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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mongoose on September 18, 2009, 07:19:46 pm
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Raise yer glasses to th' best holiday o' the year! :D
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I'm just waitin' fer th' forum's pirate grammar filter t' kick in.
EDIT: Oh, hell yes!
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Yaarrr, I can't read a bloody thing. What the hell.
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:lol: Oh, wot's rich.
(If you haven't seen it yet, keep an eye out for the modern take on the day. :D)
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IHTFTLAP.
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Oh btw to celebrate this day here's an appropriate song celebrating my native land:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_L9tXEwmc
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:lol: Oh, wot's rich.
(If you haven't seen it yet, keep an eye out for the modern take on the day. :D)
I haven't seen it yet but I'm pretty sure I know what you're on about. :)
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Oh man, it seems like this happens 100 times a year...
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101, if the admins could have their choice.
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If by "100" you mean "1, maybe 2," then yes. :p
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We be up to three, by my count this year. The "Your Mom" filter, the ALL CAPS, and this one.
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A pirate I was meant t' be. Trim th' Sails an' roam th' Sea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AawQvD8L_h4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AawQvD8L_h4)
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OMG THIS IS ANNOYING
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OMG THIS IS ANNOYING
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I agree, this 'ere is an annoyin' filter.
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Get over it. :p
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Get o'er it. :p
After ye get past th' juvenile desire t' inflict this 'ere on everyone rather than, y'know, makin' it voluntarily.
EDIT: Playing Enforcer is more fun then reading this crap.
ENFORCER FOR CHRISSAKES. THE ANTICHRIST OF X-COM.
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You people are always starting this early. Silly GMT. :P
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Ye know what's fun, ye scurvey dog, by Davy Jones's locker.., I'll warrant ye, we'll keel-haul ye.., ye scurvey dog, with a chest full o' booty, we'll keel-haul ye... an' really bad eggs, t' be sure, by Blackbeard's sword! Aarrr, avast, an' a bottle o' rum, avast! Fire the cannons! Fire th' cannons.., t' be sure. an' really bad eggs, an' a bucket o' chum! Walk th' plank! What're ye lookin' at? Yarrrrr! Drink up me hearties, yo ho, I'll warrant ye! Walk th' plank! And swab the deck! An' hoist th' mainsail, avast, with a chest full o' booty! Yarrrrr, I'll warrant ye! Ahoy! Yarrrrr, avast, by Davy Jones's locker, by Blackbeard's cutlass, an' a bottle o' rum! Shiver me timbers! Aarrr, t' be sure, by Blackbeard's sword! Aarrr, ye scurvey dog! Yarrrrr! Aarrr! Shiver me timbers! Fire th' cannons, with a chest full o' booty, avast, with a chest full o' booty, with a chest full o' booty! Shiver me timbers! Ahoy... Fire the cannons! an' really bad eggs... and really bad eggs! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Fire the cannons! An' hoist th' mainsail, I'll warrant ye, an' dinna spare th' whip, with a chest full o' booty, and a bottle of rum! Drink up me hearties, yo ho... an' really bad eggs! Shiver me timbers! an' really bad eggs, an' a bottle o' rum, an' a bottle o' rum, by Davy Jones's locker, by Davy Jones's locker, avast, avast! Drink up me hearties, yo ho, an' a bottle o' rum, an' a bottle o' rum... Ahoy, and a bottle of rum! an' really bad eggs! Walk the plank! Ahoy, by Blackbeard's cutlass! An' swab th' deck, ye scurvey dog! Ahoy! Aarrr, avast! Fire th' cannons, by Blackbeard's cutlass! an' really bad eggs, t' be sure, by Blackbeard's cutlass, by Blackbeard's cutlass, I'll warrant ye, an' a bottle o' rum, by Davy Jones's locker, pass th' grog, with a chest full o' booty... and really bad eggs! An' swab th' deck, we'll keel-haul ye! Aarrr! An' swab th' deck, we'll keel-haul ye! Walk th' plank, with a chest full o' booty! An' swab th' deck! An' swab th' deck, ye scurvey dog, we'll keel-haul ye! Shiver me timbers, avast! Fire th' cannons, we'll keel-haul ye! Aarrr! Yarrrrr, avast! Drink up me hearties, yo ho, by Blackbeard's cutlass, we'll