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You do realise this means it isn't your friend that she slept with, by default? It's your enemy, who you mistook for a friend.
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Morality is subjective, Law is objective and Ethics is the mixing of the two.
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@secularmerlin
I was trying to make this fair on the Religion Subform.
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Where's ShabShoral with the additional vote by the way?
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No, this isn't boredom. Boredom would result in you actually spending your time that you waste bullying others and laughing at them, actually doing something more stimulating and entertaining.
The reason you do this, is because you, TheHammer, Tyrone and Thett3 had absolutely no clue how to handle that you'd gone from being so popular and relevant to DDO to snickering cynics in the corner on this website. So, you chatted together on Hangouts or wherever and were like 'oh yeah, I know how we can avoid feeling shit about that, let's vote someone who is really hated by many... No, not RM he's already winning and we hate him too... Hmm, oh yeah hahaha if we all vote Wylted he outdoes the 5-pointers so the 4-6 moving to next Round will have to include him over them... Oh and let's vote each other, maybe we can even get Bench or Vaarka to join in our trolling and also get Warren to nominate 2 of us to really upset those losers who feel good about being nominated, HAHAHA we're so fucking epic and clever! Oh god man, those guys won't see it coming... The sorry suckers!"
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@spacetime
how do you explain you guys voting for each other other than with envy of those who actually earned their nominations?
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@spacetime
Every single one of our posts is worth more than the totality of everything you've ever accomplished in your entire life.
You mean like accomplishing being nominated here? How about you beg some more friends to join the website and vote for you? Maybe you'll accomplish something instead of envying me and losing anyway.
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@bsh1
Why are they even allowed to vote each other? That is a group of buddies who contribute next to nothing to the website. The only one of the lot worthy of being voted would be Thett3, who they aren't even voting.
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@Vader
If you want me to help you with your production, I am actually a very good grammar and formatting editor. I am very good at cutting and adapting something, not creating it from scratch so much. When I typo on here, it's because I'm not trying.
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@WaterPhoenix
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@A-R-O-S-E
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@bsh1
I withdraw my nomination of Mopac and nominate Oromagi instead.
I do not need to explain my nomination, if you disallow this you are punishing me for voting early; that is all. It wouldn't make it fairer, I could have stalled regardless.
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My debates are often 0/0 unless Ramshutu finds reason to vote against me on them but I guess for others he is important in the votes.
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Okay, I think I understand what the 'thread' section is for. It definitely is very different to what I thought it was for. It is for threads that are prestigious, not necessarily popular or great for the community but simply prestigious and held in high subjective regard. I get it now.
I admire threads that snowball, like this https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/1750/how-did-you-become-an-atheist
One of the best threads of all times in terms of how well it went start-to-end. I vote for it, I also vote for my 'I quit' thread, because it was fucking epic no matter what anyone says about it.
How Did You Become An Atheist?
Goodbye.
RM Profile Pic Vending Machine (edited with pixlr to eye-pleasing perfection such as I do with mine)
Goodbye.
RM Profile Pic Vending Machine (edited with pixlr to eye-pleasing perfection such as I do with mine)
I am voting what I genuinely think will go down in history and be a thing others visit later on and find relevant even a decade from now.
I deleted my imgur account for personal reasons but will still give avatars (that I won't be able to delete after enough time as I'll be posting it accountless so it will be cookie and IP-based, which I don't let stay consistent for long online).
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@Christen
On or about the 14th of October, I will post a thread soliciting nominations from the usership in each of the three award categories (users, debates, and threads). Any user will be able to submit up to three nominees in each category for a maximum of 9 nominations per user. Nominators may choose to nominate less than the maximum number if they choose. The nominating window will close on or about the 17th of October. The nominees with the most nominations (approx. 4-6 per category) will advance to the second stage of the process. There are no formal criteria for determining who/what can be nominated; however, if I conclude that a nomination is wholly and blatantly incongruous with the purpose of the HOF (that purpose being to highlight good, notable, and/or consequential inductees), I reserve the right to withhold forwarding that nomination to the second stage of the process.On or about the 18th of October, I will post a thread soliciting votes from the usership on the finalist nominees in each of the three award categories (users, debates, and threads). Any user will be able to vote for up to three nominees in each category for a maximum of 9 votes per user. Voters may choose to vote less than the maximum number if they choose. The voting window will close on or about the 20th of October. Those nominees with the most votes (3 per category) will be inducted into the DART Hall of Fame. In the event of a tie preventing exactly 3 inductions per category, the voting window will be extended for just those nominees who/which are tied. Those inducted will be formally honored with entries in the Hall of Fame thread. Those entries will be posted within 2 months of the voting period closing.
