A Statement on Items of Great Importance
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Zarxrax
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Flint the Dwarf
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For those of you who are curious, the link is somewhere in my message. ;p
flint_the_dwarf wrote:You really shouldn't be taking this seriously.
Kusoyaro: We don't need a leader. We need to SHUT UP. Make what you want to make, don't make you what you don't want to make. If neither of those applies to you, then you need to SHUT UP MORE.
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Corran
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Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]
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Flint the Dwarf
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Chaos Angel
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It's a Friends-Only post, CJ. Only those who already knew about the joke in the first place anyway can see it.flint_the_dwarf wrote:For those of you who are curious, the link is somewhere in my message. ;p
flint_the_dwarf wrote:You really shouldn't be taking this seriously.
I COULD just make it Public but (1) My mom and Dad read my journal anonymously and I don't need my parents telling me how it's a bad idea to intentionally piss people off, and (2) I am already writing up a highly lengthy and detailed description of the reasoning behind this shennanigan for posting here.
I shall explain myself in detail shortly!
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Declan_Vee
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Flint the Dwarf
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Scintilla
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Wow. For once in my life, I'm in the crowd that's in the know.Chaos Angel wrote:It's a Friends-Only post, CJ. Only those who already knew about the joke in the first place anyway can see it.flint_the_dwarf wrote:For those of you who are curious, the link is somewhere in my message. ;p
flint_the_dwarf wrote:You really shouldn't be taking this seriously.
I feel special.
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Chaos Angel
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Well since Flint, Trythil, and Rozard had to let the cat out of the bag (and stop me from allowing it to run into potential infinity) before I could comment on the pure eroticism of this thread and convince everyone not in the know I truly HAD lost my everlovin' mind... 
That entire ugly thing had a two-fold purpose.
(A) Being very VERY tired of seeing small-scale wars erupt over the subject of elitism around this community (people jumping on community members for being "elitest", people bitching about others bitching about them, blah blah yakkity crap that only serves to enhance and reinforce the ludicrous notion that no "upper" editor would ever deign to tolerate the prescence of a "lower" editor under any circumstances and that all members of this community must "know their place" {GOD I hate that phrase!}), I wanted to parody the elitest mindset. People with a truly elitest view of class structure and the functions of society often strike me as being hypocritical and asinine in their beliefs. They cling to their concept of superiority like a heroin addict clasps his/her needles to their chest, drawing comfort from that which leads to their downfall in one way or another.
I wrote that whole ranty-dealybob very late last night (My best ideas come to me when I am very very tired. Well, maybe not best so much as craziest
). I wanted to parody the hypocritical, elitest mindset as exaggeratedly as I could. I wanted it to seem like quite possibly the most arrogant, irrational piece of verbosity ever to grace the human experience. I wanted to write something that, if I read it from someone else, I would automatically think them repugnant. REPUGNANT I SAY! I tried to be as condescending and close-minded as possible in my writings. I wanted to capture that sense of truly BELIEVING in my heart that I am "better". I didn't want to just seem like an elitest prick: I wanted to truly come across as being so deluded as to believe I am "above" everyone else.
I posted it in my Livejournal (I am not Chaos Angel there. LJ Chaos Angel is a 15 year old bubblegum-raver) not really intending to post it here truth for true. But my Livejournal buddies convinced me to post it here. They seemed to love it, and I ever was peer-pressure's bitch.
(B) is simple. Upon finishing the arrogant piece of douchebaggery (I thank Ghastly of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic for THAT wonderous word. Can't link the comic here because it is a hentai comic, but it is very funny if you're not easily offended) It immediately occured to me that, were I to actually post it, people would get very very angry. That thought amused me and along with the urging of my friends, I decided to go ahead and post it.
I am not an elitest, but I am a slight prick. ;P
(first person to quote-alter that last bit to "I have a slight prick" dies horrendously)
Originally, I was thinking of creating a secondary account to make it seem like it was coming from someone who had been ghosting the forum for a long time. I decided against this for a plethora of reasons.
1. I consider fake accounts cowardly. If you're gonna rile shit up, do it upfrontly.
2. The "manifesto" would lose some of it's bloated-hypocrisy edge coming from a member who had just joined. Coming from a member of the site such as myself, who has been around for awhile and has made videos to boot, it carries borderline toxic levels of hypocrisy, which I feel added well to the parody aspect.
3. Who would take seriously such a post coming from a new member? I wanted people to take it seriously at first until I could explain myself, because I am an ass.
4. No one would believe I was joking if I did it from a fake account. I do want to salvage some level of credibility after this stunt.
So, yah. I was both parodying the elitest mindset (NOT the elitest mindset of people on this site, because very very VERY few people on this site strike me as being truly elitist. Most of the debate strikes me as just being semantic in truth, a result of misunderstandings that naturally occur due to the text-only nature of the internet forum. I was parodying the elitest mindset in general) and being a prick. Hooray!
And now, I have a few words to say. I shall link each person's name to their post I am referring too, because this post is long enough without tossing quote boxes into the mix.
Lets start at the beginning...
MOD: Flamebait... I love it!
OtakuForLife: The last two sentences are greatness. : - )
silver_moon: Beautiful. Stuff like that is why I like you.
Vlad G Pohnert: That would be something indeed.
bum: Bonus points for being first to catch my hypocrisy!
Corran Productions: I am getting some serious warm fuzzy action from the fact that someone not already in the know of the real intent of this post voiced that I was acting very out of character. Thanks! *^_^*
madbunny: You also get points for throwing the hypocrisy in my face. Hoorah!
CaTaClYsM: I've missed the flame form.
Scintilla: Oh, you're special alright... I kid! Don't kill me... ;P
Well, that's all I have. I shall end this Behind The Scenes exposè of a a stupid stunt WeBlog style.
