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I wonder if that has anything to do with why Million dollar Extreme just kinda vanished from the airwaves. Not the article, but - well nvm it was probably just nobody watched it. but it was tough to find when it was on, and then feels like it ran once and that was that. Haven't seen or heard about it since. certainly though - you know, the ASMB was attractive to alt-right type posters, who first came there through the block. ASMB was never a sort of leftists paradise or whatever. It always had a pretty extreme-right element. I mean always. so - you know, in its way, that may have been a sort of early indicator of where things were headed.

part 3

into every life an occasional lag spike must jag. as i understand it, we'll be on firmer ground possibly within a few weeks.

Facebook has reduced my ability to want to communicate on Facebook.

ch - eras are so 90s. epochs. Now those are fuggin cool.

THAT DINT HAPPEN

this all sounds like a terrible business model.

updated it. i thought they just got auto-accepted but I guess I have to manually unlock user created quizzes.

cobbled together with cheap animation and the original audio tracks, BBC has restored to life the lost Doctor Who chapters "The Power Of the Daleks" from 1966

Profile>Look And Layout>Current Theme>Change>Select Desired Theme. the current default theme (dark don) should function with everything. but it's kind of not great in terms of fonts and text backgrounds (the lighter shades annoy me, I'd rather have just black reply boxes w/white text also more font colors seem to show up better on dark backgrounds than light backgrounds but there it is).

they don't really work. we had them - either on Prospero or when we first transferred to Lithium on ASMB. And they simply didn't work. for one thing, there was an indicator in threads that there was a missing post that people would get confused about and post about. and even without that it didn't take somebody long to figure out that nobody was responding to posts and they'd just make another SN. Basically we stopped using them and they were disabled and/or done away with in the software we were using. I think it must have been early Lithium.

that was the person who posted the thread. the OP requested the thread be axed. so a mod moved it off board.

I'm caught up.

basically if you want to like a post you like the post, if you want to karmify the user, you click the user. post likes is a separate stat from karma. atm there's no way to marry the two.

Default board theme is being reset to "Dark Don" to change it to something else: Profile>Look And Layout>Current Theme>Change>Select Desired Theme here is why Dark Don: it's the only theme that provides 100% functionality with the mods/plugins. you can go into your profile and chose another theme if you prefer a different aesthetic BUT all the mods and board features will only work on Dark Don or Curve. This isn't by design. It's just how themes work with SMF. almost all the themes aren't compatible with a large section of mods. Dark Don isn't a particular aesthetic preference of mine. I'm using it as the default theme because it's closest I can get to what I want while still maintaining full mod functionality. we may be attempting to tweek the look of this theme as time marches on. But for now it's the best we got I think.

basically the fan fiction section has tools that warn readers of adult content. As long as people have clear warnings before they stumble upon it - I don't much mind for the most part what people post. As long as people are spoiler/content marking their posts and/or using the content warning tools in the Fan Fiction section with sufficient content warnings etc, it's not an issue particularly. Though we obviously reserve the right to remove stuff. Generally though I don't think we will do a lot of that (content related purgings and/or bannings). It would be different if - like somebody was attacking the board w/pron images in a seemingly malicious context. But stuff that just comes up in regular course of posting, or part of a pic posting thread, or a story that's got mature content etc, isn't something we're going to plan on deleting/banning about. Rather, the current policy is just to spoiler mark objectionable content (stuff that gets reported) with a content warning just above the spoiler box. That may change. Like I don't want this to turn into a pron board or something. But at the moment that's how we're handling content.

good episode (4). The first three spoiled me with how amazing they were, so it was inevitable that eventually that pace would lapse. I felt did in this episode. and - that in no way makes this a bad episode. Because the first three I thought were way good. Like among the best (if not the best) episodes the series has produced so far. Where I tend to get annoyed with the show is how they seemingly insist on investing in peripheral character in terms of screen and story time, but don't really invest in the overall writing and creation of those characters. Many of them behave relatively inexplicably, turning on a dime to service the plot with no real attempts to delve into motivations or anything like that. Seemingly because the characters aren't complete enough for the writers to really understand or care. It's particularly glaring on the heels of the first three episodes, which were fantastic character studies, very well focused and tightly written. When they - sort of feel compelled from a story perspective to return to Alexandria as the story takes its next step, which is establishing the relationship/routine between the Saviors and the Alexandrians. It was a fairly nicely paced chapter in that descent. A little too much of it felt kind of surreal with no real emotional payoff or particular depth of character. Like "hey I want Daryl's bike go git it" "okay we will go get daryl's bike now for you" "okay well I will be right here waiting for that" "k we'll go get that now". And then the stakes with the search the whole "find me those guns or Olivia gets it" stuff was just - put too much on a character that nobody really knows about or particularly cares about. I mean - she's another one of those vaguely fleshed out characters. Kind of fodder really. There are too many of those. Too much of that in the series. And that's where they always lose their footing I think is - sort of selling themselves on "okay this is where the story needs to go - so we'll make this character do that" rather than cultivating a more organic approach. It tends to create a perception that characters really don't matter as people, more just as plot advancers. When characters are dismissed in that way in the writing, I think it makes them that much more difficult to embrace or care about by people who are watching the show. Having said all that - 704 had a lot of ground to cover and the first three eps were a tough act to follow. So, while I felt it was uneven, and fell into some of the obvious pitfalls the series seems to routinely fall into, but still good.

