washing machine wrote:I think a lot of the frustration with the lack of transparency should be taken with the current RM climate in consideration. Call it paranoia or whatever, but the fact that an entire forum, the most active forum no less, got deleted with zero transparency rubs lot of regulars here the wrong way.
This isn't about being mad that a silly porn quote thread got deleted, really. It's just an attempt at a dialog using the latest two examples of questionable modding.
I'm just gonna push back on this a little. There was total transparency about what happened with GD.
Some just didn't like what they heard. And needed to invent conspiracies about it. But it's unfair to say it wasn't transparent.
And I'll return the pushback here.
Don't you think the reason people cant accept that answer has a little bit to do with numerous other instances of over-modding in the past, a lot of which is now at the risk of being memory-holed due to said forum deletion?
If you are less conspiracy theory minded but still concerned, don't you think there's just a little bit of righteous anger about just losing a decade long part of the board's essence, just like that?
I think that's the context here, and the reason this conversation should happen from time to time.
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washing machine wrote:I think a lot of the frustration with the lack of transparency should be taken with the current RM climate in consideration. Call it paranoia or whatever, but the fact that an entire forum, the most active forum no less, got deleted with zero transparency rubs lot of regulars here the wrong way.
This isn't about being mad that a silly porn quote thread got deleted, really. It's just an attempt at a dialog using the latest two examples of questionable modding.
I'm just gonna push back on this a little. There was total transparency about what happened with GD.
Some just didn't like what they heard. And needed to invent conspiracies about it. But it's unfair to say it wasn't transparent.
And I'll return the pushback here.
Don't you think the reason people cant accept that answer has a little bit to do with numerous other instances of over-modding in the past, a lot of which is now at the risk of being memory-holed due to said forum deletion?
If you are less conspiracy theory minded but still concerned, don't you think there's just a little bit of righteous anger about just losing a decade long part of the board's essence, just like that?
I think that's the context here, and the reason this conversation should happen from time to time.
Taking my call off the air for the rest of night, but wanted to get that post in before I did.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
"People can't accept that answer"? I was under the impression that most people could accept that answer. It makes complete sense that B would accidentally delete GD, lol
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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Bammer wrote:40 y/o dudes whining about each other on a PJ board. Love it.
I'm 37
35 and up is basically 40
The sharpest decline I ever felt was from 35 > 40. Each year was like it’s own decade.
Mine was whatever age I was when I’m back at my high school playing our weekly alumni pickup hoops and the teenagers are just blowing by me to the hoop. Couldn’t conceive that I was ever that quick at that age. I was, but it felt like a million years ago. I was probs late 20’s at this time.
Yeah verb nothing i say or post is going to convince you otherwise dude. I can tell you that the people involved feel fucking awful about it happening. Legit terrible. But you don’t care about that. You just love to complain for the sake of being miserable and calling out some made up group of people here that are against you. You can’t imagine that there was a mistake and people have genuine feelings about it. The only posts you make are about the “cool kids” in GD, all the basketball players you hate in sports, the bands you hate in OB (except for pedo Ryan Adams) and your maga conspiracy shit in N&D. Is that fun for you?
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah verb nothing i say or post is going to convince you otherwise dude. I can tell you that the people involved feel fucking awful about it happening. Legit terrible. But you don’t care about that. You just love to complain for the sake of being miserable and calling out some made up group of people here that are against you. You can’t imagine that there was a mistake and people have genuine feelings about it. The only posts you make are about the “cool kids” in GD, all the basketball players you hate in sports, the bands you hate in OB (except for pedo Ryan Adams) and your maga conspiracy shit in N&D. Is that fun for you?
