scoobdog

Rawlings website has all these different products you can use, and I have no idea if any of it is worthwhile.

Oh, no, I plan to use it. That got worded oddly, but the thing is too expensive to just be a souvenir.

So, I took my little bro to the All Star Game this week. At the convention center, there's a fan event before the actual game, so we decided to make a day of it and head downtown to look around before heading up the hill. Like most of these events, its really just waiting in line to get a signature, participation stuff, like virtual batting cages and museum displays, and buying overpriced shit. Well, I being the sucker I am, I happened across a Rawlings booth where they were selling baseball gloves and they had this special commemorative infielder's glove for sale. It has to have been like thirty years since the last time I bought a glove, and the last one was already pretty soft as it was. This thing is so stiff it barely flexes. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I wasn't in a seat that was remotely close to any foul balls, so I mostly spent the game squeezing my new souvenir in one hand and taking pictures of the LA skyline with the other. Afterward, though, I got to thinking that maybe now would be a good time to actually break in the glove properly. I know that there's the whole thing about wrapping the glove around the balls and tying it up. Is there something else I should be doing (beside, obviously, actually using it)? Is there like a special oil or something I should be putting on it?

I wouldn't put that on your resume, but good.

Well, boxer briefs don't cut into you like TWs tend to do.

Boxer briefs aren't free flowing. Regular boxers are free flowing.

I always felt like TWs gave more support, but I prefer boxer briefs now.

I get your point, but Walker is so mentally damaged he doesn't really have the ability to adapt his campaign like Oz might. Those gaffes don't just go away on their own and PR crew can only do so much when the candidate himself isn't particularly capable.

Herschel Walker is objectively worse that Dr. Oz.

Unsurprisingly, it doesn't seem to happen much besides here since even completely corrupt cops anywhere else know better than to shoot unarmed people.

Oof. On a related note, do you tip women servers the same as men?

Nick has an opinion about you.

No... not really.

Reading this thread while eating a bag of Skittles.

It case it wasn't clear in the above link, Adams was shot in the back.

Obviously I'm being dickish, but I'm not suggesting that you're doing anything wrong or are any different than the rest of us. The point here is that what we think of content generation is probably wrong. One of the questions that seemed to bother people on the survey was the one about ranked post content. I think a lot of people expected this to be about creative content in the traditional sense, as in creating a meme or writing a fanfic, but what I intended when I wrote that question was to track engagement. Limitation to the survey platform made it so we couldn't make it a top three so the results were somewhat broader than we intended, still we got some valuable input in that it showed some key points of engagement. In particular, Toonami and Anime got a strong response while traditional creativity like writing or music content were not ranked highly, only above troll posting. That lines up with what we've seen with the Toonami board tending to be fairly robust (at least by UEMB standards) and they tend to be less inclined to vocalize complaints to the site administration than their Noise counterparts. All this is to suggest that there really isn't anything to scrapbook. Content on this site as it was over the entire course of the ASMB's 19 your year history is entirely dependent on engagement. Neither the topic nor the individual responses to that topic matter, it only matters what gets people interested enough to actually talk and that is something that we actually have in Noise and gets ignored. We certainly do more harness the power of current events topics to get things going. That also explains how the new replacement boards were generated: there is a clear delineation between the likes of current event topics like Roe and gun control and the likes of general topics like sports and special events. You focus groupings around types rather than topics.

A compendium of what? All the threads where you threatened to or actually did post a picture of Fuggs’ vagina? For a dude who hasn’t done much to contribute, you sure seem befuddled by why board traffic is down.

I round down as long as the tip is still over 20%.

That thread was like 280 pages.

That's about right. Toonamites are kind of the last to do it, but when Lithium first transitioned, posters that had previously co-existed in Prospero began to "camp" in the boards that aligned with their favorite topics. As programming changed, a lot of the camping dissipated in short order with the topics, but the mentality persists in the problems that IBers have with Pod 6ers and vice versa.

I wasn't addressing your point, specifically, just using your post as a starting point for mine. Visibility is a draw back to the club system and there is always room to improve it.

It's an older term from Lithium.

Not just DF, folder campers in general. The complaints all along have fallen one either side of a fault line - either the DF is a toxic cesspit of trolls, or the DF isn't being allowed to be the DF, but that is indicative of folder camping in general. The IBers that flocked over to Discord aren't any less "toxic" there even with the absences of the DFers, and that is to say that its not toxicity at all as much as belief that moderation is suppressing the individual clique dynamics that tend to pollute shared topic. The fact is, there are distinct groups in the Noise section in particular that feel either moderation is unfair/uneven or that in general they are being suppressed. This isn't a problem with Toonami who continues to be its own unique entity attached to a very particular topic and who doesn't expect the same kind of freedoms that make the Pod 6 and IB cliques unique. The club system is the best way for the DF to continue to have a place where the rules are specific to that folder.

Really, though, how is it different? The only thing is the DF was moved over to Thunderdome, and that was a necessity to allow Pooh control over it. The other folders are just equal replacement that more accurately describe what's in them.