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Srice posted:If the argument you're making is he deserves a fair trial then, hell, I agree. He should publish If I Deserved It.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 12:36 |
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pictured: a Brandon Sanderson fan reporting a botl post:
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 12:37 |
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Mate
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 12:40 |
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Drone Jett posted:People defend OJ Simpson, 21st century white people edition.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 12:41 |
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Srice posted:If the argument you're making is he deserves a fair trial then, hell, I agree. his trial was 'can BOTL only be an rear end in a top hat in his containment thread' and the verdict was NO
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 13:00 |
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What is BOTL?
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:31 |
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BotL presented a unique moderation problem because he made legitimately insightful effortposts, but also shamelessly trolled all over the forums. I'm sad to see him banned, but I'm not surprised, and I can't really fault the mods for their decision.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:31 |
I miss his Clevin edits in the Kill 6 Billion Demons thread, even though I have never read Strong Female Protagonist and so have no idea who Clevin is. Of course some goons hate fun and so banned him from BSS vOv
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:45 |
The DPRK posted:What is BOTL? https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2800
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:50 |
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when Lowtax passes on the forum to a revitalized LF you will be first against the wall
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:52 |
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I want to point out that is objectively one of the funniest posts I have ever read
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 14:57 |
Do you have a beard Mel?
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:02 |
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Of course Mostly because I have taken to shaving my head and dont want to completely hide that I am a ginger
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:04 |
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A fitting epitaph. For the record, I generally think the admins+mods do a great and obviously thankless job volunteering to keep the peace among goons. But this peace, it shall destroy many
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:15 |
The tree of shitposting must occasionally be refreshed from time to time with the blood of gimmick accounts
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:18 |
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I've said it before but I want to say that I genuinely hold no grudge against Hieronymous or the forums, I just notice he has been uptight recently and I have a bad puckish habit of wanting to antagonize people when they are uptight
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:22 |
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The DPRK posted:What is BOTL? A miserable pile of shitposts.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:25 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I've said it before but I want to say that I genuinely hold no grudge against Hieronymous or the forums, I just notice he has been uptight recently and I have a bad puckish habit of wanting to antagonize people when they are uptight lol
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:26 |
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I just read the words "inclined ramp" in a Culture book and it triggered me. is there such a thing as a non-inclined ramp, does Banks think we will confuse it with a vegetable? I like Culture in general but Banks uses too many words. does this carry over to his non-sf fiction? can you tell they're written by the same guy?
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:27 |
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Taiwan group chat got into a heated conversation about whether or not magic in Harry Potter was a good metaphor for capitalism as a result of the banning, so good job trolling from beyond the grave Bravest.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:28 |
my bony fealty posted:I just read the words "inclined ramp" in a Culture book and it triggered me. is there such a thing as a non-inclined ramp, does Banks think we will confuse it with a vegetable? Theoretically I guess you could have a non-inclined ramp in a zero-g space. OTOH even an incline of zero degrees is, technically, an incline. All surfaces are inclined.
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On occasion I have to be nice to Hieronymous because he is probably the best mod we could have other than chernobyl and they won't let him be mod
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:31 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Theoretically I guess you could have a non-inclined ramp in a zero-g space. OTOH even an incline of zero degrees is, technically, an incline. All surfaces are inclined. the word inclined has now appeared three times on this page, twice as "inclined plane" and once as "inclined ramp" so I'm thinkin he really just loves that word In total this two-page scene uses "inclined plane" four times, "inclined ramp" once, and "slope" twice. this angled surface must be very important my bony fealty fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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my bony fealty posted:the word inclined has now appeared three times on this page, twice as "inclined plane" and once as "inclined ramp" so I'm thinkin he really just loves that word Sounds like he has an . . . inclination :finger guns:
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Mel Mudkiper posted:On occasion I have to be nice to Hieronymous because he is probably the best mod we could have other than chernobyl and they won't let him be mod no I meant that you're the most uptight of all of us brother
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Lex Neville posted:no I meant that you're the most uptight of all of us brother I am also an enormous hypocrit
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my bony fealty posted:I just read the words "inclined ramp" in a Culture book and it triggered me. is there such a thing as a non-inclined ramp, does Banks think we will confuse it with a vegetable? You cannot tell because Ian Banks wrote fiction and Ian M. Banks wrote sci-fi.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I am also an enormous hypocrit Literally, who isn't? Hypocrisy is such a basic human trait it's stupid we even talk about it. Without hypocrisy, there is no aspiration nor drive to better ourselves.
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pseudanonymous posted:Literally, who isn't?
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 15:58 |
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Hey, I offer here the final message from Bravest of the Lamps:quote:Comrade goons, Truly he was too good for us
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 16:13 |
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Cicero posted:It's like racism. Probably almost everyone is at least a little bit racist subconsciously, but when we say "wow that dude's racist" we're talking about a particularly blatant example. I think this is a huge part of why racism remains an issue to this day, how we frame the issue of racism, and how many people think "being racist" is using particular slurs and nothing else. As long as they don't use those slurs (they do when they cut off in traffic or ganked in a MOBA) they "aren't racist" - racists are the members of the KKK or whatever. If people acknowledged that being racist is part of the human condition, and it's something you have to actively stop yourself from doing, we could probably move a lot further on to "solving racism".
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 16:15 |
this is a masterpiece McCloud posted:Hey, I offer here the final message from Bravest of the Lamps:
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 17:32 |
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McCloud posted:Hey, I offer here the final message from Bravest of the Lamps: Vaguely offended by the cultish admiration line but fare thee well noble poo poo-stirrer
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McCloud posted:Hey, I offer here the final message from Bravest of the Lamps: drat, that's pretty classy.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 18:06 |
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Remember the time he called someone a pedo for arguing with him. Occasionally he said something interesting but he didn’t invent effortposts.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 18:54 |
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I post this in QCS but I think it deserves a brief inclusion hereMel Mudkiper posted:the problem with this naive assertion is that Hieronymous and other mods have commented that they receive literally dozens of reports any time anyone says anything critical in any thread. Part of the whole tongue in cheek hero worship of BotL was that he didn't give a poo poo if he got probated for it. Like, there seems to be this idea that you HAVE to be positive, and cannot express any sort of negative perspective or else its trolling. This is my main frustration going forward and something I would like to see this subforum and some of its posters improve on.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 18:55 |
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I'm closing this since it's just posting about posters now. I'll reopen it later, in the meantime everyone can take it to QCS. If someone wants to post this thread again but without all the baggage, feel free. Edit: To clarify, this isn't a punishment, it's just a lot easier to respond in QCS instead of the same discussion happening in parallel here
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 19:03 |
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Thanks everyone! Please enjoy the thread.
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 02:44 |
FactsAreUseless posted:Thanks everyone! Please enjoy the thread. thread should probably be goldmined because there's a heap of interesting posts in it but also so the new thread can be something of a break from the botl bottle
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Yeah, agreed. Goldmine or purgatory this one and move onto a fresh thread.
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