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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th May 2012 10:21
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Quote: "I made a poster for Sepp. Not so sure about the font but I like it anyway..."


Lol! I love it! Maybe I shouldn't have picked such a gruesome username.

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Seppuku Arts is probably the only person I remember from when I was more active during my early days on the forum. I especially like his position on spelling and grammar.

@Seppuku Arts
I wonder, would your running platform include creating a
Department of Grammar and Spelling Police? Every good presidential campaign needs a good scapegoat, and I can think of none better then members who take part in improperly structured sentences and texting shorthand, which frankly has no place on this fine forum. This scourge must be stopped, by any means necessary!
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Posted: 28th May 2012 12:06 Edited at: 28th May 2012 12:07
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Quote: "Jerico2Day & OBese87 - Literal Demerits"


I agree. I think it speaks volumes to our ideals, our policies, and our way of life!


Also, I love the poster! I mean really, what other choice is there?

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Posted: 28th May 2012 12:09
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@Jerico2Day You and I need a formal handshake as you are the president.



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Posted: 28th May 2012 12:11 Edited at: 28th May 2012 12:12
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Wait, we should shake with the other hand. I uh, just went to the bathroom.



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Oooh! Very well then.

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Phaelax, that's an impressive curriculum vitae you got there! You're definitely a most qualified candidate.

Sepp, you're a great candidate too and would make the forums very interesting should you gain ultimate power.

Jerico, you've not made any bad leadership decisions during your stay in office.

However, none of you address the concerns of the people. For example, a number of issues have come up recently to which we have heard no comments. The people voice the following concerns:

1. If the forums got a similar makeover to the TGC site, would you be willing to stand with the people, risking your seat in the name of justice.

2. What is your feeling on the rights of minority groups such as trolls, spammers, lurkers, ponies and n00bs? How do you plan to better integrate them into the general population?

3. Should tutorials and the Anti-GOTO Order be removed from one another? Or could this lead to moral decay amongst the programmer community?

4. What is you feeling on the segregation of ponies and their isolation to one single thread? Is this not pure ponyism at its worst?!

5. Should there not be a showcase board where "anything goes*"?
*within reason, naturally. Many of us here have things that do not quite fit any of the categories and we feel a general showcase board may be a good idea.

6. An amalgamated competitions board. Your feelings? The people feel that having a competitions board may help keep us informed of all competitions without having to jump all over the place to try to track these evens.

Please let the people know where you stand on these issues!

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Posted: 28th May 2012 13:04
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Quote: "I wonder, would your running platform include creating a
Department of Grammar and Spelling Police? Every good presidential campaign needs a good scapegoat, and I can think of none better then members who take part in improperly structured sentences and texting shorthand, which frankly has no place on this fine forum. This scourge must be stopped, by any means necessary! "


I have considered many ideas for our campaign's scapegoats. I feel that creating a Department of Grammar and Spelling Police would lose our backing from Stephen Fry and to be Frank (and also Steve) I would not be happy in losing his support and gaining say, Lynne Truss or even David Mitchell, who already backs the opposition.

Whilst David Mitchell may oppose our policies on pillaging, but he's actually pretty extreme when it comes to grammar issues.
Source.

So I can understand your concerns. This means our party seems to lack a pretty decent scapegoat. But do not fret, I've got plenty of dirt on the opposition, if the situation ever calls for it. It will only be a last resort because I believe in accountability, but if I am ever faced with false accusastions and downright lies, I will be in a position to scapegoat the opposition.


Now, who out there would like to back my campaign as Vice President? Happy Cheesecake? The Comet? Odin? Anybody?

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Posted: 28th May 2012 13:05 Edited at: 28th May 2012 13:15
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Quote: "1. If the forums got a similar makeover to the TGC site, would you be willing to stand with the people, risking your seat in the name of justice."


I think TGC as a general rule stays as far away as possible from modifying the forums, but in the event someone got crazy in the brain, then yes, I guess I would.

