You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You were always a lot more perceptive and observant than I was, though. I don't tend to notice things, and when I do I'm bad at mentally connecting the dots.
I learned stuff from IJBM. At one point I was learning quite a lot from there, honestly.
Lately I have become much more judgmental about other people's flaws than I used to be. I'm trying to cut back on that.
You were always a lot more perceptive and observant than I was, though. I don't tend to notice things, and when I do I'm bad at mentally connecting the dots.
You also underestimate yourself a lot.
On my part I've tried to be a more relaxed person since I left TVT (for a given definition of "left" anyway.)
In hindsight there was the odd thing I would've done differently and several conversations and people that I would've avoided due to bugging me way more than they should have. But, I liked the place for the most part and do sort of regret getting myself banned.
That said, the place has become a mess. Not entirely through its own fault either (a good chunk of the stuff is due to outside pressures), and that is saddening, but communities wilt. It's just what happens.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Nearsighted Girl Problems: having the font on your mobile device so large that you can't see the content of a post and the username of its poster at the same time
Screw it, I'm not going to sleep until I get this out. On the Internet, it's very easy to hate other people because we dehumanize them. We convince ourselves that there is no man behind the ignorant opinion or stupid comment. We convince ourselves that the person who said the stupid thing isn't a person, but the stupid thing that was said. It's why resentment towards tropers has always bothered me. With very little exception, almost everyone there was a kind, decent person, but everyone there also had, well flaws. And what I've noticed is that people are perfectly fine with personal flaws so long as no one else has them. We don't like people to have flaws because we prefer our friends to be perfect and our enemies to be pure evil. The realization that a friend is just as human as us or that an enemy has redeeming qualities is upsetting. We either ignore it in the case of our enemies or reject our friends. Which is disappointing, because I have this problem too, and I hate myself for it.
Honestly, I'd say that's only a partial encapsulation (not the right word, but I can't think of a better one) of the truth. Then again, that more or less sums up my opinion on anything ever said about TVT.
To be frank, I've often deliberately tried to avoid talking about TVT, since I was always more interested in reading other opinions than giving my own, but the more I've observed, the more I disdain the whole TVT Meta community. To speak in overly generalized terms, the TVT meta community has its head so far up its own ass its digestive tract is a perfect circle.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also I can't wait till next payday, so I'll be able to buy myself a Nexus 7 for proper bedtime browsing. No more of this "lurk from the Kindle, but grab the laptop to type posts" nonsense.
Okay, so Vanilla tells me whenever people @mention me in a comment, and as fate would have it CA (aka Mabel) shows up the most, notably making a ton of little Mabels show up under my big Dipper picture.
Perhaps it's just personal bias, but this site seems ok. A bit odd, but nothing really reminding me of a self-contained version of The Human Centipede.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Including this one?
Perhaps it's just personal bias, but this site seems ok. A bit odd, but nothing really reminding me of a self-contained version of The Human Centipede.
Except for the two chicks sewn to the ass of a Japanese dude we keep lying around, but that's a bit on the nose.
Perhaps it's just personal bias, but this site seems ok. A bit odd, but nothing really reminding me of a self-contained version of The Human Centipede.
Except for the two chicks sewn to the ass of a Japanese dude we keep lying around, but that's a bit on the nose.
Including this one, yes. That said I don't think it's a bad site either. Or BTL or IJBM is bad site. I wouldn't be a member of any of those sites if I didn't like it there. And I don't have too many problems with the people here either.
I suppose to clarify, The meta community has its head up its own ass when talking about TVT. I have a mental filing system when it comes to dealing with the various meta community as I call it. How much I like that person normally and how much I like that person when they're talking about TVT. And generally speaking, how much I like a person when they're talking about TVT is much less than how much I like them normally. The only people who haven't disappointed me at least once in a discussion about TVT have been Fouria, who seems to keep things close to his/her vest (no offense) and meeble, who always went way out of his way to consider what was being said and offer an alternative viewpoint.
