This post has been edited by Malaclypse: 07 October 2016 - 07:04 AM
What is going on here? Bravo for certain things but it seems like it's dying
#222
Posted 05 October 2016 - 07:58 AM
I think you are mistaking equality with fairness. In a fair society all people have a right to be heard and right to speak as they please. However at some point one or two things happen.
1. People stop listening because clearly this loud individual is unreasonable and cannot be argued with. At which point the person becomes a bothersome obstacle in your day to day routine but something you can ignore.
2. People decide that maybe this particularly individual should not be heard and in fact, people might be better off if this person was not to be seen or heard. At which point the person is either tarred and feathered and kicked to the city curb or a deep dark hole is prepared.
Now you, Mal, keep vacillating between two extremes in your stance on your own behavior. At one point claiming that the forum needs somebody like you to call us on our bullshit. And that for the forum to be a good place we should be more like you.
On the other hand you also keep challenging the moderators to do something. Banhammer you, smack you down, show you where the limits are. That zenit might be approaching. Similarly you want people to listen to you but people don't really feel a point in continuing the debate because when people make a point you just deflect or call them dumb.
The truth is that there is a social order in any gathering with two people or more. And you are excluding yourself from that order. You want to abolish that order but it is more likely that you are the one that will be abolished.
And that is the nature of all human interaction. You cannot claim to be protected by the rules if you do not play by them.
1. People stop listening because clearly this loud individual is unreasonable and cannot be argued with. At which point the person becomes a bothersome obstacle in your day to day routine but something you can ignore.
2. People decide that maybe this particularly individual should not be heard and in fact, people might be better off if this person was not to be seen or heard. At which point the person is either tarred and feathered and kicked to the city curb or a deep dark hole is prepared.
Now you, Mal, keep vacillating between two extremes in your stance on your own behavior. At one point claiming that the forum needs somebody like you to call us on our bullshit. And that for the forum to be a good place we should be more like you.
On the other hand you also keep challenging the moderators to do something. Banhammer you, smack you down, show you where the limits are. That zenit might be approaching. Similarly you want people to listen to you but people don't really feel a point in continuing the debate because when people make a point you just deflect or call them dumb.
The truth is that there is a social order in any gathering with two people or more. And you are excluding yourself from that order. You want to abolish that order but it is more likely that you are the one that will be abolished.
And that is the nature of all human interaction. You cannot claim to be protected by the rules if you do not play by them.
This post has been edited by Apt: 05 October 2016 - 08:00 AM
#223
Posted 05 October 2016 - 04:03 PM
You're speaking to the deaf, Apt.
You once were important here, Mal. You no longer are. Move along or contribute. Hating everything and calling it criticism is the epitome of bullshit posting. When was the last time you contributed in a sub for the books?
Hurr yess dumb American telling genius other to shut the fuck up or doing something worthwhile. Insult all Americans now and tell us how great you are you fucking narcissist.
You once were important here, Mal. You no longer are. Move along or contribute. Hating everything and calling it criticism is the epitome of bullshit posting. When was the last time you contributed in a sub for the books?
Hurr yess dumb American telling genius other to shut the fuck up or doing something worthwhile. Insult all Americans now and tell us how great you are you fucking narcissist.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
#224
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:15 PM
MODGOD notice of everyone chill the fuck out or I'm deleting this silly thread.
THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
#225
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:37 PM
Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:
Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:
Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:
I need specifics.
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later
That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...
What? Well who the fuck knew that? Every time one of you arseholes changes their names you're making me more confused!
Screw you all, and have a nice day!
#226
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:41 PM
Malaclypse, on 05 October 2016 - 04:43 AM, said:
The point of a forum is to pomegranate the notion of trilateral equanimininity, it's absolutely essential. All of us in this hallowed sanctum have an equal voice and whenever any right tally brigadoon fucker tries to lord themselves over anybody else (except for my tillybutted self of course), the membership should come together and smack them down. If you had a strong community, you would have shut me down almost immediately since I'm such a tosspot tea kettle wanker but here I am causing trouble with virtual impunity because it gives me a tingly sensation in my nethers . Also, Whisperz.z, I'm the bear
ETA: If you're going to edit somebody's post, you should leave a note such as this one to indicate that you've done so and the reasons for which you have done so. That's just common decency in a community like this. Also, if you want to continue in this vein, I'm game folks but know that the condoms will be coming off . Also, I like goats. And Modgods who would never stoop to editing my posts and not taking credit for it so I could try to insult their sense of decency or whatever it was I did above.
