Judgement_Dave

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  1. Right that's it - 3 day posting bans for everyone!
  2. US boards just went down
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    +1 post just for SingStar as a reward for a good job in changing the thread title.

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    MM, yes, sneaky one, wasn't it?

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    Shouldn't alter the thread titles like that - it'll be a sad sign of decay if the last EU post had a stupid title like "Re: Colonic Customers" or "Re: Croupier Colonisation".

    The US posters are expecting some wit and charm from us (the poor misguided fools)
  4. Judgement_Dave

    MA animations

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    It's fun to guess, but it's nicer to know

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    You ain't from 'round these here parts, are you?
  5. They did that quickly. And it feels almost like the old boards.
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    Mijn fout, maar ik zal opletten in het vervolg
    En die namen zijn wel ernstig ja.. Ik loop in het spel zelf tenminste nog rond (soms) met een karakter met mijn boardnaam, maar die namen zijn een beetje jammer ja. Overduidelijk altijd vrij omdat je als kaaskop nederlandse woorden prima kan gebruiken, maar toch.. en dialectjes zijn zo te maken natuurlijk, al moet ik zeggen dat ik het breezah tijdperk al wel een beetje voorbij ben

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    I guess I could make up a meaning form the words that look like English words

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    Given how English spent hundreds of years happily absorbing and anglicising words from Germanic and Romantic languages (amongst others) you may find that you're not too far off.
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    We will be giving you updates on this migration throughout the process so be sure to check out the <a href="https://twitter.com/coh_ocr">CoH_OCR</a> twitter page regularly!


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    Not a tweet about preparation for the merge though...

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    They're probably hovering nervously around the Stop button drinking coffee and psyching themselves up.

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    Of course - though taking the boards offline probably isn't quite the point of no return...
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    We will be giving you updates on this migration throughout the process so be sure to check out the <a href="https://twitter.com/coh_ocr">CoH_OCR</a> twitter page regularly!


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    Not a tweet about preparation for the merge though...
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    Are you telling me you don't have a hotkey, or hot key, for that I refuse to believe you and substitute your reality with my own!

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    Eliza doesn't need hotkeys
  10. You should know by now that Dev Soon is never as soon as player soon.
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    I'd feel pretty gutted personally if we lost any of the compilation threads on popular subjects we've been building as a community.

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    Well, you've got 12 minutes - start copy-pasting really fast, just in case

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    It's not neccesarily going offline at 15:00 BST - people may have another 120 minutes:
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    Between 3PM and 5PM British Summer Time (16:00 and 18:00 Central European Summer Time), on July 28th, the current UBB Message Boards will be taken offline in order to transfer the data over to the vBulletin Message Boards.


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    I feel what we need to create is our very own Uxbridge English Dictionary to really let our US friends know what we mean.

    Definitions such as;

    Bedlam; A very favourite sheep

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    farcical: a bike that makes you look like an idiot

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    lackadaisical: a bicycle made for one.

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    Maybe not in your Uxbridge English Dictionary, but I feel that the following may be relevant to at least some post-merge posts.

    sarchasm: The abyss between the creator of witticisms and the intended recipient who does not find the humour in it.
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    IM seems to have vanished some time ago though.. Guess he really DID leave! W00t!

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    Didn't he:[*] change to the_Phantoms (unsure about capitalisation and the underscore) about a year or more ago[*] make a leaving thread about 4 or so months ago[*] made a 'returning' thread about 1 month after his leaving thread

    Been quiet for a while, so he may have left again - which is bit of a shame as his guides were almost inspired genius if they hadn't been serious...
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    2. Many EU posts, such as our Creative and RP sections, will just vanish

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    Avatea mentioned saving PMs but IIRC I've not seen anything mentioning backing up/saving threads/posts. So I presume that the plan is to move all threads across to the new boards in some shape or form.
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    Well, it makes more sense to just have one starting zone - like CoV only has one, right? And I'm guessing there'll only be one low level zone in Praetoria too.

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    Please no.

    It's good to have a quieter starting zone when Atlas fills up with:[*] Costume contests;[*] random bored 50s under ATlas;[*] LFF broadcast;[*] idiots who think it's big and clever to broadcast the latest profanities or hatred they learnt at remedial school.

    And I'll add to that, ever since AE launched, Atlas can get laggy for me at times.

    Actually the Atlas lag is usually if my character is facing towards the AE building - so I wonder if it's to do with LoS for the hordes in the building (maybe due to the glass).
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    Aaaaand STILL no FAQ... You owe me pie, GG. And none of that cinnamon [censored] you lot put in them either... Way to ruin a pie, that is!

