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mrimer wrote:
So that's what's been going wrong lately! We've had a severe dearth of preannouncements.

Clearly, people need to start preannouncing threads such as this one, to give people a chance to warm up their argumentative outrage.

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I'd like to preorder an argument.

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mrimer wrote:
I'd like to preorder an argument.

That'll be 2,000 dollarsgreckles, sir!

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I do note that we had no drama here until JtRH was released. So everyone who joined after that: it's your fault!

Seriously, this is what happens when a forum increases in size, especially when some people get too big for their britches or decide that starting drama is a better way to 'win' the argument instead of understanding that the only winning move is not to play. (Even though I like Banjooie, he did that a lot and it was most irritating. He at least had the good grace not to say that he was trying to start drama in order to stave off drama later.)

For those that have been around the internet block a few times, you need to understand that the DROD forum went without any drama for several years, even though there were plenty of incidents that could have caused it (like that JtRH beta April Fool's joke). Drama is not necessary when the forum is organised around a game that weeds out the impatient and unobservant. You don't need to be a release valve. Drama will not 'build up' if you don't.

Why, yes, I DID have particular people in mind while writing this! How did you know?

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Mattcrampy wrote:
For those that have been around the internet block a few times, you need to understand that the DROD forum went without any drama for several years, even though there were plenty of incidents that could have caused it (like that JtRH beta April Fool's joke). Drama is not necessary when the forum is organised around a game that weeds out the impatient and unobservant. You don't need to be a release valve. Drama will not 'build up' if you don't.

Oh, you guys came much much closer to that.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Why, yes, I DID have particular people in mind while writing this! How did you know?

What a very drama free thing to say

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Blondbeard wrote:

What a very drama free thing to say

Yeah, I'm sort of hoping that people will read it and take it as me poking fun at myself and not an opportunity to come up with some imagined slight and work out how to 'get me back'. Cause that'd just be thilly. Thilly, I lisp!

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Briareos wrote:

Just you wait until Schik adds "Marquee" and "Blink" tags to the board's tags...

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If you want to make a drama out of this thread, I suggest to name it "Much ado about nothing".

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jamie wrote:

I was starting to worry that my inability to view animated GIFs was spreading to everything that is animated, including marquees.
That's when I quoted it and saw the .gif ending.

Ugh, it's so sickening. I can't even Save Picture As and Open it with Animation Shop 3; it still is only one completely empty frame.

Oh, and, um, guess what, MeckMeck.

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jamie wrote:

Bah... the distinct lack of sub-pixel antialiasing (nee Cleartype(C)(R)(AP)) makes the difference glaring... but nice try anyway...

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mrimer wrote:
I'd like to preorder an argument.

Oh no you wouldn't.

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Briareos wrote:

jamie wrote:

Bah... the distinct lack of sub-pixel antialiasing (nee Cleartype(C)(R)(AP)) makes the difference glaring... but nice try anyway...

np: Aguayo/Rossknecht - Bouncin A Round (Kompakt Total 6 (Disc 1))

You use Vista too?

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Thank god this topic is a horrible pit of spam. It's way better then the alternative.

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Monkey wrote:
You use Vista too?

Errr... no? Cleartype also shipped with XP, in case you didn't know...

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Dex Stewart wrote:
And BTW: This forum is still probably *the* friendliest, warmest, most intelligent and in every way best I know. Even though it seems to be going down, I don't think that it will come at a point where it will be disturbing or undesirable to read.

I just got back from the Nifflas forum. God. I had no idea how true that is. Some guy emotionally broke down a ten-year-old so bad he left the forum. Then called me a troll for trying to defend him.

I'm still angry at that guy 30 minutes later.

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Since we're off topic anyway, let me use this thread to say that I intensely approve of Briareos' new avatar.

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It's new you say? It's been like that for much longer than I can remember. (read: 2 weeks ago)

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aztcg7 wrote:
It's new you say? It's been like that for much longer than I can remember. (read: 2 weeks ago)

It didn't change color every second or so two weeks ago.

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Ooooooo...Pretty colors. I approve, even if my attention span prevented me from looking at it for more than a second at any one time.

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zonhin wrote:

Dex Stewart wrote:
And BTW: This forum is still probably *the* friendliest, warmest, most intelligent and in every way best I know. Even though it seems to be going down, I don't think that it will come at a point where it will be disturbing or undesirable to read.

I just got back from the Nifflas forum. God. I had no idea how true that is. Some guy emotionally broke down a ten-year-old so bad he left the forum. Then called me a troll for trying to defend him.

I'm still angry at that guy 30 minutes later.

I'm not angry at him anymore. It was all a misunderstanding.

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Oneiromancer wrote:

aztcg7 wrote:
It's new you say? It's been like that for much longer than I can remember. (read: 2 weeks ago)

It didn't change color every second or so two weeks ago.

AARRRGH!!!!!!

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I just hope it isn't symbolic of anything. After all, gray seems to be the new death around these parts.

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NiroZ wrote:
I just hope it isn't symbolic of anything. After all, gray seems to be the new death around these parts.

Naaah... it's mostly poking fun at the abundance of grayed Banjooie avatars as of late...

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