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| Topic | Of the four major NA sports leagues, which is your favorite? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 11:40:20 AM #7 | Poll is missing a "none of the above" option.
If this was 25 years ago I would have said NHL, because I actually cared about it at that point, but I stopped giving a shit after the 2004 lockout. Haven't watched a single game since. I pretty much loathe baseball and basketball in general, and always have. I voted NFL by default because I do generally watch the Super Bowl. And one game a year is still more than any other major sport. It's pretty much the only sports event I watch, period (unless you want to count professional wrestling as a sport). But I wouldn't really call myself a "fan" of the NFL either, considering I don't pay any attention to the regular season or playoffs, and didn't even know the Raiders relocated for like 4 years. And I stopped caring about "my team" years ago (and as far as I'm concerned, "my team" ceased to exist a few months after the Raiders moved). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Wait wait wait |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 11:23:58 AM #2 | They don't need tax revenue in Montana because no one lives there, and thus they've got nothing to spend it on.
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| Topic | Do you like Bretons? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 11:20:08 AM #9 | Kimbos_Egg posted...
high elf > wood elf > argonian > dark elf >>> the rest That's pretty much the bottom of my list. It depends on the game and what type of character I'm planning to play (warrior, mage, archer, etc), but I generally go with Nord/Imperial top, Breton/Redguard next, High Elves, then Wood Elves, Dark Elves, then Orcs/Khajiit/Argonians dead last. In Oblivion my main was an Imperial, and I can't remember whether or not I did other runs. In Skyrim, I went with Nord first/primary, then a Redguard to do Companion quests, a Breton for the Thieves' Guild, and a Khajiit for the Dark Brotherhood. Then I did a few more Nords on my next version of the game, along with a couple more Bretons, an Imperial, and an Orc. And I did one run as an "undercover Thalmor"/exile High Elf. In ESO I went with a Breton first/main for Daggerfall, then a Wood Elf for Aldmeri Dominion, then I started a Dark Elf for Ebonheart (though I mostly regretted it and wished I'd gone with a Nord instead) that I never really finished, and I did the Morrowind expansion as a Nord and the Thieves' Guild storyline as a Breton. If I bother to get ESVI at all, I'll probably go Breton or Redguard to start. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | [SMB1] what is the canon in-world lore reason that Mario has 3 lives? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 10:54:17 AM #14 | Venixon posted...
This. This is the only correct answer. Except that answer is objectively wrong, because.... ParanoidObsessive posted... That's an out-of-universe answer though, not an in-universe explanation. The topic isn't asking why the devs decided Mario should start with 3 lives. The question is literally asking how it's justified via in-world lore. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 2 Discussion |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 2:44:27 AM #2 | Nothing particularly unexpected so far.
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| Topic | I don't wanna go to work tomorrow. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 2:42:52 AM #5 | VideoboysaysCube posted...
That makes two of us. You don't want him to go to work tomorrow? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What song has the most early 00s vibe? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/23/24 2:05:22 AM #9 | Came into this topic expecting nuMetal or Post-Punk Indie Rock.
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| Topic | What was your favorite part of the pandemic? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/22/24 6:06:25 PM #6 | User Since: Feb 2024 Checks out. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you like Bretons? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/22/24 7:38:59 AM #3 | darkknight109 posted...
More of a Chaos Dwarf guy myself. My mind went the same route. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | With the rule changes i might start posting here again more often |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/21/24 8:47:05 PM #51 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
Well, now it's against the ToS to advocate for any political position on this board. You've made statements regarding election integrity twice. You could just mark all his posts for "Politics" and gleefully ask in the schadenfreude when he gets repeatedly modded instead of continuing to respond to every post he makes. Just sayin'. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | [SMB1] what is the canon in-world lore reason that Mario has 3 lives? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/21/24 8:21:08 PM #5 | Zareth posted...
3 lives had always been the standard on arcade games for a while at the time That's an out-of-universe answer though, not an in-universe explanation. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | [SMB1] what is the canon in-world lore reason that Mario has 3 lives? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/21/24 3:17:57 PM #2 | Since 1-Up mushrooms are canonically a thing, maybe he just ate two of them right before the game started.
