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#7961 |
Mobile Missile Specialist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: RI
Posts: 7,312
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So... just to be clear to everyone, (because I seem to have inadvertently left a negative impression), when I say "this place is a dump", it was obviously to be meant in the same joking, spirit of good fun that I've always used when posting here. I was referring to the fact that there are very few posters or joe discussions between MA/RI members anymore, not implying that the thread is somehow full of unimportant assholes. Hopefully I didn't offend anyone and people know where I'm coming from.
Anybody who has ever met me knows that I have a pretty dry sense of humor. As most of the other veteran members can attest to, there is plenty of ball-busting that goes on here regularly between myself, Shadowninja, BEAM, Destro's Son, Mainframe, mike000, dgnr82, tragichabits, netkid, and others. We constantly tease and give each other hard times but we're all in it together, and bullying or animosity is never part of the picture. Shadowninja specifically is one of my closest friends here and we always give each other crap. If I'm not busting him about power rangers, he's making fun of me for buying Micro Force. He knows I have his back and he's always been there for me. Anyone who thinks we are having serious arguments is seriously misinformed. If I really didn't want to be here, I would have left Hisstank. The fact remains that even though the site has changed quite a bit in the past couple of years and many old members are gone, the home page is still a major hub for fast joe news and there are people that post in this thread whom I like that aren't on the BFNE facebook group, and I enjoy hearing from them. That's a fair comment I suppose. Having said what I just said above regarding the 'dump' though, I hope you aren't referring to me. (If so, I would challenge you to give me examples of how I have done so). ...Jabs? Seriously? You need to chill, man. This isn't a war, it's pretty simple: There's a bunch of guys from New England on another website... all happily talking about Joes, collecting, customizing, displaying, sharing pictures, asking questions, etc (even with the retaliation line having ended). That used to be the case here a while back, but it appears to have dried up a bit. I figured people should know that they are welcome to join, but no one is forcing them to. Somehow this offended you but there are no hard feelings, for the record. Regarding what I had said about the last meetup: There's no competition going on here. I love the small group meetups we've always had get together, and have even organized a few myself. There's no reason those shouldn't continue. The point is that BFNE had a surprisingly great turnout this fall for a little startup group. Love it or hate it, it seems to work. I could care less if people want to boycott it, I'm just being honest about the situation. I respect that. As Shadowninja rightfully said, "To each his own". No one is twisting your arm to join. Just thought I'd extend the invite anyway. The irony is that even though I'm active on BFNE, I'm hardly active otherwise on facebook. I've always been pretty annoyed with the whole social media thing myself, so I understand your aversion to it. I am perfectly calm. I don't need to chill. If you don't see how the comment about the RI/MA never being as big and such could be seen as a little jab, then I don't know what to tell you. And I'm not offended that other people want to meet up. Why would I be? Enjoy and good luck with it.
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#7962 |
Zombie Outbreak Survivor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Doomstadt, Latveria R.I.
Posts: 3,192
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It is a dump now. I didn't say that was your fault so I'm not sure why you would think that. I'm just saying that it became that way because of people. It is what people make it. They do stupid shit, then it becomes a dump. It's part of the reason I don't post as much anymore.
I am perfectly calm. I don't need to chill. If you don't see how the comment about the RI/MA never being as big and such could be seen as a little jab, then I don't know what to tell you. And I'm not offended that other people want to meet up. Why would I be? Enjoy and good luck with it. Sooooo, Fastdraw, who here do you intend on offending? Who among us do you have such open contempt for? Who's making this place a dump Fastdraw, huh?
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#7963 |
Mobile Missile Specialist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: RI
Posts: 7,312
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The site became that way from many people. This is probably the most popular Joe site that's what happens when a ton of people are in one place. It certainly isn't because of one person.
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#7964 |
Zombie Outbreak Survivor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Doomstadt, Latveria R.I.
Posts: 3,192
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Hahahahahahaha!!!! FASTDRAW dislikes you all!
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#7965 |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,187
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The mentality of the entire site has slid and is due to moderators who rule with an iron fist and banned a number of good people. That has no barring on this thread. This thread has transformed into a chat room - which is not a bad thing, unless your socially challenged. I see it as a positive that people are willing to talk to each other outside of posting what's in the stores. Then someone takes it too far (looks up at DS's avatar), breaks the thread and resets the mood back to sightings.
Bascially this thread was BFNE before there was a BFNE. It's just that people are more civilized on facebook. It's a little more Wild West here. If it's not for you, then I bid you farewell. No need to defend your reason for not posting as much as in the past and slag other people in the process. Last edited by BEAM; 12-04-2013 at 10:25 PM.. |
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#7966 |
WE COMMAND.
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Hasbro Land, Rhode Island
Posts: 1,429
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Honesty guys, I thought we were all getting along fine. We didn't yell at each other. The only reason I feel its "slow" in the ri mass thread is because we collect joes and the local retail offerings have been weaker and the line overall has been getting smaller with less and less retailer support.
Getting back to sightings, if you collect marvel universe, the target in Smithfield has: 2 iron spideys 1 white spidey A few jubilees 1 beta ray bill 1 blastarr? Some punishers 1 psylocke 1 silver surfer A few dark hawkeyes Not sure who else Black series 3&3/4 full wave 1 Black series 6 Luke, r2, Han, slave Leia, greedo. Might have been a maul there. NO FETTS! Tmnt 3 new shredder, 2 spyderbytez, 1 leatherback, some mousers, krangs, robot turtle guy whose name escapes me even though I should know it, new show-accurate turtles with shells that you can store weapons in, a few splinters, loads of the wave 1 turtles, spy turtles, slime flinging turtles, some foot soldiers, and I think that's it. No new transformers
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#7967 |
Zombie Outbreak Survivor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Doomstadt, Latveria R.I.
Posts: 3,192
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BEAM~No no don't pin that shit on me. I took off for the facebook community.
This shit is why. Here's what I think the facebook community gives me that this thread does not. Face to face accountability. We physically all see each other periodically, which helps people shake their head and smile when I post evil elf pictures. Because they don't say, "that DS is crazy and weird", they say, "Josh is crazy and weird and my friend and he helps me out with figures and made me that little backdrop painting that I got from him on saturday". Its much more personal, and some of the guys are hasbro designers like dave proctor and erik arana. they have damn good talk regardless of what is on the shelves. Also, trades with those guys are once in a lifetime kind of things. Most of the guys are customizers and are willing to get a part to you in the name of good customs come hell or high water, also they help give you confidence to take steps to be a better customizer yourself. Some of the guys in the group run small casting businesses and are willing to do custom cast stuff for you. plus they have store you can buy the stuff, but also if you have something they want to cast, you get CRAZY good deals and you get the original item back. In short ,it offers so much more than FASTDRAWs fecal sprinkler impression.
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#7968 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: San Diego, Cali
Posts: 1,925
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Does anyone remember the store paperama??? I found a masters of the universe skelleton figure holder back in 93, at the store in Brockton. Just remembering the good ol days. Oh and Child World at Westgate Mall with Joes stacked to the ceiling.
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#7969 |
Mobile Missile Specialist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: RI
Posts: 7,312
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I was talking about the site in general because that's what I thought Air-tight was referring to. I'm not sure why some guys thought I was referring to them.
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#7970 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RI
Posts: 112
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I like Chipotle's Burrito bowl in my mouth. Barbacoa, brown rice, black beans, guacamole, sour cream, and that hot salsa.
I haven't seen anything new. I would assume its because I haven't been out since the Monday before Thanksgiving, but I can't be sure. ... Sorry about starting BFNE misunderstandings |
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