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[LeoLeonardoIII]

I once explained online video games like MMOs as simply a play-by-mail game that developed a faster exchange speed.

You start with play-by-mail, and it takes a week to get your turn results. Then someone comes up with play-by-forum, and you can get your turn results as fast as the human referee will process - perhaps daily, perhaps hourly during a peak time. In a ninja-thread you might get your turn results before you answer a few other topics and circle back to the game. In an MMO, the referee is a server and your computer and the server communicate so fast that your "turn" is really less than a second long and you get one a few times per second. We now have play-by-mail games in the form of MMOs that can process turns faster than the human player can request them, meaning there is no more improvement needed in exchange speed.

I say this because once you reach a certain volume in a play-by-forum game, the medium no longer really supports the game, and it either needs to be split into smaller games with fewer participants, or fewer turns per participant, or transfer into a medium with a higher exchange speed.

[Furtuka]

Do you guys think it would go badly if someone made a poll of what religious beliefs the board population holds? Just as a demographics test, debates would be hopefully exiled to the other threads by the power of the OP.

[Aklyon]

Do you guys think it would go badly if someone made a poll of what religious beliefs the board population holds? Just as a demographics test, debates would be hopefully exiled to the other threads by the power of the OP.

No, but it would go badly because you forgot X. Whatever X turns out to be, jedi, pastafarian, helix, etc.

[Helgoland]

Be sure to differentiate between X and crypto-X! You'll get at least two responses for crypto-Catholic.

[Aklyon]

Be sure to differentiate between X and crypto-X! You'll get at least two responses for crypto-Catholic.

That sounds like someone wanted to do bitcoin but was too religious to call it bitcoin. (and I'm probably entirely wrong there)

[Dutchling]

Be sure to differentiate between X and crypto-X! You'll get at least two responses for crypto-Catholic.

I don't think persecuted Christians are going to answer those polls...

[My Name is Immaterial]

Do you guys think it would go badly if someone made a poll of what religious beliefs the board population holds? Just as a demographics test, debates would be hopefully exiled to the other threads by the power of the OP.

No, but it would go badly because you forgot X. Whatever X turns out to be, jedi, pastafarian, helix, etc.

Which is why I recommend that you make it a survey hosted by a third party service, not the forum, so you can have fill in the blank questions. Google does a really good survey thing, I used it to much success for one of my classes.

[Scoops Novel]

Anyone know much of anything about girl bands, particularly why are so few of them? Englishman speaking.

[Mr Space Cat]

Anyone know much of anything about girl bands, particularly why are so few of them? Englishman speaking.

you're gonna have to clarify what kind of bands you want to see with girls. Metal bands? Folk music bands? Indie rock? Pop? Cover bands? Punk, grunge, reggae? All girl bands, or bands that have at least one female member? Female vocalists? "girl bands" is a pretty broad topic.

As to why there are so few, that's hard to say why when the subject of "girl bands" remains so broad.

I can think of a bunch of bands that have at least one female member off the top of my head. All-female groups are harder, but I can still think of examples.

I'd think a reason --this is off the top of my head and purely logical assumption, no statistics or anything to back it up-- would be that girls with musical interest get into the solo pop/country/whatever branch of music, and that they're encouraged to do so due to the already common number of pop stars and country singers. Additionally, commercial music industries would likely encourage this as well because girls are easier to sexualize and sex appeal is a viable marketing and advertising tactic. *cough Katy Perry cough*

So, girls wind up with the mentality that a "solo" music career is what they're supposed to do, rather than get into a band with others and play instruments, because all the successful musical girls in the past were solo artists who didn't have any specific band group identity.

Do you want examples of female bands? You didn't ask for examples, but I could give examples.

[Scoops Novel]

Yes, please all-girl ones that we're at one time mainstream, or you believe, TRULY BELIEVE, are soul-rendingly good. I'm surprised there aren't riots in the streets to be honest to be somewhere near it (woo, that was close).

[Mr Space Cat]

Right, examples of bands with at least one female member. A majority of the female members are vocalists.

Spoiler: off the top of my head (click to show/hide)

Garbage--grunge, fem vocalist
Nightwish--operatic power metal, fem vocalist
Iron Maidens--all female iron maiden cover band
Butcher Babies--all female thrash metal band. they really play up sex appeal with their tour outfits, and could be popular for some less than musical reasons, but it's an example.
Arch Enemy--thrash/death meta, fem vocalistl. Notable because it's a female vocalist doing heavy metal growls and screams.
Heart--80s rock, fem vocalist
Paramore--pop-punk, fem vocalist
Djerv--hard rock, fem vocalist
Of Monsters and Men-folk pop rock, fem vocalist
Wild Thing--indie folk pop rock, fem vocalist

Spoiler: EDIT: other bands I found (click to show/hide)

the Veronicas--all female pop rock duo
In This Moment--metal, fem vocalist
Halestorm--pop punk, fem vocalist
Flyleaf--pop punk, fem vocalist

And, uh, that's all I can think of immediately. Could've sworn there were more than that I could think of. My favorites from that would be Garbage, Paramore, and Heart. Djerv is also good, just found them recently, their vocalist is swell. I'm not familiar with the country music genre and there's probably more bands that I've heard songs of but can't recall the names, only the songs. Probably stuff from the 70s or 80s or 90s. Also note that good music is based on opinion and my idea of "soul rendingly good" might not match your idea of "soul rendingly good"

It could be possible that girl bands aren't a huge thing because aside from female vocals, there's not much a girl could do that a guy couldn't do with an instrument, barring sexualized show acts such as Butcher Babies. Which makes girls somewhat of a niche in commercial band music. Girls with interest in music who want a career might think they have a better chance of going with a solo career, or specializing in vocals rather than an instrument, because that's what's in demand or popular and likely to get work. Classical music or backing vocals to do stuff like latin ominous chanting for movies could also be a more viable career choice for female musicians.

If you want more/better examples of commercial bands with female members you could google search for "female bands". First hit is a Wikipedia article of "all female-only bands."

[kaijyuu]

The Bangles come to mind.

I may only know this since one of their songs was used as the ending theme for the latest season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

[Levi]

Anybody know how I'd connect a small flexible plastic water tube to a larger PVC pipe?

[Frumple]

... glue?

I mean, I don't actually know the proper way, but I'd suspect from what I've been observing the past few weeks some silicone-based grouting or glue would work, if perhaps not be the proper method of doing so. Then maybe some of that... tape, stuff. There's specialized tape for water pipes and whatnot.

Alternately, there's probably parts built for doing just that sort of connection. Local hardware store should be able to point you in the right direction.

E: Oh, though, uh. If you go that route. Make sure not to get any on your hands. Silicone adhesive doesn't like to come off skin.

[Levi]

Makes sense.  I'll look around for some kind of connector.