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Do you like the automatic piratifying of all posts for a day?

I like it
44 (62%)
I don't like it
27 (38%)

Total Members Voted: 70

Author Topic: Who likes the pirate filter?  (Read 3968 times)

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Offline Flipside

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
It is a factor I've considered, but I tend to find most of the non-English speakers are too busy being productive in the Mod forums to go into General discussion, which is another argument in favour of removing it from them, it's mostly British and Americans who seem to get some sort of pleasure from ad nauseum arguments about Politics and Religion.

 

Offline Topgun

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
I like it, but only on pirate day.

 

Offline Thaeris

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
I'm unable to stop laughing, actually!

 :yes:

For one day, this is good fun.
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"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage.
"

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."


-Nuke

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Personally I find it boring cause it's the same joke every year. If it changed a bit more then it wouldn't be so bad.
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
I wouldn't consider "Snoop-speak," though. That would get old real fast.

http://www.gizoogle.com/

^ That, if you don't know what I'm referring to.
"trolls are clearly social rejects and therefore should be isolated from society, or perhaps impaled."

-Nuke



"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage.
"

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."


-Nuke

 

Offline Mura

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
Also fer th' record, did anyone e'er consider how incredibly frustratin' this 'ere must be t' th' people who don't speak English as a first langauge?  I know we have a number o' them here.

 English is not my first language, and guess what? i can read pirate speak just right, so i don't see a problem at all, you know?

mneh, you blew this whole thing out of proportion and made it boring and sad, i hope you'all ar' proud of yerself
Signed, me

 
Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
So apparently, it's talk like a pirate day.  Who knew?
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky!

 
Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
Apparently, my last sentence beats the filter somehow.    :confused:
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky!

 

Offline dragonsniper

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Re: Who likes th' pirate filter?
I'm fine with it, as long as it isn't abused.
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Offline castor

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
I'm not a big fan of these "generated funniness" thingies personally. Mostly because they grow old very fast, due to being completely impersonal.
Then again, if it can be run withouth breaking the place, let them have it..

 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Come on man it was only for 24 hours..................
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Offline Vasudan Admiral

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
I for one enjoy it. :)
I quite like trying to decypher the barely readable posts, because it's fun at the time and sometimes funnier once the filter is off when you can see what was actually said - this was especially so with the sweedish chef filter. It's just a cool little change in the HLP experience once in a while.

For those crying bloody murder, bah! Get some perspective! This is an internet forum - not a government! :p
This rule applies to all gripes with the word filter and/or admins other than the complaints about it getting old. For those personally I don't find it old in an unfunny way, but I would also definitely welcome some new creativity too.

Nothing kills off the small amount of fun something like a word filter provides more thoroughly than loud complaints about it, so for the benefit of those of us who do enjoy it I'd definitely support that word-filter-attached-to-the-profanity-filter-option Goob tried this time. A simple 'HOW TO TURN THE WORD FILTER OFF' thread or announcement would sort out all the would-be whingers. :p
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Offline JGZinv

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Nay - makes some things harder to read than others.
For the one day it's an inconvenience, since you might need something
specific that's been piratized. Would be nice if there was a profile option
to opt out of such filtering/conversions.

Now if you can come up with a Shogun/samurai filter...
True power comes not from strength, but from the soul and imagination.
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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
I liked it, I don't find this forum so necessary to my daily routine that 24 hrs with less useful information is a big deal.  I observe talk like a pirate day, and indeed the filter one of my posts so hilariously that I quoted it for preservation!
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"I have been known to plunder..."
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?

Now if you can come up with a Shogun/samurai filter...

What? Like a poorly dubbed Japanese/Chinese martial arts movie? That might be amusing, actually.

However, you don't want too many of these things. A novelty is only fun if it remains a novelty. Having just pirate day... and maybe another theme day AT MOST once a year would be passable. More than that, it just would make using the HLP a drag. And no one wants that.
"trolls are clearly social rejects and therefore should be isolated from society, or perhaps impaled."

-Nuke



"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage.
"

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."


-Nuke

 

Offline The E

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Talk like a Ninja day is inevitable, really.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Talk like a Ninja day is inevitable, really.

...but that means everyone will be silent.
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Offline JGZinv

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
That's why I said samurai.... not ninja.....  :rolleyes:
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Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: Who likes the pirate filter?
Also for the record, did anyone ever consider how incredibly frustrating this must be to the people who don't speak English as a first langauge? I know we have a number of them here.

No, it's not. But it is getting old after all these years.
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