Godammed SDN

[Count Chocula]

yay two guys are parolees with ankle cuffs. I see a trend!

I'm having fun over here eating popcorn and watching eskrima YouseToubes.

[uraniun235]

shroom i can definitely get behind "don't get mad about a bad internet forum" but it almost sounds like you're telling us to give up internet discussion forums forever

[Zod]

yay two guys are parolees with ankle cuffs. I see a trend!

I'm having fun over here eating popcorn and watching eskrima YouseToubes.

i'm busy shopping for new used cameras on ebay so whatevz

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

shroom i can definitely get behind "don't get mad about a bad internet forum" but it almost sounds like you're telling us to give up internet discussion forums forever

He just thinks that our obsession with SDN is holding us back. I'm willing to agree with that.

[Count Chocula]

i'm busy shopping for new used cameras on ebay so whatevz

Get the 1 megapixel Kodak point-n-shoot. It's the latest thing.

[Zod]

i'm busy shopping for new used cameras on ebay so whatevz

Get the 1 megapixel Kodak point-n-shoot. It's the latest thing.

[Zablorg]

I took a year long banning around three years ago to focus on my studies

probably didn't work because i still read the place basically just as often

i like to think i came back significantly radder but that might just be due to gains in maturity

how many of sdn's problems can be traced back to having a bunch of 15 year olds or whatever

[Questor]

All of them?

[Oxymoron]

From what I can see, one of the problem of the board can be traced back to its origin as a "debate board" ; as people aren't, you know, just chillaxing and shooting shit together to pass time, but instead try to convert others to their opinions, to prove other wrongs and themselves rights. The board is by nature very militant, and in perpetual need of "enemies" to "fight".

We can see it result in an "orthodoxy" actively hunting any differing opinions, and for me it's just fucking tedious.


(see : nerds acting as bullies)

[starku]

What shroom is sayi g is the same thing happens here with different names

Ie get over t lol

[Oxymoron]

Basically, yes.

[Shroom Man 777]

shroom i can definitely get behind "don't get mad about a bad internet forum" but it almost sounds like you're telling us to give up internet discussion forums forever

He just thinks that our obsession with SDN is holding us back. I'm willing to agree with that.

that

i'm not saying 'give up internet discussion forums forever'

i am saying 'give up internet discussions forums that aren't worth the time/don't have peoples worth discussing with/etc."

there's a reason why i no longer go to that place but after a while of reading this place and basically nodding my head in agreement with what was being said joined this place

cause i am having an internet discussion in this particular internet discussion forum amirite?

What shroom is sayi g is the same thing happens here with different names

Ie get over t lol

ja

what's different between those guys posturing and blurghing and blahing and constantly vying to be the biggest fatsos of the big fatso emporium of big fatsopolis and the penchant of some guise here for sumo wrestling with those chuds?

sumo wrestling

that's the term most apt here


some guys just need to stop sumo wrestling goddamn it

come on

[Aaron]

After my 9 month break from TEO Ive found that the boards flaws dont bother me as much, and I can just screw around and have a laugh. Like the SR3 thread. I dont feel bound by their legalistic stuff.

I stll roll my eyes, that probation stuff is pretty sad but at the end of the day its holding them back not me. I can log off and play with my dogs if it gets to me.

[Shroom Man 777]

you're a pretty chill guy mang

i should aspire to be more like you

[Aaron]

Probably shouldn't, but I appreciate it.

Hey how did you get into that martial art you've been doing?

[Shroom Man 777]

well my friend pulled me off my fattie ass and got me into it when he demonstrated some excruciating judo locks on me because he wanted to practice his hand to hand and he knew i was double jointed

i was very impressed and i became interested and i joined

the master, who used to work as a bodyguard and like protected communists who defected to the government and has scars on his body from multiple gunshots, was apparently drinking buddies with my buddy's late dad

anyway these guys o'er there in kanadia share our style:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=aU3IFXHXYBY

[Shroom Man 777]

here's some stuff on balintawak eskrima, site that goes through the methodology as well as the bio of our master

[Aaron]

Cool stuff. Is the stick a stand in for a weapon?

[Shroom Man 777]

The stick is a weapon in itself. Though because the stick is such a basic shape, in a real life situation you can use all sorts of objects to stand in for the stick, or even your arms and hands - which the stick is a mere extension of. So batons, knives, pens, paperweights, keys, machetes, the movements and techniques you learn in eskrima work with them just as well.

[Aaron]

Well know I know where Henry Zou got his stickfighting martial art from.

Man, so the probation thing right? I've said the odd time that making piece with the system is an important part of maturing as a person, mostly because if you don't you'll be angry a hell of a lot. So while I think the system they put in place is silly and kind of childish, choosing to work within it is a sign of guys like Tucker becoming less self centred.

It's like those guys in the 60's that did a lot of protesting and skippy granola stuff and then became the thing they protested against, because they had too.

Ok, maybe not the best example for a pew-pew forum.

[Bakustra]

I doubt it.

I don't just doubt it, it's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Regardless of you think about SDN, the idea they'd have a total freak out about some kind of Fifth Column is ridiculous.

They freaked out about Stark trying to sabotage the board, man. Besides, just bringing it up in an area where mods will see it will hopefully keep it from ever happening, though it'd be hilarious if they finally devolved into electronic cannibalism.

But really I'm just tilting at windmills and yelling at Thanas via PM about the problems I see in moderation and policies. Won't do any good, but I guess it might make it easier to wash my hands of the whole place? I don't know, guess I'm getting all messiah-complexy.

[Aaron]

Take a break dude, maybe put the time into a new hobby or something.

[adr-admin]

though they offer us concessions, change will not come from above

[Veef]

concession accepted

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

What is the deal with amnesty day??

They're haemorraging members, so rehab is needed to get numbers up a little. What better source than the shunned?

Beh, I'd rather we accelerate the bleeding, simply and solely for the lulz.

I doubt it.

I don't just doubt it, it's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Regardless of you think about SDN, the idea they'd have a total freak out about some kind of Fifth Column is ridiculous.

If they do something this dumb, it will make them look monumentally stupid and intolerant of dissent. Then I'm going to laugh even harder when we play ye aulde 'drawing comparisons to authoritarian governments' game while they play the 'testingstan is al qaeda or the boogeymang or whatever else we're supposed to hate this week' game.

I'm not taking their bait.