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Quoth the Raven

StericaSterica YesRegistered User, Moderator mod
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The Bro is dead.

Long live the Raven.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    Quoth the Bro
    "Nevermore"

    zepherin on
  • HounHoun Registered User regular
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I think this change is for the birds.

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  • JurgJurg In a TeacupRegistered User regular
    edited January 2014
    This change reminded me that the central premise of the show is that Raven is psychic, which

    I kinda forgot about?

    Disney Channel throws some weird ideas out.

    EDIT- Did they ever make a psychic joke?

    Jurg on
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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Houn wrote: »
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    I forsee this getting a lot of use

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    so what's the actual story behind this?

  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    so what's the actual story behind this?

    Icy saw no so raven button where a so raven button should be

    and he said "no. this will not do"

    so the legend goes

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    so what's the actual story behind this?

    My money's on "people had finally collectively standardized the usage of the 'bro?' button, so let's come up with something even more confusing!"

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Casual wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    so what's the actual story behind this?

    Icy saw no so raven button where a so raven button should be

    and he said "no. this will not do"

    so the legend goes

    Hey now, I had to push for this. I had to submit a ticket and get in line.

  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    so what's the actual story behind this?

    Icy saw no so raven button where a so raven button should be

    and he said "no. this will not do"

    so the legend goes

    Hey now, I had to push for this. I had to submit a ticket and get in line.

    That's so Raven.

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    In the spirit of the new button, I'm going to go ahead and predict the next few buttons to be added:

    "So Raven" will be replaced by "Wakka" in late 2014.
    "Wassail" will be briefly added to the 2014 Xmas Hangout.
    "Wakka" will be replaced by "What is Love?" in Feb 2015, but will return in April after no one uses it.
    "Wakka" will again be replaced in Sept 2015, this time by "Alphanumeric".
    2016 will see a huge shake-up when a "Disagree" button is finally added in mid January.
    "Disagree" will be renamed to "Frowny" in an attempt to light up it's image.
    "Frowny" will be removed due to it being the only button ever pressed in D&D.
    Due to outcry, "Frowny" will return, but after a mere two days it will be replaced with "Dinkleburg!"
    In late 2016, tired of the drama caused by status buttons, they will all be removed.
    2017 will open with 7 new buttons, three of which say "<3 Tube", and four of which say "<3 Icy".

  • IcyLiquidIcyLiquid Two Steaks Montreal, QuebecAdministrator, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    That is eerily similar to the plans I have here.
    Plans drawn up on parchment.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I don't know if you're all aware of this

    But what Houn just did was very Raven.

  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    I have no more bro:s and where my bro:s were there is a raven.

    There is something fowl and sinister about this.

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    IcyLiquid wrote: »
    That is eerily similar to the plans I have here.
    Plans drawn up on parchment.

    In blood?

  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    Tube wrote: »
    I don't know if you're all aware of this

    But what Houn just did was very Raven.

    There's not a very raven button though. So Raven will have to do.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2014
    Even better; the farther back the _______'s are, the more or less sense they'll make in context.

    "Why did you have a pile of Wakka's back in 2013? Those posts aren't very funny."

    "They were 'Bros' back then. Sadly their standardized usage has been lost to the mists of time, along with ranger threads and that time one guy collapsed an entire Holiday Subforum into a single thread after being granted administrator powers."

    Never mind, just noticed that the bros are no longer displayed, thus my commentary is no longer Raven.

    Forar on
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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    This is my favorite thing, even though I know I had nothing to do with it. Thank you.

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  • IcyLiquidIcyLiquid Two Steaks Montreal, QuebecAdministrator, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    So actually any "Bro?"s will remain Bro?s. Ravens aren't a rename, theyre a totally new reaction.

  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Huh, they totally are, and can be found simply by replacing the action type.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/profile/reactions/77466/IcyLiquid?reaction=bro

    *bro*

    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    So the bros aren't nevermore then? That's good


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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    I can't stop ravin' bout these Ravens!

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    Forar wrote: »
    Huh, they totally are, and can be found simply by replacing the action type.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/profile/reactions/77466/IcyLiquid?reaction=bro

    *bro*

    If I wasn't at work, I'd deconstruct a way to "bro" a post under the new Raven Regime, but it'll have to wait until I have time to tear apart the request/response sequence with Wireshark...

    What? Network Traffic is interesting.

