When we used to have custom belts, I wasn't really a regular member that posted tons so I didn't meet the post count requirements for a custom belt.
But I had the join date down, and I remember posing my tiger belt and you said "close enough Cornish" and put the custom belt under my name. I appreciated that very much.
Wonder if you remember haha.
I do remember that belt. I'm sorry I'm sorry I don't remember you, but thank you so much for that. We're both alive and here, today right now. We can rectify that. Message me. I'm slow on replies sometimes but we should be buddies. You caring to post that is gonna stick with me.
They say Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. From sitting on couch in the sticks to another one, you tell me that's not hilarious. There were 9 or 10 admins doing duck duck ban, and there were two good ones. Jeff told me, over a smail period of time (because I was enjoying myself, I've been banned three times, once as moderator, and I had to double yellow card myslef (which was tricky, you see how I am with clips). I got intellectually boxed into a corner and acknowledged. I should have been banned but I wasn't sure I'd be able to get back in.
In a box of admins, some good ones, some friends. And then there was three for a long time, Crippler from England, I love that man and he just faded off to me. Do you know how long I was the only administrator? I just had the Meat Fist account but Garrett (Jeff's Tech guy, my best friend) he called me up and said, hey we'd like to you be an administrator. I said, man, I'm off topic this isn't gonna go over well. Can I just administrate when I'm drinking? He said you bet. I would only post under this account while I was drinking, ...and you see how that worked out. I love my old account.
Brother, I got to run this website for a giant amount of time. I would pass out arguing with a guy I wouldn't ban anyone who fucked with me, I drove mods nuts. And as any good dictator, I brought in every friend I had, that changed this whole fucking place. I brought in people who hated me because they were awesome, and I sold out for coming out of OT, where I belong. Some of the admins were not cool and banning everyone I cared about so I thought, and no easy decision. I lost a lot of good friends for selling out. That was a defining moment. I thought, I'm the arch nemesis of Dave Hojack (the main admin) fuck did we clash, He once said to me, you'll get your just deserts. I said a dry arid piece of land?, and then my screen went black. it was like that.
... If you were you and thought what if I could clutch both fists and bring Off Topic, real Sherdog,bring all the great ones in and the one defining coda, please don't ban unless it's egregious porn or shit outside of anyone, ...this whole place used to be off topic, there wasn't a bunch of forums. People came here because this was the real wild west of the internet. That's not a joke, that's what brought me here from a brother's push. It was 98 and he had a compture and I asked who was fighting and I swear to god, he said this is stupid, buy a computer, go to sherdog, they're never gonna see you coming, you'll run that place. I don't want to run shit. But if that played out for you. Also, my back was broke, I was here all the time. It was four months in, around there, I get a call from Garrett again. Hey, we want to pay you. I said, man, no I don't want to get paid to do this, it changes the feeling. He said well, I have your info we're gonna pay you. I got paid $400 a month for doing this. ...and with no words spoken, through the years it was $600 dollars, ...time passes no words $800 10 12 . So I have his number too. He says as we make money, it's you me and Jeff. He said every six months for a while, 500 dollar increments. And that happened, and it's hard to type that. I was at the post office one day around Christmas, and I got a little Christmas card from Jeff and Garrett and a check for $2500.
I broke down crying in the post office, I do that sometimes anyone, it's up to you if I'm crying now.
I suppose of one who's read and invested in all this shit, you might wonder what I did with the money. That's something to play with no?
I never told anyone about the money. I cashed it and put it under my tv, and every time the wife or one of the kids had a bad day, or you got hit from the left in life, I plugged holes in a life. That money went 3 or 4 or 20 or 50 years. This place helped my family, how do you get paid to be you, an idiot. Nietzsche said, I'd only believe in a God who dances. Just as the money was rolling in the ducats, something bad happened and I was in the hospital for 3 months, the website was sold, the new owners couldn't justify me. I literally got a phonecall that went like this: "What do you do here exactly?" I was so dumbfounded I said, and what could you say. I said I administrate the website. I run the forums." there was no reply. I got a click and no more checks. I actually made a call and said this is my job, this is how I live. It came to naught. I lost my house, should have died in the hospital, wheelchair for a while, phonecalls antidepressants everyone who cared assumed I was gonna do it. I wasn't a 100% I've never been. I went silent here for a long time. And when I came back, I'm still an admin, the secret is there's a little box you click on so you can do your admin shit. I forgot that password, and maybe pride who do you ask if you can be an admin again. I would like to get it back, mainly because the dipshit I am, I struggle with posting clips, a girl I was with took the laptop off my lap and hugged me took a picture of us with her kiss face. I said, this fucking thing takes pictures?
So if a party was going on, or just random friends making fun of me, I'd wake to crazy picture on my screen. And I wanted to save them, a bunch but didn't know how, so I would go in the admin panel and upload the picture to some old banned account as their avatar and jot a note. Alot of people in those pictures are dead and I don't have any other pictures.
I miss getting drunk and allowing free porn in the pics forum as long as I was awake and could delete. When someone did something really cool, you get a free platinum membership. I miss whimsically being able randomly to do something nice for someone ....from a fucking typewriter. I miss some of that, but I had my day in the sun here. I assumed I'd just be gone when I logged in.