Nope, never gonna happen. The only thing I think when I see your threads, apart from how much I wish I could help somehow, is what remarkable courage you have in facing this. You are doing far better than I could ever hope to and that should be lauded, not asked to be put in a damn corner.
We are unbelievably blessed that you chose us to share this with. Forget the one naysayer and instead focus on the admiration and respect that everyone else on the planet has for you. That part is supremely irrelevant.
Absolutely nothing but being yourself. We love you just as you are. Unconditionally and without reservation. Period.
Thank you. We are so fortunate.
You didn’t. Only concern yourself with whatever helps and how crazy we are about you. Nothing else matters.
Love you Bill.
Kemi~
P.S. I only wish I could be half like you. As someone who has been battling mental illness for a long time, I should have been able to help enlighten others. But no, I’ve always failed at being consistent with it and you, whose problems are so much more sincere, are “putting your money where your mouth is,” so to speak. Perhaps your an angel sent to us to remind those reading along what’s important. No matter what, you’re just amazing!
Not to pile on here, but agreeing that I don’t see the problem with Quasi starting threads in MPSIMS and yeah, it’s hard to follow the MMP, but I hope he joins if he feels inclined (and if memory serves, I think he has).
Quasi, I usually stay out of discussions like these, but I’ll add my 2 cents to the majority here. Post as much as you feel up to posting and anywhere you feel like. IMO, you shouldn’t have even been pitted. You haven’t done anything wrong and I don’t feel you’re posting inappropriately in any way. You just keep doing what you’ve been doing and you’ve got the support of a lot of folk here.
I’ve been sending email to your address in your SDMB profile. I assume you got them, as you got the Quasi At The Quackadero one. Should I use the address on your blog instead?
I wanted to post this as well. It’s ok, Sage Rat, for feeling what you did. It can be very uncomfortable and threatening to witness another person advance through a debilitating disease. One feels helpless and hopeless and afraid. I don’t think that expressing that makes you a dick, unless you truly do equate dumpster diving with disease etc. I don’t think you do (horrible analogy, though).
Quasimodem: keep on keeping on. We’re just a few pixels away.
Sage Rat, wow, you really have some poor timing with this Pit thread. Perhaps you missed in Quasi’s thread that he has just left his job, as an ER assistant, after a long career of compassionate caring for patients. And, admirably did so when recognizing he could no longer do what he loved because of his concern for others. So, you chose to bring this up and highlight him when he’s at an important crossroads of his life. Way to go.
Quasimodem, please don’t let this deter you from posting here when you may need this place most as you adjust to where you now are in life. You’re a swell guy, and post just fine. You can count on the good hearts here to support you.
Don’t you DARE listen to the fuckstick who started this thread, Quasi. Don’t you DARE. You may not interact with me as much, but I’ve always found you pretty cool, and the OP isn’t worth ratshit.
(Besides, I don’t see how your threads are “blog-like” at all)
I care a lot for everyone here, and that includes the OP. We’re “family” as far as I am concerned and there isn’t one of you for whom I would not do anything I could at any time.
(I hope I didn’t just negate this whole post with faulty grammar!)
You’re pretty cool yourself, Guin!
I feel loved, and I thank all of you, especially that guy who needs a “u” in his nick. Also I know I have a tendency to “gush” every now and then? But it don’t mean nothin’. I’m still looking for my princess…
I consider myself a friend of our Quasi, so I definitely don’t support the OP’s point of view or opinion. Good to see you have so much support here, though, Quasi. If it takes an OP like the one in this thread to bring out the affirmations again that you’re a good guy and highly thought of, then it’s probably turned out for the better.
Oh, and someone else upthread mentioned having their share of thread starting quota? You can have mine too. I hardly ever use any of it.
I think you guys are being just a BIT too hard on Rat, I don’t agree with some of what he said, but I do think it may be worth it to have one thread Quasi updates periodically rather than a smattering of random “I appreciate you all” threads, if for nothing but the sake of organization. I have no issues with Quasi, I like Quasi, if I didn’t I wouldn’t have made a character on a new server in World of Warcraft for the sole purpose of helping him find someone he was having trouble locating for a quest, but you guys are acting like disliking one small (in the grand scheme of things) thing he’s done and asking about consolidating his threads a bit is a hate crime. I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, whether it’s a good one or not is another debate entirely, but it’s not like Sage Rat said he eats babies or asked Quasi to go to another site or something.
I personally do think Rat’s suggestion was a good one, Quasi’s threads are touching, and he doesn’t make THAT many, but it would be easier to follow (and remember where what was posted, they start to blend after a bit) if he simply just made a general “Updates on Quasi” thread where he can gush at how lovely we are or vent his depression when it comes up. That doesn’t bar him from making more threads for major events, or even starting a new one when his old one gets a little unwieldy, but it would make things more streamlined and orderly. I don’t have strong feelings either way, mind you, but I really do think you guys were a bit unfair to Sage Rat.
Edit: Okay, Sage Rat did get a bit flame worthy later on in this thread, but the OP wasn’t exactly Satan’s Missive.
