The troll doesn't seem to think I understand their motives but I do.

I do not know who this person is. I have no idea.

However:

This person is upset that oddtodd.com is not what it used to be. They miss the characters, cartoons, mep, elf up. Halloween. April Fools. All of it.

As often do I.

My apparent disinterest in the website seems like a betrayal. Our troll is no doubt longtime fan who I'm sure wants the anticipation of new cartoons again. The occasional Deng arrival. A new game here or there. The promise of something more.

I left the Laid-Off story unfinished. And broke promises all along the way with weekly cartoons and all that. Multiple times.

And I completely understand. I made a pact. I broke my word. Time after time. I overpromised in the hopes it would spark motivation and inspiration. But other things got in the way. Usually things that provided a needed paycheck. For my broken promises-- I apologize. I got lazy.

I've tried to explain to this person (numerous times) that the high level of maintenance to a website that operates as a 4-figure annual net loss (always has) -- eventually boxed me into a corner. I found myself having sold 'Odd Todd' as a network sitcom, animated cable show, webshow, book, and movie. None of those projects made it into reality. It was a bummer. It was hard. But I realized this character would live on happily on my website.

So I happily chugged along doing some ABC toons or Test Kitchen toons -- and maintained the site as I always have. Got comfortable as a freelance animator. Keeping a pie-in-the-sky project always a possibility.

But eventually, I realized I was simply half-assing everything. And as my freelance work started to become less frequent and money became scary-- I realized I had to reinvent myself. To do so, I needed to step back from the hours of daily work I'd put into the site. I needed to focus on myself. Stop living project to project. I needed to re-focus and relaunch my actual career. Re-focus my talent.

But our troll did not like what the site has become. Something so personal -- became distant. As if the one person who seemed to care so much -- simply stopped caring. Stopped being passionate. As if I took my ball and went home.

It wasn't easy pulling myself away from the site-- but it was essential for my own survival. Creatively, emotionally and otherwise. It was time for me to second wind it. I wanted something more. Something bigger. I wanted to at least get out of my apartment sometimes. I needed to step back and use my time better than spending an afternoon going to a movie I had no interest in seeing just to spend 2 hours writing a movie review.

Although I've long promised projects and announcements. Those things are not in fairytale land. The science fiction script I sold last year is awesome. The sci-fi horror movie I sold this year is amazing. And I have an animated TV show in development.

Of course, no promises. I know things go away sometimes. I've had my share of disappointments. (For ex. ZG wanted to play Odd Todd in a live-action movie and it went as far as seriously almost). I've had professional heartbreak.

But if I didn't step away from the website I was going to go down. Good vibes for all but me.

So to the troll, I have three words for you. Go fuck yourself.

Go fuck yourself for your selfish idiotic bullshit. Go fuck yourself for being an asshole to all the good people who visit this board. Go fuck yourself for dismissing the 7 or 8 years of DAILY work I put into making my website great. Consistently cranking out work. Writing as much as possible. Toons and games. All for the fun of it. Waaah! Go cry somewhere else or troll somewhere else like a petulant child who demands the network bring back their favorite TV show... Waaah!

Everyone on the site and this board goes with the flow. Grows and evolves. Come and go. You're the one stuck up against the rock. Free yourself. Re-invent who you are. And cut it with the bullshit. I don't owe you an apology. I don't owe you fucking anything.

It's time. And if you sincerely want to make a fresh start you still can be welcome here. If you detatch who you are and start over. And you can start with an apology. It'll probably be accepted.

This board is that great.

Change it up. Or leave.

Wow Todd! Thank you. Thank you for sharing. That actually made me a bit teary. Thank you.

Team Odd Todd! FUCK YEAH!!!!!
ZG? Really? Dude, you tha man.
Congrats on the scripts and new endeavors!

what does petulant mean?

Do you KNOW how Google works???

ETA

Here:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=petulant

Thanks for the brief peek tOdd and congratulations on your writing success! Let us know when your next project comes out and I'll make sure to buy tickets for myself and all my buds.

Wow! Congratulations on all the movie stuff! ZG playing you would be so awesome!

Best Vibes to you, with a Goat!

Awww truly! That's awesome

And you still posted that, Deng troll? What a complete asshole you are.

I can't even imagine how embarrassed I'd be as a human if that was addressed to me. Karma's a bitch. I hope it gets you. Good.

And good for you, tOdd. As someone that posts here mostly anonymously I know I'm not the favorite of the regulars, but I do love your site and wish you all the best. The people on this board are really great and I'm always amazed how they help each other. It's really unique and special and none of it would be here if not for you. Congratulations, and good luck with the new stuff!

