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Samhain
08-23-03, 09:42 AM
...do you belong to? I was registered to only 1 board until this month, Sherdog.net. Lately that board has become a haven for useless crap and is not as fun anymore, so I decided to join a board that actually deals with a subject I love : Movies and Film.
So what other boards do you guys belong to? How do they compare to here? Not exactly an intellectual discussion, but hey, it's early. :)
MyRobotSuit
08-23-03, 11:24 AM
I 'belong' to this message board and also
http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/
which is a radiohead fan board. It's ok but sometimes a little childish. It can be quite slow sometimes too as there are usually about 60 members on at a time.
Erm, this is the only one i've come across with a broad range of debate - so here i am. And if movies be the food of love, spin that damn reel, I'm a hungry man ;)
So the film discussions are often in depth and quality, and there's loads of characters with great differing takes on things here.
And if you want to discuss stuff - well - you got to be rig-or-us to stay on the wave. ('scuse bad spelling in the name of obscure word-play ;))
The totally dogmatic and childish normally wave bye-bye coz they can't take how the ideas fly. So the standard of debate is pretty cool too.
I guess i should spread my wings more tho - never knew about these new style of forum things [when i went to uni it was all unix i'll have you know -*gurn, gurn*]
Samhain
08-23-03, 12:07 PM
I'm all up for debate personally, I love hearing the opionions of others whether or not I agree. The other board i post on can get pretty juvenile, if I join in on a discussion I'm usually called an ahole if I don't make a fart joke or some other ridiculous thing.
I belong to more message boards than I care to remember. I usually get turned off by it's unbearable flame-wars and general n00bi3n3ss. So this is the only one I really ever post on anymore. Props to MoFo for not being n00bish ;)
Samhain
08-23-03, 06:54 PM
This board is such a world of difference from the other one, I love it. 2 boards is enough for me though, yikes!
Caitlyn
08-23-03, 09:06 PM
I’ve lurked around a lot and posted on a few other ones off and on but MoFo is my home… :yup:
I was part of matrixfans.net a long while back .....I am staying here for good, because this is where I belong. :cool:
r3port3r66
08-24-03, 02:01 AM
My first, my last...I think...
Revenant
08-24-03, 05:44 AM
This is my second forum. The other one I'm running short on subject matter to write about. I visit there now about once or twice a week to look but there is hardly any thread that I feel interested to reply to.
Its the Dark-Legacy forums in the Silent Hill Sanitarium...
Sanitarium (http://www.dark-legacy.org/)
Have a look if you want. It's not just about Silent Hill, which seems to spring about numerous theories, but other games too. Films are also mentioned but not to the extent on here. Its a good site, I've just lost interest in it of late.
firegod
08-24-03, 05:55 AM
This is the only one for now, but I've been a regular on several in the past. My reasons for loving this place were explained very well by Golgot, but I would add the fact that I LOVE movies.
sunfrog
08-24-03, 06:05 AM
3! :cool:
I belonged to about 6 movie forums, I now only belong to this one, I left the other ones for several reasons:
e.g. Not friendly
Not a great range of topics
Not friendly to people who don't know much about computers i.e. me.
ugly graphics
People at MoFo are friendly, funny, smart, interesting :babbling:
Revenant
08-24-03, 04:15 PM
People at MoFo are friendly, funny, smart, interesting :babbling:
.......or in my case mildly peculiar and dull.
.......or in my case mildly peculiar and dull.
That was an intriguingly peculiar offering ;) Chin up oh "pedes silenti" (does that mean silent feet? Are you italian?? - come, share your secrets mystery man/woman)
Revenant
08-24-03, 05:38 PM
That was an intriguingly peculiar offering ;) Chin up oh "pedes silenti" (does that mean silent feet? Are you italian?? - come, share your secrets mystery man/woman)
pedes silenti is latin. It means 'walking the dead' or 'the walking dead', not sure which as I checked an English-Latin dictionary and I don't speak or read latin, but either meaning works for me. I wanted something a little different anyway.
I'm all British. As far as I'm aware there is no secret alternative nationality hiding in there. (No exotic mix for me.) :(
Physically I'm female, but not very feminine. Mysterious nope, secrets nuh huh. Excusing the yeti I've got caged in the basement of course, and the pet ghost haunting the old mill up the road, and the real crown jewels hidden under my bed................. :p
and the real crown jewels hidden under my bed.................