Quote: "2. What is your feeling on the rights of minority groups such as trolls, spammers, lurkers, ponies and n00bs? How do you plan to better integrate them into the general population?"


I believe integration is key. I propose a fenced off area where they can permanently reside so that we may see them peripherally, but not heartily.

Quote: "3. Should tutorials and the Anti-GOTO Order be removed from one another? Or could this lead to moral decay amongst the programmer community?"


Gotos are really not needed except maybe to jump forward out of loops, but there's other constructs for that too, so no.

Quote: "4. What is you feeling on the segregation of ponies and their isolation to one single thread? Is this not pure ponyism at its worst?! "


I believe the Pony thread is more than enough. I would propose, however, a Pony Culture board, where all pony related discussion can take place.

Quote: "5. Should there not be a showcase board where "anything goes*"?
*within reason, naturally. Many of us here have things that do not quite fit any of the categories and we feel a general showcase board may be a good idea."


You mean for porn? I agree.

Quote: "6. An amalgamated competitions board. Your feelings? The people feel that having a competitions board may help keep us informed of all competitions without having to jump all over the place to try to track these evens."


Nobody would ever look at it.

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Quote: "but there's other constructs for that too"
I return.

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Good answers Jerico. So far the people are seeing another term for you!

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I have some questions for all the candidates.

1: Why is a blackboard?

2: What is your political stance on book?

3: If you had teh codez could you make a red monster?

4: Could you write a short story outlining your expected rise to power? please illustrate it using all of the emoticons in the post forum message box.

5: In three words or less can you please explain the meaning of life?

6: can you replace this question with one of your choice and answer it?

Thankyou for your time.

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1. If the forums got a similar makeover to the TGC site, would you be willing to stand with the people, risking your seat in the name of justice.

I would represent the opinion of the forum. Ultimately, the decision lies with TGC as in all seriousness it is their company and their website. I would see to it that people's concerns are addressed and do all I can to show how for the forum's members it's a poor design choice (assuming that is the general consensus). I would first see what people actually do and do like and even form a poll. I will relay information factually and without bias. If it makes me look like an intervening d-bag over stepping his authority, so be it. Though I doubt it would because I am an intervening d-bag already.

2. What is your feeling on the rights of minority groups such as trolls, spammers, lurkers, ponies and n00bs? How do you plan to better integrate them into the general population?


I am not particularly tolerant of trolls and spammers. Their behaviour is against the forum rules and only seeks to disrupt our peace. Nobody has the right to spam or troll, so if spammers and trollers could keep their spamming and trolling out of these forums then I am happy. It's not the place for it. Lurkers, ponies and n00bs. They're all welcome. We have a thread specifically for ponies and it's where all the pony related stuff goes and like the Post Competition it does a good job of not over flowing onto other parts of the forum. Everybody is welcome to their own tastes and of course, it's not for everybody. I don't think it'd be ethical to force ponies out of here. Lurkers, I would like to see people post more, but it would be wrong for us to dictate how frequently they post. Lurkers do nobody any harm.

N00bs on the other hand, I think a level of patience and reason is needed for dealing with these guys. Generally they will learn and are often young and inexperienced. Some types are fairly arrogant (I am teh best game maker ever) and whilst people don't like those kinds of people, our party accepts their freedom of speech so long as it remains within the rules laid out in the AUP. I would say, our party likes to discourage arrogance as it doesn't create a positive environment. But, in our pure awesomeness and in being the best at everything we tend to live by example and provide reason rather than dictate.

3. Should tutorials and the Anti-GOTO Order be removed from one another? Or could this lead to moral decay amongst the programmer community?

Good question. I can understand why the Anti-GOTO order is in place, but I am actually against it. I feel it should be met with much better education. GOTOs can actually be useful, but only when used properly. What we need is education in how to write proper functions. One of my policies is to provide more tutorials for the community, this would the best platform for educating people on this.

4. What is you feeling on the segregation of ponies and their isolation to one single thread? Is this not pure ponyism at its worst?!

