Can't really say any of you knew me

[Tourmaline]

Should have posted porn.

According to Winter I did it for him.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

According to Winter I did it for him.

Them legs

[Dad]

Shrugs, I dunno when that was, but the way we've been treating Quasar (the kid is funking 14 and suicidal) is revolting 

 

The irony here makes me itch.

 

And it's not just this post.  It's so many.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

Yeah, I was part of it, I mocked him a bit, and that was wrong, and certainly part of why I got my temp ban

 

But, some of y'all have been just as mean towards him, and have continued far after when I stopped...where's the empathy?

The irony here makes me itch.

 

And it's not just this post.  It's so many.

You ninja'd me, I was just gonna address it 

[Dad]

Yeah, I was part of it, I mocked him a bit, and that was wrong, and certainly part of why I got my temp ban

 

But, some of y'all have been just as mean towards him, and have continued far after when I stopped...where's the empathy?

You ninja'd me, I was just gonna address it 

 

I think it's time for me to make a new thread.  A lot of people are going to be upset, and a lot of people are going to be okay.  But I hope it prevents anything tragic from happening in the future.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

At the end of the day, I'll accept it all. Telling him to get over his girl 3-4 weeks ago and telling him to man up was absolutely wrong

 

Do you really wanna be as shitty of a person as funking winter

 

What I did in the past did not excuse my actions then, nor should it anyone else's now

 

At the end of the day, I'm sad to see Armz leave, I liked his TCG posts, they were fun and humorous, reminds me of a user on DNF called Rarehunter

[VCR_CAT]

Anyone "calling Armz out" needs to f*** off and take a look at the bigger picture. 

 

Giga's is harsh and I'm not going to deny that, but both he and Sleepy know where they're coming from. I've spoken a lot with Armz as well; played games, and honestly what they're not talking about isn't coming out of nowhere. He does this thing a lot where he'll construct his own idea of what he thinks we think of him, and read way too much into what he says. I can't say if it's an attention thing, or if he's that burnt off towards people, but he has trouble trusting people and automatically believes them to be against him, regardless of what little basis he has for this. Problem is, he often becomes confrontational with these perceived issues, and the way he goes about do those along with this, combined with how often he talks about identifying strongly with a character whose main development point is being burnt off towards people and relationships; it very much so comes across as attention seeking. The self-depreciation and confrontational attitude while assuming the worst of good friends all comes across as a big "woe is me" act to garner attention.

 

I don't think he's wrong in leaving the site. If he needs to take time away from this and to work on his own issues, then he's doing the right thing. But really, he went out of his way to make a deal out of this; he didn't need to take away the rep title or the reps, because honestly who cares. But he did anyways; he made a much bigger deal out of this than he ever needed to, and nobody does that without wanting to turn some heads and scoop up some easy praise. Regardless, I do hope this is for the better; but he really does need to learn to trust people and be the friend that he wants to have.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Just a small note, I am moving away from the name Giga. I would strongly prefer to be called parenthesis, (, ), (∅), Joseph, or basically anything other than Giga. You all have honestly been really good about going with my name change so far, just thought I would toss out a reminder.

 

In other news, I am astonished and appreciative of the support I received. My post was heated, but I stand by every word of it. If he were simply to say he felt betrayed, it would be one thing, but his self deprecation has morphed to the point of insulting those who really have worked hard to establish a connection to him, and quite frankly if he is going to say stuff like that about me (and countless others) I'm sure as hell gonna toss it back.

 

As for Winter's point. I wholeheartedly agree. I will gladly listen to anyone's problems, and try my best to help. But if all you have to say is how terrible I am for not caring about you, even when I do? Sorry, that's a bit of a turn off.

 

Seriously though, if anyone is emotionally insecure and needs someone to talk to, my Skype is publicly available and you can find me on discord. I am willing to help however I can.

[mitchermitcher]

At the end of the day, I'm sad to see Armz leave, I liked his TCG posts, they were fun and humorous, reminds me of a user on DNF called Rarehunter

That's one hell of a nostalgic name, holy sheet.

[Simping For Hina]

According to Winter I did it for him.

Let's ban Hina.

[Sleepy]

Mental Note: Giga Joseph. My memory is pretty lackluster but I'll make this effort.

 

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VCR_CAT got it.

We aren't just talking out of our asses and I'm not agreeing with Joseph's post just to hurt Armz either (and I don't think Joseph is saying what he said just to be mean either, obviously), but I think it's not right to just be sugar-candy and silently nod at Armz's commentary. I understand why Joseph made the response as aggressive as it was, it wasn't really uncalled for considering Armz's tone and Armz's decision to go out with a bang preferring to wrap up everybody under the same umbrella than to call out names and/or events that would clarify things. He probably had some heavy drama in the past with somebody or maybe "the little things" piled up and he wasn't sure if people would take him seriously if he talked about it and/or did not know how to describe or bring it up. I don't know, but I have witnessed Armz becoming pretty much un-lift-able when he's felt bad about something, getting in a downward spiral of issues, and you just can't trump them. It all goes full circle and there's never a solution. It does not mean I get to walk away, I mean, I stick around, that's what friends do. I'm not there just because entertainment, I'm concerned.

 

I don't think I did any particularly big effort to get close to Armz. Friendship is something that happens around me when it does, and sometimes, well, doesn't....
I at least don't think I started up with something like a human offering to become Armz's friend, so I'm guessing he is not talking about people starting up friendship here, but about how said friendship continues on. Again, I don't know what happened exactly that makes so many people sound like "enemies" even... but at the very least the fact he's feeling the way he feels, whatever the reason, can't be dismissed. Heck I don't think "nothing happened" here. There's definitely a reason somewhere. The reaction grew much more than it should have, but there's no doubt there's a bigger picture none of us know about.

 

Polar Ice's post also has a great sentiment. People need to reach out in these cases. There are those of us that are willing to listen and do what we can to help. Doesn't mean we can't "call them out". It's not kicking them while they are down. It is trying to be honest and trying to help too, depending on how it's done at least, but you can't just dismiss things because they are down either.

 

This is not so much a response to Armz though. I have him on Skype to say this directly and in a more personalized way, and I have done so in the past.

[Althemia]

why was this thread even left open past giga's post lol