I know this is going to get deleted and that I will probably be expelled as a member but I’ve got say my piece to be at peace and the truth should be (though it probably won’t be) told.

I think it’s completely bogus that a board gets locked and a certain member who gets treated like a little darling gets to leave his little Jerry Springer final thought to condescend to others. Said little darling was about to get his little ass nailed but got rescued by a lock and furthermore got to leave his little condescending message.

Said little darling is given every unfair advantage whenever it finally looks like he’s about to get his due just because he throws out bogus sob stories about how he can’t work for whole weeks at a time while his family starves. Said darling is 24 years old and far too old to whine about “I can’t go outside and work because I was picked on when I was a kid.” Said little darling needs to get over it and quit letting his family suffer because he, as usual, is completely selfish.

In fact, said little darling is full of nothing but excuses. If he slams Cindy L. Keller, for example, for offering her comments, which said little darling asked for, he gets away with it. His offending comments just get deleted. Then he makes an “apology” which is no apology at all but in fact just him blaming Cindy (who is perhaps the nicest person on the board, by the way). But said little darling just says it’s her fault because she misunderstood.

If his pathetic “you misunderstood” excuse doesn’t work, he just makes up some sob story about being picked on so he can’t leave the house, even to save his starving family. So said little darling has no merit in suggesting I have no examples.

Said little darling even has the audacity to defend his selfishness by suggesting it somehow serves a greater good. And he doesn’t think that’s arrogant? What a cushioned little darling.

This may be the last time I see some of you because I may be banned after this post. In that case, this post will be deleted. I can only hope that some of the other members will see this post before it’s deleted so that it will be known that I can certainly answer the ridiculous responses of said little darling to my comments. And ridiculous they were. I could have easily countered them if I had been given half of one of the numerous chances that said little darling is regularly afforded. And I could have defended my comments without the benefit of having the board locked to protect me from rebuttal.

I read it. (in case it's deleted)

Was I suckered?

I felt sorry for him.

I'm a softy even though I look mean.

Here’s the thing. I felt sorry for him too. But, the way he acts, at first I thought he was a kid. Then I found out he’s a 24 year old man.

I mean, he says his family is about to starve and lose their home. Yet, instead of being out working, he’s on this board bragging about how wonderful he is because he thinks that’s going to make him rich. That’s his plan to help out his family? I’ll do my own thing and hope I get rich? I just don’t buy it. If your family is starving, you do what you have to do.

He’s 24 years old and says he can’t go out for whole weeks at a time because of something that happened when he was a kid. Not, “I was raped.” Not, “I was molested.” “I got beat up.” How many kids have been beaten up at school? They don’t all grow up to be 24 and whine, “oh I’ve got to let my family starve and lose their home because I can’t go out for a week because I got beat up in grade school.” That’s preposterous. Surely I can’t be the only one who thinks that.

Maybe I’m just from an area where people are tougher, I don’t know. But I see a progression with this guy. He brags, which ultimately means you have to be putting someone else down, then when he goes too far, his excuse is that his words were misunderstood. Then comes the sob story. Every time.

Do you really think I’m too hard on the guy? If so, I’ll reconsider.

Oh yeah, and I don’t think you look mean at all. It may not seem like it right now but I’m a softy, too. I just find it hard to abide this guy.

I believe, "what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger" or however it is that saying goes. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and so on.

I don't know him and I'm just a softie for people in pain even though I never let myself feel any.

We are all prisoners of our own past!

I know. Maybe you and I are just older. I have my own ghosts and I’m sure you have yours. I’ve been on my own for many years now. I’ve been on my own since before I was out of high school. There are plenty of times I feel like I can’t leave the house but I always did when it was time to go to work. There was no one else for me to count on. So it’s hard to sympathize with a 24 year old man, you know.

I hear you.

I moved out when I was 16.

I have dug myself out of emotional, physical, mental and financial holes.
I think that's good in a way, no one can tell me I can't do something.
If anyone does, it just makes me say "Oh, yeah, watch this"

Quoted from Breanne Mattson Do you really think I’m too hard on the guy?

No, but you are missing the forest for the trees.

The deranged thread you are referring to was simply another episode of "The Little Darling Show" -- a Machiavellian attention grab -- that for some reason never fails to attract an audience .

Quoted from Breanne Mattson So it's hard to sympathize with a 24 year old man, you know.

I take offence at this, really I do.
People seem to be forgetting I have an invisible midget to support. It's not easy, y'know. He may be small but he has one hell of an appetite.

This forum has gone nuts over the last 24 hours. I like it!

I'm very upset that two threads were locked in the last few days...actually, I'm very upset that I didn't get to contribute in last night's clusterf---.

When I was about twenty-two, and started my pursuit in professional writing, my father gave me a one year food ticket.  He told me I would feed, clothe and put a roof over my head.  After that year, I had to get a job.  A year later, I was mopping floors in a hospital.  I was still writing and (ocassionally) selling stuff.  I'm selling more regularly now than I did then, but I still need a 'real' job to afford the finer things in life...like food and rent.

Alan, whether or not everything you said was true, it's time to grow up.  If you worked a part time job at a Burger King and given half that money into the house fund, you wouldn't be in the situation that you're in.  And you would still have time to write.

As I've said in the past, I don't read genres that I don't like.  Anime is one of them.  I have not read any of your scripts except for the first one week challenge and I wasn't impressed with it.  The same goes with the illustrated pages of Banana Chan.  I looked at them and said, 'And...?'

By writing only Banana Chan, you're putting all your eggs in one basket.  By not helping your family out and, instead, concentrating all your efforts on a long shot, you've put that basket on top of a wobbly table.  And by bragging your the best series writer here, that wobbly table is in the middle of a alligator pit.

And we're the gators!

Years ago, I knew a guy who sold two stories to Marvel Comics--the first two he submitted.  He packed all his things up and moved to New York City.  Problem was, there was not much work after that.  His stories were bought because Marvel needed two additional stories at the time.  He lost his apartment, bummed money off his friends (and later lost them) and became a pariah in the industry.  But that didn't matter to him because he wanted to write comic books.  Where is he now?  Nobody knows... and nobody cares.  What am I saying here?

GET A FUCKING JOB!!!

You'd be surprised how much better your writing will become.  You won't have to worry about losing your home.  You might even find inspiration in the work place.

And stop bragging about how great you are.  It's really annoying.


Phil

Did I start all this? ha-ha

*Bows*

I still feel the original comments made in said thread take the last year and a half of my life and turn it into garbage but the lava lamp is almost dead. that's all I'll say about that.

Well said, Phil.

Quoted from Martin This forum has gone nuts over the last 24 hours. I like it!

If any of my posts have been bizarre, it's because my son gave me a case of "soda" called Bawls. Comes in pretty little blue bottles and taste a little like Sprite. I didn't know these were caffeeine bombs! I've been up for 52 hours now and I'm still shaking and bouncing off the walls.
It's actually scary stuff.

"BAWLS"  is the greatest drink ever invented, it has helped me get a lot of my homework done.  I drink like 5 a day.

5 a day?!?! Your gonna have cancer and any other kind of stomach problems...I've never heard of "bawls" though. The title doesn't sound that great though...lol