^ This is not me voting for this thread (which should not be voted for, how the hell is it winning?)
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@WaterPhoenix
While it's a square, this is actually a traffic circle and what it's meant to refer to. To get a real 'traffic circle' involves massive roads meeting all at once.
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@WaterPhoenix
Traffic Circles are usually happening without any 'middle circle' present at all. You know situations where two busy roads meet with many traffic lights involved? That's a Traffic Circle.
What most mean when they say 'traffic circle' is indeed correctly terms 'Roundabout'. In a Roundabout, you must give way to vehicles already encircling the middle 'circle' and there is far more freedom once in the circle of when and how you exit it.
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I get that we all got a notification about the Hall of Fame thread, but people like Mopac, Janesix and whoever else (sorry, I'm not a main around these parts) will not get votes, especially not for the threads part of the voting, if your group don't contribute en masse to the voting. You are basically at least 40% of our community and you do more posting than the 60%. You're a major factor in this site's ecosystem and we do not want you guys to become a social island like you did on DDO, you are a part of our website.
To vote, visit this thread and read the Original Post.
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Chrome or Firefox. If you're using any other browser, you're wasting your time.
If you want privacy, Firefox. If you want ease of use and 'pleasure' as in all sites being fully optimised for your browser and such, Chrome works a charm.
I do it mainly with Firefox on the phone because you can have Firefox add-ons on your app but you can't have Chrome extensions for it. This means you literally can't have tracking protection and adblock if you use Chrome, but you can for Firefox. I also use DuckDuckGo browser (which mainly is a search engine and is based on Brave Browser's tech for the browser stuff) if I want a properly private session since it is very convenient in that it doesn't track anything you do other than the URLs you visit (if you have a tracking cookie happen on the page it's not stored locally in your phone outside of the app itself and is wiped the moment you close the page if you do the settings correctly).
For computer, I prefer Chrome, it's just designed so much better, Firefox and therefore TOR (which is based on Firefox) open a whole function inside your volume control, per tab, they do the same for your system but when you close the browser only one of them will close. It takes actually being signed out of your computer to ever get rid of the processes, as well as a lot of time waiting for them to die on their own accord. You can't kill them with task manager unless you really really know what you're looking for, I am not sure what exactly it is but you can have literally 20 at once that all won't die, that takes up power and RAM even if nothing is happening with them. It's a major design flaw for Windows Firefox compatibility. They did this to maximise the loading of each tab, as well meaning even if your system was hacked via what you came across on one website, no cookies or cache leak from other open tabs to that one. I get the reasoning behind it, but it is a terrible coding and allocation of processing to do it in the long run. Chrome is solid as fuck in every regard, I get it... Google spies on you when you use it. It also looks out for you. Chrome actively will warn you if extensions you have are able to do things most wouldn't expect (eavesdrop etc) and notices things you may accidentally do in your settings or whatever that put you at risk. Chrome actually makes it easier to transfer to Firefox from Chrome than the latter, by far. People talk so ill of Google but if you try to export things from your sync account on Firefox to bring to Chrome, you will find a much, much harder time than the opposite. Chrome is honestly my browser of choice for computers but for smartphones, stick to Firefox imo.
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@bsh1
Actually, I agree to all three of Virtuoso's debate nominations, please add the other 2 as my own votes.
Thanks for the votes all, though fame as a title is strange. As in is your title 'famous' for all nominees? Do you get a nickname or something to regard your nomination?
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@bsh1
I nominate Supadudz as my third. He is a very inventive and creative member in general and has contributed a lot of time and effort into the community despite being only 15-16.
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Virtuoso - excellent handling of disputes from day one of the website to now. In the eyes of many that wanted Bsh1 gone in the early days, me suggesting him to replace you as head mod and Bsh1 to be demoted but not 'fired' was the single best thing at the time to have said. Wylted immediately agreed and eventually the rebellion died down. Virtuoso has been an outstanding moderator, even when you had rudimentary methods of tracking alts and such, he did his level best to work with the user-base and catch the likes of MagicAintReal. If it wasn't for him and Castin, I likely would have quit the website permanently in my early days.
Mopac - Consistent Religion Forums poster. He is a legend around there and not the infamous kind. He holds himself very polite, albeit sarcastic and at times mean with sugar coated wording. His manners and temper are indeed very Christian and he is a worthy representative of his religion, for sure.
