WoT. - Page 2

STOP LOOKING AT ME · 10-28-2007, 02:54 PM

^ That's why its a weak attempt.

***Ace Mercury*** · 10-28-2007, 09:52 PM

Well, the only content in WoT is people talking to each other about small talk and whatever, without sticking to the thread topic. The key idea is that the thread topic is inane; it requires 19 posts of arbitrary filler for each 'point'. Hell, I don't even think people are keeping score any more. Really, the only point of the thread now is so that people can talk to each other in a persistent chatroom context. If the post rate gets high enough, it'd be more suited for a IRC channel or something.

Now, chatroom style threads aren't necessarily a bad thing; we've had threads like that in the past (TPAM, Late Night Club, Jagger's Bar and Grille, Hyrule Inn, etc.), it's just that idea of WoT as a 'game' is pretty hollow.

Mikhail Gorbachev · 10-28-2007, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Ace Mercury

Well, the only content in WoT is people talking to each other about small talk and whatever, without sticking to the thread topic. The key idea is that the thread topic is inane; it requires 19 posts of arbitrary filler for each 'point'.

Yeah, it is mundane. I can't really argue there. But it's not true that it's all 'small talk.'

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Hell, I don't even think people are keeping score any more. Really, the only point of the thread now is so that people can talk to each other in a persistent chatroom context. If the post rate gets high enough, it'd be more suited for a IRC channel or something.

Score IS being kept, actually.
Why doesn't VGF have an IRC channel? Not a bad idea.

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Now, chatroom style threads aren't necessarily a bad thing; we've had threads like that in the past (TPAM, Late Night Club, Jagger's Bar and Grille, Hyrule Inn, etc.), it's just that idea of WoT as a 'game' is pretty hollow.

So how is WoT worse than those? You criticize WoT for being 'a weak attempt to turn a BBS into a chatroom' but here you say that isn't a bad thing. 'As a 'game'' TPAM is also hollow... actually, how does it even count as a game...?
I'd probably cease to post in WoT as much if one of those 'lounge' threads was active, but there really aren't any now. Feel free to start one, but It may not be as successful as WoT.

**Crazyswordsman** · 10-28-2007, 10:55 PM

I agree with Ace, but we have the shoutbox for that purpose. -CSM

**Wyborn** · 11-05-2007, 03:45 AM

It's something people have historically been disproportionately defensive about.

Mikhail Gorbachev · 11-05-2007, 12:44 PM

Only because it's something people have been disproportionately offensive about.

***CaptHayfever*** · 11-05-2007, 02:04 PM

^So do you mean that there's way too much defensiveness & way too little offensiveness or vice versa? Because they can't both be too much or too little; that wouldn't be disproportionate.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Mikhail Gorbachev · 11-05-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptHayfever

^So do you mean that there's way too much defensiveness & way too little offensiveness or vice versa? Because they can't both be too much or too little; that wouldn't be disproportionate.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Not disproportionate to each other, disproportionate to the amount of drama a topic like this should generate.

**Wyborn** · 11-05-2007, 07:55 PM

Which is to say inappropriate amounts of offense and defense.

STOP LOOKING AT ME · 11-05-2007, 08:25 PM

Well, I can use fancy words in order to sound intelligent, too.

Demonic Lemonade · 11-06-2007, 10:36 AM

Whos
On
Top

The Doctor · 11-06-2007, 11:48 AM

^ LIES!!!!!!!! (quickly edits post.)

GURU ANT · 11-06-2007, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Wyborn

It's something people have historically been disproportionately defensive about.

No, it's something that too many people bitch about. Look at MM, he bitched about it because he knew nothing about it, he just assumed that people were in there to increase post counts. He later looked at them, saw how fun they were, and joined in.

Give the damn thing a chance, not asking you to join it, I'm just asking you all to stop bitching about it, it's not the end of the world, and it's not the end of VGF.

EDIT: And this post is not solely aimed at Wyborn, it's for anyone else who just decides to bitch about WoT.

**Wyborn** · 11-06-2007, 05:33 PM

I'm not bitching about it, I'm just saying that people get really defensive about it. And they do! The best way to deal with people hounding your ass about that sort of thing is just to ignore them.

***ZeldaGirl*** · 11-06-2007, 06:23 PM

I'll admit, I only get defensive about it when it's an extreme case like MM was. Some people like it, some don't. Oh well, life goes on.

10-28-2007, 09:52 PM	#22
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11-06-2007, 10:36 AM	#31
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10-28-2007, 02:54 PM	#21
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10-28-2007, 10:55 PM	#24
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11-05-2007, 03:45 AM	#25
Wyborn Zelda Mod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: All over the place Gender: Posts: 12,333 Thanks: 86 Thanked 456 Times in 274 Posts Points: 21,306.80 Bank: 88,927.77 Total Points: 110,234.57 Donate	It's something people have historically been disproportionately defensive about.

11-05-2007, 12:44 PM	#26
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11-05-2007, 02:04 PM	#27
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11-05-2007, 07:55 PM	#29
Wyborn Zelda Mod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: All over the place Gender: Posts: 12,333 Thanks: 86 Thanked 456 Times in 274 Posts Points: 21,306.80 Bank: 88,927.77 Total Points: 110,234.57 Donate	Which is to say inappropriate amounts of offense and defense.

11-05-2007, 08:25 PM	#30
STOP LOOKING AT ME Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: YOU SAID THAT YOU KNEW ME AND I BELIEVED YOU DID Gender: Posts: 9,247 Thanks: 267 Thanked 585 Times in 430 Posts Blog Entries: 7 Points: 6,600.14 Bank: 74,653.97 Total Points: 81,254.10 Donate	Well, I can use fancy words in order to sound intelligent, too.

11-06-2007, 11:48 AM	#32
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11-06-2007, 05:33 PM	#34
Wyborn Zelda Mod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: All over the place Gender: Posts: 12,333 Thanks: 86 Thanked 456 Times in 274 Posts Points: 21,306.80 Bank: 88,927.77 Total Points: 110,234.57 Donate	I'm not bitching about it, I'm just saying that people get really defensive about it. And they do! The best way to deal with people hounding your ass about that sort of thing is just to ignore them.

11-06-2007, 06:23 PM	#35
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