♪♪Got the club going up on a Tuesday!♪♪
♪♪Got yo girl in the cut and she choosy!♪♪Now hold the hook for a second, while I take a moment to represent myself in a manner that isn't filled with curse words. Let me clear the air for a second because I realized that the majority of GH doesn't remember the events that took place, and (here's the important part) WHEN they took place. It's easy enough to simply put all the problems on me, and hey, that's fine. I'm here 2 years later without a care in the world, and bridges long burnt behind me. Geekhack will always be a beloved community to me, I love what it stands for and what kind of people it attracts, the analytic, self-served, and righteous opinionated folk. It stirs up discussion, challenges the norm and constantly evolves as new generations are being bred.
When I first started, I spent a lot of time on the community, writing guides, taking pictures, showing the world (literally all over the world) pieces of information that weren't available to them at the time. I helped tons of people, and of those tons of people, there's probably only a handful that really, really don't like me. And as jdcarpe said, that's their opinion of me. What's factual is that before I left, and even still today, I'm constantly receiving emails and PM's (on reddit of course) about how my blog and contributions is what started them on the path of Mechanical Keyboarding glory, and honestly that feels pretty damn good inside, dem feels naw mean? So even with all the bull**** that I stirred up in the past, I don't regret it for a second. Now, should I apologize to those that are (still) butthurt? Maybe...but to be honest, I don't even know what jdcarpe is upset about lol...I don't even remember blasting him on anything.
Regardless, I'll refresh everyone on the chronology of events as they happened. I'm called a hypocrite, and it's a true story. It's evident in my past and evident today. But why did I become one? Well here's why (and you won't find any of this information anymore as it's been long deleted): I was an advocate of keeping CC (and other novelty keycaps) prices down by defending GH market rules (i.e. making safer sales, no privatized sales, creating a list of shady buyers, making a list of people who were influencing/inflating the market, etc.) and was opposed by the GH moderator team at the time. Today, I see that there have been many improvements, but not for the sake of keeping novelty keycap prices down which is still good honestly. Anyway, being a strong advocate of that, I lobbied for a safer market and yet, people on GH still bought into hype, still spent absurd amounts of money and I felt that was all because the moderators had a secret initiative (with vendors and others) of making money. Many, many (many), people PM'd me saying (and still do today), "Oh I wish I could buy my first CC for $x, but I can't afford it with the prices as they are" and those are the cries that made me fight. I fought and fought to have more stabilized rules in place and wasn't making any progress. I tried to become a moderator but was quickly shut down. I tried to post in moderator forums, and they got deleted. So what could I do? I became crazy, one-sided and decided to reveal the secrets of many of the moderators at the time. Was it a ****ty thing to do? Yes absolutely, the world had to revolve around me and I needed to get my point across one way or another. I was ready to burn bridges, I became a martyr and decided that I've been driven to madness because of the community. And that's when it happened, I became a hypocrite. I took everything I stood for, and proved to the community that an ******* like myself could get away with making thousands and thousands of dollars on little pieces of plastic. Afterall, the community that I once loved now doesn't have my back, so what else could I do? I'm not the type to to sit back and relax, and if I was, I certainly wouldn't have contributed as much as I did.
So drama queen aside and the majority of that drama deleted, here I am 2 years later and I'm STILL being talked about, god damn! To jdcarpe, we've done lots of business in the past and I certainly hope the logistics of it all never impacted our deals so I'm curious to know why you think I'm such a douchebag? Is it because I took your CC and re-sold it for more money? I'm just puzzled. But in any case, you're from TX and I'm in Chicago, we both have eachother's address so you and I certainly both know where eachother live, and I can even PM you my phone number. I'd love to buy you a drink sometime and maybe talk it over. Unless you're tsangan, mkawa or jcrouse, I doubt you hate me that much
♪♪It ain't no way no how♪♪
♪♪I made it on my own, I made my own style♪♪
♪♪I don't think that I should stay, you know I gotta go♪♪
♪♪You moving too fast, don't want to take it slow♪♪To those still frequenting my blog, keeping in touch with me, and sharing your stories, I love you guys. Keep it up! Peace y'all!
P.S. GOD DAMN VERIFICATION. The male population has an issue with color blindness and this is how I gotta do it?!
