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Kidnapped by eco terrorists. Mmmphphhpmmphphh. Help!!!!!!!

Can I interest anyone in an unpasteurized goat milk club membership? Salt Spring is like an Earth-mother paradise. Wow.

Sorry. Back. SHAZAAAAM!

Not double posting from Isle. Apoloscuse is here.

S+$& single fatherhood is a frickin black hole. Sorry guys. I haven't even called all my local friends who I haven't seen for a decade. So this is my first social circle to revive.

I am here. You guys?

Single fatherhood. New house. Internet problems. Smartphone trouble. Client sent me to Germany for ten days for meetings and planning with German director.

Long post about how awesome Vancouver is.

After seeing armed guards everywhere for 4 months (we had two checkpoints to get into out condo in Manila)...

After seeing cops everywhere daily in China.

I didn't see a single cop yesterday in Vancouver.

Just f~*!ing slabbergastered.

<----total culture shock

Free flowing traffic? wtf?

People driving safely. Using signal lights. Whoa.

The streets seem empty. The grovery store isles are like HUGE. You don't have to push people out of the way to get what you want! It's amazing.

Why the f@+$ did I ever leave?

Words that roll off the tongue...

Patience
Doorway
Imbroglio
Elixir
Diaphanous

Fellatio

Ok now this is good.... I am sitting in a condo above Kits beach. I can see English bay where the PCs came around Stanley Park and the downtown core on the way to the hospital. Right out the window, a few kilometres from here I can see Vancouver General Hospital.

Lots of words that make poster feel really good about himself but nobody else gives a rat's ass about.

Kruelaid wrote:

Awesome. Thanks guys. 10 hours til the flight leaves. Then 12 hour flight and I'm in Van on Monday evening, Pacific daylight time.

Good luck with the ferries! Just spent the whole day waiting to get off the island.

Well, during the week should be fine. And I know some of the crew of the salt spring island ferry, I'll ask them to make sure it runs on time. :)

WoooHOOOOOO! I've gotta get my driver's license and apply for BC Health, and get temporary health insurance until the BC plan kicks in. So a few days before heading over to the island.

Awesome. Thanks guys. 10 hours til the flight leaves. Then 12 hour flight and I'm in Van on Monday evening, Pacific daylight time.

Done. Clean air. Wow.

I am home. I love you Canada.

I love Canada. Man, it's been over 7 years. All my Paizo subs are over there in a box. From China to Seattle back to China, back to Vancouver. With all the postage I've paid twice their value. But hey it was worth it.

7 hours more til I leave. Peace dudes. Next time I post I'll be in Canada.

Liking the Conan love, I take it it was good?

Excellent. I made a few no spoiling spoilered remarks in the "Conan the Barbarian" thread. I didn't really like the 3D (it was not shot in 3D, it was a computer job). I'm going to go back and do the 2D in Vancouver... also because the Philippine version I saw has a lot of sloppy censor cutting.

I saw Conan.

ditto

I wish it would rain. I prayed for rain for two hours today.

I hate the heat in Texas.

You need to build an altar in your yard and start sacrificing animals at noon. When people complain call it a "barbeque area".

T-minus 10 hours and counting.

Awesome. Thanks guys. 10 hours til the flight leaves. Then 12 hour flight and I'm in Van on Monday evening, Pacific daylight time.

Gonna drahv inteh town hit wallmart... ye need ennythin?

32 hours and counting.

I'll have to see Conan all by myself, it looks like. No one in my family wants to see the movie.

That's what I did. I ended up sitting in a row of guys doing the same thing. Just one each. One man. One ticket. One purpose. Beautiful.

Chatted a bit before the movie started. There was slaying. It was good.

It's sweet. It was the only movie this summer that I HAD to see.

It's the only movie I've gone to the theatre to see for myself (not for my kid) in THE LAST 9 FRICKIN YEARS. Cuz there were no good theatres where I was in China.

AND, I'm going to go see it again in 2D in a classy theater when I get back to Canada next week.

I'm also going to resume the British spelling thing, cuz I'll be in CANADA (did I mention that) so that's THEATRE.

Kruelaid wrote:

Getting excited. Back to Canada in 34 hours. It's been over 6 years.

Poutaine and back bacon for all!

More like organic qinoa and grey goose vodka for f00d-allergy boy here.

That s&~* was awesome.
No problems with this movie; I chuckled at the

** spoiler omitted **

Ron Perlman was teh AWESOMEST.

No disrespect, but you are worrying about things that needn't be worried about.

You've been respectful as far as I can see. Never known you to be uncool, dude.

