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ThePortalGuru

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Posted at: 3/13/09 06:58 PM

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At 3/13/09 06:57 PM, Sanjay wrote:
At 3/13/09 06:47 PM, Rucklo wrote:
At 3/13/09 06:42 PM, Sanjay wrote: Chris is right, let's grow up some.
pah, you're just saying that cause you're most likley really really short IRL ;)
I'm taller then DanPaladin

DanPaladin's shorter than Sanjay

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Posted at: 3/13/09 06:59 PM

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No, just no.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:00 PM

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I was thinking about joining the ranks of people who complain about the BBS, but I noticed that I was already in that group. I just didn't feel the need to make another 8000 character post that no one will read, but will just exclaim that the BBS has always been shit.

I'm sorry, but it hasn't always been shit. 2006 was a good year. 2007 was an alright year. 2008 was a better year than 2007 but not as good as 2006 and 2009, I've lost all will to post. All I see is mindless one-word posters, looking to knock up their post count so users like myself and all the other oldies with high post-counts will give them a second look. The threads feel like someone's hit repeat on a playlist that's been on since 2006, and if not threads that I've seen a million times before, it's just boring and mindless "omg this happend 2 me 2day."

Yes, perhaps the BBS has always been a cesspool. The lake tainted by sewage that's left from all the other forums and just the place where unwanted shit ends up. Yet, once in a while, someone decided to flush a diamond ring down the toilet, maybe a few antiques and other exciting stuff that we can post in and enjoy, instead of commenting on how you masturbated for the first time or managed to give yourself head.

BBS needs a facelift.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:00 PM

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At 3/13/09 06:57 PM, Sanjay wrote:
At 3/13/09 06:47 PM, Rucklo wrote:
At 3/13/09 06:42 PM, Sanjay wrote: Chris is right, let's grow up some.
pah, you're just saying that cause you're most likley really really short IRL ;)
I'm taller then DanPaladin

have a really really short, then? lolololololol


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:04 PM

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At 3/13/09 06:45 PM, wegra2007 wrote: Really? Because I think it always has been like this since I joined in '04 ( On my Wegra2 account).

Oh my gosh, even wegra's here. I think I might burst into tears.

Seriously though, for the years I was here, I got the dying months of fun. 02s and 05s, I guess you're entitled to your opinions, I remember seeing the old designs and the forum games and the fads that made me keep coming back here until I ot the nerve to actually sign up, but I still think things were better during my starting days here then they are now.

Friends have come and gone, old clubs have worn down, topics are even more easily stereotyped, sarcasm is at....the usual rate. Mods have left (BBR quits and yet I'm still in shock, or at least that's the last I heard about it), great users like Shuko and CrimsonPhoenix stop posting entirely and are almost never heard from again. I can't collect two-three years of memory just to establish the most likely to be ignored statement that Slappy is trying to make, but I'll agree with the fact that the reason I kept coming back here other than for hentai, pornogaphy, more than riveting conversations about the world, false stories about original sexual encounters, furious bouts of swearing, and cursing out new users like their some kind of disease has been lost.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:06 PM

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I think it's just that the last two or three weeks have been REALLY bad. I've noticed it too.


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:07 PM

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At 3/13/09 07:06 PM, BetaOrionis wrote: I think it's just that the last two or three weeks have been REALLY bad. I've noticed it too.

2009 had a really bad start and something/someone amazing needs to pop up right about now.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:09 PM

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At 3/13/09 06:42 PM, Sanjay wrote: I think a majority of us eventually 'get tired' of General from time to time. I can say I've felt the same way, several times.

Yeah, sometimes i'm inactive for a while, i just need a break.

But, of course, no one notices.


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You're right. All the threads are the same. Everybody desperately trying to make themselves an internet celebrity... And failing horribly. Sad. But hell, that's life.


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There's no way to fix it. You just have to cope with the new General, just like everyone else.
As much as i've always felt that way too since my first full year on the BBS, i just can't leave; There's always that one single post you couldn't predict or isn't by a complete retard.


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:12 PM

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McFoofa did it.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:12 PM

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At 3/13/09 06:35 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: TL;DR: The forum has become unoriginal and boring. Fix it.

What do you suggest? You can't put out a forest fire by blowing on it.

So many problems, so few solutions. Just a puff of hot air.

Crikey.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:14 PM

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How to make this forum infinitely better

Step 1. Copy & Paste any post I make

Step 2. Post

rinse and repeat.


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:14 PM

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The truth will boggle your mind: it's not this place that's changed, it's YOU.

When you were a starry eyed noob, you looked upon every thread here as something you'd never been exposed to before. Jokes were new, people were new, everything was new and fun and exciting. The longer you spent, the more you figured out that there's a natural pattern of discussion to the BBS. People made threads that repeated concepts just the same when you were here for the first time, it's just that you had no idea because you were new.

