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Meltdown in progress?

post #1 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:10pm
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R-LU I mean.
WTF??!!
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post #2 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:22pm
WTF is the matter with you people? He brought back a couple of classic threads and a few cunts are whining about it. This is a meltdown how?
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post #3 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:25pm
Star Chamber. Kiteless. Purple Hazed. Olive Marie. Those were meltdowns.
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post #4 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:28pm
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Whining?
Classic?
WTF?
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post #5 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:34pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
Star Chamber. Kiteless. Purple Hazed. Olive Marie. Those were meltdowns.
Giant Baba popped a spring while defending the WWE I believe.
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post #6 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:40pm
Anyone participating in any threads he was involved with saw that one building up for weeks.
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post #7 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:41pm
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Curious...
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post #8 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:41pm
That Dawn of the Dead meltdown was pretty silly. I'm pretty sure that's the one that got him banned.
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post #9 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:42pm
Eh, if those threads are "classics", then I for one and happy to live in this brave new world.
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post #10 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by harrybeanbag
Or was it Dawn of the Dead? I showed up here about that time and was lucky enough to catch him absolutely freaking out in that thread. It was pretty amusing.

Now that you mention it, I don't remember the exact thread in which it culminated, but like I said in that last post, there were a number of threads in which it was obvious that the Baba meltdown was imminent.
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post #11 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by Schwartz
Eh, if those threads are "classics", then I for one and happy to live in this brave new world.
I agree, the boards are clearly better today, but you wouldn't know it based on the pining for the wonder years of 2002-2004. It must have felt like a tighter community then.
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post #12 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by harrybeanbag
Or was it Dawn of the Dead? I showed up here about that time and was lucky enough to catch him absolutely freaking out in that thread. It was pretty amusing.
Yeah, those were some heady good times, but I think the WWE thread is what did him in.
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post #13 of 32
12/4/07 at 7:50pm
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Originally Posted by Graynadian
I agree, the boards are clearly better today, but you wouldn't know it based on the pining for the wonder years of 2002-2004. It must have felt like a tighter community then.
Well, we've definitely lost some great posters, and we don't seem to have nearly as many fantastic meltdowns. Still, I'd definitely take today's boards as well.
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post #14 of 32
12/4/07 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
If you were to resurrect a film thread from that era, you would see that people were actually talking about films.
It's still pretty funny to see Devin's comments from then under his usertext of today.
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post #15 of 32
12/4/07 at 8:18pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
If you were to resurrect a film thread from that era, you would see that people were actually talking about films.

but yes, the relationship threads are as bad as they have always been, except now it's people giving advice to strangers.
If you've given good advice to a stranger, and they use it and report back on its success, that person becomes less of a stranger, since you were able to get a meanfingful understanding out of your interaction.

Eric seems like a good-looking, well-adjusted man who was stuck in a relationship rut for a couple of years. I feel like I was in a very similar situation until recently, only I was having way less sex. Eric may be essentially a stranger to me, but I don't find his behaviour strange, and I feel like his mentality is in many ways familiar.
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post #16 of 32
12/4/07 at 8:22pm
Yeah, R-Lu, quit having one of those meltdowns that reminds everybody what a giant pile of shit the Chewers forum has become.
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post #17 of 32
12/4/07 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
Yeah, people sure do love looking at their navels. That's way more interesting than talking about INTO THE WILD.
I can only speak for myself, but yeah, it definitely is. A discussion of relavant relationship issues is way more interesting to me than discussing a movie I haven't seen. You seem to have a healthy love life, I imagine you would be more interested in discussing the movie.
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post #18 of 32
12/4/07 at 9:57pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte

It bespeaks poor social skills if you're getting love advice from a movie board.
It really doesn't. Sometimes you want advice from people that aren't too attached to your situation. It's why some people choose to talk to therapists instead of their friends and family.

Your implication is that he can't get advice from other places, which I don't think is the case. Beyond that, Chewers are a fairly intelligent, happy and diverse bunch, I think you're better off getting general life advice from here than from most other message boards I've read, let alone the average work place or drinking establishment.
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post #19 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:21pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
Posting about non-movie related stuff is pathetic, but even so it was a lot cooler when I used to do it.
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post #20 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:31pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte

But you would rather talk about yourself on a movie message board than a great film. You can talk about the great people here all you want, but it's a dance floor, not a stand floor.
Often, I would rather talk about problems common to relationships than a movie I haven't seen. However, when I see an awesome new movie, I usually come here to talk about it.