keel-haul ye, ye scurvey dog! An' hoist th' mainsail! Yarrrrr! Walk th' plank! An' hoist th' mainsail! An' swab th' deck, and a bucket o' chum! Shiver me timbers... and really bad eggs! Yarrrrr! Ahoy, we'll keel-haul ye! Aarrr! Fire th' cannons, ye scurvey dog, and a bucket o' chum! Fire th' cannons, and a bottle of rum! Aarrr, an' a bucket o' chum, t' be sure, avast, an' dinna spare th' whip, t' be sure, an' dinna spare th' whip, I'll warrant ye, with a chest full of booty! Drink up me hearties, yo ho, pass th' grog, an' a bottle o' rum! Fire th' cannons! Yarrrrr, an' dinna spare th' whip, pass the grog! Ahoy! Walk th' plank, pass th' grog.., ye scurvey dog. an' really bad eggs! Aarrr! Yarrrrr, and a bucket o' chum! An' swab th' deck! Yarrrrr! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Shiver me timbers! Walk th' plank! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Yarrrrr, ye scurvey dog! Ahoy, we'll keel-haul ye! Aarrr! Shiver me timbers! Fire the cannons! Repeatedly editin' th' same post an' lettin' th' pirate thin' make a mess o' it, as I shall now demonstrate.
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I've always thought one of the funniest parts of it is watching people complain...
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I've always thought one of the funniest parts of it is watching people complain...
Oh, definitely. God forbid those who don't like it spend 24 hours doing something else with their lives. :p
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I've always thought one of the funniest parts of it is watching people complain...
Oh, definitely. God forbid those who don't like it spend 24 hours doing something else with their lives. :p
uh...
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Yar har fiddle de dee
being a pirate is all right with me!
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This is actually very amusing...
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I've always thought one o' th' funniest parts o' it is watchin' people complain...
Oh, definitely. God forbid those who don't like it spend 24 hours doin' somethin' else with their lives, by Blackbeard's sword. :p
uh...
suck it up buttercup
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I removed this stupid word filter because it broke urls and replaced whole contents of posts with ransom message, some of which were important. If other admins would listen to me, we would never, ever use these stupid word filters anymore. :mad:
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Wow.....
Just....wow.
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Can we just go back to the ones where all the productive forums get deleted again and the last backup was months ago and then it takes even longer to restore the backup. That was fun.
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I removed this stupid word filter because it broke urls and replaced whole contents of posts with ransom message, some of which were important. If other admins would listen to me, we would never, ever use these stupid word filters anymore. :mad:
Have you heard of the quote function?
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I removed this stupid word filter because it broke urls and replaced whole contents of posts with ransom message, some of which were important. If other admins would listen to me, we would never, ever use these stupid word filters anymore. :mad:
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to modify the scripts so that:
1. They didn't affect URLs.
2. Posts that were "shot by pirates" or "held for ransom" would have some sort of javascript button/link that would reveal the original underlying posts.
That way, all the fun without breaking things. :)
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What about leaving this pirate talk thing off our boards? It's getting damn boring.
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It has occurred to y'all that Fury has to keep this place running, so if he claims the existence of a problem he's probably not full of it?
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check it out mates
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-pirate/
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=( I missed pirate day. Here there this that.
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Tis a good thing that Cap'n Fury keelhauled the pirate filter. Separates the real pirates from the bilge rats. Arrr!
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You know, if we want a type like a pirate day why don't we type like a pirate? You know, right on our own. Without a filter. :nervous:
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=( I missed pirate day. Here there this that.
