tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post4091006364657089395..comments2024-02-10T05:10:34.854-05:00Comments on The Balog: MKMOT/50 Days of HATE- Day 17 (September 28, 2012)IMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01896814779096110550noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-83609390181732175732012-09-28T21:00:32.674-04:002012-09-28T21:00:32.674-04:00Yup. That's the stuff.Yup. That's the stuff.Guy who [hearts] Raysism.http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19100000/I-Heartz-You-3-big-bang-19102988-906-1364.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-53092702125566943452012-09-28T20:12:30.519-04:002012-09-28T20:12:30.519-04:00I continue to believe that nothing is ruining the ...I continue to believe that nothing is ruining the DS comment section more than the fact that most of the really funny commenters are not commenting as often. On those rare occasions when a post gets more than a dozen of us to show up and make a funny joke, you hardly even notice the burners. <br /><br />So anytime that the burners make you feel like quitting or lashing back at them, just post a funny comment instead, and this place will get a lot better.Raysismnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-26146816555575807282012-09-28T19:47:48.916-04:002012-09-28T19:47:48.916-04:00Gamboa
Remember when we bet that dollar? We need ...Gamboa<br /><br />Remember when we bet that dollar? We need to have a serious conversation. Shit's getting pretty close to home. Rec Specsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-87756217079733432072012-09-28T19:44:57.073-04:002012-09-28T19:44:57.073-04:00Saving Abel is the Hinder/Theory Of A Deadman/ Nic...Saving Abel is the Hinder/Theory Of A Deadman/ Nickelback of 2011/2012. Rec Specsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-37433034249884913962012-09-28T17:38:29.943-04:002012-09-28T17:38:29.943-04:00Integrity is doing the right thing even when no on...Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching, or there is no comment ninja looming over you.<br /><br />If you were someone who would claims he would have been pissed about "Carlos Mencia" back in the comment section's heyday, it's quite the thing to now say "well, that was then, now I think that is A-OK." Being cool (or uncool) with that "every other sports blog" horseshit is pretty hard to do a sudden mental 180 on.<br /><br />I don't think there is anyone here who is actually OK with or likes that typical sports blog sniping and arguing and trashing, and I'm certainly not trying to call anyone out for being a closet troll lover, or disingenuous. I'm sure it's just frustration, but I remember which side I was on when it counted (the correct side, like you guys), and keep walking that path.Guy who is calling in a bong threat with his weed phonehttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/images/2008/04/02/drugad.jpegnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-6151407059618306902012-09-28T17:33:49.162-04:002012-09-28T17:33:49.162-04:00I feel like I need to backtrack a bit and say that...I feel like I need to backtrack a bit and say that I don't think that everybody who's behind these little burner performance-art pieces is, like, a friggin' sociopath. This will seem insufferably maudlin, but I think we're all, in our own ways, mourning the comment section we used to have, and I get that some people are handling it by lashing out, or by adopting a "screw this, I'm still gonna get my laughs" mentality.<br /><br />But I still think it's a jerk move to deal with your frustration over the state of the comments by trashing the place (and here, by "trashing the place," I don't mean talking bad about it here or elsewhere, but rather actively trashing it, like a rock band in a hotel room). I am a parent of two young kids. Burner trolling by seasoned commenters reminds me exactly and perfectly of the little-kid thing of destroying a toy when the grownups are forcing you to share it.<br /><br />I'm not saying that because OOH MEGA BURN I CALLED Y'ALL KIDS; I'm saying it because it's true. And I hate that it's true. It doesn't mean that I hate the people behind the Mencias and PaulBlartings and whoever-the-fuck-else. It means that it disappoints me that they won't make the more-mature-seeming choice to either make a positive contribution, or just leave it alone. Or, hell, to make a critical and negative contribution in a constructive, coherent way.<br /><br />Nothing's forcing anybody to sink to the level of Kinja's dregs. It's a choice.<br /><br />If saying that makes me an asshole, that's disappointing, too, but I'll live with it.Shartinghttp://deadspin.com/people/all_over_but_the_shartingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-91303224397348775432012-09-28T15:21:20.240-04:002012-09-28T15:21:20.240-04:00@Sharting
