Yeah, what I love about Queens is that it has a certain ruggedness element to it. Whenever I meet someone from Queens, I always get this vibe from them like "yeah, I've seen some [redacted]". There's a certain trait of Queens people that I almost always am drawn to.
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actually i think i know what made em so aggressive back in '12. there were more competing families that people cared about. like compare bad boyz v. one (the family that atikur/brown made). that went on for a very long time. now no one gives a crap about families.
Long Island is a nice place to grow up, but I can't imagine spending the rest of my life here.
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i liked dez as a mod, even though she was like the worst person ever about refunds. i didn't really deal with her much as an admin, so i can't really say anything beyond her behavior w/gafgarion rubbed me wrong, so yeah.
yeah dude, Dez dug you in the interview. I feel like Dez gets a bad rep because of the Gafgarion thing, but I personally thought she was phenomenal.
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it was like communal shaming though. most you see now is people gang up on sirius or whoever's jackass of the thread. like, if you didn't experience Bad Boyz, it's really difficult to explain what i mean.
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You still do, just not as much lol.
It's the internet, people are always going to troll one way or another
I root for you and want you to find success. I could tell for a while that you've been in a rut, and I give you a ton of credit for being willing to take a huge risk and move to NYC. I'm probably in a much better situation financially than you and I still didn't have the balls to leave, so I have a tremendous amount of respect for you for trying.
When we worked together, I thought you were a great mod - even though originally, before I knew you well at all, I mostly was willing to mod you because I trusted John.
I think you have a solid idea of what you're looking for, but I think taking the steps to get there is a consistent challenge for you (as it is for many). That said, I think taking efforts to be slightly more pragmatic will benefit you greatly in the long-term.
like, people on this site are noticeably more vulnerable and reveal more sensitive information more now than they used to, and it's really weird living through back when you could literally get widely made fun of for inane details to now seeing giga making that one thread.
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OK, manhattan is white central, you look one side of you and there is a white man, you look another and there is ANOTHER white man, it is like a never ending sea of well-off white men talking on their phones.
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i think that there's a big culture shock between the old community (me, shacky, peta, sonseray, retti, etc.) and the current one because the old community was frankly vicious and would tear most people to shreds for a laugh, so putting yourself out there was ill-advised. meanwhile nowadays most people will make threads titled My Big Emotional Trauma and sort of like, i dunno, rely on the community for emotional support. it's such a bizarre concept to me when it's probably not that weird.
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Honestly I really miss living in the city. Long Island is horrific when it comes to transportation, but the community is a lot better.
is this wetzel or appleofmyeye? Regardless, I honestly don't feel like I've interacted with you one-on-one enough to be able to formulate a well thought out first hand opinion.
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NY has been pretty good to me and i think queens is a decent neighborhood, i can see how after a few months it just becomes the same drag but sometimes i just enjoy walking down the street and just being around people
