Are you even an FTL listener?
He's just a whiny bastard that sticks to the FTL forum like a heroin addict.
Is it better to whine in groups?
I don't like to depend on people. I don't change my tune... or alter my opinions... or KEEP QUIET WHEN I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY due to the influence of people who would consider me a noob within their ranks. You know, in certain groups, you have to establish yourself within the pecking order, and this particular group definitely has a pecking order. I don't take kindly to people who feel they are superior to me simply because they've been there longer, or that their exposure to a certain element somehow makes them more intelligent or my opinions are imperfect, insignificant, or immature within the constructs of the group - as if I was just born under the front porch, just because they've never seen my face - while others who have deeper social connections are tolerated and spew idiocy, and they feel that they're in the position of elite, king-makers who would fail miserably in a world where they're judged on merit and not how many years they've been among a crowd. Much like Anton's argument that post count doesn't matter here in a forum, which is true to a certain degree, it also applies to real life, and much more severely.
Fuck the herd mentality. I don't have a problem with people who organize to communicate and agree on a direction to nudge the voting issues, that is commendable. Its how every other ideology operates, and what must be done to enact reforms of "our" own desire. But the borderline commune mentality bothers me. Join us, and you will benefit in numerous ways. We will help you, if you help us. Well, guess what? I would like to receive that help within a society, but I don't want to give out more than I get. I don't want to meet a few people and get help moving my couch, and then be expected to move everyone elses couch. And so, I reject the offered community and its help. I will build my own life and social network, expect nothing from it, and owe it nothing in return - in my state, which is no better or worse, depending on individual issues.
Its certainly not so much better in NH to make me throw everything away, and its unlikely it ever could be. People fail to realize most of their time is spent in private, where anything goes, and if you're smart enough you can live your life in any manner you desire, no matter where you are.
And, I won't have to amend my opinions. I won't have to wonder if they're acceptable to the group. I prefer the group to be eclectic and dynamic, rather than like-minded and fickle.
Amusingly enough, Puke has me on ignore - and he uses ignore often. A young man with military background, and very opinionated, as if his time is so valuable that he can't be bothered to see very similar comments, from the other side of the river. It disturbs me that he and a few select others who are among the cabal of NH supporters consider themselves to be superior, as this is where the majority of my "ignorers" come from. I guess they just don't like to see people who are close enough in proximity to their own beliefs, yet won't bend to the majority out of social necessity.