DUDE! You were totally channeling your inner Kevin Smith! Roll with it- Huzzah!!

(SHIT! Need to shake off that Steampunk vibe...)

So glad you shared!!

Congrats on the good news and sorry about the disappointments...

and thank you so much for keeping the site and this board up and running. It's really a great place.

(((Todd's Bunghole)))

Shouldn't have made me laugh during this Very Special Episode, but it did.

Razor sharp words of honesty and passion. Much respect to you, Brother tOdd!

Good luck tOdd! Thanks for picture too!

I want every success for you, in many ways because it saddens me that Kim Kardashian can succeed without a shred of talent, and she's not shining your shoes given your overabundance of talent.

GO TODD!

What Squid said!

I can't wait to be able to tell people "I met the guy who wrote this"

Braggard.

See, Troll? This could be you. You could be saying "I knew him when" instead of endlessly crying that you don't have a new Laid Off cartoon. He's giving you a chance to be a decent person. Take it, moron.

A little more, every day, I lose faith in humanity.

So what?

You're not helping.

You'd think this plea would mean something. The fact that it doesn't makes me sad.

That's right Deng Troll! Enjoy living in your parents basement.

Well put, Todd. Sorry you have to put up with such bullshit. Someone gets THAT bent out of shape because you are providing a quality website with FREE entertainment? FUCK 'EM.

This site is much loved and appreciated by a lot of people. Good luck with your projects - you deserve it.

We just have to keep posting, keep up the fun in spite of the haters and the nay Sayers and the quitters. F em all right in their you know where's!

Beetlejuice?

I adore you more than words can say, tOdd.

Good stuff Todd.

If none of us have ever said it (and I'm sure some have), we're all proud of you. Your work has always been creative and funny and I'm happy for whatever you can provide these days (I happen to like the news bits). Like all of us, its been fun to see you grow and change over the years...and really its been crazy how we all have.

Excited to hear about whatever path you take and hope you continue to share a small part with all of us. You helped me during a very low and lonely part of my life and I'll always appreciate that.

Worth noting that while the animation drew people in...your just as talented at writing. Seems like that's something you can do with a bit less effort than the animation takes? I like how the site is now.

Well said PJ.

So proud of you, tOdd!

Anyone who could get that bent because you were working instead of providing free entertainment for them needs to reevaluate their life and realize the world doesn't revolve around them. It's a tough nut to swallow, but growing up does have it's painful spots.

Way to go tOdd! Life has its ups and downs and you need to do what you have to do. The bills don't pay themselves, I know how that goes as do a lot of others here. Do it like you need to tOdd! And congrats on all the stuff you have going on!

We all love you! (and Rocose too!)

Keep plugging away dude.


Peace and happy trails!





"There has to be an invisible sun."

Yes it was well said by Pee Jay...until he put "your" instead of "you're" and spoiled everything.

Please don't take this as a defense of the Deng Violator by any stretch, but I know that you have received payment from this website. Perhaps there was an assumption that this was your job?

Even if it was his singular source of income, so what? No one here pays for anything, unless they buy something from his store.

When you pay $14 for some 3D movie nonsense, you can complain (to a point, respectfully). But when the dude cranks out dozens of toons and hundreds of movie reviews, daily updates, etc, and doesn't charge a dime, complaints go in the circular file and to the STFU dept.



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Great news Todd. So happy for you.

Deng Troll: what The Man said. Go fuck yourself.

Hey Todd,

I just had time to read your post. Good for you, my friend. It's great you're doing what's best for you and yours. I'm sure you'll throw this place a creative bone from time to time. Just following your life and career has been rewarding. You're a fascinating person and one hell of a writer. You have a great way of relating to your reader. It seems effortless, but I'm sure it isn't.

Anyway, I hope you don't spend another moment considering this idiotic Deng jackass.

Sincerely,

CapsLock

I love it when tOdd gets all shirty and snaggletoothy.


Well written my friend and you know we wish the most fabulous things for your personal and professional career tOdd muah!!! xoxo


Sorry you still have to weed out the nutters

Thanks yall

Im late to the party, but just wanted to say that you're the bee's knees, tOdd. Thank you for this place and for all that you do. You're the best!

"I don't really know, but I suspect the addition of nuts." - Squid

Go Todd!!!
You are awesomesauce. Always have been.
Even before awesomesauce was a thing.

Good vibes for a great future!

My longstanding willingness to be open and honest speaks for my dedication to this board and t0dd, I think.

Oh Captain, My Captain!

