The "VENTING" thread.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

how the can anyone become a better poster if all we get is neg rep that says we smell, we suck, or no words at all? neg rep is fine but only if it furthers understanding about what we are doing wrong. im sorry but long posts, crap spelling, are nitpicks and so minor.

Karr, I take an acting class.

There's a fellow in this class named Nick. I've taken other classes with him, and we were in a play together. He's a good performer. Good-looking guy.

Nick is not a bad person. He's not ignorant or crass or at all malicious. Hell, he seems to like me well enough. But there's something about the way he behaves. It's in the way he talks. It's in the way he looks at you. And it's in the way he acts on stage.

You listen to him, and you're like, "This guy is full of ****." There is just some quality about him that is just totally insincere.

He's like this all the time. He doesn't mean it - it just happens that way. It's like he spent a chunk of his life trying to be some charming guy, and now he can't stop talking in a patronizing tone and using cliched speech all the time.

And whenever he's doing a scene, he always furrows his damn eyebrows, like he's working his acting muscle, like he's saying GET READY EVERYBODY, I'M ACTING.

Nick was doing this scene from The Village. One of Joaquin Phoenix's bits when he's talking to Bryce Dallas Howard. When he was done, I was chewing on my tongue thinking to myself, "God damn it, this is so phony. How is anyone supposed to fix this?" I was half-expecting our professor to just tell him he was terrible and to give up.

Instead, he told Nick to relax his eyebrows.

Nick did the scene again. It was like a totally different scene. It was believable. It was good.

I thought Nick's furrowed eyebrows were an annoying tick, but they were actually symptomatic of his phoniness entire.

Karr, if you think we're nitpicking, please think again. Verbose posts with lousy spelling may be symptomatic of something else.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

30% of the screen for a grammarless post that says absolutely nothing is pretty ****ing big, and 30% is a conservative estimate on your part. Just because you say I massively generalize things doesn't mean I do, I get my point across in a concise manner. When I have something more complex to say I'll make rather long posts, like I did earlier and have done before. You on the other hand post walls of text basically making a single point or repeating **** ad nauseam.

also you'd get more people into honest debate if it didn't feel like debating a toddler.

in all my posts with a few exceptions i also got my point across. infact i got the point across so well that others picked pieces out of the post to argue and continue to debate. its quite sad that you cant get past the bad spelling.

perversion makes massive posts yet i dont see you screaming and complaining at him. given he does have far superior grammar then me. just dont read it, its that simple.

@Kefka: i bet he was a good actor even still. sometimes you just dont like a person, even if this nick guy didnt do the eyebrow thing i get you would still find something about him you didnt like. the bottom line is he isnt preforming on stage to appease you, hes there to preform for the camera, his entire audience, not one person, not even a fellow actor.

not everyone can speak english perfectly well, not everyone can spell, write, or do everything perfectly. im already well aware of my inability to write proper english, it doesnt make me stupid in the least just as the cover of a book doesnt make the words inside any less great. perhaps not everything i say is masterfully worded, but my whole point is there as id say it if i was speaking to you. this is a forum, not a public speech where conciseness is as important as how the message is worded. perhaps all these things come easy to you and you can take them for granted and expect others to be able to do the same, but know that this, they dont come easy to me.

[Biggie]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

It's weird to say, but where is NASH!? I MISS NASH WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME!? At least he had a personality, and didn't cry like a baby when he got ragged on. He's probably out drinking smirnoff ice and taking pictures of himself making out with his boyfriend.

He sent me a text out of nowhere yesterday asking what I am up to. I then told him what was up then returned the question and he said that he was killing time waiting for his boyfriend to get off so they can go out and party, so you aren't far off.

I miss him too.

[Alex]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

You know how to use the shift key. Through some force of laziness or arrogance, you refuse to. That is more irritating than words.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

You know how to use the shift key. Through some force of laziness or arrogance, you refuse to. That is more irritating than words.

you know how to write a sentence, so why is your neg rep not in any?

[Riotsword]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

Oh Jesus, now we're nitpicking here.

