Not enough drama in everyone's lives?
This is rediculous. The bickering back and forth ad nauseum has become a broken record of note and I'm rather tired of it all.
Case in point as to why as an advertiser on this forum, I chose not to participate in the early going. In my opinion, combining the two forums into one event is an exercise in futility - the bad blood that spawned that site in the first place would require far more than a social gathering to mend any fences between the initial combatants. Believing otherwise is naiive. I personally would rather not have anything to do with the other message board myself for a multitude of reasons.
At the end of the day, this was a FREE party and NOT a commercial event geared for profit. The politics born f this event alone proves that many within this biz (on a local level, anyway) cannot look beyond their own issues and agendas because there's always one side acting like an imbecile.
As for the other forum, some asshat has taken it upon themselves to hijack the Sardonicus handle to stir more crap. Personally, I find it rather humorous in that idiots like that have been affected to such a degree by my presence in the local industry.
I guess for an industry that always seems to be on the take, it's much harder to give than to receive. And when the contrary occurs, the cynicism within comes to the fore and it degenerates into a slag fest...