Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

i told my kid today that i wanted to kill myself and kill everyone else around me. all because he was playing annoying youtubers on his phone trying to find out if tweetypie or whoever is an alt-nazi. i'm trying to quit smoking. he understood. i apologized. also, i was playing youtubes of ilx's fave albums of 2016 on the t.v. and the phone noise was bugging me. then i left the house. and ilx is soothing me. the walk in the snow with the other kid helped too.

talk about a dick dad!

xp I think I get what you're going for but I'm going to request you send that in for editing

the preferences for historical context and information over critical opinion is a false choice, reams of information, data, and 'authority' are attempts at disguising ideology cmon guys

xp I think I get what you're going for but I'm going to request you send that in for editing

― mh 😏, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:16 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys, i have a day job. i don't have time to respond to this mean criticism

at a university or in Chuck Todd's green room, sure. Not on a message board.

i don't know what that means. i need a translator.

x-poop

I have listened to every artist your new "favorite" has been compared to, and also listened to all the bands he has cited as influencing his sound. Therefore, I am most qualified to say.. he sucks. Bad. He's worse than all of his influences, sounds nothing like them, and also is the worst.

also he's subjectively bad

are you still talking about deej

sorry I'm still giggling at this posting style and will be rolling it around in my head for a while

nah I'm riffing off posts in a thread I skimmed

I think I get what you're going for but I'm going to request you send that in for editing

stop leeching off this poster's content

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/ac/Taz_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110617212711

Shut Up I'm Still Talking About Deej

omg

lets have a thread where we passive aggressively talk about posters we dont like but sort of make it about, you know, the funny effects of the passage of time

j/k deej I love you

deej is a valuable and likable member of the ILM community

on the other hand one of my fave things about lex (hi lex!) is his ability to complain about music without making it personal about the people who do like that music

Complaining about their kids is a different story tho...

yeah I'm not going to step to him on issues of pets, kids, or sandwiches

I've posted my fair share of stuff that has no insight but I think there is a difference between replies which are "I don't agree and you should rethink because of Reasons XY&Z" and "hahaha fuck off."

Also if light conversation type "I like this it is good" posts lead to a reply from one of the greater critical thinkers around here who can illuminate a piece of music and enhance its pleasures etc I don't see how that is a bad thing in itself.

also I think that the mentality of "let's be mean/tough/whatever because life is like that" which I've noticed in a few threads (such as the missing Fred B) one is grim, other people's shitty attitudes and behaviours shouldn't be an excuse for your own.

i think a lot of times who is being "shitty" has a lot more to do with who is afforded the benefit of the doubt, who is reflecting the egos of the people liable to be agreed with—who is reflecting a consensus view—than it is anything to do w/ a posting style

you're talking about drawing young posters, i started the peep thread its like 80 posts of 40 year olds telling me he sucks for posts & posts & that i have shit taste etc. then when someone asks who's mean on ilx ppl are more likely to point to me than them lol

lol deej my default is to question what you post (I lurk the rap threads) because your default stance is to plop your take on the table as if its a given and then any contrary opinion is a challenger or diss

so of course people immediately start dissing. your actual writing about music is good, it's the post presentation that's funny

I think because ilxors just appear as letters on a screen it's easier to forget which ones told me to fuck off in the past.

I've only been told to fuck off (literally "fuck off") once that I can recall and I remember who why and when because it was such a surprise (like a slashed tire surprise not a good one). I find it alternately a relief that no one can see me and a burden because if you can't see ppl it's easier to tell them cavalierly to fuck off.

Also D-40 otm about benefit of the doubt.

Also if light conversation type "I like this it is good" posts lead to a reply from one of the greater critical thinkers around here who can illuminate a piece of music and enhance its pleasures etc I don't see how that is a bad thing in itself.

i was gonna say something to this effect, they can't all be tim and ned writing essays to each other about garbage

I feel like that's a subtle dog thread jab. Typical dickhole dad child bias

― Evan, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:10 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's the dog thread? i'm a dad you have to tell me

i'm probably a dickhole sometimes i guess

deej is fun to argue with but also he's like insanely plugged into rap shit that's bubbling under even underground acclaim, like sub 5000 YT hit stuff it's impressive

it's probably been a while since someone crafted a post in a word document or whatever. some of them were so long and no typos! maybe contenderizer. is he still around? he was like the last stand for going long.

― scott seward

i write any post of mine longer than three words in wordpad. but my spelling and grammar keep getting worse so i should probably switch to word!

Lex said he got jumped by dads in the dog thread a few weeks ago. I don't know what the dog thread is, but my theory id he was confusing it with the time he said he hates children and everybody piled on him. However, Skot made a remark about 'hounding' that Evan interpreted as a dog thread remark.

Xp

Yeah the taking sides children or animals who would win in a fight to the death thread revive from a few months back

dickhole dogs vs dickhole dads

I've only been told to fuck off (literally "fuck off") once that I can recall and I remember who why and when because it was such a surprise (like a slashed tire surprise not a good one).

I remember lashing out at you over some comment you made about Taylor Swift fans, maybe 7 years ago? I hope this isn't the one you're remembering. If so, I'm sorry. I mean, either way...

Ha, no
I don't think you told me to fuck off but if you did, I forgot. I probably deserved it if I was slagging Taylor Swift fans. That's rude.

I don't think I could take any response to LL as seriously hostile. There are people you can't be hostile to, even if it looks hostile.

i've been called a cunt twice, which is actually pretty lol

is it bad if I can only giggle at that

real life is horribler than here :)

some guy told me to fuck off yesterday on ilx! but it was on the irrationally angry thread so i didn't care. he was in the right place.

amazingly it is possible to say that things are bad without also saying things used to be better or worse

am I a dickhole dad? yes I think/hope? lex on kids was hilarious, hilariously wrong but he's one of the good people here imo, on music at least

I hope it wasn't me, LL!

My favorite lex thread: Marilyn Haggerty's amazing Olive Garden review and the subsequent viral shitstorm

idk who you are odysseus so no? :)
The incident was because I suggested that an expression of coarse sexual language was gross (it was and is) and the response was "fuck off this is a message board"
I didn't take the "fuck off" personally (i don't think the poster has any idea who i am as a person) so much as was surprised that it being on a message board was the excuse. i don't agree with that at all, that message board discourse is different from any other kind. i think that's outdated and also wrong.

Nah I prefer the one about him buying potatoes

xp

in the original Zork the answers "ulysses" and "odysseus" are both valid solutions to getting past the cyclops??

Here was the earlier thread I was referring to Taking sides: Children vs. (non-human) animals

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i think this puzzle/solution goes as far back as the pdp-10 version

the lex hates comedy thread is also classic lex

there was a thread? i just thought that was a thing i enjoyed about lex

I never posted anything regarding lex's olive garden thread magnum opus because my irl food habits are not much different *sips bowl of soup*

http://img.aws.livestrongcdn.com/ls-article-image-640/cme/photography.prod.demandstudios.com/057d38a0-5a78-4c27-9c34-4381d7c06cc8.jpg

come on man, I use a tea kettle and "better than bouillon" paste