The State of Real Life Forums

kaiju01 · Post by **kaiju01** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:11 am

Martin Blank and denizens of RLF,

The state of the forums is bad.

It is a place steeped in cynicism. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. And those image macros. MY GOD!!! Will they stop? Scuttle the ship. Burn the farm. Scorch the earth. Take a few of the forumites of good breeding and repopulate. Plant the seed of a new forum which will not be hit by misled "real life forum" google searches -- yet threads of such ignorance will not be met with chastisement and hostility... but with open and loving arms... and acumen the Internet has never known. Images of bunny rabbits and cats draped across computer peripherals should also be plentiful.

I nominate myself for ark duty, sir!

Godspeed,
Your loyal servant and distinguished pedigree,
kaiju01

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:19 am

To be honest, I've seen the forums at a much lower point before in the past, and even then it was not the worst of what I have seen in a forums online by a long shot.

Actually, outside of noticing that there is little activity, I can't really say anything bad about the current state of the forums. The lack of activity slight confuses me, I remember it thriving back in ye olden days, but I merely assume that most of us have jobs, school, and lives, and do not live online 24/7, always ready with a witty and breath taking reply to every post ever made.

Which is probably a good thing, as a forum full of 24/7 posters would be very... scary.

But no, outside of a flame war or two I've seen in General Chat, this place is very mellow. A little tepid, but mellow. Like a cooling mug of grandma's tea. Only we can't go around stuffing other forumites into a giant blender and making tea out of them because that would be considered cannabalism. And eating other people is bad manners.

Jezebel · Post by **Jezebel** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:22 am

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one.

HTRN · Post by **HTRN** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:03 am

[quote="kaiju01";p="686542"] Images of bunny rabbits and cats draped across computer peripherals should also be plentiful.[/quote]

[quote="gravity";p="686544"] Only we can't go around stuffing other forumites into a giant blender and making tea out of them because that would be considered cannabalism. And eating other people is bad manners.[/quote]

This is going to be one of THOSE threads, isn't it?

HTRN

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:10 am

One of those threads? What threads?

I DENY ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS THREAD OF WHICH YOU SPEAK!!!

/me tosses spare blueberry muffin into thread and flees

Nukinblackmage · Post by **Nukinblackmage** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:52 am

MUFFIN!

/me dives on the muffin and eats it

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:56 am

I can't see anything really wrong with the forums. Though I do agree it's annoying having emos stumble upon the forums because of the name.

Negative Polarity · Post by **Negative Polarity** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:18 am

In an effort to prove FireAza wrong...
CANNABALISM!

/me dives on Nukinblackmage and eats him.

wocket · Post by **wocket** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:32 am

You are all sick and wrong in the head.
And nobody better eat me. This isn't one of those types of forums.

HTRN · Post by **HTRN** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:01 am

[quote="wocket";p="686568"]You are all sick and wrong in the head..[/quote]
This is news?

[quote="wocket";p="686568"]And nobody better eat me. This isn't one of those types of forums.[/quote]

This isn't a Cannibal friendly forum?

HTRN

dmpotter · Post by **dmpotter** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:38 am

[quote="gravity";p="686559"]One of those threads? What threads?

I DENY ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS THREAD OF WHICH YOU SPEAK!!!

*gravity tosses spare blueberry muffin into thread and flees[/quote]
Gravity is now referring to herself in mostly the first person. That means something about the state of the forums, but I'm not entirely sure what.

(Welcome back, BTW.)

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:40 am

[quote="dmpotter";p="686576"]Gravity is now referring to herself in mostly the first person. That means something about the state of the forums, but I'm not entirely sure what.[/quote]
It's the end of times, that's what it means!

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:45 am

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the forums work in cycles.
At the moment, they seem to be running a little slow, and some days I have absolutely no interest in what's going on.
I agree, to a certain extent, about the image macros killing conversation but unfortunately a lot of people seem to enjoy them.
But, all is not lost. Just like Scottish weather - if you don't like what you have, just wait a while.

Prospero · Post by **Prospero** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:39 pm

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.

wocket · Post by **wocket** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:30 pm

By the way Gl--err, Prospero, what IS that creature in your icon? It looks like a Gremlin on crack.

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