Off Topic

[Joegreenbeen]

So, I, being new here, am under the impression that there is a rivalry between spam and the off topic community, is this true? If it is, why? (There will soon be a similar thread in OT.)

[natsumehack]

Oh yeah complete rivalry at each other throats like foaming crazy ponies zombies, we all hate each other which is why we cross post there so often.

[Joegreenbeen]

I have a feeling your being sarcastic...

[Dervish]

Don't humour Nat.

And probably, it's not really a secret that regulars from either sub-forum actively dislike one another. I personally don't see the point in getting worked up enough to care one way or another. There's a time and place for both.

But to break it down even more simply,

Off-Topic:



Spam:



When either one goes to the wrong side of town:



Stay gold, Joeyboy.

[mdk]

One section is full of disenfranchised, attention-whoring blowhards who can't find a soapbox, and the other is Off-Topic.

[natsumehack]

mdk said
One section is full of disenfranchised, attention-whoring blowhards who can't find a soapbox, and the other is Off-Topic.

Okay found that funny.

[Dervish]

mdk said
One section is full of disenfranchised, attention-whoring blowhards who can't find a soapbox, and the other is Off-Topic.

Milk crates are much more versatile than soap boxes, alright?

[Joegreenbeen]

mdk said
One section is full of disenfranchised, attention-whoring blowhards who can't find a soapbox, and the other is Off-Topic.

XD, even though I am probably going to settle in spam, I found that funny. (I am probably considered a preppy in real life, even though I don't have the money)

[Captain Jordan]

Joegreenbeen said
XD, even though I am probably going to settle in spam, I found that funny. (I am probably considered a preppy in real life, even though I don't have the money)

So, of course, you gravitate towards the popular group.

Honestly, Spam is more like the punk, goth, drama geeks, music dorks, computer nerds, magic-playing morons and other disenfranchised groups than it is the preppy kids.

Enjoy your stay!

[Halo]

You'll find a vast variety of personalities in either section. The "rivalry" really stems, near as I can tell, from Spam pretty much encapsulating the entire "giving a fuck is bad brah" attitude and thus views the sheer effort and occasional shitstorms rising from differences in opinion in Off-Topic as being way too over-the-top-serious. Meanwhile, those in Off-Topic (who, generally, tend to think of themselves as intellectuals) find that attitude immature and beneath both them and their serious conversation.

That's talking in gross generalisations, though. If you feel like a genuine debate or discussion about a serious topic, with the kinds of considered responses that are rare in most communities on the net, go to Off-Topic. For general lulzies, Spam is a better bet (though seemingly not by much, these days.) Just don't cross the two, and you should be able to find something worthwhile in both places.

[Joegreenbeen]

Captain Jordan said
So, of course, you gravitate towards the popular group. Honestly, Spam is more like the punk, goth, drama geeks, music dorks, computer nerds, magic-playing morons and other disenfranchised groups than it is the preppy kids. Enjoy your stay!

Oh, I am that to.

[Captain Jordan]

Halo said
Just don't cross the two, and you should be able to find something worthwhile in both places.

[Cpt Toellner]

Dervish said Stay gold, Joeyboy.

Holy shit.

[Joegreenbeen]

What?

[Smiral]

Spam exists so I have somewhere to call people pieces of shit without getting kicked out

[natsumehack]

Smiral said
Spam exists so I have somewhere to call people pieces of shit without getting kicked out

So pretty much off topics ass?

[Dervish]

Blitzkrieg said
Holy shit.

It worked far too well not to do it.

[Joegreenbeen]

Dervish said
It worked far too well not to do it.

I am guessing that that was a movie reference.

[Doivid]

I have no idea what OT is like here, but I found it kind of lacking back in the other guild. I noticed toward the end we had more productive debates here than there. Could be all different now for all I know, however.

[mdk]

Doivid said
I have no idea what OT is like here, but I found it kind of lacking back in the other guild. I noticed toward the end we had more productive debates here than there. Could be all different now for all I know, however.

OT recovered some of its better voices, since the crash, but it also lost a lot of really good ones too. Lately browsing an OT debate feels like jumping between an ice bath and a hot tub.... you'll get a great response, and then second later you want to bash your keyboard in with your brains.

Then some people (myself included) just got inexplicably bitchier, which, maybe because we all took a break for a month or two there, now we're all really feeling it even more than we would. For all I know that's been a gradual slide into oblivion, but it feels like it all hit at once.