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Anonymous #1
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it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore
#7657243 - 11/19/07 11:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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been an active member for about two years now. have spent quite a bit of time in the social forums in the past year, got to know a lot of great people.
but as of late, it's just not entertaining. every post seems the same.
and every other fucking kid is trying to act like a badass stoner who knows everything there is to know about drugs, treating every other thread like a one-upping competition. i'm not bitching about how the shroomery has changed. nor am i reminiscing about the glory days, because frankly, i was active with like 20-30 posts per day just last month.
but lately, i'm just finding it harder and harder to give a fuck about any of the posts. i keep seeing the same stuff posted over and over again
this happened first with the pub. so i hit up the otd. that newness lasted all of 2 weeks before the same repetition came to an even more absurd extent. every other fucking post is about scat, tacos, or jenkem. or some other little trend they grab onto and throttle the life out of by using it over and over and over and fucking over again. the immaturity and freedom can be fun and refreshing to a limited extent, but it got old fast.
not to mention the spelling of people. omfg. i know it's the internet, but for god's sake, use a goddamn spell checker. holy fuck. i hate, hate, hate having to decipher threads to understand what's going on. it's simple guys, just use firefox. it has a spell-checker built it. utilize it, and better yourselves by learning the proper spelling of these every day words you are butchering. please. for fuck's sake, please.
i dunno. i'm being a whiny bitch and i realize it. i suppose the point of this is just to see if i'm alone in this, or if anyone else has felt the declining luster of the shroomery experience?
perhaps it's time to go back to the roots of why i joined in the first place and start up a grow again.
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Anonymous #2
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657270 - 11/19/07 11:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i agree with you, ive fallen into the same trap just recently..
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Anonymous #3
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657485 - 11/20/07 01:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: scat, tacos, or jenkem.
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Anonymous #4
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657686 - 11/20/07 03:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: it has a spell-checker built it.
It has a spell-checker built it?
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been an active member for about two years now. have spent quite a bit of time in the social forums in the past year, got to know a lot of great people.
I don't think a spell-checker is going to help with your horrible grammar, either. Go back to school and learn something.
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Anonymous #5
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657722 - 11/20/07 03:37 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Meh, take a break. It'll do you some good.
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Anonymous #4
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #5]
#7657734 - 11/20/07 03:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You mean, leave all this?!
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Anonymous #6
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657842 - 11/20/07 05:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nobody gives a damn.
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Anonymous #7
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7657982 - 11/20/07 07:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you don't like this place anymore, go. Don't post about wanting to go, about the magic being gone, just fuck off.
And don't criticize people's spelling when you can't be bothered with capital letters.
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Anonymous #8
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #7]
#7658146 - 11/20/07 08:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I can totally relate. What works for me when I'm bored with the boards is a heapin' helpin' of jenkem tacos. You'll have a shit-eating grin on your face in no time.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7658178 - 11/20/07 09:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
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Anonymous said: it has a spell-checker built it.
It has a spell-checker built it?
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been an active member for about two years now. have spent quite a bit of time in the social forums in the past year, got to know a lot of great people.
I don't think a spell-checker is going to help with your horrible grammar, either. Go back to school and learn something.
oh please. one simple single letter typo. if you've never made a typo, well then congratulations. you're perfect. go you. i, on the other hand, am not perfect, but that doesn't mean i don't at least try to spell properly. if there's a word i don't know, i'll look it up.
and you know as well as i that the "horrible grammar" is just typing as though it were a real informal conversation.
i wasn't asking for everyone to speak as though they're in an interview. informal social ties are what make everyday life bearable. but when the words in that informal conversation are so butchered you have to make an extra effort simply to understand what's going on, it's just a huge pain in the ass.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7658180 - 11/20/07 09:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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also, i almost always reread my posts after submitting them, and if i find something off, i'll edit it. but SA doesn't allow for me to edit, so yeah.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #7]
#7658187 - 11/20/07 09:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: And don't criticize people's spelling when you can't be bothered with capital letters.
why? what have capital letters to do with spelling? anything? anything at all? no?
no, i didn't think so.
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Anonymous #4
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7658216 - 11/20/07 09:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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we is sorr-e the shromery dont satisfy u your magesty
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Anonymous #4
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7658218 - 11/20/07 09:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Seriously though, you sound like a whiny Chinese woman.
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Anonymous #9
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7658219 - 11/20/07 09:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
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Anonymous said: it has a spell-checker built it.
It has a spell-checker built it?
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been an active member for about two years now. have spent quite a bit of time in the social forums in the past year, got to know a lot of great people.
I don't think a spell-checker is going to help with your horrible grammar, either. Go back to school and learn something.
to you!
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Anonymous #4
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #9]
#7658221 - 11/20/07 09:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous #9
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7658225 - 11/20/07 09:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
Good answer
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Anonymous #7
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7658574 - 11/20/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: we is sorr-e the shromery dont satisfy u your magesty
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Anonymous #10
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #7]
#7658737 - 11/20/07 11:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I bet no one liked you in the pub, and then in OTD so now you have to pretend like you're too cool for school
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Anonymous #6
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #10]
#7658817 - 11/20/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: I bet no one liked you in the pub, and then in OTD so now you have to pretend like you're too cool for school
That's exactly it.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #6]
#7658885 - 11/20/07 12:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
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Anonymous said: I bet no one liked you in the pub, and then in OTD so now you have to pretend like you're too cool for school
That's exactly it.
yep. man. you guys sure are insightful. wow, i'm simply astounded at your amazing powers of perception. gee golly.
look, the point of the thread was not to garner pity. i was simply making an observation about my own experience here at the shroomery and i was curious if i was alone, or if anyone else has felt something similar. the bit about using a spell-checker was just friendly criticism phrased in a not so friendly manner, due to my pissy disposition at the time.
