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So is Planetcrap dead then?
April 8th 2008, 02:18 CEST by Chunkstyle In #planetcrap the question came up of whether the site is finally dead. Post counts are down to the level of when the Crap started, the number of posters is way down (especially when you include Joker alts), and the level of discussion has dropped as well. So is that it? Have the multitude of other gaming sites and forums removed the need for the crappiest place on the web? Will the last one to leave forever please turn off the server? |
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Well said. I think that #6 plays a larger part than many here realize--most of us have been posting here for many, many years. I myself started posting here regularly in 2000, and here and there before (under a different moniker). I'm 41 now (LOL OLD) and simply don't play as many games as I used to, nor am I as immersed in pop culture as I once was, so I don't post as much as I used to. Also, I find that much of what I post here these days is much snarkier (sorry, F0rmat), sometimes needlessly so. That said, I mostly stick to IRC, as I find the discussions there more agreeable. Proceed with the flaming. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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I just can't get into IRC. When I get on, it seems like there's a lot of dead time. You get on, someone says hi, someone else is engaged in a conversation with another person, and then nothing. Granted, I usually get on at night. Maybe it's better during the day. |
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Night is indeed the down time for IRC. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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Also, IRC works best if you can leave it on in the background and read backscroll. |
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Says the guy who never reads the backscroll! Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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Despite the death of planetcrap it often seems like when a good so-and-sopile does get going I've missed it before I even a chance to jump on. I suppose that's something. |
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sorry, F0rmat Accepted. But you're on probation! Sorry for my distasteful comments on your parental unit. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Group hug. |
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It's only his dead mother, I'm sure there will be no hard feelings. |
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I for myself hate my mother, so, who knows? "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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On the PC entry barrier - I I'm not sure if I'd say it was high, as there are plenty of other forums with well-established groups of posters, but the all-new-users-are-Joker issue certainly makes it unique. Damned if there aren't a lot of memes to come to grips with, though. I've been lurking for years and I'm still glad someone maintains The List. |
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I think the main problem with Planetcrap now is that we are all so very lazy. Too lazy even to post, or if we can bring ourself to post, we are too lazy to think before we post. m0nty was actually a pretty good crapper, all things considered, and he is not a lazy man, he is just too occupied with his pie in the sky internet get rich quick schemes to contribute here anymore. This is why Dumdeedum won't make comics, why he sometimes doesn't even update his mp3otw, and it's why Shadarr hasn't updated Digital-Luddite for a couple months. It's why UAC failed and why the PC writing shit is dead now. It's too bad, because when crappers apply themselves the results are usually very enjoyable. The other problem is that we have been here so long we have basically run out of things to talk about. The gaming industry gets less and less dynamic and interesting each year, and gaming news just doesn't seem to do much for most of us anymore. And whatever happened to G-Man's lawyering blog? Something about port authority laws, it was actually pretty interesting. This is still a good place to come and shoot the shit, read people's funny stories and anecdotes, and get answers to stupid questions you could have just googled for. |
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The other problem is that we have been here so long we have basically run out of things to talk about. I think this is really a key issue. You have been recycling the same conversations for years and you already know everybody's opinion on everything, just like in a marriage. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Even if planetcrap does die completely, I could still get a lot of enjoyment just reading old threads. Some brilliant exchanges back there. |
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But with 10,000,000 posts it does get a bit of a chore to reread them. Someone should make a wikipedia out of the site. (Wasn't there one, that has been linked to some time ago?) "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Repeatedly, probably. The only thing that's wrong with PlanetCrap is that there aren't enough new topics and that's because the pipeline system is fundamentally flawed. New topics don't make it out of the bin fast enough. This means that: a) the topics are no longer topical when they do make it out of the bin or have been talked to death elsewhere. b) there are plenty of great writers on this board, many of whom would be capable of drafting some interesting, incisive articles for discussion (Marsh, monty when he can be bothered, even G-man). But the length of time that topics languish in the bin means that any would-be writers have long since become disincentivised and just can't be arsed. I'm sure that Marsh et al. will tell me that that's not why they don't submit articles but I'm willing to bet that if the submission bin system was fixed or abandoned that they and others would feel more inclined to submit articles. c) I've long maintained that PlanetCrap, while undoubtedly cliquey, isn't particularly newb-unfriendly; certainly no more than any other forum that I've read. Yeah, there's maybe a bit more snark but it's generally in good fun and I think that most people recognise this and don't take it seriously. I think that the biggest obstacle to newbies is that threads on the front page tend to be pretty old. Even if a newb does happen across the site and does want to participate in the conversation, they'll quickly find that the thread has digressed onto a new topic (probably several new topics, sometimes at the same time). There's no incentive to participate in a conversation that has little relation to the original thread and has probably itself started to digress into something else. |
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Yeah, I can imagine it being a little daunting being a newb and looking at a topic only realise you have 27,000 posts to catch up on. But we don't get any new visitors anyway, and the whole topic system has effectively been abandoned here. Each thread is its own organic mish-mash, and anyone is free to bring up a new "topic" in any thread. Maybe you're right that that's not a good way to operate, but I think most regulars here are all caught up with the front page threads, and so we will all get to any new posts within a reasonable amount of time. When you leave for awhile and come back to a few hundred posts it is true that you generally have no idea what they are about. |
