Happy Birthday LV please come back

[Dev]

LV quit because of the way I was treated by the mods.

Not true. I had dinner with him in March of 2020 when i was out in Denver. He explained why he was leaving. While it did have to do with dev, it was because of how dev betrayed him. His words not mine

No chance.

[E.H. Ruddock]

LV quit because of the way I was treated by the mods.

Not true. I had dinner with him in March of 2020 when i was out in Denver. He explained why he was leaving. While it did have to do with dev, it was because of how dev betrayed him. His words not mine

No chance.

Haha jk dev. I forgot he and epilogue were going at it, is that really why he stopped coming here or is VG pulling our legs?

[VinylGuy]

it seems joey bullied him twice. The last time was too much for LV.

I blame Lv for being such a pussy. RM is more than just Joey´s fights.
We also talked about movies and music.

What about me?

[JuanHamm]

I loved LV, but the idea of Joey bullying somebody off the board is completely ridiculous.

[epilogue]

Okay, so when LV left in like 2017 or 2018 for six months or so...? That was 100% because of me. We talked it out. I apologized. He still felt threatened. Totally get it.

Then he came back.

The next time he left --- the time that has so far been permanent --- was not 100% my fault. He still felt threatened by me. He thought I was being duplicitous and gaslighting him. That was a misunderstanding. I was not. But I totally understood why he felt that way. We talked about it privately. I apologized and told him I'd leave him the fuck alone. Which I did.

However, then more stuff started happening with bannings and other mod stuff. Obviously, I was a peripheral part of all that stuff but it wasn't about me. He was really pissed with the way mods banned/punished some users. He left and he hasn't come back.

So while I certainly take responsibility for my role in his departure(s), he didn't leave the last time because of me.

[VinylGuy]

did Louie CK wrote that?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[epilogue]

LV's a big boi. He can come and go as he pleases and no one else is responsible for his feelings.

That's pretty much it.

But, also, I do feel terrible for contributing in any way to someone feeling bullied. That's shitty. And I'll forever have to live with that. Sucks.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[epilogue]

LV's a big boi. He can come and go as he pleases and no one else is responsible for his feelings.

That's pretty much it.

But, also, I do feel terrible for contributing in any way to someone feeling bullied. That's shitty. And I'll forever have to live with that. Sucks.

Yeah but if you guys talked privately then you can let it go. [waves wand] You are hereby absolved!

Oh totally. I feel the same way. I just hate that I contributed to an environment that LV felt he couldn't participate in. He's an adult. It's up to him. I hope he's well. But I wouldn't want others to feel like they can't hang on RM, y'know? He has my apologies. He can accept them or not. But I don't want him to feel like he can't be here.

[The Argonaut]

LV left when Burt got banned. He said something about how the mods had finally gone too far and ruined this place

[epilogue]

LV left when Burt got banned. He said something about how the mods had finally gone too far and ruined this place

Yes.

[VinylGuy]

Burt should leave too then.

[epilogue]

Burt should leave too then.

[spike]

Ruddo always starting drama

[The Argonaut]

It's kind of amazing. Now that GD is gone, we can pretty much make up whatever we want. Remember last year when I was voted "most charming and handsome?" Good times

[epilogue]

It's kind of amazing. Now that GD is gone, we can pretty much make up whatever we want. Remember last year when I was voted "most charming and handsome?" Good times

No

[bodysnatcher]

if you make it up it still needs to be believable

[bodysnatcher]

LV's a big boi.

Any relation to sk8er boy?

[Norah]

It's kind of amazing. Now that GD is gone, we can pretty much make up whatever we want. Remember last year when I was voted "most charming and handsome?" Good times

Yes I received dozens ballots to this effect.