Because I can! Huzzah!
Current Mood: Bemused
Current Music: Tuscadero - Tickled Pink / Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love & Bullet With Butterfly Wings & Stumbleine & The Crying Tree of Mercury & Jellybelly & Spaceboy / The Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time & River Euphrates (Live) & Hidden Track from Surfer Rosa / Blackmore's Night - Greensleeves & Spirit of the Sea & Memmingen & Writing on the Wall / Blue Man Group - Synaesthetic & Piano Smasher / The Flaming Lips - The Observer & Race for the Prize / Burning Airlines - Dear Hilary / Minus the Bear - Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! / The Mars Volta - This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed / Apocalyptica - Path (vol. 2) & Struggle / Duran Duran - Drowning & None of the Above / Green Day - Burnout / The Drinks - The Second / Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name?
That entire ugly thing had a two-fold purpose.
(A) Being very VERY tired of seeing small-scale wars erupt over the subject of elitism around this community (people jumping on community members for being "elitest", people bitching about others bitching about them, blah blah yakkity crap that only serves to enhance and reinforce the ludicrous notion that no "upper" editor would ever deign to tolerate the prescence of a "lower" editor under any circumstances and that all members of this community must "know their place" {GOD I hate that phrase!}), I wanted to parody the elitest mindset. People with a truly elitest view of class structure and the functions of society often strike me as being hypocritical and asinine in their beliefs. They cling to their concept of superiority like a heroin addict clasps his/her needles to their chest, drawing comfort from that which leads to their downfall in one way or another.
I wrote that whole ranty-dealybob very late last night (My best ideas come to me when I am very very tired. Well, maybe not best so much as craziest
). I wanted to parody the hypocritical, elitest mindset as exaggeratedly as I could. I wanted it to seem like quite possibly the most arrogant, irrational piece of verbosity ever to grace the human experience. I wanted to write something that, if I read it from someone else, I would automatically think them repugnant. REPUGNANT I SAY! I tried to be as condescending and close-minded as possible in my writings. I wanted to capture that sense of truly BELIEVING in my heart that I am "better". I didn't want to just seem like an elitest prick: I wanted to truly come across as being so deluded as to believe I am "above" everyone else.I posted it in my Livejournal (I am not Chaos Angel there. LJ Chaos Angel is a 15 year old bubblegum-raver) not really intending to post it here truth for true. But my Livejournal buddies convinced me to post it here. They seemed to love it, and I ever was peer-pressure's bitch.
(B) is simple. Upon finishing the arrogant piece of douchebaggery (I thank Ghastly of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic for THAT wonderous word. Can't link the comic here because it is a hentai comic, but it is very funny if you're not easily offended) It immediately occured to me that, were I to actually post it, people would get very very angry. That thought amused me and along with the urging of my friends, I decided to go ahead and post it.
I am not an elitest, but I am a slight prick. ;P
(first person to quote-alter that last bit to "I have a slight prick" dies horrendously)
Originally, I was thinking of creating a secondary account to make it seem like it was coming from someone who had been ghosting the forum for a long time. I decided against this for a plethora of reasons.
1. I consider fake accounts cowardly. If you're gonna rile shit up, do it upfrontly.
2. The "manifesto" would lose some of it's bloated-hypocrisy edge coming from a member who had just joined. Coming from a member of the site such as myself, who has been around for awhile and has made videos to boot, it carries borderline toxic levels of hypocrisy, which I feel added well to the parody aspect.
3. Who would take seriously such a post coming from a new member? I wanted people to take it seriously at first until I could explain myself, because I am an ass.
4. No one would believe I was joking if I did it from a fake account. I do want to salvage some level of credibility after this stunt.
So, yah. I was both parodying the elitest mindset (NOT the elitest mindset of people on this site, because very very VERY few people on this site strike me as being truly elitist. Most of the debate strikes me as just being semantic in truth, a result of misunderstandings that naturally occur due to the text-only nature of the internet forum. I was parodying the elitest mindset in general) and being a prick. Hooray!
And now, I have a few words to say. I shall link each person's name to their post I am referring too, because this post is long enough without tossing quote boxes into the mix.
Lets start at the beginning...
MOD: Flamebait... I love it!
OtakuForLife: The last two sentences are greatness. : - )
silver_moon: Beautiful. Stuff like that is why I like you.
Vlad G Pohnert: That would be something indeed.
bum: Bonus points for being first to catch my hypocrisy!
Corran Productions: I am getting some serious warm fuzzy action from the fact that someone not already in the know of the real intent of this post voiced that I was acting very out of character. Thanks! *^_^*
madbunny: You also get points for throwing the hypocrisy in my face. Hoorah!
CaTaClYsM: I've missed the flame form.
Scintilla: Oh, you're special alright... I kid! Don't kill me... ;P
Well, that's all I have. I shall end this Behind The Scenes exposè of a a stupid stunt WeBlog style.
Because I can! Huzzah!
Current Mood: Bemused
Current Music: Tuscadero - Tickled Pink / Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love & Bullet With Butterfly Wings & Stumbleine & The Crying Tree of Mercury & Jellybelly & Spaceboy / The Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time & River Euphrates (Live) & Hidden Track from Surfer Rosa / Blackmore's Night - Greensleeves & Spirit of the Sea & Memmingen & Writing on the Wall / Blue Man Group - Synaesthetic & Piano Smasher / The Flaming Lips - The Observer & Race for the Prize / Burning Airlines - Dear Hilary / Minus the Bear - Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! / The Mars Volta - This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed / Apocalyptica - Path (vol. 2) & Struggle / Duran Duran - Drowning & None of the Above / Green Day - Burnout / The Drinks - The Second / Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name?