Post script: your site appears to be down.

Oh Todd Thanks so much for that post. Very real and heart felt and received the same on this end. On every end I am sure.

We got choo!

I love you, tOdd!

We've all really grown up together, in a sense, here on this little bored through all these years. LOVE you ALL, BORED. (except for the asshole who has apparently been shitting around... that person can suck my dick!!!). heh.

Thank you, Todd. You are good peeps and I am glad to be a part of this board.

I'll chime in here too. My Mum always told me, don't let the bastids grind you down.

I like that advice.

Hay Todd ! ... I am loving you for posting this!!!!

...But I am one to be very sad ! And wishing you can do a little toon from time to time ! IF YOU CAN !! or mabey one little toon every year! To see What MEP and elfUP is up to !


P. S.

YOUR A GREAT GUY !

...And I love that you are apart of our life!

You are there when some one needs some one! When that some one is really down ! in there life !

And THANKS TODD for all the stuff you do for us fans ! You will allways be my FRIEND !!!! ;D

Yeah! What Wind In His Hair said!!!

The anon troll wouldn't be half so bad if only they'd at least change the bloody record! What about a bit of creativity, ya big numbnuts!

Mev, I understand what you're saying. But Facebook is free and there's been a shitload of complainers on here about it.

And Facebook pretty much does exactly what Mev counsels with most of those complaints, don't they?

The difference also between Facebook and tOdd, is that FB is making MONEY. Their model worked, and to some extent it works because there are people for advertisers to reach.

tOdd is sharing that his model did NOT work. He made a bunch of toons, he did a bunch of clever stuff, and he lost money on the site, month after month. So regardless of how much the Deng violator loved the stuff and is now pissed that it's gone, well - it's like bitching about the loss of a favorite TV show, ain't it? If no one else was watching and therefore no advertisers wanted to spend money on it... it gets cancelled.

Now, presumably everything tOdd did on the site is what ultimately got him all that other work and maybe it's not fair to segment the site as a financial loser without giving it some credit for the ABC toons or whatever, and maybe we should be looking at the TOTAL profitability of OT Enterprises writ large, but the bottom line is that businessman Todd Rosenberg has gotta go where the money is, and where people are willing to compensate him for his considerable talents.

Or put another way, "What do you want Deng asshole - for tOdd to starve while making cartoons for you?"

That said, any expectation that the rant at the top of this thread would actually stop such a character is ridiculous. But tOdd knows that.

A few people have written in regarding moving the forum. Not going to do that. As much as Net54 is wonky I'm happy with it and certainly not going to do a move based on whatever.

Also there's been interest in the idea of doing something with the IP address of the troller. For now on I'll post the IP address of the poster and whoever wants to do stuff with it can feel free.

Heading down to Maryland today! So I'll be offline for a bit...

Thanks for all the good vibes and well wishes and support and stuff !

You Rock tOdd!

The main site has always been secondary to the bored for me. Although I'm not around as much as I used to be (work, new interest, etc.), I still keep up with many of the friends I've made here. I'm always connected somehow or other to the bored... kind of like the Kevin Bacon thing or something :p

Screw the trolls. They will always be out there. Keep doing what you do and make us all proud to have been associated with you in one way or another.

"This is a fun place, but these people will turn on you like a pack of badgers on meth if you're not careful." - big d

Huh? Moving isn't the issue. N54 has all the tools you need, I'm pretty sure.

Does anyone have any hesitation about bugging him even more with your emails?

What do you mean, anonny? Him - who?

tOdd. Bugging tOdd.

You all suck just as much as Mr. Deng's fucking moronic violator. This is turning off a regular visitor here WAY more than any stupid anon bullshit I've ever seen. Noon? East coast? Please.

That's your opinion and nobody cares what you think.

YAY!

tOdd said "For now on I'll post the IP address of the poster and whoever wants to do stuff with it can feel free."


Where's the IP? Let's try and identify this ass!

***Cue bored mob!!!!!!**** Let's GET EM!!!!!

So, so stupid.

You can't do anything with a stupid IP that's probably on some proxy 1500 miles away from the moron.

And other anon? Fuck you, too.

I heard Mr. Deng is a crack head.

Die, please. Just die. I'm sure no one will miss you.

@Anon 12:27 PM:

You're swearing to yourself. Not a good sign.

Die, already.

Nice period. Apparently you're on it. All the time.

A. I'll do whatever the hell I want, dickhead.

B. See A.

Yes, Period. You've made that abundantly clear. Your lack of genitals and overinflated sense of "power" has made this place miserable for the handful of people that once enjoyed it. Are you proud? Is your microscopic dick hard? Good for you! Now, go play in traffic. Or I could tie a pork chop around your neck so the dog will play with you. Would you like that? Huh? That's a good troll.

