BackSet

BackSet

The Great Thief Yatagarasu! From Camp Half-Blood, Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3.141
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  • LegoLad659
    "Grave danger, I sense, in this boy's training..."
    "Oh... Well, I guess I won't train him then. I mean, how dumb would I have to be to go against the recommendation of the wisest and most force-attuned Jedi we have? He can train to be an engineer instead - He's already built his own robot and racecar!"
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    BackSet
    "Master Qui-Gon asked me to train him."
    Some bullshit, that is. A padawan, you still are. What was Qui-Gon thinking. A different master, we will assign.
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    • Spotlight FallacyLaw: Any community online will become known to the general public by its most abhorrent members.
      • The Troper Tales Solution: Purging sections of the site that encourage unwanted behaviour can allow communities to restore their reputation.
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    • Contribution Desire vs. Contribution Ability Law: Any online environment that allows free submitting, especially those that encourage creative thought, will inevitably receive additions that add nothing from people who just wanted to join in.
      • Corollary: Many of these people, with constructive criticism, will mature into making sensible and worthwhile contributions. Some of them won't. There is no way to tell which is which in advance.
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    • Law of Loonball Polling: If an online poll contains a joke option, expect it to be one of the most popular choices.
      • Corollary: Members creating polls about national issues on internationally-popular sites will have their results skewed by people sincerely ticking the 'Who even is that person?' joke option.
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    • The Shared-name Overshadow Rule: If there are two characters from two different series with the same name, one will be massively more well known (aka have more images on Deviantart/Google images then the other. For example: Scourge the cat from Warrior Cats and Scourge the hedgehog from Sonic the Hedgehog) (See One Mario Limit).
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    • The Law of Overriding Problems: The more noticeable a problem is in something, the less likely discussion about other topics will be.
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    • The Law of Bugs: The more obvious and easy to trigger a bug is, the more people are going to do it on purpose.
      • Corollary: The more broken a bug is, the more people are going to embrace it.
      • Corollary: The chance of a bug being fixed is inversely proportional to how abused it is to circumvent system limitations.
      • Corollary: If a bug is fixed, people are going to complain about missing it.
      • Corollary: As the number of attempts to fix a bug goes up, the chance of successfully fixing it goes down.
    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    This rule and the first and third corollaries should honestly be called "The Melee Principle"
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    • The Law of Great Ideas: The more promoted an idea is, the more it is likely to come from someone who is never going to be able to act on it.
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    • The Twilight Infectioning Effect: If a thread ever mentions Twilight, then the thread will instantly turn into:
      • A thread hating on Twilight
      • A thread about the possibility of vampires
      • A thread where people will threaten, always threaten, people with other Twilight opinions
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    • Kersplusho's Law: If a staff member who is hated by many members creates a thread asking what they can do better, then 3 things will happen
      • 70% of comments will be honest opinions and 30% will be troll comments which consist of 1-5 words.
      • A string of threads asking the same questions by non hated staff (and sometimes members) will pop up
      • 80% of comments of ^ threads will be comments of how much they hate these threads, 20% will be the hated staff members saying they did it before it was cool, and 100% will consist of trolly/sarcastic comments. Nothing will be honest feedback
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    • The "Lock the Gates" Phenomenon: If a forum has been online for an extended amount of time, and veterans hang around, new players will cease to stay due to the use of inside jokes, phrases and just an air of 'us, not you'. When the length a forum has been online approaches infinity, the chance a new user will stay approaches 0%.
      • Corollary: If veterans return to the forum after an extended amount of time, whether it be for a special event or not, they will almost positively be negative to all players, excluding other vets.
      • Corollary to the Corollary: Veterans who have come back for no reason then to hate and troll, will directly hate other veterans who don't hate the forum's franchise/topic/etc.
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    Person: *Watching a clip from an old kids Show* Hey, I remember this show. Heh. This scene was pretty funny.
    Person: I must now take to the comments to inform everyone of how much better these shows are than the ones we have today and that my childhood was better because I am incapable of letting other people enjoy things and I know I will likely run into likeminded jackasses here and won't have to defend my opinion.
    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    Comment sections are either unanimously positive or unanimously negative. There is no in between, and if there is, it's downvoted to hell so the popular opinion stays on the front page.
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    BackSet
    Sad but true.
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    • The "One and Done" Law: If a forum has a dedicated section for users to make a post introducing themselves, there is a high probability that this will be the only post they make.
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    When you're planning to just hunt and peck and accidentally read the whole article.
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    • Martin's Law, Reflexive Corollary: If during an online argument anyone accuses their interlocutor of living in their parents' basement, the accuser has identified themselves as exactly the sort of internet troll who may well live in their parents' basement.
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    • Martin's Law: If during an online argument anyone accuses their interlocutor of living in their parents' basement, the argument is over and the accuser has lost.
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    • The Chatroulette Law of Nudity: The willingness of a user to post and freely distribute nude and/or lewd pictures and/or videos of themselves online is inversely proportional to the number of other users who actually want to see such material, and directly proportional to the number of people who will reach for the Brain Bleach if they see that material.
    Sounds about right.
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    • The Fantendo Law: The larger a website, especially a wiki, grows, especially a wiki that allows non-registered users to edit, the higher the likelihood is that it will be filled with boring, uninspired list articles. The staff of said website will often complain about how something needs to be done, but never actually do anything. The page/thread count in said website will often be well over 10,000.
      • Most of the pages will have uninspired names, often made from Snowclones. For example, on a website that allows Mario game ideas, expect to see from 50 to 400 pages called "New Super Mario Bros ____". Often said blank is a symbol such as a triangle or a music note for no reason other than "they weren't taken yet."
    I feel retroactively guilty.
    BackSet
    "Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real."
    I don't have anything else.
    "That's okay, there's a currency exchange near the center of town, they'll help you out. I'll hold hyperdrive until you get back."
    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    What do you mean? This is Tatooine, we have a reputation for being unnecessarily difficult to keep up!
    BackSet
    BackSet
    That would be the point.
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    • The Law of Forum Selling: If a forum gets sold to a large corporation, the chances of it staying active are near enough nonexistent. It will also often be just left to stagnate until closed down.
    BackSet
    "Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?"
    Yes, actually. Master Yoda says that in order to best combat your enemy you must know more about them so he's taught us all sorts of Sith legends. By the way, since you know that legend and are not a Jedi this adds further fuel to my theory that you are the secret Sith Lord.
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    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    Really? I didn't know that. Then again I've only watched the movies and played some of KotOR, so that might explain that already XD
    BackSet
    BackSet
    I've been watching a lot of Star Wars videos because they've been appearing in my recommended on youtuve.
    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    Fair enough XD
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    • Betteridge Rule: 98% of leading or speculative questions in thread titles have the answer "No".
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    • Late to the Party Rule: 98% of questions beginning "Has anyone else noticed..." in thread titles have the answer "Yes".
      • Corollary: 98% of questions beginning "Am I the only one..." have the answer "No"; in the remaining 2% of cases the thread backfire will be in the most spectacular manner possible.
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