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| Topic | Would you rather reign in hell or serve in heaven? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/21/24 3:10:08 PM #12 | Vicious_Dios posted...
Lmao @ the people thinking they'll be given special treatment and privileges arriving there when even the Devil himself suffers in hell. Canonically Hell isn't even that bad - it's just a place like any other. Early Church writers and Dante are the ones most responsible for the idea that Hell is a place of physical torment. And the idea of Hell being a place of psychological torment is even newer. The original point of Hell was that it was just a place where you would exist outside of God's grace and God's love. Which is literally the worst thing anyone can experience. Just knowing that God has stopped caring about you is supposed to be the most soul-crushing feeling ever. Like the worst sense of depression combined with feeling worthless, broken, and empty. But it's really hard for people to process the idea of that - so if you want to use the idea of Hell to terrify people into worshiping your religion, you kind of have to make it scary in a way they can understand and actually fear. So we got fire, stabby pitchforks, and torture of all kinds. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have a limit on how much overrating you can tolerate? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/21/24 2:41:49 AM #5 | adjl posted...
If people gush about how much they love genocide, I do have reason to convince them not to like it. I feel like if people are gushing to you about how much they love genocide, there's probably very little you're going to be able to say to try and convince them to change their mind. So one could argue that conversation would be even more pointless than complaining about Star Wars or applesauce. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have a limit on how much overrating you can tolerate? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 7:32:02 PM #2 | Hold your tongue?
People actually do that? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Look at my pool |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 7:30:16 PM #10 | It looks less like a pool and more like an artificial pond. I feel like we've been lied to!
Sahuagin posted... how deep is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who's your favorite member of the Turks in the OG FFVII? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 7:18:05 PM #11 | GanonsSpirit posted...
I think Rude is kinda the face of the Turks. I feel like that's more Reno. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!! |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 3:17:19 PM #50 | adjl posted...
Except, of course, it's a given that Fandom's efforts to make that shift would inevitably just make the site more like the wikis they already have (which is... bad. Very bad.) I'm going to be honest, some of those wikis are part of the reason why I haven't used a FAQ on this site in about 15 years. The problem with FAQs is that most of them here are kind of shit. And even the good ones are usually more awkward to navigate than a wiki. Between wiki sites and YouTube walkthrough and tip videos, you'll generally get all of the info (and more) that you would ever get from a FAQ here, in a more efficient form. It doesn't help that most of the really skilled FAQmakers of yore (like A_I_e_x) aren't really making FAQs anymore, and they haven't really been replaced by anyone of comparable skill. So GameFAQs is already mostly coasting off of decades old FAQs as-is. As designed the system is supposed to supplement well-written FAQs with a message board system where you can ask more obscure questions that aren't answered in a FAQ. But with most FAQs being substandard and most game boards being incredibly antisocial and unhelpful, GameFAQs doesn't really offer anything anymore that can't be gotten elsewhere better and more efficiently. Even Fandom's wikis are generally better. And all of this probably isn't helped by the fact that the younger generation generally just looks on Google (or uses Alexa/Siri/etc) to ask a specific question, then follows whatever the first link they find to the answer (I know my 20-something nephew does this), which generally just points them to wiki pages or YouTube videos. So even if the answers are here on GameFAQs, the target audience they're looking for is never going to find them, and never going to care. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Spinach |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 11:24:16 AM #16 | Yellow posted...
Creamed spinach is my (a) favorite food. If only your parents had force fed you pro-spinach propaganda (popeye) like mine did instead. Then you would be asking for the spinach. They did, it didn't work. I even used to play this all the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3X3-T9T4A --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 'member everybody voting for Draven? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 11:00:30 AM #10 | adjl posted...
Either 4chan or Reddit (I forget which one) decided to rally behind him for the lulz and to troll people who took the character battle seriously. It was Reddit. 4chan helped with the earlier push on L-Block. Reddit also helped Tumblr in the later contest where Undertale swept Best Game Ever. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!! |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 10:49:18 AM #41 | shadowsword87 posted...
