[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
Given this thread, it’s pretty clear to me that I would minimize contact with someone in my family who was like this. I’ve no idea if that’s true for Diogenes, though.
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You do not know me. You have read a few posts on a bulletin board.
Actually, you must not have even done that, since I have made it abundantly clear what my dog is in this fight.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
Mean and spiteful? Dio is not, by his own admission, a professional writer. Why are you getting all huffy?
They also write with the expectation of being paid for their work. I don’t think any writer would choose to write something “for fun” when their two year old is having surgery.
I love this Internet characterization that “writers” are always writing. If they’re on the crapper, they’re writing. If they’re waiting for a bus, they’re writing. If they’re slacking off at their day job, they’re writing. You know what, I would bet good money that sometimes writers won’t write if something major like a* surgeon doing their thing on his child* is happening
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I’m really tired of repeating myself. Everything is explained abundantly above. Like the fact that I hardly expect Dio to write today, or even this week. Just at all. Because I’ve heard for literally years what a marvelous writer he is, but I never see tangible evidence that he writes at all. I just really hoped he’d do something for once. He might yet do it.
He led me to believe this dental surgery was his reason for abandoning the project completely. He assures me it is not.
[QUOTE=cricetus]
I’m really tired of repeating myself. Everything is explained abundantly above. Like the fact that I hardly expect Dio to write today, or even this week. Just at all. Because I’ve heard for literally years what a marvelous writer he is, but I never see tangible evidence that he writes at all. I just really hoped he’d do something for once. He might yet do it.
He led me to believe this dental surgery was his reason for abandoning the project completely. He assures me it is not.
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Are you familiar with the term “concern trolling”? It’s abundantly clear to me, and I assume most everyone here that you don’t have the least bit of concern that Diogenes will buck up and see through a lifelong dream to write something.
I remove myself as a topic of discussion in this thread. If someone wants to open a fresh “cocern trolling” thread where you losers can pile on your little strawman me, feel free to. I’ll find it very amusing.
[QUOTE=cricetus]
I remove myself as a topic of discussion in this thread. If someone wants to open a fresh “cocern trolling” thread where you losers can pile on your little strawman me, feel free to. I’ll find it very amusing.
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How can you remove yourself as a topic of discussion? 
:dubious:
[QUOTE=cricetus]
He led me to believe this dental surgery was his reason for abandoning the project completely.
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He must have done so in a private conversation. There is nothing in this thread to suggest that.
[QUOTE=cricetus]
I remove myself as a topic of discussion in this thread. If someone wants to open a fresh “cocern trolling” thread where you losers can pile on your little strawman me, feel free to. I’ll find it very amusing.
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You and Dio are brothers?
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
Are you familiar with the term “concern trolling”? It’s abundantly clear to me, and I assume most everyone here that you don’t have the least bit of concern that Diogenes will buck up and see through a lifelong dream to write something.
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I don’t see where you come up ‘concern troll’. Isn’t that someone who attempts to undermine a position they oppose by posing as a supporter, but “with concerns”? It would also normally mean that person has another identity voicing open opposition and occasionally arguing with their ‘concerned’ sock. Are you saying he is Dio’s own sock and foil??
I’d say he’s just being a dick. Lot’s of people have a tendency to work through all manner of family emergencies. I’m one of them. However, it isn’t something to be proud of, and it isn’t something to throw up in someone’s face.
Dio is a tedious blowhard, and he provides lots of ammunition for detractors, but his daughter’s surgery (which I hope goes well) certainly isn’t among them.
[QUOTE=cricetus]
Do you really think I write under the name “Cricetus”? Ha ha ha.
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Well, if you’re going to crow about it, how’s about you put up. What name do you write under?
ETA- upon further reading, looks like Cricetus is refusing further questioning. Guess I’ll have to remain curious.
[QUOTE=Waverly]
I don’t see where you come up ‘concern troll’. Isn’t that someone who attempts to undermine a position they oppose by posing as a supporter, but “with concerns”? It would also normally mean that person has another identity voicing open opposition and occasionally arguing with their ‘concerned’ sock. Are you saying he is Dio’s own sock and foil??
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I agree this possibly isn’t the textbook definition of “concern troll.” However, I have understood “concern troll” a bit differently than your definition. As I understand it, a “concern troll” doesn’t necessarily pretend to be a supporter, just pretends to have concerns for the well-being of a person or group in mind when they make their suggestions or observations.
I see someone who, for example, despite being more partisan than Dick Cheney, suggests that the Democrats should oppose stem cell research or they run the risk of alienating voters and losing elections. What they really want is for them to lose elections, and they may see position X as a rather strong one.
