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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #435 on: August 01, 2009, 03:21:21 am »
Such boards suffer not from having too many threads but from a lack of posting quality and lacking posting standards.

I think at the very least it would be a combination of all of them.

Plonking everything into the megathreads discourages full exploration and discussion of individual items. The pace of the megathreads is much higher because they cover so much, and it’s much harder to have ongoing or deep exchanges in them because the current’s so swift.

idk about that...I mean, "megathreads" is sort of how most of the Analysis threads go, right...?

Better to have pages and pages of threads that run their course and can be revived at the expense of encouraging searching and necromancy than having a few limited or overworked megathreads dominating the forum and limiting discussion and discouraging people from starting new threads.

I don't see what's discouraging about the bigger threads. If you have something new to add to them, jump in. People will discuss it if it's interesting, if not, it'll fall back to the wayside, but will always be there ready for anyone in the future to read when they go through the thread...if it was simply a thread itself, it would fall to pages beyond and probably be harder to find that way...

Wasn't my moderation gone over in that thing Ramsus made (I forget what it was called & don't have the url handy)...? I know it failed Ramsus' motives (because it was supposed to be about specifying evidence & such, not just making it a new forum), but I know that THIS THREAD probably isn't the right place to be discussing this? If we want, maybe someone can make a thread (Chrono Compendium Discussion I guess?)...? Then I'll merge these posts with it! :lol:

Quote from: Optimus Prime (DERP DERP DERP) via The Quotable Optimus Prime
The 10 Commandments of Optimus Prime



10. Always start a road trip by saying, "Transform, and roll out!"
9. Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost.
8. Be prepared to die for what you believe in, more than once if necessary.
7. There’s a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.
6. Give people a chance. There’s more to them than meets the eye.
5. Don’t bite off more than you can shred.
4. The future is built on dreams. Hang on to them.
3. Danger can't be ignored. It must be conquered.
2. All you need in life is a little energon, and a lot of luck.
1. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings (except Decepticons).

Sources
10. Cartoon series - multiple references
9. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
8. Transformers: The Movie (1986), Episode: Dark Awakening
7. Episode: More Than Meets the Eye
6. Transformers (2007)
5. Episode: Countdown to Oblivion
4. Episode: The Core
3. Episode: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2
2. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
1. Transformers (2007)

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #436 on: August 01, 2009, 08:21:45 am »
By 'look closely' you must mean if you smoke crack, get hit over the head w/a bottle, get papercuts in your eyes and squint from 50 yards away...

That would be like putting a picture of Lara and Taban at the end of Chrono Trigger.  It would make little, if any, sense.
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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #437 on: August 05, 2009, 07:45:31 am »
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Dream in a pragmatic way.

*scratches head* An oxymoron, yes?

*scratches head* *looks at your forum sig*

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #438 on: August 07, 2009, 09:00:04 pm »
"I kept trying to teach her how to play the piano, but each time she ended up getting pregnant instead."

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #439 on: August 08, 2009, 06:45:26 am »
"We aren't living in the dark ages. We are, in fact, well into the fluorescent era."

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #440 on: August 13, 2009, 02:16:24 pm »
"I'm the one who got 11111 views on this topic. Furthermore, I believe Carthage should be destroyed."

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #441 on: August 17, 2009, 11:14:47 am »
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“Contrary to popular belief, social validation won't make you complete.”

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #442 on: August 27, 2009, 09:38:42 am »
I thought I had posted this here before, but I tried searching and didn't come up with it, so since I took it out of my sig, I'll put it here now...

Also, for the newer members, this isn't 4chan. Have fun if you want, but don't be asses...

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #443 on: August 29, 2009, 08:46:16 pm »
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919064,00.html?iid=tsmodule

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Back at headquarters, however, there is little room for nuance. "Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody. He's a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past, it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston, and that eventually disappeared too."

Yeah? Fuck the Pope, fuck the Vatican, and fuck the magisterium. Italy wouldn't be so fucked up today had it not had to host a venal theocracy for centuries.

Edit: This is a good time as any to post the Bullshit! episode on the Vatican: http://vimeo.com/6321872
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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #444 on: August 31, 2009, 02:42:13 pm »
"I'm the one who got 11111 views on this topic. Furthermore, I believe Carthage should be destroyed."

This is a totally awesome quote. I really should start adding that to the end of all my posts. It worked for Rome, after all.

Quote from: Ted Kennedy
I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

Quote from: Doctor Who
I admire them - the bravery of idiots is bravery nonetheless!

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #445 on: September 03, 2009, 02:16:24 am »
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Don't worry if it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear.
Just sing,
Sing a song!

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #446 on: September 12, 2009, 05:50:00 am »
I have many, many favourite quotes.  I'm a bit of a bibliophile, heh.  : >  I could put a lot of them here, but I'm only going to post the quote that is the most important to me::

"The willow knows what the storm does not--that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."

It is my personal mantra...and probably always will be.

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #447 on: September 12, 2009, 04:16:08 pm »
Quote from: PZ Meyers
I am the product of millions of generations of individuals who each fought against a hostile universe and won, and I aim to maintain the tradition.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/09/saving_gods_by_making_them_eve.php

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #448 on: September 13, 2009, 04:17:21 am »
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If you're one of these New Atheists, the lesson is obvious: ditch the useless faith, and follow science.

Follow science?  Is this a joke?  Since when has science been about following?

These new atheists irk me more and more every day.  I understand they're trying to erect a nigh insurmountable bastion to counter religion, and I understand why that is important in today's world.  But to call this bastion "science"?  It's doing a disservice to science as a whole.  It's essentially making science out to be "the religion that works".  How counterproductive to actually fostering a scientific mindset.

Sorry, I grew up in this "religion" after I left Baptism, so I get easily irritated by these, probably minute, faux pas. 

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Re: Quote Digest
« Reply #449 on: September 13, 2009, 05:24:40 am »
I could not agree with you more. I go out of my way to discourage that kind of talk. "Belief" and "faith" are bad words in my book on any occasion, and I try not to use them of myself.