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Submitted for your approval: Augmentos

ButlerButler 89 episodes or bustRegistered User regular
edited July 2009 in Social Entropy++
Most of the time, I try to behave sensibly here and keep my head down. Occasionally, though, I am seized by an idea and feel compelled to follow through on it and make a thread about it. Sometimes this works out fantastically, like with Illustrated Grouphug. Sometimes it's a terrible idea and I just embarrass myself, like the time I tried to get everyone to sign a petition against trolling. This is one of those times, and like every time before I have no idea which way it's going to go.

This idea is called Augmentos (copy-pasted explanation below):
I have created this forum to serve two purposes:

(1) To provide a space for current Penny Arcade forumers to run mini-events, such as phallas, quizzes or RPGs (some of you may recall Pony's UNIFIED). The mods of the official forums (OFs) rightly frown on them being cluttered up with this stuff, and creating a new forum on the main site can only be justified if there is a very hefty groundswell of support. Augmentos covers the gap for things that are too big for one thread and too small to justify a new OF.

(2) The No-Life-Pod forum (currently hidden) will serve as a semi-official backup in the event that the main forums go down, so that people can continue to shoot the breeze and make arrangements for upcoming events such as PAX. It will be unlocked ONLY when the OFs are down.

Augmentos is NOT intended to be a self-contained community. People will naturally form sub-groups for the different games and events going on, and that's fine, but we should always remember that we're just an extension of the PA community, so play nice and no looking down noses.

For the same reason, we will by default be following the same rules here as in Social Entropy ++, with a few caveats, such as to generally stay on topic. After all, we already have a chat forum.

Please use this thread to discuss Augmentos itself. Click here if you want to start a project or game, or here if you think you'd make a good mod and would like to help out. Have fun!
Be gentle with me.

Butler on
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  • BearstranautBearstranaut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    faaaaaaaaaaaaag

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    You ever try and draw Falcor as a giant dong? No? It just ends up looking like a long cyclops.
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  • BearstranautBearstranaut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'll take it back if you make me a mod.

    Bearstranaut on
    You ever try and draw Falcor as a giant dong? No? It just ends up looking like a long cyclops.
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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    AWFUL IDEA I HATE IT YOU'RE AWFUL

    L|ama on
  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I thought this would be about Are You Afraid of the Dark

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  • BearstranautBearstranaut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    I thought this would be about Are You Afraid of the Dark

    The gold was in the stove pipe!

    Bearstranaut on
    You ever try and draw Falcor as a giant dong? No? It just ends up looking like a long cyclops.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    I thought this would be about Are You Afraid of the Dark

    The gold was in the stove pipe!

    Holy shit I remember bits and pieces of that.

    Well done Bear

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Seriously is this a good or terrible idea guys?

    I'm dying over here.

    Butler on
  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I thought this was going to be about power enriched mentos candies that gave us super human abilities.

    THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!

    Hunter on
  • BearstranautBearstranaut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    I thought this would be about Are You Afraid of the Dark

    The gold was in the stove pipe!

    Holy shit I remember bits and pieces of that.

    Well done Bear

    I have seen every episode.

    Bearstranaut on
    You ever try and draw Falcor as a giant dong? No? It just ends up looking like a long cyclops.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hunter's right though, i thought it was a portmanteau as well.

    re: the idea itself. I don't think we need another place to phalla just because some folks don't want to play the CF phallas, but i do like the idea of a life-support forum.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    bwanie wrote: »
    Hunter's right though, i thought it was a portmanteau as well.

    re: the idea itself. I don't think we need another place to phalla just because some folks don't want to play the CF phallas, but i do like the idea of a life-support forum.

    It is a portmanteau, augment meaning to improve by adding to, and mentos being the freshmaker.

    It's not just for phallas, though it could be used for that. There's also stuff like the UNIFIED game Pony tried to get off the ground a while back, and the quiz game Ramius ran here a while ago.

    Butler on
  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    okay but if i go on a plane and they dont have internet will your site still work

    Air on
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited July 2009
    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Air wrote: »
    okay but if i go on a plane and they dont have internet will your site still work

    It will work twice as hard.

    Butler on
  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    I've always wanted to be a part of a splinter forum. Make me a mod, then create some alt accounts that I can ban or something.

    Szechuanosaurus on
  • KingMoleKingMole Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Wouldn't little forum events like UNIFIED just end up in CF anyway? I mean, it was basically a tabletop RPG-type.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I've always wanted to be a part of a splinter forum. Make me a mod, then create some alt accounts that I can ban or something.
    totally not a splinter forum you guys

    Butler on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    KingMole wrote: »
    Wouldn't little forum events like UNIFIED just end up in CF anyway? I mean, it was basically a tabletop RPG-type.

