Yet another GAF thread - I still haven't got over it :( (No spergfits allowed)

[Rufus]

This is why I stay out of the OT (except DeutschGAF).

[Narag]

Sadsic was (apparently) molested by his stepfather (and apparently by his biological mother as well) when he was a child so I can't hate on him too much.

There was also something about his grandparents making him sleep with his sister or some crazy shit. I don't envy the guy's life at all.

[Atramental]

I wonder if his stepfather was wearing a pony costume when he did it.

[helios]

Whelp, got banned again for calling him an asshole.

[nobody of note]

KevinCow's behavior in that thread is an excellent argument for a mandatory 48-hour temp ban after threatening suicide on GAF, especially if you're citing GAF posts as your motivation. It's just not good, and he's got people willing to talk to him about it outside of GAF.

[Rufus]

Whelp, got banned again for calling him an asshole.

Unsurprising.

[Snuflupagulus]

#teamDevo

[Sausage]

Jesus Christ. Eat a hot lead sandwich out of a shotgun, Kevin.

So tired of his shit.

edit: Oh. And you're right demi. I am fucked in the head. 

weren't you supposed to not post in this thread anymore.

[Polari]

Kevin turns the whole you attract more flies with honey saying on it's head. Never has a more abrasive poster garnered such sympathy. I'm glad he is okay but still

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59698013&postcount=338

They should perm this distinguished mentally-challenged fellow already, for his sake and for everyone else's. Dude needs to start taking some responsibility for his own shit, pathetic.

[Joe Molotov]

Kevin turns the whole you attract more flies with honey saying on it's head. Never has a more abrasive poster garnered such sympathy. I'm glad he is okay but still

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59698013&postcount=338

I know, right? Just because I slit my wrists for attention doesn't mean I want a bunch of assholes acting like they like me.

[Atramental]

Jesus Christ. Eat a hot lead sandwich out of a shotgun, Kevin.

So tired of his shit.

edit: Oh. And you're right demi. I am fucked in the head. 

weren't you supposed to not post in this thread anymore.

Yes.

But I lied because I'm an addict and addicts never really get over their addictions. 

Anyways, at least this thread keeps me from posting on GAF.

[Purple Filth]

thread is locked now

[MIMIC]

KevinCow's behavior in that thread is an excellent argument for a mandatory 48-hour temp ban after threatening suicide on GAF, especially if you're citing GAF posts as your motivation. It's just not good, and he's got people willing to talk to him about it outside of GAF.

I agree. If he really is depressed, he should be banned for his own good. Temporarily at the very least.

[helios]

Whelp, got banned again for calling him an asshole.

Unsurprising.

One should be able to call another person an asshole no matter the circumstance

[Snuflupagulus]

Scorcho - felt sad at his passing.  :'(
KevinCow - who? ok. ...who?

[Tasty]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59700249&postcount=375

Apparently saying you should bail out of threads that are depressing the shit out of you somehow isn't the sensible option, and putting GAF on Hugcon 4 is.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59700809&postcount=391

I can't tell whether the Devo blaming is an attempt at being ironic, or just being massively stupid. I'm leaning towards the latter as this was posted after KC told everyone wishing him well to fuck themselves.

"I got an idea, why don't we shut the whole forum down! I mean, someone could get offended by a misused comma and kill themselves. WE CAN'T TAKE THAT RISK"

[Rufus]

One should be able to call another person an asshole no matter the circumstance

I'll keep that in mind for your cancer diagnosis. (Not saying that I disagree entirely, but you know, reading this thread the unspoken, nebulous rules don't always seems so unspoken and nebulous.)

[radioheadrule83]

Only just caught up on events there...

It would have been terrible if he'd killed himself. The idea of romantic love he's pining over is as rare as unicorn farts, its a shame his depressive condition won't let him take a more dispassionate view and see that. Feeling lonely and depressed is horrible, I think we're all there at some point or another, and it can't help if you're mentally or chemically predisposed to feel that way. His current posting will seem ungrateful, angry or bitter to some, and maybe its all of the above, but fuck me that would have been a defeatist way to leave the world. He's right that most people don't know shit about him, but I know I must have personally read hundreds of his posts over the years, and I feel like I at least know the name KevinCow was a GAF regular... meaning he must be well established and reasonably well liked, and never really fallen foul of the people in power.

