OT: Hostility in Forums

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A great debate is one in which both people learn.

Pride (That is, thinking oneself more capable than one is) does indeed goeth before the fall.

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Randallw said:
In my experience, worst comedies? US remakes of British comedies.

A key factor I think is that British comedies have an idea what they want to write. Sort of "I have a few great ideas for episodes" and they condense it down into 6 great episodes a year. In the US they seem to have an idea and when they get made the writers have to wrack their brains to develop 26 epsiodes a year.

Not only that, but the show has to last four seasons/100 episodes to be considered viable for syndication, which is almost pure profits.

There's a great show called "Top Gear". It's about cars. Now that's normally an area I have zero interest in but it's entertaining because the presenters make jokes about stuff and have fun. If the car they're testing is a piece of junk they will call it a piece of junk. I read lately that Jay Leno thinks the idea of a US version is doomed as the presenters can't criticise anything in case the sponsors take offence.

That's something that could work on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service; AFAIK, the only nonprofit TV network in the US). PBS is where the original versions of "Brit-coms" get aired. (Also on BBC America, but that's a cable channel so I've never seen it.)

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Atrocities said:There is a sincere lack of etiquette when it comes to manners of people who use game forums.

All Internet forums, actually, not just gaming forums. I usually don't even look at the comments section on news sites, because they're just too painful to read.

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I usually don't even look at the comments section on news sites, because they're just too painful to read.

Come on capnq, some of them are pretty funny! I guess until you realize that these people are serious...

AT is right about alot of things in his 'long' version of his 2 cents. One more thought about that is, those people should never lead or be in power as you need an open mind to be able navigate through lifes twists and turns... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon12.gif[/img]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It's amazing how much can be blamed on marketing.

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Don't forget the media!!!

[AgentZero]

I think the above attachment does a pretty good job of summing up AT's rant.

I'm rather hungover and sleepy, so I don't have much energy to coat this thread with another layer of sarcasm, but if someone happened to mention something like, oh say, people who think video games should qualify as sports, well then I think I could come up with something suitably vitriolic.