Somebody give me the rundown on this place
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I swear, I step out for like five minutes and you guys go and change all sorts of shit. Discourse is gone, the migration has happened, you're probably letting in all sorts of riffraff, who knows what else.
What have I missed? New memes? New members? Drama? Shared knowledge? Is morbs still traumatising people? Is Nagesh still weird? Is Lorne still in exile? Is Blakey still crazy and impossible to communicate with? Details people, I need details!
At least the mobile interface for this forum software is garbage, so we've got that going for us.
Edit: how could I forget the most important question!? Is @ben_lubar still raping cats?
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@mikeTheLiar Hey, you're the person with the Conchita Wurst avatar. You came up a while back in the Guacamole thread.
Also,
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is morbs still traumatising people? Is Nagesh still weird? Is Lorne still in exile? Is Blakey still crazy and impossible to communicate with?
No to all of those. Morbs and Nagesh have apparently been gone at least as long as I've been here, Lorne's been back at least that long, too, and @blakeyrat's never been particularly impossible to communicate with as far as I've seen. Just sometimes crazy.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Discourse is gone,
Yep.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
the migration has happened,
uhuh.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
you're probably letting in all sorts of riffraff,
Maybe? Someone want to troll the userlist for who's actually posting that's signed up recently? I think I've seen about ten or so lurkers that joined and posted at least once...
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
New memes?
Not really. We're still figuring out which analogies fit in.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Drama?
Oh, you missed the last few
daysmonths, did you?@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Shared knowledge?
World Suck has increased a bit since last check...
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is morbs still traumatising people?
Haven't seen too much of him, actually...
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is Nagesh still weird?
Neither him.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is Lorne still in exile?
He's here.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
s Blakey still crazy and impossible to communicate with?
Well... depends on what you mean...
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@mikeTheLiar Hey, you're the person with the Conchita Wurst avatar.
Talk about riffraff.
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@mikeTheLiar Welcome back! Was it because the mention thread I started in your honor got necro'd?
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@error nah, I was looking for an old post of mine and realized I hadn't logged in in forever. Also got a nice little story to tell but as noted this site is worse than CS on mobile
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
as noted this site is worse than CS on mobile
And worse than , too.
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Morbs and Nagesh have apparently been gone at least as long as I've been here
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
But I'm sure many people do.
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@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
But at least we have 'Ignore' now! (I make heavy use of that!)
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@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
But I'm sure many people do.
And those that don't can ignore the thread, now that it's (
mostlykinda) implemented!Edit: Awe fsck, 'd!
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@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Morbs and Nagesh have apparently been gone at least as long as I've been here
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
But I'm sure many people do.
I'd pay to watch that show.
Nice quote bomb.
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@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
Hmm, could @Fox be @morbiuswilters' new persona?
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@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Morbs and Nagesh have apparently been gone at least as long as I've been here
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
But I'm sure many people do.
Out of curiosity, I clicked his profile to see what this allegedly horrible embodiment of everything terrible posted back when he came around here, since I'd never actually done that. Scrolling through dozens of posts, all I can see is that he had some stupid assumptions about depression. Why would a discussion between the two of us be interesting? Or particularly terrible?
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@Fox Not sure, never met/interacted with the person. Background personification seems to indicate they're probably very strongly opinionated though...
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@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@anonymous234 said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Oh man I do not want to see a discussion between @Fox and @morbiuswilters.
Hmm, could @Fox be @morbiuswilters' new persona?
No, morbs was clever. @Fox is duller than a bag of hammers (thanks, Google Suggest).
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@asdf I approve of your signature. Does this forum support signature guy?
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Does this forum support signature guy?
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Does this forum support signature guy?
Not technically,
unfortunately.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Does this forum support signature guy?
I'm pretty sure it does, but the spoilsport @ben_lubar wrote a plugin that makes it extra hard to create one.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Not technically, unfortunately.
However, you can upload random stuff (make sure it's less than 2Mb!) and the forums will happily serve it up on click!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
happily serve it up on click!
Psst, this includes js and html!
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@Fox I seem to recall him being kind of blunt about expressing his opinions, especially when talking to someone he would consider a moron.
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Scrolling through dozens of posts, all I can see is that he had some stupid assumptions about depression.
He was a giant dick who loved to troll people until they ragequit. For some unknown reason, many forum members liked him. He's the reason I never posted much in the CS days.
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@asdf So, @Lorne-Kates?
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@Fox The difference is that @Lorne-Kates is actually funny. @morbiuswilters was just plain offensive.
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@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Lorne-Kates is actually funny.
I disagree, but if morbs was unfunny and just offensive even to the likes of this forum, then I am rather impressed.
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@Fox Well, there are people who found him funny. In any case, he was an exceptional troll. Much better at trolling than any current member of this forum.
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@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Much better at trolling than any current member of this forum.
That's not saying much, tbh.
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
And worse than , too.
I never used CS on mobile, but I find this site waaay easier to use on mobile now. For one thing, I don't fall asleep waiting for a page to load.
@Nagesh came back for a bit but he's gone again. Those rusty kidney stabbings probably caught up with morbs. I'm guessing we'll see him again in 3 to 5.
