The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Anom@nder Rake]

only internet drama is real

 

[Satanstoenail]

Only ragequitting is real

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

i didn't want him to leave either, but GMD is bigger than one man, it has survived many such dramas, we must look toward this new era with hope, not fear. more seriously, if you want a positive spin on this, new users might be more likely to stick around without the arguing/posturing etc of TB and CiG putting them off.

Yea, but boards are a dying platform in general and having a mass exodus could be a fatal blow if this place starts looking like a ghost town to the passerby. This place has needed to get back the muzak for a long time. TB/CiG would sometimes shit up threads, but a the end of the day they were music first.

I'm speaking generally btw. I'm not trying to single any one person out, but there just seemed to be some validity to their "waring tribe" theories.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's fair, but the only thing you or anyone else can do about that now is to post more

CiG was generally in the same 'tribe' as omni before recent weeks in fairness. they were both in the briefly active tongue-in-cheek in-crowd group on facebook, chatted plenty outside of the site and agreed on music more often than not etc. i don't really see the tribalism stuff beyond the notorious in-crowd out-crowd divide (which is more HBB's theory than anybody else's). TB's big conspiracy theory was more about people having alts (you are my alt btw) and reporting posts, and tbf i think the board was near unanimous in thinking he probably deserved some of his bans regardless of who actually reported him. if people were ganging up on him he kinda brought it on himself.

 

[EternalMetal]

*ding ding ding*

GoD wins!

Remember that CIG was a confessed fan of Pizzagate and other stupid conspiracy shit. It was really easy to troll him and make him freak out because he is a dishonest, paranoid weirdo. Why would TB and I be compatriots in a conspiracy to target CIG? Anyone who believes that is even possible is an idiot.

With GoD's permission, I'll gladly post the extremely non-conspiratorial message exchange that inspired me to troll CIG for obviously lying about something trivial just to seem knowledgeable. For a guy who was a proponent of realness, he did this shit all the time.

I also have Facebook messages from CIG himself where he kisses my ass consistently for the last year and talks about how smart I am and how he wants to know me better and how my writing is awesome before he melts down and tries to say none of my friends like me and that I'm the fakest person ever because I posted about him lying about a movie.

This all makes you sound like a really manipulative piece of shit.

 

[RedStorm]

So your only proof that CIG fucked up was one lie about a movie? Are there any other examples?

Also why does that even matter in the first place? What actual impact is that having on the forum other than your reaction to it?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

CIG fucked up by thinking he had a real friendship with a rando on the internet, let alone with a serial liar and HR manager like Omni. It's not about CIG being wrong for posting X, Y, or Z, it's about him acting like there's some massive forum-wide conspiracy when it's really just the same few "old guard" gossiping like they always do, and being offended over some meaningless gossip. I'm pretty sure this kind of stuff was just as common if not more so when there was a regular chatroom; for years Mort Divine had Dodens' "Boston Market" quip about me, posted somewhere other than this forum, but not only did I not give a shit, it made me laugh knowing that ponytailed Omni-cucked pussy was avoiding the forums because of me and probably whined about me behind my back all the time. I don't know why CIG can't do the same. I think the forum will suffer from his loss, at least in terms of activity and actual music discussion, but he's still a bitch for crying about it instead of just leaving quietly, or just ignoring it and carrying on. I'll never understand what compels some men on internet forums to gain attachments to anonymous women on internet forums.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I am so incredibly thankful for the drama. Some of us are boring domestics, god bless these martyrs, every one. Great lunch break reads. I don't get enough time with my girlfriend's these days, solid substitute.

I think you've hit upon something important here: martyrdom.

It's quite possible that the survival of GMD depends upon the suffering of insecure weirdos who come here to be the center of attention, to dominate as many threads as they can, to invite drama and inevitably become victim to it.

Lao Tzu once said, "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." It is precisely these brightly burning flames which are the lifeblood of this place - the lambs upon our sacrificial altar.

Those who blame trolls like Omni for driving them out are missing the bigger picture. It is likely the demise of our beloved martyrs is inevitable, and simply a matter of time. If Omni is to blame for anything, perhaps it is for being too blunt an instrument in this grand scheme.

I'm willing to forgive her that. Let her refine her skills here over time, and learn to draw the blood more gradually. Let the victim have respite from the feeding now and then, to regain their strength, before the fangs once again break the skin of their neck. This is the path to our salvation.

Hail Satan.

 

[Onder]

I think you've hit upon something important here: martyrdom.

It's quite possible that the survival of GMD depends upon the suffering of insecure weirdos who come here to be the center of attention, to dominate as many threads as they can, to invite drama and inevitably become victim to it.

Lao Tzu once said, "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." It is precisely these brightly burning flames which are the lifeblood of this place - the lambs upon our sacrificial altar.

Those who blame trolls like Omni for driving them out are missing the bigger picture. It is likely the demise of our beloved martyrs is inevitable, and simply a matter of time. If Omni is to blame for anything, perhaps it is for being too blunt an instrument in this grand scheme.

