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Post by satoh on Aug 25, 2013 15:09:44 GMT -5
I both like and hate the rule. Very often a single word can be more powerful at explaining a thought than a paragraph.
But maybe I just have too theatre in my blood...it would explain the headaches.
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Post by Mr. Foetus on Aug 25, 2013 16:14:35 GMT -5
So has anyone here hopped on that weird decorative tape bandwagon? I keep seeing cool tape in stores, like patterned duct and washi tape, and it looks neat and all. I mean, I'd use bacon duct tape. I'm just not sure what people are doing with this tape that's made it so popular. Especially the washi tape version. The duct tape version I know you can use to make accessories and tuxedos, but there are these little funky washi tape sets in Target and I just don't understand what you'd do with them. I got a roll that looks like circuitry and it's just sort of gestating on my dresser gathering dust right now. That's really a thing? I wasn't even aware that kind of tape existed. XD Couldn't it be used for wrapping presents? Or building some kind of a model and pasting different tapes on for materials? Guess the latter is a bit more reserved for a niche market, though. Also, on the subject of word limit, isn't there a way to implement it into the software? Like a character-limit? I haven't been an admin on a ProBoards forum in forever, so I dunno if that kind of thing was added or not. But making something like that a default would probably be a weight off the staff's shoulders, and it would feel more natural. That's probably something the staff thought of forever ago, though, so I might just sound like an idiot right now.
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Post by Dashe on Aug 25, 2013 18:35:54 GMT -5
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Post by RyanLEO on Aug 25, 2013 18:37:52 GMT -5
My opinion on the 5-word rule: It prevents those God-awful MEME RESPONSE POSTS. Ugh. Thank heavens for the rule. Eh the five word rule huh? FINE THEN IN FACT, FORGET THE FORUMS
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Post by Sybillian on Aug 25, 2013 21:44:50 GMT -5
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Post by Buster Cannon on Aug 25, 2013 22:25:23 GMT -5
Huh, that looks really handy; maybe we can get fAB to install that on. 5-word rule aside, I wouldn't mind having a gauge to see how long my posts are. Little details like that just amuse me. *Proceeds to browse through the other plugins*
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Post by Dashe on Aug 25, 2013 22:37:57 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind finding out my average word count. Usually I end up typing about 1-3 lines. I have no idea how many words that is.
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Post by Fatman X. Jones on Aug 26, 2013 7:08:24 GMT -5
I didn't even realize decorative tape was a thing. Sure, I knew about different colors of duct-tape; that's pretty much a given, what with all the different types of construction and restoration work people do, you might need specific colors for specific duties, like using a red duct-tape roll to lay out preliminary floor plans for storing boxes of items (something we used to do when I was working fire jobs with my local Servpro). But patterns? Bacon-patterned duct-tape? These new wonders amaze and confuse me. I'm still waiting for someone to ask me how you can end up banned from the Sinnoh region indefinitely as a Pokemon Trainer.
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Post by Sybillian on Aug 26, 2013 12:39:29 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for someone to ask me how you can end up banned from the Sinnoh region indefinitely as a Pokemon Trainer. Alright Trainer Fatman X. Jones, I'll bite.
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Post by Mikéy on Aug 26, 2013 13:54:58 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for someone to ask me how you can end up banned from the Sinnoh region indefinitely as a Pokemon Trainer. My guess is 'cause half of your team is from regions which aren't from Gen IV or anywhere previous. Maybe you'd become unbanned whenever Sinnoh receives some technical upgrades with their pokemon centers, national dex, and whatever else? If I'm wrong, then how do you get banned from Sinnoh? I'm guessing you found out, since the matter was a bit of a wonder to you when you originally created the Trainer Card.
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Post by Mr. Foetus on Aug 26, 2013 15:53:25 GMT -5
D: Justin Bieber duct tape...No...Please no, sweet mother of...No god no... Ooohhh, nifty. I can never tell how many words I type, since my posts are usually split up between quote replies. Like so. If only it had a minimum word count option instead of a maximum word count option.
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Post by Dashe on Aug 26, 2013 17:48:19 GMT -5
D: Justin Bieber duct tape...No...Please no, sweet mother of...No god no... When Mr. Ninja and I told the cashier on duty that this abomination existed, she said it made a very effective sort of torch fuel, should you need something flammable to light your way through a dark cavern. I'm pretty sure we're never going to get ourselves banned from that Target no matter how hard we try. Shame it isn't one of the Targets with a photography outlet attached. Both of us are so self-absorbed we'd end up dirt broke.
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Post by Sybillian on Aug 26, 2013 18:21:08 GMT -5
Ooohhh, nifty. I can never tell how many words I type, since my posts are usually split up between quote replies. Like so. If only it had a minimum word count option instead of a maximum word count option. Oh, but it does have a minimum option!
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Post by Fatman X. Jones on Aug 27, 2013 8:32:32 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for someone to ask me how you can end up banned from the Sinnoh region indefinitely as a Pokemon Trainer. Alright Trainer Fatman X. Jones, I'll bite. I'm still waiting for someone to ask me how you can end up banned from the Sinnoh region indefinitely as a Pokemon Trainer. My guess is 'cause half of your team is from regions which aren't from Gen IV or anywhere previous. Maybe you'd become unbanned whenever Sinnoh receives some technical upgrades with their pokemon centers, national dex, and whatever else? If I'm wrong, then how do you get banned from Sinnoh? I'm guessing you found out, since the matter was a bit of a wonder to you when you originally created the Trainer Card. Good guess, Mikey, but wrong. The answer is complicated, but it involves an extremely expensive and well-trained Ditto gained from the Black Market, an equally expensive DSLR photography camera from Nikon, and some increasingly lewd photographs of the regional Champion, Cynthia. It's wrong on a variety of standpoints, but the result makes for some useful blackmail material.
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Post by Bean on Sept 1, 2013 19:24:31 GMT -5
I've had one of those months where every time things look like they're going to settle down, things get busy, and I am not prepared for it. Kind of inexcusable to me at this point for not being ready for it, actually.
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