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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

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General Land Before Time / Re: Superior Kids or Incompetent Adults? Both!
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 21, 2025, 08:10:45 PM »
:confused You seem to have a weird habit of persistently demanding responses from certain members who have long since stopped visiting this site for personal reasons. Are you not even aware that The Friendly Sharptooth and RainbowFaceProtege had both made separate topics several months or years ago announcing they were leaving with intentions of never ever coming back? Honestly, you might as well be expecting a gravestone to somehow respond to your speeches. Do yourself a favor and just let it go. Find something else to do that'll be more worthy of your time and effort.

No way.  They're the ones who started this. I wouldn't have had a problem if they hadn't.

And also...did you even read ANYTHING I wrote in my previous post????? Did I literally write all that for nothing??? Are you saying I'm wrong???

Let me start off by saying I have no desire to get involved in any arguments. But when the same person floods a single topic with practically the exact same content persistently for several months and even years, it eventually starts to get rather annoying for everyone who might read this topic. I've posted plenty of various topics over the years that never really got going, and not once had I ever tried to force others to participate with relentless begging, especially not even years and years later.

What I was trying to emphasize is that the one post you keep responding to over and over (from 14 years ago!) is to a member that has long since left the forum several years ago, and therefore will never respond, no matter how many times you keep asking year after year, because he is simply unaware of anything going on around here. If you're really that desperate for a response from him, you'll need to find some other means of getting in contact with him, but I suspect that might be considered stalking and could get you in some serious trouble if you don't let this go like I had recommended.

In fact, now that I look back on many of those previous posts, this is the exact same argument RainbowFaceProtege had made last year, and it seems you didn't listen to her. I'm not going to waste my time any further. I've made my point, so now I'm moving on to more important matters. I would highly recommend you do the same.
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It's Party Time! / Re: Word Connection
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 21, 2025, 07:31:09 PM »
Aye
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General Land Before Time / Re: Screen Time Experiment - Land Before Time characters
« Last post by Mumbling on February 21, 2025, 12:51:05 PM »
He hasn't attacked you. He wrote down some information on a children's movie and you call him rude for it because you see him as presenting his opinion as fact.

If you really want us to go in-depth on a fictional movie's probable character motives, you should present things differently, for example:

Your post:

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    They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock,


THAT. WAS, NEVER. CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!

That was NEVER confirmed! Why are you stating that like it's fact?? We don't know that!

Me, personally? I don't believe it EVER caused bad luck (I mean, it's not like there aren't other films where something bad happens n in the great valley!), but do I act like I know that for 100% sure? No! So why are you? Are you trying to deliberatelty mislead people??????

This isn't just a case of having a different opinion. You're deliberately stating your opinion like it's factual.

^ Of course it wasn't confirmed. It is what the kids believed. It is what was implied, very heavily, in the movie. They sang a song about it. The kids were scared about it. No one is going to spell it out for the viewers, but it was heavily implied. But yes, it wasn't confirmed.

Now if you wanted to start a discussion like a non-rude human being, you'd have posted something like this:

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    They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock,

"I think that is a common opinion, but I actually believe they didn't bring bad luck to the Great Valley. It was after all, never confirmed by the writers, so it could be that they brought bad luck, or it could be that they didn't bring bad luck."

Honestly we are not "siding" with anyone. You are just being extremely obnoxious and then immediately apologize afterwards, as if that makes things right.

Now I understand that you are probably on the spectrum, and that is okay, many of us are. But that does not give you the right to act like a tyrant. Stop attacking other members, stop calling them rude for simply posting their thoughts. People have been reporting your posts left and right, people have called you out multiple times in public too.

Perhaps you feel like the entire forum is against you... But you have to ask, if the entire place is against you, is the place the problem, or are you?

I hope you have some time for an introspection. I expect no further comments on members being rude for talking about probably events in the movies or tv series. You're welcome to start a discussion, but please re-read your post two times before you post, and if you feel like you need to apologize for anything in the post, I would recommend leaving it out or rewriting that section. Because you are the one being rude, and we are done with it.
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General Land Before Time / Re: Superior Kids or Incompetent Adults? Both!
« Last post by GreyLizard226 on February 21, 2025, 01:41:38 AM »
... as I've just warned you in another topic, please consider that warning echoed here, greylizard. I suggest you drop it.


Look, I don’t want to start anything with you. You’re not the person who upset me, and I’m sorry my response to you reflected off that.

But I also wrote a rather detailed analysis two nights ago in this thread, and it saddens me that you’re focusing solely on my sore feelings towards the other user, and not any of the points I tried to make in my analysis.

With that said, I’ll try to stop voicing my frustrations in ways that come across as confrontational. I’m not great when it comes to people saying things that bother me, but I’ll try to keep things friendly.
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Diddy didn't "start" anything. Please consider this an official warning, you're being extremely rude. Saying sorry right after you say something rude does not make it less rude.

I felt Diddy was being kind of rude and still do, but I apologize for the disruption. I don’t want to cause trouble. It’s just that I’m very sensitive to certain things like this, and was just voicing my frustration, hoping that Diddy would respond to me and explain his side better.

I admit that I do feel like you’re “siding” with him by not trying to look at things from my perspective. But I don’t want to upset people for no reason, and I don’t want to be blocked or anything.
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It's Party Time! / Re: Word Connection
« Last post by ObscuredByClouds on February 21, 2025, 12:06:54 AM »
Yesterday.
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Silver Screen / Re: The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 20, 2025, 07:20:30 PM »
Quite a lot of this to cover this week. First, this month's official comic has just released, featuring some G5 characters:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/my-little-pony-skys-secret-released.html

Now here's something very interesting. Back in the early years of G4 (2011 and 2012), Hasbro compiled a book for internal use only that helped employees keep track of what was happening in the Brony fandom craze at the time. And it seems that book has recently been revealed to the public for the first time:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/what-did-hasbro-think-of-us-in-early.html

Here's a video showing animatics and early versions of the song from the Hearts and Hooves episode of Tell Your Tale (basically, various stages of progress for an episode from the previous season that did get completed and released):
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/unreleased-g5-hearts-and-hooves-song.html

And speaking of TYT animatics, the one shared this week is apparently the final episode that made it to the animatic stage. After this, all that remains to be leaked are the animatics of the two other specials that had been planned for late 2024, as well as scripts and concept art for any other episodes that would've followed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrtJ1MqfrSc
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It's Party Time! / Re: Complicated Alphabet Game
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 20, 2025, 06:58:40 PM »
QLine - Streetcar system in the city of Detroit
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It's Party Time! / Re: Word Connection
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 20, 2025, 06:57:32 PM »
Rye
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It's Party Time! / Re: Word Association
« Last post by The Chronicler on February 20, 2025, 06:56:29 PM »
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