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Yeah I didn't realize I had put it in the original post until after I had tried to fall asleep for 20 minutes heh.
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Cool sounds good.
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Kyrsimys wrote:
Dear Fabian, I definitely don't want to get caught up in a long debate about the Swedish society (which you of course know more about than me), especially in your awesome thread, but let me just say that neither I or that article is saying that every muslim is a suicide-bombing terrorist that hates women. I merely wanted to know what you thought about this and whether it is seen as a problem within your own community. About your government going too far, I was talking about the Social Democratic party bringing in more and more people from African and Asian countries and then giving them more money, making them perfect voters for the social democrats. In any case, I did not mean to insult your country and I do know that it still is, for the most part, a great place to live in.
I read a few more paragraphs of that god awful article. It puts me on huge tilt that people are able to write crap like that and pass it off as serious journalism and that people apparently buy it. Anyway I'll try to answer your concerns as civilly as I can. I don't see "this" (meaning foreigners?) as a problem within my community. "About your government going too far, I was talking about the Social Democratic party bringing in more and more people from African and Asian countries and then giving them more money, making them perfect voters for the social democrats." This is just.. what? Not sure where to begin here. "Giving" Africans and Asians money and "bringing them" to join the political party to make them "perfect voters"? I just don't know what to tell you here. I'm getting the sense you're a guy who strongly believes in nationalism and take great pride in your Nordic heritage? Am I close? This is a viewpoint I have a very very hard time sympathizing with, and to be honest I don't think this discussion is going to lead us anywhere. I don't want to outright insult you and call you a closet racist, but I don't have a good ending to this paragraph. Anyway no need to get defensive, it's easy to experience miscommunication on a forum. What I want to recommend to you is reread that article and try to find things that you might consider to be unfair and biased. I'm not saying this is any kind of condescending way, I think you would greatly benefit from keeping a more open mind that's all.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Fabian, what actions do you suggest for the administration / moderators to carry out for the purpose of making the forums better? Or were you referring to only Off-topic in particular? Also, should I start an "ask Bisqwit" thread?
Can't think of much you can do as an administrator. The important part of a community is its members and if they suck you're not left with many options as the admin. I discussed this some in another reply earlier, but yeah when I said that I was mostly referring to non-game specific stuff. Off topic, Workbench, Published Movies, Sites, General I guess. As I said earlier, I can't really comment on how the actual TASing is going because I'm not informed enough. I don't think an ask Bisqwit thread would work very well because you don't strike me as the kind of person who enjoys openly answering questions like this. You prefer shorter and ambiguous answers so people aren't quite sure what you're thinking and can't hold it against you later if they want to call you on it. This is not a knock on you at all btw I just think that wouldn't quite cut it for this kind of thread. I'm also worried it would be turned into a theological debate after the first question which would kinda suck imo. That being said I'm sure there's a number of people who look up to you as the admin and would think the thread would be a good idea.
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Bablo wrote:
Dear Fabian, Do you get more questions than you expected get?
Yes. They're also not quite the kinds of questions I expected, though these last couple ones have been more along those lines.
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Kyrsimys wrote:
Dear Fabian, As a Finn, I am very interested to know what you, as a Swede, think about the Swedish society. Do you think Swedish democracy is collapsing? Do you think that the government has gone too far? I recommend the article to anyone who thinks that the Scandinavian welfare states are ideal places to live.
First of all I did not finish that article because it seems like a pile of rubbish. Some idiot journalist decides to take a few quotes from some extreme fundamentalist religious group and hyperbole it into "RELIGIOUS WAR STARTS IN SWEDEN!" in order to paint the picture that every muslim is the scum of the earth and that terrorist attacks are upon us. Yeah never heard that before. "However, Fjordman has documented that Swedish Muslims called for terror attacks against Sweden even before this incident happened. This text was posted on a large Swedish Muslim forum in February 2005: [bla bla text]". Oh noes somone posted something on a forum? Give me a break this is not journalism this is sensationalistic biased idiots with some agenda against muslims. To answer your other questions, I don't think Swedish democracy is collapsing and I have no idea what makes you think that. I don't think our government "has gone too far" and I have no idea what you mean by that. As a Swede, I think the Swedish society rocks very very much. I can't think of any country I would rather live in.
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jimsfriend wrote:
Deer Fabian, Do you really expect this topic to have an effect on the forum besides just this one topic? You say you want people to make useful posts that are more than two sentences, but how do you think questions and answers to various questions in this topic will affect posting behavior elsewhere? I don't really think it will have a noticeable effect (and don't see why it would). Why do you feel you must save the forum and bring it back to the glory days? Either I misread, or you claim to be happier now that you get up and do things rather than rot in front of your computer all day. Wouldn't bringing the forums back from suckage to something actually worth reading just give you a bit of cause to sit back down and rot again? When things start to interest you a bit, I would think that refresh button might become attractive. Have you considered this? And do you think it is a silly notion? More to come later maybe. For now, I'm voting yes for "should I go to sleep now".