My therapist said I was remarkably self-aware, but that would be in comparison to his other patients, wouldn't it?
I don't know about that. I mean, he could be using the standard of people in general. You always seemed reasonably self aware to me. Any lapses in that self awareness seemed to be oversight more than any general lack of awareness.
It's sad, really, that the majority of conversations about TVT by people who no longer frequent the site tend to devolve so quickly into self-unaware and accusatory mithering. I know full well that I am guilty of this myself, try as I may to avoid it, and that only disappoints me more.
There was a point at the beginning of the second incarnation of Beyod the Lampshade where we collectively got to a point that we could talk about the site in a reasoned, self-aware way, but how quickly those days passed...
There was a point at the beginning of the second incarnation of Beyod the Lampshade where we collectively got to a point that we could talk about the site in a reasoned, self-aware way, but how quickly those days passed...
I know I said this to you in a PM, but the second we drove out meeble is the second BTL started to take a nose dive.
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Doesn't mean I dislike them for not being pure paragons of pure pureness.
But I liked it.
It seems people are overeager to agree with what the SA thread said about TVT.
While the thread was rarely wrong about specifics, they overgeneralised waaay too much, and were quick to assume.
Also, it was a huge-ass hugbog. MAXIMUM IRONY.
I learned stuff from IJBM. At one point I was learning quite a lot from there, honestly.
Lately I have become much more judgmental about other people's flaws than I used to be. I'm trying to cut back on that.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I love it when I find something awesome that I did and forgot about.
Brushed my teeth with my new prescription toothpaste. Stuff works great!
You also underestimate yourself a lot.
On my part I've tried to be a more relaxed person since I left TVT (for a given definition of "left" anyway.)
In hindsight there was the odd thing I would've done differently and several conversations and people that I would've avoided due to bugging me way more than they should have. But, I liked the place for the most part and do sort of regret getting myself banned.
That said, the place has become a mess. Not entirely through its own fault either (a good chunk of the stuff is due to outside pressures), and that is saddening, but communities wilt. It's just what happens.
and turf and I'm mean and turf,
And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our
hats on backwards in a menacing way,
Yo!
-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
And on that note, I leave.
that was... something else.
and turf and I'm mean and turf,
And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our
hats on backwards in a menacing way,
Yo!
-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
And on that note, I leave.
Honestly, I'd say that's only a partial encapsulation (not the right word, but I can't think of a better one) of the truth. Then again, that more or less sums up my opinion on anything ever said about TVT.
To be frank, I've often deliberately tried to avoid talking about TVT, since I was always more interested in reading other opinions than giving my own, but the more I've observed, the more I disdain the whole TVT Meta community. To speak in overly generalized terms, the TVT meta community has its head so far up its own ass its digestive tract is a perfect circle.
Perhaps it's just personal bias, but this site seems ok. A bit odd, but nothing really reminding me of a self-contained version of The Human Centipede.
That's rather overgeneral, don't you think?
I think we're fine, and IJBM is pretty good aside from what I'd tentatively term a few problem members.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
God that movie was just...
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I suppose to clarify, The meta community has its head up its own ass when talking about TVT. I have a mental filing system when it comes to dealing with the various meta community as I call it. How much I like that person normally and how much I like that person when they're talking about TVT. And generally speaking, how much I like a person when they're talking about TVT is much less than how much I like them normally. The only people who haven't disappointed me at least once in a discussion about TVT have been Fouria, who seems to keep things close to his/her vest (no offense) and meeble, who always went way out of his way to consider what was being said and offer an alternative viewpoint.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
My official stance on that is -shrugs-
It's like bad political discussions, but worse.
Quite. The lack of self awareness that accompanies any discussion about TVT is kind of fascinating.
My therapist said I was remarkably self-aware, but that would be in comparison to his other patients, wouldn't it?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I try to avoid discussing TVT because I don't really have more to say than "I liked it but now I don't".