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[Putnam]

I'm reminded of 6th grade trombonists :3

[Dutchling]

*is sensical really not a word? How does nonsensical even work then o.o

Huh... I just looked it up. It's not. Nonsensical is apparently only a word because Noam Chomsky used it in that colorless green colors sleeping furiously thing.

It's Nonsense+ical (and while sensical is obviously not a word, nonsense is), and it predates Noam Chomsky using it by quite a long time.

That makes sense.

Wait no it still doesn't

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Sappho, I read your post, and I thought it was cool. I like reading stuff I wrote so long ago I've forgotten it! But at the time I didn't have anything better to say than "That's awesome, I'll read it when I get home." I don't know why I suddenly felt that was the time to hold myself to some kind of standard for a substantive forum post. I normally post BS. So, sorry if you felt like everyone ignored it :/

It's a problem in threads like this were the conversation is not about a single topic. If two people post, usually the next person posts about one or the other but not both. It's hard to maintain two or more conversations in one thread for long. If you get a couple people who post about something else, your post gets buried. Once it's a page or two deep the hope anyone will mention it is slim - to me it sometimes even feels like the forum culture suggests I shouldn't necro a post in a thread. I don't think that even makes sense but it's how I feel when I read a thread that's six pages deep and I want to quote someone on page 2.

[Putnam]

Hey Ron, what do you do?

"*breathing* CAST MAGIC MISSILE *Breathing*"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-leYc4oC83E

[Vector]

I have to say, I feel like this thread is a select few people having a conversation about trivialities, occasionally peppered with someone trying to share good news, who is then thoroughly ignored. There's been many times I've tried to share genuinely awesome news on here which has not garnered me so much as a "wow, good for you," and I've seen many other people make similar "invisible" posts. I rediscovered a play I wrote (and had successfully performed) four years ago, based on the same story which is now a major motion picture. I thought maybe someone would be interested, maybe even want to read it... It wouldn't be a big deal, really, if it was just a bunch of people listing good things that made them happy, but there are people in here responding to each other. But only responding to certain people and ignoring the rest. I guess that's not what I expected when I first saw something labeled "the happy thread," given the positive reputation this forum community has. It's distressingly similar to the feeling of trying to join a conversation way back in high school and being instantly shut out because I wasn't "part of the group." And surely I'll find other places to get my congratulations, like real life friends - I just felt the need to call to everyone's attention that it's become a surprisingly clique-y atmosphere in this thread, and I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one who's felt like an outsider just for trying to share good news here. And while I'm lucky enough to have good real-life friends who support me, there might be some people who really do need the boost of knowing someone is with them when it comes to their good news, who might be truly hurt by being ignored here.

I want to thank you, first-off, for the posts of this kind that you make from time-to-time.  I really appreciate them.

I'll say from my perspective that honestly, I am probably one of the more responded-to people here, and plenty of times no one says anything.  Hell, I was pretty despondent when only one person said anything about my having been laid off.  And also... we've all got different interests.  Sometimes I go out of my way to greet someone I haven't seen around much, sometimes I need to run, sometimes I'm tired, sometimes all I really feel like doing is flail around over TV shows.  Sometimes people post photos of cute animals and I'm moved to say something, sometimes not.  Often posts fall outside the domain of my interest, like if people are talking about Warhammer--honest to god, I couldn't care less.  People to congratulate someone on a particular interest require a critical mass of interest in that interest.

In the case of your post, I didn't say anything because I was going to link to an essay on whether Frozen is actually adequately feminist, and figured that would be a bad idea--and also because I was reminded of the time I wrote a play, which was performed, and then had all of the credit for writing stolen out from under me by the director.  By that point I really wanted to go do something else for a while.  I mean, those are unfortunately nitty-gritty personal details, but that's why I personally didn't say anything.

Anyway, point taken on cliquishness.  I'll keep it in mind.



As for why I'm happy, there's supposed to be some rain for the next week in this part of California.

[Slayerhero90]

New personal text.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I have discovered that Metroid: Other M is actually tolerable when muted.

[Max White]

Yeeeaaa... Metroid music in its entirety hasn't been the best. I mean the games are really great, but the music... I know nintendo can compose better than that!

[Parsely]

Happy-Sad: My Legend of the Dragoon is busted.. ;-;

Best way to start a game? Burn a village for a girl.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeeeaaa... Metroid music in its entirety hasn't been the best. I mean the games are really great, but the music... I know nintendo can compose better than that!

I'm talking more about the cutscenes.

[Elephant Parade]

New personal text.

Played Off recently?

[freeformschooler]

Sappho, you could always join our IRC on Darkmyst if that bothers you. Like, if you want to show someone off or talk about random stuff, you get a lot more interpersonal interaction (with plenty of the same people) on there.

It's why I don't venture much out of FG&RP. The forum as a whole, even though it's bay12, feels really interpersonal. Finding a social circle not exclusive to the Internet is worth the work.

[Tack]

Eh. I generally blame it on turn-of page.
People don't want to read through the 12 pages they missed whilst sleeping, so they'll generally just click on the last page.
So depending on whether people use 25 or 50 page scroll, if you're at the bottom of the old page, then your thing goes completely unnoticed.

Instance: I had really sad news to tell- sadthreadstyle. I told it, and the next two posters were really sympathetic and inquisitive. And then it was the next page, it was forgotten, and the next sad people shuffled in to share.
I really like it, though. Means you can air out what's troubling you, or what's bright in your day, and you don't have to worry about it being dragged out. I actually have a 'thing' about writing words, because once they're down they're permanent, and a mistake is set in stone. Or ink, or data. So I prefer my stuff to go unnoticed, because after that, buried in a 2500 page thread, someone would seriously have to go through trials to find what I said.

Well...maybe
_{I was honestly thinking about it.}

Woo! See, this is how you close sales. You just have to ask.

"You want to buy a TV?"
"I was looking at microwaves"
"Yeah, but will you get a TV?"
"Ok."

[Flying Dice]

I have discovered that Metroid: Other M is actually tolerable when muted.

It doesn't matter. Just because you don't hear one of your childhood heroines being degraded and acting horribly out of character doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's like if you hear one of your neighbors beating their significant other, and you respond by putting on noise-cancelling headphones: 's not right.

In response to Sappho: That's pretty much par for the course for everyone, and it tends to happen in direct proportion to how personal and detailed a post is. "Got a new, better job!" is easy to respond to, especially if people are vaguely aware of that individual having job trouble in their life. Things that are less banal simple and more tied into personal history tend to draw fewer responses, at least in part, because it takes more time to compose a response, which in turn requires a higher initial level of interest.

Heck, I've had really simple one-line personal life posts completely ignored, but who cares? It's not a competition for attention, and a lack of response doesn't mean that people are consciously snubbing you. Posts in the emotion threads are pretty much like threads in forum (which is actually part of why they exist, to cut down on the mountains of random threads that really don't have enough content to merit a thread); things that happen to interest people will draw responses, things that don't won't. As above, things that are simple and easy to relate to will draw more response because more people will muster the level of investment in the topic (not much).

tl;dr: It's not personal or intentional, it's just the nature of many-threaded conversations like this. Probably 90% of the things posted in these threads is ignored entirely or gets a couple responses, and all of the discussion comes from the rest. If there is a sense of cliquishness, it probably stems from the fact that certain individuals have posted a lot about ongoing personal situations over the years, so there are people who actively care about how they're doing. 

[Descan]

...

I ... read the whole happy thread when I joined...

And I always click on New post instead of last page. >_>