You misunderstand me, I don't expect this topic to have an effect on this forum beside this one topic. One non-sucky topic is better than zero non-sucky topics, that's really it. I don't think it will affect posting behavior elsewhere. I don't necessarily "feel I have to" make the forum better. This is no crusade. It's just an attempt to create something worth reading instead of "rridgway can you stop sucking so much lol", and I don't really think attempts to improve stuff need to be justified. I'm not worried about making tasvideos so awesome a place I just can't take my eyes off the forum and get stuck here forever. This seems like a pretty improbable scenario, and even if tasvideos would suddenly rise up to the level of the past, the cause/effect of "tasvideos forum gets more enjoyable to read/quality of life goes down" is not something I worry about either. To be honest I don't really spend less time on my computer now, I just feel better doing it as of late.
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Blublu wrote:
Dear Fabian, Why does non-alcoholic beer exist? This has always baffled me.
1. People who don't drink don't want to feel left out of social situations where not having a beer would look weird or make them feel weird. 2. People like the taste of beer but can't go around drinking a six pack every morning and expect not to be fired for being a worthless drunk. 3. Beer companies think it's a useful way of getting a younger demographic sucked in. Make them (children) associate beer with a cool relaxed evening of fun from an early age and there's a greater chance they'll end up buying lots and lots once they hit 13-14. This would be the same kind of reasoning why chocolate cigarettes exist. That's a few possible theories off the top.
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Phil wrote:
Dear Fabian, What are your favorite TV series? Do you think marijuana should be legalized? What is your opinion about death sentences? How babies are made? Adelikat said: "and Phil is the last person that should be criticizing". What do you think of that? Is Fabian your real name? JXQ said: "Apparently Billy "won" because Phil's and immature power-abuser...". What do you think about that? What do you think of current JXQ's signature?
Favorite TV show would be The Office (US version), Arrested Development or early seasons of Scrubs. Don't make me pick one! Don't have a strong opinion on marijuana, I've never smoked myself so the subject is kinda whatever for me. From what I understand, marijuana is a less serious drug than alcohol and nicotine. It seems illogical to have one banned and two allowed just from tradition, I don't see alcohol or nicotine being made illegal considering the money the government makes from them. I'm guessing overall, legalizing marijuana would have a small positive effect and I can't really think of any negative effects. Death sentences. I support them in theory, I feel you need to be certain there are no innocent convicted however. This is a pretty big obstacle for it to work well in any kind of realistic scenario. I have no moral or ideological (this might be wrong word) objections to it though. How babies are made? Penis in vagina. Go from there. "Adelikat said: "and Phil is the last person that should be criticizing". What do you think of that? " I'm not sure of the context here but I think what he means is that you are not in a situation to be criticizing someone, because you're no better than the person/thing you're criticizing. I'm not sure what to think of that since there is no context, but I'd guess it's probably true. Fabian is indeed my real name. "JXQ said: "Apparently Billy "won" because Phil's and immature power-abuser...". What do you think about that?" As I recall, this is pretty much how it happened. Unless my memory fails me, the Bimmy thing was used to describe a movie, and you went apeshit because you felt it was inappropriate. You edited it for personal reasons and used the excuse "jokes don't have a place in movie descriptions" despite there being a whole lot of jokes and less-than-super-serious stuff in them already. At this point, as I recall, Bisqwit decided you guys were being stupid and told everyone to stop editing the movie description. One could argue a more reasonable solution would have been to edit it back to its original state before placing the editing ban. Anyway that's the situation as I remember it. So let's go over the important parts of the quote. "Phil is immature" Check. Arguable of course, but I'd say it's pretty damn immature to start a petty bullshit argument over something as stupid as this just because you have a personal connection to the game and dislikes a joke the publisher makes. "Phil is a power abuser" Check. Same thing applies here really. Using your editor status to modify the site to suit you better personally instead of keeping the general well being of the site in mind as your first priority, does indeed constitute being a power abuser. Note how you could make the counter argument that you WERE doing it in the interest of the site, but the reason this argument is not valid is it's just not true and you and I both know it. All in all it seems like an accurate quote to me. I think JXQ's current signature is funny, for the same reason I think my signature is funny.
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JXQ wrote:
Dear Fabian, Why doesn't Comicalflop like me? T-T-Totally Dude, -Jixie
I'm probably forgetting a lot of the reasons. I think it probably has to do with him being a fan of N64 TASing and you being, well, not. I'm also guessing he feels you complain a whole lot about random shit. I can't recall any specific arguments you two have had at the moment.
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Rridgway wrote:
Dear fabian, What is your take on current world events?
No idea what you mean specifically and I probably would have no idea even if I did.
