What happened to Caramel Frappe?
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I don't blame Frappe for the Wild West. My point is that people are saying 'Well, what do you expect with such a toxic community' while completely ignoring the cesspool of toxicity that is the Wild West.Marik2 said:
The self-same people who are here, lamenting Frappe and blaming the toxicity of the site are the same people who go to the WW, call someone a fag and giving that shit a quick view, call things retarded, or talk about orgasming with a meat tenderizer up their ass, or asking if gays are going to hell.
But boo-hoo Frappe, why did he leave us???
I like Caramel Frappe. Did some pics for him when I had a yearning to draw a while back. Was asked by him to join one of the games, too, and then was promoted to DM for a while, and while I could afford the time I had a blast (again, my apologies to those who were in on that one, I got swamped and couldn't maintain the game as I would have liked).
so that futurama episode where Fry Drinks the emperor and becomes emperor? and Fry's assassin will be his successor, and then Fry's assassin's assassin and so forth?Gethsemani said:
Back on topic, It's a shame to see Frappe leave. was a swell fellow from what I could tell.
I'm surprised how much you hate the WW. You were even given pub club after the massive handout so you could have access to it.Silentpony said:
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Oh man, I was wondering why I hadn't seen Frappe post in a while. Every time I saw that the last quiz hadn't changed in forever I would wonder what happened to him, but I hadn't ever got around to checking his profile. Too bad, another one gone :/
I really, really hate it when people scrub their accounts though. I like looking at the old threads sometimes and now they are missing something forever.
And Gethsemani is a mod now too? I wonder how long until they'll have to make me a mod, because we're starting to run pretty low on users now. What's my number in succession to the mod throne?
You seem to like using phrases when they're not appropriate for what you're addressing. It's cute.Silentpony said:
But yeah, I figured I'd make a bit more of an effort.
My first impulse, being that you weren't worth more than a gif, just happened to be dead on.
Yeah, some butthurt members of my old forum used to ask for ALL their posts to be deleted. I politely told them to piss off. My forum also had edit history, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't erase them by editing them.Drathnoxis said:
If something is posted on the internet, it's pretty much there to stay. I'm not gonna damage my own forum because you have a delusion that deleting all your posts will somehow magically make people forget every single thing you posted.
Not much. It's pretty much no different than the other forums. Free Speech hasn't bettered or worsened the general discourse. Like R&P, political discussions devolve into partisanism spouting lines from each sides playbook.Sean Hollyman said:
I don't think we're a community for one reason. All sides of politics seems to be accepted here. Other sites usually involve draconian mods enforcing a particular ideology. Having one major ideology makes it easier to develop a community. No matter what anyone says to the contrary, I've found mods here less likely to enforce their baises onto others. Most people complaining about mods just want the site to be like most others, either left or right. Despite what Sargon states, the Escapists didn't fall into one side even during GG. It's the major reason I still hang around. I can talk to someone with a different ideology without being insulted.Fischgopf said:
In the spirit of another in this thread, I'll throw out something for CF on the odd chance that he reads this thread.
You're a good guy, Caramel, I hope that you're doing ok. Yeah you flew off the handle sometimes, yeah you overreacted here and there, yeah you took things badly when there was no need to. But you are also a sterling example that people are capable of self betterment. I've been on the site for a long time, and lurked long before Yahtzee came on the scene, and in that time I saw you do something that I have seen painfully few times both on and offline. You grew up, you matured, you made yourself into a better person - slowly but surely.
I didn't like you the first time I read your posts. This is something I do. I used to obsessively read forums, learn people and watch them. Its not meant to be creepy, even in our interactions hence you probably never realized I did it, its just a way I entertain myself. Watching one person is creepy, but when you watch almost everyone it becomes 'people watching' and that's basically what I did. Months away from home working in a tiny town strips a person of their most basic hobbies, and even video games lose their pull over time when played on an electrified graham cracker. So instead I watch and read and think and I make predictions about how a person will respond to this or that thread and I nod my head when I'm right and shrug my shoulders when I'm not. You had a lot of faults, still have plenty but we all do, and I could read most of them like a playbook. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you all they ways I think you sucked, but I am gonna say that you did manage to consistently make me shrug my shoulders, and after a while I thought on it and realized that I wasn't bad at predicting, you were just growing up and changing yourself for the better. So kudos dude. Not enough people make the strides as a person you did in the time you did it.
I really hope you left the way you did because you were making an Irish exit to a party that went too long than thinking you had to sneak off. You don't owe anyone a goodbye, but you also don't deserve to feel like you had flee without a sound. Don't feel bad about not being able to come through on the promises, none of them were going to happen anyway. Another one of your faults is probably promising before you're sure you can deliver, but at least the promises were made with your heart in the right place. Its not like the complainers ever did shit to make this place better to be in, hell half of them have been actively making it worse while unironically blaming a subforum for the decline. If nothing else you had power and you didn't misuse it when you could have, and a younger you likely would have.