Damn there goes the feet appreciate topics, since the mods can't control themselves. I mean, your implied sarcasm aside, feet topics are pretty much the definition of hornyposting, because they're basically jerk-off bait for foot fetish weirdos. Melody_JR posted... What the heck is hornyposting and why is it wrong? The motivating logic is probably the same logic the site used to have originally - if something is inappropriate for a younger user, it shouldn't be on a site that exists to discuss video games. The site used to have a little leeway because you had to be at least 12 to make an account here, and enforcement has gotten a lot more slack over the years because the user base was getting older and older in general so the people running things were willing to allow a bit more "mature" content, but Fandom clearly wants to try and start pulling in more younger users (and honestly, they probably need to if they actually want to keep the site alive), so it looks like they're going to try and start trying to make things more "family friendly" again. The problem is they're not likely to actually pull in younger users because the site design has been obsolete for nearly 20 years, so all they're really doing is chasing off existing users in a desperate attempt to bring in new users that will never come (sort of the same thing the comic book industry has been doing over the last decade or so). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Spinach |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 10:40:25 AM #13 | Being forced to eat creamed spinach as a kid pretty much guaranteed I'll never eat it again once I had a say in the matter. Shit was disgusting.
The funny part is, I'm willing to say that I'd probably be able to tolerate or even enjoy raw spinach as an adult, but being forced to choke it down and fight back against vomiting as a kid has pretty much rendered me psychological incapable of ever trying it. As a related aside, I find creamed corn to be equally disgusting, but love corn in general. So in that case at least it's definitely a texture thing. Which is part of why I assume the spinach thing might be the same. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Another choose what I watch |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 10:35:20 AM #6 | crazyisgood posted...
Trial of the Incredible Hulk Fuck yes. Best Daredevil ever. The Incredible Hulk Returns was the way better TV-movie though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How many of deoxxys' favorite Roguelikes have you played? Hm |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 10:28:28 AM #15 | Entity13 posted...
0. Not my thing. BADoglick posted... Yeah I'm not into them or soulsborne games --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It's my belief that everyone should follow a religion. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/20/24 10:18:05 AM #6 | I'd argue that most people do follow a religion, even if they don't admit it.
The more vocal Internet Atheists essentially have a strong belief system rooted purely in faith (ie, that there is definitely no god or higher power), and can be as judgmental and dogmatic about it much as any openly religious person, and as hypocritically guilty of most of the things they accuse religion of. They're just as convinced that they understand the fundamental nature of the universe as any other religion is. They even have their own form of religious discourse - tons of videos on YouTube or conversations on various forums where they talk about other people's belief systems and all the ways you can try and dunk on them and prove them wrong. Internet Atheism/Antitheism/Angstheism doesn't just fit most of the criteria of a religion, it's an evangelical religion. Even beyond that, there are a LOT of people out there who have essentially replaced faith in a god with blind faith in SCIENCE - with the new priesthood just being men in white coats (or just anyone with "doctor" in front of their name). These are people who may not understand the universe they live in (or how the actual Scientific Method actually works), but firmly believe that science has all the answers (and if we don't know something now, we will eventually). Like medieval peasants putting their blind faith in priests to know THE TRUTH and tell them what to do, people today treat scientists the exact same way (even when they should take advantage of all the available opportunities to look into things themselves, and understand that science is more of an evolving subjective understanding rather than an Absolute Truth). Most people are blind followers. Without organized and established religions they've just found other things to follow. Because thinking for yourself is hard. THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... If you die and you're wrong, then the likely scenario is that everybody else is wrong too and whatever you believed on Earth won't have an impact on the afterlife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is Guns N Roses the most successful band with such a small body of work? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 1:47:48 PM #2 | man101 posted...
they have like 3 singles that are widely known and popular, yet all of said singles come from their debut album lolno --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 'member everybody voting for Draven? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 12:13:48 PM #2 | I remember that it basically killed the character contests for good. So, you know, win-win in that sense.