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@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Fox The difference is that @Lorne-Kates is actually funny. @morbiuswilters was just plain offensive.
Nah, they're both funny. But I suppose they're not for everyone.
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The @mikeTheLiar meme continues. Sometimes we switch it up to @blakeyrat when he's been particularly manic.
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Much better at trolling than any current member of this forum.
That's not saying much, tbh.
Well, apparently @Polygeekery at least managed to anger you a few times. Also, there are a few people here who cannot deal with Blakey, who I find quite easy to ignore when he's in a trolling mood.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Drama?
I don't remember how long you've been gone. Do you know about the Guacamole thread? Or RaceProUK's/lucas' various ragequits? And where you here when Blakeyrat was doxxed in the Lounge?
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@Captain what is meme'd can never die
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@asdf nope, nope, and nope. Pretty sure it's been over a year. Where is the lounge anyway? Or do I not yet have access to that super secret club?
Filed under: don't care to belong to any club that would have me as a member
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Or do I not yet have access to that super secret club?
You can apply here: https://what.thedailywtf.com/groups/trust_level_3
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there is a nice new meme, where we mention @mikeTheLiar a lot
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@fbmac Are you sure @mikeTheLiar is okay with that?
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@asdf I dunno, better ask @mikeTheLiar
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Lorne-Kates is actually funny.
I disagree, but if morbs was unfunny and just offensive even to the likes of this forum, then I am rather impressed.
@morbiuswilters had a very blunt sense of humor, but he was hilarious when he tried to be.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is Lorne still in exile?
I'm back but you're still the worst.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
New memes?
Also, fuck you, give me moneybolded text****
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@asdf said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@Lorne-Kates is actually funny.
I disagree
That's because, as is well established, you're an idiot.
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@Lorne-Kates love you too Lorne
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@Fox said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Out of curiosity, I clicked his profile to see what this allegedly horrible embodiment of everything terrible posted back when he came around here, since I'd never actually done that. Scrolling through dozens of posts, all I can see is that he had some stupid assumptions about depression. Why would a discussion between the two of us be interesting? Or particularly terrible?
You'd have to go back much further than that, to the CS days. I was mostly a lurker back then and only had some brief encounters with him, but basically, he was so politically conservative that he made @boomzilla seem center-left, and he was so caustic and abrasive that he made blakey's persona seem like an unfailingly compassionate guy. The funny thing about that is that neither of those traits really annoyed me in particular. What I couldn't stand was his arrogance.
He didn't think much of OSS, which is a reasonable opinion, but he would say things like, "For a personal project, it costs about $9X per hour of my time to set something up, but when it comes to something for my employer, it's more like $2XX per hour of my time." He was later arguing with some guy about that guy's skills, and when that guy mentioned that his skills had kept him employed at small companies without an issue, he said something like, "Well, if large companies paying market rates haven't hired you for your skills, what does that say about your skills?" Another time, I was arguing with him about C++ and he dropped a blanket statement about how game developers were idiots - as if he knew better than the entire industry.
Now, I will concede that he was occasionally witty, and there's a possibility that he was a persona and IHBT, but that would only change whether this would be a critique of him, or of the persona.
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I didn't really agree with his political ideas, but the couple times I made the mistake of debating him, he tore my arguments to shreds. He earned my respect that way, and when he talked I mostly shut up and listened. He was, as said, extremely caustic and sarcastic, but I learned to appreciate his brand of biting humor.
Filed under: I have Stockholm Syndrome for morbs, is what I'm saying.
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@error Morbs and I seemed to develop a begrudging respect. I disagreed with him on just about everything, but he was/is a very smart cookie, and very...creative shall we say.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
@error Morbs and I seemed to develop a begrudging respect. I disagreed with him on just about everything, but he was/is a very smart cookie, and very...creative shall we say.
I am neither begrudging, or a cookie. Sometimes I'm a little smart, but not very often. I've been told my creative efforts should not replace my daily occupation.
Though, to be honest, my can job satisfies me enough not to really want to leave just yet.
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@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
What have I missed?
I'd have responded earlier, but mobile.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
New memes?
Yeah. I think most of the important ones have already been posted.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
New members?
Sure, lots — too many to name.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Drama?
How about an online romance between a lesbian fox and a lesbian hedgehog? Ragequit by the hedgehog due to an argument with Blakey (I think; I wasn't really following the threads where that was going on). A 17500-post (and still going strong) flame war between a SJW lib-tard and a few of our more conservative trolls.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is morbs still traumatising people?
Maybe, but not here. We haven't seen him since just after the switch to Discurse.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is Nagesh still weird?
Undoubtedly, but he has rarely showed up here. Also, Swampy hardly ever shows up, either.
@mikeTheLiar said in Somebody give me the rundown on this place:
Is @ben_lubar still raping cats?
If he is, he doesn't talk about it any more. He doesn't talk about Go or Lojban much any more, either. He still talks about Dwarf Fortress occasionally, and Guild Wars 2, but he doesn't post huge DF screen shots any more. These days, he mostly does great work keeping NodeBB
runningwalkinglimping along, for which we are immensely grateful to him.