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Machinesworking wrote:

bounce wrote:

Tone Deft wrote: you don't get Neb at all. reading is a passive action, read what you want, troll block who you want, respond to who you want. neb does his best to make this place weird, he actively works to make this place what it is.

really ?....all it seems like to me is a bunch of middle aged losers flirting with each other. seriously, that's EXACTLY what it looks like. You've been flogging that 'tee hee let's pretend we're gay gag' for ...for as long as neb's been around infact.

Jesus man, with the extreme way Tone comes to Nebulas aid whether he actually needs it or not, I'm not convinced it's an act anymore??

@ Tone, serious, it's really looking like you actually have a school girl crush on Neb, not kidding with this.
Nothing I said was an attack, and your retorts were all emotional reaction, serious man. I don't see Neb getting upset, and that wasn't the intention of my post one bit. What I see is this odd situation where YOU get bent out of shape about something AGAIN, over react, and accuse people etc. of "not getting Neb". WTF mate? Neb is just some geek, no better or worse than anybody else IMO, but you blow up your friends into super forum jedi masters, and expect the rest of us to as well.
I'm neither upset or glad that Nebs around he's OK, and I enjoy his on topic posts. I'm not a fan of his humor, and guess what? not everybody will be. YOU, and others, like his humor, and that's fine, but I'm here to stay, and if he or you or anybody posts something I don't like, or posts off topic crap in threads about the actual product we have in common (uh.. that would be Live!) you'll hear about it. You would, and can do the same, but honestly, it gets a little old YOU and Neb, and a few other here, CLAIMING the forum as your own, and trying to drown out dissent with cries of people not "getting" yr friends etc.

Riddle me this, if reading is such a passive action, how come the smallest disagreement with you turns into hair splitting retorts to every sentence? If it's so passive why do you get so strung out at supposed attacks on your friends character? I don't, and will not troll block anybody, I don't need protection from my own reaction to other people. I find the concept amusing, it's an online forum version of self inflicted parental controls.

In the end of the day if you piss me off, I have to at some point look at my own self for why I react so heavily to what you say. I have to take into account my role in the situation, and acknowledge that I'm to a degree complicent in that feeling.

Whether you admit it or not, a lot of both negative and positive things have been flung around about Neb lately, fact! Neb is in part reacting to that, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. It's also no great mystery that he stirs it up himself a bit, humor, dogging on the poor treatment he received at NAMM at first etc. then getting treated well, people talking about him in opinionated ways pro/con etc. All of these things add up to his feeling that the forum is going mad.

I would recommend you lay off the gay jokes a bit, I think it's affecting your ability to act rationally about Neb. Besides it's in poor fucking taste. Maybe I'm touchy that way because I've known at least three gays that were good friends that died of AIDS, I dunno? It reeks of homophobia, but hey, you know what they say about homophobia. You're in the right city if you do end up swinging that way. And guess what? I wasn't joking about that, and it wasn't an attack. I approve of gay people, they rule IMO.


That will be $100, you can pay the secretary out front, and don't forget the take the pills I prescribed on schedule. Otherwise your behavior will only get worse Mkay?

nebulae wrote:I'm not sure why the hostility in this forum has been amped up as of late, but it makes me a little sad. This is a community, and we built it with discussion and words. Words matter...they can make someone's day, and they can inflict pain. I'm not sure why, but in the past few weeks, the forum has become negative and mean spirited.

For the sake of our community, I'd ask that we try to tone it down a bit and try to be nice. Even if we disagree, we can do it respectfully. There's no need to call people names. I'm sure we can get the discussions back to being about audio and other funny OT posts.

And for those of you that are going to hate on this request, well, there's not much I can do about that. It's your personal choice to say what you want to say. I can only make the request that we try to get back to the fun and stay away from the hostility.

laird wrote:if there's one thing that I've learned on the internet, its that most electronic musicians are street-savvy biker punk body-builders with a fuck-all attitude and in-your-face personality with black belts and mad ninja skillz so watch out.

Tone Deft wrote: lm - your last post confuses me. whatever I may have posted that was beyond obvious fact should stand as that. if there's something I need to apologize for, no problem. in my history in this asylum I've been WAAAAY obnoxious at times. how long of a memory do your feelings have? or are you standing up for b0unce? fuck I've ignored him for months and you're worried for his feelings? I don't get it. don't explain it because it's not your battle to fight and you're out of pills, tough guy.

b0unce - seriously, I thought blocking you would put enough space between us that you could enjoy yourself, so could I. let's forget the past. I dig how I can be annoying, ignore me. you don't have to like me, I'd rather you ignore me. who am I to get under your skin? forget it. whatever, every time I acknowledge you, you go off the deep end. don't you like it that I ignore you? would anything make you happy?

dcease wrote:

thefool wrote:damn already back man! Here i was sitting with expectations when arriving at this "North Korea" i bought tickets too and all i see is huge posters of some man with big glasses

he's my hero. i idolize him. so powerful...