Banter/Off-topic Thread & Community Stoning Platform

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I just wanted to say, I earnestly look forward to each time I check on this forum. I am not concernfagging or shitposting or being an evil clown. The stuff that goes on this place livens up my workday, as I begrudgingly toil away to certain doom and the day my lungs stop breathing draw ever closer.

 

[Egg the Boiled]

>migo every post on the forum
>get one-up'd again because some fag feels moody and manages to convince Proctor to ruin the forum

It couldn't possibly be only him. Must've been some other people. Surely...

 

[NeneLOVE]

I just wanted to say, I earnestly look forward to each time I check on this forum. I am not concernfagging or shitposting or being an evil clown. The stuff that goes on this place livens up my workday, as I begrudgingly toil away to certain doom and the day my lungs stop breathing draw ever closer.

I drink to that bro.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

I drink to that bro.

indeed and i would like to think that's why people (including me) are acting like spergs now.

 

[Empty_Inbox]

>pretend to be Italian for months
>get one-up'd by Niji going full retard war on Doki
>migo every post on the forum
>get one-up'd again because some fag feels moody and manages to convince Proctor to ruin the forum

You got the Best Inmate of the Year award Jamba, even if the world moves on, people notice and people care!

 

[CalciumAnimal]

You got the Best Inmate of the Year award Jamba, even if the world moves on, people notice and people care!

Oh wow it's the legendary archivist EMPTY INBOX hey hey man i really look up to you and it would mean so much for me for you to sign my abs.

 

[Lurker McSpic]

Gonna post here because I don't see a tv/movie/media thread. I got a good deal on a 256gb sd card for my phone and I'm old as shit that I can't seem to remember good movies from my time. I'd like if some of you niggas drop me good movies to download. Anything from 80's-2007 maybe current too if it isn't garbage. Some tv shows might be good too. Thanks

 

[Empty_Inbox]

Oh wow it's the legendary archivist EMPTY INBOX hey hey man i really look up to you and it would mean so much for me for you to sign my abs.

I'm retired my man, glad to hear I was of use! I give you a permission to fake my autograph and brag about it (if you sell signed merch and the earnings are equal to or exceeding the local minimum wage x10, you will need to contact my legal team first)

 

[Kazuma]

Proctor actually hates TVA and this is his way of killing it

 

[Saturnus]

Saturnus who said it might be a good idea or at least worth a try.

To be fair here, my suggestions were a lot less threads than we have now and at an "as we grow into them" stages. My original suggestion for "what are the threads we should make?" were:

• A Hololive Thread
• A Nijisanji Thread
• A Phase Thread
• (maybe?) A Brave thread, they're kind of buying up all the agencies. [In hindsight this was the biggest stretch and I went back on it immediately]
• Deprecate the liveposting thread.
• General Thread stays as an all encompassing discussion thread.

and you're really driving people away by constantly acting holier than thou.

This is one of my main problems with Proctor. I've tried arguing with him in the past but to vocally let out my grievances here, he's like arguing with a concrete wall. I'm not very articulate to begin with so I've taken to try and avoid getting into an argument (even if I am starting one sometimes) because I'm going to be tearing my hair out trying to get my autism wavelength to equal his.

This is fun to you? I actually like this site, seeing this shit happening makes me actually depressed, so much so that it was easier to simply stop caring than to continue to doom about it. I don't find any of this amusing in the least, I am simply here because there is nowhere else to fucking go.

Unironically I cannot express how much I agree with this sentiment with one sticker so I am replying to you to say you're not the only one here with these thoughts and my idea of a thread split was in part trying to figure out how to stop the rampant doomerism.

How the fuck is that a perfect example? You have one dedicated thread to contain a user that cant stop talking about "MEAT"

Despite Reticule's meat posting he is on some level a fan of Pippa and posts positively(?) about her in his mentally insane ways. I think the better way to put is that the Pippa thread actually acts like a forum community more-or-less while the rest of the forum is slowly devolving into "I am just here because there's nowhere else to go".

 

[Trap Supremacy]

It couldn't possibly be only him. Must've been some other people. Surely...

