Unlike drugs and alcohol, the SDMB won’t damage your liver or kidneys!
Once back when I was a moderator on this board, I pulled up my top and flashed another moderator in order to distract him and win the air hocky game. We all do what we gotta do.
Want to come to my air hockey tournament next weekend?
Abuse? Sorry, two doors straight up, this is an argument.
Fish!
Today’s fish is trout a la creme.
Wanna bet? I have to drink TWICE as much to read threads like this one.
Careful, Tycho Brahe died of a bladder explosion brought on by too much SDMB.
Shh. Let’s move Valteron up close to the Death Star and see what happens!
Wow, journalists can be trolls also. Learn something new every day.
Insult people’s town and they get upset. Who woulda thunk it.
It’s a nice theory, but the problem is, people aren’t getting hostile because you attacked the SDMB. They’re getting hostile because you approached them in a hostile manner. If you say to your friend Jim, “Hey, Jim, maybe you’re hitting the sauce a little hard,” and Jim gets pissed, yeah, that’s a sign of addiction. If you say to your friend Jim, “Jim, you useless alky fuck! Put down the fucking bottle and get a life, you cocksucking loser!” and Jim gets pissed, it’s not because he has a drinking problem. It’s because his friend is an asshole.
You came in here looking for a fight. You got one. All that shows is that people here are willing to stand up for themselves when they’re attacked.
Well, word to the wise: using multiple punctuation marks like that makes you look like a twelve year old. Extra punctuation is not the same as extra emphasis.
Why does this idea upset you so much, exactly? Let’s take your assumption as granted: that the people who post to the SDMB are “cybernerd losers.” So what? Why are you so angry about this? Especially if you are one yourself? If we’re all living in an elaborate web of self-deception, what do you gain by tearing it apart? And what does it say about you, as a self-described “cybernerd loser,” that you can’t fit in here with a whole bunch of other “cybernerd losers?” Long ago I observed that the most pathetic person in the world isn’t the guy who goes to a Star Trek convention. It’s the guy who gets banned from a Star Trek convention. Because he’s such a loser, even the other losers shun him. And that’s the real issue here, isn’t it, Valteron?
Yeah, I’m a nerd. That’s not news to me, I figured that out a long while back. Took me a bit longer to realized that, of all the other options available to me, I’d rather be a nerd than anything else. I haven’t been ashamed of it since then. By a lot of people’s standards, I’m a loser. But then, by a lot of people’s standards, I’m also an Abomination unto God. That’s fine with me. I’d rather be what I am than what that sort of person wants me to be. And that, I think, is what bothers you about the SDMB. You see people here who are, you think, just like you. But they aren’t ashamed of it. And you can’t stand that. It invalidates everything about how you see yourself. You’ve defined yourself by your own shame, and the idea that you don’t need to feel that way terrifies you, because without your shame, you don’t know who you are.
Oh yeah, I’ve been where you are. Sucked to be me back then. Sucks to be you right now. I suggest you get over it. You’ll be a lot happier when you do.
The bile duct, on the other hand …
Thirteen years is a long time to stay dry, especially when you’ve had to live through such shitty times. Sounds like you are not altogether worthless. And I suspect that you do understand the nature of addiction very well.
I would be willing to bet that you have considered that you are addicted to anger also. That’s a tough one to deal with because like food, we all need an appropriate amount of anger at the right time.
If someone is depressed, the part of the brain affecting judgment is also affected. So not only can they not make appropriate choices about what is reasonable anger, they also often don’t recognize that they are impaired at all. They just continue to think that they are loathsome people with shitty lives.
Imagine a broken leg that blames itself for being in pieces.
Pax
So now you are concerned about my happiness. How fucking touching. Why not start your own religion? I understand there is a lot of money in it.
I called you a bunch of pathethic cybernerds because that is what you are. It is that simple. And all of you who came out swinging (or patronizing me, another form of hostility, Miller) proved my point. (By the way, what is the "abomination unto God business about?)
It is now 10 p.m. EDT and I feel like hitting the hay. So here is my final secret. If the moderator wants to kick me off SDMB, my life will go on just fine. I have lots of other stuff to do and I will have no problem without it. But at least I will have called a spade a spade.
What a lame attempt at “suicide by Mod.”
Shhh, we just replaced Valteron’s hemlock with stupid food, let’s see if he notices!
Uh huh. There is nothing lamer than someone who saunters in to any social gathering - be it online or in real life - and looks down their nose at people, emphasizing how much contempt they have for the group and how much better they are, but who won’t actually, you know, leave.
If you have no need for this board and what we offer, then what are you doing here? You either enjoy feeling like a martyr because you’re just “being honest” / “telling it like it is” / “calling a spade a spade” (read: being a total asshat and acting shocked, SHOCKED that people treat you as such) or you enjoy causing fishing for negative responses, or both.
Look, dude. You obviously have a lot of problems. Trying to go down in a blaze of glory and daring moderators to ban you isn’t new, it isn’t original, it doesn’t shock us or shake up the SDMB establishment. We’ve had people like you before and we’ll have them again. And, ultimately, it doesn’t do you any good. Get help.
We aren’t supposed to discuss peer-to-peer networks…
Does this sound familiar?
You’re addicted to your own self-loathing. When you get called on it, you attack.
I like pie.
I’m so going to hell for this, but in the interest of comic tragedy (which has already been provided in this thread by the OP) I must say:
Me too. Tell your Mom I want my ten bucks back! But tell your sister she can keep the fiver.
Tripler
“Flight 665, direct to Hades, with a layover in Purgatory will be boarding in five minutes.”
And that, Miller, is why you’re one of the reasons I joined the SDMB.
Pixiesnix
Cybernerd Loser