[split] Warm Greetings - The Not Welcome-y Stuff

[Jackalope]

Well, it would seem like Janice is now in lurking mode. She was just here no more than 2 hours ago yet her last post was yesterday. Not that I care, but one can only hope that she's read her heated thread and got the message.

Janice is on a post restriction while the staff makes a determination of her status here.

[Losty]

When she gets banned can someone please say "Marcia Marcia Marcia" in her ban post? Please

[TheRocketSurgeon]

1) I incorrectly attributed the phrase "passive aggressive" to the wrong person. I apologize to the person I wrongly countered, and shift my giant rhetorical middle finger to the appropriate person.

2) I have no wish to explain myself beyond what I already have, in terms of the pattern that has been chafing me for some time here. It was neither my duty nor my obligation to explain myself to you prior to my decision to walk away from a forum whose rules (and the application of same) I found odious.

3) As to the "jailhouse" stuff, I'm sorry I was unclear. Mister Agenda was the only one who read correctly. However, I wouldn't call it intimidation but rather an explanation. This is what may happen if you talk to me (or others like me) that way.

See, a lot of new guys who come into the prison system don't realize that there, all the civilized rules they've hidden the true animal nature of humanity behind is gone, and think they can still pull off the same "I can say whatever I want to him and there will be no repercussions" shit they played in real life. They've never met a true alpha-male in their lives, so they think that they are one. These guys are the ones who wind up with their skulls kicked in, get choked into unconsciousness and thown off a balcony, or knocked out and raped, or just end up lying in a pool of their own blood, within days of arrival in the system.

It is therefore a kindness to warn a person that their actions may have serious and direct ramifications, and that the rules of the world now include doing actual, genuine harm to someone who threatens you by trying to make you seem weak or vulnerable or whatever other derisive term they feel they can get away with. If you let a person get over on you like that, and do not seriously hurt them to show you're not a Beta Male, then you can almost guarantee you are robbed or raped or worse, in the coming years in that max security prison. If you talk to another person like that, he's already going to know that rule, most likely, and will do whatever he can to destroy you before you manage to mark him as a free target for everyone. I was tested in that way at almost every facility I was moved to in the course of 9 years, and managed to make my reputation at every place I went. I lost not one fight. Not one. So you can call it bravado if you want, but I KNOW what I am capable of doing with my hands, and I would wager that for all your imagination, you really don't know if you would survive even one day in a Max prison.

Now, I'm unlikely to actually hurt anyone unless they get emboldened enough by their safe position behind a keyboard to push the issue further than I can take in my current PTSD-related mental state, or provoke me to my face, but there are many others like me who don't take that kind of shit, and will put a piece of steel or lead in you for it. So go ahead and cackle, safe in your imagined knowledge that I'm a nonviolent person, or pledged to try to be... but be aware that there are many others out there who won't put up with it to even a third of the degree I do, and that even I have my limits. Should you keep calling people labels like that, in an attempt to rhetorically rob them of their actual power (only in your mind), it will blow back on you in serious ways, some day.

So call it a threat or a warning. Whatever. It seems to me that I have made the common mistake of letting people take my kindness for weakness, where they felt free to just say whatever snarky bullshit came to them, and I'd like to invite anyone who feels they are free to question my "bravado" to come see me at any time.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Ain't nobody cackling, brotha -- well, LP might be, I don't know. We're mourning a loss, and hoping you'll reconsider your decision.

[Losty]

T_T

This day sucks

[rexbeccarox]

WTF, Rocket??

I haven't chimed in until now, but this thing you're doing right now? It's not cool. There are people practically begging you to come back... still... even after your threats (or whatever you want to call them), your ego attack, and your general unfair treatment of the staff, but yet you keep coming back with guns-a-blazing. There's even a whole thread dedicated to your return.

If you don't want to be here, that's your choice, but you are being ridiculous, which is not a word I thought I'd ever use to describe you.

[ignoramus]

His actions are what I would call "completely out of character".
Still scratching my head as to how somebody so cool headed and intelligent could even get into this position.

I am dumbfounded.

[J a c k]

I do remember not long ago, when I just came back, I disagreed completely with the way things were handled in a particular thread. I found it beyond ridiculous and it made me angry. I seriously had to think about reconsidering my return. I felt like someone was getting protection beyond what others usually get. BUT I said what I thought and the awesome mods were awesome. I do understand feeling frustrated when things get messy.

I'm sad awesome dude is out of character today. This is not normal him. I don't like it one bit. It would be nice if things cooled down and everything went back to normal. The mods are cool peoples. Rocket is usually cool people. I like everyone involved except the spokes. 

May I just add one thing. I have behaved waaaay out of character before in my life due to life struggles. Those days do not define me. I do not identify as that person. The people I hurt, I wish I didn't. That is all.

[account_inactive]

May I just add one thing. I have behaved waaaay out of character before in my life due to life struggles. Those days do not define me. I do not identify as that person. The people I hurt, I wish I didn't. That is all.

I can relate so much.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

WTF, Rocket??

I haven't chimed in until now, but this thing you're doing right now? It's not cool. There are people practically begging you to come back... still... even after your threats (or whatever you want to call them), your ego attack, and your general unfair treatment of the staff, but yet you keep coming back with guns-a-blazing. There's even a whole thread dedicated to your return.

If you don't want to be here, that's your choice, but you are being ridiculous, which is not a word I thought I'd ever use to describe you.

I think both sides have fair points, and I hope both sides will consider each others'.