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Sam, made of win as usual

Hmm The new colors will take some getting used to.

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Rularuu/his forces invading.

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Zinda! His face black, his eyes red! Uzani, his army at Lashmir. Uzani, his army, with fists open. Shaka, when the walls fell. Sokath, his eyes uncovered! Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

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Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

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For the mutant pack : more animal heads. Hawk, wolf, snake and so on....

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"Hawk! Wolf! Puma and Bear! Bravesta...err...sorry.

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They make absorbant floor mats for dog training, don't they?

I always just wondered why dogs can't really learn to be litterbox trained. Is it because they need to bury or???

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My dog is litter trained, when he's not annoyed with me. Also puppies and dogs in general are made of win.

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And on a related note, speaking of the Platypus: it's the only mammal that does not have teats, but rather excretes milk through the pores in the female's skin!

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You're forgetting the Echidna again.

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HADOKEN!

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They call me Shoryuken, cause I'm downright fierce.

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Good lord, you just won the internet.

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How about if you don't do IO's at all, and use the game like it was initially designed? The game can be much more challenging then.

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No no they want more challenging. I propose they remove all of their enhancements and run on the highest difficulty. That should be more challenging.

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Shattering your elbows and fingers because you find golf too easy is probably a good idea too.

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Playing a different game rather than trying to rewrite the rules of golf for everyone is another more intelligent option.

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I thought they meant they were on game ignore, not forum ignore. Maybe I misread it. It seemed they knew what was being said so I assumed game ignore.

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And now you've just learned something about people who loudly proclaim "I am ignoring you!" on message boards.

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Please refrain from posting replies to any thread I start or subsequent postings. Whether you have something good to say or not. You have said enough in the past that no longer warrants me to care what you have to say further.

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Indeed. The solution is right there in his sig.

POST IN THE OTHER 1300 THREADS ALREADY!

Thank you. That is all.

*notes that independent of his "study", Twixt seems to immensely enjoy the conflict of PVP be it in-game or on the forums*

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Oh, so this is just unwarranted self-importance.

Okay.

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Again another person who fails to see the humor of just nice little happenstance in-game. A lot of you people do tend to ruin small little posts meant to cause a chuckle with no ill intent, yet you turn it into something else entirely...

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Drama aside, your post was unclear. The understanding of the joke depended on us knowing the AT of the character in question, which was not indicated until someone showed confusion. Additionally the name of the character further clouded the situation.

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Iraq Camel Spider

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Woah. I'm not sure how I would react if I saw one of those crawling towards me but I'm guessing it would include arm flailing.

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and gunshots.

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I like PUG stories. My favorite are the AE baby stories. I find humor is the idiocy of others, and since I'm an idiot...I laugh ALOT.

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Actually you just reminded me of the furor that used to develop each time Part_Troll would post one of his PUG threads back in his heyday. There were people who hated that he was sullying their forums with his frivolous posts so much that they would make sure to post their disapproval and lack of interest in every one of his threads. Sometimes even posting more than those claiming to love his stories, all the while oblivious to the irony.

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I don't know what's worse - people making "look at me" threads or people who keep coming back to pick on them.

This
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<obligatory agreement with Samuel Tow>

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I love this. Please get upset when a booster is released with bugs. Please get upset when the booster is tested to prevent bugs being released.

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Oh stop it. You know no one in here is thinking that.

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It's totally still about him.

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Yeah. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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There must be tears of laughter running down his face reading your responses. You fell into his trap, snd the worst bit is it probably wasn't one he intended to set.

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I think your problem is that you're taking all this way, way more seriously than I am.

p.s. In order for there to have been a"trap" [ZOMG THE HORROR!! This posting stuff is clearly SRS BZNZ], there would have to have been intellect behind the setting of it. I think in PostKount's case, we can pretty much declare that idea dead in the water.

The Hami raid was fun by the way Probably much more fun than you sitting there earnestly trying to think up The Ultimate Comeback, but that's neither here nor there.

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You certainly wasted no time coming back to read "the ultimate comeback" right after your superfun raid I notice.

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For your testing pleasure we will be re-enabling the Superscience pack on the Test Server tomorrow, Thursday, July 9th and would love your help testing it once again!

announcement

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GraaaaaRGH!

