A Provisional [chat]

Jacobkosh

The last ten pages of the last chat thread were one of the stupidest things it's been my unprivilege to see in my time here - so relentlessly unpleasant and astonishingly, jaw-droppingly un-self-aware that the other D&D mods and I have discussed just going down page after page after page and infracting almost every single participant. While I personally think that would save us a lot of valuable time over the next couple of months, it is a lot of work, and in the meantime, @surrealitycheck doesn't have a place to post dog gifs. And that's the real tragedy here.

So: this is not a thread for talking about how your favorite departed forumer is a martyr to the cause of something-or-other, nor is a thread for being an asshole in the guise of dropping truth bombs. Being jailed does not make you Nelson Mandela.

Most of you are at least nominally adults. As the one moderator who tries to keep up with the chat thread, I'd like to see better judgment being exercised.

The threadban feature is going to be employed liberally from now on. If having a functioning chat thread means turning it into a private thread for Bogart, Elki, Feral, Thomamelas, RMS Oceanic, BobCesca and I to trade movie posters, book recommendations, and Star Trek trivia, well, that actually sounds rather pleasant to me at the moment.

syndalis

Sarksus

o god i woke up and the world ended

*breathes that sweet chat thread air*

Captain Carrot

I started my Mass Effect PbP campaign at 4:30. We have now finished the first scene, putting this as far and away the most successful tabletop game I've ever run.

Gooey

What about the bass?

Quid

GOD DAMMIT YOU BITCHES STOP BEING BITCHES AND WORSHIP MY CAT

Quid

Alternatively my dog:



I won't lie. One of these is smarter than the other.

dporowski

I want in if you break out the Polish movie posters.

Robos A Go Go

Your tastebuds can't resist flavor of that magnitude.

Gooey

DOES THE BASS NOT HAVE A PLACE

Gooey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_yJFLvmjJY

AManFromEarth

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

y2jake215

Whose going to see Spring Breakers

Organichu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lp-NMaU0r8



@hakkekage

this had me weeping like a baby : (

Quid

Okay I have to get up in seven hours.

Then I have to work ungodly hours.

But after that I expect pet compliments.

Ludious

This afternoon has been very problematic for me. But I turned my pain into art and wrote a new blog entry.

Speaking of being un-self-aware...

Sarksus

look at this emoticon

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Robos A Go Go

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

The Prime Directive is the stupidest thing about Star Trek.

Quid

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

FUCK YO WORM HOLE

ronya

suddenly the threads grind to a halt, as the forumers seek succour and refreshment

y2jake215

I like the effect of the bright colors to disorient you, and I imagine the crazy Skrillex soundtrack will be used to amplify this feeling

Robos A Go Go

y2jake215 wrote: »

Whose going to see Spring Breakers

This guy!

I just really admire James Franco's character work.

Ludious

James Franco is, straight up, a Lizard Person

AManFromEarth

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

The Prime Directive is the stupidest thing about Star Trek.

I wouldn't say that is necessarily the case. Having a rule where you don't go around fucking up other cultures isn't so dumb.

But the way the writers didn't seem to ever understand how the PD was supposed to work? That I would accept is the stupidest thing about Star Trek. Other than the existence of the episode "Threshold".

RiemannLives

boo for still being at work

also: got to try out two new board games last night

for anyone who has played Core Worlds, what is the big appeal? It seemed very "ok". Not bad. But not really good either.

on the plus side, Le Havre: The Inland Port turned out to be a fun little economic game (for 2 players only) that takes 30 minutes or less. There aren't enough games that fit into that kind of time slot.

Robos A Go Go

Ludious wrote: »

James Franco is, straight up, a Lizard Person

He's the wonderful lizard of Oz.

simonwolf

Guys you don't have to pay money to look at girls in bikinis anymore, we're in the Internet Age

AManFromEarth

Season 2 of Voyager was surprisingly strong, actually. As were parts of season 1. I am rewatching my lesser loved Treks with a critical eye to keep my brain awake during my long intellectual exile of underemployment.

Jacobkosh

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

The Prime Directive is the stupidest thing about Star Trek.

The original 60s version of the Prime Directive is great. It was a very simple "no Vietnam" rule - the characters couldn't use their superior technology to destabilize or change the course of a less-advanced civilization. It was a critique of American military policy and our habit of using smaller countries as pawns.

By the 90s, though, it had turned into "we have to let this asteroid murder this unsuspecting planet because EVOLUTION" which is unspeakably retarded

Atomika

Quid wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

FUCK YO WORM HOLE

I heard that gives you worm herpes.

Robos A Go Go

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Speaking of Star Trek.

I spent the afternoon watching Voyager season three and can only wonder why Janeway seems so determined to keep the crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant. I understand the real world logistical reasons about how they can't end the show early, but take False Profits. Here we see the ship encounter the Barzan wormhole from The Price and they have an actual facutal we are going to get home no bones about it plan.

And instead of just arresting or ignoring the Ferengi and having done with it, Janeway makes dumb decision after dumb decision, eventually destablizing the wormhole in a fool's errand to prove something about the prime directive or some shit.

I'm used to out-thinking TV characters, but I feel like the writer's weren't even trying on this one.

The Prime Directive is the stupidest thing about Star Trek.

I wouldn't say that is necessarily the case. Having a rule where you don't go around fucking up other cultures isn't so dumb.

But the way the writers didn't seem to ever understand how the PD was supposed to work? That I would accept is the stupidest thing about Star Trek. Other than the existence of the episode "Threshold".

Oh yeah, I was just talking about the application.

Generally speaking, it would be useful to have rules governing when and how you're allowed to interact with civilizations that don't have space travel.

Ludious

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

James Franco is, straight up, a Lizard Person

He's the wonderful lizard of Oz.

Truly is a Lizard if ever a Lizard was.

Cinders

I am glad that the agrees and awesomes are properly distributed for those dog and cat pics.

Jacobkosh

@RiemannLives that one board game you posted a few months ago with all the crazy orbits, was that High Frontier?

Atomika

simonwolf wrote: »

Guys you don't have to pay money to look at girls in bikinis anymore, we're in the Internet Age

Yeah, I don't really see how skeevy PG13 movies or magazines like Maxim continue to exist in a world where places like XHamster are both free and plentiful.

RiemannLives

Jacobkosh wrote: »

RiemannLives that one board game you posted a few months ago with all the crazy orbits, was that High Frontier?

Indeed it was. I will happily go on about that at length if you are interested.

AManFromEarth

@RiemannLives

Give me a couple good version of Mark to look up at work this weekend. We're a Catholic college with a pretty bitchin' theological studies department so our selection is pretty robust.

Sarksus

Atomic Ross wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Guys you don't have to pay money to look at girls in bikinis anymore, we're in the Internet Age

Yeah, I don't really see how skeevy PG13 movies or magazines like Maxim continue to exist in a world where places like XHamster are both free and plentiful.

Because half-naked celebrities have value too.

Dunadan019

in before Norwegian 'I told you so'

simonwolf

I am actually a fan of James Franco, though

I was very jealous when I found out that he lectures at a New York college of some kind where my friend attends

_J_

y2jake215 wrote: »

Whose going to see Spring Breakers

I'm going to wait for the screencaps.

I mean, if I went to see the film? It wouldn't be for the plot.