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Post by killcrazy on Dec 12, 2006 21:28:41 GMT
Suggestion for the Abyss - how about splitting this forum into two different forums - one for aa gameplay and one for the community? I get tired of reading all the non aa stuff on this board, and pillar apparently gets tired of people posting aa stuff on this board. Two forums, everyone gets the best of both worlds - I don't have to read any of Lunger's posts, and whoever the other person was that wanted a closed forum can have their closed forum.
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Post by Pillar on Dec 12, 2006 21:56:36 GMT
i dont get tired of people posting aa stuff. i get tired of people asking questions that have already been answered...
or listening to people say "well why dont you just shutup and make me"...
or reading someone's skill progressions...
or reading about someones run of epic proportions which does not compare to other runs but they think they do...
or anything besides what i write.
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Post by Notanalt on Dec 13, 2006 14:39:39 GMT
And I'm pretty much sick of everything you post here, so splitting the board would make us both happy.
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Post by Pillar on Dec 13, 2006 15:48:45 GMT
i'm definitely going to lose sleep tonight on that one... /cry
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Post by The Abyss on Dec 13, 2006 18:43:40 GMT
was thinking along the same lines of you KC. waaay too much crap being posted.
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Post by The Abyss on Dec 13, 2006 18:46:14 GMT
maybe i'll have to start modding it, or get someone to do it for me *peer Killcrazy* There's a general forum for talking about non-game stuff.
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Post by CalviN on Dec 14, 2006 5:37:24 GMT
I hate to say it....... but... I'm gonna say it anyway. It's a really nice concept to have the AA boards stay on topic for AA stuff, and split the BS amongst the community of friends that are the primary visitors and contributors here off into a general forum (read, BS forum). It really is. But....... if you start becomming a board nazi, all your're going to do is make the boards die. I come here 90% for entertainment... to check and see if any of my e-friends have posted ANYTHING... and 10% to see if any new AA stuff has cropped up the I don't know about, or that someone's asked a question on that I can answer. And, with a few key exceptions (eg. Teh Lunger Thread, which is in the Player Characters, and sorta should be in the general forum...) MOST of the topics ARE about AA stuff..... at least for the first few replies. So how exactly, if most topics START as actual AA threads.... are you going to split the BS off into a separate forum? Initial post is a question / statement about something to do with AA. Reply1 is on topic... reply2 is on topic but stupid.... reply 3 is taunting reply2 for being stupid... reply 4-6 is everyone chiming in, reply 7 is some nice person actually giving a good, detailed answer to the initial question, 8-10 are replies to that agreeing/disagreeing/adding too reply7.... 11-29 are the rest of us messing around and BSing... So..... what do you do to cut out the bull?? The only way you could actually cut out the BS is to become a "board Nazi", and start "modding it", as you put it. Well, lemme explain to ya a complex concept in simplistic terms. You start cutting out our banter... we start getting pissed... we stop coming here... we stop posting... you lose the major sources of info and answerers on proboards. Now... for some of the people here *cough pillunger*.... not that big a loss, because they don't play anymore, so their amount of actual AA input is shit.... (NOW..... you two have contributed an ASSLOAD of the actual AA INFO on these boards...... but let's be honest.... yer both 99.9% BS nowadays... non-playin wow/nwn2 wanks!!!! ) but..... some of us still play AA... and conribute real answers and info and opinions here... and like i said... I personally only come here 10% for the AA info. The other 90% is to put a smile on my face, reading the silly nonsensical BS that my good old AA buddies spew on here. And it's pretty much the only tie they actually have to AA, hence the only way we can keep in touch with each other. Take that away....... the other 10% ain't gonna keep me comin here. Buh bye, large contributor to the info on here. No more piggy powah for you!!! Bad mojo for the proboards! And I'm sure other people will probably stop coming here too. what was that I said earlier about making the boards die? *ponder* Methinks it's a case of "take the good with the bad"... ya don't like the BS... avoid Teh Lunger Thread like the plague.... and if you see Pillar/Lunger posts, skim. Filter out the BS and get the info you actually want. But don't presume to tell the people that have kept this board alive all this time, and filled it with an amazing amount of AA knowledge that the rest of the MUDs players can benefit from, what we can and cannot post. Unless you want us to dissapear.......... and take our posts with us.... (wow!!! That IS a delete button on every post I've written!!! *gasp* ) Now... wasn't that a MUCH better, well thought, concisely explained post than the original " Piss off, you whiny bitches.... We'll post what we wanna post, or we'll leave!!!" I started to type?
