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.
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kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
Coran Attack!
The gold was in the stove pipe!
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Holy shit I remember bits and pieces of that.
Well done Bear
Coran Attack!
I'm dying over here.
THE AUGMENTED MENTOS BRIGADE...aka AUGMENTOS!
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I have seen every episode.
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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.
It will work twice as hard.
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.
Despite my desperation to get people interested in this, I have to say no.
the whole idea is a sham, and doomed to failure
I kid, of course. I am all for removing the clutter.
when I saw the thread title I hoped for this
I can't believe you're even asking the question.
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.
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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.
i don't know what to tell you
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?
What is wrong with playing them in CF
It's still around. The Citadel of Truth is as well but it doesn't look active at all.
i was about to give my opinion but I think I will preemptively agree with Seriously
Not his, it turns out.