I need a break.

WARNING: BORING LIFE STORY
I think I’m done with Tapology for now. These past few months have been fun, but I’m drained from all the negativity surrounding this place, and that’s in-part due to my own actions as well as others. 

Reason I came to this place was so I didn’t feel lonely watching MMA cards anymore. I used to have a group of friends but after Covid **** changed and we distanced from each other. Wasn’t any hostility in it, just circumstances. I found Tapology under a recommendation of a friend because I originally tried Sherdog and…yeah, I’m sorry, Sherdog sucks balls lmao

I have had some fun times here and have talked with some genuinely cool people. Making jokes while Oron Kahlon got the living **** beat of him on the contender series, and guessing Julianna Peña would beat Amanda Nunes as a joke was some of the funniest **** I’ve ever been a spectator for. I’m a pretty big misanthrope honestly, but interacting with some of you has been a blast. 

That being said, the negativity on this website has gotten me pretty drained as of late. Toxicity is pretty common here. And no, not the kind of toxicity where some of you ****post pictures of 9/11, or rant about how much China sucks (that **** is hilarious) I mean the select few of you who act high and mighty about your picks on a fight card, and then when it goes horribly wrong, you either cross your arms in the most defensive ***** manner imaginable, or just pretend that miscalculation of judgement was some form of robbery. At first it was cute, now it’s legitimately ******* annoying. It’s a number dude, get over it, nobody is ever going to go above 70% on their betting percentage, and even those with just 70% or slightly lower usually grind from betting on one-sided regional events where the favorites are quadruple digits in odds. It kinda pisses me off.

One person in particular, said I was ******** for picking a certain underdog. Now, I get it, the analysis that I posted wasn’t the best and that fighter’s odds were pretty low at the time…but sure enough, my bet wins. Did I get an acknowledgment from the guy who said I was a ******? No, nothing. He just stayed silent throughout the rest of the card, then tried to act all goody-goody with me when I started posting different predictions. I’m not gonna call anyone out (I’m sure any vets of this website know most of the ones I’m referring to) but I got so sick of seeing ******** like this that I started adopting this hard-ass persona to “roast” everyone, and as a result came off more or less like an unfunny prick. I have a dark sense of humor, but what you’ve seen the past month or two ain’t who I am. I just want to have civil, interesting discussions about MMA matchups. That’s it. Yet, I feel like I have to be a try-hard to fit in with most of you, and for that, I’m sorry.

Mentally, I’m exhausted. I used to do this for fun but as of recently, my health has depleted due to my workload, I haven’t been able to train at the gym as consistently as I wanted to, and my picks on the site have suffered as a result of my stress. I don’t want to sound like a ***** or nothing, but I wanted to post this cause I don’t know when I’m coming back, and I see a lot of old accounts from years ago where they never gave a reason why they disappeared. They were just…gone. Surprisingly, some of you seem to think I’m still cool or whatever, so I wanted to leave to let you all know I’m leaving to improve myself as a person and focus on more important hobbies. I apologize for any harm I might have to you as a person or in general, even if I genuinely don’t like how you portray yourself online. I’ll see you all again…whenever. 

Speaking of Reddit, one of the mods from R/antiwork went on Fox today. This is how autistic and ******** the moderators on that site are. These are the people moralising to you on that site.

* Edited at 01.26.2022, 2:04 AM ET *

You use terms like "autistic" and "********" too casually. Especially for someone who thought Trump won the election.

Thinks.

They moderate for free, you know.

No reddit mod gets paid a cent.

I cannot even imagine how much of a loser you'd need to be to do that.

As for what sites Baldric hangs out on, I assume it's pretty much patriots.win a little bit of 4chan.  Since most of the images he embeds into his forum posts are hosted on those sites.

@Stephen Terry It's not just fighters who are like that, the NFL has a big problem with a percentage of it's roster not being vaccinated. Some have even gone so far as to fake vax certificates. I can't find the article but I remember reading one that said the more time a individual spends trying to increase their athleticism or physical health the higher the likely hood of COVID skepticism.

@Greg mostly just patriots.win, I use the curated version of 4chan that is the Reddit 4chan sub. Unfiltered 4chan is too much for me these days.  You do get a dose of the lunatic fringe on .win with a healthy spattering of bible thumpers but at least there are no pictures of dead people and every second post isn't about how Jews are plotting to take over the world and eat everyone's babies.

* Edited at 01.26.2022, 2:37 PM ET *