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    Default Armchair Intellectuals

    See title.

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    Seconded.

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    no. AI was a stupid forum. If you want to talk about political issues do it in CI or preferably don't do it online.

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    allot of people liked it.

    Cant say I had time for it, but some people seem to enjoy wallowing in a realm of tl;dr

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    Quote Originally Posted by KT_ View Post
    no. AI was a stupid forum. If you want to talk about political issues do it in CI or preferably don't do it online.
    It was it necessarily just for political issues, I like the forum, we just need about triple the members we did of the other CD to have enough people who like to post in there.

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    kt before i didnt like you mostly because of how ugly you are but now you are just a terrible poster

    i second ai, it wont be very active, but you cant talk about politics or any specific subject matter in ci because it won't be taken seriously

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    Yeah and any attempt to do so would be bombarded with 'you're a faggot' and 'this is a terrible thread oh jesus I'm bored and just want to talk about meaningless shit' comments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absolution View Post
    kt before i didnt like you mostly because of how ugly you are but now you are just a terrible poster

    i second ai, it wont be very active, but you cant talk about politics or any specific subject matter in ci because it won't be taken seriously
    Exactly.

    Although I didn't post much, it sure as hell was the most interesting forum to read through on my "politically active" days.

    I thought that AI really was a fantastic forum and it really should be brought back. If it was CI then people would just flame as much as they could without actually flaming. If that makes sense.

    I told my friend that casual discourse was back up and running and he didn't want to join because the forum he liked best was Armchair Intellectuals. And it wasn't here. Just throwin' that out there.
    Last edited by elenore19; 09-21-2008 at 10:14 PM.

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    use casual intercourse for now

    ai will return when there are more people

    right now it would be three threads with mr die and someone who got sucked into his web of insanity

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    casually intercourse instead of going to college

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    We have more users now, and victrola can't seem to defeat my arguments in Flames so he edits my posts, so yeah.

    Quote Originally Posted by victrola View Post
    modernising a nation: albania is still the ass pimple of europe
    Yeah, when socialism ended and capitalism came, poverty went through the roof and everyone emigrated. It was the largest exodus of people since WWII. Thanks capitalism.

    bringing china to the un: who cares if china is part of the UN
    The USA, Russia, DPRK, India, UK, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Canada, Europe in general, most of Africa, generally the entire world, etc.

    overthrowing the ethiopian government: wow what a worthwhile achivement that is - just look at all of the historical sights and valuable resources that ethiopia has to offer any would-be ruler
    Hoxhaists still overthrew the government. They also fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil and against the various military dictatorships of Turkey, not to mention fought against the Colombian government in cooperation with FARC, have seats in the Ecuadorian assembly, etc. Hell, probably the most popular place for Hoxhaism in the West is Britain.

    how about you fuck off back to your world of make-believe where communists rule all nations
    That made no sense.

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    As a former mainly AI poster, I actually prefer talking about politics in CI nowadays.

    AI threads tended to devolve into very stilted, needlessly formal arguments that tended to kill conversation rather than encourage it. Injecting some real(TM) humour into it and maybe getting a bit derailled now and then isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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    to be honest and i am not being sarcastic or facetious flames often and consistently yields more intelligent debates than pretty much any incarnation of ai has

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    ya AI pretty much sucked. (not the mods fault)

    edit: suggesting EB. (unless there already is one and I just don't have access to it.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Supersonic View Post
    ya AI pretty much sucked. (not the mods fault)

    edit: suggesting EB. (unless there already is one and I just don't have access to it.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    flames often and consistently yields more intelligent debates than pretty much any incarnation of ai has
    If by often and consistently you mean always, I agree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    to be honest and i am not being sarcastic or facetious flames often and consistently yields more intelligent debates than pretty much any incarnation of ai has
    I swear in the time CD was down your mind somehow got mangled

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    Quote Originally Posted by Husein View Post
    We have more users now, and victrola can't seem to defeat my arguments in Flames so he edits my posts, so yeah.
    Actually I edited that particular post because I knew it would drive you nuts.

