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After a while here, we are bound to learn new stuff. Not necessarily good stuff or important stuff, but stuff nonetheless. Which is using room in your head, which you could be dedicating to extreme kevlar knitting lessons or how to make hamburgers with the meat outside the bun yet still using a single burger.
So lets spew those lessons out to free memory space. What have you learned in your time here?
1.- We are all stooges of the plutocracy
2.- Yellowdingo would actually make a very interesting national leader
3.- The issue of the forums being way too long is compelling enough to have people talking about it for several tens of thousands of posts.
4.- The Paizo team really loves answering questions (I'm assuming they draw power from out questions for their own nefarious purposes)
What else?
Angrish attracts angrish.
I HAVE FURY!!!
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Slaadi are still under-appreciated.
The Paizo staff hate protean avatars.
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Slaads are an important part of our dietary needs.
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In seriousness....
> You can make an entire thread out of random senseless chaos and endless repetitions of "Ayup" "Reckin'" "Dang hippehs".
> There are always people looking for free art.
> Aliases. Aliases Everywhere.
> There is no subject so inane, boring, or taboo that someone won't try to start a discussion on it.
> Braaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnsssss.....
> When in doubt, people drop stuff here and it has to be moved elsewhere once a proper home has been identified. And invariably, when posted somewhere else wrong first, there's a ~70% chance it will get moved here in the attempt to fix it.
> The Hide Button is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Duh! We are full of fiber, artificial fake-meat by-products, and Vitamin mu.
Blaming Communism solves all your problems.
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Scandinavians tend to get affronted by formal terms of address.
Some people will not let go of an argument.
Some people, if they think they disagree with you in general, will infer the worst possible reading of anything you write. You do not get the benefit of the doubt in OTD.
It's better not to discuss religion and politics here.
The GIFT.
Sorry these were all really depressing. I have just recently unhidden OTD after a long hiatus.
EDIT: except for the Scandinavian thing, nothing wrong with that, it's just different. Useful to know if I ever get a chance to visit Scandinavia.
Blaming Communism solves all your problems.
Except if your problem is fascism. Or Pooty-poot Putin.
Blaming Communism solves all your problems.Except if your problem is fascism. Or Pooty-poot Putin.
Even then, I can blame Fascism for pretending to be Communism, which is a reverse blaming of Communism and therefore valid, and Commies for creating the situation that led to Putin.
Some people will not let go of an argument.
That's because I'm always right.
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Cosmo is likely one of the Old Ones in disguise...
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I learned that getting involved in poltical discussions on message boards takes me to place where I don't like going.
Oh and people have no sense of humor.
That there are people who are insulted if you call them sir/ma'am instead of Mr./Mrs./Ms. They may be more offended if you use the wrong one.
There is a rather large number of people on the boards who are either from Texas, currently live there, or have lived there previously.
That anyone can start a petition on the White House's site.
We have a small horde of bickering undead.
The Paizo office is a silly place.
As is FAWTL.
Or the boards in general.
Armor spikes are trendy, and may lead Jason Bulmahn to kill us all.
That I can slum it here while still being a thread person in more on-topic threads by other thread people
That job market in America is tough.
That being TG in America is tough.
That brains are tasty.
That government is stupid in most of the West.
Grar.
That getting 100.000 signatures on a petition is hard work.
That that doesn't stop people from trying.
More grar.
That the realistic chance to affect something is zero doesn't mean it isn't a life or death matter. in a discussion.
That the amount of grar seems inversely proportional to the importance of what is being debated.
That two days might mean 800 new posts in a thread.
Grar.
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I used to learn a lot here; often, I'd come away from threads with so much to think about. I remember threads that had me pondering the very small to the cosmic all day long and into the night--no kidding.
The OTD threads were once very open and intriguing.
Somehow, over the last eight years, I've watched them become populated with both trolls and extremely --and painfully so-- sensitive-types.
Over the last year I've come to see virtually all truly interesting OTD threads either languish abandoned or get locked. My own posting history, once increased at least daily and often several times a day, now itself languishes--often I go weeks without a single thing to say around here.
Now I'm depressed. I miss the bad old days.
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@AT: I think you've hit on something. I used to like OTD back when you could just come here and shoot the breeze, and discuss things with people civilly even when you disagreed vehemently. I stopped posting here and hid the forum when I got tired of getting drawn into ideological knife fights.