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If your assertion is that not only do you not care about PK's self indulgent posting or mentioning of you by name, but that you don't even care enough to "angrily not care" it hardly makes sense to continuously post in one of his self indulgent threads that for all intents and purposes might as well be named: "SELF INDULGENT THREAD".

Either you don't care and you roll your eyes and move on, or you do care and exhibit an almost addictive compulsion to continue to return to his obvious call out thread to declare how little you care.

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This really is no longer about PostKount anyways. Old news is old, and so is old behavior.

What's happening here is that [in essence] I'm having various people. i.e. Catwhoorg and yourself, telling me that they know what's going on in my head better than I myself do, and that is arrant nonsense right up there with most of the rest of what's went on in here. [And he never did post my list of off-topic threads comparable to what PostKount does at least once a day in here... I am a sad, sad Panda.]

Yeah. Shenanigans. But... I think I have a Hami raid to go to in just a bit, so I'll return you to PostKount and Friend's latest groundbreaking statements, many of which, at least on my computer, are comprised of *** You are ignoring this user ***. Everyone is happy.

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It's totally still about him. He's the whole reason you're even in this thread and the reason why so many people are as you put it: "trying to tell you what's going on in your head"

He posted a self indulgent thread (no surprise there) where he mentions a few people by name. People who he's presumably had some sort of run-in with previously (be it positive or negative) Additionally, he writes a humorous blurb about each of them and their general behavior regarding him. For you personally, he makes a snide remark about how you always claim to "not care" about his frivolous posts, but feel the need to make that clear at every turn (indicating that you care at least a little bit).

Now here's the part that left my mouth hanging open in disbelief.

YOU TOOK THE BAIT

Into the thread you come guns blazing to not only state that "you don't care", but to clarify the exact way in which you "don't care". You know, just so we're clear.

Further to that, you compound the joke by using the tired "I've got better things to do" rhetoric. Heck you just did it again above with the mention of the Hammi raid. It just doesn't make sense. Clearly you don't have better things to do otherwise you would have been doing them instead of posting endlessly in this thread.

Declaring that he cares about other people's opinions is a moot point and elicits a "well of course" shrug, since he isn't pretending that he doesn't. He isn't even pretending that this thread isn't self serving and frivolous.

There must be tears of laughter running down his face reading your responses. You fell into his trap, snd the worst bit is it probably wasn't one he intended to set.

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Obligatory amusement at people posting about how they don't care. :3

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PostKount: I KNOW ALL OF YOU HATE ME, & THANK YOU FOR HATING ME! I LOVE YOU ALL!
[list of forumistas follows]

People on the list: *scratching heads in puzzlement* WTH...?

I think the thing here is that PostKount WISHES we cared and is trying to annoy us into caring... and this keeps not working for him. So I guess you could say that I don't care about his attempts at attention-seeking, true enough but its really even more neutral than that. I am not outraged or angrily "not caring," I am just bored.

*goes off to level up*

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I still don't care in case you all were wondering. I have much better things to do than, worry about what's being posted here. If you have any doubts, I'll be back shortly.

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No, no no ur doin it rong. You'll know that I actually care about PostKount when you see me post a thread with the following title:

"OMG WHAT DOES POSTKOUNT THINK OF ME, I THINK MAYBE HE DOESN'T LIKE ME OVER 900,000 OH NOES!!!"

The salient point here is that PostKount is posting threads mentioning me [and others], not the other way around. This leads the impartial observer to believe that perhaps he cares more about the opinions of those people, than they do about him.

This really isn't rocket-science, folks. Don't be deliberately obtuse.

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You're playing this wrong. If your assertion is that not only do you not care about PK's self indulgent posting or mentioning of you by name, but that you don't even care enough to "angrily not care" it hardly makes sense to continuously post in one of his self indulgent threads that for all intents and purposes might as well be named: "SELF INDULGENT THREAD".

Either you don't care and you roll your eyes and move on, or you do care and exhibit an almost addictive compulsion to continue to return to his obvious call out thread to declare how little you care.

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Revelation lies in the fact he was paid for this. Revel in that...I'm sure Prof. Meyers is.

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That's more an argument for "fools and their money" than the validity of the study.

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Please PM your post to the Devs and lets get their opinion on it.

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The drones were in place to prevent camping, a form of griefing.