I'm willing to forgive her that. Let her refine her skills here over time, and learn to draw the blood more gradually. Let the victim have respite from the feeding now and then, to regain their strength, before the fangs once again break the skin of their neck. This is the path to our salvation.

Hail Satan.

I remember times when women signed up to the forum, posted their picture in their tenth post, were called attention whores and left crying.

However, Satan the lord of hell wasn't pleased with such banal offerings, and also the gender equality wasn't strong with this one, so he sent his faithful disciple to the board, the online-succubus Omni, the creature that slowly sucks out the will to post from egoistic men.

And she has a file on YOU too, whoever's reading this.

BEWARE.

 

[EternalMetal]

Im safe because I believe in Jesus.

 

[Onder]

Im safe because I believe in Jesus.

Jesus died for your posts.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

CIG just needs some lovin irl.

Sitting in Düsseldorf airport rehearsing some tourist Serbian while waiting for my flight to Belgrade to board. I've yet to have a flight in Germany take-off on time, so I'm hoping to get lucky this time.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Is it true that airport security in Germany is even worse than American TSA?

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Nah, I've been through both of the airports in Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, and Düsseldorf, and security checks have always been seamless. I was through security in 5 minutes this morning. They have similar rules, like you've gotta take toiletries and laptops out of your bag and pass through the naked body scanners (mandatory in the US at least since Trump), but you don't have to take your shoes off. Also, security here, unlike the TSA, tend to not look like the most disinterested, slack-jawed fucks the country has to offer.

 

[Onder]

Nah, I've been through both of the airports in Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, and Düsseldorf, and security checks have always been seamless. I was through security in 5 minutes this morning. They have similar rules, like you've gotta take toiletries and laptops out of your bag and pass through the naked body scanners (mandatory in the US at least since Trump), but you don't have to take your shoes off. Also, security here, unlike the TSA, tend to not look like the most disinterested, slack-jawed fucks the country has to offer.

I travelled through the Frankfurt monster airport and had no problems at all. The only problem I've ever had in airports was in Athens when I forgot liquid soap in my on-board bag, had to leave it there.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

I remember times when women signed up to the forum, posted their picture in their tenth post, were called attention whores and left crying.

However, Satan the lord of hell wasn't pleased with such banal offerings, and also the gender equality wasn't strong with this one, so he sent his faithful disciple to the board, the online-succubus Omni, the creature that slowly sucks out the will to post from egoistic men.

And she has a file on YOU too, whoever's reading this.

BEWARE.

Lol I posted pictures of myself. I was fucking 20 or something, of course I was attention hungry.

I wonder if she put them in my file.

 

[Dak]

I think you've hit upon something important here: martyrdom.

It's quite possible that the survival of GMD depends upon the suffering of insecure weirdos who come here to be the center of attention, to dominate as many threads as they can, to invite drama and inevitably become victim to it.

Lao Tzu once said, "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." It is precisely these brightly burning flames which are the lifeblood of this place - the lambs upon our sacrificial altar.

Those who blame trolls like Omni for driving them out are missing the bigger picture. It is likely the demise of our beloved martyrs is inevitable, and simply a matter of time. If Omni is to blame for anything, perhaps it is for being too blunt an instrument in this grand scheme.

I'm willing to forgive her that. Let her refine her skills here over time, and learn to draw the blood more gradually. Let the victim have respite from the feeding now and then, to regain their strength, before the fangs once again break the skin of their neck. This is the path to our salvation.

Hail Satan.

This needs to be canonized. The veil has been lifted.

 

[Omni]

I was just going to stop replying to this particular topic for a while, but I was disgusted by the implication in certain posts that I actively sought attention from CIG or led him on. I just want to make sure that we're clear that I've frequently made criticisms of him in his private conversations with me and never really went out of my way to even be very friendly to him.

Then again, his preference for being belittled by women might have played into that dynamic in retrospect. He even posted a poorly edited meme of me dominating him on this site once.

Personally I don't care who posts here or who doesn't, but if someone's first reaction to being gently trolled is to accuse me of being in a deep state conspiracy against them, then I'll roll with it and continue trolling them.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Personally I don't care who posts here or who doesn't, but if someone's first reaction to being gently trolled is to accuse me of being in a deep state conspiracy against them, then I'll roll with it and continue trolling them.

I'm all for getting your kicks, but that's the issue with the board in its current state. A lot of people come on here to take jabs at each other instead of having constructive discussions about music. The main section is frequently a ghost town or is a big ball of violence when there is a glut of activity.

 

[no country for old wainds]

90% of that stuff revolved around TB and i think the board's been pretty mellow/constructive since he left tbh. aside from TB, CiG was probably the main proponent of the jabbing/'violence' (he admitted this a few times recently) as well as being the main proponent of constructive music discussion, so i'm not sure his leaving really changes that ratio too much. it's just gonna decrease post volume in general, which is a problem to be sure. i kinda doubt it's a terminal problem but i guess we'll see, unless he randomly comes back.