[Duel]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

Are we about to see another argument, fellas?

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

@Kefka: i bet he was a good actor even still. sometimes you just dont like a person, even if this nick guy didnt do the eyebrow thing i get you would still find something about him you didnt like. the bottom line is he isnt preforming on stage to appease you, hes there to preform for the camera, his entire audience, not one person, not even a fellow actor.

He's a good performer, but he's not a great actor. I can go into the difference some other time.

I never said I didn't like Nick. I've had lunch with him more than once. He's a difficult guy to hold a genuine conversation with, but under all of his irksomeness he's a nice guy.

I didn't mean to make it sound like I was looking down at him from my tower in Isengard. I'm not the only person who has made these observations about Nick, and I wasn't the first.

I am not alone in my thinking.

Garr is not alone in his thinking.

That counts for something.

[highwind]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

He's a good performer, but he's not a great actor. I can go into the difference some other time.

I never said I didn't like Nick. I've had lunch with him more than once. He's a difficult guy to hold a genuine conversation with, but under all of his irksomeness he's a nice guy.

I didn't mean to make it sound like I was looking down at him from my tower in Isengard. I'm not the only person who has made these observations about Nick, and I wasn't the first.

I am not alone in my thinking.

Garr is not along in his thinking.

That counts for something.

Also, no one said Nick was performing for Kefka.

It was his INSTRUCTOR that made the small correction for Nick that made all the difference in the world.

A difference that changed the AUDIENCE'S and his INSTRUCTOR'S opinion of him. For the better.

Why do I feel like this thread has turned into Aesop's Fables?

[Magus]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

Kefka's a really good storyteller.

[JPS]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

Probably, but I'm not going to be in it anymore.

These arguements are starting to become a bit redundant.

If everyone here says your posting sucks, just fix it, a simple read through before you hit the submit button will suffice. There is nothing that has to be said in such a hurry that you cannot proofread your post before posting.

You're right Karr, no one is perfect at posting, but you don't have to quickly type a lot of misspelled words/sentences either and then use the "no ones perfect" excuse for it when someone complains they can't read it. Proofreading would have corrected a lot of problems. Maybe if you took that extra effort to make better quality posts people wouldn't give you a hard time.

I've admitted my wrongs and I'm trying to fix them, I think a few people here should look in the mirror and ask themselves why everyone gives them such a hard time, maybe they'd realize it's them thats wrong, not everyone else.

I did.

And this is all constructive criticism, and it goes for everyone who isn't liked around here, including myself.

[Duel]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

So, happy ending?

[JPS]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

So it seems for me, yes...seems people has finally beat some sense into me, I'm already starting to enjoy this place more now.

[Biggie]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

I constantly check my grammer before and after every post I make. I agree it isn't too hard Karr. I don't hold it against you, but for others I agree it isn't too hard to fix.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: The "VENTING" thread.

He's a good performer, but he's not a great actor. I can go into the difference some other time.

I never said I didn't like Nick. I've had lunch with him more than once. He's a difficult guy to hold a genuine conversation with, but under all of his irksomeness he's a nice guy.

I didn't mean to make it sound like I was looking down at him from my tower in Isengard. I'm not the only person who has made these observations about Nick, and I wasn't the first.

I am not alone in my thinking.

Garr is not alone in his thinking.

That counts for something.

"I didn't mean to make it sound like I was looking down at him from my tower in Isengard." lol but can ya please stop using your damn palantír on me? your giving me the creeps.

you where annoyed by nicks habits, enough so that though you could be around him those traits drove you insane. even if those traits suddenly stopped you would still find him slippery and fake.

garr and most of his friends think that for sure, the group may even represent the majority in this, but i dont like them at all. im not going to try to appease people i have no interest in appeasing. if people are unwilling to read my posts for whatever reason then that is perfectly fine - that might even be better because that would start less wars.

I constantly check my grammer before and after every post I make. I agree it isn't too hard Karr. I don't hold it against you, but for others I agree it isn't too hard to fix.