At least I'm not the Deng Troll. You're all talk.

I don't think Deng violator cares in the slightest if his IP address is found. He'll just repeat the cycle all over again.

It's too busy fapping to all this attention and impotent rage.

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Anyone that says Kim Kardashian has NO talent has never seen her sex tape.

I'm not suggesting that Todd make a sex tape though. I love Todd, but not that much.

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Sure you do. How can you not love this?

Fake.

Really? How do you know?

He was there. With a bag of onions.

@Arwen: No self-respecting woman would lower themselves that way.

Wait. That's a woman?

That's tOdd. I officially have NO idea what you anons are talking about.

I would like to see who gets the 100 on this one. So I'm shamelessly bumping it to 86 without adding anything relevant.

Those sure are some big feet for a lady.

Someone just ERRR'd in this thread and I'm refusing to scroll through the pile to find it. This is my line in the sand, man.

Heading home today. I'll post IP address later to do whatever with it...

Which IP address? I'm pretty sure there has been more than one anon person on this thread.

All anon is the same, like the Borg, which also only has one ip address

How has this not reached 100?

Soooooo close!

Ha! You can almost smell the crap in the above anon's diaper as they worry that tOdd will post ALL anon IP's, and not just the Deng violator's.

Won't happen don't worry.

I thought that too, Squid. In the same vein, Anons are allowed here and if I was strictly anon it would unnerve me that "the randomness that can be Todd" would post my IP for no foul done.

Oh great, Anonagoogoo is back. I wonder how many months ago that was still in the least bit entertaining.

Im not moving til this thread does. Lets get it done.

Por vous, mon cherie.

100!

I love you Minion.

Shouldn't that be "ma cherie"? Or do you think Appy is manly?

I don't speak French. I'm more into Spanglish.

Everybody loves a grammar nazi!

Oui, c'est vrai.

Dont hate ED.

Why would anyone hate ED?

(See, Appy? Comma usage is KEY )

I don't think she meant to use a comma. She was telling her minion not to hate me for being a grammar Nazi, rather than telling me not to hate.

Oh, so she's deliberately cultivating an air of ambiguity? Way to remain enigmatic, Appy. Well played!

Heh.

Please you two are correcting me and English isn't even your first language, at least not the RIGHT English.

Appy, you wish you were proper English.

to the anon who said DV must be an adult due to the day posts...

I've deleted DV shite at 7 am and deleted at 7 pm, if it's an adult they work long shifts

Maybe DV dines with the bored, Jo. You know.... post a little spam, eat a little spam...

Yay. Dinner With Schmuck.

peh, I did dinner with schmuck for 17 years.
He's called "ex husband"

I just wish he would learn how to spell hemorrhoids.

You have really misguided wishes, Lizz.

I wish for (in no order but by genie guidelines of three)

1. Happy kids in every way
2. Buffet type money
3. Only great hair days, from this point forward

I thought you didn't like buffet food

You totally made me Google, ms. Rory pants.

BUFFETT.

I wanted to read this again to remind myself that sanity once dwelled here. I wouldn't blame Arwen if she never posted again. I wouldn't - not for a long time, anyway. Giving it what it wants, but jesus christ, this is beyond the pale. And NOTHING happens.

Dude, get help.

This brought to you by Azusa on the Movay Board. Wasn't somebody calling Anny "Hello Kitty" recently?

Perfect example of a creepy ex-regular.

"People who write condescending responses like yours Anny tend to have a grandiose sense of the importance of their own trite opinions. They make up for their own obvious deficits by demeaning the opinions of others.

Before this thread I had no opinion of you one way or the other. I guess whatever you've written in the past here was so inconsequential that I never even really noticed it.

There are many possible responses to what I wrote. I could've easily accepted if you disagreed with me & stated a half-way intelligent opinion on why that was. Instead you insulted me by writing a throw-away one-liner.

I'm in my mid-forties and am not up on every quirky 'Indy' movie out there that appeals to the college set. "Under the radar" is an idiomatic expression that IMO is open to interpretation. If you want to imply someone is 'stupid' for not agreeing with your idea of what makes for an "under the radar" movie that is your problem."

People still go to the Movie Board?

For the love of God, WHY?

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Isn't that where you originated, Boss?

Dante Bean: keepin' the dream alive.

NO.

That is a vicious rumor.

I even have a birth certificate that says I was born here. I'm not going to show it though.

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