Earthy Thread for ground types only

[Blues]

I was going to make a long sprsrs post but I am so fucking tired I can't see the right way.

lrn2internet

news sites present gaming news
your friends list provides social interaction
forums that lack drama hold no entertainment value and are as insignificant as a redshirt. the way people interact and the drama that is presented is what keeps forums from being replaced by more convenient media

[zaneyard]

I was going to make a long sprsrs post but I am so fucking tired I can't see the right way.

lrn2internet

news sites present gaming news
your friends list provides social interaction
forums that lack drama hold no entertainment value and are as insignificant as a redshirt. the way people interact and the drama that is presented is what keeps forums from being replaced by more convenient media

wouldn't a forum count as mass collaborative social interaction

[Geoff]

@zaneyard:  facebook

[zaneyard]

@zaneyard:  facebook

that's more networking too though
blues is making the idea of a forum out to be useless

[KarthXLR]

I was going to make a long sprsrs post but I am so fucking tired I can't see the right way.

Is this an interpretation of admitting you're drunk?  I dunno.

[Versus]

i love you diglett

[Eschatos]

[quote author=Kor link=topic=3122.msg91777#msg91777 date=1245719125]
[quote author=Mr. Face link=topic=3122.msg91722#msg91722 date=1245706772]
[quote author=Kor link=topic=3122.msg91652#msg91652 date=1245690190]
[quote author=Mr. Face link=topic=3122.msg91601#msg91601 date=1245672861]
[quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=3122.msg91586#msg91586 date=1245659604]
i like face, i think he's pretty funny and his avatar owns

SURIUSLEE?
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Please don't take Duck's affirmation as a justification. If you do, rest assured, I will crush you and your fragile teen aged ego.
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Kor, when was your eye able to shoot Lasers of Sadness? :'(
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When people start breaking the only rule that ever mattered around here.
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Don't talk about Kor's eye?
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Don't be a dick.

[Blues]

[quote author=Geoff link=topic=3122.msg91904#msg91904 date=1245731563]
@zaneyard:  facebook

that's more networking too though
blues is making the idea of a forum out to be useless
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No, I'm making the idea of a preschool style modded forum to be useless. A few years ago I modded a DII site that had an active user count of around 200 people. Ownership switched and admin was given to a 30 something year old menopausal woman and a 40 some year old socially inept jackass who thought it should be patrolled like the hallways of an elementary school and people should be punished for the most minor of infractions. (he called that guy stupid, warning 1 of 3 before ban) People were told to stop making "useless threads" based on mod discretion (btw the chosen mods had horrible discretion) and threads were straight locked instead of cleaned, leading to like 3 new threads a day instead of the old 20, 30, 40, etc. etc. That site now has maybe 10 "active" members. GG.

tl;dr yes, forums are useless compared to other forms of interaction if there is no drama. If something actually pisses a person off then the rules of the internet and irl grownup world apply; fucking grow some balls or ignore it, everyone is quite capable of not responding or closing the thread.

[Surf314]

I fear a world in which internet sites are judged based on the amount of drama they bring.  I don't think a single sci-fi writer has dreamed of a dystopia that severe.

Edit: Oh god imagine 1984 re-written from that prospective.  4chan is big brother. I'm going to go build a Faraday cage in a cave somewhere.

[Luinbariel]

Not just one hand, but two.

[CaffeinePowered]

I fear a world in which internet sites are judged based on the amount of drama they bring.  I don't think a single sci-fi writer has dreamed of a dystopia that severe.

Edit: Oh god imagine 1984 re-written from that prospective.  4chan is big brother. I'm going to go build a Faraday cage in a cave somewhere.

The main character can work at the department of encyclopedia dramatica, continually rewriting entries to include more lulz and drama

[Surf314]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=3122.msg92051#msg92051 date=1245771344]
I fear a world in which internet sites are judged based on the amount of drama they bring.  I don't think a single sci-fi writer has dreamed of a dystopia that severe.

Edit: Oh god imagine 1984 re-written from that prospective.  4chan is big brother. I'm going to go build a Faraday cage in a cave somewhere.

The main character can work at the department of encyclopedia dramatica, continually rewriting entries to include more lulz and drama
[/quote]

One day he doesn't lul and that's when they turn on him.

[beep beep diglett]

oh god

the diglett train derailed horribly and killed the thread

look at what you have done

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

[Mr. Face]

oh god

the diglett train derailed horribly and killed the thread

look at what you have done

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

They did this to the man thread to... their going to overrun us on all our threads!!!

[rumsfald]

Actually, a number of us took the derail discussion to this thread.

Because r'spekfull is how we roll.

[Duck, Duck, Goose]

O hai, I have a diglett.

[Fail Medic]

Score, buffet thread!  Howdy, snacks.  Paid your right-to-life taxes lately?

Hey, you're uh, none of you are Lv 12, right?

[Dave]

[quote author=beep beep diglett link=topic=3122.msg91788#msg91788 date=1245719891]
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[quote author=Scary Womanizing Pig Mask link=topic=3122.msg91779#msg91779 date=1245719234]
[quote author=Kor link=topic=3122.msg91777#msg91777 date=1245719125]
[quote author=Mr. Face link=topic=3122.msg91722#msg91722 date=1245706772]
[quote author=Kor link=topic=3122.msg91652#msg91652 date=1245690190]
[quote author=Mr. Face link=topic=3122.msg91601#msg91601 date=1245672861]
[quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=3122.msg91586#msg91586 date=1245659604]
i like face, i think he's pretty funny and his avatar owns

SURIUSLEE?
[/quote]

Please don't take Duck's affirmation as a justification. If you do, rest assured, I will crush you and your fragile teen aged ego.
[/quote]
Kor, when was your eye able to shoot Lasers of Sadness? :'(
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When people start breaking the only rule that ever mattered around here.
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Do not link directly to pirated material?
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Don't abuse Karma 'cause it makes people ragequit the forum?
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im gonna ragequit the forum now : ((((
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smited
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[Radio Raheem]

this thread sucks stop bumping it retards

[Squishy3]

this thread sucks stop bumping it retards

oh look what you went and did.