Be Excellent To Each Other

... The remaining light at the end will be the light(s) on AE's gaming PC, of course.

Indeed...

I don't think he is realizing, that he is pissing every one off again....

I think people need to get a bit of a grip. The man said a bad thing about games consoles, wah wah wah.

Sure it's tedious but pfft, ignore it and move on.

OH NOES! THERE'S BEEN AN ARGUMENT! PEOPLE SPOUTED A POWER OF SHITE & WERE MOCKED! THE END IS SURELY NIGH!

I would normally agree with Wullie here but I'm worried by the amount of people leaving because they can no longer put up with the same old arguments that keep on cropping up.

I started a thread ages ago, and chinny came back...

Seems the leopard can't change his spots. time to kill the leopard.

I'm preparing something awesome for excellent fun. It will not involve Pee Cee's or modern consoles. It will be fun. You will be able to do it at your work desk (if you have sound).

If people leave they will miss out.

I am saying no more.

Stay tuned........................

I'd just like to say that I disagreed with AE, that doesn't mean I want him to leave.

Malc

I don't want him to leave... just restrain himself...

I guess super ignore is not being used. So as I predicted it didn't stop the bleating.

Don't we have a working ignore fiction now? I use tapatalk so it doesn't work for me, but it's supposed to be good.

The foe function works perfectly by the way. I'd forgotten he existed until people kept saying "AE this, AE that"

Oh, hehe. Snap.

Snap snap snap.

Sorry, all posting at the same time.

Are those two posts connected? Are you planning an offering to the gods in order that the next crop of games will be fruitful unlike the poor crops of recent years?

I couldn't care less if he restrained himself or not, I really don't see the problem, he's not being rude to anyone, if you think he's saying the same thing over and over, just ignore it and don't respond.

I think some people are allowing themselves to be annoyed by it, when you really don't need to be.

Malc

Aye, super ignore's pretty good indeed. I only remember some people exist now when there's an obvious them-shaped hole in a discussion; which just reminds me how glad I am not to have to read what they say any more.

Crikey, almost an hour gone and nobody has mentioned "Use the ignore function"

OR, don't.

Why are hand wringing again?

Ignore features don't return much-adored former forum goers from their self imposed exiles.

Or myp.

Can you link to the drahma pls.

There isn't any

It's just AE saying that he thinks there is no point in buying a PS4 or XBOX720 as a PC for the same price is better, it's in the PS4 thread

Malc

I thought Dimmers meant the forum in general couldn't change its spots but I guess I took that the wrong way on second thoughts.

Malc

it's in teh "Social events" sub forum.

WTF? Make some drahma, you cunts. I've had a shitty week and need to laugh at social inadequates arguing over whose flavour of boiled sweets is better.

Works quite well. I only choose to use it for the most tedious individuals however.

However some other posters do post stuff of merit so it seems harsh to killfile them just because of that.

*shrug*

I just look at it, am grateful I'm not them and rhen return to cursing that I'm me.

Fucking. Kola.Kubes. Not chocolate limes. KOLA KUBES.

This only seems to happen when I'm posting. Interesting.*



*Not interesting.

Looks like I picked the wrong day to be off!

Ell oh ell

Gentle thoughts, as considerately expressed as ever.

Cheers Dimmers!

It's not just that.

Almost every thread that still interests me here is infested by AE. I see them pop up to the top with new posts and then read who the most recent post was made by. Sometimes I actually go into the thread and wonder why it's back at the top if the last post was several weeks ago - superfoe completely removing the foe posts and anything that quoted it. Sometimes I go into the thread and am on a completely empty new page because everything has been blocked.

You know when a girl has gotten under your skin and is then (whether consciously or not) giving you the run around? Just by being there, she changes the situation. She might be sitting across the room, she might walk past. She doesn't have to talk to you or look at you, but knowing that she's there still gets to you. You wonder when she's going to pop up next. She's not doing anything per se but it's still HER and she's THERE and that's enough to fuck with your head.

It's a stupid explanation but that's what it feels like for me. It puts me on edge.