Certain sections of GAF patting itself on the back for saving him is a bit nauseating, as its the least people can do when they know someone is going to do something that irreversible, damaging or possibly fatal to their life...

the guy needs help. And not the virtual strangers telling you they love you kind of help. Real help. Like CBT, counselling, maybe drugs, and more. I don't know enough about Devo to care who she is or what she's said to this guy (I don't really dislike her either) but the guy needs a backbone or aforementioned help if he wants to find answers and meaning for his life on the anonymous asshole-filled internet.

[FStop7]

Cow is so invested in a message board when what he needs is professional help.  I would say he should be banned for his own good but he'd just move to a different forum.  I hope he gets help before he actually does commit suicide, real talk.

Same goes for sadsic.

[Tasty]

I'm glad the ninthing threatening to kill himself wasn't rhr though, I might have felt bad if that was the case. Thankfully rhr knows how to take a joke.

[helios]

One should be able to call another person an asshole no matter the circumstance

I'll keep that in mind for your cancer diagnosis. (Not saying that I disagree entirely, but you know, reading this thread the unspoken, nebulous rules don't always seems so unspoken and nebulous.)

I hope you do. Or anyone, for that matter.

And I really don't care about the ban; I expected it to happen.

[Snuflupagulus]

"Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide.' He told me from now on I have to pay in advance."

Oh Rodney!   

[Momo]

Oh man, that thread is pathetic, why did i bother to read some of it

[Vertigo]

This is what? The second time Kevincow has done something like this on gaf.

It's not fun for the people he blames or his family getting panicked calls and emails about his wellbeing. It's an especially disgraceful shortcut to mass attention and then to see his actual reaction to people's concerns whether they were real or fake was the kicker.

[Cascade]

Wow, 2 suicides in the KevinCow thread within a few minutes:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=59719657#post59719657
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=59719929#post59719929

i am alive

Shame.


Diaf.

die modafocker

Are these guys OpaAgers?

[Tasty]

Copernicus is a cool dude, but he's had a problem with drunk posting many times. It's a shame as he just came back from a ban yesterday. Guess he doesn't like GAF anymore.

Edit- This makes two posters I liked that KC has chased off GAF. When will it end.

[milchs evil twin]

This is why I stay out of the OT (except DeutschGAF).

OT ain't bad. It's the reason I'm still on GAF. It's a place where I can talk about stuff I like that people around me don't care about, like some TV shows like AD and especially the NFL.

Gaming is much worse, it sometimes seems like one continuous meltdown.

[Shaka Khan]

Guys, he's alive! He just wanted to let you all know in case you wanted to congratulate him but couldn't when the other thread got locked.

[Purple Filth]

in more "cheerful" news another thread of Insomniac reaming 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569141

some of the dissenters are out in full force.

[Michael Moaner]

I'll say what we're all thinking - Kevin Cow is a little bitch.

[Shaka Khan]

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

[Verdigris Murder]

Is that an ironic post? Giving him the heave ho at this moment in time displays a staggering lack of something, probably empathy.

[Vertigo]

Is that an ironic post? Giving him the heave ho at this moment in time displays a staggering lack of something, probably empathy.

Did you read his posts in the virgin thread and the one that was posted about his wellbeing?

I mean if simply discussing why you can't get laid leads to post like this.

Do you think wellbutrin, cymbalta, and klonopin would be enough to kill me? I also have a bunch of trazodone but that's at home.

2 bottles of klonopin down

not sure if I should do wellbutrin or cymbalta next

thank you devo for showing me the error of my ways and clarifying that i'm an awful and selfish person for wanting to be loved. i understand now that it's something i don't deserve

wellbutrin down

think i'm gonna go to sleep now

I have sympathy but it was foul attention seeking at it's finest. He needs help and being on gaf is only going to add to him acting up. Him posting that 'i am alive' thread was obviously the last straw.

[demi]

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

It was either him or Devo, they were both liabilities.