    The problem was once it got running it would have taken up multiple threads, which the mods were understandably not too happy about. With Augmentos that ceases to be a problem because you can have an entire forum to yourself.

    Butler on
  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    will ranger threads be allowed?

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    will ranger threads be allowed?

    Despite my desperation to get people interested in this, I have to say no.

    Butler on
  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    you goddamn puritan

    Air on
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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm personally okay with them, but I'm not allowing them because I wanted this to just be some extra space and options for the people already on this forum, not a new community in its own right.

    Butler on
  • TrexyTrexy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    will ranger threads be allowed?

    Despite my desperation to get people interested in this, I have to say no.

    the whole idea is a sham, and doomed to failure

    Trexy on
  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I think your Flying Stove forum is a fantastic idea, Butler!

    I kid, of course. I am all for removing the clutter.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    So here's an important question, should I look up the facebook page of the intern starting today?

    NotASenator on
  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be about power enriched mentos candies that gave us super human abilities.

    THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!

    when I saw the thread title I hoped for this

    Usagi on
  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    NotACrook wrote: »
    So here's an important question, should I look up the facebook page of the intern starting today?

    I can't believe you're even asking the question.

    DrZiplock on
  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be about power enriched mentos candies that gave us super human abilities.

    THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!

    when I saw the thread title I hoped for this


    An army driven to war, fueled by the explosive power of mentos and diet coke.

    DrZiplock on
  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be about power enriched mentos candies that gave us super human abilities.

    THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!

    when I saw the thread title I hoped for this


    An army driven to war, fueled by the explosive power of mentos and diet coke.

    I'll get the goggles

    Usagi on
  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be about power enriched mentos candies that gave us super human abilities.

    THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!

    when I saw the thread title I hoped for this


    An army driven to war, fueled by the explosive power of mentos and diet coke.

    I'll get the goggles

    Don't bother, they do nothing.

    Hunter on
  • TrexyTrexy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    e: ^^^ hunter that is terrible
    NotACrook wrote: »
    So here's an important question, should I look up the facebook page of the intern starting today?

    don't most facebook pages just let you view their profile picture unless you're friends with them?

    Trexy on
  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Trexy wrote: »
    e: ^^^ hunter that is terrible
    NotACrook wrote: »
    So here's an important question, should I look up the facebook page of the intern starting today?

    don't most facebook pages just let you view their profile picture unless you're friends with them?

    So you friend them.

    It's brilliant because either they accept and give you unfettered access to all their horrible facebooking or they refuse, essentially confirming all your wildest imaginings of just how horrible their facebooking is.

    Either way, awwwwwwkwwwwwaaaaaaaaard.

    Szechuanosaurus on
  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I personally think that this is a good idea that won't take off, but I'm waiting for Cardboard Tube to come in here and say something so I can act like that was my opinion all along.

    Seriously on
  • TrexyTrexy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    if you're looking for an internship and haven't removed all of the criminalizing photographs from your facebook yet...
    i don't know what to tell you

    Trexy on
  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Isn't this basically what TTB is for though?

    Mind you, they have this pain in the balls idle account policy so each time PA goes down I need to re-register. Not that that has happened since about 3 years.

    Does TTB even still exist?

    Szechuanosaurus on
  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    bwanie wrote: »
    Hunter's right though, i thought it was a portmanteau as well.

    re: the idea itself. I don't think we need another place to phalla just because some folks don't want to play the CF phallas, but i do like the idea of a life-support forum.

    What is wrong with playing them in CF

    Gumpy on
  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Isn't this basically what TTB is for though?

    Mind you, they have this pain in the balls idle account policy so each time PA goes down I need to re-register. Not that that has happened since about 3 years.

    Does TTB even still exist?

    It's still around. The Citadel of Truth is as well but it doesn't look active at all.

    Macro9 on
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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Seriously wrote: »
    I personally think that this is a good idea that won't take off, but I'm waiting for Cardboard Tube to come in here and say something so I can act like that was my opinion all along.

    i was about to give my opinion but I think I will preemptively agree with Seriously

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I only have room in my cold black heart for one splinter forum

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Trexy wrote: »
    e: ^^^ hunter that is terrible
    NotACrook wrote: »
    So here's an important question, should I look up the facebook page of the intern starting today?

    don't most facebook pages just let you view their profile picture unless you're friends with them?

    Not his, it turns out.

    NotASenator on
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