It was a group of several people, not including mods, who planned it out as a potential solution to how bad the general thread's energy had gotten. It was our first solution and almost everybody Proctor approached, aside from Nenelove, was completely behind it. (congrats on being the Bernie Sanders to our proverbial War on Terror) In hindsight we shouldn't have been so naïve, and I hope that eventually there can be a consensus reached on how to improve the site with a larger portion of the userbase.

 

[Egg the Boiled]

It was a group of several people, not including mods, who planned it out as a potential solution to how bad the general thread's energy had gotten. It was our first solution and almost everybody Proctor approached, aside from Nenelove, was completely behind it. (congrats on being the Bernie Sanders to our proverbial War on Terror)

Good on you for being the only person who actually owned up to burning the forum down.

You're all fags though.

Edit: Might want to make this clearer. I don't have anything against you, I'm just having a giggle.
It's just ridiculous that Proctor gathered a secret group and asked for advice, rather then ask the forum itself. And then he apparently did what you suggested in the most boneheaded way.

 

[NeneLOVE]

It was a group of several people, not including mods, who planned it out as a potential solution to how bad the general thread's energy had gotten. It was our first solution and almost everybody Proctor approached, aside from Nenelove, was completely behind it. (congrats on being the Bernie Sanders to our proverbial War on Terror) In hindsight we shouldn't have been so naïve, and I hope that eventually there can be a consensus reached on how to improve the site with a larger portion of the userbase.

I still wonder who these mystery people were.

You also call it "our first solution" as if you guys were in contact which each other and planned it out. I literally didn't get spoken to about it beyond being asked for my opinion, I wasn't told others were also asked, who those were or how it would be implemented or when. Just gonna make that clear to everyone.

It really seems like the only people involved in the process were those who supported it in the first place.

 

[Hff201]

I think the better way to put is that the Pippa thread actually acts like a forum community more-or-less while the rest of the forum is slowly devolving into "I am just here because there's nowhere else to go".

I will say, without any hint of irony, that the Pippa thread is the best thread on the forum, and while I enjoy discussing more general industrial matters with the rest of you, it's the Pippa thread that keeps me coming back day after day. We're all retards but we're retards who get along, and I think there's two main reasons for it: the structure of the thread has barely changed in the 2+ years it's existed so there haven't been any drastic cultural changes to filter people, and it's all in one place rather than being splintered off into Discord servers so we're all on the same wavelength. We get occasional new posters but the mood of the room is easy to read so they quickly acclimatise, or are at least content with being the butt of the joke when they say something out of line.

Is this kind of atmosphere possible to replicate with the other splinter threads? Maybe, if a dedicated enough group of people were to populate them, but I think it's much harder to keep everyone on the same page for threads covering groups of streamers rather than just one. There are a lot of people here who love Hololive and it's always fun liveposting with everyone during the concerts, but on a day-to-day basis not everyone who posts in the Hololive thread will have watched every notable Hololive stream so there's not as much to talk about - compared to the Pippa thread where I can drop a random esoteric reference to some years' old Pippa lore and multiple people will immediately know what I'm on about.

 

[NeneLOVE]

I will say, without any hint of irony, that the Pippa thread is the best thread on the forum, and while I enjoy discussing more general industrial matters with the rest of you, it's the Pippa thread that keeps me coming back day after day. We're all retards but we're retards who get along, and I think there's two main reasons for it: the structure of the thread has barely changed in the 2+ years it's existed so there haven't been any drastic cultural changes to filter people, and it's all in one place rather than being splintered off into Discord servers so we're all on the same wavelength. We get occasional new posters but the mood of the room is easy to read so they quickly acclimatise, or are at least content with being the butt of the joke when they say something out of line.

Is this kind of atmosphere possible to replicate with the other splinter threads? Maybe, if a dedicated enough group of people were to populate them, but I think it's much harder to keep everyone on the same page for threads covering groups of streamers rather than just one. There are a lot of people here who love Hololive and it's always fun liveposting with everyone during the concerts, but on a day-to-day basis not everyone who posts in the Hololive thread will have watched every notable Hololive stream so there's not as much to talk about - compared to the Pippa thread where I can drop a random esoteric reference to some years' old Pippa lore and multiple people will immediately know what I'm on about.

