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How much of an idiot is Purplegoo
Massive
9%
 9%  [ 4 ]
Even Bigger
2%
 2%  [ 1 ]
Super-Massive
11%
 11%  [ 5 ]
Macavity
20%
 20%  [ 9 ]
Pie
55%
 55%  [ 24 ]
Total Votes : 43


Purplegoo



Joined: Mar 23, 2006

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 22:39 Reply with quote Back to top

Hi all,

I made a post in the recent timeout thread, and then thought better of it and went to delete it. I'm a forum mod for legacy reasons, and I accidentally clicked the 'delete thread' rather than 'delete post' button. I went too quickly and missed the warning I was about to delete the thread.

Christer says it is not recoverable, so sincere apologies for removing your posts. I shall be more careful in future.
Uber



Joined: Mar 22, 2004

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 22:43 Reply with quote Back to top

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koadah



Joined: Mar 30, 2005

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:04 Reply with quote Back to top

Fine work. The staff here are excellent! Mr. Green

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Malmir



Joined: May 20, 2008

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:04 Reply with quote Back to top

Haha - no worries

ARTHUR: Old woman!

DENNIS: Man!

ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?

DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!

ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.

DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.

ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'

DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?

ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--

DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!

ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...

DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress--

WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

WOMAN: King of the who?

ARTHUR: The Britons.

WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.

DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--

ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

WOMAN: No one lives there.

ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?

WOMAN: We don't have a lord.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive powerjust 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!

DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!

ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!

DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
ArrestedDevelopment



Joined: Sep 14, 2015

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:07 Reply with quote Back to top

Good work, no good could come of it anyway.

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Malmir



Joined: May 20, 2008

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:09 Reply with quote Back to top

ArrestedDevelopment wrote:
Good work, no good could come of it anyway.


No good could come of people agreeing where they stand before a game starts?
ArrestedDevelopment



Joined: Sep 14, 2015

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:19 Reply with quote Back to top

Malmir wrote:
ArrestedDevelopment wrote:
Good work, no good could come of it anyway.


No good could come of people agreeing where they stand before a game starts?


I meant the general way these threads tend to go - and it was beginning to diverge anyway Smile

The initial idea was good and something i generally do - "I play to 4min" if i think there's even the slightest chance i will need to TO or it's a tourney.

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Malmir



Joined: May 20, 2008

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:25 Reply with quote Back to top

ArrestedDevelopment wrote:
Malmir wrote:
ArrestedDevelopment wrote:
Good work, no good could come of it anyway.


No good could come of people agreeing where they stand before a game starts?


I meant the general way these threads tend to go - and it was beginning to diverge anyway Smile

The initial idea was good and something i generally do - "I play to 4min" if i think there's even the slightest chance i will need to TO or it's a tourney.


I take your point about it diverging from something simple and beautiful - you said that right?
Shraaaag



Joined: Feb 15, 2004

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:29 Reply with quote Back to top

With great power comes great responsibility.
I think you did us all a favor. The timeout discussion wouldn't solve any thing

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Balle2000



Joined: Sep 25, 2008

Post   Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 23:50 Reply with quote Back to top

For all the words you have contributed to the site, Purplegoo, I'd say its only fair that you removed some too.
Dalfort



Joined: Jun 23, 2008

Post   Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 00:01 Reply with quote Back to top

You should have called this thread: Time Out Thread Timed Out...

*edit: and the only thing people could be upset about is that you gave no warning...

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stej



Joined: Jan 05, 2009

Post   Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 00:36 Reply with quote Back to top

A moot point no doubt, but for "official" tournaments, maybe the rules need to be explicit in advance and auto enforced by the client (either timeouts, reserve bank or auto lose if you can't post a live stream of you putting out your cat being on fire within 30 seconds of going over the 4 min mark)
ArrestedDevelopment



Joined: Sep 14, 2015

Post   Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 01:14 Reply with quote Back to top

There really is no need for any change - expect a timeout unless your league/tournament forbids them (it is literally the rules that you turnover on 4 min), and otherwise if you need to go afk, close the client. Done.

Malmir's suggestion was merely something to give common ground to bother parties and establish a pre-game etiquette so there were no surprises.

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garyt1



Joined: Mar 12, 2011

Post   Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 01:21 Reply with quote Back to top

An undo button needed. In fact a client undo button needed for taking the wrong action!.. diving tackle eh...no not moving afterall thankyou Very Happy

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Dalfort



Joined: Jun 23, 2008

Post   Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 01:42 Reply with quote Back to top

garyt1 wrote:
An undo button needed. In fact a client undo button needed for taking the wrong action!.. diving tackle eh...no not moving afterall thankyou Very Happy


To make it more like TT? Wink

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