The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Started by Korto Vos3,287 pages

So, can anyone tell me a very brief history as to what happened to these forums after like April of 2007 (I went on hiatus after that month till I returned several weeks back)? There used to be a lot of posters around here, what happened? Was there a mass exodus or something?

We finished the arguments. Every debate had been done before at least several times and there simply weren't many new posters coming in to stir things up beyond trolling (our reaction to those who did arrive probably didn't help though). We just got bored.

Plus there used to be basically 2 sides on here, the Pro-Sidious guys (Gideon, Lightsnake, Beefy etc) and the Anti-Sidious guys (Janus, Nebaris, Borbarat, Me etc) but then the Anti's got bored or frustrated or defeated or banned for the 200th time and they pissed off.

Originally posted by Vorpal Ruin
@Quanchi

Do you not like the Star Wars EU, or just have lack of knowledge of it and choose not to debate it, or something else?

I've never read any of these books and usually once I start anything in one particular medium that's what I stick with and favor. Both of these are just movies for me and I have never read either books but to me I honestly feel the movie versions are separate anyways from the books despite them trying to all fit nicely into canon to make more money.

Originally posted by Nephthys
We finished the arguments. Every debate had been done before at least several times and there simply weren't many new posters coming in to stir things up beyond trolling (our reaction to those who did arrive probably didn't help though). We just got bored.

Plus there used to be basically 2 sides on here, the Pro-Sidious guys (Gideon, Lightsnake, Beefy etc) and the Anti-Sidious guys (Janus, Nebaris, Borbarat, Me etc) but then the Anti's got bored or frustrated or defeated or banned for the 200th time and they pissed off.

Yeah, I remember that, and all those posters (Nebaris, lol). The Antediluvians, right? Man, I wished I stayed.

Man, I can't believe I registered in 2005. I used to be here way back, wow. Holy cow, it's been almost six years.

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Man, I can't believe I registered in 2005. I used to be here way back, wow. Holy cow, it's been almost six years.
The glory days are gone and with facebook as powerful and the permas keeping other members out I don't see them returning.

This site does feel like a ghost town compared to the traffic it used to get. I remember a time when I'd log in after only a day away, and half the thread roster would have "New Post" beside it. Establishment of Gideon's "Palpatinopolis" as a status quo became tedious, zealous use of the Banhammer depleted our numbers, harsh responses to any newbie who didn't fit our strict standards drove away rectuits (and further discussion), and a decline in new (and good) material in the franchise...

It all killed the Radio Star.

SW has gone to shit. It's airport entertainment where clones of Satan dress up in spiky armor and KILL AND MAIM AND MURDER AND DESTROY EVERYTHING.

Well duuuuh. Evil!! Remember? They don't have to make sense so long as their actions figure sell.

http://philalawyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Address2.pdf

Every graduation/commencement should use a variation of this speech.

What an accurate and depressing assessment.

On a slightly related note, one of these days I need to figure out what all the goddamn numbers in this stock index shit actually mean. Strangely enough that was never covered in the Econ classes I took.

Originally posted by Lucius
What an accurate and depressing assessment.

On a slightly related note, one of these days I need to figure out what all the goddamn numbers in this stock index shit actually mean. Strangely enough that was never covered in the Econ classes I took.

Need help, son?

http://www.constitutionaldaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=479:the-essential-gravity-theorem&catid=49:the-philadelphia-lawyer&Itemid=65

Updates to his next graduation skills. Now here's a guy with some awareness.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
This site does feel like a ghost town compared to the traffic it used to get. I remember a time when I'd log in after only a day away, and half the thread roster would have "New Post" beside it. Establishment of Gideon's "Palpatinopolis" as a status quo became tedious, zealous use of the Banhammer depleted our numbers, harsh responses to any newbie who didn't fit our strict standards drove away rectuits (and further discussion), and a decline in new (and good) material in the franchise...

It all killed the Radio Star.

Huh, wow, things must have turned for the worst then. I seemed to have left before this "Palpatinopolis" but I recall ostracism to newbies. I used to be buddies with a lot of them to helped them integrate into the forum. But the decline in material and repetition of threads always seemed inevitable.

Well this place used to be a blast. Hopefully there's a revival, with old members (like myself) returning or new members coming in.

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Huh, wow, things must have turned for the worst then. I seemed to have left before this "Palpatinopolis" but I recall ostracism to newbies. I used to be buddies with a lot of them to helped them integrate into the forum. But the decline in material and repetition of threads always seemed inevitable.

Well this place used to be a blast. Hopefully there's a revival, with old members (like myself) returning or new members coming in.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f11/t553601.html

If you think you know of any ways to help this message board's decline chime in.

Woooooooooooo, riding the ultrashort wave today.

Originally posted by quanchi112
I've never read any of these books and usually once I start anything in one particular medium that's what I stick with and favor. Both of these are just movies for me and I have never read either

Understandable

Originally posted by quanchi112
books but to me I honestly feel the movie versions are separate anyways from the books despite them trying to all fit nicely into canon to make more money. [/B]

Or they try to fit it into canon to make a nice, more cohesive universe. You're probably right though, greed is usually the fuel.

Nephthys
and the Anti-Sidious guys (Janus, Nebaris, Borbarat, Me etc)

Your support of Bane and Nihilus is a constant source of amusement. Which is good, because after dealing with a most... uncooperative computer today, I find the laughter most soothing.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Establishment of Gideon's "Palpatinopolis" as a status quo became tedious,

Watch it. uhuh

As a matter of fact, I do believe I have glimpsed posts from you two gentlemen supporting the Palpatinopolis. (Good word, btw.) This establishes the two of you as utter whores, which extends beyond your awkward-but-paltry conditions of homosexuality and Canadianism (respectively). he

this forum isn't really as dead as we pretend, we just ignore all the new posters....

Originally posted by PencilInEyelulz
As a matter of [b]fact, I do believe I have glimpsed posts from you two gentlemen supporting the Palpatinopolis. (Good word, btw.) This establishes the two of you as utter whores, which extends beyond your awkward-but-paltry conditions of homosexuality and Canadianism (respectively). he [/B]
Hey, mister. You... watch your tone, whoever you are. I went along with the Palpatinopolis because I assumed that everyone else knew what they were talking about and had all the definitive sources to back it up--regardless of my own feelings towards how the pre-PT Jedi and Sith should be viewed as stronger. I sacrificed that to maintain a canon status quo.

But then Nai came back and pulled a "third person limited narrative" and suddenly everything was all like "whhoooooaaaaaaaaa!!!!"

EDIT: Besides, what's wrong with being a f*cking whore?