you know who else I really miss here and wish would come back?
scottdisco
top dude (or lad as yall would say), never bad word for anyone even during the harshest for flame wars
Once I smoked so much weed I thought Barty was an undercover reporter from Vice sent to infiltrate this bizarre relic of a bygone Internet age, basically to laugh at us and our made up Internet names
you know who else I really miss here and wish would come back?
scottdisco
top dude (or lad as yall would say), never bad word for anyone even during the harshest for flame wars
...but the mole ended up getting sucked in...
That his collected blog book would have me as a villain (I also thought I'd killed Simon Reynolds) but then it came out and they'd merely pushed the Point it starts at forward a year or so so I don't appear at all!
There's actually a point there, though. There was an early era of K-Punk, mostly on the early Blogger version before he upgraded to a plusher platform, which some of us engaged with more and coincided with the energy peak of the blogs, Summer-Autumn-Winter of 2003-4 basically. It was a more exploratory phase, using the format for creativity and communication. Then he converted his blog into a philosophical and political project and attempted to co-opt this board into that scheme too, which is when he found some resistance. To an extent he was trying to get the forum to achieve its intellectual potential, but another side of it was puritanical, even tyrannical: the Dope Smoking Dads needed to get with the programme or be eliminated. K-Punk enjoyed a good purge.
It's mad when you dig into the archives and see how deep threads used to go. Got a little taste in the last resurgence tho. Could it ever be steered back towards the golden age?
Also, dematerialisation, started by me, by myself, is the greatest thread of all time, and that was achieved with this current set of players so actually, we are the best I would say.
There was a guy called himself Slim Jenkins, he was cool but now on faceback he's had a kind of lurch to the right and he shares these tired alt-right pictures and calls people snowflakes.