clearly a psycho copycat out there.

lock your doors, people.

I'm pretty sure this was intended as an improveverywhere copycat thing. Not well conceived or executed though. Too short, too sudden, not subtle enough to have that same effect.

In an answer to the first part of your question, your wording suggested to me that you were annoyed with gay jokes involving blankfist and me. I apologize for misinterpreting that. I am sorry.

To the second part of your question, when you agreed with spoco2 it appeared that you were agreeing with everything he said, not just the part about the porn music. In essence you said you were amazed at how much he and you think alike. That strongly suggested to me that you were also tired of the in-jokes. Again I apologize for misconstruing your meaning. At that time several people were loudly complaining about in-jokes, and your statement seemed to be part of that chorus with the way you worded it.

Of course I remember you asking my permission about your video, and that's why I found it odd that you would complain later when I did it. That was my OMGWTFBBQ moment. Again, the way you worded your reply to spoco2 made it sound like you were in complete agreement with everything he wrote, which is why I thought you didn't like the in-joke about rottenseed.

A series of unfortunate misunderstandings, apparently. I apologize for my part in these misunderstandings.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
First off- I wasn't reprimanding anyone for using an in-joke (note that "an in-joke" is a broad generalization); what I meant, and that's more than obvious, hell, it's the frackin only literal interpretation, was, "I don't like anyone else but YOU and blankfist doing your gay jokes". Gay jokes involving you, not in-jokes in general. Why, you ask? Simple. It makes anyone doing them look like a homophobic copycat. And I wouldn't like to think MG is one, would you?

Second - How on Earth does anyone, you kp, of all people, interpret my expression of enjoyment of a video's ambient music as "admonishing you for doing an in-joke"? WTFBBQ, anyone?

Third - I don't think I need to remind you that when I renamed my video http://www.videosift.com/video/My-wife-TOTALLY-hates-it-when-I-do-this to "Why kronosposeidon is divorced", I specifically asked you for permission and it was you who suggested the title. And it wasn't a gay joke involving you and another user of the Sift. AND even if it had been, I still get to call STALE on something that's getting old; hell, having done it even raises one's qualification in telling whether something's becoming overused or not.


In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
>> ^EDD:
If there's anything stale on the sift then that's someone else apart from kp or blankfist doing THEIR gay-pair jokes. Unfortunately that ain't the only reason for me to refrain from upvoting this. Sorry.


Come come, EDD. Why do you chastise Gunny (and blankfist and me) for using in-jokes, just like you admonished me for an using an in-joke in this instance, even though you felt comfortable using an in-joke about me when posting this video only a few weeks earlier?

If you don't like the video then that's fine. Hell, downvote it for all I care. But please don't take anyone to task for occasionally using an in-joke, especially when you've done it yourself.

First off- I wasn't reprimanding anyone for using an in-joke (note that "an in-joke" is a broad generalization); what I meant, and that's more than obvious, hell, it's the frackin only literal interpretation, was, "I don't like anyone else but YOU and blankfist doing your gay jokes". Gay jokes involving you, not in-jokes in general. Why, you ask? Simple. It makes anyone doing them look like a homophobic copycat. And I wouldn't like to think MG is one, would you?

Second - How on Earth does anyone, you kp, of all people, interpret my expression of enjoyment of a video's ambient music as "admonishing you for doing an in-joke"? WTFBBQ, anyone?

Third - I don't think I need to remind you that when I renamed my video http://www.videosift.com/video/My-wife-TOTALLY-hates-it-when-I-do-this to "Why kronosposeidon is divorced", I specifically asked you for permission and it was you who suggested the title. And it wasn't a gay joke involving you and another user of the Sift. AND even if it had been, I still get to call STALE on something that's getting old; hell, having done it even raises one's qualification in telling whether something's becoming overused or not.


In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
>> ^EDD:
If there's anything stale on the sift then that's someone else apart from kp or blankfist doing THEIR gay-pair jokes. Unfortunately that ain't the only reason for me to refrain from upvoting this. Sorry.