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OK yes.

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Twixt saw a different use for it, an opportunity to take advantage of it, and went for it. What twixt was blissfully unaware of was that it was still illegal by the game's rules, as per EULA. In other words, breaking intended purpose to gain something unfairly or harass another player.

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Twixt (was), TP Foe and the drones are still there. Lemme check.
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Let me describe it a different way:

Within the game's mechanics, droning or the use of other NPCs to gain a personal advantage is possible.

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Within the general rules of PvP, it's possible and occasionally allowed... Usually as a last resort.

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Umm you are way wrong there. it's either allowed or not allowed by the mechanics. period. not sometimes or once in a while. it is or it isn't. again period.

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However, using such repeatedly is considered cheap among the community, simply because it prevents fighting solely on one's powers and the knowledge of the immediate surroundings.

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Proving Twixt's points in the paper even more about the community enforced rules and ways of PvPing that are acceptable social standards that differ from the actual game play mechanics and rules.

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But your right, it's still allowed.

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What's not allowed is the repeated prevention of a person's enjoyment, otherwise known as harassment, as per the Terms of Service.

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So where was the perma ban for Twixt? Oh I forgot, there was none. You have no point here.

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Before you argue that NPCs can be considered part of the surrounding environment, allow me to stop you. You're right. However, like all rules, the use of an NPC is only allowed to an extent.

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The imaginary community and social "extent" levels do not apply.

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Happen to start a fight while one person was attacking a few NPCs? Go for it. It adds an element of danger to one or both sides when done strategically. But continuing to use it with malicious intent, all for the benefit of personal gain, changes 'fair game' to ill conduct and 'harassment.' So, while drones were added to prevent griefing, it unlocked new forms of griefing.

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The imaginary community and social rules do not apply.

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And again, while using chat to chat is possible and allowed, provoking another player begins crossing the line of conduct. After which, the continuing use of bad conduct eventually crosses the line of harassment.

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So where was the perma ban for Twixt? Oh I forgot, there was none.

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Things are allowed, but often to an extent. And just because it's possible, doesn't make it acceptable

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This game has specific mechanics and rules.

Break the mechanics and rules get banned.

Twixt was never perma banned for any ingame action. He had played since 2004 and no perma bans. none. nada.

So to sum up what you are saying is that these things are legal sometimes and not others. The communities social standards and rules govern this game and not the Devs, GMs and game mechanics and rules.

Your whole post reflects some of the attitues of the players Twixt mentions in his paper and wrote about.

There is no sometimes or maybe it is or is not accepted but when sometimes you can or other times you can't but then again if this circumstance happened then it's ok but if it happens more then 3 times well that's not ok but other times it may or may not be ok. ok?

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Twixts paper simply confirms that in a "free for all" environment where "anything goes" eventually a community/society will emerge complete with its own rules of ettiquette and fair play. If an outsider enters this society and actively disregards these rules on a regular basis, it is likely they will reap the enmity of the society.

A further, more interesting aspect is the fact that since the society in question is a subset of many greater societies with differing rules themselves, (players from all over the world)we will see the rules of this emergent society influenced by the rules of their parent societies to varying levels.

My question though is "why is this significant or even worth the professor's time?" He's essentially gone to great trouble to prove what we already know by virtue of the fact that we don't run around killing each other in the streets willy-nilly. The world is essentially a PvP environment where anything allowed by the laws of physics is technically possible and in this "anything goes" world we've devised standards of honor, fair play, and morality. Should you eschew them for "doing what's physically possible" it will likely earn you the same level of enmity and depending on the society actual publicly sanctioned death.

Where exactly is the revelation?

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PostKount: I KNOW ALL OF YOU HATE ME, & THANK YOU FOR HATING ME! I LOVE YOU ALL!
[list of forumistas follows]

People on the list: *scratching heads in puzzlement* WTH...?

I think the thing here is that PostKount WISHES we cared and is trying to annoy us into caring... and this keeps not working for him. So I guess you could say that I don't care about his attempts at attention-seeking, true enough but its really even more neutral than that. I am not outraged or angrily "not caring," I am just bored.

*goes off to level up*

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I still don't care in case you all were wondering. I have much better things to do than, worry about what's being posted here. If you have any doubts, I'll be back shortly.