I mean, I get what you're saying, a...@Sharting<br /><br />I mean, I get what you're saying, and it's hard for me to address it without being repetitive. But I guess I'm just saying that Kinja has (sadly) largely ruined things for me, so nothing can possibly inspire enough passion or ferocity for me to take it personally enough to get as worked up as I might have when things were, you know, great. I occasionally get a cheap laugh from a Mencia-type, and the real shame here is that cheap laughs are so welcome in the current sea of shit. Also, I fucking love run-on sentences.Gamboahttp://deadspin.com/menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-55708486687841235662012-09-28T15:13:12.879-04:002012-09-28T15:13:12.879-04:00@Gamboa: That's a fair question. My answer (o...@Gamboa: That's a fair question. My answer (only mine) is that I don't think people should hit the submit button unless their comment makes the comments better. That's it. Every other sports site on the internet has people trashing each other with stuff like that Mencia thing: what brought many of us to this one is that this one didn't (for a time - or at least, this one had a body of commenters and a set of moderators and a collective ethos that prohibitively discouraged that sort of thing). Those of us who still care enough about comments that it would even occur to us to reply to a shitty comment with another shitty one pointing out how shitty the first one is, or to haunt the comments section of a third-party blog hangout for Deadspin commenters, we still have a choice. It's hard to make a convincing argument that one is upset by the lowering of standards while also exploiting those lowered standards for one's own juvenile giggles. <br /><br />If our beef with Kinja really and truly is that it has allowed the site to be flooded with shit, adding more shit isn't "protest": it's surrender.Shartinghttp://deadspin.com/people/all_over_but_the_shartingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-52724312859532244912012-09-28T15:05:29.617-04:002012-09-28T15:05:29.617-04:00Which, ironically, makes a better actor than Steve...Which, ironically, makes a better actor than Steve Guttenberg.I Like Cheap Beernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-84348773442588727192012-09-28T15:01:41.558-04:002012-09-28T15:01:41.558-04:00COOL STORY BRO ALERT!
Years ago, I became really ...COOL STORY BRO ALERT!<br /><br />Years ago, I became really good friends with one of my managees(?) who grew up with Pitbull. He was nothing more than a "local rapper" at the time, so I ribbed her mercilessly. Fast forward all these years later, and I think it goes without saying who had the last laugh. I bet that guy's never even gotten COTF!Gamboahttp://deadspin.com/menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-1199206668589297752012-09-28T14:57:46.951-04:002012-09-28T14:57:46.951-04:00That sounds too harsh. What I meant was, "can...That sounds too harsh. What I meant was, "can go jump into a wheat thresher."BronzeHammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13908490737750052622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-74754153667304531012012-09-28T14:57:17.113-04:002012-09-28T14:57:17.113-04:00I think people know that I don't like Kinja, b...I think people know that I don't like Kinja, but I rarely address it because I see little point. All I do is comment less.<br /><br />That being said, I did have a constructive conversation about it with Craggs way back. It was greatly appreciated, but it changed nothing. All constructive forms of protest have changed nothing.<br /><br />With that in mind, I don't for the life of me understand why people get so worked up about other people's forms of protest, when they are not even the subject of the "attack". I'm not behind any of the shenanigans, I assure you, but why take offense? Maybe I've just lost passion because this incarnation of Deadspin isn't really worth my protection. The Mencia guy has made me laugh a bit. None of his targets have. If he doesn't make you laugh, I respect that. But if you're not the one he's going at, why get worked up?Gamboahttp://deadspin.com/menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-23606637047341106352012-09-28T14:49:14.130-04:002012-09-28T14:49:14.130-04:00Agree with what Sharting said, that is. Guy Who Cr...Agree with what Sharting said, that is. Guy Who Criticizes Me can go hang from a damn tree.BronzeHammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13908490737750052622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-51758312077016654942012-09-28T14:48:07.237-04:002012-09-28T14:48:07.237-04:00I think I pretty much agree with that 1000%.I think I pretty much agree with that 1000%.BronzeHammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13908490737750052622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-48341398055144414362012-09-28T14:31:31.465-04:002012-09-28T14:31:31.465-04:00Seems fairly straightforward to me: making shitty ...Seems fairly straightforward to me: making shitty comments sucks. If you're making shitty comments, you suck, whether you're doing it because you don't know any better or because you think you're being cute.