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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #750 on: October 14, 2011, 05:28:15 PM »
I wonder if I2 is a lovefest, like Cal says, or if it actually works the way it was supposed to.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #751 on: October 15, 2011, 03:59:19 AM »
I wonder if I2 is a lovefest, like Cal says, or if it actually works the way it was supposed to.
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Yeah, but is it really, or is it simply that the group dynamics will change when people gt to know each other well?
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #752 on: October 15, 2011, 06:05:28 AM »
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #753 on: October 15, 2011, 08:07:18 AM »
Yeah, but is it really, or is it simply that the group dynamics will change when people gt to know each other well?

I do think the group dynamics have changed and become tighter-knit. Whether that's a lovefest though, or working the way it's supposed to, is more of a judgement call though, yeah? I suspect it's the inevitable result of airing conflict openly. People either leave because they can't take it, or work out whatever was bothering them, and the ones who are left form a stronger bond. Most of them.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #754 on: October 15, 2011, 08:12:03 AM »
I HATE EVERYONE ON HERE AND WANT TO DESTROY THEIR LIVES!!!

I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO CAL!!!
Crazy, I'm halfway to crazy
Suicide would waste me
Homicide would break me
Tongue tied and tied to the tongue
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #755 on: October 15, 2011, 02:25:46 PM »
I HATE EVERYONE ON HERE AND WANT TO DESTROY THEIR LIVES!!!

I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO CAL!!!

Me or Calandale?


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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #756 on: October 15, 2011, 05:12:20 PM »
I HATE EVERYONE ON HERE AND WANT TO DESTROY THEIR LIVES!!!

I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO CAL!!!

Me or Calandale?

Interesting how he left that open to interpretation isn't it?  :viking:

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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #757 on: October 15, 2011, 05:26:51 PM »
Yeah, but is it really, or is it simply that the group dynamics will change when people gt to know each other well?

I do think the group dynamics have changed and become tighter-knit. Whether that's a lovefest though, or working the way it's supposed to, is more of a judgement call though, yeah? I suspect it's the inevitable result of airing conflict openly. People either leave because they can't take it, or work out whatever was bothering them, and the ones who are left form a stronger bond. Most of them.

That's pretty much what I thought, re the people who have been here for a while. But what about the new ones? I keep wondering if I2 is what it was thought to be, for them.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #758 on: October 15, 2011, 05:27:26 PM »
I HATE EVERYONE ON HERE AND WANT TO DESTROY THEIR LIVES!!!

I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO CAL!!!

YES BUT POST PICTURES!
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #759 on: October 15, 2011, 06:28:36 PM »
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #760 on: October 15, 2011, 06:38:14 PM »
That's pretty much what I thought, re the people who have been here for a while. But what about the new ones? I keep wondering if I2 is what it was thought to be, for them.

Gotta go with no. People on WP or wherever hear of our reputation, that we eat babies for breakfast and cut our teeth on 4chan and drive away the weak with pitchforks and torches. Then they show up and find a bunch of ordinary people joking around like a pub.

Ok, I'm off to make a poll about it.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #761 on: October 15, 2011, 07:03:17 PM »
That's pretty much what I thought, re the people who have been here for a while. But what about the new ones? I keep wondering if I2 is what it was thought to be, for them.

Gotta go with no. People on WP or wherever hear of our reputation, that we eat babies for breakfast and cut our teeth on 4chan and drive away the weak with pitchforks and torches. Then they show up and find a bunch of ordinary people joking around like a pub.

Ok, I'm off to make a poll about it.

But was it really part of the original idea, to have people think that I2 members ate babies for breakfast? I don't think it was. Wasn't it more to the point that here we'd have a voice and learn how to use that voice outside of here?

Pubs will do part of that for "ordinary" people. Couldn't I2 do that for teh spazzes?

That image of us, isn't it rather like what we'd all like to be and how we'd like to present ourself? Me, I don't think we were ever like that, not really.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #762 on: October 15, 2011, 07:20:49 PM »


Ummm... this doesn't mean we can't eat babies for breakfast, right?   :tinfoil:

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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #763 on: October 15, 2011, 07:22:51 PM »


Ummm... this doesn't mean we can't eat babies for breakfast, right?   :tinfoil:

Of course not. That is, I won't mind if you do.
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Re: Post what you are thinking right now, part two
« Reply #764 on: October 15, 2011, 07:34:14 PM »
But was it really part of the original idea, to have people think that I2 members ate babies for breakfast? I don't think it was. Wasn't it more to the point that here we'd have a voice and learn how to use that voice outside of here?

Pubs will do part of that for "ordinary" people. Couldn't I2 do that for teh spazzes?

That image of us, isn't it rather like what we'd all like to be and how we'd like to present ourself? Me, I don't think we were ever like that, not really.

I kinda like being part of a site that's seen as badass. It's like you said. Even if they don't usually do it, people here have the potential to eat babies or whatever, because of the lack of moderation. It's the internet equivalent of the right to bear arms, and forbidding people from threatening the site is the internet equivalent of sheathing your sword when you walk into the tavern. IMO, having a reputation is part of having a voice, whether that's politically correct or not. Too many people judge by appearances and attitudes, and use them as a guide for how to interact with you, for it to not matter. So if people can get used to presenting themselves that way here, then yeah, I think that would carry over to having a stronger voice offline.
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