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Birthdate: August 6th, 1983 (26 years old)
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Videos Submitted by gwiz665
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http://www.videosift.com/video/CURSES
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P.S. I appreciate the quality for that tipping video.
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I've been watching you from across the yard with my binoculars. Congrats with the new silver, king of metals, it looks good on you.
Hey HEY, who started playing that music?
And... AAAAAARGH! MY EYES!!!
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Is it a purity ring or would we be getting married..?
*quality use of Ave Maria
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Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrdddd
*does pushups*
I think his accent was hilarious, and thank goodness that the rock crusher machine wasn't still in that spot when the whole thing slid.
*quality
Thanks for the boost! And to think... it took over 3000 views to escape the queue!
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More choral goodness http://www.videosift.com/video/Eric-Whitacre-conducts-choral-masterpiece-Cloudburst
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Wow, you sift good. High quality, I like.
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*quality
Now join my cult...
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I really liked Fry's analogy of the Catholic church's obsession with sex to that of food with anorexic or the morbidly obese.
As for the topic at hand... I really am not that interested in this level of minutiae. Those of you who know me from posting here know that I really don't see much of a difference between Catholics, Protestants, Scientologist, Satanists, and Zoroastrians. It is all just some stuff made up by some guy (usually a guy, except in very rare occasions) to control and tell others what to believe. No religion has any proof that they are right, anyone who claims they do is about as trustworthy as someone who says they are Napoleon.
To try and set things straight, I'm gonna be completely honest with you. I can't, and won't, apologise for what I did, but as I've said before, though not directly to you, I do apologise for the way I did it. I was angry and not thinking completely straight at the time I "dropped the bomb". In hindsight, I wish I hadn't done it like that.
What I would like to stop is this ongoing animosity where we write comments concerning eachother around the sift. It's not doing any of us any good and I'm sure most others sifters find it both annoying and tiring.
So think of this as an olive branch. Feel free to dislike/hate me all you want, but let's leave it off this site and try to behave properly - both of us.
PS. This doesn't mean I'm gonna stop downvoting your, or anyone elses, Family Guy vids btw
OK, so I'm not going back to VS again, so thought it'd be easier to just e mail you.
I'm going to keep it as brief as possible. Firstly, me ever saying I could fall for you was a reaction to saying you liked me. It was flattery and a way of letting you down gently, as I followed it straight up with the facts about Jake. Not that I didn't find you adorable and hilarious and good fun to be around, I did. But if that offhand comment I made is what's carried any of this on, then I'm a fucking idiot, and again I need to learn to keep my mouth shut.
As far as you and rasch, I really have no more to say on the subject. I know how he has been with you, and I know how he has always been with me. I guess we just have to agree to disagree on his intentions and favourability. There will never be a point when I don't appreciate his friendship to me, even if I don't always agree with the way he goes about things. And as for thinking you deleted my comment and posting it again, well pfft, that was dumb. I decided to make it a PM, because I really didn't want to bring it all out in public again, give you at least the chance to reply to me and put it all to rest. I showed him what I'd written because he was mentioned. That is it. I'm sure him making a bit of a twat of himself is going to make you feel a tad smug!
As far as pretty much everything else goes, it's all 50/50 on who is telling the truth and I'm pretty sure the best course of action from now on is to converse with neither of you. One way or the other it's all a pointless headache I don't need. Jake was over it before it started, as always. I did feel you undermined us, but you explained that you never intended to do that and I happily accept that.
I'm glad to hear you have found a girlfriend. I hope it works out for you. Be good to her, listen to her and when she is being unreasonable, ignore it don't argue with it, it's a woman's right for having to bleed once a month. Good luck
Rae
Sorry, rae.
>> ^alien_concept:
OK, first of all I want you to know, I happened upon this whole conversation between UP, rasch and yourself as I still visit now and again. Don't for one moment think that he's come crying to me.
If rasch was referring to anything creepy, then it wouldn't have been logs of conversations we've had, it would have been PM's. And also pointing out certain things you had written in threads, baiting me etc. Most of it was not private.
I wish I'd have come straight to you once everything had come out regarding bea, but honestly at that point I had already had enough of our relationship on here and had been avoiding talking to you for ages. Yes I'm a coward for not just straight up telling you things were bothering me. And yes, everything here could have been dealt with differently. The main reason for me not coming straight out and ever saying anything, was because I really felt that the way I carried on with you, that I had encouraged you. I am very open and broad minded. We have discussed numerous topics and I always came across like I was comfortable in anything we discussed. And for a long while I was.
Quite early on it became apparent that you had feelings for me. At this point I told you about myself and Jake, because I didn't want you to think that any relationship between us was possible. You will notice that Jake not once ever had a problem with the way we behaved around here or in fact on messenger. He just saw it all as a bit of fun and nothing to get possessive about. It was nothing to do with him, right? Because we were just friends, fooling around and being risque for a laugh.