    Looks like I was right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jared View Post
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    Heh, I guess I better get started, lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benzss View Post
    I swear in the time CD was down your mind somehow got mangled
    well i mean think about it. there are titans of ai who are the smartest people ever like exodite and pansophist and nine castles was awesome in ai and so were you and many others

    but flames has people who will say fuck the rules of debate i'm just going to argue my ass off without caring if i use naughty words or offend someone else and basically proved that, at least the greats of flames (of which there were more than there were greats of ai) were far, far better than the average stool water that the dregs of ai churned out, under protection from "no flaming" rules.

    i mean if ai were more selective and had a greater number of really cool posters then it would've been amazing. but it allowed by its very nature an astonishing amount of ass gravy.

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    also because you wouldn't let me forumban people for being retarded.

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    Remember when I was elected Smartest Poster in AI?

    At risk of being undeservedly self-deprecating, that's when I knew AI was completely full of idiots. It was formulaic. On the bright side, it taught me that I can win any election by following a simple formula because I'm me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atmosfear View Post
    ...AI was completely full of idiots. It was formulaic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    to be honest and i am not being sarcastic or facetious flames often and consistently yields more intelligent debates than pretty much any incarnation of ai has
    If "lol faggot" and "gb2ai" is considered intelligent, then sure.

    If not... ouch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    well i mean think about it. there are titans of ai who are the smartest people ever like exodite and pansophist and nine castles was awesome in ai and so were you and many others

    but flames has people who will say fuck the rules of debate i'm just going to argue my ass off without caring if i use naughty words or offend someone else and basically proved that, at least the greats of flames (of which there were more than there were greats of ai) were far, far better than the average stool water that the dregs of ai churned out, under protection from "no flaming" rules.

    i mean if ai were more selective and had a greater number of really cool posters then it would've been amazing. but it allowed by its very nature an astonishing amount of ass gravy.
    Perhaps a partial solution would be to allow moderate flaming, but only in the context of a logical argument.

    Example:
    42 USC 1983 says you can't do that because it's considered a violation of civil rights. You stupid cunt.
    But to allow simple "retorts" of insults would just make it Flames with limitations on the topic of the OP but nothing after that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Galt View Post
    If "lol faggot" and "gb2ai" is considered intelligent, then sure.

    If not... ouch.
    yeah, man, that's all we're capable of

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Galt View Post
    Perhaps a partial solution would be to allow moderate flaming, but only in the context of a logical argument.

    Example:
    that's much worse than flames. flames is insults, arguments and jokes all "integrated". it's not just <argument> <insult> <joke>.

    if someone can propose to me an ai that would work and have sustained activity i'll definitely implement it. i just don't see a need when we can have and are having debates in flames that are intelligent and entertaining. (yes, because it's flames, there's also some retardation and idiocy, but you take the good and you take the bad.)

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    AI with democratically elected mods who answer to nobody but the people, man.

    It's like America.

    Commie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    (yes, because it's flames, there's also some retardation and idiocy, but you take the good and you take the bad.)
    But really, you had that in AI too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atmosfear View Post
    Remember when I was elected Smartest Poster in AI?

    At risk of being undeservedly self-deprecating, that's when I knew AI was completely full of idiots. It was formulaic. On the bright side, it taught me that I can win any election by following a simple formula because I'm me.
    No I remember when you were elected biggest ego on the internet

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    Quote Originally Posted by benzss View Post
    No I remember when you were elected biggest ego on the internet
    he elected himself and decided he had the casting vote

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
    (yes, because it's flames, there's also some retardation and idiocy, but you take the good and you take the bad.)
    You take it all and there you have....

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    i was trying soooo hard to remember that but i couldn't

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    you take the good, you take the bad, and there you have

    my opening statement.

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