I've always avoided the place and now I remember why.Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
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That reminds me of how much I enjoyed completely wiping out Testing just before we hit 2 million posts.Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
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I go into Testing for two reasons: testing things, and oppressing people. So if I go into Testing, I have to do one of those two things no matter what my original reason for going in was. And it seems right now I have nothing to test, so that leaves oppression. Now I'm usually always up for some oppressing, but it's late and that might take as much as half an hour. So how about somebody tell me what this Civil War bullshit is about and save me the trip?Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
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As far as I can tell, it's the newest Marvel Comics crossover gimic; the government imposes Superhero Registration Program after some especially high collateral-damage incident. Some heroes approve of it, others don't, and go underground. The government ones go after them. And so on.RedImperator wrote:I go into Testing for two reasons: testing things, and oppressing people. So if I go into Testing, I have to do one of those two things no matter what my original reason for going in was. And it seems right now I have nothing to test, so that leaves oppression. Now I'm usually always up for some oppressing, but it's late and that might take as much as half an hour. So how about somebody tell me what this Civil War bullshit is about and save me the trip?Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
I don't know how the banners became such a big meme, though.
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With great power comes the ability to cause great destruction, and the right to cackle maniacally as crowds of people run screaming (and in flames) in a futile attempt to escape the murderous rampage.Darth Wong wrote:That reminds me of how much I enjoyed completely wiping out Testing just before we hit 2 million posts.
Looking at the time, I expect you are currently asleep, so when you wake-up you might be able to go into Testing and do some oppressing. Nevertheless, I shall honor your request.RedImperator wrote: I go into Testing for two reasons: testing things, and oppressing people. So if I go into Testing, I have to do one of those two things no matter what my original reason for going in was. And it seems right now I have nothing to test, so that leaves oppression. Now I'm usually always up for some oppressing, but it's late and that might take as much as half an hour. So how about somebody tell me what this Civil War bullshit is about and save me the trip?
Short Version:
The super-heroes in the Marvel 'verse are divided against eachother over the Super-Human Registration Act.
Jason von Evil provides us with a longer version:
*Takes a deep breath*
Currently Marvel Comics is doing a huge summer crossover thing wherein the superhero community is pitted against each other (fo reals, yo). Basically, the New Warriors (a team of teenaged/early twenties superheroes) were fighting this group of supervillains, in Stamford, Conneticut, I believe. One of the villains, named Nitro lived up to his name and exploded, killing all but one of the New Warriors (Speedball), destroying a elementary school full of kids and several city blocks. The public outrage causes the government to push through a superhero registration act, which would require all superheroes to register themselves with the government as living WMDs, aswell as reveal their secret IDs to them. This causes a schism in the superhero community, with one group, led by Iron Man, supporting (and enforcing) the act. The other group opposes the act on the grounds that it violates their privacy rights and whatnot. This group is led by Captain America.
*Takes another deep breath*
Iron Man's motivation is the fear that if the superheroes don't go along with they'll probably pay for it later on. His own words:
"Someday soon, some young hero is going to slip up. Maybe one of the Young Avengers, maybe one of those kids in Los Angeles. They're going to turn right when they should turn left, and people will die. The government will bring in this law, and it will pass, because events of the last two years will allow it to pass. Sides will form. Families will split up, and former enemies will join together. There will be violence, there will be death, and the government will be forced to make an example of someone like Spider-Man. But if we back this now, we can mitigate the damage."
And it really does split the heroes up. Three of the Fantastic Four are on IM's side, while Johnny Storm is on Cap's side. The Avenger's are decidedly split up, with both sides having current and former members of the team (but it looks like Cap has more). And "those kids in Los Angeles", are The Runaways.
But yeah, all indications show that this won't be the standard "the heroes fight each other until its revealed that a supervillain was fucking with them" type deal. This will affect the comics for a while.
Anyways, as for the banners, blame Marvel. They released two Civil War banners on their site. One was a "I'm with Iron Man" and the other was "I'm with Captain America". People on the intarwebs then started to create their own, mostly sarcastic and parodies.
Helpful Civil War link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_%28comics%29
Mostly because it gives you a list of who's on who's side.
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I jumped on the bandwagon mostly because my old banner looked a bit tatty.
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For your thorough explanation, you may go to Testing and tell them you and you alone have prevented them all from being oppressed.Adrian Laguna wrote:Looking at the time, I expect you are currently asleep, so when you wake-up you might be able to go into Testing and do some oppressing. Nevertheless, I shall honor your request.
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I jumped on due to a combination of factors:
One: I had just found an awesome picture of Morgoth that I was aching to show to someone or use in something.
Two: I was about to make the picture into a sig or av anyway, and it was a sig banner bandwagon. Yay.
Three: I had just finished a project in Photoshop and did not want to fire it back up, but the Civil War sigs are simple MSPaint banners. Yay for laziness!