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Post by Morask on Dec 14, 2006 8:37:37 GMT
form calvin "and 10% to see if any new AA stuff has cropped up the I don't know about"
from what i've seen of your play...there aint much you dont know about the game
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Post by Pillar on Dec 14, 2006 16:06:07 GMT
nice, brown-noser.. he still aint gonna let you bash for his gaytificer.
and occasionally, my esteemed colleague, tehlung (might he live forever) and i post some good aa shit on these boards. here's how i look at it: i have posted about 1000 times on the boards. maybe 300 of them are good aa info. is that a good percentage? no. have i contributed more aa posts than the people who are bitching on here? yes. do i care that they are bitching? most definitely not.
i did log on to aa last night. i got lost heading to chaos, and instead saw dermott about 14x too many. salty john and i also spent a few too many extra commands as well. i also got lost heading to nepeth, when i went 13n6w10ne and wasn't at the den (how long ago did they change that shit? fuck, i'm old!) tollie sent me about 15 lines of spam to which i quickly remembered my carrot spam and quickly retorted. after i reached the den, i got bored and idled for an hour.
sad thing is: could lunger and i still come back and play with the best players on the mud? probably.
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Post by Notanalt on Dec 14, 2006 16:25:09 GMT
sad thing is: could lunger and i still come back and play with the best players on the mud? probably. Lunger, yes. You, only if everyone left leaving you just some shifter idlers. Don't kid yourself.
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Post by The Abyss on Dec 14, 2006 18:05:36 GMT
hmmm, i see your point piggy...that's the reason I havent started to delete all the bs! I dont wanna do it but people have sent me tells on AA to say they stopped using boards because of all the whining and negativity about aa. i'll go easy on the bs, but how about some middle ground?
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Post by Pillar on Dec 14, 2006 19:29:32 GMT
sad thing is: could lunger and i still come back and play with the best players on the mud? probably. Lunger, yes. You, only if everyone left leaving you just some shifter idlers. Don't kid yourself. you just ooze wittiness... i guess i never was a good player. boo-hoo! if i had ever shutup during a party, i probably would have been really good, i just never cared to play solely for the exp while sacrificing the fun (or what i perceived as fun). i guess i'll never have a run as cool as yours... darn.
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Post by Notanalt on Dec 14, 2006 21:28:18 GMT
I knew you'd finally admit it.
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Post by CalviN on Dec 15, 2006 14:19:00 GMT
*snicker* Finally get good numbers on AA, prove that he CAN play... and now he's almost as cocky as me and tehlung!! you GO boy! *cheer karrot* And dude... regardless of your personal feelings on the matter... if you've ever tanked/bashed for gayjay when he played all the time... you'd know that he was one of -the- fastest bashers, and easily top 5% of tanks to play AA. Think about it... when bashing, he could BS pretty much non-stop, pick on the tank, bust the other bashers nuts relentlessly when they flubbed up.... yet still manage to get and sell eq faster than anyone else but me and machine... open doors... get the cake/ham from the cabinet... meat from walnut drawer... aka, shit the basher can do that tanks really appreciate.... all while yelling at the tank to speed the fuck up. Pillar? Solo run as good as yours? Probably not. Certainly not without a shitton of practice runs (like, say, building up a few efficiency alts to get used to solo running balls to the walls for a while before trying a serious run *cough*soundfamiliar*cough* ) But... come back and play with the best players on the mud? Bah. Give him a week of playing 2-3 hours a night, and he'd be back in full form, guaranteed. Now........ as far as the whining and negativity.... yeah.... dunno what we can do about that, except maybe ask the people that post the majority of it to chill out a bit. Maybe a little bit in private (hello, PM) so that you don't flay them on the boards... And tell the people that complain about it to not read stuff like Tehlung thread? I'm sure you could at least get people to -try- not to be negative whiners... most of the time... Most of us don't really think about the impact that we have on other people when we vent... because most of the time in the back of our minds, we're just venting to our buddies that probably feel the same way we do.... and when someone else jumps our shit about it... it's on! Then we get to take out our frustrations by verbally bitch-slapping the twit. But..... the thought that some people that could and should be using this site to find good info and better themselves on AA are turned off and end up not using the site because of the negativity in our posts, never even enters our minds. Maybe occasionally doing your job as board nazi, and stepping into the middle of an "animated discussion" and calmly, gently asking us to take it down a level, might be the way to go. *shrug* At least it's worth a shot. (Just forget about the Tehlung thread... that's a lost cause. )
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Post by Pillar on Dec 15, 2006 15:45:26 GMT
...when bashing, he could BS pretty much non-stop, pick on the tank, bust the other bashers nuts relentlessly when they flubbed up... that's the part that i enjoyed.. not the gold, exp, skills... nothing. only bs'ing with friends. the other parts were just icing on the cake.
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