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Anonymous #11
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7659013 - 11/20/07 01:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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A) I didn't read the thread (only the first initial post)
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B) this is what everyone sez after a minute here...EVERYONE
- the quality hasn't gone down - and things aren't getting worse
you're just now realizing that you initially built this place up to be entirely too much then what it truely IS (for the most part)
and that's an easy thing to do in this community
the fact of the matter is that this site HAS so non-existent competition, that you presume it's entirely WAY better then any other site out there (because it IS way better then any other site out there) but then you build it up in yer mind to be everything that the proverbial 'perfect' mushroom site *should be* that you create yer own damn disappointments when it doesn't live up to yer own god damn standards of things
get off yer high horse already
this site is perfect just the way it is
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Anonymous #10
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #11]
#7659037 - 11/20/07 01:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
this site is perfect just the way it is
ha I wonder who that is
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Anonymous #11
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #10]
#7659082 - 11/20/07 01:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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laugh at loud...you fucker
I'm not the only one who uses my own personal smiley ya know
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Anonymous #1
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #11]
#7659115 - 11/20/07 01:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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muppet, if you HAD read the initial post, you'd see i WAS NOT claiming the shroomery had changed or that the quality had gone down.
quoting myself in the first post:
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i'm not bitching about how the shroomery has changed. nor am i reminiscing about the glory days
not only that, but your entire response was completely irrelevant. i never built it up to be the "proverbial 'perfect' mushroom site". i simply have grown weary of the repetition. and the only high horse i could be considered to be on is one in regards to taking the effort to spell correctly.
no offense mate, but you could not have been any further off the mark.
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Anonymous #11
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7659266 - 11/20/07 02:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah...well...'no offense mate' but I have certainly seen my fare share of people who say EXACTLY that (everything is repetitious / nothing ever changes around here / you all are just simply 'following the trends')
and excuse me for being a whiney ass cunt about things, but it's tiring to see people complain so vehemently about something so asintotic about something so fucken piddly as 'nothing ever changes'
cause I hate to admit it bro - but that's just how this world works
ever here that ald saying: "the more things change...the more they stay the same"?
well guess what? that's EXACTLY what's going on here
the shit you're complainiong about ALWAYS fucken happens (and it has been happening since day first in this mess)
you can't get away from it
so yeah:
that's why I'm implying yer being all pompous an arrogant with this one - because that's exactly how you're comming across
it doesn't matter what yer intention's were
all that's important is how people precieve you
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Anonymous #12
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #4]
#7660000 - 11/20/07 05:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: Seriously though, you sound like a whiny Chinese woman.
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Anonymous #13
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #12]
#7660742 - 11/20/07 09:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Original Poster: I only read your post.
As somebody who's been here, off and on, for about 7 years now I can only suggest to leave and come back and touch base with the people you like. the revolving door helps most of the idiots out, and the ones that stay around grow on you.
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Anonymous #14
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #7]
#7662343 - 11/21/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: If you don't like this place anymore, go. Don't post about wanting to go, about the magic being gone, just fuck off.
And don't criticize people's spelling when you can't be bothered with capital letters.
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Anonymous #15
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #14]
#7662388 - 11/21/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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get over it this forum is so much better than any other one
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Anonymous #16
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #15]
#7663127 - 11/21/07 01:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Try 4chan, its much better than OTD and the pub, and it has an anime board.
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Anonymous #17
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7663214 - 11/21/07 02:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Original poster: No offense to you or anything but considering you were too afraid of ridicule to post this out in the open it's understandable why you have troubles in the social forums here.
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Anonymous #18
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #17]
#7663591 - 11/21/07 03:52 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The internet in general gets completely redundant to me sometimes. I stopped posting on the shroomery for almost 2 years about a year ago. I'm not around enough to get to know anyone here personally so I don't feel all that connected and to be honest I'm not a big enough loser to hang out here enough to make internet friends.
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Anonymous #9
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #18]
#7663666 - 11/21/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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So since a year ago you didn't post for two years?
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Anonymous #19
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #18]
#7663741 - 11/21/07 04:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: The internet in general gets completely redundant to me sometimes. I stopped posting on the shroomery for almost 2 years about a year ago. I'm not around enough to get to know anyone here personally so I don't feel all that connected and to be honest I'm not a big enough loser to hang out here enough to make internet friends.
you're so
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Anonymous #18
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #9]
#7663743 - 11/21/07 04:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yea yea i forgot to put "until" a year ago
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Anonymous #18
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #19]
#7663748 - 11/21/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said:
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Anonymous said: The internet in general gets completely redundant to me sometimes. I stopped posting on the shroomery for almost 2 years about a year ago. I'm not around enough to get to know anyone here personally so I don't feel all that connected and to be honest I'm not a big enough loser to hang out here enough to make internet friends.
you're so
thanks dumpchest
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Anonymous #20
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Re: it's depressing to admit it, but the shroomery just doesn't do it for me anymore [Re: Anonymous #17]
#7664967 - 11/21/07 09:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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internet forums really can't be considered legitimate social communities, they are not equivalent in anyway. Anyone who claims otherwise has a severely restricted perspective, and likely suffers from a yet to be named personality disorder (stay tuned to the next few editions of the DSM-_)
Additionally, a person's behavior within such a forum, regardless of where it lands on the spectrum of cyber-social acceptability, shouldn't necessarily be considered a reflection of how they engage within actual communities.
One other point, someone made the argument that "everything old is new again". While this axiom is certainly useful, it can be dangerous refuge when their actually is shift within some dynamic. I'm not saying I disagree with you in terms of how this statement reflects on the shroomery. I'm simply saying the shroomery, as an entity, does not have some magical immunity to the more stupefying elements within our culture.
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