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| Topic | Anyone got any analogue consoles? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 12:12:28 PM #9 | captpackrat posted...
I used to have one of these: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/1f/f4/7d1ff47b2a72fc7397ef050c94bbe671.jpg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Has MCU Dr strange ever won a significant fight? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 3:37:40 AM #6 | I'd disagree about Dormammu.
Strange didn't beat him in a fight. He lost to him over and over and over again. What he did was outsmart him. Which is sort of a different thing. Same deal with surrendering to Thanos - you could argue that Strange "won" that fight because it led directly to the sequence of events that ultimately defeats Thanos, but realistically, he "lost the fight but won the war" in both cases. If anything, part of the point of Strange (in the MCU) is supposed to be that he's not a fighter. He's a doctor and a scholar who uses his brain to think his way through conflict, and who tries to win in ways that don't just oil down to "hit the other guy until he stops". Which means he doesn't really win fights. Though a lot of that depends on how you're defining "winning a fight". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | With the rule changes i might start posting here again more often |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 3:30:19 AM #12 | Sufferedphoenix posted...
I'm a tame poster and I've been modded for fairly tame things. Then enough people think you're an asshole to push hard on you for even the most minor infractions in the hopes of screwing with you. Mods don't just wander around looking for victims to persecute you. Someone has to mark your posts. If no one marks you you won't get modded. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | WW3 on the eve of Hitler's birthday |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 3:26:26 AM #3 | Ferarri619 posted...
WW3 Hate to break this to you, but people have been predicting that for about 75+ years now, and it hasn't happened yet. You're borderline insane if you think anything happening today is going to be the final straw. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | With the rule changes i might start posting here again more often |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 3:24:11 AM #10 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
TOS enforcement is founded on backward logic. ToS enforcement is based on popularity. If everybody hates you, they're all marking your posts, you get bumped up the queue, and are more likely to get modded. If everybody likes you, or just doesn't care about you, no one is going to mark your posts, and you can get away with pretty much anything. If you think you're being unfairly persecuted while others get away with murder, it's probably because people like them and they don't like you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Anyone got any analogue consoles? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/19/24 3:20:43 AM #6 | Lokarin posted...
Analogue... consoles... Would be more like pinball cabinets. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 2 Match 4 |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:12:46 PM #6 | The problem with Beaky Buzzard (for me) is that in my head I'm confusing him with the buzzard from Woody Woodpecker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Buzzard Buzz is way cooler. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Amazon Prime |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:09:02 PM #9 | I've never ordered anything I need in less than a week. I almost always order larger orders, that fully qualify for free shipping, and I just defer them off for a week and get them for free.
Things like Prime TV and free subs for Twitch aren't inducements either, because I hate both of those things. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | had to sign back in on amazon today. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:06:57 PM #3 | Amazon sometimes forgets.
Also, sometimes if you log in too often, Amazon gets confused and starts to suspect you're a bot, and may ask you to prove you're not. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Some spent hundreds of dollars to celebrate the Politics board closing. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:06:13 PM #7 | adjl posted...
And I imagine they're pretty quick to call others "terminally online," too. I generally assume that literally anyone who uses the phrase "touch grass" are themselves part of the terminally online problem they're complaining about. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I failed |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:04:16 PM #19 | With the number of people suiciding out in protest and the wall keeping alts from getting back in, CE might actually be a board worth visiting in a few months. For like the first time ever.
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| Topic | An entire board dedicated to the PotD and you didn't even notice there isn't one |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:02:39 PM #9 | See, this is the sort of nonsense that happens when CE starts leaking.
Next, we're going to get people here who want to talk about the poll options. Disgusting. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Life is a _______, I wanna ride it all night long |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/18/24 11:00:55 PM #5 | Highway, because I own that CD.
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| Topic | Not to get political guys, but what the fuck is up with american fanta? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/17/24 7:49:28 PM #18 | Kimbos_Egg posted...
