Posted by lolograde @ 06:24 CDT, 20 August 2015 - iMsg
Apparently I've reached a milestone. What do I win?
Also, can we get stats on who has the best made:received ratio and who has the most either made or received? I'd submit a request but those seem to disappear into the ether.
I think "pluses/posts" is better indicator, than total count. The more, the better. That means you collected your pluses neither for many years nor by thousands messages nor from same users. But by really good and helpful content.
i was at about 20-30 pluses for almost a decade, and then went through a phase where i started experimenting with plussing people, just to let go of my predisposition to not use such a blatantly masturbatory system of approval. after that, i went through a new phase where i would use pluses as a form of social manipulation, to imprint myself on memories as approving of something, which is what a lot of people really cling to. after all of this i saw that plussing isn't so bad, but that the effort and economy of plussing demands a delicate hand, otherwise the value of each approaches insignificance, and so i settled into a comfortable equilibrium of approving things that i found entertaining, like some decadent theatrical roman emperor.
i had to experience all of these things to find the behavior that transcended my vain and temporal pleasures and desires, and so i banned myself. but i fear i cannot escape my will to identity, and this post is very damning evidence.
i could refrain from submitting it, thus hiding the shakiness of my character from all who could witness and know me for a charlatan, unmasked, and then could i live with the recognition of my fearful cowardice? of knowing that it was not the knife's edge of true social interaction that my character was tested, but against the confines of my own imagination, carefully crafted to confine my behaviors to the minuscule volume of space allotted as safe to expose myself more freely.
i could live with that recognition, i have lived with it regularly. i think, though, that maybe i don't want to.
i was thinking about that earlier, reading some comments in one of the threads that you approved one of my comments in. i mean, is there any phrase that could inspire less confidence in the longevity and productivity of a band than "we're going to give it a go, there's not much else going on"?
if you're worried about it being shared after you share it, you can share it with me. i'm generally dependable that way. it's not as though there's any motivation for me to do so, and you should be able to determine my identity pretty easily.
besides, if anybody from the band sees this conversation you'll have already planted the seeds of doubtful paranoia in their minds by considering leaking the album, and i think there's probably a lot of doubtful paranoia to go around in a band that plays this sort of music. and anger. so you've already burned that bridge.
I've told them I might leak it, and if I do leak it, it's going everywhere! It's quite likely the best debut anyone has ever recorded, and a top notch album overall.
I've been IRL friends with them for a while (me and the drummer go back maybe more than a decade playing games). The singer and drummer joined my sister for a project now.