One: I had just found an awesome picture of Morgoth that I was aching to show to someone or use in something.
Two: I was about to make the picture into a sig or av anyway, and it was a sig banner bandwagon. Yay.
Three: I had just finished a project in Photoshop and did not want to fire it back up, but the Civil War sigs are simple MSPaint banners. Yay for laziness!
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!RedImperator wrote:For your thorough explanation, you may go to Testing and tell them you and you alone have prevented them all from being oppressed.
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I mostly just felt like a new banner and the Civil War theme kinda looked neat.Lord Woodlouse wrote:I jumped on the bandwagon mostly because my old banner looked a bit tatty.
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That explains why, when puttering around with making some parodies last month, tacking on 'Civil War' and directly referencing that stupid shitwit over-hyped comic story arc just felt outright embarrassing. I put a picture of Howard the Duck up for a few days and left it at that.Darth Wong wrote:This is the lamest bandwagon ever.
I mean really, who is eagerly awaiting this Marvel superhero flim-flam shim-sham of another tired and poor marketing gimmick? Wake me when they all die again, get separated into their own universes, or turn into circus seals or something.
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And what about me? It was my explanation he copied and pasted.RedImperator wrote:For your thorough explanation, you may go to Testing and tell them you and you alone have prevented them all from being oppressed.Adrian Laguna wrote:Looking at the time, I expect you are currently asleep, so when you wake-up you might be able to go into Testing and do some oppressing. Nevertheless, I shall honor your request.
I am the Silver Surfer to RI's Galactus like rampage. Adrian is like, er...Frankie Raye.
I was going to get in on this a while back when it started, but I could never figured out what banner to use.
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I almost used the House of York, and I might still do that, but I like Jack White too much... he did have a fight, at least. That's Civil War in the Detroit music scene, in a way.
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No, they don't... the thread deletions make it so that the original impetus for a given bandwagon has generally been lost by the time people start to really notice it. Hell, there are still a few people with my smilin' face as their avatar, and that got started months ago.Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
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Yeah, but Zod's has Ash. PWNED.MRDOD wrote:At least my Civil War banner makes sense as it's, like, a Civil War.General Zod wrote:I mostly just felt like a new banner and the Civil War theme kinda looked neat.Lord Woodlouse wrote:I jumped on the bandwagon mostly because my old banner looked a bit tatty.
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See, that's the deal with mine: I'm more interested in the next issue of Nextwave than the whole Civil War mess.Utsanomiko wrote: I mean really, who is eagerly awaiting this Marvel superhero flim-flam shim-sham of another tired and poor marketing gimmick? Wake me when they all die again, get separated into their own universes, or turn into circus seals or something.
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I enjoy some aspects of Civil War, but mostly because of the upcoming "Runaways/Young Avengers" crossover planned for it.
Solicits indicate that they'll not get along at all, which tickles me.
Though I also look forward to more Nextwave. One of the first ones I saw was for Nextwave which siad "Civil What? They don't even know the meaning of the word "Civil"".
Solicits indicate that they'll not get along at all, which tickles me.
Though I also look forward to more Nextwave. One of the first ones I saw was for Nextwave which siad "Civil What? They don't even know the meaning of the word "Civil"".
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You know back in the day when I had a say in such matters, I never said this but what they hey; honestly people who compulsively post in testing should be viewed as boarderline trolls/spammers, its posts shouldn't go towards post counts and should - if anything - be counted as negative posts.Darth Wong wrote:That reminds me of how much I enjoyed completely wiping out Testing just before we hit 2 million posts.Adrian Laguna wrote:Try going to Testing more often, bandwagons tend to be explained there.Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:What the hell is all this "civil war" shit anyway?
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Much like the venting threads, posts made in Testing are removed from the post count at every post count resynch, due to them being regularly deleted.Crown wrote:You know back in the day when I had a say in such matters, I never said this but what they hey; honestly people who compulsively post in testing should be viewed as boarderline trolls/spammers, its posts shouldn't go towards post counts and should - if anything - be counted as negative posts.Darth Wong wrote:That reminds me of how much I enjoyed completely wiping out Testing just before we hit 2 million posts.
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I honestly thought it had no effect on the post count.
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Hah, I just found out the other day that this was all spawned from a Marvel comics crossover thing. Oh well my other sig was old and boring and I couldnt really think of what to replace it with before this whole thing came along. It gave me just the inspiration I needed.
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Now that everyone and their uncle has one, the fun has kind of gone out of it for me.
Is that you in Stark's avatar, or is that an Amish guy in a Fedora? I keep picturing some Mennonite Indiana Jones running around when I see that, or a big movie poster, you know: Pennsylvania Dutch And The Buggy Of Doom!Uraniun235 wrote:Hell, there are still a few people with my smilin' face as their avatar, and that got started months ago.
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