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He wants to be right. That is the bottom line on most of his posts.
Spilner. Despite the fact that you and I disagree often and, frankly, clearly don't seem to like each other (at least the online versions of ourselves), I am constantly bending over backwards to try and find common ground, get along with you, and compliment you when you link to something cool or have a good theory/idea on something. Yes, I deliver a playful jab your way from time to time, and maybe I shouldn't, but it's pretty apparent that you're projecting onto me here. Despite my efforts to get along, you post from time to time these snide, snarky remarks directed at me, and this one in particular is just blatantly false.
Because I have admitted MULTIPLE times today, in this thread, that I was wrong. In fact, not only here, but on this board in general, I ALWAYS go out of my way to either admit when I was wrong about something - or - caveat a post of mine saying that I could be wrong about whatever it is I'm predicting, answering, etc. With the amount of questions I'm asked daily on this board, I do my absolute best to make it known that I may not have an answer, but will do what I can to give the most informed opinion I can. And yet, without fail, even though the question was asked of ME, and I admittedly don't fully know the answer to it, someone like you ALWAYS chimes in after the fact and calls me out for being wrong or for being a know-it-all or that I can't stand not being right or some other ridiculous bullsh*t. When, in reality, anyone with two eyes and a shred of common sense sees how many disclaimers I post or that I swoop in the second I realize something I said doesn't end up being true and I fully cop to getting it wrong. I do this time and again and am extremely self conscious in trying to present a sense of transparency when it comes to my right or wrongness.
And frankly, I'm ******* sick of this attitude toward me from those who so desperately want me to be the bad guy or the "king" who's always trying to rain on everyone's parade from my ivory tower in the Hollywood hills or whatever - who is also apparently secretly obsessed with showing a bunch of commoners how right and knowledgeable I am. When, in reality, I try and I try and I try to continually say that I don't have all the answers, and make an effort to admit when I'm wrong. But because I still defend my opinions more often than not, don't like the prequels, or can't stand the endless parade of people coming to an entertainment board to sh*t all over Hollywood, I'm some high and mighty assh*le who "just doesn't get it" or has my head so far up Harvey Weinstein's ass that I can't see the truth.
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SeattleAgJr said:
TCTTS has admitted his line of thinking has changed, and quite a bit. Not sure why you are going on about this.
Hell he is even apparently ignoring a glowing video by Dykstra herself saying all the kind things he did for her after surgery. If he was fundamentally an a-hole and did 1/5th of the crap Dykstra claims he did, then he would never have done that.
aTmAg. Do you REALLY not see the irony in the standard you're holding me to? I think Hardwick is an assh*le. I have every right to believe that, and only a percentage of that belief is based on Dykstra's claims, which likely at least hold a shred of truth despite her craziness. I don't think what she did was right, and I don't think Hardwick deserved to lose his job over it. I'm merely saying that it's not one or the other. She can be a crazy lier and he can still be an assh*le. One doesn't necessarily negate the other.
But now YOU'RE the one snapping to judgement - because we STILL don't have the full picture - and now you're judging me for... I don't even know what anymore. All I know that it has everything to do with me not agreeing with you. Even though I've said I have. Which makes you insufferably stubborn in the face of me saying over and over again that I was wrong. Same as Spilner, it's clear that you have a narrative you're going to stick to no matter what, no matter what I say, and this too is something I am beyond fed up with from not only you, but a handful of hard-headed posters who desperately want me to be some Hollywood assh*le I simply am not.
So, with that, in addition to a number of other increasingly toxic factors on this board... I'm out. Not for good, but for a good, long while. Maybe some of that toxicity lies within myself, for how much and how passionately I either choose or am forced to defend myself on this board, or because of the know-it-all impression of me so many of you have, and that I no doubt fall into from time to time. So, for the time being, I'm simply going to remove myself from the equation and hopefully this place can somehow return to some sort of equilibrium or chill. Because the finger pointing and the arguing and the all around negative atmosphere has been building and building, and tempers have been increasingly flaring over the last few months, to the point where this board just straight up isn't fun anymore. I miss what it used to be, and hopefully it can return to that without my presence for a while. I simply don't know what else to do.
And this isn't some pity party either. I need a break from this place as much as some of you seemingly need a break from me. I have a script I need to have done by Labor Day, along with three shows we're trying to set up by then as well, and I can't keep wasting time arguing with a bunch of axe-grinders on the internet. At least not for the next few weeks. So, yeah... I'm out. And while I am, hopefully some of you can get your dislike of me out of your system, or can get over your apparent seething hatred of Hollywood while I'm not around to fan the flames.