Most of the threads I want in HoF are my own so I'll skip threads. Debates are similar but I can offer this one as simply a pleasant read throughout, straightforward and clear wording:
I would like to be able to nominate my own content for threads and debates, but I know that even if it's allowed it's unwise to do so as people look down on that. If any are interested, PM me or mention me here if you're blocked. I'll let you know what I think deserves to be in HoF and why.
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Of course it doesn't. It's up to the mods to let votes that suit their agenda let slip while ones that piss them off and upset enough people to be removed.
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@secularmerlin
If you don't bet on it being purple, in your scenario, you are not playing optimally.
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This is a traffic circle diagram: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/thumb/a/aa/Rotary_Maps_1_aaronsta.png/637px-Rotary_Maps_1_aaronsta.png
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There are many differences between modern roundabouts, traffic circles (also known as rotaries) often found on the East Coast and in Europe, and neighborhood traffic calming circles.
Traffic circles, or rotaries, are much larger than modern roundabouts. The graphic at right shows the size of a traffic circle (in green) compared to the smaller modern roundabout (in grey). Traffic circles often have stop signs or traffic signals within the circular intersection. The Arc de Triomphe in Paris and Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., are two examples of older-style traffic cicles.Drivers enter a traffic circle in a straight line and do not have to yield to traffic already in the circle. Traffic circles typically become congested if many vehicles enter at the same time.Neighborhood traffic calming circles (right) are much smaller than modern roundabouts and often replace stop signs at four-way intersections. They are typically used in residential neighborhoods to slow traffic speeds and reduce accidents, but are typically not designed to accommodate larger vehicles. Many drivers often turn left in front of the circles rather than turning around them.
Modern roundabouts (right) are designed to accommodate vehicles of all sizes, including emergency vehicles, buses, and truck and trailer combinations. In a modern roundabout, drivers enter the intersection by navigating a gentle curve. Drivers yield at entry to traffic already in the roundabout, then proceed into the intersection and exit at their desired street.A main feature of the modern roundabout is a raised central island. The circular shape is designed to control the direction of traffic and reduce speeds to 15 to 20 mph. It also reduces the likelihood of t-bone or head-on collisions.The central island of many roundabouts includes a truck apron (bottom right), a raised section of concrete that acts as an extra lane for large vehicles. The back wheels of the oversize vehicle can ride up on the truck apron so the truck can easily complete the turn, while the raised portion of concrete discourages use by smaller vehicles.In addition to the central island, roundabouts also feature triangular splitter islands designed to slow and direct traffic. The islands also provide a refuge for pedestrians. This means pedestrians can choose to cross one direction of traffic at a time and have a safe place to wait before crossing another direction of traffic.
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@crossed
I mean you're taking it a bit literal and simplistic, there's many more sections and some people really are superior in multiple facets of thinking to others,without much drawback, but to be extremely good at some form of thinking, you do indeed need to sacrifice others.
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@A-R-O-S-E
So do I from someone given power over other users on it.
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@Trent0405
I have a moderator-enforced 2-way restraining order preventing me of going into specifics for recent examples of what passes vote valid votes here.
I'll sum it up like this:
You can basically say what a person said (like you did to vote against me to billbatard) then ignore entirely what the other side did to destroy them, and justify a vote in any direction that you see fit. It will pass moderation every time, but revenge-voting is a thing (even though it's ruled out to admit it's for revenge) and so it's unwise to do to anyone who isn't weaker than you socially on the website.
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of course it won't sit well with most debaters. Most debaters don't know much about debating so they don't realise what's flawed about how votes are moderated.
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@secularmerlin
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@secularmerlin
I would thank you for the compliment but I am aware of how quickly you become sarcastic and dismissive in elongated interaction.
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I would run this site like clockwork if I were given the chance.
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@secularmerlin
I'm probably not the first to realise that both extreme rebel leaders and the leaders of the regimes they were fighting against have parallels in their otherwise opposite personas and psyche.
It was written from my own fingers and brain, yes, but it probably is a concept already expressed beforehand by philosophers and psychologists.
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It must be said that Virtuoso is rapidly losing his value as a mod on this website. Ramshutu is doing his work in the voting section (in a biased and corrupt manner but still more than what Virtuoso is doing) and Bsh1 is delegating less with regards to conflict circumstances on the forums and debate comments.
I have a solution. Virtuoso must fire Ramshutu. Then he can regain his supremacy as the voting moderator so that the 'delegating' doesn't skip over the middleman entirely.
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The concept of a perfect world has driven many a terrorist and tyrant in history. The moment you even begin thinking about it, you will begin to enter a vigilant mindframe. It's best to dispell the urge for utopia entirely from your psyche, since to even bear it in mind dulls the enjoyment and efficiency with which one operates in this imperfect reality.