yeah a lot of times, with this Clueless Gamer thing - the game looks good even though Conan is bitching the entire time (which is funny) but this time I was kind of like "rly?" - a lot of stuff doesn't look - that great. And then the guy walking them through it does not help at all with - like the one cool thing was the giant worm creature and he was all "it takes 72 real time hours to kill it" and I'm just sorta - uh no. I like FF games. But - this one doesn't look - like something I want to necessarily grab up right away. Maybe wait a bit til the price goes down or something.

yeah there's actually all kinds of stuff we can do. From various types of bans to shifting forum permissions such that specific users can't access posting areas. I actually think there are more tools at our disposal than ASMB had in any of its iterations. But having said that, I truly hope we won't really have to ban anyone either. And the content standards are vastly different, as is the general approach to moderation. so - it's kinda like - we don't need to use those types of tools as much on this board as we did on ASMB, but also if we have to, we actually have a whole bunch of different stuff we can do on this board that we couldn't do on that board. so maybe a little irony there.

well thanks. and it's actually okay to make jokes and be yourself. but the escalation is what becomes the problem really. The point at which - Mochi reads into your post, escalates it, then you read into mochi's post and escalate it and it becomes about that. If we can sort of get you guys to just accept those first posts without injecting extra baggage into it and move along, that's kind of what I'm after I guess.

this ain't the ASMB, we're all kinda internet refugees here. It's been pruned down to a fairly small community. Be nice if we could attempt to learn what pisses each other off and maybe, instead of doing that thing first and alot, we try not doing it in deference to our boardmates. Seems a simple enough thing. I mean, I can sort of do it most of the time, and I'm an idiot. So anybody should be able to accomplish it. Basically, if this is where you're gonna hang, Mochi comes with the board. Same thing to Mochi with Jman. There's no reason you can't make some small attempts to actually accept that reality. JMan is a cynical and blunt. Mochi is a bit overly sensitive. K? We all know that. So why is it so hard to expect that from each others' posts, and move on? Mochi is the way Mochi is because of stuff. JMan is the way Jman is because of stuff. Neither one of you appeared from thin air on the internet. You both have all kinds of experiences and things that made you the way you are. Please, to the extent you are able, at least attempt to acknowledge that complexity in each other, and try to have some respect for the fact that you are now, and for as long as you both shall live, boardmates. You know some of who each other are. So - nothing either of you posts should particularly shock the other. Unless one of you actually started to be nice to the other one. That'd be FUCKED UP WEIRD AS FUCK. But while Jman shouldn't be shocked that Mochi is posting about general gayness, and Mochi shouldn't be shocked that Jman seems to like almost nothing anybody posts about more or less - It's not all there is to either one of you. There's a lot that neither one of you gets about why you are the way you are and do the things you do and post the things you post. Try to respect that, and try to respect each other, and if not that, try to respect that you're both here and you're both kinda family. And it's obviously a pretty dysfunctional family. But many are and it is what it is. You're both here. You're doing something together. Every day. Try to have at least a little respect for that, and the fact that - there is at least that one thing you have in common. when you wander in and sit down at the internet table, it's this one. you have to try to get along.

helpful tip: If you want a thread to stay on topic: post about the topic. If you want the thread to be about homophobia, great. Post a bunch about homophobia. If not, don't post about it. Stick to the topic.

I think that's just the default. so talk to the manufacturer.

this skin won't be permanent. But no guarantees what the next skin (be it test or perm) will bring to the Icon table. right now I'm looking at a more universal skin that's more compatible with mods. The only problem is some background areas are super light greyish rather than black (including the post box). So some of the SN colors don't show up as well in certain areas. and I really would rather have black background w/white text. Am looking at attempting to swap that out in the post box if nowhere else. we'll see if I can do that. If not, I still may well use that skin, as again - it appears to be much closer to Curve and therefor much more responsive to mods/plugins.

so far (if you count the Proboard) one. A SN that appeared to be a spambot was permed. If you're talking just this board then zero.