Greatsilverwyrm

I think it's a card game of some sort, right? Like a Magic knockoff..

In average, we get 4200 new users every month. How does this look like a forum that is "choking the users fun"? We are ranked as the 6th largest RPG forum in the world! I like to think this is partly because of the staffs decissions and rules - and staff. How many of those users actually become regular posters? How many of those regular posters are regular off-topic posters? I would also love to beleive that our comments actually are being taken into consideration, but, as Matt said, it seems like our comments have fallen on deaf ears too many times to retain any hope.

I'll repeat this again. This is the one and only site I know with a userbase that isn't 95% sub-13 years old that has this much of an, honestly, bordering extremely close on retentive personal information ruleset. What's ironic, is that not only do we have a lame ruleset for, let's face it, the off topic forum(s), where the userbase is especially above-13. Where in the RS forums, we have a rants board. What the heckl? Honestly. I'll also repeat that I think the admins are choking our freedoms on the extremely vague possibility that somone will be tracked victimized based solely off the information gleaned from these forums.

Dwarfie, much of the strife here comes from the fact that this rule is just one in a slew of recent (past 6 months to a year) that has been slowly choking out our freedom and our fun. If they had these rules in the first place we would never have joined. The forums used to be lots of fun. But now we're worrying over useless crap for useless reasons and that fun is now all but vanished.

The section rick was referring to is exactly as you describe it, and trust me when I say I really doubt it's as good as you'd think.

How much money do you contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of this site? Given the amount of money you contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of the site, what amount of say do you feel entitled to as to how this site should be run? Honestly I hate that mentality. He contributes simply by being a regular member. Without the people there would be no community.

I could see the reason for no personal pictures, even though I disagree with it. However, this is just a step too far I think. Were there actually any pictures that showed personal information on papers? I don't remember any. If there were lots, I could see the reason, but if there was only one or two, why not pm the user and let them know the risk involved, or remove it yourself? You're cutting down on a slew of extremely fun forum activities because of the vague possibility that somone will be stalked/killed, and the even more vague possibility that the reason this occured was because of something a user posted here. If you disallow room pictures, you need to take the next step. Don't allow anyone to post even a vague allusion as to where they live, or what their real-life name is. Because you know what I can do? Go to myspace, and search for hours until I find one with the user's name in the user's area that seems, by the typing patterns, to be the user. What can I do with that user's myspace? Find out a wealth of knowledge about that user, his habits, etc. This is, honest to god, the only site I know where the administration is this anal about one type of personal info, but doesn't care about other people. How many people under the age of 13 do we have here? I hope to god not many. This is a forum with a large age range, not a bleeding kid's network.

Stop spamming, dude.. you're giving the game a bad name.

I would post this in T&C, but I think it'll get more answers here.. I recently purchased a Samsung A950 phone, and was wondering a couple of things: Can I use the data cable to transfer things directly to the phone's memory? I've done some cursory research and all I've seen is that I have to transfer to the memory card first, but, maybe you know better. Can I create or download new themes for it?

I think the winter ones are kind of uninteresting, sorry.. I love the fall ones, though. Especially the first one. Fascinating texture.

Pfffft.. stop being a troll. That's my job. My opinion on the topic: They're 13. 13-year-olds are, by definition, immature. If it was two college students I'd be surprised, but, c'mon..

were these at all directed toward me? if not, carry on. Are you a homophobe? yeah, but i dunno if you read that topic i posted on a couple weeks ago. If you did you'll know, but if it, dont' look for it if thats really a big pet peeve. :) Which post is this?

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... ?id=122915 New features include site specific preferences (damn useful), built-in content blocking (really just a frontend for the already existing blocking), in-browser search editing, widgets (kind of lame), and thumbnail previews (also kind of lame). This is all on top of Opera's existing slew of fantastic features, and is still under a 5mb download, and is still the fastest thing for the PC. Note: This is a technical preview, it's intended to showcase features that are in development, and for bug-testing. It should not be installed over stable releases nor used as a substitute for stable releases (though I do use it for the latter..) Personally I love most of the new features. Icing on the cake for an already amazing browser. The thumbnails I think though are too gimmicky and not the most useful thing in the world, and the widgets are too much of a stretch. There are already a ton of great widget programs out there.

[garden tool] [garden tool]! I'm funny... *runs away*

were these at all directed toward me? if not, carry on. Are you a homophobe?

