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Withstood pain nothing, he abandoned SB rather than let it die.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Withstood pain nothing, he abandoned SB rather than let it die.
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He's a giant chicken. I tell ya, a giant chicken!
Makes sense that the exotic energy of the Orange light would have an effect on the surrounding ecosystem.
I wonder what side-effects the other lights would have on flora and fauna alike...
It's likely to go the same way for Larfleeze!
The guy is a DANGEROUS psychopath, but he's also simultaneously a surprisingly silly doofus with an Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! disorder.
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
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He is the man all squirrels aspire to be.
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Why did he have to leave Spacebattles for that to happen? Is the forum dead, or something? I know one can still read things on it, but I haven't tried to join and post.
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Green lantern covered what effects the green energy of willpower have, a little bit.
It turns out green lantern batteries are grown like trees in prime continuity. Don't look at me, I didn't write it.
The natives of the planet that the Guardians use as their green lantern farm eventually changed from their exposure to all that green glow. Also it allowed for lush vegetation to grow to turn the barren planet into a green paradise.
They developed iron wills that allow them to ignore the constructs of green lanterns, and they can will themselves to die.
Not that I see Zoat including lantern farms anytime soon.
There's also the puffball collective, they have the power to kirby anything the queen eats, so her predecessor's retirement was letting himself, along with his ring and lantern, be eaten alive. Apparently the Guardians wanted to save themselves the cost of a gold watch after 3 millenia of service.
So now the queen generates puffballs that come with their own power ring organs.
So while technically that space sector has one lantern, that's only because the billions of puffballs share one mind.
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Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
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Spacebattles had a rule: no spoilers about the new Star Wars movie until a certain amount of time had passed. Zoat posted something about the at-the-time new Star Wars movie that, by any reasonable definition of the term, was not spoilers (it was on the movie poster and everything). He got a one-day ban and when he tried to appeal it, the mods essentially brushed him off. So instead of breaking his daily streak, he posted over here and, once his ban wore off, moved everything over here.
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Ah, that answers that question! Thanks!
Chaoswind
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Nope. Space battles had a HUGE banner indicating that ANY discussion about the new movie outside its specially crafted subforum would be punished with a ban. A group of people of with Zoat was included where talking about the movie in a location (a story thread) that was strictly forbidden. The entire group got banned, the worst offenders for days and Zoat as a casual participant (but owner of said story thread that didn't ask the participants to stop violating a huge banner) was banned for a day.
Trying to claim it was a silly ban is wrong, the mods made THREE huge banners that you had to manually dismiss to ignore. The punishment for the offense was HARSH, but they CLEARLY said the punishment was going to be HARSH.
Its like going to a country that has declared a state of emergency and has an strictly enforced curfew and then complaining when they arrested you for being outdoors after curfew.
EDIT: We could agree that the penalties vastly outstripped the offense, but you can't really say the mods and admins where wrong for doing exactly what they said they would against anyone that broke star wars containment as the purpose of the containment board was being clearly ignored.
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If you had read more carefully you might have noticed that Crimson Doom didn't call it a silly ban.
Although speaking of silly, likening a movie to a state of emergency, that seems silly.
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That's a retcon. The banner only restricted discussion of spoilers until AFTER Zoat's suspension. The outcry prompted them to revise the wording of the message to be more clear (and more strict).
EDIT: A better analogy might be getting arrested for public intoxication when you've only had one beer and you're riding the bus because you knew better than to drive in that condition.
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Chaoswind
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That is because the banner spoke of spoilers while the board announcement in the star wars forums clearly stated it was EVERYTHING related to the movie, the person that made the error in the banner apologized. And the banner was fixed to reflect what was said in the thread that was linked in said banner. Its not a retcon because i took the time to read the aforementioned thread and avoided saying anything related to star wars.
It was deemed that not following the link in the banner to the ruling wasn't grounds to have the bans revoked and they where upheld. Not a particular lenient decision, but forums are a dictatorship leniency is not part of the portfolio.
Chaoswind
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Yes, it was silly to go so far for fucking star wars, but heh it was their decision.
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Look, privately-owned forums can create and enforce whatever rules they like, however they like, within the limits of controlling who can access the forum and how. It sometimes may seem unfair, but that's the breaks of a private forum. I was just wondering WHY it happened, not whether it was "just" or not. Spacebattles can ban Zoat (or anybody else) for anything at all, including having unsanctioned opinions about the color of an anime character's hair, if they want. Zoat, meanwhile, can move his writings to whatever forums will still permit them, for any reason he likes, including being displeased over being banned, even temporarily, when that impedes a goal he set for himself. I wasn't trying to start a battle over the justice of it. (Heaven knows I've been on the wrong side of some private forums' opinion policing, but it's their right to enforce their rules - even unspoken ones - however they like, and as (in)consistently as they like.)