Maybe that puts me into the category of "sensitive-types," though I'd like to think not. I'm pretty thick-skinned, and really easy to get along with, but something about OTD just seems to flip the flaming jerkwad switch in some folks.
I hypothesize a correlation between behavior on OTD (and forums like it all over the Internet) and the increasing ideological polarization of American society. This hypothesis doesn't address the rest of the world--I do not pretend to understand your sociopolitical climates. It'd be interesting to figure out a way to test whether the polarization of society is influencing behavior on the Internet, or whether the tenor of Internet discussion in such free speech sewers as Youtube comments is bleeding over into more conventional forms of public discourse.
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Seoni's not sexist, but......calling somebody "Ms./Mrs." instead of "Mizz" is.
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I've learned that the craziest bunch on the OTD is actually the most mature and sane.
And sadly I've learned also that despite the camaraderie shared among Fawtlies, feelings can still get rubbed the wrong way when some forget act like it.
And I learned that I really don't like people. Y'all suck. :P
I've learned all kinds of things in the OTD. Most of them are pretty useless, but still...
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Oh and people have no sense of humor.
Most of them have their sense of humor removed as one of the necessary steps on the ascension to lichdom. They still have it, kept in a small canopic jar, often painted to look like a can of nuts.
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Oooh, nuts! Those will go great in my turnip-tofu soufflé.
I learned that getting involved in poltical discussions on message boards takes me to place where I don't like going.
Oh and people have no sense of humor.
I'm sorry that you had to actually learn that.
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Learn? Nobody said we had to learn anything here. Crap. Is there going to be a test?
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Yes.
I'm sorry that you had to actually learn that.I learned that getting involved in poltical discussions on message boards takes me to place where I don't like going.
Oh and people have no sense of humor.
Oh...the first one I can have reason and interesting arguements face to face with people without going to dark places...
And the second one...I guess it was more of a hope that I saw crush...
More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.
More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.
It is probably the only way they can win a debate.
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More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.
I and many others have often replied to these resurrections: the issues never died just because we stopped talking about them. Good lord, the entire system of education--especially University--would not exist if people forced a lifespan on a topic. Thank the heavens it's not so!
More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.It is probably the only way they can win a debate.
Most depressing is that they often lose.
More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.I and many others have often replied to these resurrections: the issues never died just because we stopped talking about them. Good lord, the entire system of education--especially University--would not exist if people forced a lifespan on a topic. Thank the heavens it's not so!
Not saying it is bad the discussions resurface. Just find it odd that they reply in a manner that seems like they expect the long departed forum member to respond.
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Not saying it is bad the discussions resurface. Just find it odd that they reply in a manner that seems like they expect the long departed forum member to respond.More of an observation of the boards as a whole, but there are people who will ressurect a years dead thread and attempt to debate with someone who hasn't posted in more than a year.I and many others have often replied to these resurrections: the issues never died just because we stopped talking about them. Good lord, the entire system of education--especially University--would not exist if people forced a lifespan on a topic. Thank the heavens it's not so!
I think people search the boards for info and fail to notice/misread the date of the last post, myself. I've done it (once or twice) myself.
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-Why lightspeed is lightspeed
-People have more objections than arguments
-"is not is so" can be done with ridiculous levels of sophisticated veneer.
-paleontologists apparently still use paraphyly cladistics.
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I've learned that my title carries no actual authority. This I learned not on the boards, but when I tried to get a seat at the UN Security Conference.
There are not nearly enough Paizonians in political office. :(
There are not nearly enough Paizonians in political office. :(
Can I be Secretary of Defense when we seize the offices for ourselves?
I will be Empress. Sure you can.
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I have learned that all over the world are awesome (or should I say FaWsome) people and that trading posts with the, on a daily basis improves my live
Gnomes are not real peoples and no one loves me.
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I've learned that, evidently, it was all my fault.
I've learned that Cosmo's inundating us with self-inflicted scandals of his own design, to obfuscate a more terrible truth of what he's *really* up to.
By the time we learn his true heinous scheme, we'll be so numbed by the daily bombshells that we'll just be, like, 'Eh, Cosmo. Go figure.'
I've learned that Gary's tests generally result in nuclear winter over much of California. Thanks, Gary.