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Sweets grasp of technology is comically poor.
I'm surprised he even knows how to use an oven or a microwave....
🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas
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Sweets grasp of technology is comically poor.
I'm surprised he even knows how to use an oven or a microwave....
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Sweet froze developmentally around 23 or so. I liked the 90s as much as the next person who was alive then, but that's in the past. Music, technology everything's advanced. Computers are much easier to use now than they were in 1997. Remember having to fuck with IRQ settings? The days before plug and play? I much prefer 2015 tech to 1997 tech. Once again, Sweet is clueless about something essential to modern life. Someone who is so adverse to learning new things deserves to be miserable.
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They have closed new registration for the time being due to the spilled milk. The mods said they will approve new accounts after things calm down.
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He cooks a mean Hot Pocket, and can also make ramen.
Sweet Bro doesn't have a credit or debit card, but he does seem to have a bank account. His brother allegedly stole money from him by taking advantage of Jon-Boy's foolproof security system: he wrote a number of blank cheques and hid them in a lockbox under his bed.
Yes, Sweet's idea of keeping his money safe involves writing a number of blank cheques, signing them, and putting them all in the same place.
It's been speculated that he no longer controls his own money.
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AJM's damage mitigation strategy is terrible. They've allowed the presence of one dysfunctional user to compromise their forum.
They must have thought keeping sweets as a conservative hugbox was worth it
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Here's something I really regret not screencapping from AJM before Calm-Down Time was enforced. In 2012 (iirc) the forum had an election for a new moderator. They treated it like a political campaign - each candidate set out a platform, they had debates, posters were made. Sweet was one of the candidates, although he eventually lost out to a brony newfriend.AJM's damage mitigation strategy is terrible. They've allowed the presence of one dysfunctional user to compromise their forum.
They must have thought keeping sweets as a conservative hugbox was worth it
One of the questions was, essentially, "what would you do if someone is persistently disruptive?" Sweet's answer was oddly prophetic - he said that certain individuals reach a point where they need to be banned, at least for a while, to protect the forum and make them see they need to change.
I don't recall the exact phrasing, but it's a really nice contrast to what's currently occurring.
If anyone with access to Pyongyang Equestria wants to go looking, I think the thread was called "Your View" or "Your Position" or "Your Stance". Possible keywords might be "disruptive", "unfortunate", "sad".
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That's interesting. I'd look that up myself if patriot equestira wasn't in lock-down mode.
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That's actually a fairly novel way to have mods. I don't forsee it working, but it's novel and I kind of like it in its own broken way.
And I forgot that Sweets alluded to the fact that he SIGNED those blank cheques. That actually ranks up real high in the list of dumbest things he's ever done. Right up there with harrasing the College when he got fired from the Herald or not understanding how to get home from a hospital without a ride. You do not trust the addict with money, as they can and will spend it to keep the high or stave off the low if pressed.
And I forgot that Sweets alluded to the fact that he SIGNED those blank cheques. That actually ranks up real high in the list of dumbest things he's ever done. Right up there with harrasing the College when he got fired from the Herald or not understanding how to get home from a hospital without a ride. You do not trust the addict with money, as they can and will spend it to keep the high or stave off the low if pressed.
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Well, looks like the 1997 ASU Herald produced at least one successful newspaperman.
Scott Mitchell won a prestigious award for copy-editing in 2002, and his career seems to have headed upward since then, to the point that he's writing front-page headlines.
I for one salute this hardworking journalist, and hope that he periodically takes time to celebrate his success by eating sumptuous, buffet-style meals and watching lots of TV channels on a big television.
Scott Mitchell won a prestigious award for copy-editing in 2002, and his career seems to have headed upward since then, to the point that he's writing front-page headlines.
I for one salute this hardworking journalist, and hope that he periodically takes time to celebrate his success by eating sumptuous, buffet-style meals and watching lots of TV channels on a big television.
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Hell, Windows 95 was widespread by 1997. He acts like you had to know how to use punch cards to use a computer back then.
That's basically what Wikipedia does.
I thought I remember him getting angry and denying that he signed the checks, but rather that his brother forged his signature. (He has been known to ret-con his past fuck-ups to make himself sound less stupid, though.)
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I think he has contended that the cheques weren't signed. However, a bunch of blank cheques with no signature is basically a chequebook - and I think even Sweet Bro realises this. Thus, I think that his system definitely involved filling out at least part of the cheques in his stash.
In any case, he comes off as
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Regardless of whether or not Sweet signed the checks, his brother committed fraud. I wonder why Sweet didn't press charges. It's clear there's no love between them so that wouldn't have stopped him. Maybe his mother wouldn't allow it. Or maybe Sweet has some aversion to calling the cops since he's been on the wrong end of their services more than once.
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This?
When asked
"If a well respected and long time member of AJM STUDIOS.NET 'snapped,' and started posting things against the rules and spam our forum, what would you do?"
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That's scarily prescient.This?
When asked
"If a well respected and long time member of AJM STUDIOS.NET 'snapped,' and started posting things against the rules and spam our forum, what would you do?"
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It's a good thing there's no one at AJM Studios who has a hangup they can't let go, tries to stir up like-minded allies for personal campaigns against real or imagined foes, or has divisive, quixotic vendettas!
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This?
When asked
"If a well respected and long time member of AJM STUDIOS.NET 'snapped,' and started posting things against the rules and spam our forum, what would you do?"
HAHAHA OH WOW!
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It reminds me of projection, kinda. Usually when people noticeably project it's something bad about themselves shining through. In this case Sweet's projecting, well, us and everyone who tries to set him straight.
I find it unusual because if you asked, for example, Chris Chan to explain how he'd set limits for someone acting like himself you'd get a lot of silly nonsense answers mixed in with a few good ideas. But Iconoclast seems capable of fully turning off his inner autism when he needs to. Funny then that he can't do it permanently, or see and admit his own flaws well enough to constructively criticize himself and resume normal development.
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I think it was mostly because of Sweet's aversion to change. Sweet was kicked out of the gig at the Herald, which probably felt to him like the ban from the GAMe PLACe felt like to CWC. The drama that obviously unfolded after Sweet was kicked out of ASU altogether would also have been somewhat like the GAMe PLACe drama - repeated attempts at contacting staff and sneaking back in.
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