Wow, I haven't approved a BeachGoat link in fuking months. It feels oddly comforting, like the smell of grandpa's after-shave.

Is his acne a radioactive disease?

Clavis: Wow, I haven't approved a BeachGoat link in fuking months. It feels oddly comforting, like the smell of grandpa's after-shave.

Really? I find the silent 'gee, nothing happened' return almost as creepy as the original freakouts.

BeachGoat never offended me. I'm glad he's back.

Really? I find the silent 'gee, nothing happened' return almost as creepy as the original freakouts.

We've been lacking substantive drama around here lately. Dumbskull's no longer homeless; Azron may or may not be ded; Shitbox is off booze and meth and fuking little tiny bunny rabbits; gh0st quit savagely deleting all traces of himself; Straydog has STD'd his way toward the soft dive of oblivion; Chex prolly got field dressed like an 8-pointer by the Polish mafia and/or Comcast; Marf is crapping monkey babies on a stretch of pristine white sand in between dodging hurricanes and plastering her stupid little car with yellow ribbons. The rest of us have families and hobbies and ambitions and prison sentences.

We need something to shake it the fuk up. If it takes BeachGoat having another embarrassingly public fuking breakdown, then I'm all for it.

Werd.

^^ SAVAGE. LOLS.

like, unreal

ok I totally <3 Beachgoat I've admitted that.

But with that said isn't LS THE place to have an embarrassing public breakdown if you are so inclined to have said breakdown over a keyboard? I mean really, if you have been here for a while you know what you are in for when you serve up some drama. As Clavis mentions, we feed on it and shouldn't resent someone for feeding it to us. One is to expect ridicule & public mocking but I don't think that because a bad hand of cards was played it should necessarily become that person's (especially a long time member) sole identity from here to eternity.

Maybe I just identify with an old pot smoking coastal California eccentric more than the average person but I vote for BG amnesty and welcome back his participation.
Main point being: Beachgoat > Zapple, wotack, grindcore, spammers...etc

Beachgoat was unique in that his public melt down involved the suggestion of gun violence. Not cool at all. Good riddance.

Gun Violence through the internet?
I'll have to get a Kevlar screen protector...

I'm going to guess you'd feel differently if you had been the target of the craziness.

I think I know where you're coming from; I wish I could call it 'a bad hand', which implies he had a bit of bad luck, and muffed it: no harm, no foul. It was more like he tried to slip in an ace, got looked at funny, and tried to tough it out, and kept doubling down and doubling down, thinking he'd eventually brave his way out of the hole.

After tarting around here on High Princess Mode for months -- accusing me and the other admins of editing/deleting his posts, he then went away... only to start sending me emails accusing me of using PayPal to (somehow) steal money from him. That went on for a while until I figured out the knack of simply not responding.

Then it turns out a while later he's telling people that I and/or Kahuna had cost him his job and his house by calling in fake bomb threats to the Feds using his name. In the story he was telling, he got picked up, spent a few nights in jail, lost his job, and defaulted on his mortgage. I don't even know how much of that actually happened to him, but he seemed to believe it.

I don't know what's worse -- him believing it, or it being a lie. Neither are real good options. There's a point at which the Internet retard humor stops being funny and starts being kind of yucky and sad.

I take it he's feeling better these days, which is good. Is it good enough, though? Maybe for you. That's entirely up to you. Not for me, though, and however you might imagine someone worthy of your respect making a comeback, this 'nothing to see here' routine ain't it.

tis true, it was certainly not directed at me and I paid little attention as everything was going down. In retrospect I saw the Post deleting uproar and disregarded anything after that to site politics which was over my head and didn't need my attention.

I grew fond of BG for his 'old-man lamenting about life' style journals and dry/obscure humor link comments. If that is what he or anyone else for that matter wants to bring back to the site I welcome it. However I can certainly understand the admin viewpoint here too since I have cut off RL friends for much less inflammatory bullshit.

The problem has nothing to do with BG rather that linkswarm is a bit like the village whore; a lot of people just come here for some jollies and move on with their day leaving nothing behind but their cum-stain by rolling over the hit counter. A few people stay and make smalltalk or whine about their crappy day to the whore who is obligated to listen. While an even smaller bunch actually have fallen in love with the whore and prefer to think of themselves making love to her. They pay her rent, they buy her clothes and have deep conversations with her. It is this last group that really make the site worth a shit beyond a link dump. The number of people who actually sit down and contribute to the community of the site seems to have moved inversely with the popularity of it. Any desire have for a BG comeback would be purely for self serving entertainment value to have one more person who loves the whore.

I'm certainly as guilty as anyone else as far as not contributing as I should, personally having a lot to do with Hobbies and escalating job duties. The question is what can we do to convert more lurkers or casual members to worthwhile contributors? Maybe it is a fear of ridicule but I can't figure everyone out there is a cowering pussy. Maybe people get a feeling there is some sort of elitism of long time members and are too afraid to sit at the lunch table with the popular kids. I dunno what the answer is but I do miss the atmosphere of activity of say, 2-3 years ago when I was a silent lurker myself. Some characters have exited stage left and not as many have popped up to fill the void. Perhapses me shitting all over the keyboard this afternoon over the BG non-issue will kick my own ass in gear to not just bang the linkswarm whore, because truth be told she does have a piece of my heart. Not that any lurker will really read this dribble but I would hope maybe one or two of them will take the time to put their nuts on the line and contribute with links, comments, recipes, semi-interesting journals in a delicate balance without being an attention whoring troll.

So with all that trite bullshit out of the way, I'll revise my comment to:
'I <3 the internet persona of BG prior to any psychotic delusional threats to the hard working purveyors of this fine web-community'

Deftly done. You cleave to the heart of several issues. Have been meaning to PM you about some of the above since you've obviously given it some thought and can perhaps help me out.

P.S. I want everyone to make sweet love to the whore. Take off your pants.