Pirate day be the 19th of september. That be Today matey
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You know, if we want a type like a pirate day why don't we type like a pirate? You know, right on our own. Without a filter. :nervous:
TBH that would be weird, if you went back looking for something and an entire thread was filled with pirate-ness... At least the pirate filter doesn't have any long-term health risks. :P
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Ahoy, e'eryone should just use this (http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/translate/), from now on. Aye.
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Wouldn't it be fairly easy to modify the scripts so that:
1. They didn't affect URLs.
2. Posts that were "shot by pirates" or "held for ransom" would have some sort of javascript button/link that would reveal the original underlying posts.
That way, all the fun without breaking things. :)
1) Those word filters are all Goober's AFAIK
2) Not touching them with 10-foot pole as I dislike them in the first place
3) I'm not a coder, not even html/php beyond basic editing
4) Goober is/was asleep, not around to fix his filters
5) Only fun word filter is one that isn't used
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Y'know, not to play devil's advocate, but some of us legitimately look forward to this happening every year. I had a smile on my face for quite a bit of yesterday, anticipating seeing the forums decked out in goofy pirate speak for another year. It's become a bit of a tradition here as far as I'm concerned. I have always completely failed to understand why people get so up in arms about such a brief disruption of normal text. I mean...it's a forum dedicated to a 10-year-old game. We're not trying to solve world hunger or cure cancer here. Is it really too much to ask to let some of us have our fun for a mere 24 hours per year?
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Y'know, not to play devil's advocate, but some of us legitimately look forward to this happening every year. I had a smile on my face for quite a bit of yesterday, anticipating seeing the forums decked out in goofy pirate speak for another year. It's become a bit of a tradition here as far as I'm concerned. I have always completely failed to understand why people get so up in arms about such a brief disruption of normal text. I mean...it's a forum dedicated to a 10-year-old game. We're not trying to solve world hunger or cure cancer here. Is it really too much to ask to let some of us have our fun for a mere 24 hours per year?
Because it's not about talking like a pirate. If it was really that way, there would be more done. Pirate avatars maybe. Pirate theme for the forum. Pirate threads and such.
This forum is not wacky or goofy in any way. This is one of the strictest forums I've ever seen. That's not a bad thing, it's just how it is. And then on one day of the year (2 if it happens on April Fools) you're forced to participate or leave for the day. It's just another form of control.
To me (personal opinion time!) a fun "Talk like a pirate day" would be threads about pirates in GD, maybe a photo contest or something in arts. Playing the pirate themed campaigns or having mods and admins with pirate nicknames. As it stands now it's just a way for the higher ups to make everyone else do something whether they want to or not.
Maybe I'm the only one who sees it this way.
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To me (personal opinion time!) a fun "Talk like a pirate day" would be threads about pirates in GD, maybe a photo contest or something in arts. Playing the pirate themed campaigns or having mods and admins with pirate nicknames.
Ew. That sounds like public school "cool theme days."
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Nope. I fully agree with everything Blue Lion just said.
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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To me (personal opinion time!) a fun "Talk like a pirate day" would be threads about pirates in GD, maybe a photo contest or something in arts. Playing the pirate themed campaigns or having mods and admins with pirate nicknames.
Ew. That sounds like public school "cool theme days."
This is a cool theme day you can't opt out of. It's either show up or stay home.
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I can understand it being only in General Discussion, and left out of the rest of the boards, and I wasn't a fan of the Navy Seals thing, but, in general, this place is getting just a bit too anally retentive.
Apparently arguments about Politics and Religion are fine, posting **** youTube videos is fine, but a word filter is 'teh ultimate evil'.
I remember when this place was about fun and as well as productivity.
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Will your life end if you do miss a day? I don't understand the freaking out.
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This forum is not wacky or goofy in any way.
:wakka: :wakka: :wakka:
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I can understand it being only in General Discussion, and left out of the rest of the boards, and I wasn't a fan of the Navy Seals thing, but, in general, this place is getting just a bit too anally retentive.
