeaches link=topic=672.msg17264#msg17264 date=1214753847]
[quote author=hawtpawkithero link=topic=672.msg17257#msg17257 date=1214753384]
Agreed, I haven't worn my Dtoid t-shirt in a couple of weeks now. Don't plan on it anytime soon. Maybe I should burn it and post a video on the cblogs?

You can guarantee they'd take that the wrong way.
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What would be the right way to take?

Damned if I know. With a fire extinguisher?
...you can't solve things on the internet the same way you do in person....I am a 6 foot 300 lb. guy... I probably would have chased him down and suffered charges of assault...

Actually, that's not a good way to solve things in real life either IMO. Of course, I've never really had the option, being the 5'10" tall 125 pound type.

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[A. Crow]

I don't know wtf you guys are talking about, I'm 5'8" and I used to solve conflict through the express application of violence all the damn time.

[hawtpawkithero]

I don't know wtf you guys are talking about, I'm 5'8" and I used to solve conflict through the express application of violence all the damn time.

It's a little thing called "reserve"

edit: picture

[rumsfald]

...the express application of violence...

I love that Pantera album.

[Surf314]

Countdown to C-Blog post "OMG they want to beat us up, kill us with ancient weaponry and wear togas, who will stop the madness"

Lawls

[A. Crow]

[quote author=A. Crow link=topic=672.msg17323#msg17323 date=1214767442]
I don't know wtf you guys are talking about, I'm 5'8" and I used to solve conflict through the express application of violence all the damn time.

It's a little thing called "reserve"

edit: picture

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How does a picture of Odysseus slaying his wife's suitors embody the ideal of being reserved?

[CaffeinePowered]

Countdown to C-Blog post "OMG they want to beat us up, kill us with ancient weaponry and wear togas, who will stop the madness"

Lawls

Everything that can be taken out of context will be taken out of context, though the thought reminds me of the ending to Jay and Silent Bob strike back, where they used their movie check to fly around the country beating up all the kids that ripped on their movie on internet forums  :

[cbre88x]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=672.msg17345#msg17345 date=1214772695]
Countdown to C-Blog post "OMG they want to beat us up, kill us with ancient weaponry and wear togas, who will stop the madness"
Lawls

Everything that can be taken out of context will be taken out of context, though the thought reminds me of the ending to Jay and Silent Bob strike back, where they used their movie check to fly around the country beating up all the kids that ripped on their movie on internet forums  :
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Epic movie is epic.

[hawtpawkithero]

[quote author=hawtpawkithero link=topic=672.msg17325#msg17325 date=1214768999]
[quote author=A. Crow link=topic=672.msg17323#msg17323 date=1214767442]
I don't know wtf you guys are talking about, I'm 5'8" and I used to solve conflict through the express application of violence all the damn time.

It's a little thing called "reserve"

edit: picture

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How does a picture of Odysseus slaying his wife's suitors embody the ideal of being reserved?
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Did Odysseus get home and instantly kill every person there? That's not how the story went. He took abuse as the old beggar for a couple of days before ass-raping them Zoso-sniper style.

EDIT: There, better:

[exanimo]

EDIT: There, better:

HAH!

[ainmosni]

EDIT: There, better:

+1 for that pic

[Fail Medic]

Dammit, Hawtpawkithero, that serves me right for talking on the phone while glancing at the internets.

[hawtpawkithero]

PhotoshopHero?