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#1 User is offline   Trah 

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:47 AM

I was reading the topic about TT BB and JC on BB when I realized that people's comments about TT declining are true. The topics aren't weird enough. I wanted to see if this was novelty wearing off or a real decline, so I went back and read a few topics around the time of the Great Locking. Those topics were funny, they were random, and they were weird. I don't know what happened that changed TT. I think we should try to be more random, and weird. That doesn't mean people should start spamming, but I think a change somehow could invigorate TT once more.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:55 AM

Wheee!

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 02:06 AM

shoot, I thought you were talking about [url="http://"http://www.thespark.com"]this[/url].

HeHe.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 05:49 AM

The topics at the time of the Great Locking were funny? That's the first time I've heard them called that particular adjective... or any positive adjective, as a matter of fact...

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 08:25 AM

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The topics at the time of the Great Locking were funny? That's the first time I've heard them called that particular adjective... or any positive adjective, as a matter of fact...



Of course they are funny! Take the classic topic [url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum12/HTML/000432.html#"]eRP[/url] for example.

Who can't laugh at things such as "soy tu nork", and "Whats Your favorite Skittle Color? Nine., off-wombat"

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 09:39 AM

I beleive that the decline started around the time I stopped creating new, absolutly sensless topics. So, maybe I was useful for somthing.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 09:43 AM

I was pretty happy about that. Natural satellite element in existence infinitely creates much better topics than you do with her right pinky.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 10:24 AM

The eRP was great.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 10:42 AM

Using eRP as an example of a "great topic" is like sawing your arms and legs off with a chainsaw.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 10:47 AM

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Using eRP as an example of a "great topic" is like sawing your arms and legs off with a chainsaw.



Depends on what you think is a good topic. I like the random weirdness.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 10:50 AM

Random weirdness is fun



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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:14 PM

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The topics at the time of the Great Locking were funny? That's the first time I've heard them called that particular adjective... or any positive adjective, as a matter of fact...



The topics during the Great Locking made ATT live up to it's comparison to a bar in a home for half-mad people. I loved them.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:17 PM

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The topics at the time of the Great Locking were funny? That's the first time I've heard them called that particular adjective... or any positive adjective, as a matter of fact...



Well, they were funny in the ha-ha-that-poor-bastard-just-fell-down-twenty-flights-of-stairs-and-killed-himself-after-slipping-on-a-bannana-peel kind of way.

"If you don't eat your meat, you can't eat your pudding! How can you eat your pudding if you haven't had any meat?!?"
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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:40 PM

Yeah, that's why they're funny. Sometimes I go through the boards looking for locked topics, and the poor bastards who wrote them Posted Image

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 12:49 PM

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Depends on what you think is a good topic. I like the random weirdness.



Random weirdness is okay as long as its amusing random weirdness, not stupid random weirdness. There's a difference.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 01:10 PM

But it was funny random weirdness

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 01:43 PM

Indeed. eRP was ATT's brainchild.

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Posted 15 May 2004 - 09:18 PM

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Using eRP as an example of a "great topic" is like sawing your arms and legs off with a chainsaw.



Meaning, fast, battery-powered, and effective?

Well, maybe i shouldn't really take credit for eRP, since all i said was "be weird"...

but i'm going to anyway.

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Posted 16 May 2004 - 04:53 AM

Zortrium was a key figure in the eRP madness. He's too "normal" now.

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Posted 16 May 2004 - 05:38 AM

The problem is that it is impossible to try and be more like that random time. If you try to be weird and random, you become non-weird and non-random. Like, if I said "let's start another topic like eRP!", it wouldn't work. It has to happen sub-consciously.

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Posted 16 May 2004 - 12:55 PM

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Zortrium was a key figure in the eRP madness. He's too "normal" now.


eRP had it's historical moments too. For instance, my first post on eRP (which was the first reply) was my first ATT post. Posted Image

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Posted 16 May 2004 - 03:19 PM

Was it really? Congrats! *claps*

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Posted 17 May 2004 - 09:29 PM

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. Like, if I said "let's start another topic like eRP!", it wouldn't work.



Too true....

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Posted 17 May 2004 - 09:35 PM

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eRP had it's historical moments too. For instance, my first post on eRP (which was the first reply) was my first ATT post.


That was a dark time indeed. Posted Image

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Posted 17 May 2004 - 11:06 PM

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That was a dark time indeed. Posted Image


Yes, I know...my coming changed all that, I see. Posted Image

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