Apparently arguments about Politics and Religion are fine, posting **** youTube videos is fine, but a word filter is 'teh ultimate evil'.
I remember when this place was about fun and as well as productivity.
Then we should do stuff that's fun. There are much more entertaining things to do then force everyone to go along and then laugh at the people who dislike it (which some people apparently enjoy doing)
Every other day I come here, this place is full of guys who have sticks up the asses of the sticks up their asses. Then on one day they change the word filter and it's fun! I mean sure you can't really do anything different than yesterday or so. Nothing changes but we have to talk in a way we like to pretend pirates talked (but didn't).
That is what leads me to think this is not pirate fun but "you have to do because we can make you".
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This forum is not wacky or goofy in any way.
:wakka: :wakka: :wakka:
Are you implying it is and I'm just missing the zany times? :wtf:
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Well, I for one haven't done a single productive thing as long as I've been here.
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I can understand it being only in General Discussion, and left out of the rest of the boards, and I wasn't a fan of the Navy Seals thing, but, in general, this place is getting just a bit too anally retentive.
Apparently arguments about Politics and Religion are fine, posting **** youTube videos is fine, but a word filter is 'teh ultimate evil'.
I remember when this place was about fun and as well as productivity.
Then we should do stuff that's fun. There are much more entertaining things to do then force everyone to go along and then laugh at the people who dislike it (which some people apparently enjoy doing)
Every other day I come here, this place is full of guys who have sticks up the asses of the sticks up their asses. Then on one day they change the word filter and it's fun! I mean sure you can't really do anything different than yesterday or so. Nothing changes but we have to talk in a way we like to pretend pirates talked (but didn't).
That is what leads me to think this is not pirate fun but "you have to do because we can make you".
Nobody, but nobody is making you post on here, you come here of your own choice, you post of your own choice.
As you say, this place is filling up with people with sticks up the arses of the sticks up their arses, I'll certainly agree with that, and this is just a prime example of how bad it's getting. 24 Hours of a word filter and you would have thought someone threw a grenade into a creche.
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And why, exactly, should I have to abandon 24 hours of a leisure activity just so the admins can avoid the inevitable outcry because they're incapable of making a voluntary activity voluntary?
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And why, exactly, should I have to abandon 24 hours of a leisure activity just so the admins can avoid the inevitable outcry because they're incapable of making a voluntary activity voluntary?
Because the forum is their property and not yours?
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Nobody, but nobody is making you post on here, you come here of your own choice, you post of your own choice.
I never said anything otherwise. Lemme check again, just in case I accidentally said I had to come here.
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Nope, didn't say it. Thanks for bringing it up though.
As you say, this place is filling up with people with sticks up the arses of the sticks up their arses, I'll certainly agree with that, and this is just a prime example of how bad it's getting. 24 Hours of a word filter and you would have thought someone threw a grenade into a creche.
Seriously? Seriously?
"We're trying to have fun by forcing you to do something you don't want to do and you have the nerve to be upset!"
Everyone is avoiding the fact that it is completely annoying for people for a whole day. Or, probably more accurately, those people just don't care about those people. So we end up with an ultimatum. Play along or go away. And this is the one wacky day we all let our hair down?
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God forbid you should miss HLP for 24 hours...
It's not so much the rights or wrongs of the word filter that annoy me, it's people's reaction to it, I'm never, in my life, seen such a bunch of small minded, whining children outside of a primary school.
I now understand exactly why Aldo doesn't bother with this place.
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I don't really give half a toss, honestly. And I practically live here.
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Let's all agree never to annoy anyone else with silly antics ever again, shall we?
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Might I put a different spin on this?
You generate the revenue to pay server expenses et. al. via banner ads. Banner ads pay on a per-click basis. Fewer clicks means less money, and fewer users means fewer clicks. Does it seem very wise to tell a significant portion of your user-base **** off for a day, because you insist on shoehorning a joke into the forums?
Besides, when the options are "Play along," or "GO AWAY!" the joke loses a lot of it's humor. It's like a middle school clique.
