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Politics, Cavscout, and Jackalope.

Started by RPGPundit, January 21, 2009, 10:33:47 AM

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Spike

#180
January 27, 2009, 03:42:35 PM
Quote from: CavScout;280858Perhaps, as I do chuckle at some of your stuff, but in the end, the behavior is the same, what we are saying is the only real difference.

Ah, but you must remember: The primary... indeed SOLE purpose of the Internet if one must be perfectly honest with its evolution.... is Entertainment.

Thus, Funny uber alles.  Or something.
For you the day you found a minor error in a Post by Spike and forced him to admit it, it was the greatest day of your internet life.  For me it was... Tuesday.

For the curious: Apparently, in person, I sound exactly like the Youtube Character The Nostalgia Critic.   I have no words.

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Pseudoephedrine

#181
January 27, 2009, 03:42:54 PM
Quote from: gleichman;280864This from a guy who tried to steal credit from another man. I suppose lying and self-inflating importance passes the Turing test however.

Indeed they would, Gleichbot.
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Balbinus

#182
January 27, 2009, 03:48:52 PM
Quote from: droog;280662You've never struggled to what? Is that what the boys are calling it now?

I find forum arguments peculiarly exciting.

Either that or my fingers slipped and I missed the second o.

Hoist by my own pedantic petard, oh the cruel irony.

gleichman

#183
January 27, 2009, 03:49:57 PM
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;280867Indeed they would, Gleichbot.

Yes, a machine would have no need of either.

So even if I am a rather poorly designed AI I do have the advantage of honesty and the attempt to give proper credit. While you lie and steal the work of others.

I leave it to the reader which of the two should be more valued by a rational reader.
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Balbinus

#184
January 27, 2009, 03:51:50 PM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;280743Assuming I'm among the camp addressed here, I'll take a moment to respond.

Actually, you weren't, but I do take your point anyway.

gleichman

#185
January 27, 2009, 03:51:53 PM
Quote from: Balbinus;280873Hoist by my own pedantic petard, oh the cruel irony.

Hi Balbinus, missed you.

You need to keep better company.
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One Horse Town

#186
January 27, 2009, 03:56:48 PM
Quote from: gleichman;280878Hi Balbinus, missed you.

You need to keep better company.

Cheers.

Balbinus

#187
January 27, 2009, 03:57:57 PM
Pundy, this thread makes me more persuaded you might be best off with (was it your?  I don't recall) the suggestion that Off Topic become something like geek media and politics gets canned.

Why do we need general off topic?  What's wrong with rpgs, electronic and other games, the other main fora and one for other media?

Pseudoephedrine

#188
January 27, 2009, 03:58:01 PM
Quote from: gleichman;280874Yes, a machine would have no need of either.

So even if I am a rather poorly designed AI I do have the advantage of honesty and the attempt to give proper credit. While you lie and steal the work of others.

I leave it to the reader which of the two should be more valued by a rational reader.

Oh Gleichbot, it's good to have you back, in all of your autistic glory.
Running
The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
All for S&W Complete
Playing: Dark Heresy, WFRP 2e

"Elves don\'t want you cutting down trees but they sell wood items, they don\'t care about the forests, they\'\'re the fuckin\' wood mafia." -Anonymous

Balbinus

#189
January 27, 2009, 04:00:41 PM
Quote from: gleichman;280878Hi Balbinus, missed you.

You need to keep better company.


It's mutual.

There's good people here, it's not all crap like this thread.

Oh, I holidayed in Libya over New Year, might interest you on several fronts.  Among other things, I met an archaeologist who compared the loss of pride in use of language in mid to late period Rome to our own slipping standards in the West and said he thought we were going the same way they did - he saw it as a sign of decline and decadence.  He was very pro-Western, so it wasn't a happy or triumphalist comment, more resigned.  It struck me at the time as a comparison you might be interested by.

gleichman

#190
January 27, 2009, 04:01:20 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;280881Cheers.

Keep Balbinus company. He and some others here are a lonely island adrift in a ocean of sewage.
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RPGPundit

#191
January 27, 2009, 04:07:52 PM
Quote from: Engine;280831Competitor? Pundit, if a site that closed several years ago and is being archived online is a competitor, you're in bigger trouble than I thought! Please, don't get the impression that these are active websites, or websites that are in any way competing with you today;

Yes, quite, my bad; I'm sorry, but I can't really keep up with all those little pissant forums that pop up every once in a while and make little or no impact before sinking into obscurity.
Subsequent posts after I made mine cleared up that the site was actually a branch-off from some other forum.

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Balbinus

#192
January 27, 2009, 04:18:07 PM
Pundy,

Some of us, and I don't just mean me, are trying to make constructive points here.

Ian for example in his response to me earlier.  My comments about a media forum equally.

Could you maybe address some of that instead of having a pissing match with Engine?

Spinachcat

#193
January 27, 2009, 04:50:05 PM
Quote from: Engine;280781I think the problem is that some people feel they've just swapped tyrants; the new one is less tyrannical, and possesses different "politics," but it's the fact of the tyranny itself that bothers some of us.

Tyranny?  Really?  


Quote from: Seanchai;280835But, really, if the RPGsite is going to have a strong RPG - and that's something I agree with, by the way - why have an Off Topic section at all? Why spend time and energy on it, moderating it, creating subforums, etc.?

I agree with Seanchai.  

Maybe a more focussed site with less non-RPG options would be stronger and make for a better community.   Maybe the less we know about each other's picadillos and the more we share about gaming stuff, maybe the better it would be for everyone.

Engine

#194
January 27, 2009, 04:51:45 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;280906Tyranny?  Really?
Relatively speaking, of course! Pundit doesn't, you know, steal our babies to drink their tears or anything. Right? ;)
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