Empiricist2
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Kind of a transition update. Nothing too much of note. Still, these are necessary occasionally.
Once Larfleeze is incapacitated and the OLF is grabbed, he could just teleport/FTL/phase out of the cave. Without Larfleeze to direct his Construct-Lanterns they probably won't do much aside from attacking things that attack them first. That's how they were noted to act when the Greenies approached them.
This isn't correct. At the time, there was a banner saying that any discussion of spoilers would be punished with a ban. This is fine. However, what was actually enforced was the banning of any content present in the movie regardless of relevance to the plot or enjoyment of the film. The inconsistency is the reason there was such a huge shitfest.
A guy got banned for posting that the Millennium Falcon was in the movie, despite it being in all the promotional material. When the mods only said that they would ban "spoilers" you can see why people would get mad for being banned for posting things that are not by any reasonable definition a spoiler.Me said:
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No one.. reads the FAQ, do they?
While I have no desire or ability (given that I wasn't keeping a precise record of everything that happened at the time) to spam up the thread here with what happened on SB, my recollection is that we were told that the ban on spoilers was going to be strictly enforced with regard to Star Wars and that all Star Wars discussion should go on the newly created subforum. I don't remember a complete ban on Star Wars discussion and I clearly remember (because I checked as part of my appeal) that the SB definition of what a spoiler was didn't change. I maintain (in as much as it matters) that what I posted did not meet the definition of spoiler as it existed at the time.
In the interest of balance I should be clear that while the SB moderation had a worse affect on me, the moderation here isn't actually any better. Or worse. For example, only a few hundred pages ago a picture of Chantinelle in monster mode got me warn points because a mod found it arousing and the person in charge of the porn forum has banned porn but cannot give a definition of what porn actually is.
While I have no desire or ability (given that I wasn't keeping a precise record of everything that happened at the time) to spam up the thread here with what happened on SB, my recollection is that we were told that the ban on spoilers was going to be strictly enforced with regard to Star Wars and that all Star Wars discussion should go on the newly created subforum. I don't remember a complete ban on Star Wars discussion and I clearly remember (because I checked as part of my appeal) that the SB definition of what a spoiler was didn't change. I maintain (in as much as it matters) that what I posted did not meet the definition of spoiler as it existed at the time.
In the interest of balance I should be clear that while the SB moderation had a worse affect on me, the moderation here isn't actually any better. Or worse. For example, only a few hundred pages ago a picture of Chantinelle in monster mode got me warn points because a mod found it arousing and the person in charge of the porn forum has banned porn but cannot give a definition of what porn actually is.
Hah! I thought that yesterday felt fillery but today was the contentful one!
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torrmercury
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I actually agree with Empiricist.
Also hi! First time posting in the thread even though I've been caught up for a while now.
Empiricist2
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Really? Yesterday was talking with Hinon, and while there have been updates that have been more meaningful it was hardly filler. Today consisted of the SI looking for a cave and describing the scenery.
I often feel the same way.I actually agree with Empiricist.
Chaoswind
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Its because what is or isn't a spoiler is context dependent. For example many people would argue discussions involving scenes shown on trailers constitute mayor spoilers for the people that are smart enough to avoid the fuck out of them. Hence why different people have different definitions on what is or isn't a spoiler and why i wholeheartedly agree with just completely banning any discussion related to the topic beyond its containment board. I can't think of examples in movies (because i watch too few of those) but game trailers can reveal too much and some games are better enjoyed when you know nothing about them. (Undertale is a whole different experience when played blind).
Its why when my friends ask me about a game I clearly tell them my opinion in regards to its quality or lack of thereof and only tell them plot elements if they demand them.
Then again this off topic discussion is going places, so i will go back to lurking and eagerly wait Larfleeze going full cat shiny on something.
Its why when my friends ask me about a game I clearly tell them my opinion in regards to its quality or lack of thereof and only tell them plot elements if they demand them.
Then again this off topic discussion is going places, so i will go back to lurking and eagerly wait Larfleeze going full cat shiny on something.
Frustratedbuffal
"I shaved my balls for this?!?"
You must be new to this whole 'human nature' thing.
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