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Announcements / Re: Permanent forum staff assignments have been made

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:54:44 PM »

But some of these mods are still active mods on the other site.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 08, 2013, 01:53:54 AM »

I agree with it being an animation with no actual person in the video. Those are simply much more interesting to most of the internet, I think, whereas showing an actual person with a chalkboard is probably going to look comparatively amateur and kinda shoddy. Think slightly grainy, poor acoustics (almost definitely) that makes it seem filmed by some student for a school project...which is really just more a case of I doubt Rooster has professional recording equipment.

Whereas with a smaller animation and simply a voice-over, all we really need is an animator and a good microphone (which Crudblud might have, I don't know?).

Another important thing, I think, that a lot of people overlook, is that we should make sure to check the voice-over first. Moreso if Thork does it—no offense, it's just that Crudblud seems more like he'd be more inclined towards professional-sounding readings. I'd done acting and voice-over stuff in school for years, so I get overly critical about this stuff and get really upset with amateur readings where it's clearly from a script.

I don't even have a board of any kind to write on. I'm definitely not going to be the face of the FES, I'm here for the community. There's no way I was going to be in a video.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 07, 2013, 10:41:37 PM »

Or were they just trolls?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 07, 2013, 10:39:59 PM »

I am not enough of an authority to be in the video. The only thing I could possibly do is model shirts if we ever make those. But I'm not much of a fox just pretty average.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 07, 2013, 05:43:06 PM »

Fucking redditors.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead

« on: December 06, 2013, 10:40:42 PM »

A country that has one of the highest crime rates in the world, where a woman or girl is raped every 4 minutes. A country where no one is prosperous, except the corrupt power @ the top. A country that went from being one of the most advanced nations in the world to being just slightly better than the rest of the hell-hole nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Does that answer your question?

So you are saying you can go twice as long without being raped there than you can in the lovely USA...

Every 2 minutes, another American is sexually assaulted.

Here's the math. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey --there is an average of 237,868 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year.

There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31,536,000 seconds/year. So, 31,536,000 divided by 237,868 comes out to 1 sexual assault every 133 seconds, or about 1 every 2 minutes.

Hmm, well sexual assault is pretty vague and encompasses rape and very mild things. It can be a threat or just touching someone's butt against their will.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: December 06, 2013, 12:20:20 PM »

I need the thing I'm missing to install the thing I'm missing.  It's terrible.

Get a flash drive or SD card, install that onto it from a different computer, then copy it onto your system.

Same ominous feeling.

How can you get an installation error when you wouldn't be installing anything?

I don't show up cause it's boring.

It's pretty nice. I mean, as long as you have it open and aren't only doing that. That would be boring. And also dumb.

It is. But when I get on my computer I'm usually playing a game so it doesn't really work out.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: December 06, 2013, 04:19:16 AM »

Why don't you go talk about how boring I am with your little girlfriends. >:|

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: December 06, 2013, 03:49:07 AM »

You guys are like a bunch of gossipy girls talking about people behind their backs.

If you ever showed up, you'd do the same.

I don't show up cause it's boring.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: December 06, 2013, 03:03:43 AM »

You guys are like a bunch of gossipy girls talking about people behind their backs.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead

« on: December 06, 2013, 01:58:49 AM »

EJ, I realise you're not the brightest bulb in the batch, but how can you call Mandela an African-American?! He never lived in the US! African, yes. African-American, no! I think, in fact, that your bulb is entirely dark.

Stop being so stupid. He says things like this on purpose and you fall for it every time.

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Announcements / Re: New logo!

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:38:14 AM »

Not yet, had it for a year now and still can't figure that out.

It's normally some combination of the power and volume buttons.

Or the lock and home button.

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Announcements / Re: New logo!

« on: December 05, 2013, 01:41:21 AM »

This seriously almost makes up for all the boys you've kissed.

It's wonderful, Balkno.

Whoa, you didn't have to quote me to thank "Balkno."

Yes I did cause I share the sentiment. It's not my fault people are posting on here like crazy and it was 2 pages back.

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Announcements / Re: New logo!

« on: December 05, 2013, 12:48:19 AM »

This seriously almost makes up for all the boys you've kissed.

It's wonderful, Balkno.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 04, 2013, 11:19:26 PM »

What about a video version of a debunk of the Minute Physics video noobs like to post?

That could also work, but it should come after the initial video. The more videos the more traffic.

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Suggestions & Concerns / FES Video

« on: December 04, 2013, 06:48:34 PM »

I'll get this rolling with its own thread. I suggested that if we want more traffic we should make a video that links back to this site and start posting it around.

So far we have Pizza Planet willing to edit the video.
Thork (or possibly Crudblud) can do the voice over.
And Spoon offered to provide background music.

Maybe we could work on the script together here. Now what kind of video should this be? Should this video describe the FES as a whole and the movement up until this point?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: FES Book Club

« on: December 04, 2013, 12:14:55 PM »

I thought this was a book thread.

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Announcements / Re: Help wanted to make this place better

« on: December 03, 2013, 06:49:19 PM »

Also, if people want more traffic then maybe we should make a video with the site's link and start posting it around. People could write up the script while someone else is the spokesman.

As long as other people are writing the words for him to say, I nominate Thork as the spokesperson.

British accents do add respectability.

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Announcements / Re: Help wanted to make this place better

« on: December 03, 2013, 06:47:45 PM »

Also, if people want more traffic then maybe we should make a video with the site's link and start posting it around. People could write up the script while someone else is the spokesman.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 03, 2013, 06:20:07 PM »

Yeah, I don't think I'll play them and if I do I'm not worried about any spoilers.