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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: Asherdan on July 21, 2009, 08:05:56 pm
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Yikes. If I may quote an old friend: Post, damn you! Post!
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Hey, though, don't worry about that first column. I've never started a topic and I'm among the most valued members of this community!
Right?
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I was looking at the stats, and... there are 919 members? And there was once a time when 277 party people were online at once?
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I prefer not to post very often.
However, I do enjoy coming here regularly to see what the 7 of you think about varied things.
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Eh, what are you gonna do?
This place is like a old neighborhood bar that the locals have been coming to for a century. We regulars aren't going anyplace.
Once in a while somebody wanders in off the street and we either run 'em off or they stick around for some reason. Once or twice a year we get a new regular or at least semi-regular. Plus we get cool drop-ins and freaky trolls.
What sucks is losing regulars.
I was looking through old threads today -- just jumped to a random date (in 2004 as it turned out). There's a lot of regulars I terribly miss.
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It's quality not volume that counts though, right?
Right.
I have no problem with the reduced numbers. As long as they're tied to quality members and posts, anyway. Although I too harbor the fear that members will drop off, one by one, until whoever remains just throws in the towel.
Of course, we're all part of each other's online entertainment. I think that we tend to rely on others to do the posting, and refrain from doing so ourselves out of fear of not matching up to the general level of excellence or simply out of laziness. More the first thing than the second thing in my case, anyway. But some of the second thing, too.
I was looking through old threads today -- just jumped to a random date (in 2004 as it turned out). There's a lot of regulars I terribly miss.
Word
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I'd post more frequently to keep the place more lively but I'm terribly concerned about sustaining a good post:can ratio.
I suppose I could start a sockpuppet account and kill two internet-birds with one internet-stone.
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Sometimes I'll want to talk about something, but I don't know if it's worth making a topic, and I can't fit it into an existing topic?
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Ah well, we had a good run.
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I ain't going anywhere.
Fuck guys, post more instead of less. You just start a topic or suffer a poor post:can ration like you see fit and the Good Lord will provide.
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Dammit people, enough of this negative talk. If nothing else I need to find out what the next rank is. Philippe has been standing on it for like 3,000 posts now.
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Sometimes I'll want to talk about something, but I don't know if it's worth making a topic, and I can't fit it into an existing topic?
There's no extra charge for starting a topic.
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There's no extra charge for starting a topic.
Wait, what? I'm sitting here in my home-made Russian fur hat and my whole world is changing. This board really needs a beginner's pack.
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refrain from doing so ourselves out of fear of not matching up to the general level of excellence
Oh shit, is that why I post so much?
Crap.
Wait, so, should i post more about my stupid inane personal life, or less?
I like the concept of Sock Puppet, because it kind of (to me, at least) implies "there's the real IMTEHGREATESTLOL949, and then there's the fake one."
Do you want me to make a post about how Axl Rose is representative of the evils of capitalism, because he is so prescriptivist about language, and also there should be gun control?
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All I know is never to piss off Ben. That guy is not afraid of unleashing.
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Do you want me to make a post about how Axl Rose is representative of the evils of capitalism, because he is so prescriptivist about language, and also there should be gun control?
You forgot barbed cat penes and giraffe placenta.
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penes
Peens.
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idea: add other comics to the top section and rename it "comics" or some shit. change "today i'm gonna" from a thread to a board and stop blogging in one thread, start making posts. also, show your books to your friends and see who digs it, invite them on.
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counter-idea: Slowly become more and more insular, posters are sloughed away over time by boredom or bad feeling caused by overly combative core members. Eventually the entire board will be a single thread of Bobby yelling at himself about how he's already heard about that bacon thing he just posted.
But, yeah, I guess the other idea is good too.
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I prefer not to post very often.
However, I do enjoy coming here regularly to see what the 7 of you think about varied things.
I read what you guys think, but I forget that I think things too sometimes.
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every single one of us should delete our facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, and cell-phone contact list, and only interact through TOUAMB, YOUR LIFESTYLE EXPERIENCE.
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I clicked hoping that someone had found another embedded-game Easter egg, like how there was that racing game in Excel 2000.
Or maybe fun like using INDIRECT, ROW, and COLUMN to derive lookup tables that automatically adjust with the source tab.
This wasn't really that fun. I guess some people left or something? And new things aren't as good as old things were?
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every single one of us should delete our facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, and cell-phone contact list, and only interact through TOUAMB, YOUR LIFESTYLE EXPERIENCE.
Right. It's all Jough's fault for getting a real job instead of sitting home and figuring out how to promote and monetize TOUAMB, YOUR LIFESTYLE EXPERIENCE. We had a start before all those things got big! What a wasted opportunity.
And new things aren't as good as old things were?
And get off of our lawn!
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Yeah, Facebook is ruining the rest of the interwebs, ain't it.
But I agree with the Egg Man: I ain't going nowhere. And just post some damn hell stuff if you want more talkage.
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IDEA: Stop posting stuff on Facebook that ends up mostly being commented on by TOUAMB people. Have those conversations here, dammit.
Also, Nabu. Everyone go on Facebook and tell him to come back here.