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    I don't believe you ever accepted the bet

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    He did! He did!
    I saw it!

    *nudges FFM* so how's about a slice of that then? Only if it's any good though..

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    Never seen FFM in RL, but purely going off the forum name I'd guess you're being highly optimistic thinking you'd get a piece of good pie off him.
  17. But keeping the bigger one would probably mean more storage and longer migration. Maybe they could just about manage to keep the bigger threads if they found some other way to strip out a few messages... maybe lose something like 27.5k of them...

    Any ideas how they could do that GG?
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    But it would be loads fo extra work for them to copy over every single thread - like there are several GR threads on both sides, with lots of posts covering the same stuff.

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    I don't think that thread names need to be unique

    And it shouldn't be more work for 'them' - it'll be more work for the computers. But that's what computers were made for, to shuffle/process data so we don't have to do it manually.
  19. Like jell-O, you say??
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    Contact support / Avatea, as if they are both yours then surely they can merge both sets of posts into the one account.

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    I think they'd be more likely just to ask you to change one of the account names - it'd be way easier form them.

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    Possibly - though giving us more info before taking the boards down would have helped. We're only guessing at what may be possible/easier for them.
  21. Arghhhhhhhhh!

    Just realised it may become harder to avoid spoilers of US shows/films.

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    And of course Webster did nothing to help

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    Webster the spider? Who bastardised the English language and then went on to set up Arachnos?

    BTW - Are you going to try keeping up your talk about sticky wickets? Can you explain how the game works when you run back and forth between two lines rather than around a diamond?
  22. You may be giving the Americans the wrong idea trying to tell them that we roll our tongues around a-r-r-r-s-e...

    There's already enough English stereotypes of a certain persuasion in Hollywood movies without convincing them that it's due to our language.
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    more stupid people to complain about and ignore.

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    That's the bit I'm not going to like.

    I've managed to never ignore any poster on the EU boards. I do this on the basis that even if someone posts 200 posts of pure +1/ibtl/derailing drivel their 201st post may be truly insightful and worthwhile...

    ...and if it's drivel I can skip/skim it pretty quickly.

    But I guess I'll have to start ignoring posters in the US if the sheer quantity of rubbish is to be handled.

    Not trying to say that the US board population has a higher proportion of idiots, I'd guess that the proportion is probably the same on both boards. But keeping visible and skimming/skipping 20% of idiot posts from maybe a hundred active posters is a lot easier than doing the same for 20% of maybe a thousand active posters.


    Which reminds me: the US also seems to have a lot of posters who insist on quoting entire posts just to put +1/this/signed or even adding nothing. Why? Skipping past 2 or 3 screens of quote to have no intelligent comment or additional info bugs the heck out of me...

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    ^This

    (sorry, couldn't help myself)

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    Call me psychic - I foresaw someone doing that when I made the post. I nearly did it to myself...

    ...but I already need glasses for distance.
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    In true kids TV show fashion - Im going to miss the letter U

    But I'm looking forward to the number of misunderstandings due to sarcasm!

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    I'm not going to miss it, because I'm going to use it when necessary in my posts. Doesn't matter what anyone says for me colour is colour.

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    Due to differences in slang, I'm guessing that we may never be able to call a spade a spade anymore.

    Damnit - we made a perfectly good language. We developed a wide vocabulary for it... now we may be reduced to using weird neologisms (verbs for nouns and nouns for verbs) and having to intentionally mispeel words just to be understood.

    We may as well go the whole hog and take up Mark Twain's spelling reform idea:
    Spelling Reform
    A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling

    For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.

    Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.

    Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

    Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

    Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.





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    more stupid people to complain about and ignore.

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    That's the bit I'm not going to like.

    I've managed to never ignore any poster on the EU boards. I do this on the basis that even if someone posts 200 posts of pure +1/ibtl/derailing drivel their 201st post may be truly insightful and worthwhile...

    ...and if it's drivel I can skip/skim it pretty quickly.

    But I guess I'll have to start ignoring posters in the US if the sheer quantity of rubbish is to be handled.

    Not trying to say that the US board population has a higher proportion of idiots, I'd guess that the proportion is probably the same on both boards. But keeping visible and skimming/skipping 20% of idiot posts from maybe a hundred active posters is a lot easier than doing the same for 20% of maybe a thousand active posters.


    Which reminds me: the US also seems to have a lot of posters who insist on quoting entire posts just to put +1/this/signed or even adding nothing. Why? Skipping past 2 or 3 screens of quote to have no intelligent comment or additional info bugs the heck out of me...