The things that started bothering me were that you wouldn't let the coming here to see me lie. I'd give you a thousand excuses as to why it couldn't happen, at least not any time soon. But it was so regular, and the comments you made about how if you were Jake you'd have been here with me already (implying that he wasn't serious about me? that's kind of how it felt) and always with the questioning. Why did you have to wait til after he had been here, where do you live, what's your skype address (even though I told you that skype was only something I used for me and him). And telling me you'd found out how much it cost to get here etc etc. It built up and built up, and I didn't know how to tell you to back off without hurting your feelings entirely. I HATE hurting anyone, and like I said, I blamed myself for having not said anything before and letting it get to the point it was at, and potentially giving you mixed signals, by first telling you I was unavailable and then carrying on flirting with you (out in the open)and sharing graphic (although always sickly amusing) porn, and discussing other such personal subjects. I hadn't been careful, so instead of fronting it out with you, I ignored you. So shoot me...
When bea messaged me after you had left Texas, she did it not to gossip, but because your visit there had been a fucking disaster, she felt that you didn't understand any boundaries, you made her feel uncomfortable with the things you were coming out with and you had told her that you intended to come and see me. She felt like she had to warn me about how you had presented yourself there. The thing was, so many things rang true on what she was saying. That she hadn't outright invited you - just in the lounge she'd said off the cuff as she does, that yeah you should come to Texas one day, and the next thing she knew you'd booked tickets and she didn't have a clue how to say no. Well, you were relentless with me about coming here...
That you had made inappropriate sexual comments in front of her children. Well I remember one time you making one about my daughter too, something about when she came of age, blech. I took it as a joke, at the time although it didn't sit comfortably with me. Also I know that we have discussed your inability to find a woman. You yourself put it down to the fact that you had to get drunk to converse with them, and once that had happened you tended to become lewd and inappropriate, the drink was doing the talking. Now considering that you spent time there getting drunk and you definitely thought it was ok to grab IV's breast (btw, justifying that by saying that bea had just done it, what the fuck???) it didn't take much to come to the conclusion what with everything else that you were indeed not in your right mind. Whether you agree or not, that's how it all came about. It felt like the character you "played" on here, wasn't just a character after all. And that was fucking disturbing to me.
I sat on it forever. I wasn't going to bring any of it up because bea did not want the drama, and neither did IV. She also felt partly responsible for giving you the wrong idea about things because of the way she converses with everyone. And she didn't want it all to drag out like it has. But as I told you, after numerous PM's and references in video threads, then the limerick, and THEN what I truly felt to be another jab against me when you mentioned in the sift up thread that anyone who had secrets with you weren't secrets any more, I finally blew my lid. I just didn't want to be here any longer.
If you had have been on the outside of this looking in like rasch has been, I'm pretty sure that you would have, after all the evidence presented to you, felt that it needed to once and for all be addressed. I'm not saying he couldn't have gone about it in a better way, he definitely could. But then, so could we all have done, isn't that right? I'd like you to stop blaming him for everything now, it's somewhat projecting rather than really taking a look at how and why things have happened how they have. He has freely admitted that he should have been more discreet, and now he is just left defending his corner without really being able to say anything at all. Enough is enough.
I hope this explains what you have wanted to know. Whether you agree with the accusations made against you, they have been made. Not just by one person, but two and that's not including her family and friends who were around too I'm sure. IV apologised with you to keep the peace and not let it all get blown up publically like it has and to stop bea being blamed for everything like she was after she flamed out. It's likely that she didn't actually forgive you at all and that she is too nice of a person to really come out and say what she thinks. I can relate. I hope you reflect on all of this and you consider how things can end up, as have I on numerous occasions. And yes, it's your word against hers. Either of you could be talking shit. But I'm taking her version, as have people chosen to take yours.
Rae
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I want to call attention to the FAQ regarding rasch' discarding of my video:
"If down voting or any other member privilege is intentionally misused, the offending member will be temporarily banned for no less than 2 weeks. A second offense will result in a permanent ban."
http://wtf.videosift.com/faq-en.php#voting
He knew what he was doing - discard is not even an option for dupes anymore and he did so anyway. It's bad form.
Your personal dislike of me should not have an influence on your decision.
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I did, but dag unhobbled him again. So I'm wondering if it's his feelings towards me that's an issue in that. My calling attention was only to you and dag, since you two are the admins of the site. I just want you two to reconsider suspending him or hobbling him (since hobbling is newer than the faq), since that's what the FAQ says ought to be done.
I'd rather not call a full-blown siftquisition if I can avoid it, since I think I've gotten too much grief already for the bitchings I've had on this site.
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Please feel free to call attention to it. I have no problem with that.
Didn't you already hobble him?
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I want to call attention to the FAQ regarding rasch' discarding of my video:
"If down voting or any other member privilege is intentionally misused, the offending member will be temporarily banned for no less than 2 weeks. A second offense will result in a permanent ban."
http://wtf.videosift.com/faq-en.php#voting
He knew what he was doing - discard is not even an option for dupes anymore and he did so anyway. It's bad form.
Didn't you already hobble him?
In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
I want to call attention to the FAQ regarding rasch' discarding of my video:
"If down voting or any other member privilege is intentionally misused, the offending member will be temporarily banned for no less than 2 weeks. A second offense will result in a permanent ban."
http://wtf.videosift.com/faq-en.php#voting
He knew what he was doing - discard is not even an option for dupes anymore and he did so anyway. It's bad form.
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Hey man, I feel your pain. Some good friends of mine just had a little baby boy and the grief I hear for the couple of hours down there is hard enough.
They say it's worth it though, so hang in there.
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thanks mang!
In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Hehehe.. *quality