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Raptorpat

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  1. jack is superman, it's all coming full circle
  2. I might not be too far behind you. The last time I was getting routine service done they tried to talk me into a realignment after I had already been sitting in the waiting room for two hours longer than they projected, and now I apparently have three slow leaks.
  3. are you peeing in the wrong side again
  4. I remember four loko getting banned. A then-Assemblymember chugged a bunch on camera to show the hammering happen in real time.
  5. as long as i don't violate admin NDAs
  6. Some things change, some stay the same. I was changing my youngest sibling's poopy diapers then, and I'm changing a different baby's poopy diapers now.
  7. It starts out convenient and satisfying, and that's when they hook ya. We're well past that phase now.
  8. We're heading for a huge contraction in the streaming market, but it won't lead to customer convenience or satisfaction.
  9. Raptorpat

    Pokémon Go

    I didn't know there was a shiny variant until after thale fact. I coughed up coins for remote passes and did the six raids I can see from home, because I couldn't be bothered to leave the house but now I have no coins. I'm undecided on the new incense feature. The spawns I got in the couple days before the weekend seemed generic and not different from the regular spawns (though I'm aware the hsuian birds are in the pool). The share feature seems a bit over the top. Is there any reason to cram to catch 20 incense spawns in one go?
  10. happy birthday jayrider take it easy
  11. AC stopped being cold and started being smelling funny. rip
  12. Please keep pisspants drama out of my thread.
  13. I mean I don't have like a written job posting. But think like cross-folder, "general" community bona fides, can be trusted with user data, values some degree of continuity/staff collaboration but also has some new energy/ideas, closes the toilet lid when they're done peeing so the cat doesn't accidentally take a swim trying to get up to the window, etc. It's not urgent (especially if the self-run groups take some of the burden on katt and I) but there's a few people I've got an eye on not just for this question but in terms of helpers/mods/volunteers in general. This transition is giving us an opportunity to work with more/new people on all sides and get a better sense of who is interested in the community generally, so we'll see. It's a slow-burn thing.
  14. I've been looking for someone credible/neutral who might have interest for like three years. katt everytime someone nominates her without asking her first:
  15. happy birthday ric
  16. proud to say that I hit 2.5 of my 4 benchmarks
  17. That one was 120 pages long and had a bunch of drama in it, I'd rather you make a clean v3 if that's cool
  18. I don't know if I actually touched the grass or not
  19. rules that I definitely didn't break, right? RIGHT???? I went to a yankees game once around that same time period. and I fell asleep a couple innings in and woke up when it was time to go.
  20. one time (of the three times) I hit the ball, i was running from first to second and the other kid had picked up the ball and just stood there and looked at me smugly. so with my expert knowledge of the rules at the time (which was just something like "the running part is tag but it's the ball that's "it"), I brilliantly just stepped around him, stepped back, and kept running as he continued to just stand there and not touch me with the ball. when I made it back to home plate, the coach said something like "good job, but don't do that" and I was legitimately pissed because i strongly felt i definitely did the right and correct thing in the absence of any additional information.
  21. when i did junior pee wee, i caught the ball once except instead of my glove, i caught it with my eye socket
  22. The aberration was a one-off gimmick thread. https://unevenedge.com/topic/31410-remember-that-one-thread-in-ib-that-got-to-10000-posts
  23. This folder isn't IB, there's a club and a discord that are both IB. This is General Discussion and no folder camp has dibs, so you best start discussing your generals.
  24. Right. So traffic and activity have declined significantly over the past few years. Routine visitors have declined by between one half and one third, however actual content has fallen off significantly more than that. Below is a basic chart for context: Set aside "new blood" for the sake of discussion, because I included it just to make the point that it's not even a target at this point. The "active user" category is self evident - people who both log in and engage in content. The "other ASMB" category are people who never made the jump, or popped in once or twice but never engaged. The "lapsed user" category is made up of people who were formerly active, and have either left the site completely or lurk for one reason or another, and their absence represents about four times the amount of content that is posted in the current normal. This is obviously unrefined (it doesn't distinguish between the types of content being posted for example), but it paints the picture. So we conducted a survey to seek out opinions from active users, lapsed users from all corners, and maybe even some of the other ASMB folks who never joined. What do people like about the site or wish the site did better, what don't they like or why did they leave? The goal was to try to construct a path that might give everyone a little of what they want and see if we can increase numbers from the orange and yellow categories without alienating the red category. It may be that we can't, due to one too many mistakes in the past or just that it's the natural life cycle of a near-20 year old internet community. But it's the people that say things like "I don't come around often, but I really value that we still have a home" or "the ASMB was really important to me in a vulnerable time and I appreciate that you're still out there" that make it worth the effort to try. The 20th anniversary date isn't a guaranteed kill-switch date if nothing changes, but at a minimum I think we've agreed that it would be a pivot point in one way or another.
  25. My father told us a story once about the first time he ever ordered delivery by himself. To paraphrase: He was about 10-12 and home alone (he was the youngest in a huge family), and called the pizza place or wherever to ask how much xyz was as he's counting his change and thinks "yes! I have that exact amount, perfect!" Fast forward and the delivery guy drops off his order, he proudly and confidently hands over exactly change. The guy counts it and, "Is that it?" "Yup!" Moment of silence until the guy realizes he has no idea what tipping is, just had to laugh it off and go on his way.
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