I don't think it's so much segregation. We sometimes see people refer to ponies in other threads and of course people choose to decorate their profile with ponies. It's more or less a case of keeping this forum tidy. My Little Pony is not a central theme to the forums and does not need multiple threads surrounding the topic, particularly when one thread is capable enough of handling the topic. It means other valuable threads are not pushed to the next page and are missed by somebody who might have otherwise contributed. The same applies for the posting competition, which was meant to reduce the number of 'random' and seemingly pointless threads. It has worked to a great success. It's a case of offer other threads equal opportunities rather than being bombarded with much of the same content.

5. Should there not be a showcase board where "anything goes*"?
*within reason, naturally. Many of us here have things that do not quite fit any of the categories and we feel a general showcase board may be a good idea.


If you're talking about, "using other game engine" or maybe, "I don't have enough of the project complete", we actually have the Game Design Theory section. Whilst, GDT doesn't get as much love as it should. I would recommend to members to stick a link in their signature as I have. Ronin is a Unity3D project, though I've not updated that thread in a while, but then it's a sideline project, Abeyance is the main one I'm working on.

6. An amalgamated competitions board. Your feelings? The people feel that having a competitions board may help keep us informed of all competitions without having to jump all over the place to try to track these evens.

We have a Community Competitions board. But I feel the best place for up & coming competition information would be in the 'Latest News' section. The 3D Comp already has its spotlight in there and this would be great for getting lurkers to come over to the forum and get involved. This ties in with my policies on the 'Latest News', I would push it so information surround competitions were posted over to latest news to keep people informed and up to date.

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Sepp, a good reply too. The people are sitting on the fence once again. This shall be a close race.

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@Sepp, tl;dr

Quote: "I have some questions for all the candidates."


Quote: "1: Why is a blackboard?"


Why is a DarkBasic?

Quote: "2: What is your political stance on book?"


I hate book. Book is stupid. I recommend youtube video of tutorial, unless book is really good.

Quote: "3: If you had teh codez could you make a red monster?"


Yes.

Quote: "4: Could you write a short story outlining your expected rise to power? please illustrate it using all of the emoticons in the post forum message box."


-)

Quote: "5: In three words or less can you please explain the meaning of life?"


Six by Nine

Quote: "6: can you replace this question with one of your choice and answer it?"


why are you so awesome?

It comes naturally.

Quote: "Thankyou for your time."


Thank you.

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Interesting how the EYES are cross-examining our candidates


May I supplement Jerico's answer to !0's question 3...
Quote: "3. Should tutorials and the Anti-GOTO Order be removed from one another? Or could this lead to moral decay amongst the programmer community?"

Our forum founding fathers believed strongly in the separation of code and state. They recognized the need for freedom of GOTO but also freedom from GOTO. Many people believe that GOTO is outdated and modern commands are more effective, but it is not the state's place to ban GOTO or support the use of GOTO.

Quote: "Kezzla 5: In three words or less can you please explain the meaning of life?"

Cheese.

New banners for our supporters:








and a badge:


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Edit: Woops. Double post error. It's my secret technique to becoming the ruler of the tgc'z


Vote Dark Frager!!!
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Quote: "I hate book. Book is stupid."


I was wondering who the guy on the right of my presidential signature was

Quote: "2. What is your political stance on book?"


Book? Book is very educative and if you don't like book we should ban you from the forumz. A vote for me is a vote for BOOK!


Vote Dark Frager!!!
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Posted: 28th May 2012 21:09 Edited at: 28th May 2012 21:11
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Quote: "Now, who out there would like to back my campaign as Vice President? Happy Cheesecake? The Comet? Odin? Anybody?"


I feel it is my duty to jump on this bandwagon- Err, I mean...

I feel it is my duty to help such a great political up-and-comer to the best of my abilities. I'll gladly accept your offer, Mr. Seppuku. I shall support your every decision with gusto! Should you want me to pillage a village? Consider it pillaged! Should you want me to bring back the raping? Well, consider it done! Discretely!

