Connecticon 2012, July 13th-15th in Hartford, CT.

J00nj00n · 5 days

I actually talked to someone at Magfest, I think, about selling it. Apparently, it's illegal to sell it in the US because the coloring or something isn't approved by the FDA.

indianthane95 · 16 days

Imagine you had a job as a candy inspector, and you got paid based on how many bad candies you find. Nobody bothers to check if the candies actually are bad, however; they just take your word that the candies that you say are bad are bad.

Now, because you keep rejecting a huge portion of the candies that come through, you're pissing off the candy makers and the people who like to eat candy. However, you don't have to care; Mr. Sam, the owner of the candy factory, is the one who gave you the job, and he only cares that you look like you're doing a good job. It doesn't matter who you bother, as long as you keep finding "bad" candy. So you keep kissing up to Mr. Sam, talking about all the "bad" candies you kept from going out. He trusts you, so he just believes that the people who are saying mean things about you don't care about the safety of the candy.

That's why the TSA still exists. They keep finding "bad" people who want to do "mean" things, and they don't answer to you or me, but to Congress, who thinks they're doing a good job.

Sauce_Pain · 18 days

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ESEA has been creating and supplying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software for nearly twenty years. Our software is in use today supporting decision makers at locations around the world.

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I think you meant ESEA.net?

crapador_dali · 23 days

And if you don't like the direction a Reddit's going, change Reddits. Your argument can be used against you.

While I did entertain your "Janitor" analogy, allow me to propose a secondary analogy for discussion: A mod can be looked at more like a DJ. He takes a "channel" and, with a vision and an idea of what something should look like, creates something using just an idea of what should, and shouldn't, be played. If you don't like DJKarmanaut, switch the station, don't go stalking him and pounding on the doors of every office in his station and complaining loudly to everyone who will listen.

crapador_dali · 23 days

Popular doesn't mean not shit.

Or shall I bust out the boy band analogy?

crapador_dali · 23 days

Shit posts.

I dunno. Every analogy has to break down somewhere, or else it's just the thing.

crapador_dali · 23 days

See, here's how I see it. You're the kinda guy who's used to just tossing his candy wrappers on the floor. The janitor comes along and picks them up. Then, one day, the janitor asks you nicely to stop dropping candy wrappers on the floor, and you ignore him. you keep dropping your candy wrappers on the floor, and then the janitor gets pissed at you. You then throw an entitled temper tantrum and act as if he's at fault for impinging on your freedom to drop your candy wrappers where you see fit.

Or, as ~~Carol~~ Cheryl from Archer would say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4TKPzI_7E

crapador_dali · 23 days

Over at /r/anime, one of our mods has a "fan club". As far as we can tell, a whole bunch of people are passing around links to stuff he posts, as even posts on removed content and semi-private stuff gets downvoted.

That said, if you're going to be the kind of mod that enforces rules, you have two choices: Be Right, or Be Popular. No matter what you do, you're going to piss off at least one person enforcing rules, and possibly a whole group. Sockpuppets and alts can mitigate that to an extent, but when all is said and done, those only distract the issue temporarily and weaken your position.

nottinylil · 1 month

Get the server admin to turn on Friendly Fire.

logophobia · 1 month

Spreading.

logophobia · 1 month

I run a semi-public TF2 server. I'll answer your questions in order.

I use a Linode 512 for my server. It works pretty well up to 18-24 people, depending on network conditions.
Dunno.
BuyVM.net (if they have stock) and Linode are the most reliable ones I've seen.
Here's where things get dicey. I'm a "Mostly vanilla" guy, myself. SourceMod with RTV, Nominate, Mapvote, and an easy banning plugin that I forget the name of are all I work with.

If you want to do something crazy with your server (Other game modes like VSH, TF2DB, PropHunt, Randomizer, etc.), just be careful. They tend to be highly unstable. Fun, (Well, except for VSH) but unstable.

That depends on how much horsepower your server has. SRCDS doesn't take up as much effort on the computer as most people think.

LoliMaster · 1 month

This is true, but I think that's kinda my point. The fact that ANY section of this website has 40,000 readers is weird.

LoliMaster · 1 month

I'm going to repeat what I said 10,000 people and three months ago.

You all need some fucking lives.

Bah, who would've thought three years ago when I started this that any subreddit would have 40,000 subscribers, let alone one of the mid-level ones.

sevenVIIghosts · 1 month

As usual, my recommendation is Space Runaway Ideon.

MasculineTears · 1 month

I think that decision is more summed up by his speech about not using Spiral Energy to bring back Nia and Kamina: Old heroes would just get in the way of new ones. He didn't want to get in the way. He did what he needed to do, and then walked away so that Gimmy and Darry could take over.

MasculineTears · 1 month

Not be be all YOU JUST DON'T GET IT, but you just don't get it.

The point of that ending was specifically that heroes don't always get heroic fates. No matter how epic your life was, you can still end up with the same fate. People forget about you. Life goes on. Everyone moves on.

neito · 2 months

I'm going to be in tabletop most of the time for all three days. If people wanna meet up and go snag a dinner or play a game or something, I'm open to that, though.

Chocolate_With_Nuts · 2 months

Actually, we removed the link after a couple hours. This thread's been hidden since sunday.

woonie · 2 months

The line for me is "Did this change the status quo established thus far?". For example (Madoka spoilers) Kuybey being an evil little fucker, or Mami getting her head ate is clearly beyond the spoiler line. The fact that Shinji Ikari from Evangelion is a total wuss all the way through isn't.

Also, pretty much everything everyone else said. I know it might be a bit annoying to read, but when in doubt, black it out.

Chocolate_With_Nuts · 2 months

You know, that whole free-speech thing.

Chocolate_With_Nuts · 2 months

Pulled. Unfortunately, in the United States, where Reddit's servers and most of it's users are, this could theoretically be considered illegal.

parasitic_spin · 2 months

No. Just make sure to judge the quality of the submissions, not who's submitting them. If it's relevent, interesting, and on-topic, that's a net gain for your subreddit.

parasitic_spin · 2 months

Is the content quality? Yes? Then what does it matter. Quality content is quality content, even if it comes from a seemingly less than genuine source.

neito

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