I could die in the next year for some reason too, it's not because someone knows he's gonna die that his life suddenly becomes more important than the life of others.
As someone who doesn't know much about Ayuyu and is taking this topic at face value, I'll say you guys are overreacting.
Perhaps Ayuyu's uncle is a complete ass. We know NOTHING about him, except for what very little Ayuyu has told us, and yet everyone is jumping to conclusions about Ayuyu being a terrible person and his uncle "deserving his love" or whatever. A little more nuance would be in place.
My 71 year old grandpa went through chemo. His skin turned green as an adverse affect to the radiation. The doctors at his hospital had no clue what was wrong and had never seen that reaction before. He was bed ridden for 6 months before passing away.
He used to talk my ear off about Vietnam and stories of his youth, neither of which I was interested. There were some good ones but a lot of them were tedious.
What did I do?
I asked him everyday to tell me more stories.
When you're on your deathbed, the most scary thing is to think that no one will remember you after you die. Having people listen to stories about you is comforting because you know at least someone out there might remember you.
Your uncle just wants to make a connection with you. Death is scary. The least you can do is listen. The most you can do is actually care.
From: CycloRaptor | #053 ayuyu you have literally posted that it is stupid to have empathy before and you are claiming you are not a sociopath.
nobody on this board starts disliking users because I do, lots of users I think suck are quite popular.
don't blame me for other people not liking you. ITT people are literally quoting the things you say and giving those as the reasons you are awful.
As I said there's nobody on this board that is in a better situation than me to know what a sociopath is, I've been dealing with one for the past 3 months and hell if it's not annoying.
Sociopaths always try to go to the limit of legality, I've never done it, they can't admit their faults, I can (I ever did it in this here topic!) and hey I can have empathy, I'm having empathy for my parents at the moment because they've been dealing with my uncle for the past months, always going to pick him up because he wants to leave his house, taking him to the hospital for his treatments, I've seen my mother crying over this a ton of time and **** it doesn't feel good. Yeah I guess I'm somewhat bitter towards my uncle because while he has cancer he still makes my parent go through hell because of it, they didn't have the time to relax since he got this and I really don't like it, they've already done so much for him and it makes me sad to see that it might still not be enough. My parents are the nicest and most generous people I've ever got the chance to know and man they don't deserve this, yeah it's nice they care about him but the rest of my family does nothing to help on their own so my parents have to spend their money on transportation, food for him and they can't even have time for themselves because of this.
So yeah, empathy I feel it for my parents, and I do feel some for my uncle but he's not that close to me so yeah even though he's the one dying of cancer I still feel more empathy towards my parents who can't even sleep because they're too stressed over the whole situation.
He seems to be embracing death anyway so while not happy for him I won't be sad for someone who's not even sad himself.
okay, w/e, i don't want to discuss your family situation
i am just saying don't blame me or a bandwagon for people disliking you when they are literally quoting things you say as reasons they don't like you. you may not understand why or disagree with their judgement, but just stop pretending it is no reason.
From: junk_funk | #054 My 71 year old grandpa went through chemo. His skin turned green as an adverse affect to the radiation. The doctors at his hospital had no clue what was wrong and had never seen that reaction before. He was bed ridden for 6 months before passing away.
He used to talk my ear off about Vietnam and stories of his youth, neither of which I was interested. There were some good ones but a lot of them were tedious.
What did I do?
I asked him everyday to tell me more stories.
When you're on your deathbed, the most scary thing is to think that no one will remember you after you die. Having people listen to stories about you is comforting because you know at least someone out there might remember you.
Your uncle just wants to make a connection with you. Death is scary. The least you can do is listen. The most you can do is actually care.
Thanks for reminding me that not all people are terrible human beings.
From: AlphaRayAllen | #060 In Ayuyu's defense, you guys gang up on other users all the f***ing time.
And you can't tell me of all people that you don't.
Of course people gang up on users.