Let's commemorate this political partnership with a poster to support your campaign.

DISCLAIMER: The man in the poster is from a google search on samurai. The effects are crappy and self made.



Cheers! To a prosperous and successful campaign!

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Noo! The Cheesecake has joined Seppuku's side!!! We must eat it to prevent further treachery!


Vote Dark Frager!!!
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Quote: "Nominations for president:
darkvee
Red Eye
DarkBasicDude79
TheZachadoodle"


No wait I'm DarkBasicDude's vice president.

So does that make us both challengers?

Dark Basic Dude announce I'm your Vice President.

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,0~U -Well I do say, its been quite a fancy forum for
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Quote: "So does that make us both challengers?"


Coalition Party

be careful it didnt work in the UK so well

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@Cheesecake
Were you going for the famous Obama poster look there? I tried that with the Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer (Jerico's avatar)) photo but it looked like I'd face-painted a zombie.

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also the forum called it Beta Testing when it was run in the UK

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What zachadoodle said!

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Quote: "[To run for presidency] You must be a forum member as of May 14, 2012"

Really? I think you should have to be a member of at least 9 years, just to filter out the undesirables.

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@Obese
Yes, that was exactly what I was going for, as a matter of fact. There was a lengthy tutorial online that I roughly followed and it helped quite a bit. It also gave a nice selection of colors to use. But yeah, it was generally the best I could do to emulate the Obama HOPE poster, though mine reeks of tiny bits of miscolored fragments and whatnot.
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I place my vote for Google Ad. He is very consistent with posting, and always makes his links clickable.



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Quote: "I feel it is my duty to help such a great political up-and-comer to the best of my abilities. I'll gladly accept your offer, Mr. Seppuku"


Excellent! Welcome aboard.

Quote: "Should you want me to pillage a village? Consider it pillaged!"


We could pillage a village when we win in celebration. I've had my eye on a small village in the south of France for a while.

Quote: "Should you want me to bring back the raping? Well, consider it done! Discretely! "


Facebook raping, yes, the other kind? People don't look too lightly on those things anymore. We've got to look forward. I know, it affects our Viking voters, but I've decided to provide wenches all round and it seems to be keeping them happy. That and all that mead.

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I second that!

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I found a script for making a HOPE poster effect, but I had to do so much editing I wonder if I might have done better without it. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out anyway. Doing things which require actual skill is hard!



I'm loving GIMP!
Just to show what the script does, here is the same image with the script applied, no editing.


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1: Why is a blackboard?


To best answer the question, one must reverse the polarities. We end up with braobkcalb. Lets break it down, bra ob kcal b. We all know what a 'bra' is, 'Ob' is actually a Judaic word referring to the spirit of a dead human. Kcal is obviously a measurement for calories. The remaining letter B seems to be the cup size.

What can we deduce? We are talking about the spirit of a dead woman and the only information we have about her is her cup size. The clue is, she's focused on weightloss. Or maybe, she's talking about somebody's else's cup size.

So what you're asking is 'why?' Why is she here? Why is she trying to contact us through such cryptic messages, she wants to warn us about something (the fact these messages are cryptic is because she must be in trouble). The comment to do with weightloss can only be referring to Obese, she wants to warn us about something to do with our dear Vice President. Obese, what have you done?


2: What is your political stance on book?

I support book's fight for acceptance! It has been a long hard decade for book, many allegations that question his mere intelligence (all are but vicious lies and propaganda - signs plastered all over the place "Book is Stupid") and he's met a lot of hatred and anger from the public over this and I believe it is time to put an end to it. Book did not invade Bosnia.


3: If you had teh codez could you make a red monster?

I have teh codez. I can create a red monster, what do you think is holding Godzilla back whilst I work on funding the development of my giant mech suit? You'll find I already have policies in response to this.


