Something I noticed about Jim Sterling, and Yahtzee
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Alternatively, Yahtzee is Jim after losing weight over the weekend, every week.Risingblade said:
You're both wrong. Jim/Ben are different faces of a Time Lord along different points in his lifespan. Obviously.Johnny Novgorod said:
So... if Jim and Yahtzee ever go off the rails and become terrible, we can blame Moffat?bigfatcarp93 said:
You have made 52 posts since you've been here. I'm pretty sure you know how to quote by now. Please do it.ZCAB said:
And on that note, what does this have anything to do with Austrailia and the US (nevermind the fact that Jim is Britian, but not currently living there anymore.) in regards to the conversation?
Why would I quote a post when it's already obvious what I'm responding to? Don't say "because then it doesn't get a response notification", because all those notifications do is make sure no one reads entire topics anymore.
You accuse me of going off-topic, but you're derailing the thread yourself to confront me about it. I was barely going off-topic anyway, since I was responding to one of the OP's suggested "opposites" between Jim and Yahtzee. He said that the former lives in the US and the latter in Australia, and that those are "literally on the opposite end of the Earth". I disagreed with that last part.
You accuse me of going off-topic, but you're derailing the thread yourself to confront me about it. I was barely going off-topic anyway, since I was responding to one of the OP's suggested "opposites" between Jim and Yahtzee. He said that the former lives in the US and the latter in Australia, and that those are "literally on the opposite end of the Earth". I disagreed with that last part.
Juuust barely though, if you started in easternmost point of the United States, in the US Virgin Islands, and drilled strait through the earth, you would arrive at a location less than 150 miles from the coast of Australia.Vivi22 said:
You probably wouldn't be having this issue if you quoted people in your responses, like everyone else, or do you think people will keep revisiting this thread throughout their day to see if anyone new has posted in it?ZCAB said:
Well, I've always assumed they were birds of a feather, [secretly] making sweet sweet love poetry together...
It's Brilliant, I tell you!
That might please Gaben the Wise, himself...
Now, we must make sure Half Life 3 is SUPER CONFIRMED by making them both fuse together DBZ-style...Danny Ocean said:
It's Brilliant, I tell you!
That might please Gaben the Wise, himself...
I don't see the point in quoting when I'm responding to A) the OP, which everyone is supposed to have read, or B) the post that's right above my reply. If that means that "hit-and-run" posters miss my responses sometimes, I'm totally fine with that.Olas said:You probably wouldn't be having this issue if you quoted people in your responses, like everyone else, or do you think people will keep revisiting this thread throughout their day to see if anyone new has posted in it?ZCAB said:
As you can tell by my join date compared to my post count, I'm not the type of user who just hops from topic to topic trying to get my opinion in everywhere. The fact that "everyone else" posts in a certain way doesn't concern me in the slightest.
The quoting does help create this train of discussion, even if you are talking to the previous post. Posts without quotes are basicly directed at the OP while quoted posts are to add discussion (or agree) to someone elses post.ZCAB said:I don't see the point in quoting when I'm responding to A) the OP, which everyone is supposed to have read, or B) the post that's right above my reply. If that means that "hit-and-run" posters miss my responses sometimes, I'm totally fine with that.Olas said:You probably wouldn't be having this issue if you quoted people in your responses, like everyone else, or do you think people will keep revisiting this thread throughout their day to see if anyone new has posted in it?ZCAB said:
As you can tell by my join date compared to my post count, I'm not the type of user who just hops from topic to topic trying to get my opinion in everywhere. The fact that "everyone else" posts in a certain way doesn't concern me in the slightest.
Its how it usually goes around here
It's not merely convention to quote people, it's the practical way of letting people know who you're directing your comment at. If you want to be a free spirit and do things your own way then fine, but don't expect people you respond to to ever reply back, because odds are they haven't even seen your post, and don't get upset if people assume your comment is directed at OP rather than the post directly above yours.ZCAB said:I don't see the point in quoting when I'm responding to A) the OP, which everyone is supposed to have read, or B) the post that's right above my reply. If that means that "hit-and-run" posters miss my responses sometimes, I'm totally fine with that.Olas said:You probably wouldn't be having this issue if you quoted people in your responses, like everyone else, or do you think people will keep revisiting this thread throughout their day to see if anyone new has posted in it?ZCAB said:
As you can tell by my join date compared to my post count, I'm not the type of user who just hops from topic to topic trying to get my opinion in everywhere. The fact that "everyone else" posts in a certain way doesn't concern me in the slightest.
People responded to me in this thread, didn't they? Plenty of them, in fact, even though my posting behavior can't be that alien to anyone who's ever visited a forum besides this one. On top of that, I still quote in any situation besides the two I mentioned above.Olas said:It's not merely convention to quote people, it's the practical way of letting people know who you're directing your comment at. If you want to be a free spirit and do things your own way then fine, but don't expect people you respond to to ever reply back, because odds are they haven't even seen your post, and don't get upset if people assume your comment is directed at OP rather than the post directly above yours.ZCAB said:I don't see the point in quoting when I'm responding to A) the OP, which everyone is supposed to have read, or B) the post that's right above my reply. If that means that "hit-and-run" posters miss my responses sometimes, I'm totally fine with that.Olas said:You probably wouldn't be having this issue if you quoted people in your responses, like everyone else, or do you think people will keep revisiting this thread throughout their day to see if anyone new has posted in it?ZCAB said:
As you can tell by my join date compared to my post count, I'm not the type of user who just hops from topic to topic trying to get my opinion in everywhere. The fact that "everyone else" posts in a certain way doesn't concern me in the slightest.
If people don't care to read the topic well enough to understand what I'm replying to, they're not going to care what I have to say anyway.
I just edit the quote in manually, of course. If it's an obviously busy topic, I'll quote the post I reply to right away. If it's not, I don't.DoPo said:
EDIT: I'm sorry if you get a bunch of notifications from me for this, I botched the quote while editing and re-quoted without thinking about it.
I didn't say they wouldn't, just that you can't expect them to. I sure as hell wouldn't be replying to you if weren't quoting me. Few thread discussions are so interesting to me that I find myself constantly revisiting them to see what new comments have been posted.ZCAB said:
Also, it's not like we're talking about anything difficult here, all you have to do is click one button.
This is really the only forum I've been active in, I'll admit, though I've lurked in many others and all the one's I can recall have had similar setups. Regardless, it shouldn't really matter what people do outside this little island of sanity in the ocean of putrid shit that is the majority of the internet.
While in Rome etc
