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I think we are old....comics mostly suck now, and quite frankly, everything sucks now....or am I just jaded? Message boards generally take effort to work and get to know people on. You have to have a decent sense of humor, not be too self-important, and being intelligent helps, etc, etc...
I think we are old....comics mostly suck now, and quite frankly, everything sucks now....or am I just jaded? Message boards generally take effort to work and get to know people on. You have to have a decent sense of humor, not be too self-important, and being intelligent helps, etc, etc...
I don't see that on the web much now...
Comics do suck now, and have for quite some time. There's no way in the world that I'm going to even try to keep up with this year's MOST EPIC CROSSOVER EVANT EVAR!1!
Wrestling sucks (but hasn't it always? Wrestling misses the mark more often than not), TV is unwatchable, and the only hobbies of mine that have shown improvement are videogames, and porn.
High-Def porn makes the older stuff look weak (even material from the 90's; most girls didn't discover waxing until 93 or so, and I'm not going to get started on the horrible camera angles. Modern porn has "gonzo" features, and the quality of lezbo material has increased) and my 360 continues to kick ass. I broke down and bought a new computer two years ago, and this bad boy runs every title I throw in, whether it's an older or newer game. MAME still has it's charm, too.
Internets boards jumped the shark years ago, but it's still fun to get on here and act like an asshole from time to time. It's always fun to surf YouTube for old music videos and other assorted rubbish.
I can't help thinking that a PJP led cooking/gardening forum might reinvigorate the boards.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
lotsa times, we's sit and talk about ways to get more posters and more posts here. at least every other week. and, those discussions are all well and good, but ... that's largely the problem with those threads. they're "good". we don't do beneficial on the internet, particularly here. we're much better suited to discuss things that are awful and damaging and insulting. THUS! let us reverse the conversation, and chat bouts' the things on this forum that are killers to the forum, in and of itself. things that prevent new posters and/or new posts. what are the forum killers, destined to... kill forums?
identify!
well i think there is enough suggestions for a report. what's the verdict rob?
I think we should just give up trying to get more people in. We're internet dinosaurs. We're not that good at attracting and maintaining conversations from people nowadays because we're very old, and bitter, and jaded, and we've been there, done that, and all that shit.
Admit it, when you look at discussion threads from other forums, it's either you can't relate or you think the posters are stupid. We're basically just the internet version of war vets exchanging and arguing over the same old stories. And as much as it seems like you may hate some people here, the truth is that they're actually the people that you can still stand (or stand to hate), unlike other people whom you just ignore.
As for Rob's hatred of ready-made insults and replies and memes, isn't that the thing on the internet nowadays? Look at 4chan, the Penny arcade forums, hell, look at every forum. People usually have recycled responses; rickroll, i can haz cheezburger, demotivators. fail, 0wned. etc. We're not that different from the rest of the internet, we just have a different set of those things.
We seem to tackle the same topics and interests as most of the people on the internet - politics, comic books, videogames, pop culture - we just have a different perspective. (e.g. whereas other people will talk about the Emmy's and support Big Bang, we'd bitch about it.)
I'd like to sig this, but my current one's just too clever to get rid of.
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