Cricetus appeared to be claiming to be upset and concerned that Dio might not get back to writing because he knew that Dio has long wanted to write something. I just don’t for a moment think that he was concerned for Dio’s well-being.
You might be surprised to learn how little I care for what you “think,” especially since it’s not based on anything I actually said. But this experience has reminded me what a grade school playground this place is. Fighting ignorance my ass. This place is ignorance.
Bless you Ruby and Sarah for saying what I was thinking. This thread was getting so annoying it was affecting me physically. I don’t care if his daughter scrapped her knee or is getting a new heart. It’s plenty of reason to take a break from a dare made by a bunch of losers on the internet that have doomed him to failure from the get go. All the writers in this thread are making this about themselves anyways so what is his motivation anyways? If you guys are so desperate for an episode of House, I’ll fucking do it if it’ll make the self righteous squakers shut the fuck up.
Ladies and Gents, House, MD by Lobster Mobster
A college professor is teaching a class when he keels over and is bleeding from the eyeballs and shouting obscenties. A student tries to help him but gets punched in the face by the now seizing professor
Opening Credits
House: Okay we’ve got a 47 year old male bleeding from the eyeballs and punching people out. Let’s make a list of ideas that I am going to call stupid. You three run those tests while I verbally harass the patient until I find out what he’s lied about.
Foreman: It’s toxoplasmosis! I’m going to cut his head open and dig around with an ice cream scoop!
House: You are dumber than a box of kittens, GO DO IT!
Cameron: I think he’s depressed. I’m going to go get in bed and cuddle him.
House: You obviously have some serious ass issues. GO DO IT!
Chase: I’m also really really hot so I’m going to suggest vasculitits! I think I should give him a lumbar puncture for fun.
House: I hate you most of all. If I had a knife I would tear out your insides and make you eat them. GO DO IT!
team goes to perform tests. House takes a handful of vicodin and wanders off to spike Wilson’s coffee with sodium thiopentathol
Foreman: Okay we all performed our tests even though we are not lab technicians, surgeons, or particularly adept at cuddling. We were all wrong.
House: Duh, I knew that the whole time. You are all so useless it makes me want to set myself on fire. Clearly the patient has Superextra microscopic African bloody eyeballosis. There was an experimental treatment performed in the Ukraine where you give the patient LSD and take him to the aquarium until he flips out.
Cuddy walks in wearing a mini skirt, thigh high vinyl boots, and a leather corset
Cuddy: You can’t do that in my hospital! YOu have to take me seriously even though I’m super foxy and dress like a whore!
House: I’ll do it and you’ll just have to GROOVE ON IT. Everyone knows that medicine is 20% science, 80% hilarity. Now you march your luscious melons right out of my orifice.
Wilson (drugged and lurking in the background): BA-ZING!
House and team return from aquarium with fish souvenirs and shark fin hats
Cuddy: What happened to the patient! We’re going to be sued!
House: He died so we left him there. Oops. LOL. Don’t worry no one sues hot people.
Cuddy: Oh house you’re sooooo zaney!
everyone laughs…patient family weeps in background
End Scene.
One thing is true. It’s never a bad idea to take a break from a bunch of losers on the Internet.
See ya!
lobstermobster, that was clearly crap. A professional write would have House suggest that it was lupus. That kind of imagination is what sets the professionals apart from the whining amateurs.
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
… that Diogenes will buck up and see through a lifelong dream to write something.
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Come now, this isn’t about **Diogenes ** fulfilling a lifelong dream. Remember how this started – by **Diogenes ** saying that TV writers don’t deserve a better deal because they’re collectively so crappy at what they do. When people pointed out that perhaps the job was a wee bit harder than he realized (him having never done it and all) he started bragging about what a smart guy he was and how he could “piss a better script”.
I guarantee you that if he had merely shown up and announced that he was starting a writing project to fulfill his dreams the board would have been nothing but supportive. But bragging is never pretty.
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
Ladies and Gents, House, MD by Lobster Mobster.
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Bravo! That was awesome. You win the thread.
If it takes three weeks and a 6-page Pit thread for Diogenes to piss out a script, I think he might need to see a urologist.
Well, he should probably see a urologist about his whole script-pissing problem in the first place, now that I think about it.
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
Ladies and Gents, House, MD by Lobster Mobster
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I think I love you.
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
Foreman: It’s toxoplasmosis! I’m going to cut his head open and dig around with an ice cream scoop!
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LM, I might have to start to like you after a line like that. I actually…giggled.
[QUOTE=Pochacco]
Come now, this isn’t about **Diogenes ** fulfilling a lifelong dream.
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You quote me as if you think I’m making that assertion. I’m not.