Seriously, I laughed out loud, which is something I try to avoid when I'm at work no matter how funny the strip is, but I just couldn't stop myself.

Ray is Big Pimpin', 19th Century-style.  That makes everything okay.  The money line was perfect.

Now I'm all left dangling over where Philippe will wind up in his search for the birthing place of Santa Claus.  Suspense!

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If everyone is free to say what they want (fine by me), then they are free to be pointless, whining children

These post complaining about the nature of this board are by far the most pointless, whiny, and childish.

By far!!!

~Paul

Or is it the posts that complain about that??  

Don't you see, we've been placed on the bitch-and-moan merry-go-round, the hosss are stuck bouncing in high gear like a porn star on crank, the music is speeding up, the world outside is a blur, and the carnival is only just getting started.

Look.  Here is the thing.

I think I feel the same way that J does, so since this has come down to a few people harping on him, I'll take his back on this one.

Here's the thing: the Achewood forum a la Dumbrella sucked.  SUCKED.  It had its moments when people were more interested in talking about food and how awesome they thought Teodor's dance was and whatnot, but it was like 50% suck for a long time.  Why did I keep reading it?  Because I love Achewood, and just happened to hang out at Dumbrella all the fuck*ng time already.  plus, for the 50% of suck, that left 50% of cool, which is a fair balance, and who has high expectations of the Internet anyway?

But in the last few months of its miserable life, the Achewood forum there went from 50% suck to an increasingly alarming 70%, then 85%, and finally died with about a 3% reason for the board ever having existed at all.  Now, you can blame Onstad for that and the way he ran his board if you'd like.  It's easy, and he made himself the tyranical crank, and well, there might be something to it.  There is also every reason to suspect that the community of readers/posters on that board were ALSO to blame (myself included, so nyah).  

And here we are, free of the Onstad hate, and what happens?  The exact same horrible attitude gets carried over to a new place.  Maybe you can all claim to be tainted by Onstad and his crank-master ways, but this is the most unsatisfied, miserable, and often petulant "fan" community I've ever seen.  Why did I join?  Because it's kind of funny, in a Farrely Brothers movie kind of way.  Plus, sometimes people are just willing to talk about the kind of stuff that made the old board cool sometimes.

All this childish petulance here just makes me sad, and a little angry.  If you're so pissed at Onstad ruling with an iron fist (as if his being a MOD -- oooh, scary! -- had anything to do with it), then now that you've got your freedom, why are you wasting it?  You don't see prisoners who've escaped from the pen standing outside the chain link fence bitching about how the guards treated them, do you? No, they run to a dessert island, get drunk or high or laid, or whatever they want, because they are FREE.

To be fair, Onstad shook up the Achewood expereince at the same time he dsiaplaced his little community of camp followers.  It's to be expected that grumblings and gripes would follow.  But for shit's sake people, J is right: there is a huge difference between constructuve criticism and bitching and moaning.  Fer realz.

Me, I'll point it out all I want until you ban me.  Which would be funny too, so feel free.

Huh!  Sucks to have people bitching about how much you suck all the time, don't it?

Also, I actually picked up on the fact that the wannabe-swinger letter was written by a guy, too.  Although I'm not sure what tipped my hat, having gone back and tried to read it more thoroughly.

Is it time to ask for a new messageboard yet?

That will solve everything!

It is shiny and good!