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We haven't talked about sound effects in any other threads yet, so I don't know if I quite agree with your assessment. But yeah it certainly was true, Gabe and m0rn has helped limit the severity of that issue somewhat, and I'll grant you that the repercussions of that topic crib-death period will be with us for a long time. Maybe until the end. But fewer topics really is exactly what I like about PC. I used to like the ordinary forum board thing once upon a time, but after I got on PC I realized how little that classic system really works. You, or that is to say I, just end up with a ton of isolated rooms that aren't really worth visiting unless the headline grabs ya. PC in its current state is much more like an ongoing IRC thing, but slower paced and with post-perfect scrollback support. It's us casually chatting amongst ourselves and everyone is free to join a sub-topic or steer us towards something new and exciting. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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lwf (#21): m0nty was I'm not dead yet. As for PC, I've had this discussion with mr0n many times. blah is the underlying problem. It was innovative for its time, kudos to mr0n for building it, he's a sex god etc etc, but it's a relic of a bygone era. We quickly found its flaws, and the Internet has since produced many new ways of doing it better. Due to mr0n being busy with girlies and consulting and holding chainsaws and moving to Brighton where the beaches are full of rocks, he hasn't fixed it or made something new... yet. mr0n is capable of producing something that would totally fucking own Kevin Rose, Lowtax, the MeFi cocksmokers, the /. fucktards et al. He hasn't quite hit on the right formula that would both please you existing fuckos and attract a new bunch of fuckos and keep you all happy. Maybe you lot could make yourselves useful and think up something. |
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Oh, and he could own Twitter as well. |
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What? I couldn't hear over the slurping noises. |
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Solution: Unite with q3t. Make PC the off-topic section of qt3. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Worst. Idea. Eever. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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I don't understand the popularity of Twitter. Do people really feel the necessity to spew every last fleeting thought on to a public forum? As if E/N blogging wasn't enough, you've got to do it in real time? |
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I have a cunning plan. Who runs this place?!
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Worst idea ever? Voting George W. Bush! Twice! "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I have a cunning plan. Sehr gut! "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I fear change. |
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I watched Blackadder the Third last night - it was brilliant, it has aged really well. |
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See, totally off-topic after just 38 posts, you fucks! |
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I wonder what our cats are doing right now. |
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What all cats do: SUCK! "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Shut it. Cats rule. This well-justified argument brought to you by Nescafe instant coffee. |
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Alright Baldric. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I fucking hate car grease! I'm taking out the cylinder head of a car I bought a few days ago and, man, this thing must haver never seen detergent of any kind. This is the dirtiest car I have ever laid my hands on. Everywhere I look; drease and dirt! I would like to see the previous owner of this car, or see how he lives. I'd like to also tell him that cigarette ashes go into the ashtray and are not meant to build gray mountains between the seats and the gearbox tunnel. Some people are real pigs, man. Why did I buy a car like that in the first place? Basically, I only want the cylinder head and the tail lights, the rest will go on sale piece by piece. It's a shame, because the car's body is in better shape than that of the car I'm repairing. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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So what is the cunning plan, anyway? It had better be really cunning. |
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It involves homosexuality. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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#28 by m0nty Maybe you lot could make yourselves useful and think up something. I very much appreciate PC and the effort Morn and Gabe have put into it over the years, but I've never really gotten the sense that Crapper suggestions for the site made over the past 3 years or so would translate into anything happening. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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True! This is a false democracy, I tell you! "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Part of this is, I don't think there's any sense of the scope of things that could be asked for, how much time/money/hardware any Crapper could ask of Morn at this point, what Morn actually wants in a web community, etc. It's like trying to interpret the Constitution, or the texts of a religion, once the founders are largely unavailable. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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So, Morn is both Thomas Jefferson and Jesus? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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No, he's Gaius Baltar. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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What? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
Blog. 194 lbs. 14 to go. |
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I had no idea Morn's sex life was that awesome. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Gaius Baltar. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Oh, wow! Caprica has been green-lit. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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What morn should really do is develop something else, something cool as shit, and don't worry if us elitist, grumpy bastards like it or not. Just leave this site running and be done with it. You're not going to be able to make anything that pleases a majority of us. Hell, most of us don't even know what we want. As for the topics, I've said the same thing in the past as deadlock. That IS the problem, or was. It's probably much too late now...but at one point, having current, topical topics could have generated more traffic and brought some new life to this slime fest. Whatever else happens, PC has been a bastion on the internet. It's my Cheers. My home away from home, my coping mechanism for dealing with work and life. And for that, I'm grateful it has existed. Even if it dies tomorrow. I'm trying to say I love you bastards! Even if I don't respect you. :p "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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I agree with what Matt says. Imagine me saying the same thing with less gay hippiness. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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Chunkstyle (#57): I agree with what Matt says. Imagine me saying the same thing with less gay hippiness. It's not as good then. "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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So with more straight hippiness? Or more sad hippiness? |
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