That said, at least 95% of the time they are terrible users. Make a list of the people who have been "ganged up on" over the last few years. Then ask yourself, who in there is a good poster?
No matter what "the hivemind" or "the clique" or whatver says, you'd never be able to get everyone to gang up on Chris or Ed or anyone. Because they're good posters and worthwhile human beings.
This isn't middle school. People aren't just bullying the nerdy kid who doesn't talk to anyone. That kid is the easy target in school, but they're not an easy target here because nobody cares about that kid. On Board 8, the easiest target is a terrible user.
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From: Ayuyu | #040 And I guess people here can't handle people who don't hide their flaws to gain e-pop, everything I say on her is 100% true and I've not made up a single story.
People on this board may hide their flaws because it is a f***ing normal thing to put your best foot forward. Please Ayuyu, for all our sakes, hide your flaws.
Anyway I can guarantee you that most of the board do not have hidden flaws that are ANYWHERE near as bad as the flaws you flaunt.
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From: KingButz | #078 People on this board may hide their flaws because it is a f***ing normal thing to put your best foot forward. Please Ayuyu, for all our sakes, hide your flaws.
Anyway I can guarantee you that most of the board do not have hidden flaws that are ANYWHERE near as bad as the flaws you flaunt.
Yeah no, why would I care about hiding my flaws on the internet, anonymity is an amazing thing! I don't need the approbation of anybody on here because I already have the best friends ever IRL and I don't need anything more so I'm just 100% myself on here and it's fun to blow some steam sometimes. Though tbqh I don't really act any differently IRL but the people I frequent know me well enough to know that even though sometimes I say things that could be considered evil that I'm one of the most inoffensive and nicest person ever.
I mean yeah I say '' bad '' things but I never act on them because I wouldn't be able to.
From: Ayuyu | #079 Yeah no, why would I care about hiding my flaws on the internet, anonymity is an amazing thing!
Then go somewhere else. You should know by now board 8 is not like most 'internet' places as in it's a community with lots of people not hiding behind their anonymity and where most people actually interact with each other instead of just venting and hoping for 'lulz' or whatever you seek.
But it's not my dad, it's an uncle I see maybe once a year and an alcoholic (and I really have trouble respecting alcoholism).
If it was my dad you can be sure as hell I would listen, especially since my dad NEVER talks, I hear him say maybe less than 10 words a day (I'm probably inflating the numbers there) so having him tell me stories would be an amazing experience.
Neon is a cool guy IMHO. Didn't care for him in his "neonreaping" days (flooding topics with "who wants my nuts" and "balls"), but I don't see him doing that much anymore.
I hope I'm not here trolling people when I'm over 30, though.
Well now, it's not even 100% sure it'll kill him, he still has at least 2 years and people who survive terminal cancers aren't unheard off!
Though yeah I must admit I am selfish sometimes, though I made up for him by taking him to the store so he could buy alcohol, but then that was probably a mistake, not that I could say no, would've been asking for trouble.
I'll put it in math terms for you so you can not understand it in a different format.
Board 8 Popularity = Average Quality of Posts * Quantity of Posts (actually, it's probably more like an integral or a sum, but whatever)
neon's posts are usually high quality or neutral/forgettable. His popularity has gone down because he has posted less, because people like reading more of his quality posts.
Meanwhile, your posts range from "terrible" to "waste of time", giving you a negative value for average quality of posts.
What I'm trying to say here is that the best way for you to be more likeable is to drastically reduce your posting.
Problem with b8 is that a good post seem to = a post I agree with or a post that bashes something I don't agree with.
I mean I've posted opinions that were much more tame than that (like about music and games or whatever) and I've been called a terrible user for it, so I'm starting to think that even if the opinion or the post isn't that bad that it's because of the poster that a neutral post becomes terrible.
The opinion in this topic is more outlandish but whatever, I still say I can't stand people who keep talking to you even if you don't care, cancer or not.