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all 'indie' music is just an absolute affront

― lumen (esby), Thursday, May 30, 2019 6:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

This one's confusing me because I'm not sure what it's supposed to be indicative of? esby's contempt for 'indie', a musical genre favoured by ILXors? Or esby parodying the kneejerk contempt of ILXors for 'indie', a musical genre favoured by esby? Having heard esby's own music, I can only assume it's the latter.

esby's own music is, as far as we know, psych-rock/kosmische

Exactly, indie.

Bougiest ppl, because deep down you know it’s true.

I'm sensing a pattern here.

tbf he is mostly looking for a rise (and often getting one), it is a legitimate posting style albeit an unfashionable one

It's strange to spend 15 years (allegedly) doing it though.

A true Romantic, out of step with his era.

No, that's Morbz.

distinctive posting style, sometimes amusing, and i support respectful iconoclasm on ilx B+

this is a heroic thread and it's the way it needs to be done. always fight back. don't give up an inch. and if they're right about you, doesn't matter -- give em even less.

What’s an ‘esby’ anyway?

it's a pun on suggest ban

it's a slant homonym for aspie

an 'esby' is someone who knows what it takes

Context for 'indie' post was afaict esby agreeing with other posters who were bashing the National and Vampire Weekend on a thread dedicated to complaining about music you don't like.

So maybe it's fake corporate indie he's objecting to, sellouts!

this is the correct response to someone cataloguing your posts and then dumping them to try and discredit you

it is. i was sort of being facetious before, but i am genuinely disgusted with the whole moralizing schtick of digging up past posts or tweets or whatever.

and i'm glad esby isn't giving in.

this is the correct response to someone cataloguing your posts and then dumping them to try and discredit you

I agree 100%, even though I think there's nothing there to discredit.

this is a heroic thread and it's the way it needs to be done. always fight back. don't give up an inch. and if they're right about you, doesn't matter -- give em even less.

― treeship., Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:22 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7014351104/h2D1CA551/still-not-sure-if-trolling-or-serious

never trolling. always rolling.

the high tolerance this board has for "iconoclasts" or whatever is prob what's going to contribute to me leaving one day

it's a pun on suggest ban

Ftr, he made a mildly (and imo totally justified) snarky comment in response to someone acting like the far-from-uncontroversial neologism BIPOC has been universally known for years, at which point other posters who hadn't even been contributing to the discussion jumped in to turn the rolling race thread into a crusade against an individual poster, in part by digging up and compiling a bunch of his goofy posts without context. I'm having trouble seeing esby as the troll here.

So 15 years of smirking supercilious garbage with all depth of a puddle expressly designed to irritate other people doesn't register as trolling to you?

does he post other stuff too?

tom d blatantly trying for new board description rec

All I can say is you North American ILXors are too nice for your own good. I shudder to think what the likes of calzino or NV would do to esby if he ever tried butting heads with them.

15 years of posting suggests he wouldn't care

probably curse a bunch and call him a centrist melt or something?

I have no idea what his politics actually are beyond pwning libtards.

15 years of posting suggests he wouldn't care

― oscar bravo, Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:05 PM (thirty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Au contraire. To stick around for 15 years is to care deeply. #controp

Why do you post here

― El Tomboto, Sunday, October 15, 2017 12:20 PM

bc i love everything

― sleepingbag, Sunday, October 15, 2017 2:27 PM

I have to admit my respect for this riposte

― El Tomboto, Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:34 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, most of what is compiled here does not register as trolling to me.

if it is, it's very low level. nothing quoted there is "over the line."

it is, i admit, kind of odd that he has kept up this lightly mischievous schtick for so long without getting bored. but you know, great performance art is often about endurance.

And, yeah, he does contribute productively to IMM. xp

Glad to hear it.

I mean he definitely dropped the act when he got praised for his contribution to the last ILX comp., he couldn't do anything else because people were being nice to him because people are nice.

maybe the problem is everyone else here is a jerk

Everyone is sometimes.

I mean he definitely dropped the act when he got praised for his contribution to the last ILX comp., he couldn't do anything else because people were being nice to him because people are nice.

What lesson do we take from this?

That even woke libtards can be nice people?

you are all nice people! thank you guys :)

distinctive posting style, sometimes amusing, and i support respectful iconoclasm on ilx B+

― Mordy, Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:21 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

about the best i could have hoped for

this is a heroic thread

― treeship., Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:22 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it really is

What’s an ‘esby’ anyway?