It's definitely because all of you are fans of the same person and like her for similar reasons. As a holokek, Holo fans are not a monolith, no matter how much people like to pretend we are. The divisions between EN and JP or Unicorns and Beggars have been well documented. Also a Hololive thread has to contend with a bunch of people who like the talents but not the company, others who are dissatisfied with the status quo, degrees of loyalty to the brand, interest in music /esports /events /collabs /merch /zatsus /irl streams differs among fans and so forth.

A single talent is much simpler to form a coherent, uniform community around. But we do not have enough Holo fans in this whole forum for even one single talent thread, much less 60 something.

Fes is probably the only time of the year where you get most of the Holofans on the forum gathered up in one place tuned into the same wavelength, just having a good time together. It's funny because I myself know who all of the Pippa fans are, I couldn't tell you who all of the Holo fans are though.

 

[Egg the Boiled]

I will say, without any hint of irony, that the Pippa thread is the best thread on the forum, and while I enjoy discussing more general industrial matters with the rest of you, it's the Pippa thread that keeps me coming back day after day.

I think if every thread was like the Pippa thread I'd rather lurk in /vt/.

Don't get me wrong. I sometimes enjoy the thread too, but it definitely doesn't have the same appeal as more generalised threads. If the whole forum was like that I wouldn't see much need to come here (aside from seeing drama, maybe)

 

[UberSoldat]

Gonna post here because I don't see a tv/movie/media thread. I got a good deal on a 256gb sd card for my phone and I'm old as shit that I can't seem to remember good movies from my time. I'd like if some of you niggas drop me good movies to download. Anything from 80's-2007 maybe current too if it isn't garbage. Some tv shows might be good too. Thanks

Hard Boiled, Event Horizon, Dark City, Alien/Aliens, Predator, Blade Runner, Starship Troopers (only the first one), Matrix and Reloaded, half of Trek TNG and all of DS9

 

[RestlessRain]

I just wanted to say, I earnestly look forward to each time I check on this forum. I am not concernfagging or shitposting or being an evil clown. The stuff that goes on this place livens up my workday, as I begrudgingly toil away to certain doom and the day my lungs stop breathing draw ever closer.

Some of you retards are alright, don't go to work tomorrow (I want you to spend some quality time at home enjoying vtubers).

 

[The Proctor]

I will say, without any hint of irony, that the Pippa thread is the best thread on the forum, and while I enjoy discussing more general industrial matters with the rest of you, it's the Pippa thread that keeps me coming back day after day.

It's definitely because all of you are fans of the same person and like her for similar reasons. As a holokek, Holo fans are not a monolith, no matter how much people like to pretend we are. The divisions between EN and JP or Unicorns and Beggars have been well documented. Also a Hololive thread has to contend with a bunch of people who like the talents but not the company, others who are dissatisfied with the status quo, degrees of loyalty to the brand, interest in music /esports /events /collabs /merch /zatsus /irl streams differs among fans and so forth.

I used to be deeply against the idea of single-talent threads before the Pippa thread. Now I am the reverse. I hope that someone takes the initiative to make single-talent threads for other people here. I'm not going to address much else right now because I'll be in college all day studying 3D printing, but I will also say that the idea of a dedicated thread for corporate events and industry '''''''drama'''''' (a term I am starting to dislike in the same terms Null dislikes the term doxxing due to how liberally it is abused to refer to anything that is less than perfect in the industry) to funnel negativity away from other threads is a perfectly acceptable one.

 

[VSoyBoy]

to funnel negativity away from other threads is a perfectly acceptable one.

The general thread, not the other threads. This suggestion is only good as an alternative for split threads, not as another addition. Don't fragment it even more, don't make dead threads even deader.

This is also the second time (or maybe even third or fourth) where you said suggestions were interesting or good ideas, yet for some reason you didn't ask for them before implementing the very first solution you and your group of selected confidants brainstormed.
Did nobody in that group chat have the idea that maybe they should not be the only ones making suggestions?