[Verdigris Murder]

No, it's absolutely the best thing he could have done.  For EL, having a member around who is constantly trying to commit suicide and starting to pin the blame on other members is a very bad situation.  For KevinCow, it's clear that wallowing around on that forum taking every intended or unintended criticism as a major slight is only making the situation worse.  EL is right - there is nothing at that forum that can help him.  At best it's causing him to ruminate his suicidal thoughts and reinforce his negative self-appraisals.  At worst, he's developing a learned behaviour of attempting suicide or threatening to in order to receive attention.

I don't know where Kevin's future lies, and I don't know if it's a happy or long one, but step one for him is to get the hell away from the Internet, and a ban from NeoGAF will probably help him do that.

I suppose you have better informed knowledge on how this is, but just booting the guy from a place that seems to a replacement for real life interactions JUST LIKE THAT isn't really how you should treat a case such as his. But like I said, I'm just going off pretty superficial info, and in the scheme of things, I find the sort of feigned concern evinced on Internet opinion boxes over people with issues to be at the best cringeworthy and at worst self-serving.

People in need of a supportive community aren't really going to find it in depth in a place like neogaf, especially not with the power structure as it currently stands.

And I still refuse to post there until I receive my grovelling apology from the blond pop-tart opiate for his annoying simplicity.

[radioheadrule83]

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

It was either him or Devo, they were both liabilities.

I don't know where Kevin's future lies, and I don't know if it's a happy or long one, but step one for him is to get the hell away from the Internet, and a ban from NeoGAF will probably help him do that.

TBF to him, Evilore's brave to do that in a way... I'd be worrying about whether or not it would be another thing that might push him over the edge from cry-for-help to serious-danger-to-himself... and I'd be wondering if something did happen now, how all those who made that outpouring earlier would feel. But as you say, when it starts to involve other people I can see why he's shutting him down and giving him a shove towards some healthy advice. Hope he takes it.

Maybe he does need some time away from the Internet, but I'm not all that confident he won't just join up somewhere else, or just allow the ban to further feed into his self loathing. The guy absolutely hated himself before all this, I can't imagine he feels any better now.

[demi]

Jesus Christ. Eat a hot lead sandwich out of a shotgun, Kevin.

So tired of his shit.

edit: Oh. And you're right demi. I am fucked in the head. 

Told you so. Bitch.

[thisismyusername]

in more "cheerful" news another thread of Insomniac reaming 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569141

some of the dissenters are out in full force.

I'm lovin' it. The game's boxart should be near the word "mediocre" in the dictionary. It's that apathetic.

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

It was either him or Devo, they were both liabilities.

http://i.imgur.com/JOS9sD4.gif

Because as much as you want to peg her as the cause, she really isn't. Kevin is blaming her for his own fucked-up mental views after she gave him some (to quote Andy) "real talk" a year back that made him increasingly hostile toward her in other threads until this breaking point.

She had nothing to do with his suicide. It's fully him trying to blame-game it on her.

[king of the internet]

So they finally jettisoned KevinCow for good. He's done this in some form or another how many times now?

 I don't mean to underestimate the effects that mental illness can have, but the dude was a pathetic mess. Airing his business on a message board, but then rejecting any advice offered by people naive enough to think they could help,  and sometimes even getting hostile towards the people who offered up some real talk (like Devo). It's all happened before and was bound to happen again. He never showed any sign of willingness to change, and it was about time they cut off his mic.

[Steve Youngblood]

So they finally jettisoned KevinCow for good. He's done this in some form or another how many times now?

 I don't mean to underestimate the effects that mental illness can have, but the dude was a pathetic mess. Airing his business on a message board, but then rejecting any advice offered by people naive enough to think they could help,  and sometimes even getting hostile towards the people who offered up some real talk (like Devo). It's all happened before and was bound to happen again. He never showed any sign of willingness to change, and it was about time they cut off his mic.

Yeah. That right there is pretty much why I feel compelled to stay way the fuck away from situations like that. I really don't know how debilitating that kind of mental illness can be. My gut instinct is that he needs to unplug from the internet and commit to psychiatric attention, but like any of the other facets of his life that he feels are holding him back, I don't think it's an overnight cure. I've never taken psych meds, but you always hear different stories from people who do as to whether or not they really help or just make things worse. And given that he always seemed so desperate for that seemingly overnight cure, what do you for the guy?

