june gloom on 3/8/2014 at 20:37
So apparently it's been about ten years since a fat deaf nerd from Ohio registered for a username and
IMMEDIATELY RUINED TTLG FOREVER. (Yet everyone stayed anyway.) (
/forums/showthread.php?t=87498) Like, exactly ten. I thought I'd pop in for the occasion and say goodbye.
So. Ten years. Lots of things happened between then and now. None of it really matters though, it's all just pointless forum drama.
Hi, my name is dethtoll. You probably remember me from Hollywood blockbusters such as
Low Functioning Stumpfuckers,
The apdenton Incident, and
Help! Goldmoon Dawn's Got Into The Office Supplies And He'll Kill Us All! But after a run-in with a mutant case of fetal alcohol syndrome, I decided it was time to get out of the entertainment biz.
Here I am a month and a half later, on the anniversary of the first day I frittered an hour of my life away for nothing, and HOLY JESUS WITH CHEESES WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS DONE TO THE PLACE.
It's like there's only 2 shows on:
White Male Minority Conspiracy Corner (With Your Host, CCCTony), and
Crushing, Unstoppable, Thoroughly Depressing Forum Entropy. Back to back, 24/7. It's like a Twilight Zone marathon for dicks!
I ruined TTLG, huh? And yet look at it now, with me being gone for over a month. And after today, I'll be gone again, because, really, I'm 31 and I don't have time to be arguing with drunkards, lunatics and narcissists. But today is Sunday and I'm bored and I haven't even put pants on yet. So here you go, one last goodbye post, one last bit of closure, because I have spent far too much time on here and I just
have to have the last word. I know, so typical of me, right?
And suddenly I have a moment of clarity, shot through with depressing realization.
I got asked if making this thread was worth it. I don't know. I thought I did, but now I'm not sure. I was going to basically come in and say, "wtf are you guys doing, you're all queers," and leave with one last laugh, never looking back. I ended up writing something a bit longer because I like to cram jokes in like I cram chicken sandwiches. But in the end, as I write this, I just feel very sad. Look at all the time I wasted on this place for ten years, just to get a bunch of people talking about how glad I was gone for the sin of being particularly (and sometimes unnecessarily, I admit) vocal in my opinions and not putting up with any shit, for rocking the boat, for having ~*controversial opinions*~ ★~(◡‿◡✿). Time wasted, just to put up with high school bullshit every day because every forum has its cliques and this one was more vicious than most due to an almost utter lack of moderator impartiality over the course of a decade, regardless of who was in charge.
Why is this place even still going? Let's face it, we're all a bunch of grown men (and what few women we haven't completely chased off) acting like a bunch of teenage boys, screaming at each other over how smart we think we are. The only difference is the words we use have more syllables and are more cutting. I'm really done with all that. We all know each other just enough to actually hurt each other, and we're all to varying degrees just narcissistic enough, just petty and childish enough, that we think we can win debates by hitting the other person where it hurts most. I've done it. We've all done it. And I'm done doing it. This isn't a family. This isn't a home away from home. It's like a toxic office culture where everyone's worked here for years and knows just how to get under everyone else's skin, and the product or service we provide has been outdated for 14 years and everyone knows it but nobody wants to leave.
Quitting this place was the best thing I've done in years. I see that now. Pretty much anyone on here who is actually worth talking to, I'm friends with outside of here. I don't need this place anymore. Neither do you.
That's it.
Sulphur on 3/8/2014 at 21:28
I propose that we rename the forums and repurpose them towards some grand and ridiculous metaphor, something as immediately irrelevant as they currently are, something like... airplane carpooling. Through the Boeing Pass, perhaps.
A set of forums where we all take turns flying each other's planes and buzzing them over each other's heads, writing words like 'IN THE END TIME FUCKED YOU BUT NOT AS MUCH AS I FUCKED YOUR MUM,' in calligraphic contrail strokes across the skies. The mods assign airspace co-ordinates that some of us promptly ignore and crash our planes together into hulking, burning heaps on the runways before they even take off. Some take off, jet around before climbing too fast, too high, and stall and plummet, nose-down, into the ocean.
And the rest? They're gone, like shots fired into the universe, bullets tearing into the velvet of space itself, scraping past the face of god before turning around and coming back to share the message they found, only to find that infinity was too long a time to those they left behind.
Go forth. The runway is clear.
arandomgamer02 on 3/8/2014 at 22:41
As an 11-year, mostly insignificant participant under one name or another, a couple of thoughts:
1) TTLG is small these days. Comm Chat is essentially dead. The T4 spike now seems like a throwback rather than a fresh start. But so what? These things happen. Dethtoll has been the story of the summer; that's the current state of affairs, for better or worse.
2) People derive some sort of entertainment and/or satisfaction from posting here, so that's why we do it. Dethtoll posted today because he wanted closure. When it's no longer fun to post here, we'll stop.
3) Dethtoll has thoroughly experienced TTLG. It has a better effect on some than others. The system victimized dethtoll, at least in his mind. TTLG has been more positive for some other users. It depends on the person.
Kolya on 3/8/2014 at 22:49
TTLG gave me free cookies!
Tony_Tarantula on 3/8/2014 at 23:22
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Why is this place even still going? Let's face it, we're all a bunch of grown men (and what few women we haven't completely chased off) acting like a bunch of teenage boys, screaming at each other over how smart we think we are.
So basically it's like a typical day in D.C. or Manhattan?
Muzman on 4/8/2014 at 05:55
Happy forum birthday Dethy
Renzatic on 4/8/2014 at 06:21
None of you have to agree with anything anyone says around here. Hell, you don't necessarily even have to be nice with your disagreement, so long as you're actually saying something worthwhile in response. What we're seeing here is nothing more than baiting, bullying, and base harassment. Small though we may be these days, it's still something that shouldn't be tolerated.
Dethtoll doesn't have to like Sneakyguy, and Sneakyguy doesn't have to like Dethtoll. That's life. Some people don't get along. But you don't have to be goddamn stupid about it.
henke on 4/8/2014 at 08:50
Deth, I'm having a hard time writing a good bye post that doesn't make me sound like a battered spouse. You're no good for this place, but at the same time you're so much fun it's hard to let you go. But yeah, you've made your mind up to leave and that's probably for the best. I hope all your talk of wasting 10 years here is just talk, and you don't really feel that way, cause there's been some good times. You'll be missed. At least by some of us. o/
