The Road to 10,000

Michael Barnes wrote: Now you are speaking straight to my colossal ego.

As of post 10,001, this site will be renamed GamingByMichael.com.

Perfect.

Michael Barnes wrote: Now you are speaking straight to my colossal ego.

As of post 10,001, this site will be renamed GamingByMichael.com.

I can accept that.

Don't worry Chapel, you will be granted access to the MB10kC compound, at least the probationary area given your relatively low post count.

Michael Barnes wrote: I think what I will actually do with my 10,000th post is to announce the formation of an upper tier, elite echelon of F:AT membership called the Michael Barnes 10k Club. This will basically be a group of individuals that have demonstrated sufficient insufferable hypocrisy and unearned superiority to act as tastemakers and hobby shamers over the rest of the site.

Still smarting from that comment? Probably because it hit pretty close to home.

Well lets look forward to the game nights of your 10k club which, I can only guess, will consist of it's sole member sitting alone at his lonely kitchen table flipping through a book of rules, playing two turns solo and then scrambling madly to his keyboard to enlighten the masses as to the true nature of the next Game of the Year.

If there's going to be a invite-only web site devoted to talking boardgames instead of throwing acid I want in. Please let me know who to offend, and how often, in order to gain admission.

S.

There it is, folks...Jeffery has uncovered my top secret reviewing method. However, you left out a few key details:

- I set up stuffed animals In chairs around the table to simulate what it must be like to play with other people.

- I give them funny voices and name them after popular F:Atties.

- When I'm done I sob softly to myself because I am sad, lonely and hate myself for liking board games.

Then I collect my check for shilling Miniature Market reviews and laugh all the way to the bank

JEFF LUCE SPEAKING THE TRUTH.

All I can picture is MB in front of a mirror doing the Stuart Smalley bit after he loses a game to his green Care Bear, named "Lucky Michael", before logging on to F:AT to write about it.

repoman wrote: Still smarting from that comment? Probably because it hit pretty close to home.

Well lets look forward to the game nights of your 10k club which, I can only guess, will consist of it's sole member sitting alone at his lonely kitchen table flipping through a book of rules, playing two turns solo and then scrambling madly to his keyboard to enlighten the masses as to the true nature of the next Game of the Year.

Have you not gotten this shit out of your system yet? Jesus.

There's so much vinegar being poured around this site as of late, you'd think we were running a goddamn chip van.

Sag hit the nail on the head.


....also, I love Ken

Hopefully they bury the hatchet before repoman reaches 10,000 posts. Because there certainly won't be a winner in this game.

Listen, I never had a problem with Repo, I really don't know what I've done to him...the dude doesn't like me, fine, whatever...but yeah, this shit is already old and it's starting to feel a lot like when Frank LaTerra started trying to fight me every post.

I took Jeff's insults and made a joke out them, he seems to want to carry on harassing/attempting to discredit me/trying to rally the site against me or whatever he's trying to get out of this. But I'll bury the hatchet right now and let it go (whatever "it" is, since I have no idea) if he agrees to do the same.

No idea? Perhaps it had something to do with your attempt to label me a bigot and homophobe based not on anything i had said or done but on your own preconceived notions of who I must be.

Others might let that shit slide. But not I.

However, following a communication from a site member who i respect this morning i had already decided to let this go.

No, I branded you a conservative based on what I've seen you post here before and based on your specific reaction to a specific situation. Regardless, I apologize if I mischaracterized you and let's drop it.

Are you apologizing for branding him a conservative?
Or apologizing for characterizing him as a homophobe and bigot?

It doesn't matter, whichever. Both. Whatever makes this silly ass shit stop so I can resume making strident proclamations and commemorating all the time I've wasted in these forums.