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  • No, he's not. All I can do is send messages. And I hit the message limit. 
  • His most recent post says he got off the computer, so there is not much any of us can do now. :/
  • Dammit. I really hope what I've done helped in some way.

    Please send him messages regardless. All I ask is that you do what you can.
  • edited 2014-02-22 20:11:39
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    How old is he? If he has parents or roommates then they might be able to keep him from seriously hurting himself... unless he isn't actually harming himself, which is possible, although either way he's clearly not on a good mental footing right now. He also seems to have left for the night... Ninjutsu on that point.

    It's not that I'm not worried, but I'm hopeful.
  • I don't really know much about this person. He's not exactly a friend, really, I'd almost forgotten I followed him. But I just want to do as much as I can.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Who is this person?
  • I don't really know him well, like I said. Don't even remember why I followed him. I wish I knew more so I'd be able to help more, but for now all I can do is keep sending messages and hope for the best.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    From what I've heard, people tend to only be self-killing suicidal (instead of contemplating suicide) for seconds or minutes or hours at a time; and once that interval is over, they are in less danger of actually killing themselves; but still the underlying problems are there so the best thing is to maybe deal with those, I guess.  I don't know.
  • Okay, he messaged me back telling me that he stopped. But someone is harassing him, telling him he's an attention whore and how to cut himself, so I'll probably need to stick with him for longer.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Stick with him.

    Good luck and godspeed to both of you.
  • Whew. I think, for now, it's over. I sent him a ton of messages and the links to a bunch of suicide prevention things, and he said he's feeling better now.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Excellent.
  • edited 2014-02-22 22:01:56
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    In other news, here is Futret's explanation of the events that led up to him basically leaving the Internet.

    Considering the other fellow's description of the situation... it's all really sad, honestly.

    I have no idea what to say about this, ultimately.

    (Word of warning for... well, "disturbing and graphic content" is probably understating things.)
  • I don't know who Futret is. Also what?


    he was a dude who made music, responsible for that whole gay deer meme thing.
  • edited 2014-02-22 21:14:48
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ Hmm.

    Background: Futret is an electronic musician and a furry. His stuff is odd, but enjoyable. Basically, one of those really iffy anonymous rapist-shaming blogs posted the claim by a friend of someone who claimed that he had sexually assaulted them. This was at about the same time that another well-known furry electronic musician, Renard Queenston, was outed for committing sexual assault (and confirmed it himself). Futret, at this point... vanished. Totally withdrew from social media.

    Eventually the other guy came forward himself. And Futret explained his side of the story. The interesting and disturbing thing is that neither exactly contradicts the other...
  • 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
    This probably isn't the best thread for this, but fuck you it's funny:

    vastderp:

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    mnxmnkmnd replied to your post “catterflyart replied to your post:catterflyart replied to your post:On…”

    you’ve seen the bitcoin ponzi schemes that say they’re ponzi schemes, right? i love that shit. i checked one out and the chat was being spammed by somebody complaining it was a scam. fucking beautiful

    image

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    it just never stops being amazing

  • kill living beings
    oh jesus an admin
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    This was at about the same time that another well-known furry electronic musician, Renard Queenston, was outed for committing sexual assault (and confirmed it himself).

    This is why you said 'tag your #renard' the other day, isn't it, Yon Assassin?

    i'm sorry, i don't follow tumblr closely and i'm not involved in the furry community, so i wasn't aware.  i hope i didn't upset anyone.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    wishing to be Wolverine
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Tachyon said:

    This was at about the same time that another well-known furry electronic musician, Renard Queenston, was outed for committing sexual assault (and confirmed it himself).

    This is why you said 'tag your #renard' the other day, isn't it, Yon Assassin?

    i'm sorry, i don't follow tumblr closely and i'm not involved in the furry community, so i wasn't aware.  i hope i didn't upset anyone.
    He was half-joking, but yes, that is why. I was only aware because Cat Bountry reblogged something about it in passing about a month ago and I got curious...

    Anywho, if you combine those salad tosser claws with AJJ's Salad Gloves then do you turn into a Salad Bear?
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    You thought it was a huge yet cuddly nature spirit living in the camphor tree's root grotto, but it was only I, Dio!
  • a young boy befriending the mitsubishi zero
  • So I found a tumblr argument over the 'transgendered vs. transgender' thing, and one of the more vitriolic participants did a comparison to racism that I didn't get. So, against all reason, I decided to ask her about it and

    you guys

    she was so nice and she accepted my criticism of her comparison and she complimented my kanji

    It was so weird. 
  • 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
    Link?
  • Ah, it appears that most of it got deleted?

