Posts by Lace Sabatons

  • McLibel

    http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/story.html

    This is a long read, but I'd never heard about it before. If you have some time to kill, it's worth reading.

    TL;DR:

    -Activists in the UK print a pamphlet critical of McDonalds.
    -McDonalds threatens to sue them, the same way it sues everyone that criticizes it. But these activists don't give in.
    -Due to the UK's harsh libel laws, which don't guarantee legal representation to the defense and are generally weighted in favor of the claimant, the activists are in deep shit.
    -McDonald's lawyers convince the judge to disband the jury because the issues are too complicated for dumb peasant folk to understand.
    -The trial lasts 2 years, and the Judge eventually finds in favor of McDonalds (though he strikes down parts of their claim.)
    -Public opinion largely favors the defense, though. McDonalds gets a shit load of bad press from the whole debacle.
    -The activists eventually sue the UK itself in the European court, and win.
    Epilogue: McDonalds is still an organization that helps billionaires oppress the poor.

  • CTRL + V

    Normal dude who is just really lucky.

    Normal dude with access to advanced technology.

    Normal dude who keeps stumbling into the center of attention. Winding up as the subject of prophecy, or being hailed as the chosen one.

  • Thread for SPAMMY & random posts

    The Veteran vs. Noob mentality is absolutely a problem with online communities. But do you think visible post counts really play that much of a role? I tend to think it has more to do with how the veterans treat each other, vs. noobs. I actually have a really specific example of this, in the Jorbs thread:

    http://forums.zeldacavern.com/index.php?thre…age-2#post-1658

    After my previous post, there were two replies. One from you, and one from Vengeance. My initial inclination was to only respond to you. After all: I know you, I'm comfortable talking with you, and you and I were having a conversation about a specific subject. But that would have arbitrarily excluded Vengeance for no better reason than his new-ness. When he came back to the forum, he'd see that his post had been ignored, and he wouldn't really have much reason to come back again.

    I don't think the post count really matters all that much. I think the real issue is that vets ignore noobs.

    Also, Xenforo is great. I don't know how much modification has been done to this place, but this is absolutely my favorite forum software I've ever used. If I ever admin a forum again, I'd want to use this software.

  • The Best Times

    Yeah, we were always the annoying kids to them, weren't we? Amusingly enough, I was 10 when one of my younger brothers was born. He tended to look up to me the same way I looked up to my uncle, and I tended to be annoyed by him the same way my uncle was annoyed by me. He and I are actually pretty close now, though.

    I've never really had many people to play multiplayer with, so I never really developed a taste for competitive video games. It's something I try to do a little more often these days, but the venn diagram of the games that I like and the games that have multiplayer has only a very small intersection.

  • CTRL + V

    The game is simple. You scroll down to the reply box, and you hit CTRL + V, pasting whatever is currently on your clipboard into a post. Then you share it with all of us.

    If you don't post something because you're embarrassed about it, you're a coward and I hate you.

  • Thread for SPAMMY & random posts

    Well you've certainly corrected the flaw of the spam thread being filled with normal discussion posts.

    Quote from Kaynil

    It is dumb now. Hosting a forum back then was too expensive and the space way more limited so every post in the database had to count.

    In theory disabling the post count discourages members to spam their way up. But if they want to do so. Isn't better that they have an area for those quick posts instead of resorting to shallow replies elsewhere to that end?

    We could be spamming, but instead we're having a coherent somewhat serious discussion. Haha.

    Can't help it. I think it is an interesting thing to talk about.

    I didn't consider database costs. I never actually had to pay for hosting on any of the forums I ran; they were either on my personal server, of Ceraptor's.

    I think there's a reason most websites don't have post counts anymore. Seeing that little number next to your name does something to people's brains. They want to make the number bigger, and they post dumb shit to make that happen. That's certainly what I did at the original TSR.

    Still, I'm glad these forums have kept post counts around.

  • What are you thinking right now?

    Quote from Kaynil

    That sounds pretty cool. I hope it works really nicely.

    I found out two if my co-workers really one videogames and one if them us into Zelda. I kind of want to make her join. Not sure how to approach the invitation. Hopefully next Friday the opportunity will arise.

    Good luck with that! Inviting work people into your personal life is always a little scary. But I've found that it can sometimes be surprisingly rewarding.

    Quote

    When and how I am going to sleep for the rest of my life.

    Why are you worried about that?


    I've been watching Malcolm in the Middle lately. It's amusing, but not as good as everyone says. And god damn, the early 2000s were dumb.

  • What are you thinking right now?

    Good luck with that! Inviting work people into your personal life is always a little scary. But I've found that it can sometimes be surprisingly rewarding.

    I've been watching Malcolm in the Middle lately. It's amusing, but not as good as everyone says. And god damn, the early 2000s were dumb.

  • <^> Game

    ^ Incorrect! I have a big pot of leftover chili. So it will be my next big meal.
    ^ Also, those videos sound interesting. But yeah, that's not the sort of thing a parent needs to see.
    < Just finished playing Terraria for 4 hours with my little sister. Had a lot of fun.
    V Doesn't have a little sister!

  • The Poet Class

    I probably should write them down. A lot of them are just cheap rhyming couplets. Stuff like "For your deeds I'll see you dead / we'll split our body from your head!" or "Go now, to your burial mound. / From here on out, our company shall be less round." (That second one was after the spherical wizard died).

    Everything else was ripped off google.

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