  • IcyLiquidIcyLiquid Two Steaks Montreal, QuebecAdministrator, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Houn wrote: »
    Forar wrote: »
    Huh, they totally are, and can be found simply by replacing the action type.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/profile/reactions/77466/IcyLiquid?reaction=bro

    *bro*

    If I wasn't at work, I'd deconstruct a way to "bro" a post under the new Raven Regime, but it'll have to wait until I have time to tear apart the request/response sequence with Wireshark...

    What? Network Traffic is interesting.

    There's anti-fuckery code in there now :) Sorry :)

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    IcyLiquid wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Forar wrote: »
    Huh, they totally are, and can be found simply by replacing the action type.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/profile/reactions/77466/IcyLiquid?reaction=bro

    *bro*

    If I wasn't at work, I'd deconstruct a way to "bro" a post under the new Raven Regime, but it'll have to wait until I have time to tear apart the request/response sequence with Wireshark...

    What? Network Traffic is interesting.

    There's anti-fuckery code in there now :) Sorry :)

    Aw, Icy. That's so... well, Raven.

    Well played.

  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    I think we need a button for WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB

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    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    i have trouble handling so much change

    and I predict that soon ravens will become more coveted than awesomes

    chaos will follow

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    i have trouble handling so much change

    and I predict that soon ravens will become more coveted than awesomes

    chaos will follow

    Are you suggesting that there will be some sort of conspiracy to get large numbers of ravens?

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    i have trouble handling so much change

    and I predict that soon ravens will become more coveted than awesomes

    chaos will follow

    Nothing is more coveted than an awesome! I actually had a dream that my agrees and awesomes got wiped, and all I was left with was bros?. When I woke up I felt sad, but then relieved to find out it was just a dream.

    How sad is that? That's pretty sad...

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    The question is:

    What will the So Raven equivalent of Broseidon, King of the Broceans (All Hail Brolo) be?

  • jmcdonaldjmcdonald I voted, did you? DC(ish)Registered User regular
    I propose a compromise. How about the new reaction is:

    Bro? Raven

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    MechMantis wrote: »
    The question is:

    What will the So Raven equivalent of Broseidon, King of the Broceans (All Hail Brolo) be?

    DeepRaven. Commonly confused with the DeepCrow.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    I will miss the Bro button because it came to serve a useful function, at least how some of us came to see it. Bro? as a reaction to someone's post was a response of sympathy. Not an agree, not something you'd awesome, but more like a firm hand on the shoulder like "Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling, bro, I hear you."

    Like someone would make a post like "My dog died, :(" and people would Bro? that post. That's not the kind of post you click Agree on (You agree his dog died?) and definitely not the kind of post you Awesome. Bro? was the perfect reaction without having to have an entire page of "My sympathies, man" type posts.

    Now it is gone.

    I don't know why we couldn't have had room in our hearts for both a Bro? and a So Raven button.

  • Grunt's GhostsGrunt's Ghosts Registered User regular
    I can't be happy about this Bro?

    I can't be happy about this.

    Also, is it me or does the raven look a little batman like?

    This button is confusing me.

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    i have trouble handling so much change

    and I predict that soon ravens will become more coveted than awesomes

    chaos will follow

    Are you suggesting that there will be some sort of conspiracy to get large numbers of ravens?

    I think that for such a thing to occur the forums would have to be filled with unkindness.

    We might even be forced to call a constable.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • IcyLiquidIcyLiquid Two Steaks Montreal, QuebecAdministrator, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    @knitdan get outta here with your conspiracy theories.

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    @knitdan and @IcyLiquid just won the thread, and no one realized it but me.

    *edit* @DarkPrimus, too. You are all peerless in your wordplay and wit.

    Houn on
  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    I will miss the Bro button because it came to serve a useful function, at least how some of us came to see it. Bro? as a reaction to someone's post was a response of sympathy. Not an agree, not something you'd awesome, but more like a firm hand on the shoulder like "Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling, bro, I hear you."

    Like someone would make a post like "My dog died, :(" and people would Bro? that post. That's not the kind of post you click Agree on (You agree his dog died?) and definitely not the kind of post you Awesome. Bro? was the perfect reaction without having to have an entire page of "My sympathies, man" type posts.

    Now it is gone.

    I don't know why we couldn't have had room in our hearts for both a Bro? and a So Raven button.

    You're right, I hadn't considered that.

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