Come come, EDD. Why do you chastise Gunny (and blankfist and me) for using in-jokes, just like you admonished me for an using an in-joke in this instance, even though you felt comfortable using an in-joke about me when posting this video only a few weeks earlier?

If you don't like the video then that's fine. Hell, downvote it for all I care. But please don't take anyone to task for occasionally using an in-joke, especially when you've done it yourself.

First off- I wasn't reprimanding anyone for using an in-joke (note that "an in-joke" is a broad generalization); what I meant, and that's more than obvious, hell, it's the frackin only literal interpretation, was, "I don't like anyone else but YOU and blankfist doing your gay jokes". Why, you ask? OK, maybe you don't care, but lemme explain anyway: simple. It makes anyone doing them look like a homophobic copycat. And I wouldn't like to think MG is one, would you?

Second - How on Earth does anyone, you kp, of all people, interpret my expression of enjoyment of a video's ambient music as "admonishing you for doing an in-joke"? WTFBBQ, anyone?

Third - I don't think I need to remind you that when I renamed my video http://www.videosift.com/video/My-wife-TOTALLY-hates-it-when-I-do-this to "Why kronosposeidon is divorced", I specifically asked you for permission and it was you who suggested the title. And it wasn't a gay joke involving you and another user of the Sift. AND even if it had been, I still get to call STALE on something that's getting old; hell, having done it even raises one's qualification in telling whether something's becoming overused or not.

And MG - it's not a smackdown if someone else does it for you. And, sorry, "pwnwned" is not a smackdown, either

>> ^kronosposeidon:
>> ^EDD:
If there's anything stale on the sift then that's someone else apart from kp or blankfist doing THEIR gay-pair jokes. Unfortunately that ain't the only reason for me to refrain from upvoting this. Sorry.

Come come, EDD. Why do you chastise Gunny (and blankfist and me) for using in-jokes, just like you admonished me for an using an in-joke in this instance, even though you felt comfortable using an in-joke about me when posting this video only a few weeks earlier?
If you don't like the video then that's fine. Hell, downvote it for all I care. But please don't take anyone to task for occasionally using an in-joke, especially when you've done it yourself.

Okay, how about this theory:

What we see is real, but we are falling for misdirection.

The clunky white "phone" may be something else which actually emits microwaves of the intensity to cook the kernels.

I thought it looked out of place in the vid, but was surprised to see a very similar device in the copycat vid here

Heh, Alias intro. copycat!

Yes, DEFINITELY *lies. I was going to say * wtf instead of worldaffairs in the submission I was about to put up, but otherwise, you got it.

I found it via RPS:

"The shooting has thrown everyone - even more than any terrible killing in a high school - because Steven Kazmierczak doesn’t fit into any of the easy stereotypes for those who might usually perform such a crime. From the scraps of information we have, it seems he had recently stopped taking psych meds, and taking into account his actions, would indicate paranoid schizophrenia. Obviously this is speculation. But intriguingly, it’s speculation based on facts, rather than randomly attributing a cause de jour in order to propogate someone’s personal agenda.

The opening question (once we get past the entertaining moment of the anchor accidentally sharing everyone’s wishes):

“What does it tell you about this guy, the suspect, that he’s twenty-seven years old - he’d already graduated - not an 18 year-old, a 17, 18, 19 year-old student currently enrolled?”

Thompson’s reply:

“Well, we find from brain scan studies out of Harvard that if you get started, for example, playing violent video games you can, er, more likely copycat the behaviours in the games.”

The rest of his speech is the usual nonsense and undemonstrable claims about a connection between previous high school shootings and video games, but it’s this first sentence that merits the most attention.

Thompson’s a lawyer, so I’m not going to say he’s lying. But I will say what he says makes no sense in any possible way. Even if there were these “brain scan studies”, how exactly would a functional MRI demonstrate the likelihood of a “copycat” shooting? Is there an animated picture of a little pixel gunman firing a weapon on the scans? It’s gibberish. It’s the sort of woo-woo nonsense you expect to hear from someone trying to explain how their crystals prevent cats from being afraid of ghosts. “Harvard you say?! Gosh, that sounds scientific!” It’s embarrassing.