    Well, this part has the relevant reference (the 'you know' refers to the term 'colored')
  • "complimenting your kanji" sounds euphemistic, though I have no idea what it could possibly be a euphemism for.
  • So I found a tumblr argument over the 'transgendered vs. transgender' thing, and one of the more vitriolic participants did a comparison to racism that I didn't get. So, against all reason, I decided to ask her about it and


    you guys

    she was so nice and she accepted my criticism of her comparison and she complimented my kanji

    It was so weird. 
    I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE IT FORCES ME TO ACCEPT THAT SOMETIMES GOOD PEOPLE CAN BE QUITE SILLY

  • kill living beings
    nice stroke order babe
  • edited 2014-02-28 19:23:09
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Kexruct said:

    So I found a tumblr argument over the 'transgendered vs. transgender' thing, and one of the more vitriolic participants did a comparison to racism that I didn't get. So, against all reason, I decided to ask her about it and


    you guys

    she was so nice and she accepted my criticism of her comparison and she complimented my kanji

    It was so weird. 
    I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE IT FORCES ME TO ACCEPT THAT SOMETIMES GOOD PEOPLE CAN BE QUITE SILLY

    The Xenharmonic Alliance Facebook page.

    Living proof that people get really touchy about things that literally no-one else cares about.

    Prime limits above 13 in just intonation scales. WOW, YOU GUYS.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    But yes, I think that truly, genuinely nice people can sometimes trip over themselves over really strange issues. It's just like anyone else.
  • edited 2014-02-28 19:26:45
    kill living beings
    huh, thirteen? i don't think i've ever heard over 7

    speaking of no one else caring i have an entire book on how 12-TET is harmful. it fucking rules
  • edited 2014-02-28 19:46:42
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    If it is the book that I am thinking of, a viola player friend of mine has a copy, and it does indeed fucking rule.

    The 7-limit is the usual prime limit for conventional harmony, but 11 and 13 show up a lot in Middle Eastern, West African and Southeast Asian music in different forms. In particular, the neutral third of 11/9 and the wide second of 15/13 are very close to the third degree of 7-ET (in Thai music) and the second in 5-ET (in Balinese slendro and on the Nigerien balafon) respectively; and intervals like 11/8 (a half-sharp fourth) and 13/8 (a half-sharp sixth) show up a lot as leading tones during chromatic runs in old blues. Partch used 11-limit as the basis for his scale for these reasons.

    It's past 13, into 17, 19 and 23 that things get contentious. 17 and 19 are fairly well-represented in 12-ET and are useful to add colour to certain progressions, and like 11 and 13 23-limit does have a place in blues harmony, but because the overtones are harder to hear their relative consonance is contentious. Even more so very high primes like 29 and 31, which composers like Ben Johnston have used from time to time.

    Personally, I care not a lick about whether they are so-and-so's definition of "consonant" or not. What intervals someone uses are their business, and if it sounds cool, it's good in my book. Plus, pure harmonies that are still that complex can make for an interesting contrast with smoother 7- or 11-limit harmonies.
  • I like loud thumping noises that thump

    And really fast noises that pan about

    Those are cool noises in my book
  • edited 2014-02-28 19:52:25
    kill living beings
    yeah it seems unlikely that consonance is really much of... a thing. heavy cultural and 'arbitrary' influence if nothing else. gonna get my devilish trichords on fuckers.

    i don't remember the title of the book. i just grabbed it from powell's because it was cheap and small and looked interesting and hey, it was. i haven't played music in a long time and even when i did i didn't know shit about strings (school orchestra only had a bass) so that was a learning experience

    they have such weird fucking music books. i got another one with 'granular synthesis' and shit like wtf even imo

    lol i meant tritone not trichord. fml lmao
  • Granular synthesis is one of the coolest things in the universe.
  • kill living beings
    honestly the main thing i got out of the book was that there's no objective qualitative difference between a tone and a rhythm and that i kind of like listening to xenakis. i call it: no taste


  • There is this one song billain made (*not this one iirc*) with these opening fx that were made from heavily resampled audio of a man committing seppuku.


    Which is way cooler than anything you can do with a normal instrument, even if you have it tuned all fancy
  • edited 2014-02-28 20:14:30
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    yeah it seems unlikely that consonance is really much of... a thing. heavy cultural and 'arbitrary' influence if nothing else. gonna get my devilish trichords on fuckers.

    Consonance is mainly determined by timbre and context, but what sounds cool need have little to do with consonance. And that's not even getting into how a lot of physical concords are strange to untrained ears, like wide 9/7 major thirds or, yes, low-order tritones (7/5, 13/9, 11/8) in harmonic timbres... or any concords in more alien timbres, like the kettle gong scales in Cambodian and Sundanese music.
  • 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 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
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^I'll be honest, Us Weekly always sends my mind straight to Relay
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    There's a lot more of me skimming the posts I see in tumblr and I cut back on a few people that I follow. 

    I mean... there's certainly a number of Tumblrites who have sort of become a a parody of what they're trying to represent and doing a great job of helping the site maintain it's SJW bonkers reputation. 
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i don't know who Ben is, but if they're fixated on this one issue, can't you just unfollow them?
  • 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
    That's what people always tell me to do, but I dunno, I don't wanna

    Because he's a cool person when he's not being a total butt
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