Cheers bud, take it easy.
P.S.
If you ever want to play SK again, throw me a line - I might even check my pm's more than one a month. Sad but true - life is better for me these days, I rarely get paid to sit on the internet in a trailer in the middle of nowhere anymore, but I'll probably keep watching until there isn't anything left to watch. There's something comforting about watching a place go out the way you watched it come in. At least keeping up takes little enough time it works well with my current schedule.
You're a good guy, Caramel, I hope that you're doing ok. Yeah you flew off the handle sometimes, yeah you overreacted here and there, yeah you took things badly when there was no need to. But you are also a sterling example that people are capable of self betterment. I've been on the site for a long time, and lurked long before Yahtzee came on the scene, and in that time I saw you do something that I have seen painfully few times both on and offline. You grew up, you matured, you made yourself into a better person - slowly but surely.
I didn't like you the first time I read your posts. This is something I do. I used to obsessively read forums, learn people and watch them. Its not meant to be creepy, even in our interactions hence you probably never realized I did it, its just a way I entertain myself. Watching one person is creepy, but when you watch almost everyone it becomes 'people watching' and that's basically what I did. Months away from home working in a tiny town strips a person of their most basic hobbies, and even video games lose their pull over time when played on an electrified graham cracker. So instead I watch and read and think and I make predictions about how a person will respond to this or that thread and I nod my head when I'm right and shrug my shoulders when I'm not. You had a lot of faults, still have plenty but we all do, and I could read most of them like a playbook. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you all they ways I think you sucked, but I am gonna say that you did manage to consistently make me shrug my shoulders, and after a while I thought on it and realized that I wasn't bad at predicting, you were just growing up and changing yourself for the better. So kudos dude. Not enough people make the strides as a person you did in the time you did it.
I really hope you left the way you did because you were making an Irish exit to a party that went too long than thinking you had to sneak off. You don't owe anyone a goodbye, but you also don't deserve to feel like you had flee without a sound. Don't feel bad about not being able to come through on the promises, none of them were going to happen anyway. Another one of your faults is probably promising before you're sure you can deliver, but at least the promises were made with your heart in the right place. Its not like the complainers ever did shit to make this place better to be in, hell half of them have been actively making it worse while unironically blaming a subforum for the decline. If nothing else you had power and you didn't misuse it when you could have, and a younger you likely would have.
Cheers bud, take it easy.
P.S.
If you ever want to play SK again, throw me a line - I might even check my pm's more than one a month. Sad but true - life is better for me these days, I rarely get paid to sit on the internet in a trailer in the middle of nowhere anymore, but I'll probably keep watching until there isn't anything left to watch. There's something comforting about watching a place go out the way you watched it come in. At least keeping up takes little enough time it works well with my current schedule.
I never wanted access to the wild west, I wanted a bigger avatar. And I should clarify I'm not against the idea of a wild west type forum. Somewhere were dudes and dudettes can post shitty 4chan memes and ask if traps are gay, sure why the fuck not?Drathnoxis said:
Its called a Chan and they're everywhere else.
I just think its BS when those self same users ask just what went wrong here and when did everyone get so toxic? Gee, probably around the time they introduced the pro-toxic, rules free shitshow subforum and you joined it to vote on Weebs and post on who has bigger hard-ons for anime tits and ask do Africans count as people.
And if someone wants to post shitting dick nipples, go for it. But they give up their right to complain the site has gone down hill, and that suddenly everyone is posting 4chan memes from 2011.
Oh please, don't put in the extra effort for me. A simple .jpeg of tired anime memes will do my old soul enough. Please. I wouldn't want you to strain something.LostGryphon said:
It is pretty sad, part of the reason we've not moved is that the user base values specific site features over staying together as a community. I'd put that down to the lack of actual community interaction beyond bickering as you say plus gaming being less specialist and plenty of people getting that itch scratched elsewhere these days.bluegate said:
At this stage given the apathy of the community and the irrelevance of the archived material here, plus the fact the site going down wouldn't give you permission to re-upload it, it's probably best to just let the site die.
The funny thing is that I remember when this site was virulently anti-4chan, it's weird to think the community looked at the thing it had always professed to hate and thought 'yeah...yeah we could use some of that here'. Maybe the community changed, I think it probably did around Gamergate, it just seems so weird that of all the places to have an unmoderated subforum it's the Escapist.Silentpony said:
The phrase is 'toeing the line'. I tell you this because I don't think that's a spelling error, and a lot of people get this one wrong (I used to) because 'towing the line' makes sense too.Fischgopf said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
So... the way to create an echo chamber is to NOT to choose left or right? Does that mean to stop an echo chamber is to choose left or right?Fischgopf said:
You know that a lot people would think this place is very much right leaning? Sargon declared the site as bastion that supported GG based on Tito's and the mod reaction to it.