Believe me, I'm not worried about it. Just watching what's happening.

I've worries in RL, don't need any here.

So like before, same thing. This ain't frustration. I'll stop coming here before I ever feel frustrated. I ain't upset. It's just questions.

Hell (until now) I haven't even posted about the fact that moderators did nothing when Gorby debuted on this thread with a cliched personal insult.

Getting excited. Back to Canada in 34 hours. It's been over 6 years.

Goin to see Conan....

This is a great thing you do. CROMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

I love that I have no free time because my kid loves to play with me.

Kruelaid wrote:

Dang. It's glitchy. When someone on my ignore list totally spams the thread it sometimes breaks the script and I lose everything on the page.

Kruelaid, I've updated the script to try to fix the issue you are experiencing.

Can you uninstall the script and then reinstall from the same link you used before, and let me know if it works better for you?

Will do. Thanks a_m. I am moving computers around here.... (and moving across the planet) so when I get the new system up back home in Canada i'll try it out).

You've been around here long enough to know that we consider things before we act...

Here's a coupon for a home made cookie Vic. I'll pay it next year at Paizocon. In 3 days I move back home--will be living on Salt Spring Island and only a ferry ride away from Seattle.

Yah I know you guys consider stuff. I never meant to imply that you didn't in case you interpret something I've said in that way. Sorry for dissing you guys on the ignore thread, but that's how some folks see the Paizo's approach and you need to hear it. If you saw my smiling face and heard my tone of voice it wouldn't have come across so prickly.

Also, clearly you have completely different ideas of what "major changes" constitute. But I'll leave that. I'll also leave some other stuff that just doesn't make sense to me. Could just be me after all.

From your answer, in the second block of text, is it safe for me to assume that things have to hit "rock bottom"? And that you are going to decide what "rock bottom" is when you start to smell it in the "zeitgeist"? And I'm actually quoting another Paizo board member here with the term rock bottom--he just didn't say it here on the boards--and I use it myself because it fits with what I'm looking at here.

Can't we stop debating trolls and kill some zombies already?

I leave for Vancouver on Monday. I'm packing up the computer in a few hours.... So yah Pat's pretty bang on... it'll just be messed up if I try and roll it while moving across the Pacific. Ok?

On the positive side I already have a place and a connection running on that end thanks to my happily retired Dad. I just have to get all my documents back in order (health insurance & new driver's license), then fly up to Edmonton and get my car and some stuff.

...we're curious to see what the current zeitgeist is. Website cultures evolve over time. We don't have a flag for "off-topic", and not a huge history of removing posts for going off topic outside of product discussion and customer service threads. (We do move threads that go seriously off-topic into the off-topic forum.)

We might start moderating our boards someday for on-topic behavior as opposed to straight-up jerk watching, but keep in mind that everybody who does moderation here has a full-time job doing something else for Paizo—it's nobody's full-time job, and I'm cautious about committing us to monitoring several thousand posts a day for being on or off topic.

I see a lot of ideas nixed.

I see a Paizo culture that is totally transformed from the Dungeon and Dragon days.

We all know that not only website cultures, but also websites themselves evolve over time.

We all know that the boards here are a part of Paizo's success, part of Paizo's marketing and PR.

A business needs a clear plan for evolving it's marketing and PR.

Am I mistaken to think that "We might start moderating our boards someday for on-topic behavior as opposed to straight-up jerk watching" is a good summary of Paizo's plan for the future?

This does not seem to me to be a clear plan.

A lot of questions come to mind:
How bad do things need to get?
How is Paizo going to decide what's on topic and what's off? (seems they don't want us deciding)
If subjects are made taboo, how are we going to extricate ourselves from topics that are inextricable from our lives, personalities, and experiences?
And so many more....

As a concerned member of the community; as someone with a sense of investment in the community; as someone who likes to come here to play; and as someone who likes to just come here and talk about stuff--I would really like to know.

CapeCodRPGer wrote:

Matthew Morris wrote:

Best line I've read about the movie.

"They're really nice boobs, Jason picked them himself." - Rachel Nichols, on the 'stunt boobs'

The same Rachel Nichols that played the orion girl in the last Star Trek movie?

I beleive so. Honestly, I've not seen the ST movie. (gasp, I know).

Article here

I must say, the boobs were absolutely first rate.

How long is the movie?

I came out an hour and 55 minutes after the previews started.

Did you notice they brought back 4D in the newest spy games movie. That's right folks it is the return of "Smell-O-Vision"! The worst idea ever.

Second City Television. I grew up on this. With smell-o-rama.