― pomenitul, Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:23 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

thank you for loving esby

this poll closes on july 22, my 35th birthday, and is my present to myself lol :) at that point i will have indeed been here for about 15 years! since 2006. how did you all know?

fwiw i don't think my posting style here is thaaaaat different from how i am irl tbh? i mean i don't think anything here is really that edgy, certainly not malicious and that's not my intention here or irl, i do make a lot of jokes and look for weird angles on things and tbh i have grown to become very thankful that i often perceive things very differently from those around me. also, i don't do much writing irl + i like the formatting options ilx provides. there should be more fun polls and threads. i feel like it used to not be a big deal to start a thread on ilx and there were a lot of toss offs and goofy convos, and now everything is like 'rolling whatever megathread'. mmmm.

also, it's not a total mystery to me why some of you strongly dislike me lol; i've called aimless a 'chode' and a mansplainer, wins something like a 'wily cockface' and i said his puns were bad, old lunch i've said is a bad poster many times and i stand by that, and neanderthal... well it kind of feels like when the kid keeps running full speed into the bully's fist and the bully is like 'kid! what are you doing? go home!' i suppose i can apologize for these things as they stick out in my mind as mostly unwarranted! sorry folks!

also i do want to thank neanderthal for digging through all the garbage and horseshit and literal racism and sexism in my post history to assemble this hilarious curation, kudos and thank you

tbh this is the first time I have noticed esby.

thank you for noticing esby

lol

if challenging bougie message board people to think critically about the linguistic violence of neologisms like 'BIPOC' was a sport, then esby could be nominated for an ESPY Award

if assholes could fly...

tbh this is the first time I have noticed esby.
― Yerac, Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:41 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm. just let ppl post imo

This guy is one of only three people I've ever fped and I'm looking to go 3 for 3. Mind boggling he could be 35.

Thank you for FPing esby

lol

grady and max basically spent an entire Monday afternoon basically digging up 5 year old posts of mine under another nickname to dogpile me, even breaking the 77 rule, and a whopping 3 people came to my defense. I was basically told "hey you shouldn't have said it if you didn't want it to be used against you later".

peace_man, who I like and respect, insinuated we were dogpiling him for no reason, i pointed out "no, he asks for it and enjoys the attention". It was the wrong thread to do it on, completely, and for that part I'm sorry, but don't act as if I wasn't part of the convo other than to dunk on esby. I was one of the first to reply to flopson re: BIPOC, and I was reading the thread because it was genuinely something I was confused on, then he dropped the line "what do you people do all day" and suggested BIPOC was a flash in the pan term that won't be used in a few years, so naturally we got annoyed.

Lol @ acting like anybody's past is being dug into here, searching for posts by user is literally a feature of the board. Not like I scoured BBS posts from him from 1993 or posted his yearbook pic

thank you for doxxing esby

I'm sorry for not giving credit that you were already part of the discussion, Neanderthal. I shouldn't have overlooked you there. Idk when the thing with max and grady happened but it sounds bad; board has been a lot nastier in the past and I wouldn't let something like that go if I saw it now, unless it was provoked by something like hate speech or harassment of individual posters. I'll stand by a lot of what I said; the idea that "BIPOC" is a problematic term that could or should be a flash in the pan seems valid to me.

Why?

How is it problematic, who is it hurting, and why does it matter if it becomes a part of the mainstream lexicon or doesn't?

Obviously it matters to the people who are pushing it. Even ilxors were far from achieving consensus on the utility or even the meaning of the term, and lots of these terms do get outdated quickly, so I don't think it's an invalid troll opinion.

My own opinion is that it is overly specific to the US context and inappropriate to the historical and social context of other countries, without indicating this in the term itself (in the way that, say, "African-American" does); even within the US context, I am suspicious of the need to establish some quasi-hierarchy among people of colour every time people of colour are referred to as a group. (We already have simple and clear words we can use when we want to talk about issues that specifically impact or concern black or indigenous people.) There might be some context where it is appropriate but I'm not convinced of replacing "POC" (which I already like less than "non-white" or "visible minority" for the reason I gave on the race thread) with this term, which is what some people seem to want to do.

I thought it was only being used in the US anyway? Or North America? No point in using it in the UK or Europe for instance.

We don't use POC over here anyway.

It's definitely being used in Canada, where I don't think it works the same way as in the US.

https://twitter.com/bipocpub
https://www.bipoctvandfilm.com
https://www.writersunion.ca/bipoc-writers-connect

That's why I said North America.

OK?

On the internet, no one knows you’re not an American.

People who have no stakes in the argument should stfu is how I roll.

lol sometimes people complain about "woke" language purely for stylistic concerns

My reasons were not stylistic and I do have stakes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

wat is this thread about

It’s about how good esby is at posting

he's a viking at posting?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i voted for 27) because i thought it was funny

lol @ only 12 votes

thank you for voting bougie

this is such a glorious summer