Its kinda ironic too, seeing as nazi germany and their lack of coke is the reason we have fanta Was literally coming into this topic to point this out. adjl posted... Yeah, that's a symbol that nobody's really in a rush to reclaim. Debatable. There's a fair few Asians who still use it in its original religious context and get a bit pissy when people complain about it. Sort of a "I think our thousands of years of symbolic meaning outweigh what those German assholes did with it" attitude. It's mostly Westerners who get uptight about it (for obvious reasons). It'll actually be interesting to see what happens with it over the next few centuries, honestly. It's still a raw wound in the West because it's relatively recent, but time has a way of erasing all context and wariness. Or to put it another way, the atrocities of the previous century are always going to sting a lot worse than atrocities from more than a millennium ago. Most people today don't really give much of a shit what the Romans were up to or who they were killing. Or the ancient Greeks. Or... etc etc. I think we're already getting to the point where WWII is barely "real" to most of the younger generations. A few more generations and we might see a shift in how things are perceived overall. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | There are approximately 592 registered users currently using the message boards. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/17/24 1:19:13 PM #17 | BlueTigerLion posted...
So where should those users go? You make it sound like the answer is to another site. If they aren't welcomed at those boards according to your anecdote. The problem is whether you care about the perspective of the people who are being displaced, versus the people whose house they're breaking into. Mass migrations usually end poorly for one half of the equation. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | My account is 20 years old. 20 years of GFaqs |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/17/24 7:41:02 AM #21 | CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Just reading this all of a sudden made me remember Cheat Code Central. Man, I don't even think that made it through the 00's. I used to use a site called GIA for guides back in college in the 90s. I remember using it to solve some of the puzzles in Riven. That site shutting down is actually what brought me here - I needed to look for a game, GIA had shut down, and I found myself on GameFAQs. CyborgSage00x0 posted... Can't the Way Back Machine site locate a decent amount of old stuff? Yes and no. It mostly depends on what you're looking for. Most web archiving services generally have to go trawling for sites via links, so if a site wasn't strongly linked to it was potentially easy for archivers to miss. On top of which, people who run sites only have to add a single .txt file to their site to prevent archiving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt There's definitely a ton of stuff that used to exist that's gone poof (presumably forever) because the Wayback Machine never managed to catch it. Which I know because I've looked for it and it wasn't there. In some cases, you'll ironically get a page or two from a site, but most of the rest of it just isn't there (worst is when you get a menu page complete with tons of links, and literally none of the links work). And then, of course, there's the logic most people never really think about - what happens when the archiving services also shut down? There's no real reason why the Internet Archive is somehow eternal or immune to shutting down. If the money or interest in maintaining it ever runs out, everything they've archived can easily disappear. Same for Wikipedia - most people sort of assume it's there forever now, but there's always the chance that we wake up one day and it's just not there. But ignoring all that, even with archiving, services are still gone. Sure, you can potentially find old sites or posts from 30 years ago (if you can remember the URL or know how to look), When GameFAQs goes, you may be able to track down and reread old posts from the site, but the site itself (as an active entity) will still be gone. At least some of the sites I have nostalgia for that are gone forever were old-school chat sites and MUDs that are just gone forever. Zeus posted... That's what you were saying like a decade ago! Nah. I was already complaining about the site a decade ago, but I was a lot more optimistic about its lifespan and activity then than I am now. Zeus posted... Tempus fugit. Like I'll sometimes mention, a teenager once asked for directions and I started to tell him where something was, only for somebody I was with to interrupt and mention those landmarks I referenced hadn't been around for longer than the kid had been alive. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. I've definitely noticed I've been having a lot more "Yeah, over there by where the [insert landmark here] used to be" type conversations over the last decade or so. Usually it's when I'm talking to someone who actually knows the places I'm referring to so they get it, but occasionally one will slip out and you suddenly realize that this person you're talking to is going to have no idea where the old 7-11 that burned down 20 years ago was, so it's not going to help them very much for you to mention it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/17/24 7:00:46 AM #86 | agesboy posted...
