Guin, don’t let these fucks get to you. You’re a valued member of this community. It’s nobody’s goddamned business what you do with your time or how you choose to socialize.
This is good news. I have curtains that need washing, and a floor that needs a refinishing and waxing. [obligatory french maid uniform comment omitted]
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How DARE you?!?! How dare you tell Guin what she should choose to let get her?!!
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Guin, I really didn’t enter this pitting to rag on you, or to feign sympathy. If you got run over by a bus, let’s be honest, it wouldn’t affect my life in the slightest. But that is actually true for most of these retards running to your defence. I just hope you don’t listen to them anymore than you do us cowards and realize your posting persona doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
Good luck on your date.
But a date is a step in the wrong direction if you don’t want…
Ah, never mind
If you’re going to get your ass ridden anyway, you might as well get a decent meal out of it.
Screw ‘em, Guin. Keep on truckin’.
This is an important point and one of the reasons that I try not to get too wrapped up in “online friendships” and have really cut back on my online time over the past year. As awesome as some of the people I’ve “met” over the Internet have been, in the end they’re really just pixels on a screen, and I’m the same to them. Can I really say I have a deep and abiding connection with someone who is just words on a page? I’m sure most of the people here are good people in real life. But communication over the Internet isn’t as genuine as communication in the real world. The people who have left this board over the years, do any of you still think about and miss them?
Maybe there are people who regard this board as a true community and really do worry and care about the people on it, even when they’re not surfing. But I think that to a lot of people, probably the majority, message boards are really just entertainment, and if you left or flamed out or whatever, they’re going to think about it for maybe five seconds and then move on to the next interesting poster or streaming videocast. And that is why, to me, Internet communication can never be as genuine as real communication. We’re not real people on the Internet, we’re just playing a role and sure maybe that’s true of real life too but not so much. The whole thing is flashy and fake, and not really real.
I actually do like your posts, Guin, there are a lot of them but at least half of the time they add value, which is a much higher hit rate than some other posters I could name but won’t. But don’t fool yourself into thinking that Internet communication is as good as real contact (this could go for Antinor01 as well). I know that when I am off the Internet I rarely think about things that happen there, or people I know exclusively from the Internet. Maybe that’s unusual, or maybe it’s not. But I don’t just want to be someone else’s five-minute distraction away from work. And on the Internet, that’s usually what we are to each other. Just my opinion, YMMV.
I don’t believe I ever have thought that.
I got a bit intrigued with the math done earlier, so I decided to spen some time doing the actual math for Guin. This should show how ridiculous the statement she spends too much time here.
Join date shows 7/2000. In order to get the highest number possible, therefore removing any argument about the math, I started counting from 1 Aug 2000 up to 16 March 2006. That’s 2054 days. Witha total as of this writing of 26,641 posts it works out to a maximum of 12.9 posts per 24 hours.
Hardly seems unreasonable. Again, if she chooses to spend an average of 4 minutes per post instead of watching The Bachelor, what’s the issue? And how often does anyone spen 4 minutes composing a post? Most in this thread couldn’t have taken more than 45 seconds.
This is proving to be one of the lamest, flimsiest arguments to Pit some I’ve seen in a long time.
Complete non-issue.
All you idiots trying to do the math to figure out just how much Guin posts should just do what a normal person would do.
Click on her fucking username you bunch of tards.
Actual post count as of my posting this is 12.87 posts per day.
Dude, just click on her name, click “View Public Profile” and then read the line that begins with “Total Posts:”.
Well except for that knuckle head Duffer, we were trying to figure how long it would take to post 26000, if one did nothing but post. I stated that it was an exercize in math not an attack on Guin. Try to keep up.
Well, until duffer actually went and did the math, how did we know the PPD calculated by the board software was actually right, huh? 
You, AGAIN!? :dubious:
Or, you could, you know, ask me.
Somedays I’m more active online than others. Depends.
Look, I know I’ve fucked some things up in my life. I never said otherwise. Maybe I’m not changing things fast enough, but I’m getting there. I wouldn’t advise anyone to be like me.
Oh, and in case anyone’s wondering, I HAVE applied for jobs and gone on interviews. I just stopped talking about it every time because I’m a superstitious thing and I don’t want to jinx it. That and I haven’t had much luck. My resume sucks.
Exactly. Until I do the math the available resources should be held in doubt. Now it’s concrete. I said so and I certify the results as accurate.
Besides, I have an interview with Diebold. I need the practice.
Presumably she reads threads before posting to them, no? And presumably she does not post to every single thread she reads. I think a far more likely figure is 10-15 minutes per post. Which gives a figure of three hours a day, every single day, for six years. And remember, that’s an average – for every zero day, there’s a six-hour-day making up for it. Add in the other sites, and that number might double. People have spent less time than that getting a PhD.
These repeated claims that there isn’t something wrong here are absurd. If someone posted that they had four or five drinks a day every single day but that they weren’t an alcoholic, would anyone be there to say we can’t judge? Internet addiction is a well-documented affliction, diagnosed and studied in dozens of peer-reviewed journals. And here we have a person, who we already know has an archipelago of emotional issues, spending hour after hour, day after day on the internet … and people saying there’s nothing wrong with this picture.
It is absolutely her life, and she can do what she wants. I also think people should be allowed to waste their lives on booze if they so choose. It’s a free country. It doesn’t mean I have to feel good about it, and it doesn’t mean I have to have anything less than contempt for the assholes at the bar telling her that another beer won’t hurt anything.
Big deal. If you have a night you’re not doing anything else and don’t feel like going out, it’s exceptionally easy to get involved with so many active threads the 6 hours flies right by.
Maybe the overall time spent on a message board should take into account the amount of free time available. Or we could calculate the amount of time we’ve wasted in this thread alone arguing that Guin spends too much time posting to message boards.
My point still stands. Complete non-issue.
That’s great, but frankly, I’m not sure if not having a job is a cause or a symptom. I’ve held down jobs while still engaged in addictive, compulsive behaviors at night; it’s not remotely a healthy place to be.
Hey, you heard Binarydrone. It’s impossible to escape my posts! Muahahaha!