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I removed this stupid word filter because it broke urls and replaced whole contents of posts with ransom message, some of which were important. If other admins would listen to me, we would never, ever use these stupid word filters anymore. :mad:
:wtf: mate.
1) The normal word filter also breaks URLs, if the URL contains a censored word. People know how to, and do, compensate for that.
2) If you don't like the look of a post, all you have to do is refresh the page and it'll be filtered differently. The pirate filter isn't permanent; all the posts go back to normal when it's turned off. (Assuming you haven't modified the post in the meantime.)
BRB...
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Frankly, if people think that a word filter for 24 hours is being oppressed, they have a hell of a lot to learn.
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God forbid you should miss HLP for 24 hours...
Really? I've left for years at a time. It's entirely not the point. That's why no one has said "If you guys don't stop I'm gonna leave!", it would be stupid.
The point isn't the time frame. It's that it is forced, and it's annoying. It's forced gibberish for the sole purpose of making it hard to read.
It's not so much the rights or wrongs of the word filter that annoy me, it's people's reaction to it, I'm never, in my life, seen such a bunch of small minded, whining children outside of a primary school.
Because people don't want to do it. This is what boggles my mind. If people want to talk like a pirate today (which oddly enough is barely half over for me yet the filter has been turned off for hours) let them talk like a pirate. Those that don't, won't. But that's too easy, so let's go through a whole process that annoys people or makes them go away, that's much more fun and inclusive.
I now understand exactly why Aldo doesn't bother with this place.
Yes I'm sure Aldo stopped coming because I don't like being forced to talk in gibberish for a day. People didn't embrace forced "fun" in an enthusiastic enough way. We're such bastards.
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Frankly, if people think that a word filter for 24 hours is being oppressed, they have a hell of a lot to learn.
It's forced annoyance for other people's kicks.
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Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....
Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.
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It's not exactly forced. You could go make out with your girlfriend for a few hours or something.
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Incidentally, upon looking at the code, the pirate filter already contains a mechanism for not filtering text between HTML tags. So in that respect it's more sophisticated than the censor filter. ;) Which makes sense, as I don't recall ever seeing a link corrupted by the pirate filter. (If one exists somewhere, please bring it to my attention so I can fix it.)
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Alert. ****storm's a-comin'.
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This is the first time I've actually seen the pirate filter in action. Now I see even less what the fuss is about.
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is not like it's unreadable, and it's actually kind of fun... you are just making a storm in a pint of grog
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Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....
Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.
(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv359/BlueLion/arrogant-1.jpg)
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Go away, tiny and uptight minority.
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Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....
Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.
(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv359/BlueLion/arrogant-1.jpg)
If you can't handle the forums being difficult to read for one day then perhaps you should find something new to do with your time.
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Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....
Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.
(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv359/BlueLion/arrogant-1.jpg)
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All this is making me feel sad. Is this what the fall of a glorious empire feels like?
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I will hereby change my opinion. My primary objection to this was that it messed with stuff in the Support board. Now it doesn't anymore. Pirate day is good.
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(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv359/BlueLion/end.jpg) :rolleyes:
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Unilaterally applying a word filter across the entire forum: Bad.
Makes Help and Support and the Private forums a ***** to read.
If people want to voluntarily take part of a social event, it should be up to them to do so.
And then deciding out of spite to kick it back on for yet another day? Leave the ego out of your professional powers.
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Well, but since support and private boards have not been infiltrated by pirates, I'm cool with it.
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Let us be blunt.
The activity in the forum decreases dramatically when the filter is in effect. The filter kills all activity in the FS section. The only major activity in GD is people upset with it. People don't like it. I don't know how much more direct an expression it can get.
So hahaha, funny. Funny enough to end a significant portion of activty for 24 hours.
Joke's over.
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As I stated at th' start, I wasn't entirely happy about it creepin' into private boards, so I agree with The E, though he were bein' pretty much polite about his concerns in th' first place, so I didn't have a problem with wot scurvey dog.