You're gonna go through your "man I'm sick of this place" phase, probably do other things for several months or years. But eventually, you'll probably come back. Because you'll realize that the userbase has turned over enough that things are new and fun again. You'll be further removed from memories of old threads you've participated in, so you won't happen to catch as many repeated discussions.

Really, there's nothing you can do by telling everyone else to do something about it. I wrote a thread that addresses this exact same whining almost three full years ago now. It hinged on the premise that all any poster can do to change the way things are done around here is to lead by example. Make awesome and original threads, be hilarious, be super interesting, whatever. The less prominent posters will see that example and follow it.

Noobs are always going to be ignorant about the way things are done. Mods are never going to be able to catch every thread that sucks, regulars are always going to be slightly jaded about the amount of time they continue to spend here. Nothing's changed and nothing really will.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:15 PM

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I love general forum
it's just so random and pointless


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:16 PM

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Agreed. This place used to have hella old users who were smart and funny. Now it's just filled with idiot people and gay jokes.

I see what you mean though. I expect the same answer from every idiot in posts. Thats why I don't really come here anymore.

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At 3/13/09 06:37 PM, deckheadtottie wrote: Nah, it's still the same.

Except the strange threads and the new people posting


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At 3/13/09 07:14 PM, Evark wrote: stuff

I see, you may be right. After being here for a while, you just catch the patterns and ways of the forum.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:23 PM

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I think everything's as bad as ever and won't change. You're just looking into the past with rose tinted glasses. A friend of mine used to come here years ago, and it seemed just as bad.

I did a post sort of like this a while back, but it was more about review responses, and everybody just insulted me needlessly. Not much you can really do about it.

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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:28 PM

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At 3/13/09 07:14 PM, Evark wrote: Truthy stuff

I actually have never thought of that possibility, and i think you are so very right; I've always thought about this pattern thing, but never realised it was the reason for the BBS becoming old and repetitive.


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Posted at: 3/13/09 07:29 PM

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Oh look, yet another "GENERUL SUX" thread from someone who's seen it all. Like Evark said, whatever forum you post in, you'll get sick of it eventually. Accept that fact and either move on or stop whining.


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At 3/13/09 07:29 PM, Rig wrote: Oh look, yet another "GENERUL SUX" thread from someone who's seen it all. Like Evark said, whatever forum you post in, you'll get sick of it eventually. Accept that fact and either move on or stop whining.

LOL. I'm not saying I seen it all, I'm saying that things on the forum are losing the creativeness it use to have. Then again, Evark kinda summarized the problem.

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Eh its just life man. I can create some stuff for you if you like even though political trolling is "the area of my expertise" you know what I mean?

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At 3/13/09 06:35 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: It's like the forum have become so predictable.

I'd have to agree with you thar.


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Funny how when an extremely disliked user such as myself makes a topic JUST LIKE THIS a week ago it got 7 replies and then deleted.

Except I didn't get the whole 'nice and serious' answer like this thread, no no no. I got the predictable insults for voicing my honest opinion and then a bunch of mods and users banded together to make me their lightning rod of torment and hate.

Maybe the tone was different in mine, but the overall message was the same.

Fuck it, I'm going back to the VG Forum.


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Posted at: 3/13/09 08:19 PM

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At 3/13/09 08:17 PM, SockMyDink wrote: Maybe the tone was different in mine, but the overall message was the same.

It's because you're an ass and don't deserve anything after all the shit you've done.

VG Forum is the only place you'll get anyone's respect.

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Was it really that great before? Or has your opinion of it just improved over time?

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At 3/13/09 08:20 PM, Cheese-on-toast wrote: Was it really that great before? Or has your opinion of it just improved over time?

Both I should say.

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At 3/13/09 08:19 PM, Twilight95 wrote: It's because you're an ass and don't deserve anything after all the shit you've done.
VG Forum is the only place you'll get anyone's respect.

Ouch.

Is it because I complain too much? Do I make too much sense that you don't want to listen to what I have to say? Or is it just yet another bandwagon for you to jump on?

I couldn't care what some worthless douche over the internet thinks of me. I couldn't care any less.

VG forum is 100X better than this shit because it has great people who know what the fuck they're talking about, and you could actually learn a thing or two.

Fuck off you bollock.


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At 3/13/09 08:26 PM, SockMyDink wrote: I couldn't care what some worthless douche over the internet thinks of me. I couldn't care any less.

Oh baby. So why do you care if your topic got deleted and this didn't? Are you going to kill yourself again because the mods are unfair? Because I always have a noose, or a razorblade and even a gun handy.

Call me when you want to end it all because you got banned for posting in a spam topic.

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