We already went over this shit three months ago and with the limpest of conclusions. AE was completely unrepentant and even stated he'd continue as he is as it's not his problem if people don't like it. You have to be a cunt of staggering magnitude to make such a declaration, and remain defiant in the face of so many people unhappy or outright driven away. A 'truce'? Please. In the misguided notion of needing to be 'excellent' to each other you've defanged yourselves and have given the power to the problem who is now dictating the outcome. Are you afraid of setting some kind of precedent by taking actual action? Don't worry, the place has already lost its direction by allowing things to get to this stage in the first place.

It's not all AE, there's other issues too. If you go back into the mists of time and read the epic and exciting threads of bezzie gaming, it truly was a golden age. Now there's rather a lot of dreary stuff being posted which doesn't interest me so that just leaves the aforementioned contaminated games threads... so in other words, nothing.

I don't expect anything to come of this. It's a classic example of "We're all sick of this shit, right guys?" and the assembled crowd behind the hero all look at the ground. Apathy destroying the place is most definitely not being 'excellent', and I wonder whether it's too late for action to be taken now, the disillusionment has grown so much. So, yeah, just carry on as you are, as I'm sure you will.

I have enough stress, depression, BS and drahma in my real life, I won't be squandering my precious R&R being aggravated. I've already told several people, but you can publicly add me to the list of those taking leave indefinitely.

He just barged his way into a thread where someone asks for help with a Mac, starts by saying he knows nothing about Macs and then proceeds to carry on anyway like a retarded child who WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP.

You may find this difficult to understand, but I suspect a fair number of us don't see what all the fuss is about.
Join in with what you want to join in with, or don't, or ignore, or leave, or stay, or post what you want, or complain, or whatever.

The problem was not specifically with a Mac, the problem was with a potentially compromised computer and router, as such the advice I gave - (which was exactly the same as the advice you gave, I was writing my response as you were writing yours so I didn't see yours first) - transcends the operating system.

Yes you gave Mac-specific advice on the rebuild which is cool because I couldn't do that, but basically, we said the same thing.

Speculation. A poll would resolve this.

Go for it

And if we just ban people who are unpopular, then we're even less excellent than before.

the simple fact of that the matter is that I don't give a flying monkey's prick what 95% of the active membership here thinks of me so I'm neither going to shut up or fuck off.

This thread is making me sad .

We've been here before with JC. How quickly people forget.

These people just want to be the centre of attention. Like a wailing badly behaved child they either need to be ignored or dealt with.

Ignoring it hasn't worked, so I'd suggest option 2. Which is exactly how it panned out with JC.

You see, this is why it needs dealing with. Because he fucking loves the attention.

Needs a poll, definitely.

You do know jc wasn't banned, right?

I'm not sure I can muster up the enthusiasm.

I'll give it a go.

I'd rather have Meaty than AE, given the choice.

Great, Perkies is gone.

I certainly wouldn't like to ban AE, because for the most part I actually get on with him.

What he doesn't seem to realise is that his near-constant PC vs Console posts are out of hand, and have been for a very VERY long time. The thing that really winds people up (in my opinion), that AE does not seem to grasp, is that most people understand what he is saying regarding PCs and for the most part AGREE with him. We know you can build cheap PCs. We know of their merits. Most of us play on our PCs ALL OF THE BASTARD TIME.

The problem is, you can only be repeatedly told "the sky is blue, water is wet!" by someone so many times before you genuinely want to throttle them until you watch the life leave their eyes.

Frankly, despite what I've said above - that I don't wish to see him banned because for the most part I like him (and I apologise for publicly talking about him like this and referring to him as "him" and that) - ultimately, he's going to have to be banned. We've lost too many members for the sake of sticking to our single liberal rule. It's more important to me to have 10 extra people posting regularly rather than one. He ought to be warned, and given a holiday if he persists. Then ban. Simple as that.

Sorry, but that's how I feel about the situation. On any other forum - any you choose - he would've been banned ages ago.

I don't know if he does it deliberately, or if he doesn't realise how annoying he is, or what. But it must stop. It went too far ages ago. Now it's fucking comical.

Sorry AE, but you have to stop it.

And you know what the most frustrating thing is? You've spoiled your argument! The argument you're making about the next-gen consoles vs cheap PCs is actually perfectly reasonable. You're completely correct in my view.

But nobody is willing to listen any more, because you spoilt it. You spoilt it months, if not years ago. Now would've been the perfect time to have that discussion.

Boy who cried wolf or sutin!

TRUFAX being talked right here.