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Quote from: Comet on March 29, 2015, 04:17:01 PM

good job derailing this weebs.
i thought my face was gonna melt from the autism.

Heyyy you brought something new to the 'weebs derail' table

FUCKING WEEBS

some times i love you guys, other times i want you to stop posting.
ya did good this time, guys.
srs.

good job derailing this weebs.
i thought my face was gonna melt from the autism.

Quote from: Comet on March 29, 2015, 02:20:33 AM

the blond kinda looks like Cale from Titan AE.

Speak English!

funny hearing you say that, Moonrune.

i think everyone here has the potential to be an idiot.

to the people here arguing that it should be an Asian actress lead because the source material portrayed her as Asian, do you think that they should recast the Human Torch because he's black and thats not true to the source material?

Quote from: Sandtrap on March 28, 2015, 05:39:06 PM

Quote from: Flee on March 28, 2015, 04:20:57 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on March 28, 2015, 01:54:17 PM

Spoiler

It's indicative of a problem that both Challenger and Verbatim ended up being banned.

It ought to be the job of the moderators to head this shit off at the pass, and ban the instigator/worst offender before it becomes an issue. If you're banning two people involved in the same conversation, you didn't act quick enough.

It's always easy to decide on what should've been done in retrospect. When things start turning sour, our first reaction rarely is to reach for the banhammer right away. We try to talk to people and defuse the situation with a verbal or formal warning. When I did so yesterday night before signing off, I thought the situation was difused. The split thread had been locked and both parties received a warning not to continue the fight in public. This works the vast majority of times.

However, this morning, it turns out that the warnings weren't received all that well and that in a new, similar thread, the exact same argument was starting up again, insults and jabs included. At that point, there's no longer a first instigator or someone who isn't crossing the line. Both parties knew what they were doing. That it went too far, and that we almost had another derailed thread on our hands.

Like LC pointed out, we aren't always around. And in first instance, we always try to settle things without going for a ban or warning straight away.

Furthermore, we've said it time and time again. If you see a post breaking the rules, simply report it. If you choose to instead respond with similar insults and set off a fight that could've easily been prevented, there's a good chance that when the mods get to it, we'll just see both people fighting and breaking the rules. And at that point, we have to treat them fairly and equally. We can't ignore one person's 5 posts that break the rules just because the other guy did so first. This isn't kindergarten. "But he started it" won't get you very far.

So while I agree that this probably could've been dealt with differently, I'm not going to stop trying to settle things in a mature way by giving people the benefit of the doubt, rather than reaching for the banhammer straight away. This works easily the majority times. But Challenger and Verbatim were both crossing the line and were both given enough warnings, which they both chose to ignore until the very end despite having been made very clear that it would result in a ban.[/spoiler]

I'm curious here. Call it a theoretical.

Two people start up a slap fight. A mod takes said slap fight posts out of the thread, and splits the fight into a new contained thread. Here's the wager.

Everybody has to shut the fuck up some time.

I mean as much as somebody can dislike somebody, there's not a fucking chance two people will spend the entire day going at it.

Eventually that candle will go out. Somebody will get tired. Here's the way I figure it. Two sides are having a row. Mod comes in and ding dong bannus them.

That argument is still waiting to pop up again. And if anything, it has more fuel when a mod intervines because both sides are sort of stuck in the mud disliking each other because "but he got me ding dong bannu'd."

Just an idea is all. An argument starts. Mods contain it, separate it, and only said two users can comment in the thread. Sort of like how mods can still talk after the lock. Eventually somebody's going to burn out. Somebody's going to realize that they have a day to go to beyond the computer screen.

They might pick it up again afterwards. But eventually, one side will give out. When that happens, at that point, there's nothing left to be said. Anyway. Just a muse, is all.

Duuude, you just gave me an idea, those threads get a special forum called flamewars or some shit and in each thread everyone else gets to spectate and watch the fights burn out once every couple weeks, add some extra ads to that forum specifically and boom, a 'televised' internet fight night.

that sounds terrible.

Quote from: Comet on March 28, 2015, 06:53:56 PM

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Quote from: Comet on March 28, 2015, 06:43:41 PM

pff, they're actually trying to do away with the US postal service.

Wait... What?

USPS isnt making enough money to be self-sustaining.

Quote from: Batch on March 28, 2015, 06:51:03 PM

Quote from: Comet on March 28, 2015, 06:43:41 PM

pff, they're actually trying to do away with the US postal service.

That doesnt make sense, sure letters are a dying business, but the parcel industry is at an international all time high

*sips tea*

yeah for UPS and Fed Ex maybe.

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The Postal Service reported a $1.9 billion loss for the first three months this year despite continued cost-cutting, a 2.3 percent rise in operating revenue and increased employee productivity.

yeah, i know lolhuffpost. but eh.

That isn't fair. Those jobs pay a lot of money right now. God dammit.

Fix your shit America!

dont get me wrong, i hope you get the job. but if you were hoping for job security...
ive got an Uncle who works in the postal service right now, he's trying to retire and uh.. its not working out for him (article is from a year ago last week, i can only imagine how much more its risen).
im sorry i cant find anything more recent then 2014, but no one seems to want to acknowledge the UPS is dying.

pff, they're actually trying to do away with the US postal service.

I like the idea, but I also believe that more people who stream should try their hand at actually talking. I'm sure that people would be more interested in watching the streams when there's actually some interaction going on and not just gameplay playing.

stylistic choice.
i prefer not hearing people prattle on about nothing while they play interesting games.

Chally vs Verby was amusing, its a shame all of it happened in Serious. i dont think they would have gotten banned in Flood for what they wrote.

side note: i rarely notice the verbal warnings because im already drafting a new response by the time they're posted. and no one wants to let the other guy get the last word, so they respond and it continues.

Borderlands a shit.

this is why we arent buddies.

Quote from: Comet on March 28, 2015, 03:25:15 AM

also, quote me you fig. notifications are good.

I didn't want the conversation to be buried in quote blocks.

I'll do better next time.

i love quote blocks.
also im lazy and like notifications.

Comet, it's about an AI put into a decommissioned Robot body. It's like a little kid but smarter.

It's soooo cute.

I may be underselling it.

It's definitely as crude and gritty as Neil Blomkamp's other films. But it has a great story.

Netflix?

Quote from: A Cheese Potato on March 28, 2015, 03:00:44 AM

Quote from: Sigma617 on March 28, 2015, 02:32:59 AM

I just got back from a late showing of Chappie.

Second time I've gone and watched it. I love that movie so god damn much.

I don't really get why all the critics hate it, I like it as much as District 9

In some ways I like it more.

It's more touching than District 9.

what is Chappie, and why do i want to see it now?

Netflix.
The Office.
cereal.
coffee.
stick figures.