dance1005 wrote:I bet in a few days she's gonna get back from wherever she is, read this and be like "I never left!".
I never left!
Well, I suppose I did, but not voluntarily. The shared line in my apartment complex got massacred by an automated download program gone awry, and apparently they weren't capable of fixing the problem without one of their tenants walking them through it. An excerpt from my conversations with them:
Me: "Your first step should probably be to shut down the ports that common filesharing applications default to."
SFE: "Our router doesn't have ports. It's a wireless router."
Me: "But... ports are internal descriptors. They have to do with--"
SFE: "Oh, internal ports. I don't think I can open this up. Does this mean we have to get a new router?"
I am now in the process of moving to a new and undisclosed location. Of course, that's not just the internet, it's the fact that it took them a week to fix my *&@$ air conditioning when I was recovering from illness (and therefore less mobile), and that they gave me ~4 hours notice to come back to the apartment and move all my valuables for the maintenance crew. (Not to mention the fact that a recluse like me should have moved to a house long ago.)
...But am I bitter? NOOOOOO, I'm not bitter!
Even so, many thanks to most all of you for your kind words. You have no idea how much respect I have for some of you, and how much your remarks thusly mean to me.
Thanks to you too, MN, for being candid and coherent about your feelings. I don't agree with your sentiments (surprise!): I don't feel the need to change my personal style because some feel it's hard to "get," and I'm not sure I could change my reaction to certain kinds of humor (arson? murder? rape?) even if I wanted to, but it's still edifying to know what's going on inside your head and why from my viewpoint you seemed to fly off the handle when I made my request.
So, yeah. "I'm not dead yet! I think I'm getting better!" It takes a *lot* more than that to faze me.
On topic: Katy, please don't feel that you're disliked or unwelcome here. I think you're just fine, and many other people do too - we can always use someone with a grasp of English and a deep enthusiasm for DDR/ITG/PIU.
In the words of the (beat) poet, "There'll always be haters, that's the way it is." Don't let them get you down. Especially don't let ratings bother you: unfortunately, the downside of the (IMO excellent) rating system we have here is that some people will give good or bad ratings just because they can. It's like the American electoral process; you have the people who vote because they have researched the candidates and feel passionately about what one plans to do for some part of government, and then you have people who vote because their parents told them to, or because one of the candidates has the same last name as them, or...
On the flip side, always take care of yourself, and never let posting on an on-line forum get in the way of your happiness/health/other things in life you choose to prioritize. (A cat's got to do what a cat's got to do.) Just realize that we'll always be interested in having you around when you're done.
BTW, I may be misinterpreting your post on the subject, but re: napalm, don't feel bad for introducing the topic - it was a joke made in good fun, it just hit a little close to home. When I mentioned that, you reacted responsibly and moved on, so NHD by you.
If you do take some time off from the forum, know that you have our well wishes. And good luck with school!
Off topic again: what on Earth is Kanye West's workout plan, and why does it sound perverse?
Off off topic:
Mosh_Mosh_Revolution wrote:However, getting thin so I can impress ignorant assholes like you isn't high on my priority list.
Quoted for
the win.
On tangent: Your MOM's "oohhoh," Potter. </groan>
Augh, longest post ever. Must be 'net withdrawal kicking in...
