In four days, Framework already has 64 members and over 2700 posts. My concept seems to be working well. Also, Invision 2.0 PDR 5 just came out today. It really is an excellent system, far better than 1.3.1. I especially like the Repair and Rebuild function, which kept me from having to re-upload an old copy of the database to fix a trivial issue. I'd definitely recommend it.
<Meglo> I could care less if I was suspended from there. There is no reason I should be there. I contribute nothing.
<~rmuser> Well, at least you acknowledge your inherent worthlessness.
The members of Framework come up with some interesting stuff. Here, we have "Cradle of Insane Charknot Park" by ScareCrowMan:
"Educated in SATAN!
He's well dressed not funny, BECAUSE I"M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE!
And not much to say in most conversations, so he sold his soul to SATAN!
But he'll put the bill in all situations, RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
'Cause he pays for everything WITH VIRGIN BLOOD!!!
Girls don't like juggalos, girls like cars and money and SATAN!
juggalos will laugh at girls when they're not funny, I"M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE SATAN!
Paper or plastic,
Don't matter she'll have it, after selling her soul to Satan
Vacations and shopping sprees these are a few of her favorite things and sacrafices to the darklords of hell!
She'll get what she wants if she's willing to please SATAN!
His type of girl always comes with a fee YOU LIKE TO THINK YOU'RE NEVER WRONG!
Hey now there's nothing for free, you have to give your soul to DANI!!!! RAAAH!!!!
Girls don't like juggalos, girls like cars and money and SATAN!
juggalos will laugh at girls when they're not funny, I"M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE SATAN!
Let's go to hell!
Girls don't like juggalos, girls like cars and money and SATAN!
juggalos will laugh at girls when they're not funny, I"M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE SATAN!
The girls with the bodies like juggalos with Ferraris AND I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!
Girls don't like juggalos, girls like cars and money and SATAN!
juggalos will laugh at girls when they're not funny, I"M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE SATAN!
All of these juggalos, and get all of these girls
Are losing their souls to SATAN!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
All of these juggalos, and get all of these girls
Are losing their souls to SATAN!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
All of these juggalos, and get all of these girls
Are losing their souls to SATAN!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
All of these juggalos, and get all of these girls
Are losing their souls to SATAN!"
This is my new desktop.
I bought a copy of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson the other day. So far, it's really, really good.
<~rmuser|away> I heard you wanna fuck with Dre
<~rmuser|away> you picked the wrong motherfuckin day
<+Z> i heard you listen to moronic rap
<+Z> get a grip and shut your trap
Could you go through life with a name like this?
This is the sort of thing that really makes life worth living. At the risk of coining yet another catchphrase... blogocide?
I've created Framework, a forum based on last update's concepts. If you plan on joining, I encourage you to read the premise. Also, I've been working on a site for DHEP. The project's founder says he likes it, so that's good news.
Today, I left the ABS forums, with this message. This was a difficult decision, but I do not plan to come back unless some major things change, so please do not try to convince me to. Interestingly, 5 members have also left as a result of this.
<&S][nner> The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
I (with the assistance of a few friends) have assembled this basic framework for (theoretically) better forums. This has not been tested, however, a forum system with these properties may be implemented in the future. I will change or add to this as I see fit.
Initial Conditions
- Small community (< 100 members).
- No ruleset.
- All members have no powers.
- Special case: Host/forum creator/admin(s). It is assumed that they will act as normal, powerless members.
Projections
- When it becomes necessary, members will be chosen by other members to be in a position of power (moderators).
- Note: I have a bit of an issue with the term "moderator", as it seems to imply that they are no longer really a member, which can lead to all sorts of bad consequences.
- When it becomes necessary, a ruleset will be created that is agreeable to both members and moderators.
- Recommendation: A ruleset that is not strict and absolute, but rather, a set of general guidelines that allows for judgment on a case-by-case basis.
General Concepts
- Moderator actions should be subject to review.
- It should be possible to remove the ability of certain members to create threads.
- It should be possible to have threads go through a review process before they're posted.
- It should be possible to restrict the ability to create threads based on postcount.
- It should be possible to have certain members' threads go through a review process based on postcount.
I would like feedback on these ideas. You can contact me in #emptv on irc.luniticfringe.net.
My grandmother is possibly the best person I have ever known. She also has terminal, inoperable cancer. All they can do is give her chemotherapy and radiation in what is most likeky a vain attempt at making her live in pain for another year at best. Poison, nuke, repeat. That's all it is now. It's awful to see how frail she's become; she weighs less than I do, and can't even walk without getting tired. And it's absolutely sickening to know that when she does die, everything she was, her mind, her self, her very being, will be completely and irretrievably lost. To me, she is the last person in the world who deserves to die.
All of this is simply because her body is attacking itself. There is nobody to blame in this case; she is dying needlessly. Our selves, intelligences, "souls", are maintained only by this fragile, high-maintenance, utterly unreliable biological shell. If this was a video game, you would have only one life, no save points, slowly lose health throughout the course of the game, be surrounded by things that can easily kill you, and there is no way to win. If we don't die because of illness or injury, we die of old age. And our minds die with us. The human body is completely inadequate for the support of consciousness. Mortality is unacceptable.
I know many of you believe in an all-powerful, perfectly good deity, however, throughout my life I have seen absolutely no concrete evidence of His existence. Furthermore, I find it difficult to believe that He, the almighty and perfectly good being, would allow 150,000 of His creations (in His image, mind you) to die every day.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this. Right now, I'm just really angry at mortality, this situation that we're all in, the fact that something with as much value as intelligence is housed in something so weak, and destroyed so easily. We don't deserve that. Consciousness is worth so much more than that. Simply returning to dust is not an option.
SitePoint.com is a pretty good web developer site, especially its PHP forums.
<@PacoL250> hey rmuser
<@PacoL250> see if you can access my site
<@PacoL250> http://www.teaml337.org/
<@PacoL250> having troubles here
<~rmuser> nope
<@PacoL250> so...no good?
<~rmuser> nope
<~rmuser> I TOLD YOU IT'S A PUNK SERVER
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I found this to be very interesting, and scary.
Several of my acquaintances and I have been working on spoofs of Johnen Vasquez's "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". So far, there are 21 spoofs by 11 people, and another person is actually boycotting the site because of this feature.
A while back, ImageShack was blocked from ABS Forums. The staff refuse to explain this action, leaving the users to find other hosts, which are typically slower, unreliable, or require registration. On the other hand, the person running ImageShack has had a stable, fast, free service since October of 2003. I believe that the image host that a user chooses is their business. Therefore, I have provided this service for the members of the ABS Forums, which allows them to once again use ImageShack links. I hope somebody finds this useful.
This site's gotten 10000 hits. Nifty.
Z made a parody of EMPTV.
Interestingly, my dad has the same view on the Shrek advertising as I do.