Here's a story.
Every year, fer about 3 weeks here in th' UK, we have th' build up t' Guy Fawkes night, I didn't ask fer it, it wasn't me choice, an' I hate it, with a passion, one o' me auld cats lost half its tail t' a firework, an' me dog used t' hide under me desk when they were goin' off, by Blackbeard's sword.
Do ye know what I did, and dinna spare the whip! I dealt with it, I took what precautions I could, an' I got on with me life.
And swab the deck! Fire the cannons!
Sometimes thin's happen in yer life wot ye are forced t' deal with even if ye are not happy with it, it's not oppression, it's th' opposite in fact, it's th' fact wot not everyone has t' live up t' yer own personal expectations o' what they should be doin', an' just on account o' ye don't enjoy it, wot doesn't mean nay-one else does either.
If people want t' make sensible, intelligent an' polite criticism o' th' whole thin' then wot's fine, but if people are goin' t' start screamin' oppression purely on account o' somethin' is happenin' wot they don't like then I have nay time whatsoever fer them.
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Very little is accomplished by posting on the forums anyway. With teh exception of questions in general modding and the like.
If people want to be productive and wokr on their mods they can open up Fred or Blender where this word filter doesn't apply.
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Very little is accomplished by posting on the forums anyway. With teh exception of questions in general modding and the like.
If people want to be productive and wokr on their mods they can open up Fred or Blender where this word filter doesn't apply.
Exactly. If you're really that offended by the presence of the filter yet still want to be "productive" (ha), go fire up some modding tool or other and ignore the boards for the time being.
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As I stated at th' start, I wasn't entirely happy about it creepin' into private boards, so I agree with The E, though he were bein' pretty much polite about his concerns in th' first place, so I didn't have a problem with wot scurvey dog.
Here's a story.
Every year, fer about 3 weeks here in th' UK, we have th' build up t' Guy Fawkes night, I didn't ask fer it, it wasn't me choice, an' I hate it, with a passion, one o' me auld cats lost half its tail t' a firework, an' me dog used t' hide under me desk when they were goin' off, by Blackbeard's sword.
Do ye know what I did, and dinna spare the whip! I dealt with it, I took what precautions I could, an' I got on with me life.
And swab the deck! Fire the cannons!
Sometimes thin's happen in yer life wot ye are forced t' deal with even if ye are not happy with it, it's not oppression, it's th' opposite in fact, it's th' fact wot not everyone has t' live up t' yer own personal expectations o' what they should be doin', an' just on account o' ye don't enjoy it, wot doesn't mean nay-one else does either.
If people want t' make sensible, intelligent an' polite criticism o' th' whole thin' then wot's fine, but if people are goin' t' start screamin' oppression purely on account o' somethin' is happenin' wot they don't like then I have nay time whatsoever fer them.
(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv359/BlueLion/long.jpg)
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If this 'ere 'ere place were truly about control, this 'ere 'ere thread would have been locked an' deleted, it hasn't.
Your attitude has been poor from th' start, ye seem t' think wot on account o' Admin are doin' somethin' wot ye don't like, wot ye must therefore complain about it and claim you are being co-erced. The whole attitude towards th' pirate filter stinks. Once again, I re-iterate, just on account o' ye don't like it, it doesn't mean th' whole forum has t' agree with ye. Once again, I re-iterate, wot complainin' ye are bein' 'forced' t' comply with th' Pirate filter is in error, on account o' nay-one is forcin' ye t' post here, there are private forums wot are clear, there are other programs on yer computer wot are not subject t' th' pirate filter.
Walk the plank! What're ye lookin' at?
As ye say, 'Not everyone is goin' t' like everythin' ye do', but then, not everyone complains about bein' 'forced' t' endure th' filter, if ye think I'm bein' condescendin', then wot's yer opinion, but ye'll not ye aren't bein' censored, if ye like, I can just lock th' thread an' show ye what I mean, with a chest full of booty.
Also, if th' filter changes stuff t' 'gibberish', how come ye could understand me post?