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adelikat wrote:
[18:12] <Fabian_> hey adelikat do you want to hear something cool? [xxxx] yada yada, blah blah, stuff not related to said comment [20:30] Fabian_ has quit ("sleep") [20:33] You are no longer marked as being away Aww shucks, we just missed each other. Hearing cool stuff is always...erm, cool. Dear Fabian, could you tell me something cool (specifically elaborate on this irc question). Lovingly, adelikat
The cool thing I was going to tell you was I've been ask to join Cardrunners.com, which is the largest poker coaching website there is, as a guest pro. This basically means making two instructional videos of me playing poker and telling people how they can improve their game a month, as well as doing some private coaching on the side for them. Definitely the most exciting poker related thing that's happened to me, I think it's pretty cool.
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Chamale wrote:
In your mind's ear, how do you pronounce my name?
Not like everyone else actually. This lead to the rather funny situation of me not getting the joke of calling you "Chalame" even after months of calling you that. Then one day I was like "wow LAME I get it!". That's how stupid I am. Anyway in my mind's ear I pronounce it more like cha-MA-le.
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alden wrote:
Dear Fabby, Can we call you Fabby? At least here? Do you think you will ever be overwhelmed by the popularity of this thread? Is it easy to move to Sweden? Would that make me cooler? Yours Sincerely, TAS Noob from California
You can't call me Fabby. Not even here. I was going to say no but then I saw how many new posts this thread had just now so now I'm saying maybe. But yeah, no I'll be fine. I'm not sure how easy it is to move here. I only know of one American who moved here for six months, and I can't recall him mentioning any specific troubles with being allowed in/to stay here or anything. To be honest I have no idea what it takes to get to stay long term though. I think you would like it here though, the climate might be a little cold (choose southern Sweden) but everyone speaks English pretty well and if you can get by without putting mayo (or other disgusting American food habit) on everything you should be fine. Moving to Sweden would by default move you up one or two notches on the coolness scale.
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Everyone, Awesome start to this thread, great questions so far! Keep them coming please. I'm going to bed but will be back in the morning :) I don't intend this to be a 2 days then it gets buried kinda thread. What good would that make if we're back to the same old crap afterwards. This is more of a marathon thread than a sprint thread, and if you have a question you want to ask, I definitely want you to post. I'll be here. Good night.
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Post subject: Re: Ask Fabian
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Tub wrote:
Fabian wrote:
How should I know?
I kinda hoped for a wild guess, but anyway. I've read your previous posts before postings, so I know your reasons. You're right about the offtopic being less fun than it was. Thank you for trying to make it better. I strongly disagree about the other forums though. We never had civilized discussions to begin with, so I doubt that's gotten worse. Most of the uncivilizedness came from personal conflicts and stupid pride - with some of those who often acted up posting less frequently, I actually think it has improved. What's also gotten better is that there are less superfluous posts of people attempting to be funny, keeping the information/post-ratio higher. Something I value in work-threads, especially when trying to dig information out of a 100-page OoT thread which contains 50% spam. No, seriously, I enjoy this forum more than I did a year or two ago. so here's another question to keep your post cou... ehm, the thread going: Dear Fabian, why can't we all be as awesome as you are? Sincerely, Tub
Yeah I can definitely see work-threads being better for the reasons you state. To be honest I don't follow any, I occasionally read the Super Metroid thread and have looked at Mario 64 and OoT (which is indeed not a great example of a better forum today) a couple times but that's really it. Mainly though I think it's just different perspectives. I've always enjoyed the "trying to be funny" posts, at least the general tone they have created. Again though this isn't really true for work-threads and you have a very solid point there. For instance, I don't mind a slightly worse information/noise ratio in a typical General thread. I think the atmosphere used to be pretty nice around here, then the people who made it enjoyable stopped posting, pretty much. That's my perspective. I'm not sure if you're 0% serious or 5% serious but if you are slightly serious, thank you very much. If you want to become more awesome (not you personally, a general note), humble down a couple notches and realize differing viewpoints from yours will very often be correct. From this follows that you will be incorrect (not when the topic is subjective of course), and if people were able to acknowledge this and accept this they would instantly start sucking much less, in general.
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mmbossman wrote:
Fabian wrote:
As for forums, I hang out on exactly two. This one and www.twoplustwo.com, which is a poker (my "career" of sorts) forum (2+2 is a publishing company for gambling related books) with plenty of sweet off-topic'ish action too. As far as forum time goes it's something like 90-95% 2+2 5-10% tasvideos.
Interesingly, I kinda thought this because there have been a ton of "Ask me about being a bouncer/anorexic/cokehead/etc" in BBV4L lately. And I do agree, their off topic section is far superior to this sites, but that could be said of almost any other site on teh interwebz, due to it being so awesome. Plus they have nearly 100k members, which helps w/ the discussions. Nice to know there's a fellow 2+2er here though. Also, in my 4 month hiatus, that's where I spent most of my time online, although not improving my poker game as much as I should have.... staying break even is pretty much what brought me back to TASing.