I can see how you would be bothered by other Chewers talking about stuff you're not interested in, but I don't see the point in raising your voice about it. I have little interest in baseball, but I don't bother letting the guys in the MLB thread know that, because it's pointless.
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post #21 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:33pm
I'm always mystified why Devin and Andre seem to go nuts whenever a Catch-All thread becomes popular. It's not like we're popping into the other threads and derailing them to talk about ourselves. Why using the Catch-All for its intended purpose drives them up a wall is something I'll just never wrap my head around. It's like an old man putting a playground outside his establishment and then bitching that the customers bring their kids there.
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post #22 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:35pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
No, it's like building a playground and watching people use it to sell drugs.
If you had less than 1000 posts, guys like you would murder you for this post. I would guess two or three red boxes within an hour.
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post #23 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
No, it's like building a playground and watching people use it to sell drugs.
Who's carryin'?
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post #24 of 32
12/4/07 at 10:57pm
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Chris Miller again.
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post #25 of 32
12/4/07 at 11:08pm
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
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post #26 of 32
12/4/07 at 11:21pm
I had this long post about why I, as the former king of it, rarely post about my personal life anymore, but it got deleted. The gist of it was that, when I joined in 2000, I was a lonely kid without a lot of friends who revealed too much. Since then, I've found a group of close friends who I can actually talk to about the shit going on in my life, and they to me. That's not to say that everyone who posts about their personal life is lonely, but I think when it comes to relationship threads and certain family related threads, loneliness or a desire to connect or a desire for attention certainly plays into it. It's about wanting to feel that you're not alone, or however the Savage Garden song goes.

Also, almost being sued over some of the posts I've made here served as a wakeup call.
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post #27 of 32
12/4/07 at 11:27pm
Who the hell was going to sue you?
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post #28 of 32
12/4/07 at 11:30pm
Part of the settlement actually forbids me from going into specific detail about the stuff I said, but it was two separate incidents, both involving people I went to high school with at the same time I was posting here. I am not making this up.

Basically, don't post post your sex fantasies when you're in high school on the internet, kids.
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post #29 of 32
12/4/07 at 11:31pm
This argument seems to come up again, and again, and I'm still on the fence about. Mountain out of a mole-hill, or storm in a teacup? God, I just can't decide.
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post #30 of 32
12/5/07 at 12:06am
Maybe because what you said wasn't initially clear, maybe because it seemed to contradict what posters with lots of posts had already said.

I'm not attributing this to you, but the idea that a larger post count = better posts is bull.
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post #31 of 32
12/5/07 at 12:37am
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte
I don't think people with more post are necessarily better (RE: Michael Bay), it's just if I'm giving advice to Devin, or Poxy or Diva (though the latter might not want it), at least I'm working from a history. So much of the abuse Rath got was to try and snap him out of it, because everyone knew what was going on. Rath went to a party with a girl. It wasn't a date, but he was pretending it was so we were trying to get him to man up. Of course it didn't work, but now he's older and he gets it.

You build a reputation, you present who you are in your posts. I'm sure a lot of people here feel like they know me pretty well, or at least my taste. You don't get that right away, unless you are obnoxious, and then you're a Fleed type.

If someone I don't know tells me a story - that is obviously biased, and may come from an unreliable narrator - then my advice is meaningless because I'm going to tell him what they want to hear. And maybe people need to hear the obvious, but that may not be the best advice. On top of the fact that stuff like this is really only interesting to find out who's nuts and gives terrible advice.
I see your point, and agree with everything up until the last sentence. That's only half the fun, the other half (for me) is feeling like a community. I have lots of good friends, but they're rarely in the same place these days, so it's nice to have a group of people whose opinions I (generally) respect who I can interact with.

IMO, CHUD rocks because it doesn't just attract film lovers, it develops film lovers. The best way to get people talking and learning about the movies is to make them comfortable with speaking up in the first place. I'm usually impressed by the quality of lurkers' posts, and it's clear to me that a lot of people bite their tongues not because they have nothing to say, but because they're scared of being ridiculed for speaking from their hearts.
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post #32 of 32
12/5/07 at 3:51am
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Originally Posted by Graynadian
IMO, CHUD rocks because it doesn't just attract film lovers, it develops film lovers.
This should be on a coffee mug.

Andre, I know you probably don't give a shit about what I have to say, but I really don't think there is any kind of a significant problem.

The vast majority of the forums on this board are dedicated to topics with little to no direct relation to film. With that in mind, just shy of half of the total posts for the entire board are in film related forums, and that's factoring all regional forum posts against the film count. Considering the almost two-to-one advantage none-film related forums have vs. film related ones, I'd say we're doing alright.

I mean, the main forum accounts for almost 25% of the board's total posts all by itself.
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