An Open Letter to Off-Topic

[TimeLord]

Spider-Mod? Who the hell is Spider-Mod?

Edit: Oh, hey what do ya know I started page 6.

That'd be me. Your friendly neighbourhood Moderator who dresses like Spiderman. But with a shirt and tie. SPIDERMOD!

Spoiler: image to explain

Lies! They should worship bow to respect me as their one true god mod!

I may worship you, I may bow to you, but I will never respect you!

...Wait, I did that wrong, didn't I?

Unbelievers are not tolerated in my temple of Escapia!

 

[AstylahAthrys]

All the harmony and love in this thread... IT DISGUSTS ME.

Seriously, though, I'm finding myself coming here less and less because of how angry and flame-filled most big threads are now. I just want us all to get along! I'd love to go a day without seeing some hot issue turn into a massive flame war and kicked fairly quickly

And I had a cute kitten here, but it was big and spoiler tags aren't working on this thing... *smacks tablet*

 

[anthony87]

Holy crap, we managed to make it to page 5 without a flame-war breaking out! I'm proud of you guys. I really am.

Wish I had the time to respond to everyone's quotes, but there are a lot of them >.>

I think Therumancer mentioned Sarkeesian on page 2 or 3 so.....y'know, watch this space. It's all good so far but one errant quote and the whole thing could EXPLODE!


OT: The amount of Queen in this thread makes me feel all like...

But right now I'm in the mood for something a bit more mellow.

 

[Atmos Duality]

When I first signed up on the Escapist, it wasn't nearly this volatile.
But it seems so many topics are just sitting on a powder keg now.

 

[Meatspinner]

I really appreciate this thread but where was it back in the Boudica days? This feels mild compared to that time.

Also.., Queen

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

The sooner we all dispense with our self-delusions of infallibility, the sooner we can get along.

Now... MOSH!

 

[NSGrendel]

The only thing reading this thread has taught me is that the moderation on these forums seems incredibly selective.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Honestly, trying to get an internet community to open their collective minds is about as feasible as picking nuts out of cow shit while wearing boxing gloves.

It's also as messy as trying to pick nuts out of cow shit while wearing boxing gloves.

I agree with your sentiment, I like a bit of conflict to be sure, because without some conflict, humanity gets all stagnant, but there needs to be a balance, I'm all for some level of chillification!

Not like anyone listens to 'lil ol' Doomy though, so I tend to just lurk and chill.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

Agreed.
Know what we need?

Ducks.

Ducks will cleanse our sins.

Ah man your pic really made me laugh well done

I actually saw this duck live in Sydney (Sadly I forgot my camera at this time) and even heard some joke comments as that the giant rubber duck had eyes that would kill....The duck seemed much closer then too.

There was also some speculation about what the giant inflatable rubber duck would look like as a Magic: The gathering card (you know, because it was during grand Prix Sydney and all).

As for the original topic of the thread I do agree that it would be nice if the internet stopped complaining and calmed down for a little while. Particularly where complaints about music are concerned.