The most frustrating thing about this man’s escapades is it obfuscates what might be a very serious subject. What if violent videogames could have a negative correlative effect on young people? This is something we would surely like to know, and see studied rationally. People like Thompson (who encourages far greater feelings of violence in me than any “training simulator” like, er, Counter-Strike: Half-Life ever has) stifle this discussion through their sensationalist bullshit.

To conclude, I’d like to transcribe his last sentence.

“One of the things personally disturbing for me dist, including the fact that we have a community now of survivors and victims’ families all across the country like at Perduco who go through the trauma of these type events with the families who are, uh, most immediately hit in this way most recently because they themselves have endured these type situations is the, um… err, the… uh, fact that, you’ve got, um, uhhh, uh, I wrote a, I’m sorry I lost my train of thought, because, uh, but, uh, I wrote a book called Out Of Harm’s Way for a Chicago publisher in which, the, the only chapter they deleted was a fictionalised of, of one of these incidents in which I I said that a kid should walk onto a stage in an audatorium and open fire with a shotgun and they dist they deleted it because it was too disturbing.”

“Campus shooting expert” indeed."

I think the decision then was 2week ban first offense. permanent ban for 2nd.

as MG linked to Dag:

>> ^dag:
Beyond QM I think this is also a referendum on voting and the community. I see this vindictive behavior as a kind of vote fraud.
I don't want it to become commonplace, as it will lead to acrimony and possibly the complete degradation of the site from a great community to a perpetual shit-flinging festival.
So I take this very seriously as an important decision-point for VideoSift.
On the other hand, as much as I disagree with QM in almost all his comments, I recognise that it's important to protect dissenting voices and alternative views. I don't support an outright ban.
In this case, (and any future cases) I recommend a 2-week suspension, with complete banning for a second offense.
We should apply the same penalty to Mkone's inane copycat downvoting spreee. (if you're going to be a jerk - at least be an original one).
Also, I don't agree with "retribution" tit-for-tat down voting sprees.
What say ye all?

oh please, blatantly, this is utter bollocks, is a lame copycat, I mean, even copying the style of the original "announcement" - anyone who actually believes that this is a sanctioned response...no...

It sounds like a lame ass, with a lack of imagination...

Hey, I just noticed that cat stole my guitar-licking maneuver! Copycat! (Okay, I realize that last remark should be grounds for a lifetime * bannination. What can I say? I like living on the edge.)

"In this case, (and any future cases) I recommend a 2-week suspension, with complete banning for a second offense.

We should apply the same penalty to Mkone's inane copycat downvoting spreee. (if you're going to be a jerk - at least be an original one).

Also, I don't agree with "retribution" tit-for-tat down voting sprees."''

I agree 250% with Dag, that's better then that measly 110% that everyone else talks about. The last thing anyone who cares about this site wants is a torn troll infested yousift.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Beyond QM I think this is also a referendum on voting and the community. I see this vindictive behavior as a kind of vote fraud.

I don't want it to become commonplace, as it will lead to acrimony and possibly the complete degradation of the site from a great community to a perpetual shit-flinging festival.

So I take this very seriously as an important decision-point for VideoSift.

On the other hand, as much as I disagree with QM in almost all his comments, I recognise that it's important to protect dissenting voices and alternative views. I don't support an outright ban.

In this case, (and any future cases) I recommend a 2-week suspension, with complete banning for a second offense.

We should apply the same penalty to Mkone's inane copycat downvoting spreee. (if you're going to be a jerk - at least be an original one).

Also, I don't agree with "retribution" tit-for-tat down voting sprees.

What say ye all?

"But also no, he's not amazing (unless you can count following the directions made by someone else amazing). Downsifting: Copycat."

Well...that was pretty cold.

That kind of logic would make actors copy cats because they're performing Shakespeare, or pianists copy cats because they're playing Chopin.

Dang, for a minute I thought that was David Lee Roth from his Eat Em and Smile album but I guess it is just a copycat photo.