Topic: What makes a board like this thrive? (Read 21653 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #20 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:36:08 PM »

Quote from: Thad on March 07, 2009, 01:35:40 PM

Quote from: Brenarc on March 07, 2009, 12:53:44 PM
Trust me, I was the most tyrannical of them all.

Ah, bullshit. I'll grant you need other admins to keep an eye on you, but to the best of my knowledge you haven't spent the last two years seething about me behind my back and then fucking with my account in subtle ways.

(Although SOMEBODY keeps breaking my "banned from Real World" group...)

I haven't been an admin for the last two years, or I probably would have just for fun.

...I'm not Arc, by the way.

Doom · « **Reply #21 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:41:52 PM »

Now I'm curious! Misha, if I may ask, could you describe what you imagine my WoW playing is like?

A² · « **Reply #22 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:44:48 PM »

Billions of tables, charts, & graphs open, analyzing every datum of every move, every click, and every number that pops up, and constantly comparing them to tables, charts, & graphs on the web.

If anyone has that Smash Bros-related pic, post it, as it sums it up nicely.

Thad · « **Reply #23 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:46:15 PM »

Quote from: Brenarc on March 07, 2009, 02:36:08 PM

...I'm not Arc, by the way.

...right.

Wish you fuckers would stop that.

...surprisingly, everything I said still stands, though.

Koah · « **Reply #24 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:51:54 PM »

Quote from: Misha on March 07, 2009, 01:55:56 PM

I have to push the spram a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

Doom · « **Reply #25 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:53:00 PM »

Quote from: Misha on March 07, 2009, 02:44:48 PM

Billions of tables, charts, & graphs open, analyzing every datum of every move, every click, and every number that pops up, and constantly comparing them to tables, charts, & graphs on the web.

If anyone has that Smash Bros-related pic, post it, as it sums it up nicely.

Hee hee.

I just do all that so I can trash talk about patch notes. Most of it's first hand too, due to severe altitis.

Most of my time is spent farming achievements(464!), going to raids that I believe I'll enjoy for sheer aesthetics/fight fun value, doing dailies, or hilariously convoluted schemes to farm gold to finally level my professions.. or to just shower my guildies in delights.

My Alchemist learned Potion of Wild Magic! So I made 20!

This is to say nothing of the fact that I don't use macros or properly plan rotations. I used a test dummy for the first time last night, just so my Enhancement won't look shabby this week(switching healer spots with one of our daps.)

McDohl · « **Reply #26 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:57:45 PM »

I'd say it was a perfect storm of the rantings of a snarky twenty-something, the mid-teens to early-twenties kids who sort of barnacled on to him, and a drama bomb of relatively epic proportions to glue this thing together.

I don't think it could ever be recreated.

Alex · « **Reply #27 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:00:55 PM »

Most of what's been said seems pretty accurate to me (with a little more emphasis on catboy shota and crazy gay kid drama or however Lyrai phrased Pyoko's admin and his boyfriend). I enjoy partaking in the occasional serious discussion since I rarely do on account of ~~my own insecurities about my intelligence and ability to form my point without a thousand analogies or stumbling over my words~~ social interaction with people I see as smarter than myself to be really hard.

Overall, I think it helps that we're all relatively like-minded, but not enough for things to become a circle jerk of how right we are about everything.

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on March 07, 2009, 01:09:11 PM

at least one person of color.

Quote from: Misha on March 07, 2009, 02:44:48 PM

~~Billions of tables, charts, & graphs open, analyzing every datum of every move, every click, and every number that pops up, and constantly comparing them to tables, charts, & graphs on the web.~~ Calculus 3: The Game.

If anyone has that Smash Bros-related pic, post it, as it sums it up nicely.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Niku · « **Reply #28 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:04:48 PM »

Niku · « **Reply #29 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:04:59 PM »

Norondor · « **Reply #30 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:40:39 PM »

did you make that first post and then realize that it's half of meat and your name is meat so hey, why not

Niku · « **Reply #31 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:47:44 PM »

DON'T QUESTION EXACTLY WHAT I DID

Kayma · « **Reply #32 on:** March 07, 2009, 06:01:41 PM »

Quote from: Norondor on March 07, 2009, 04:40:39 PM

did you make that first post and then realize that it's half of meat and your name is meat so hey, why not

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

so many things in the past make so much sense now.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #33 on:** March 07, 2009, 06:20:16 PM »

This is all exactly why I stick around, useless prat that I am.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #34 on:** March 07, 2009, 06:41:48 PM »

You know who loves Niku?

Monkey D. Luffy. They're best buds.

Büge · « **Reply #35 on:** March 07, 2009, 07:04:12 PM »

Quote from: McDohl on March 07, 2009, 02:57:45 PM

I'd say it was a perfect storm of the rantings of a snarky twenty-something, the mid-teens to early-twenties kids who sort of barnacled on to him, and a drama bomb of relatively epic proportions to glue this thing together.

I don't think it could ever be recreated.

Actually, this place is much like our Solar System. Lots of fairly small bodies kept in check by significantly larger ones. With a fiery ball of gas at the centre that could destroy any one of them should they get too close. The history fits too. An explosion set events in motion, and everyone sort of accreted from particulate matter and formed a stable orbit...?

Okay, okay, so the metaphor doesn't go that far.

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on March 07, 2009, 01:36:37 PM

As for the con-lib white kids thing, that helps, but you CAN have groups of disparate opinions and backgrounds as long as there is core common ground and respect for each other's views. This usually doesn't happen, so you just get dogmatism and retardedness.

Very true. I love you people, but I wouldn't show you the contents of my porn folders. At least, not until my funeral.

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on March 07, 2009, 01:36:37 PM

If there's one thing that always tired me right the fuck out it was communities where every item that ever came up for discussion simply degenerated in another permutation of The Argument*.

*_{(The Argument is eternal and pointless, but it's exact nature changes from community to community).}

So what is The Argument, aside from a Monty Python sketch and Fugazi's last album?

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #36 on:** March 07, 2009, 07:10:53 PM »

Quote from: Büge on March 07, 2009, 07:04:12 PM

So what is The Argument, aside from a Monty Python sketch and Fugazi's last album?

Like he said, it varies from community to community. At selectbutton.net it's "are games significant or not" or maybe "are you a troll or not". At MTGSalvation, it's "can one card be strictly better than an another one?" Here, I dunno. "Is Guild a wolf" might work, although I'm still fond of "Are you a troll or not" for this site, too.

Friday · « **Reply #37 on:** March 07, 2009, 07:17:15 PM »

The Argument here isn't so much a topic as it is a person.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #38 on:** March 07, 2009, 07:41:15 PM »

They put something in the water, makes us forget.

Romosome · « **Reply #39 on:** March 07, 2009, 08:17:31 PM »

This forum is a creature of chaos. It may take many incarnations.

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