I like it. I only participate very sparingly in some musician specific forums, which are fine if you want some detailed technical discussion, but TBH, musicians can be kind of .... hard to get along with, both IRL, and especially online, some real ASD types that I can't really relate to. Basically, musicians are difficult nerds who seem obsessed with petty sniping, personal political or ideological agendas, and general dick-measuring.
And a very small, general interest board basically with only a few other people active -- we just trade jokes, quotes from history and literature, idle chit chat, and talk about movies, at a very slow pace. And Facebook, maybe once a week I'll look at my feed and maybe make a comment or two to the few people among my already deliberately small list of friends who aren't on my "restricted" list. I've taken to posting there only in French lately in an effort to obfuscate my insane idiotic blather, and also to make some vague cultural and political statement -- it's only a second language, but I like keeping up with the kids' chat slang, just for laffs, but I've been thinking about following Beckett's lead and making the switch in writing in that language just to....I don't know, see if I can find something new, or at least play some OuLiPo-style games in making homophonic bilingual puns, or something. Just an idea I had a few weeks ago.
Different user names. I don't know why I picked this one, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Like taking your clothes off and running into a bunch of cactus plants, but, hey, it's only words.
I like it here because it's low-key, low nerd trivia alpha-poster upsmanship, and, well, being both a very good INTJ, I'm also kind of a bad one, in some way, falling short of my ideals often enough that, while I've learned how to manage balance relatively quickly, it needs improvement. Should have been complete ten years ago, but there were other ponds to fish that ended up not very fishy.
If I may add, the MBTI, which I called elsewhere my "new toy," was a neat discovery. I'd discovered the relative position of my various functions, in some odd conceptual model which I can't remember how I conceived it, but I'm happy to use the clearer model of the cognitive stack, precisely because it mirrors my own understanding, and I don't have to expend anymore effort in fumbling around with various half-baked, home-grown theories. It's good enough for me.
Plus, no one seems to complain about me, probably because the kinds of threads I've seen are pretty clearly delimited, and I don't have any desire to say too much outrageous bullshit out of sheer boredom, confident I can stick to the topic at hand.
I know, tl;dr, but I don't know. In for a penny, in for a pound. "Never get off the boat. Absolutely goddamned right. Unless you were going all the way."
