He makes great hacks and mods and provides us with booty. Do we really need to know anything else?

Ayn Rand set herself up as leader of her own cult, no matter what she called it. You don't need a god to have a religion.

She's an Ayn Randite. It's against her religion to do anything for anyone else unless she gets paid for it.

The well-off in China can easily have more than one kid. You just have to bribe the right people.

Aw, Windkeeper did it too? I thought she was cool also. Maybe because I really do like her stuff and I use it all the time. It's sad when someone who actually is talented feels it's OK to behave that way.

Every community has whiners and drama whores, but yeah, TS2 does seem to have more than most. I like to think it's because the community is bigger than most in the first place, and it's not that there's a greater percentage of weirdos, it's that there are so many of them that they intimidate "normal" people more. There are more kids who play the game -- and, I hate to say it, but there are also more women. Now, men can be complete assholes about gaming and on the internet too, but I think people don't let them get away with it as much (except on XBox live :-P). Women who are drama whores have an easier time of it, because it's easier for them to win pity, at least online. I've definitely seen a lot of people in this community going "oh woe is me" about stupid shit, and actually getting sympathy for it.

Yes. It sure makes me laugh, anyway. I've never seen people take themselves as seriously as a large proportion of creators for this game do. They need a collective enema.

The PS3 does not work. Don't get it. It's perpetually frozen in our store, and one of them caught fire in another store (not BFBVFS, but sparks and a little flame), AND we got an e-mail from corporate instructing us on how to deal with the many returns we expect. It's worse than the first run of 360s.

Sony had to recall laptops because some battery they made exploded, too.

I like most of Sussi's stuff a lot. But the amount of makeup on that Sim scares me. Ugh.

Want her dead or tortured for eternity? Isn't that, um, kind of a lot for some crazy broad on the internet? Does she really affect you that much, especially now that she's no longer a mod at MTS2?

I roleplayed once as a teenager, and it was totally lame because everyone else was a guy and they were either falling over themselves to accomodate what they thought I wanted, or ignoring me completely.

RPing with guys who have been laid in their lifetimes is WAY cooler. Especially with some girls there as well. It's very fun with the right people.

Hm, I don't really want popcorn, since last time I ate it I got a kernel stuck in my teeth for two days... anyone got Doritos?

1) The thread at boolprop seems very under control, with a few moderators coming close to panicking about nothing much, but it's your site so you know it best, probably. Whether you perceive the thread here as "out of control" or not is really a non-issue. I don't see it, but my opinion about it being whacked or not is as important as yours is (like, not important at all).

2) You seem resentful that no one here helped you when you complained about Rose. I don't recall seeing that post, perhaps it got lost in the shuffle of another thread. However, it's not the job of other people on the internet to help you. But could you link to the thread where you asked for help, so that anyone who feels like it may help you?

3) "I don't know how they're getting hold of the custom content that's all." I can see how this could be intrepreted as quite insulting. Bluesoup has certainly stated how PMBD gets custom content at least once on boolprop, and others have talked about it many places in the community.

All this goes to bolster something I've thought for quite a while: arguing over PM's is a bad idea. It really sucks to get an argumentative PM from a moderator of a site, and it does make one feel that she's at a disadvantage. My take is that Denimjo had every right to ask for help in that debate, and every right to complain here about a ridiculous comment that she couldn't complain about there. And that both of you got nasty fast in the PMs, which is what invariably happens when arguments occur in that form.

I work with someone who does that. He also has taken to saying "pew pew laser beams pew pew". Very soon I shall drive a screwdriver through his eyesocket.

It's not just this issue. It's the nature of the internet; when you disagree with people, some of them will feel personally attacked. If you were to disagree with them irl, you'd probably back off really quickly because you wouldn't want to deal with this outwardly normal person who becomes a raving lunatic as soon as s/he is contradicted. But on the internet, we don't see the warning signs, and it's a lot easier to keep pushing an issue. People who usually aren't subjected to conflicting opinions because of the way they act in real life never had to grow a thick skin, nor do they have the normal social barrier to keep them from saying precisely what they please to anyone who disagrees with them.

It all comes down to the fact that some people feel personally attacked and insulted whenever anyone disagrees with them.

At least that's my theory.

It always comes back to the skullfucking, doesn't it?