What Laura said.
"Why is Mary blind, Pa?"
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Aims - May 04, 2004 2:04:55 pm PDT #7479 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pix - May 04, 2004 4:07:49 pm PDT #7480 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, lord, no. Because putting numbers to it will only convince paranoid people that they're part of that percentage.
Speaking as one of the paranoid, a vehement third (or fourth, or whatever number I am).
I agree with Liese S. that it is understandable, just not pleasant to think about. So...I'm all for the ignorance is bliss approach here. Just my two cents.
tommyrot - May 04, 2004 4:41:22 pm PDT #7481 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So...I'm all for the ignorance is bliss approach here. Just my two cents.
I think the stompies should tell us comforting lies.
(...kidding...)
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 4:43:39 pm PDT #7482 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We already do.
I mean, we never would. We are way too stalwart and true.
Liese S. - May 04, 2004 7:48:28 pm PDT #7483 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
And the world is a good and peaceful place.
amyparker - May 04, 2004 9:21:03 pm PDT #7484 of 10000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
And the bad guys always wear black hats . . . .
If user X decides to filter user Y, would user Y know? What if user Y asks user X a question, and then 20 posts later Y is all, "I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, X - WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" OK, that's an extreme example....
Not that extreme: the forums my DH spends much of his time on have a user filter option, and that very thing has happened several times.
I'm sorry that we need it, I can see why some people find it necessary if they're going to keep their heart valves intact, and thank you to the good folk coding it. That's all, really.
tommyrot - May 05, 2004 8:25:50 am PDT #7485 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My "remember me" and "show email address to registered users" settings both got mysteriously changed to "No" sometime after late last night. Anyone else notice anything weird?
Tom Scola - May 05, 2004 8:45:16 am PDT #7486 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This happened to me once, too.
When I updated my profile to subscribe to a new thread, "remember me" got mysteriously unchecked.
However, this morning, when I subscribed to the new natter, it remembered to remember "remember me".
Topic!Cindy - May 05, 2004 10:47:04 am PDT #7487 of 10000
What is even happening?
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya, 'Checkpoint'
Is this quote coming up really frequently for anyone else? I haven't tracked it, but I'm seeing it more than a couple of times a day. Didn't that sticky quote problem get fixed, or am I misremembering?
Polter-Cow - May 05, 2004 12:44:35 pm PDT #7488 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is this quote coming up really frequently for anyone else?
I don't know about that one specifically, but is the pool very low? Like, maybe only in the few dozen? Because I think I saw them all after a few days. Is there a place to submit more? There are very few for Angel, and none for Firefly.