4: Could you write a short story outlining your expected rise to power? please illustrate it using all of the emoticons in the post forum message box.

No I couldn't. I am afraid it would be against the Geneva Convention.

5: In three words or less can you please explain the meaning of life?

Bring more mead.


6: can you replace this question with one of your choice and answer it?

Yes I can.

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Feel like promoting the Seppuku campaign? How about sporting a freshly made banner! There's a chick! And Seppuku's name! And my name!

What more could you want in a banner?

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The picture is scary... I would vote for Seppuku but cheesecake, you worry me.

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You probably haven't googled Sepp's name then

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Ok fine, I officially will vote for Seppuku and Cheesecake.

IF that is, they both vote for me.

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Off-topic (lol, going off-topic in the off-topic board reminds me of the "putting your ___ in your ___" meme), you think TGC's elections are getting crazy, check out Canada's:
http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e
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Rhinoceros Party
Marijuana Party
Pirate Party
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Actually, Sepp & Cheesecake could name themselves The Pirate Party! Argh!

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We have the Monster Raving Loony Party here in the UK.

We are currently trying to gain support from the Pirate Party but at the moment our representatives keep getting keelhauled. I'm gonna have to send several kegs of rum.

Quote: "You probably haven't googled Sepp's name then"


Hehe, I actually had to change my name on another forum because it was deemed offensive. I know it's a form of suicide, but come now, it was a part of the Samurai code, its not really all that offensive. No more offensive than other parts of history like the bloody code.

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May I get you and cheesecake to vote for me? If you do I will certainly vote for you.

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Quote: "I place my vote for Google Ad. He is very consistent with posting, and always makes his links clickable."

I third that...

I'd like to see Mo-Jo-Jo-Jo from the Power Puff Girls as president, but if that cannot be done then definitely Obese87 and Sepp still. Those two are opposites in weirdness and would make a great team... Although Obese87 need to answer in details some of the more serious questions being posed here...

Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
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Libervurto
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:50 Edited at: 29th May 2012 17:52
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I agree but perhaps I haven't made my banner big enough.

Quote: "Although Obese87 need to answer in details some of the more serious questions being posed here"

I'm a running mate, my job is to come out with random comments and jeopardise the success of the overall campaign.

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+1 for Seppuku Arts.

The forum needs liquid cooling, too many hot threads. Great Manifesto.
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Posted: 29th May 2012 20:27 Edited at: 29th May 2012 20:37
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Send them "a map" to lead them to "a hidden box" that's "oh locked up with locks" and, naturally, "buried deep away."
They'll "dig up the box"...
... Aaah, this explains it better:


And then, specially for Sepp:


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Seppuku Arts
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You know how to satisfy me.

I should take your suggest aboard, yeargh.

Quote: "May I get you and cheesecake to vote for me? If you do I will certainly vote for you."


If you wish to vote for us, you're welcome to. We may be pirates and Vikings, but I'm not accepting any bribes, I seek to represent honour amongst politics...I know, it never happens, maybe I'm naive, but our party is going to pioneer the world of politics (and pillage the homes all of those who oppose us), just you wait. The Cheesecake on the other hand, well, it's up to him really.

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Hey where is our poster Obese?
Here is a picture of the Vice President. Me.
http://thezachadoodle.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4wmll2

You see if you vote for me and Dark Basic Dude we would offer the most support for anyone wanting to post their fandom on the forum. We will allow furries to be themselves and bronies to be themselves. We will not allow the haters to control most of the forum with their bash talking and hatred. Because we don't allow haters to rule the forum. We allow people to be people and show how awesome themselves and their games are. That is to the limit of the mods approving it and it not going against the rules of the forum. We won't allow anyone to go against the rules of the forum.

Let me hear of your words on the forum Seppuku Arts and Happy Cheesecake.


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My feelings are mutual to those of Mr. Seppuku. Mr. Seppuku's ideals are just! His morals are the bee's knees. Wherever Mr. Seppuku stands on any topic, I am there to back him up.

