[XMark]

[Sirocco]

One of the big problems that consumed the GDR is that in the realm of RPGs there are a ton of facets to any given project. So, when people first arrive they have a plethora of preconceived notions, and their own personal preferences, and those usually don't mesh well with everyone elses' opinions. Until they learn to take a step back and view discussions from a more holistic standpoint, flamewars and unnecessarily heated exchanges are par for the course.

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[LeoDraco]

[Sirocco]

Durnic... heh. Ick. I actually think of the original triumvirate of uselessness: Liquidex, Dunric, and MisterFrosty. Between the three of them, meaningful conversation at the GDR became firmly entrenched in the realm of impossibility. Oh well, that was an exercise in creative (read: total lack of) moderation.

Really, when no one can actually agree on what exactly constitutes an RPG, you know the subject is just a wee bit broad for everyone to play nice all of the time. Having good moderators to catch fires before they start is one thing, having people start intelligent (and postworthy) threads is another.

I just don't think I have anything useful to say these days :(

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[Happy]

[Sirocco]

[bay]

i think this conversation is actually somewhat productive, try and tone it back down to noise ok?

i hope to have some good discussions in the coming weeks over some game concept ideas and whatnot on this board. there are enough people here with their heads screwed on tight, or perhaps loose enough, such that the conversation creeps towards usefulness.

other times you just want to waste time, and hence, off topic is great. everyone has their own wants out of a forum, those with the most patience will probably stick around the longest. like me, i'm a total lurker until it becomes interesting.

.02$

[janus]

[Sirocco]

[bay]

[biggerUniverse]

Did anyone notice that the most users ever on the forum at the same time was Monday? RPGDX is perhaps more vital than we thought.
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[Sirocco]

[Mandrake]

And yet the irony of this is that Liquidex helped work on Apester's QBRPG site, which in turn led to this site. Odd, eh? Doesn't mean he's ever done anything important, other than polish LaMothe's knob with his tongue. In fact, the only reason why anyone ever remembered him is for a crappy tile engine in QBasic with graphics ripped from Secret of Mana. It was just a tile engine, no game involved, yet at the time people drooled over it because it was purty.

I never saw why Ironblade was friends with him.

Yeah in retrospect Dunric, Liquidex and a slew of others helped destroy GDR, but other things did as well. The moderators had odd ways of moderating things (for example, they banned me once because I was being harassed, rather than banning the harasser's, all because the harasser's were friends with Tsu and FE), and weird ways of trying to uphold the law. Throw in the explosion of Pixilation bringing over complete and utter programming idiots with no idea of what goes into designing a game completely harassing the people at the GDR and being complete morons (almost sabotaging the board) and you have a recipe for disaster.
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[Terry]

My memory of GDR is a little fuzzy, seeing as I'm younger of most of the GDR veterans, but I seem to recall that you were banned because you said something to the effect that you didn't like GDR anymore. I think Tsu's response was something along the lines of; Fine, if you don't want to post here, don't post here about not wanting to post here - it's supposed to be a game dev forum!

Though this was quite a long time ago, so I could be way off. Heh. I do recall you making some very interesting posts in an off-topic religious discussion though...
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