Admin came out and admitted feedback's useless. Shocking! CyborgSage00x0 posted... "We knew this would be unpopular and everyone would bitch, but we made up our minds anyways." Let's be honest, "We know this is unpopular, but we're going to do it anyway and just ignore all negative feedback until you all lose interest" has been official GameFAQs policy for like 20 years now. Nearly every major change was followed by people pointing out why it was a terrible idea and how much they hated it, with the official response generally being "Suck it up or fuck off, we don't care." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 2 Match 3 |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/17/24 4:38:23 AM #4 | The Road Runner is a little shit. Coyote was always the real star of their cartoons.
I always rooted for the Coyote to catch and eat the little bastard. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | There are approximately 592 registered users currently using the message boards. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/16/24 2:28:30 PM #12 | BlueTigerLion posted...
Maybe I should have elaborated more. I meant those two boards becoming more active. By becoming the new CE I meant being the most active social boards on site to replace the one that went private. Like when LUE went private another public board had to be one that got the traffic of those locked out of LUE. Yeah, that's basically what I meant. "Becoming more active" means new users coming in. If enough new users come in, they start to outnumber and overwhelm the people already there (most of whom have been there for more than a decade). Over time, the board culture would start to shift. Over a long enough time, and with enough CE refugees flooding in, PotD essentially stops being PotD and just becomes CE-Lite (or New-CE). Most PotDers wouldn't see that as a good thing. It's a problem CE refugees (refuCEes?) are going to create no matter where they choose to go, unless they just pick a completely empty dead board as a replacement CE. Flooding into boards with preexisting members/activity/history/culture is just going to kill those boards instead. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 2 Match 2 |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/16/24 2:20:57 PM #8 | Revelation34 posted...
Sorry we're no longer allowed to vote since voting is political. Complaining about things being political is also political. MARKED. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We can still use the "Politics" category when making topics. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/16/24 2:19:23 PM #8 | speedpunk posted...
A small tip only signals to them that you're cheap. 100% agree. Which is why... slacker03150 posted... I think this might have been the smallest tip I have ever given. I left 1.50 tip. The smallest tip I've ever left was three pennies and a nickel, deliberately tossed into a coffee cup (that still had a little puddle of coffee in it). It sends a very clear message that you're not just being cheap (or forgot to tip/are foreign if you leave nothing), you're actively delivering a "fuck you" for terrible service and/or attitude. When you're fishing your sticky 8 cents out of a cup you know I didn't just forget you, you know for absolute sure that I outright hated you. That's extremely rare for me, though. I'm usually pretty generous with tips (I've had servers go out of their way to thank me for overtipping), and I'm fairly understanding and forgiving if a server looks incredibly harried or exhausted and wind up making minor mistakes (so much so that I've been out with other people who refuse to tip because they were pissed about something, and I just tipped for them because I felt bad for the server). But I definitely have my limits. Most of the servers I've had issues with had shitty attitudes even before they came to my table the first time, or seemed to not give a single shit about anything resembling customer service. And at a certain point, I stop caring about whether or not you're having a bad day and feel like that justifies your behavior, because it's not (and shouldn't be) my problem. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've had experiences like that though (and that's over the span of like 30 years or so). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/16/24 2:05:42 PM #66 | adjl posted...
At no point have I ever even considered reading Reddit's front page. If I'm on Reddit, it's for a specific sub, not a broad overview of the site. The site as a whole is just too big for a broad overview This is more or less what I always say to people who complain that Reddit is terrible. Obviously, if you're going to the front page, letting the site show you random "hot topics", or otherwise not curating your experience at all it's going to be 100% crap. But if you actively seek out specific subreddits, you can find a ton of them that are either relatively tame or outright polite, where people have interesting and civil conversations, with minimal shitposting and trolling. There are definitely subreddits that enforce draconian levels of groupthink or that downvote the hell out of anything resembling individual thought, and there are definitely subreddits that are like an overflowing river of digital diarrhea, but you can find a lot of great communities if you look hard enough. Reddit's honestly one of the better social media sites right now, as long as you use it right. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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