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A prediction.

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Seeing as how my dinner tonight was very spicey, I can see the future.( :D )
Sometime before the end of 2003, the ST vs SW internet debate will recieve some sort of mainstream media coverage, and more than likely this board shall be named. Thoughts?
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That would certainly be interesting. It would confirm my belief that TV news media has no F'ing idea what they are doing. They don't cover enough issues as it is! :evil:
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Sorry, guys, keep it civil.

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Singuler Quartet wrote:Sorry, guys, keep it civil.

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Man, whatever you just said must've been pretty bad.
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Something about Jihad iggy....

Seriously it was not exactly what we need really...especially with people trying for a reason to pigeon-hole us.
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Ghost Rider wrote:Something about Jihad iggy....

Seriously it was not exactly what we need really...especially with people trying for a reason to pigeon-hole us.
They'll pigeon-hole us no matter what we do. We dare try and prove what someone else is saying is wrong (be it Trekkies, fundies, Racists or what ever) we automatically become the evil empire(tm).
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IG-88E wrote:
Singuler Quartet wrote:Sorry, guys, keep it civil.

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Man, whatever you just said must've been pretty bad.
Was it directed at moi?
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It wasn't.

It was more or less what would happen if such events took a particular turn.
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Frank Hipper wrote:
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Singuler Quartet wrote:Sorry, guys, keep it civil.

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Man, whatever you just said must've been pretty bad.
Was it directed at moi?
No. I hesitate (for obvious reasons) to edit posts unless it's absolutely necessary, but I am afraid I cannot allow members of the board to take actions in the particular direction that this is going. What was said in the post I edited will not be the topic of further discussion. It's contents will remain between me and Singular Quartet.
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Master of Ossus wrote:
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IG-88E wrote: Man, whatever you just said must've been pretty bad.
Was it directed at moi?
No. I hesitate (for obvious reasons) to edit posts unless it's absolutely necessary, but I am afraid I cannot allow members of the board to take actions in the particular direction that this is going. What was said in the post I edited will not be the topic of further discussion. It's contents will remain between me and Singular Quartet.
My thoughts behind this thread were along the lines of "somethingawful.co* has quite an audience, our membership is growing every day(for better or worse), and the vitriol hurled at Mike will get noticed". Someone will make mention of it . Sooner or later.
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I think a media report on the culture of the Vs. debates would be cool. :)

Hell, just do a report on ASVS or this place to get an idea.
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Durandal wrote:I think a media report on the culture of the Vs. debates would be cool. :)

Hell, just do a report on ASVS or this place to get an idea.
Won't happen. Too much cussing. They'd need to bleep out much of the interesting parts of the posts and be left with the dry technical parts.
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Do we REALLY need a floodlight exposing this bastion of adult geekdom???
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Stravo wrote:Do we REALLY need a floodlight exposing this bastion of adult geekdom???
No, but is there some reason it wouldn't be nifty? It's not like it would irrevocably change our community; Trekkies have been popular subculture targets, and they're essentially the same after all these years.

They'd probably have to include some passages from El Boydo, though. :)

Hehe, it still makes my sides split even after all this time.
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Re: A prediction.

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Frank Hipper wrote:Seeing as how my dinner tonight was very spicey, I can see the future.( :D )
Sometime before the end of 2003, the ST vs SW internet debate will recieve some sort of mainstream media coverage, and more than likely this board shall be named. Thoughts?
Never seen spicey used as a synonym for spiked. That would be cool, though, wouldn't it?
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Loki wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:Seeing as how my dinner tonight was very spicey, I can see the future.( :D )
Sometime before the end of 2003, the ST vs SW internet debate will recieve some sort of mainstream media coverage, and more than likely this board shall be named. Thoughts?
Never seen spicey used as a synonym for spiked. That would be cool, though, wouldn't it?
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That would be sad and frightening if it happened. first off we dont need millions of people slashdotting SDN. secondly we dont need hoardes of trekkies and fundies and average uber american jungoists swamping the board.
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kojikun wrote:That would be sad and frightening if it happened. first off we dont need millions of people slashdotting SDN. secondly we dont need hoardes of trekkies and fundies and average uber american jungoists swamping the board.
Pretty much my thoughts on the whole deal.
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I absolutely hate the idea, for the record. I agree with Stravo.
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Just think up the Snappy reponses now for the camera crews

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I've just got this image in my mind now if Darkstar being called a moron on CNN. That would truly be hillarious.
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CNN wouldn't do that straight out. They'd give the message implicity when Darkstar's paranoid delusion kicks in, and refuses to give an interview without his features pixeled out.
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Are we not all ready getting coverage. I thought that MSNBC shite for brains had already done an article on the Board.
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Darth Pounder wrote:Are we not all ready getting coverage. I thought that MSNBC shite for brains had already done an article on the Board.
Eh?

No doubt that CNN or Fox would find Scoot's site and hold him up as the "typical sci-fi vs. debater," just to get ratings. Straight after, we'd see paranoid, yuppie mothers all across the nation forming, "Mothers Against Sci-Fi Versus Debates," groups only with a more catchy acronym than "MASFVD." No mother would want their kid getting involved in versus debates and turning out like Scoot, after all.
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whos this scoot?
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