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magic9mushroom · #31 01-08-2009, 11:14 PM

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http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...915#post251915

This thread kind of ties into this, I guess. I found it while reading some of my old multi's posts. Weird thing is how we were fretting about not having enough members but had had 53 individual votes in the poll. We're lucky to get 20 now.

Your old multi? And most healthy forums have at least a coupla thousand members.

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You bore me with your needless complaining magic9mushroom. If you don't like what you see, move on instead of complaining. Apparently Alcar and the rest of the Axis of [insert adjective here] are content with the activity going on, so your opinion of it isn't going to change much as long as it's only you talking about it.

And if you're unhappy with the sparsity of OD topics, don't blame us. Blame OI because they haven't done a damned thing since SW.

tl;dr QQ

I ain't complaining. I'm back, aren't I?

***Nate*** · #32 01-09-2009, 02:27 AM

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that thread should be locked, yes. the OP offered nothing and the other posts were just stupid.

yes me.

The OP contributed an equivalent amount to what is in many threads in that subforum. The other posters all suck.

This time I actually did negrep everyone. But not Leto, because he posrepped me the other day.

Pilot · #33 01-09-2009, 08:28 AM

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I think he's referring to the fact that before Max became an admin, myself, Alcar and Abe-Babe/Cloverfield changed our custom titles to 'Axis of Austral-Evil'.

Oh yeah I do remember that now. I think I saw those titles during one of the times I popped in to lurk, which was twice or thrice over the years.

Laser · #34 01-09-2009, 09:12 AM

I've never been to 4chan or /b/ or what ever, but I have heard ( vastly exaggerated perhaps) comments made about it and if what people say are true...

Then you sir, need to re think what you mean by 4chan lite or at least how bad a forum can get

OANST · #35 01-09-2009, 09:36 AM

I recommend staying away from /b at all costs. Unless you actually want to see child pornography. Then you should go there. You should also stay the fuck away from me.

Hobo · #36 01-09-2009, 10:29 AM

While there is Child Porn on /b/ it's generally not rife. Not the hours I visited it anyway.

It was still the reason I stopped going to 4chan though.

OANST · #37 01-09-2009, 10:39 AM

I must have checked it out at an unnaturally rife moment, then. Because sweet Jesus, I saw some horrible things before my mind translated what it was receiving.

DarKo · #38 01-09-2009, 03:47 PM

This seems like a job for good ol' DarKo. I've been here since the dawn of the deepthroat and I know that this place is not what it once used to be. Once Abe used to smile sitting on his pitty-looking horse-thingy but these days... well he just isn't the last hope of the Mudokons anymore so to speak. What we need here is something new and fresh, you know those apples sitting on top of the crown in the tree, those who sees the sun for just a few more minutes. I have an idea which I've stuck with for so many years now. A sort of backup plan that always has been ready to rock, ready to stand against those penis-threads that have haunted us for several decades now. I will not hesitate but I will still need your help, I need your trust and all of your semen. (Yes that last part was what we in Sweden call - A joke.)

Now for my plan.

Twiglets! Lot's of them!

***Wil*** · #39 01-09-2009, 03:59 PM

What?

Leto · #40 01-09-2009, 07:22 PM

Seriously, Darko, no.

Pilot · #41 01-09-2009, 08:39 PM

Seriously Darko, Yes.

YES!

And there's no fecking way that OWF comes close to /b/. The closest thing we have to child porn here is perhaps a child who likes porn.

Fil The Slig · #42 01-10-2009, 12:30 AM

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magic mushroom

Magic Mushroom from Mario?

Hobo · #43 01-10-2009, 04:41 AM

No, the member named after the hallucinogen.

Zerox · #44 01-10-2009, 05:53 AM

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Your old multi? And most healthy forums have at least a coupla thousand members.

I haven't really seen any forums like that, and if all those members were regularly active like the ones here, then...it would be a huge mess. It could never result in the same community of people that get to know each other in the way this one does either.

And who says this forum has degenerated? By some peoples standards, maybe, but that's still a purely opinionated thought. Some of us could go as far to say it's upgraded *shrugs* I hadn't thought about this forum in either way at all until this thread popped up. I doubt anyone else did either. Considering Mushroom has been absent for a while too, they're more likely to notice any differences as a result. I have no problem with the forum's current state, I find it amusing to read mostly. Even when actual Oddworld stuff to talk about pops up, there'll still be significant remnants of the current stage of progress, which would be good. It gives this place it's own personality, so to speak. And it's not like we don't care about Oddworld anymore (presuming we all did when we joined), as otherwise W@RF wouldn't have got so far.

My opinion is the forum is fine. Otherwise we wouldn't still be here. Most no one else minds either, as should be obvious. If you don't like it, fine, but don't state opinion as fact.