Oh, wow, that takes me way back.. *daydreams reminisceingly*

People who don't understand why the teaching of ID should be a federal freakin' offense. Also people who want to push their viewpoints onto others. Going with the above, and in general, homophobes. Idiots in general.. People who won't take a hint.. People who have no friends because of their grating annoying quirks, but don't realize this, or don't care, and continue to think they're your friend and gratingly annoy you. And. uh.. I got nothin`..

Ugh, this makes me hate yahoo even more than I already do for their marketing standards. Buying up small-ish programs and then pretty much killing development on them. Way to go, Yahoo..

I agree it'll probably never go anywhere, what with such a small dev team, but, it's still a lot of fun. Especially if you're into games with a small community. It's kind of fun to know almost everyone who plays a game. :)

Time-space itself doesn't collapse, simply the matter within it. You can't have reigons in which there is no space. As far as we know it now it's physically impossible. We haven't enough evidence yet for other dimensions, which would really be the only way to have non-spacial space..

Wow... Yeah, you're the first one to say/think this. No. What a good thought!!! Who woulda thunk it? You seriously think he thought it was an original thought?! Of course it's not an original thought, but it was pertinant to the conversation. Don't be a dolt.

Minus the singularity, of course. Thought that was a given. :)

Exactly, my point exactly. Lionheart was saying that an infinite number of moments has passed before now, and I think that isn't possible, because you would have to assign a value to this "number". No, by my definition we can never actually show, in actuality, all of the digits in pi. Just like there are an infinite number of points F between points A and B, doesn't mean that there is an actual infinite - it's just a theory, because these points don't take up time/space - if we tried to write them all down, it would be impossible, because there isn't enough time/space to hold it. You're looking at time the completely wrong way. A: time doesn't need a spatial area to exist, so, no ammount of time can be "too large for space". B: You're trying to quantize time. Time isn't quantized in the sense that, say, apples are quantized. Time is measured by it's passage. Ever hear of Einstine's General Theory of Relativity? Time infact DOES need Space to exist. Time and Space are very closely related. That is why it is called Time-Space is Astro-Physics. And may I point out just one more tiny thing? WHY ARE WE ARGUING ABOUT INFINITY?!?! TIME IS FINITE. SPCACE IS FINITE. WHEN BIG BANGS AND BIG CRUNCHES HAPPEN TIME AND SPACE WILL CEASE TO EXIST BE RE-BORN. Also... For the person who said Matter will always exist... You're wrong... When all the anti-matter in the Universe meets all the Matter, all that will be of the Universe will be a big void full of energy. This Energy will then compress itself into a singularity which will result in Time-Space being re-created in another Big Bang. An infinite ammount of time may exist in an extremely finite ammount of space. This is what I was talking about. You say time and space cease to exist when the big crunch happens. I disagree. The space is still there, it's just totally and completely void of anything. Time in our relational sense does cease to exist, I suppose you could say, but time in an overarching sense continues, unaffected. I'm going to stop debating the dark matter thing, mostly because I don't fully understand all of the theories involved. What I will say is that the whole idea of dark matter seems too easy, too convenient a solution for all of the anomolies we've observed.

That's all fine and dandy. I could accept that. However it knocks out the fundamental Christian concept of redemption. If the sins were all part of God's design plan, there would really be no need to atone for them (in God's eyes any way, it's probably pretty important to the people you've sinned against). Most branches of Christianity teach that you can be cast into Hell for sinning - although they mostly have different opinions about just what sins are bad enough to get you there. Now an all-powerful God who created us with a foreknowledge of the sins we commit, would also have foreknowledge of the sins we would fail to seek forgiveness for. Thus creating some people which he would know would never attone for their sins, seek forgiveness, accept the lord into their lives or do any of the other things that are our supposed tickets through the pearly gates. So we come back to a determinist viewpoint. Everything has been set in stone by God. Some will be saved, some won't and there is nothing we can do to alter our path. Free will and the JudeoChristian model of God are incompatible. What if, though, along with sin, the redemption was also part of his plan? I mean.. If I created a race of fuzzballs, and had complete foreknowledge that they would destroy half their population with a cute fuzzy nuclear warhead, I'd still want a friggen apology. Damn fuzzballs with their cute fuzzy nuclear fusion. I guess I do kind of see where you're coming from, though. If god created us, why does he want an apology for something he knew would happen, and created by proxy? The answer - God is a vindictive bastard.

Then why did you freaking post?! I just remembered... the second computer I built, the one I mentioned on an earlier post that the PSU didn't fit and etc.. The harddrive also was defective. I had to rebuild windows about 5 times before I realized that.. :(