[radioheadrule83]

in more "cheerful" news another thread of Insomniac reaming 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569141

some of the dissenters are out in full force.

I'm lovin' it. The game's boxart should be near the word "mediocre" in the dictionary. It's that apathetic.

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

It was either him or Devo, they were both liabilities.

http://i.imgur.com/JOS9sD4.gif

Because as much as you want to peg her as the cause, she really isn't.

Man, I'm just kidding... the guy's problems are his own.

[Rufus]

Gaming is much worse, it sometimes seems like one continuous meltdown.

It's still useful as a news source and there are a handful of topics and OTs I sort of kind of read, but yeah, it's a cesspit.

[FStop7]

Is that an ironic post? Giving him the heave ho at this moment in time displays a staggering lack of something, probably empathy.

As a forum owner EL can't really let someone who actively blames other members for his suicide attempts just hang out and continue to do what he does.  But at the same time, like I mentioned earlier, KC is probably just going to drift to another forum.  He needs real world help.

Can't believe I'm saying something positive about EL right after those chickenshit bans of AM and Riggs.

[Momo]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154331721

what a fascinating thread, bb's ability to have their jimmies rustled for the smallest bullshit amazes me

[Atramental]

Love that bb rage. 

example:

[king of the internet]

Is that an ironic post? Giving him the heave ho at this moment in time displays a staggering lack of something, probably empathy.

As a forum owner EL can't really let someone who actively blames other members for his suicide attempts just hang out and continue to do what he does.  But at the same time, like I mentioned earlier, KC is probably just going to drift to another forum.  He needs real world help.

That, and I'm pretty certain that KevinCow has already been banned multiple times for the same kind of shit. Empathy was probably what prevented his last bans from being perms/super long, it's not the GAF mods fault that he kept coming back for more.

[Himu]

I see KevinCow on Shenmue Dojo sometimes. Oh god.

[Momo]

[totally not a creep]

Well, fwiw, it's over: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59725909&postcount=120

Good jon, EL.

negates all the things he says with his closing "Best of luck, and come back and see us some day." wouldnt that just lead to more suicide attempts?

[Rufus]

I think the idea is for him to come back when he's better, but whether or not he'll understand that is anyone's guess.

[FStop7]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154331721

what a fascinating thread, bb's ability to have their jimmies rustled for the smallest bullshit amazes me

Best part is the OP's name is an Ace of Base song - the absolute pussiest of pussy assed Swedish pop groups.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

lol how fucked pu do you have to be to kill yourself over a internet girl

[FStop7]

I should have guessed that a site with drunk driving and pedophilia defense forces would have an anti-seatbelt defense force, too.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=568969

[Vertigo]

Has Devo been on here today?

[Eli Gulgin]

I just realized she hasn't posted here or on GAF after the KevinCow thing. I hope she's not beating herself up about it, the dude is fucked in the head and decided to hate on Devo more than anyone else trying to talk sense into him because she's a girl and girls hate him anyway, in his mind. What a fucking lowlife trying to pin the whole thing on her.

[Atramental]

You can only argue with manchildren for so long before it takes an emotional and mental toll on you.

[Squiddy]

FFS, this is why i dont post on gaf
its just the jeremy kyle show (nerd edition) in text form - you're just going to lose if you try to take part of it.

[Brehvolution]

I just realized she hasn't posted here or on GAF after the KevinCow thing. I hope she's not beating herself up about it, the dude is fucked in the head and decided to hate on Devo more than anyone else trying to talk sense into him because she's a girl and girls hate him anyway, in his mind. What a fucking lowlife trying to pin the whole thing on her.

I'm sure it's unsettling for her. Probably taking a break from it all.

[Sausage]

Yeah that's why I never take part in serious discussions or get into debates. Not really fun for me. I have a feeling that she takes shit too seriously on gaf.

[Phoenix Dark]

Yea, I wouldn't lose any sleep over KevinCow. He's been threatening to do various things for some time, and clearly enjoys the attention it generates.