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« on: June 12, 2012, 09:07:55 pm »
So yeah, my disappearance wasn't because I got hit by a truck or anything. As nearly as my vague recollection goes something happened that led to me being genuinely convinced that I had been shitting up the place for everyone else without realizing it so I figured I might as well just quietly leave and not make a fuss about it so as not to be the asshole I apparently hadn't realized I was. Today I ended up going "I wonder if touamb's still around" and apparently it is, so hey. I looked back at the old posts and I was probably overreacting, but I was also more of an aggressive asshole in my old posts than I needed to be so eh.

My mother, who was ill when I left, died last October. Other than that I still got brain problems and my body problems have gotten worse, I'm on disability but my insurance is in bureaucratic limbo, I don't leave the house very often and I spend most of my time reading pirated comic books. So basically, on the whole I'm probably not a much better person to talk to than I ever was, but at least I've learned to occasionally close the tab instead of getting in perpetual Internet slapfights, so that's something.

I dunno, I probably won't post much but I figured I'd check in and let you know I wasn't dead, I saw I was in the list of OGs in the who's who post so that's pretty cool.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2012, 09:14:35 pm »
Welcome back old man.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2012, 09:47:42 pm »
OMG it's Ben!

I'm sorry if you're unhappy about not leaving the house much, but from my selgiraffe point of view, the bright side is that that gives you plenty of time to post here. Don't be a stranger!
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Re: Hey
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2012, 09:53:44 pm »
Welcome back, man. But get some sunshine once in a while, too.
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2012, 10:31:08 pm »
Ben, I remembered you with nothing but fondness and affection. I'm glad to see you back, and I'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss.

Welcome back. There's no better place to be if you've got brain problems; we're all mad here, after all.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2012, 11:35:42 pm »
Quote from: lprkn on June 12, 2012, 09:53:44 pm
But get some sunshine once in a while, too.

If you have wireless and a laptop you can do that and post here too!
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Re: Hey
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2012, 12:00:10 am »
Quote from: jay-ell on June 12, 2012, 10:31:08 pm
Ben, I remembered you with nothing but fondness and affection. I'm glad to see you back, and I'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss.

Welcome back. There's no better place to be if you've got brain problems; we're all mad here, after all.

I echo this exactly. Since JL is a better writer I'll just let that stand.

I genuinely enjoyed your contributions to religious and political discussions and you hooked me up with some digital Batman comics once. So yeah, welcome back.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2012, 03:12:07 am »
Oh fuck. This guy?

I keeed, cool to see you around again.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2012, 04:03:35 am »
Quote from: wombat on June 12, 2012, 09:47:42 pm
from my selgiraffe point of view

I'm not sure when it is you left, Ben-San, but it seems like long enough ago that you have quite a few new filters to catch up on.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2012, 09:10:54 pm »
I'm glad you're back.  A variety of voices among the figments keeps it from being an echo chamber in here.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2012, 02:02:57 am »
Quote from: Ben-San on June 12, 2012, 09:07:55 pm
I had been shitting up the place for everyone else without realizing it

Hunh?  Here's a promise -- to you and everybody else.  If you are shitting up this place I will flat out tell you about.  Flat out.  Openly and emphatically.  You will recognize it if and when it occurs.  Unless and until it does you can assume you're on good terms around here, OK?

Sorry about your problems.  Please feel free to talk about them or to talk about things that are not your problems, at your discretion. 

Glad you're back.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2012, 02:21:53 am »
I've actually disappeared a coupla times for similar reasons.

I'll let you tell me if I've crossed a line from now on.
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2012, 02:28:19 am »
This surprises me too actually. I've always thought we were pretty clear around here when someone needed a smackdown according to the standards of the community.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2012, 03:16:44 am »
That would kind of be The Saddest Thing. The man who was too crap a dude for internet message boards.

I guess we have kind of a high standard around these parts though.
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Re: Hey
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2012, 04:15:40 am »
Really? It seems the main rules are try not to be a total dick all of the time and try to be funny every so often.

Yeah, I guess those are pretty high standards comparatively.
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