ETA: If you're going to edit somebody's post, you should leave a note such as this one to indicate that you've done so and the reasons for which you have done so. That's just common decency in a community like this. Also, if you want to continue in this vein, I'm game folks but know that the condoms will be coming off . Also, I like goats. And Modgods who would never stoop to editing my posts and not taking credit for it so I could try to insult their sense of decency or whatever it was I did above.
You lost me at "pomegranate".
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
#227
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:41 PM
Primateus, on 05 October 2016 - 05:37 PM, said:
Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:
Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:
Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:
I need specifics.
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later
That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...
What? Well who the fuck knew that? Every time one of you arseholes changes their names you're making me more confused!
Whenever you see an account you don't recognize with 1000+ posts, go to their profile and click the "Show Display Name History" button. Crisis averted!
#228
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:46 PM
D, on 05 October 2016 - 05:41 PM, said:
Primateus, on 05 October 2016 - 05:37 PM, said:
Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:
Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:
Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:
I need specifics.
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later
That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...
What? Well who the fuck knew that? Every time one of you arseholes changes their names you're making me more confused!
Whenever you see an account you don't recognize with 1000+ posts, go to their profile and click the "Show Display Name History" button. Crisis averted!
Thanks, insert random "you da real mpv" meme here!
Screw you all, and have a nice day!
#229
Posted 05 October 2016 - 05:55 PM
Primateus, on 05 October 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:
D, on 05 October 2016 - 05:41 PM, said:
Primateus, on 05 October 2016 - 05:37 PM, said:
Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:
Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:
Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:
I need specifics.
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.
Otherwise it's a bit ...
You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later
That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...
What? Well who the fuck knew that? Every time one of you arseholes changes their names you're making me more confused!
Whenever you see an account you don't recognize with 1000+ posts, go to their profile and click the "Show Display Name History" button. Crisis averted!
Thanks, insert random "you da real mpv" meme here!
Multi-purposes vehicles are the best-purpose vehicles.
#230
Posted 05 October 2016 - 08:47 PM
I read that as MCV and got excited
2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
#231
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#233
Posted 06 October 2016 - 07:48 PM
Abyss, on 06 October 2016 - 04:22 PM, said:
FTFY
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
#234
Posted 06 October 2016 - 08:29 PM
Yeah, probably memory metal.
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
#236
Posted 23 November 2016 - 06:33 AM
ALRIGHT GAME ON BITCHES - STEVE HAS WANTED FOR YEARS TO MOVE PAST THIS INHERITED FORUM AND NOW ...WE'LL DISCUSS IT AT LENGTH OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD - I WILL ADVISE A NEW SITE OBVIOUSLY AND WE'LL SEE WHERE WE END UP BUT MY CASE FOR ABANDONING THIS PLACE HAS BEEN MADE BY YOU ASSHOLES
This post has been edited by Urquart: 23 November 2016 - 06:33 AM
#237
Posted 23 November 2016 - 06:42 AM
You don't get to stifle opposing voices in the way that you have without also inspiring revolt. It's just human nature and history will agree. It's disappointing that you'd imagine that you could get away with it - well it's actually a sad comment on the current membership who are apparently willing to put up with what is an obvious and egregious tyranny. This is fertile ground for me and I will make that plain to you in the coming weeks as soon as the next herd of goats are delivered and I get my camera set up.
#238
Posted 23 November 2016 - 06:48 AM
Urquart, on 23 November 2016 - 06:33 AM, said:
ALRIGHT GAME ON BITCHES - STEVE HAS WANTED FOR YEARS TO MOVE PAST THIS INHERITED FORUM AND NOW ...WE'LL DISCUSS IT AT LENGTH OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD - I WILL ADVISE A NEW SITE OBVIOUSLY AND WE'LL SEE WHERE WE END UP BUT MY CASE FOR ABANDONING THIS PLACE HAS BEEN MADE BY YOU ASSHOLES
Urquart, on 23 November 2016 - 06:42 AM, said:
You don't get to stifle opposing voices in the way that you have without also inspiring revolt. It's just human nature and history will agree. It's disappointing that you'd imagine that you could get away with it - well it's actually a sad comment on the current membership who are apparently willing to put up with what is an obvious and egregious tyranny. This is fertile ground for me and I will make that plain to you in the coming weeks
A competing Malazan Forum?
I for one welcome this crazy plan and wish you luck in this venture. I look forward to petty rivalries and backtalk for years to come.
#239
Posted 23 November 2016 - 06:51 AM
Ha! I promise all of that in spades and no fucker to tell you it's wrong
#240
Posted 23 November 2016 - 06:51 AM
I look forwards to the site Malaclypse/Urquart builds with the help of...
I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.