Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DebetEsse - Sep 27, 2011 6:30:03 am PDT #28594 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Scola is my info-gathering hero.

Can I suggest that we create a "morbid curiosity" (or something like that) group on FB, and take the Gus stuff over there? It makes me feel weird in ways that I can't quite verbalize adequately to talk about it at length here.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2011 6:32:40 am PDT #28595 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

What pinged back in the day was that he always talked at people rather than to them. I found it odd and offputing, so I never tried interacting with him (as much as I interacted in those days, which was more than I do now).


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2011 6:32:56 am PDT #28596 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Don't know if I'm making an equation

I don't see any more link between a liar like Gus and Loki than I do between Gus and Aphrodite, is what I'm saying.

By the time Gus established the slightest rep for not following through (i.e. the second time, and that's including his coding efforts), I was actively pissed at him. We still don't have decent tag closing code, and I'm too traumatised to start thinking about fixing it.


Amy - Sep 27, 2011 6:33:05 am PDT #28597 of 30001
Because books.

I meant what I said earlier -- when I realized everyone took the weremonkey bite thing seriously, I just backed off the whole thing. I didn't know him, hadn't really interacted with him, but that was too much for me. That said, I figured if everyone believed it, there had to be something to it? So I just ignored it, and him, and then he, you know, died. Or WHATEVER.


sj - Sep 27, 2011 6:33:42 am PDT #28598 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Can I suggest that we create a "morbid curiosity" (or something like that) group on FB, and take the Gus stuff over there? It makes me feel weird in ways that I can't quite verbalize adequately to talk about it at length here.

My issue with discussing it here is that I think, if he is lurking, talking about his is probably making him very happy and only encouraging him. Not that I am telling anyone to stop; it is just my own issues with feeding energy demons.


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2011 6:34:01 am PDT #28599 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can I suggest that we create a "morbid curiosity" (or something like that) group on FB, and take the Gus stuff over there?

So those of us that don't FB, but do Buffista don't get to see? He blanket friended Buffistas. If he didn't want to be talked about on, say, buffistas.org, he should have thought through his plan better.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2011 6:34:47 am PDT #28600 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I assumed he was drunk last night and sent out all the friend requests.

Yeah, I think drunk is a pretty good guess.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2011 6:35:27 am PDT #28601 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

If he didn't want to be talked about on, say, buffistas.org, he should have thought through his plan better.

I think his plan may have been was to be talked about (as sj just said).

"It's better to be talked about than not be talked about."


Amy - Sep 27, 2011 6:36:16 am PDT #28602 of 30001
Because books.

The other thing is, all he does is lurk, everywhere. There's nothing on his FB page, and there's nothing on his Google+ page, or his LinkedIn, aside from references to The Site That Shall Not Be Named.

My feeling is he's never going to interact, and if he is lurking, his takeaway from me can be, get help, man. And if not, enjoy your whacko life as another stupid interwebs curiosity.


Cashmere - Sep 27, 2011 6:36:41 am PDT #28603 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Infamy's not as good as fame but it's heaps better than obscurity.