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And Slink.
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im the noob and i havent found my niche yet, aside from being kind of e-timid about how i fit in.
i guess i should just stop being a puss and start talking shit like everyone else. the more splashing i do in this end of the internet/diaper, the easier itll be to see who likes it and who doesnt. its like science or magic or something...
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im the noob and i havent found my niche yet, aside from being kind of e-timid about how i fit in.
i guess i should just stop being a puss and start talking shit like everyone else. the more splashing i do in this end of the internet/diaper, the easier itll be to see who likes it and who doesnt. its like science or magic or something...
STFU or I will stab you in the neck with my pen.
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i guess i should just stop being a puss and start talking shit like everyone else. the more splashing i do in this end of the internet/diaper, the easier itll be to see who likes it and who doesnt. its like science or magic or something...
It's like animal training. Be good and we throw you a cookie. Be bad and we make idle threats about stabbing you with a pen, which will never be implemented but you get the message.
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Did it bother anybody else that 2009 is only really about half over and thus the alarming stats aren't that bad? I know there's been a downturn. As I grow older, I become less comfortable with candid public discussion on the intartubes. This shit is archived. At least on FB only the spooks can read it, as long as my privacy settings haven't been reset by changing networks or some bullshit.
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i hope I never work for someone who looks me up online and really hates Little Nephew or something.
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STFU or I will stab you in the neck with my peen.
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Did it bother anybody else that 2009 is only really about half over and thus the alarming stats aren't that bad? I know there's been a downturn. As I grow older, I become less comfortable with candid public discussion on the intartubes. This shit is archived. At least on FB only the spooks can read it, as long as my privacy settings haven't been reset by changing networks or some bullshit.
When did we forget our dreams?
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Why is she wrong Robert Seltken?
Oh, I guess you are right Gondola Eric, the earlier years, wasn't here then so it doesn't exist to me you know.
chimney stevens.
steamboat dave.
tim baxter.
holdstein cromwell.
crusty the mechanic.
barcelona adams.
rebecca truewall.
stephanie cantu.
i like making silly names!
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I don't know, just posting instead of silently reading, this is what I come up with, sorry.
Also, an alias?!?!! ohh shiiiiiiit
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I'm guessing Ash rocks the financial year?
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That's the policy I generally maintain, though I guess facebook screwed that up too.
Also we'd have to be church, way too many weird rituals and code words for it to be otherwise plus we can't actually affect your life in any way (and when we do it's always weird and unexpected).
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I wish we were State. We'd run things better.
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Until a prescriptive vs descriptive schism tore the nation apart in centuries of bloody religious warfare.
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I hate it. Do you hear that, Financial Year? I have a burning passion of hatred for you. You are a Silly Thing.
It is kind of silly, but imagine having to work over the week of Christmas and New Years because you had to get all your budget stuff done. That would suck.
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It is kind of silly, but imagine having to work over the week of Christmas and New Years because you had to get all your budget stuff done. That would suck.
I always figured it was so the fiscal-year-end stuff wasn't happening at the same time as tax-year-end stuff. Otherwise you'd have to like double your accounting department for that month to prep W2's and process budgets at the same time.
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A can for 'Greg'
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Dear Fiscal Year, your big brother Greg. Calendar called again. I think he wants to make up, are you still holding a grudge? He is family, you know. It'd be nice if you, Roman, Mayan and the rest could get together for the holidays just once.
Careful, or Neil Gaiman will come over and challenge you to an identical elephant suit contest. The winner is or will become the writer of a Duran Duran biography.
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I had an Excel crisis at work yesterday. Instead of figuring it out my friend fixed it for me. I'll never learn this way.
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Apparently Wombats been sleeping better and drinking more or something because her figments have been jumping.
Dang, I have hardly been drinking at all, does this mean that's a good thing?
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I had an Excel crisis at work yesterday. Instead of figuring it out my friend fixed it for me. I'll never learn this way.
It helps to learn something if that something has some kind of structure or organization to it...
You can think of computer programs and GUI interfaces as forms of language. Even if you don't know a specific regional or ethnic dialect of a language that you speak, you can sort of parse your way to a useful understanding.
You can think of Microsoft products as the language of someone who is fairly drunk. If you don't speak that person's dialect fluently.... learning from a drunk person ain't the best approach.
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more[/i] about my stupid inane personal life, or less?
MOAR. Your life is very different from mine, and also interesting.
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That... 35 or so of the new members this year were all iterations of the same troll?
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That.
Also, hey fuck I been trying, you know, doin' my part.
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I will commit to starting a new topic today. I've just got to think of something worth talking about.
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I will commit to starting a new topic today. I've just got to think of something worth talking about.
Again, you don't have to make it interesting. Look at the topics I've started since I've been back!
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The naked boss topic is quality.
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I've started more topics than anyone else here, but rarely are they naked boss quality.
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I've started 19 topics.
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That was a pretty random bump, smick. I've started maybe 100? I didn't look.
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Ah... I uh... tend to not read all of the topics. So when I hit "unread topics" I get a showing of 15-20 topics that may not have any anchoring in time/space.
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Well, I'm not going to argue with the tiny can king.