The 'perfect' reality wouldn't require morality, that's true. The perfect reality is one in which nothing at all exists, since to exist is to have flaws.
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Bush's solution to everything: Shove it in and deny it is happening.
Trump's solution to everything: Pull out and deny it ever happened.
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I will compete with your story and production later on, be warned.
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I think you swapped Speed with Franklin, at the end.
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I don't get your point.
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@Speedrace
Plants, rocks, sand, the bark of the trees not just themselves, your flesh, skin, blood, it's all built on carbon based molecules or based on other molecules that directly interact with carbon.
You're right about living beings actually taking in oxygen-based compounds but carbon is both the air AND their actual bodies. Everything is based on it.
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@Speedrace
Wrong. Everything natural is built upon it.
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Anyway, since this is beginning to 'decay' in validity and exploration of the topic at hand, I will reveal my answers and discuss them with anyone who wants to:
Your country is holding an election for its new leader. Which candidate would you vote for?
I will listen to what each candidate says, and then decide
When you make a promise...
You do the best you can, though some things may happen
When at a formal occasion, you normally...
Wait until you fulfill your purpose, then leave at the nearest convenience
The zombie apocalypse has recently arrived at your region. Which actions do you most likely feel inclined to do?
Gather a group of survivors, and use any means to take back your town/city
You hear a baby bird chirping in a nearby tree. You see that its parents have abandoned it. What do you do?
I think this was the answer that changed in my two times doing it. I was torn between:
- Leave it be; it is tragic, though you do not know how to care for it, and may make it worse
- Drop the nest to the ground; the bird is dead anyways, might as well feed a hungry wolf or something
I ended up selecting the latter option the second time around, but it would depend how bothered I was. The latter option is the better thing to do, genuinely. I would ensure its brain stopped experiencing the agony but leave its body to be put to good natural use. If you're curious, if you take it home to 'feed' its beak barely opens and usually is sealed shut. Abandoned birds usually were premature and the parents didn't know how to feed it because it genuinely is too hard to open the beak sometimes.
Which of these characters is your favorite?
Gollum
You could not live without...
Fun
This is part one of several for a story-like scenario: While taking a walk down your street, you see two people arguing in an alley. Curious, you approach and watch, though stay hidden. Within seconds, one shoots the other, and runs out. They run into you, a large bag of money in their hands, point the gun at you, and ask what you saw. Your response?
Say you saw nothing, and tell the police when they leave
Part two: Somehow or another, the story of the shooting gets out, and you are asked to testify in court. What do you do?
Refuse; you do not want to put your life at risk for someone you did not know
Part three: Your kidnappers take the cloth bag off of your head, and a bright light shines in your eyes. Whatever you just did obviously did not go very well. The main boss offers you a deal, to keep quiet or sleep with the fishes. What do you do?
No use keeping it up; you agree
Part four: So, it all turned out well in the end. You walk away with plenty of money, whether a bribe, reward from the police, or what you found on the bodies. What do you spend it on?
Savings, investments
Of these animals, which do you like best?
Dog
Part one of another story: Someway or another, you have been teleported to the old American West. Which job do you try for?
Bounty Hunter
Part two: A train company has begun constructing a rail outside your town. How do you react?
Sell goods to the workers at reasonable prices
I may sell them the goods at reasonable prices to then bribe them to keep things quiet, so I also was going for the 'keep them quiet' goal here.
Part three: A fight breaks out in the saloon. What is your involvement?
You broke it up.
Given the skills I'd gain in martial arts and my general standing in things, I'd more likely do this than the rest.
Part four: While surveying a good spot for a house on your recently purchased homestead, you stumble onto a gold mine. How do you handle it?
Keep the gold for yourself. It is your land now
Part five: A protest is breaking out in the town square against the mayor for suspected racketeering, and it may escalate into a riot. What steps do you take?
Head home and secure your house; you can not risk your nor your family's safety
Without context or motive to join or quell it, I'd opt to play it safe.
Last question, unrelated to the previous story: Of these, which chemical element is your favorite?
Carbon (C)
Most useful of the offered elements, by far. Probably would defeat oxygen in options if I had to choose, because without Carbon, oxygen has no value (CO2 wouldn't exist and plants wouldn't recycle it for us).
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If you keep blocking me, how can I help?
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True Neutral is not boring at all, this test accurately depicts the depth of a true neutral character.
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@A-R-O-S-E
Why did you ignore me on forums and PM without a single apology or explanation and call yourself my fan on your profile while blatantly not being it?
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@A-R-O-S-E
The lawful good person is less 'good' than the neutral good person, in case you were confused.
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