Celestial Healer wrote:

:( Didn't get the job I was after.

Very disappointing.

Man that stinks. Well here is to sending happy thoughts your way on the next job oppertunity and it working out.

In the meantime rum for everyone. Hands CH a big jug of rum.

Bummer, dude. <snort o' rum>

I posted a few general impression spoilers in the movies "Conan" thread. I didn't spill any plot.

All in all I really enjoyed it but I've gotta say that I don't really dig 3D.

Saw Conan

I have seen it folks. I saw, I liked, I am content.
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No plot spoilers here, just spoilers of a few overall impressions:

2 things about it worse than the Arnie version:

2 things about it better than the Arnie version:

2 things that just made me laugh:

2 things that disappointed me:

2 things that were teh awesome:

... diarrehalogue...

I highly resemble that!

That's beautiful Vic, I love you man. I'm also a libertarian now. And I used to like Obama, too.

And no Gorbacz, I didn't slander you, I was just playing off the deletion notice. I have no idea what was deleted. But I do have a little present for you, buddy.

I removed some name calling.

But Gorbacz really is one of those, Ross.

I see what you mean. I did try to respond seriously at the start of this thread.

You've beeeen baaaad.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
—Guy Debord

In modern societies all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was once directly lived has been taken over by representation.
—Guy Debord

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and for dissent to be mocked.
—Harold Pinter

So what your saying is collapse it when you first see the persons name? Or it can always be collapsed for a particular person who clicked the "alternate ignore button" on?

Not understanding the question. What I tried suggesting (and possibly failed) in answer to Gary was that there is could be a "hide" option next to FLAG | LIST | REPLY that would collapse all the posts from that poster (tooltip: "hide all posts from this member").

You press it and then you can't see what they wrote. Just everything above the bar. Only the name and date of their posts, not their avatar, because maybe just the avatar makes you apoplectic and its a waste of space without the post itself anyway. And now instead of HIDE | FLAG | LIST | REPLY you would now see SHOW | FLAG | LIST | REPLY for all of his or her collapsed posts.

If you decide you want a look. Press show, and there they all are.

Cause honestly if you collapse it when you first see the person to me that is the same as just scrolling past that person posts once you saw him/her.

Sean

Not when that person has just posted 5 huge mindless posts citing everyone and their pet hamster that just aren't_worth_reading (i'm making a user experience suggestion here--it's not something we NEED to function, just something that gives me a little more control to make it a little easier to have a discussion with someone I am engaged with and could improve my experience on the site). This is all the more important in a world where more and more people visit the boards on devices with limited screen space. iPad. Nod to Apple and Don Norman: the father of Apple's user experience design principles.

In Civil Religious Discussion, for example, it might have been possible to still have a civil religious discussion if one didn't have to scroll past certain persons who are not contributing in a civil, rational, measured, friendly, or constructive way. Notice that I emphatically say "might".

As I said I really don't know. In the ideal world of my imagination it works.

Kruelaid wrote:

Can't script client side?

Like this?

Greasemonkey Script

Now I dont know how the backend of Paizo stuff is laid out. I dont know if they use memcached or something else to cache the big db grinders This is all speculation. However server-side you could turn a 30 query db hit into one thats over 50+ by adding something as ignore. Server-side performance would be a deal-breaker for a feature like this.

I run greasemonkey on FF and have tried the Paizo ignore script. I got a TOTAL blank screen every time I posted, and I'd have to go back to my paizo bookmark every time and start again.

Speaking as a near illiterate in js and someone nobody should listen to on the topic, it seems to me that a good part of this could be handled by inpage script rather than a browser plugin. And perchance something server side might be able to just remember my filter settings so that my filter works no matter which computer I log on with.

Kruelaid wrote:

Alexander Kilcoyne wrote:

I'm pretty sure Gorbacz is trolling your inability to ignore someone without a button. This threads getting a bit out of hand though so i'm out.

Sometimes it takes a person on the outside to produce such excellent insights. Thank you.

You mean you didn't get that insight from MY posts?

:(

Sorry about that.

Gorbacz... accidental troll or intentional. Still not sure. From the sound of his butthurt I'd say the former. But what do I know?

I know Gorbacz is usually a good guy. I don't understand why he felt it necessary to demean people who are pro-ignore or paint me as someone who is trying to insult people here. I mean I know I'm not Mr. Nice-n-huggy: there is the nickname, right? But... whatever.

Baiting and counter-baiting. It is done. The thread seems to have made it through the gauntlet and Gary is listening which is all that I wanted.