I'm british too! I'm telling the queen! You're in trouble now ;)
(see you outside buck palace to watch the changing of the guard as normal then? it's traditional :yup: :rolleyes: )
Revenant
08-24-03, 05:57 PM
I'm british too! I'm telling the queen! You're in trouble now ;)
(see you outside buck palace to watch the changing of the guard as normal then? it's traditional :yup: :rolleyes: )
...............I might get recognised, I'm infamous as a criminal. :D
...............I might get recognised, I'm infamous as a criminal. :D
You're not REALLY that guy with the hook who was at the finsbury park mosque are you ? :eek: ;)
Henry The Kid
08-24-03, 06:23 PM
I belong to one other forum, that tends to be more active than this one. It's a much larger forum, so it's not as agreeable to some people. The topic range there tends to be about as broad as it comes. I ended up coming here because the movie forums there are just too big and too active to even bother trying. I mainly just post off-topic there now.
Which one's that Henry? (will i migrate? Hmmm. I do like a good debate ;) - nah -too many good people here to disappear :))
Anyone here a member of MoVa?
Henry The Kid
08-24-03, 09:06 PM
Which one's that Henry? (will i migrate? Hmmm. I do like a good debate ;) - nah -too many good people here to disappear :))
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/forum
I frequent Off-Topic and a few splinter forums(There's over 10,000 forums there, technically). Some months it's very liberal, some months we get raids of neocons. If you avoid the troll ultra-conservative threads, there's plenty of interesting debate there.
Aha - a liberal breeding ground (with neos to sharpen the teeth on - perfect ;))
Cheers man
Incidently, what's the origin of the neo-con terminology do you know? I was just pondering about how close it is to the incredibly manipulative "New Labour" title used here by Tony Flair and his industry-led, but still trying-to-be-socialisty, "middle-way" politics. [even tho near all the privatisations have been a joke - Thatcher did the easy ones and they turned into monopolies. Flair and co. tried it with the trains, which SO need to cooperate, and it's been disastrous - and now their mates profit from semi-privatisations like agency-nurses and cleaning staff in the hospitals. And god did the cleanliness go down]
However, for now, it might be one way to practically balance state and rapacious-industry. Still feel that by mediating he ends up cow-towing to the bigger power-punch that industry has. But i guess it's up to the populace to push back. And man do people just give in and buy the t-shirt instead ;) :rolleyes:
Henry The Kid
08-24-03, 10:20 PM
Aha - a liberal breeding ground (with neos to sharpen the teeth on - perfect ;))
Cheers man
Incidently, what's the origin of the neo-con terminology do you know? I was just pondering about how close it is to the incredibly manipulative "New Labour" title used here by Tony Flair and his industry-led, but still trying-to-be-socialisty, "middle-way" politics. [even tho near all the privatisations have been a joke - Thatcher did the easy ones and they turned into monopolies. Flair and co. tried it with the trains, which SO need to cooperate, and it's been disastrous - and now their mates profit from semi-privatisations like agency-nurses and cleaning staff in the hospitals. And god did the cleanliness go down]
However, for now, it might be one way to practically balance state and rapacious-industry. Still feel that by mediating he ends up cow-towing to the bigger power-punch that industry has. But i guess it's up to the populace to push back. And man do people just give in and buy the t-shirt instead ;) :rolleyes:
Neocon just refers, more or less, to our modern Republican party. The standard conservative has changed a lot in the past few years.
I don't know much about how your privatizations are going over there, but on a somewhat related note, I think Bush has finally made the right decision for once with his latest attempt and privatizing airlines. Unfortunately, it will likely be shot down completely by congress. We likely disagree heavily on the privatization thing since business and foreign policy are the two areas where I'm most heavily Libertarian.
What's bushy-boy set about doing then? (I'm sure he's capable of good things - tho the energy/Enron fiasco going on now isn't a good precedent) Personally i'm against free-form privatisation - some things need the cohesion of internal cooperation-facilitation that "free-trade"/deregulisation/all-out-competition don't provide. Industy-leads-the-way absolutism has some demonstrably bad side effects
It's be interesting to know if neocon is a self-imposed title. It bears many of the hall marks of the "for-ever-re-generating/innovative/new" ideas that Flair and co. so cleverly came up with. I was sure other movers were jealous that they hadn't thought of it too ;)
He is the king of spin :yup:
Erm - here's a forum that might interest brits who like wind-power and positive-action (just to stay almost on topic ;)).......
http://www.yes2wind.com/
Sexy Celebrity
08-24-03, 11:37 PM
I just joined Rotten Tomatoes for the heck of it - Sexy Celebrity there too.
It's pretty damn monstrous - we could get swallowed there (tho you might like that ;))
Ah well - good to have both the bustling city and the comforting village at your doorstep :yup:
[sorry Yods - you just got rusticated ;)]
Henry The Kid
08-25-03, 12:48 AM
It's pretty damn monstrous - we could get swallowed there (tho you might like that ;))
Ah well - good to have both the bustling city and the comforting village at your doorstep :yup:
[sorry Yods - you just got rusticated ;)]
Rotten Tomatoes is actually where I met Yoda. Heh. He's not a big fan of it anymore, to say the least.
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