The Ask Me threads started in OOT like 18+ months ago actually, the somewhat recent BBV4L versions are just copycats of that. This isn't intended to be one of those kinds of threads though, more like a Dear Abby kind of deal. For some reason people are focusing on asking me personal questions, though I definitely don't mind as I enjoy attention as much as the next guy. Good luck with the poker playing!
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Zurreco wrote:
Fabian, if we aren't in the same gang, does that make us enemies? Maybe we can be associates in the greater good? Why don't you love me?
I guess I kinda used to kinda think of you as an "enemy" if you will because I considered you to be one of like 4 smart people on this forum and I enjoy feeling better than everyone else. Also you insulted me a few times which kinda pissed me off and I can be very grumpy. The reason I don't love you is because I don't really know you, and the vibe I'm getting is we probably wouldn't be great friends even if we put some effort into it. I appreciate that you can occasionally be serious behind the sarcasm and cynicism, but I think I would like you more if you showed that non-sarcastic side more often. I think associates will work out well though.
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kwinse wrote:
Dear Fabian, What is your opinion on modern gaming systems (such as the Wii and Playstation 3)? What about the games produced for them?
The most modern games I've played are either Resident Evil II for Playstation or Ocarina of Time for Nintendo 64. I've never seen a Wii or Playstation 3 (or 2) in my life and couldn't name a single game for them except Twilight Princess (which might be a different console, who knows), sorry.
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
Dearest Fabian, Do you think an 8 can signify a low 9, such as 92%?
Normally this is the kind of stuff I would just ignore, but that quote is just too hilarious to ignore altogether. Yes, I do think an 8 can signify a non-high 9, for example 92%. Inside jokes isn't really what this thread is about though so I'm being nice here.
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Deign wrote:
Dear Fabian, If Nintendo never made SMW, what would you do? Sincerely, Deign
Deign, SMW is an extremely tiny part of my life, all things considered. If Nintendo never made SMW I would have spent slightly more time playing card games (poker and Magic the gathering) and wouldn't really notice any difference.
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Post subject: Re: Ask Fabian
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Tub wrote:
Fabian wrote:
This forum sucks really badly compared to a year ago, I'm sure you all will agree on that.
Dear Fabian, I don't agree on that. Why? Sincerely, Tub
How should I know? If you're wondering why I feel that way, I answered that in my first reply.
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AKA wrote:
Dear Fabian Do you worship Nitsuja
Not at all. I don't know him except for a brief PM like 18 months ago when he tried to fix some emulator error I had, for which I'm very grateful.
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mmbossman wrote:
Fabian; Does your avatar have an specific meaning to you? Also, if this forum has become crappy in the past year, what are your new favorite forums to frequent? (as a note, I haven't spent a lot of time here the past 4 months, and I've noticed off topic is a little less interesting, but the main point of the site, TASing, is still strong. Feel free to comment on that idea if you see fit).
My avatar is just kinda a joke. I told some people on IRC "ok time to make an avatar I'm going to mspaint it and I'm going to call it Abstract Painting #1 hahahahah". It was one of those nights, it was hilarious at the time. So no, no special meaning. I do think my mood avatars are hilariously awesome though. As for forums, I hang out on exactly two. This one and www.twoplustwo.com, which is a poker (my "career" of sorts) forum (2+2 is a publishing company for gambling related books) with plenty of sweet off-topic'ish action too. As far as forum time goes it's something like 90-95% 2+2 5-10% tasvideos. I'm not too sure about how strong TASing is going, mainly because I have so little interest in almost every new run submitted. Like I said earlier I pretty much watch Super Metroid, Sonic games, SMW/SDW and some other Mario games I guess and very little else. I feel in general the community as a whole is getting worse though. One big reason for this, I feel, is the increased competitiveness and general hostility between forum members. When was the last time you saw a civilized discussion here? This doesn't necessarily affect the movies themselves, but I think it might, because as more people come to think of TASes as frame competitions rather than awesome looking super sweet movies, the heart and soul of the runs disappear and you're left with just a stopwatch, if that made any sense. I should rewrite this but I've spent enough time on it already so.
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Raiscan wrote:
Dear Fabian, What are your future aspirations and ambitions?
Finding a girl/woman who I really really care about to spend my life with. I know that sounds cliché and stupid but really everything else is just kinda whatever to be honest. I'm not too optimistic about it either since it appears to me love typically doesn't work out at all. Fingers crossed. Professionally, my hope is to find something I care about enough to feel good about working with for 40+ years. I have enormous trouble with motivation and always have, and there's nothing at all I really feel passionate about at this time. So I'm taking baby steps on this one.
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