Quote: "Let me hear of your words on the forum Seppuku Arts and Happy Cheesecake. "


I'll have to wait until Mr. Seppuku expresses his opinions on the matter before I act. But let me say, the cologne you're wearing is divine.

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Yes. It shall be the people's choice to get the website to look however they want and I shall make sure that TGC makes the website look the way the people want it to.

Quote: "2. What is your feeling on the rights of minority groups such as trolls, spammers, lurkers, ponies and n00bs? How do you plan to better integrate them into the general population?"

Trolls and spammers will be obliterated by powerful mods. Though we could try to make fun out of certain situations in which certain people troll or spam, and we'll make sure it just doesn't get out of hand, but again, we should be able to have fun with trolling and spamming situations. Lurkers are fine, they cause no harm. Ponies shall be integrated to the greatest degree we can, they are apparently very popular among a majority of forum members so we shall welcome their presence in every way possible. n00b's shall be welcomed and we shall try to convert them to regular users, because that would be just that awesome.

Quote: "3. Should tutorials and the Anti-GOTO Order be removed from one another? Or could this lead to moral decay amongst the programmer community?"
No tutorial shall ever forget the anti goto order. Goto is the worst command man has ever created, and when used in large amounts causes sever project destruction and cancellation.

Quote: "4. What is your feeling on the segregation of ponies and their isolation to one single thread? Is this not pure ponyism at its worst?!"
I agree that it is ponyism. Though I am not fully 'there' with ponies yet, a new pony board shall be created and it shall be filled stock full of pony threads.

Quote: "5. Should there not be a showcase board where "anything goes"?*
*within reason, naturally. Many of us here have things that do not quite fit any of the categories and we feel a general showcase board may be a good idea."
That is the geek culture board. It already exists. However, we could create a new board like geek culture and segregate different topics into either geek culture or this new board. General talk may be put in geek culture and everything else could go in this new board.

Quote: "6. An amalgamated competitions board. Your feelings? The people feel that having a competitions board may help keep us informed of all competitions without having to jump all over the place to try to track these events."

Yes. We do need some sort of competitions board. Competitions tend to happen all over the place and it is very easy to miss or not be able to monitor certain competitions because of them being scattered all over the place. As once mentioned, increasing the number of competitions happening should increase forum activity, and we have certainly been in need of that lately.

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these posts are way too long, signing off...

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 30th May 2012 00:20
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Quote: "You see if you vote for me and Dark Basic Dude we would offer the most support for anyone wanting to post their fandom on the forum. We will allow furries to be themselves and bronies to be themselves. We will not allow the haters to control most of the forum with their bash talking and hatred. Because we don't allow haters to rule the forum. We allow people to be people and show how awesome themselves and their games are. That is to the limit of the mods approving it and it not going against the rules of the forum. We won't allow anyone to go against the rules of the forum.

Let me hear of your words on the forum Seppuku Arts and Happy Cheesecake. "


Interesting that we share similar opinions. I do feel that people ought to be themselves as they have always been here and it is really a case of how mods moderate this forum and generally as a member I've always been against any kind of intolerance. Not verbally abusive towards intolerance, as I think that only worsens things. Members are of all back grounds and when you realise how diverse people are here, it's understandable why such topics as religion and politics are banned. If the forum's administration permitted people to be intolerant of others I think I would not have stuck around this forum for as long as I have.

Of course, the forum has its purposes. It's a games programming forum and whilst there is a geek culture section, it has always been the case that it remain clean. I'm sure we wouldn't want to see pony spam or spam threads of any other topic - usually one is enough. General 'spam' belongs in the Posting Competition, like declaring to the world what I had for dinner (salad).

But I am glad to see your party takes a pro-tolerance stance. My vote will be settled come election day, I would suggest the same for others. Anything could happen between now and then. DBD might be abducted by aliens and have a mind control device implanted into his brain and rages war against Bronies.

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That litteraly is another movie I have I want to make has one of those ideas.

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