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Also, if you want to say you don't like the pirate filter, all you have to do is say it once. There's no need to say it over and over and over; we heard you the first time.
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If this 'ere 'ere place were truly about control, this 'ere 'ere thread would have been locked an' deleted, it hasn't.
Your attitude has been poor from th' start, ye seem t' think wot on account o' Admin are doin' somethin' wot ye don't like, wot ye must therefore complain about it and claim you are being co-erced. The whole attitude towards th' pirate filter stinks. Once again, I re-iterate, just on account o' ye don't like it, it doesn't mean th' whole forum has t' agree with ye. Once again, I re-iterate, wot complainin' ye are bein' 'forced' t' comply with th' Pirate filter is in error, on account o' nay-one is forcin' ye t' post here, there are private forums wot are clear, there are other programs on yer computer wot are not subject t' th' pirate filter.
Walk the plank! What're ye lookin' at?
As ye say, 'Not everyone is goin' t' like everythin' ye do', but then, not everyone complains about bein' 'forced' t' endure th' filter, if ye think I'm bein' condescendin', then wot's yer opinion, but ye'll not ye aren't bein' censored, if ye like, I can just lock th' thread an' show ye what I mean, with a chest full of booty.
Also, if th' filter changes stuff t' 'gibberish', how come ye could understand me post?
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Also, if you want to say you don't like the pirate filter, all you have to do is say it once. There's no need to say it over and over and over; we heard you the first time.
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I think that what pisses me off is that there was no attempt at compromise whatsoever, when CP5670 suggests we remove it from the Modding/Supprt forums etc, I can understand where that is coming from, and even support it. But when there's no attempt at compromise whatsoever I get annoyed, people are welcome to state their opinion on the matter, and I'm fine with dealing with it, but when people start claiming it's 'control' or 'oppression' it just devolves into silliness.
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....when people start claimin' it's 'control' or 'oppression' it just devolves into silliness.
On the one hand, I agree that it is strong to call it an issue of the admins exerting control over users, but on the other hand, I don't see an "opt out" button.
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I think that what pisses me off is that there was no attempt at compromise whatsoever, when CP5670 suggests we remove it from the Modding/Supprt forums etc, I can understand where that is coming from, and even support it. But when there's no attempt at compromise whatsoever I get annoyed, people are welcome to state their opinion on the matter, and I'm fine with dealing with it, but when people start claiming it's 'control' or 'oppression' it just devolves into silliness.
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Blue Lion, if you quote the post you can read it normally.
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Why can't you just not like it quietly?
It's not forever. Pirate day ends in a matter of hours.
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Here's an experiment. I've set things up so that the pirate filter is only activated if the word censor filter is also activated.
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I just got a really good laugh out of reading the official Volition statement:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=65467.msg1290889#msg1290889 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=65467.msg1290889#msg1290889)
Oh if they had really written it like that! :lol:
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Here's an experiment. I've set things up so that the pirate filter is only activated if the word censor filter is also activated.
I appreciate having the means to opt out of the pirate filter. At the same time, delightfully ironic that the pirates need to clean up their language. ;)
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Now I don't have to see it anymore. Now I'm pleased and don't have to cut and paste images.
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Here's an experiment. I've set things up so that the pirate filter is only activated if the word censor filter is also activated.
You mean I can't be a foul-mouthed pirate? Spoilsport. :(
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:lol:
That's fine by me :) As I've said from the start, the problem wasn't the filter, it was the reaction.
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That's what I don't get, why can't I dislike it?
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Which makes sense, as I don't recall ever seeing a link corrupted by the pirate filter. (If one exists somewhere, please bring it to my attention so I can fix it.)
At least Mibbit link in HLP IRC-channel (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=62431.0) was affected. "settings" became "settin's".
In the future, if you really want to use a filter of any sort, please only apply it to the general discussion. Even if the filter is screwed up, none of us will lose much in those 24 hours. Other boards thought, please just don't.