OANST · #45 01-10-2009, 06:03 AM

"I said you shouldn't mistake fact for opinion. You said that I was right. You're right. I knew that I was". One of those fun little Modest Mouse lyrics.

DarKo · #46 01-10-2009, 08:06 AM

Is it O.K. to post links with Oddworld information here?

Jordan · #47 01-10-2009, 09:56 AM

Well, seeing as this thread has absolutely 0% to do with Oddworld and it's in Forum Suggestions & Help, I say go for it!

Leto · #48 01-10-2009, 12:32 PM

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I haven't really seen any forums like that, and if all those members were regularly active like the ones here, then...it would be a huge mess. It could never result in the same community of people that get to know each other in the way this one does either.

That's when you get gamespot forums, cesspool of the internet.

mitsur · #49 01-10-2009, 01:04 PM

DarKo's post is the only post that I've really ever read on here that made me WTF in real life.

Strike Witch · #50 01-13-2009, 02:30 AM

Fuck, I don't care what you think, Magic Marshmellow, this place is good.

It's not full of dickheads, it's not crowded, and it's not a place I post my yaoifics.

magic9mushroom · #51 01-19-2009, 07:48 AM

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I haven't really seen any forums like that, and if all those members were regularly active like the ones here, then...it would be a huge mess. It could never result in the same community of people that get to know each other in the way this one does either.

And who says this forum has degenerated? By some peoples standards, maybe, but that's still a purely opinionated thought. Some of us could go as far to say it's upgraded *shrugs* I hadn't thought about this forum in either way at all until this thread popped up. I doubt anyone else did either. Considering Mushroom has been absent for a while too, they're more likely to notice any differences as a result. I have no problem with the forum's current state, I find it amusing to read mostly. Even when actual Oddworld stuff to talk about pops up, there'll still be significant remnants of the current stage of progress, which would be good. It gives this place it's own personality, so to speak. And it's not like we don't care about Oddworld anymore (presuming we all did when we joined), as otherwise W@RF wouldn't have got so far.

My opinion is the forum is fine. Otherwise we wouldn't still be here. Most no one else minds either, as should be obvious. If you don't like it, fine, but don't state opinion as fact.

This forum is a very small one. There are ones this size, small ones e.g. the ones at spacebattles.com, big ones like most official site forums of big things, and the OMG HUGE ones like 4chan.

The reason I say that a healthy forum needs more members than this one has is nothing to do with content, and isn't a disparagement of you guys or anything in any way. All I'm saying is that a board of this size doesn't attract enough new members for replacement and will inevitably go under given enough time. Hopefully, Citizen Siege will give us enough new members to hit MVP again.

What I was saying about degeneration stemmed from my shock at the different nature of discussion.

That said, I'm not complaining.

Except at Ghost mentioning yaoi. *runs screaming*

Wings of Fire · #52 01-19-2009, 07:52 AM

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and the OMG HUGE ones like 4chan.

4chan is not a forum, even if it wasn't an imageboard I wouldn't call any board where people can post anonymously a forum.

Even if it was a forum it'd still contribute evidence for the hypothesis that all huge forums are shit stains on the internet.

Hobo · #53 01-19-2009, 09:35 AM

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4chan is not a forum, even if it wasn't an imageboard I wouldn't call any board where people can post anonymously a forum.

Why?

***Alcar*** · #54 01-19-2009, 01:29 PM

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All I'm saying is that a board of this size doesn't attract enough new members for replacement and will inevitably go under given enough time. Hopefully, Citizen Siege will give us enough new members to hit MVP again.

Except at Ghost mentioning yaoi. *runs screaming*

Speaking from years of experience, the Oddworld Forums have remained consistently active during the down periods between Oddworld releases. There isn't a shadow of doubt in my mind that we'll be around for years to come, and then some.

And yaoi is awesome! ^_^

Alcar...

shaman · #55 01-19-2009, 01:32 PM

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that thread should be locked, yes. the OP offered nothing and the other posts were just stupid.

In my defence there are many stupid threads on the forums and it isn't up to me what people post!

***Wil*** · #56 01-19-2009, 01:35 PM

How is that in your defense?

Jordan · #57 01-19-2009, 01:36 PM

There are other sections besides your profile y'know Shaman.

Meh, I'm just kidding.

shaman · #58 01-19-2009, 01:41 PM

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How is that in your defense?

it ISNT up to me if people post stupid stuff in my threads.

And i was very suprised by a mod posting

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PENIS!

seriously. He is much better than that.

***Wil*** · #59 01-19-2009, 01:45 PM

Sorry, I didn’t immediately get the connection with it being in reference to something on the previous page.

OANST · #60 01-19-2009, 02:01 PM

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seriously. He is much better than that.

Someone doesn't know Hobo very well. You have been Hobowned! As have we all. As have we all.

Edit: Oh, shit. It was Havoc, not Hobo. That's weird. It should have been Hobo. It so should have been Hobo.