<br /><br />To me (speaking for me, not telling anybody else how they're supposed to do it), it has nothing to do with anybody else's standard but my own. I try to make quality comments, and I respect people who also do that, because I know that it's not easy and I appreciate the effort to make us laugh or think. People who don't try to make quality comments are fine with me, as long as they don't make <i>any</i> comments. People who deliberately make bad or hostile or obnoxious comments are assholes, as are the nitwits who don't give a shit about quality and care only about putting their stupid opinion out there for ten thousand strangers to read.<br /><br />(@Bronze: I'm not talking about occasionally giving a snarky response to some dick who explains your joke or calls you an asshole, here. I think we've all done that at some point. Nor am I talking about getting into it with morons who take up indefensibly stupid positions on things - Lord knows I've done that plenty. I'm talking about people who've responded to the lowering of standards by behaving just as obnoxiously as the burner idiots they pretend to hate so much. And I say "pretend" because for a lot of Kinja's most vocal critics, on Deadspin and elsewhere, it's been a boon: they can now troll and meta-comment and attack people at will without having to put in a nominal and ornamental joke-making effort every now and then to stave off banishment.Shartinghttp://deadspin.com/people/all_over_but_the_shartingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-80976446966830453132012-09-28T14:03:47.179-04:002012-09-28T14:03:47.179-04:00Right? So they use a cardboard cutout and MAKE THE...Right? So they use a cardboard cutout and MAKE THE MOUTH MOVE. If you were trying to make a parody video today it couldn't possibly be this funny. Echohttp://deadspin.com/people/SameSadEchonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-75251159200311964542012-09-28T13:55:54.878-04:002012-09-28T13:55:54.878-04:00I lovelovelove that they got Ally Sheedy, but coul...I lovelove<i>love</i> that they got Ally Sheedy, but couldn't get Steve Guttenberg, because, y'know, <i>Steve Guttenberg</i>.StFhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8UXJE7zpsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-40686589297263590642012-09-28T13:51:41.077-04:002012-09-28T13:51:41.077-04:00Deadspin owes me an h/t!!!Deadspin owes me an h/t!!!Guy Who Says Jerry Sandusky And Others Were Part Of A Pedophile Ring Is Probably Full Of Shitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-64473559521684731782012-09-28T13:42:10.792-04:002012-09-28T13:42:10.792-04:00As disappointed as I am that this isn't 100% c...As disappointed as I am that this isn't 100% clips from <i>Short Circuit</i>, god damn this video is hilarious.Echohttp://deadspin.com/people/SameSadEchonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-10227573874049228162012-09-28T13:33:18.861-04:002012-09-28T13:33:18.861-04:00Hit it!Hit it!Guy Who Sings Who Apostrophe S Johnny When Things Get Uncomfortablehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jaWPQ3Z7FEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-54250702020242505512012-09-28T13:33:16.470-04:002012-09-28T13:33:16.470-04:00Unfortunately, that PaulBlarting fella has been ar...Unfortunately, that PaulBlarting fella has been around for a good long while. He doesn't comment very often, thank God. <br /><br />I don't mind tribute names, so long as they're being used to make awesome jokes. PaulBlarting mostly just seems like a sarcastic, argumentative burner-type. Guy Who Is At The Forefront Of Fashion And Body Arthttp://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/1680/09/1680_1348737378.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-54415107502799893052012-09-28T13:27:23.123-04:002012-09-28T13:27:23.123-04:00I've heard that I'm Sexy and I Know It son...I've heard that <em>I'm Sexy and I Know It</em> song.Raysismnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-66787063519889731192012-09-28T13:26:40.142-04:002012-09-28T13:26:40.142-04:00No, nothing's going to change it. I could cert...No, nothing's going to change it. I could certainly be accused of making inside-baseball comments and trolling the would-be pink commenters and dropping "turds" just like Mencia; I realize it's not going to make the place any better. But after the nth idiot explains my joke in a reply, or tells me to "be funnier", or calls Barry a shithead, I have a lot of frustration built up and making jokes at their expense makes me feel better. <br /><br />If you consider that type of stuff somehow worse than the stuff that inspired it, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm sure as shit not going to till the damn garden if I'm going to be the only one doing it.BronzeHammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13908490737750052622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-75447298821278621032012-09-28T13:14:32.778-04:002012-09-28T13:14:32.778-04:00I've heard that song I'm Wide Awake.I've heard that song <em>I'm Wide Awake</em>.Raysismnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755499102053199917.post-18366564910862944342012-09-28T13:11:13.088-04:002012-09-28T13:11:13.088-04:00I ask myself that every day when I refrain from po...I ask myself that every day when I refrain from posting Jersey Boys.Marv Skeevyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189158304975010368noreply@blogger.com