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I've always liked the Back to the Future movies. There's a definite charm to them.
In the movies it's referred to as the DeLorean several times. That Pontiac looks very similar though.
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@DebateArt.com
The "show recent" button actually isn't much use to me if it's inside the thread. It would be much more helpful if the option was available from the topics viewlist like you said. Then I wouldn't have to load the first page and then load the last page. I could just load the last page.
As for looking nice: on most sites, you can click on the thread title to be taken to its first page, but you can also click on the thread's last post and be taken directly to the most recent page. DDO did this, for example. Would that be doable? I would think it's just a matter of adding a link to the information displayed in the Last Post column.
As always, thanks for the responsiveness. I know you have a lot of things to do. I hope you'll find some more members with the knowledge to help you out with all this. I find HTML and CSS tedious, myself.
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@DebateArt.com
2) Added a way to jump to the last page of the forum topic
How? Navigating to a thread always takes me to the first page. Can't find a way to open a thread to its most recent page. This, and the absence of a quote button on people's posts so that I have to copy and paste quotes manually, are a couple of my worse inconveniences right now. Which means things are going pretty good.
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DArC is the beautiful nickname.DDC is the lazy name.Dart is going to be so confusing as it's a norm English word so newcomers work cafch on.I'd say there's three viable picks:DArCDACDbAC
Oh very well. Hmm. I probably prefer DDC then. I like lazy. Kind of a shame it doesn't work the "art" into it somehow, though.
DArC, pronounced Darcy, seems like kind of a weird name for a website to me, but I could get used to it. But where's the D for "dot" as in "dot com"?
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@ethang5
Which of my posts is this addressing?But why?
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@EtrnlVw
I believe they modeled him using the skulls of first century Jews as their guideline. And they based the skin color on some of the earliest images of Jewish people. It's difficult to tell if he's thin or not just from the headshot, he could just be wide-faced.
But yeah, I really have no idea why they gave him that expression, lol. He looks like your friend who was recently brainwashed into a cult, and you break into the cult compound to rescue him, but when you finally find him he turns around and smiles all creepy trance-like, with brainwashed eyes. "Why would I ever want to leave the Master? Praise the Master. Join the Master and be happy with us, friend."
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@EtrnlVw
Truth is acquired, either through experience or through another source. You are designed perfectly to know the truth, and to live the truth. Why don't you inspire yourself to reach a little deeper?
How could I be designed to perfectly know the truth? I'm just an ignorant, fallible human being.
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@bsh1
I hear ya, it's such a shame it was lost to that unending spam nightmare.
The site creator goes by the username DebateArt.com here. On DDO his username is justmichael. I'm not sure if he was ever very active there. And as far as I know, no mods have been appointed yet. DebateArt.com (we really need to come up with a shorter catchy nickname for this) appears to be the only authority.
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@keithprosser
Are you saying the truth - unembellished with gods and magic - cannot be beieved in and cannot inspire?
I'm saying I don't believe the truth was designed with us in mind, but I believe religion was. Reality can and does inspire, but it wasn't made to inspire us or to keep our hopes afloat. It can devastate as easily as uplift. Our stories, on the other hand, are made to do just that -- inspire and uplift us.
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@EtrnlVw
Nope, it's bully without a doubt :)
Lol. All right, man. I admit the posting styles are similar. But did you notice that Vagabond's avatar is Jesus? The attempted scientific recreation of Jesus, anyway.
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It's hard to answer you regarding the moderation level at this point. We'd need to think and come up with the moderation system from the scratch. Obviously it makes sense to appoint some willing people a "moderator" role and give some abilities to handle stuff but it's just a top of an iceberg, I believe it's possible to create a system (not perfect though but still) which would prevent the bad content in the first place. At least a system that would make it discouraging but again, it needs some thinking.
I understand, the site's still very early stage. I only asked because on DDO people could basically get away with anything, and I'm really ready for a forum where that stops. Particularly when it comes to posts that consist of only hateful personal attacks and zero substance or contribution to the discussion.
A moderating system that "would prevent the bad content in the first place" sounds interesting. I'm not sure how that would work, except in the case of spambots, but my curiosity is piqued.
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@Yassine
I think eth has already posted the link to this site on several of the stickied threads on DDO. Probably not much left to do, except message friends like you said, though I'm not sure which people on my friends list already know about this place. If you're really determined, you could follow some of the DDO members who went to other sites and invite them to Dart, I guess.
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@ethang5
Since every culture has come up with God story, would it be correct to say that psychologically, humans need a God narrative?I say yes, as even atheist seem to need it just as much as theists even if for different reasons.Why do you think humans seem to need a God story?
We're story-oriented creatures. We want answers, narrative, causality. Reasons and explanations. We want something to believe in, and tales that inspire.
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@EtrnlVw
I've heard scientists say that eating meat was important to our early evolution. It's packed with protein and fuel, and the human brain is an energy hog. I've also heard it suggested that many animals can get away with a vegetarian diet because they don't have that energy hogging human brain they have to feed.
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@EtrnlVw
Yeah I agree, it's not Faust. But why do you think Vagabond is bul? Can't there be more than one member with a hostile posting style?
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@DebateArt.com
I totally understand. Just wanted to throw it out there, it's not a matter of any urgency.
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I would also like to know what level of moderation this site will have, and what kind of conduct will be allowed or disallowed. I know it's too early for a fleshed out formal policy or anything, but if you could give me a general idea that would be cool.
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@EtrnlVw
Agreed, and the owner is very personable and responsive.
It would also be cool if clicking on the Activities bell opened a dropdown list of your notifications.
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It would be cool if clicking on the Forum button up on the header opened a dropdown list of subforums (art, religion, etc).
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Padme and Anakin's romance was cringeworthy for me. All his tantrums and creepy leering.
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I'm an agnostic atheist. I identify with doubt more than I will ever identify with certainty. I even doubt my atheism at times. When I'm alone in a quiet place, I tend to become someone who's not sure what to believe, someone less confident and more thoughtful. What should be taken from this life? Which lighthouses should I sail by? What should I believe in? What the hell am I supposed to do about the seemingly unkillable existential questions that assail the human experience? How do I cope with suffering, or fend off the creeping encroachment of nihilism?
All I've nailed down is, a) we all come up with different answers to these questions, b) there is no one right answer to any of these questions, and c) the answers we come up with are subjectively projected, not objectively discovered. Oh, and also d) humor and love are the best general analgesics.
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Lol. The debate button underneath people's avatars says "Obviously this person is not right... Challenge to a debate." I dig it.
Also can you make Escapism a life priority in our profiles? Ha, I'm just joking. But not really. I want it.
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