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Off Topic / Re: whats your favorite letter?

« on: January 07, 2024, 01:11:29 PM »

u. Because I love u all. <3

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General Discussion / Re: What does username RLCBM stand for?

« on: December 27, 2023, 04:44:26 PM »

Is there any reason to believe he isn't just running a bot that he looks at occasionally for the time related stuff?

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Off Topic / Re: Dedicated in V21? (help section is dead, sorry)

« on: September 26, 2023, 12:49:59 PM »

don't you also need the -dtoken argument for dedi servers?

https://blockland.us/steam-dToken.php

https://blockland.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_host_a_blockland_Dedicated_Server_(Current_Day_Edition)

Only if you use the .bat file as mentioned in the first link:

The token is like a password that allows a dedicated server to post a listing to the master server in your name, without having to install steam.

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Off Topic / Re: Please stop dying - or make a time machine!!!

« on: September 25, 2023, 04:36:32 PM »

I take it you've never used the farms because none of what you're describing is true. They have an off topic board, game board, etc, just like we do - except way more users. Well, probably not anymore considering its an onion link now. TOR can forget off

Care to explain why it's an onion link if they don't have some serious problems internally?

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Off Topic / Re: Dedicated in V21? (help section is dead, sorry)

« on: September 25, 2023, 04:00:49 PM »

Use -dedicated as a launch argument.

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 21, 2023, 08:39:40 PM »

what was that drama series where badspot would expose support emails? like Badspot would rather broadcast the concerns of an uneducated parent worried out about their child being groomed on the exact same forum to the same lurking creeps instead of just telling the parent there's nothing more he can do other than what he can do. yeah at the time it was entertainment because of how this forum is...but that's just...bad, dude...

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=135632.0
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=140207.0

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 21, 2023, 09:24:08 AM »

Plenty of people have been banned and some even key revoked over the years.

Yet there were few, if any, documented cases of groomers getting banned which is what this conversation is about.

Before your forum account was tied to a BLID, repeat offenders wouldn't just get "forum account" banned they would get IP banned. However, an easy way around this was to use a VPN or Proxy Server Website (i.e HideMyAss). When that started becoming popular Badspot implemented a thing to catch people using popular proxy websites to access the forum and make a new account. This proved to be impossible seeing as how there are tons and tons of proxy servers anyone could use to gain access - a blacklist simply wouldn't work.

I used to do this, and you're right. However, it's certainly mitigation and isn't the norm in the new system, especially for groomers which I'll talk about in the next quote. Of course, none of this works if they don't get banned in the first place. Again, I don't think there were many (or potentially any) documented cases of groomers getting banned.

So, in order to stop repeat offenders from making a new forum account and continuing what they were doing, Badspot made each forum account tied to a purchased BLID as a way to deter people from doing stuff to get banned. Unfortunately even a strategy like that could do nothing to stop some kid from getting his parents credit card and doing it all over again. Now forum accounts are literally locked.

Did you miss the core point of the conversation? This is about groomers, not the Iban types of the forum. Yet you seem to be talking about the latter. Buying a new BLID isn't a big deal when you can literally make a huge profit off of grooming children. Sure, IP banning and ban on sight isn't going to work 100% of the time, but it's going to work a lot better than what essentially amounts to nothing in this scenario. Forum account registration being locked doesn't matter because it eventually kills the forum anyways.

To say he took no measures at all to prevent or address toxic behavior is incredibly inaccurate

Show me some examples of groomers getting banned by Badspot for grooming. I could also argue about how moderation for even toxic behavior was woefully inadequate, but then we get into an argument over moderation philosophy, so keep it at groomers which should be cut and dry.

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 20, 2023, 04:09:08 PM »

Problem is even if he genuinely cared and was proactive in stopping it, he would've still been quite powerless to stop it. Grooming often happens outside the site where they meet there victim, where a predator can maintain a better private channel of communication with their victim (ex. Steam, Skype, Discord, etc).
This by itself is why keeping children safe online has always been notoriously difficult and why even big platforms still struggle to deal with it. The best line of defense to prevent a child from being groomed will always start at home.

Even if it was brought to Badspot's attention and he had banned the predator's forum account and revoked their key for good measure- it's already too late because the grooming has been taken elsewhere where Badspot cannot moderate. If most of these grooming attempts were initiated via forum PM, he would not have known about it unless the victim had reported it.

Banning the forum account + revoking their key would certainly help prevent future victims, especially if they're put on a ban on sight list. Of course you can't stop it, but it can certainly be mitigated; Badspot had not taken any of these measures to mitigate these behaviors. Also, they would likely wind up messaging someone who did know the signs and report it. It's not a guarantee for sure. However, it's not the fact that he failed to prevent it; it's the fact he took no measures at all to prevent or mitigate it unless it was glaringly obvious and sometimes not even then.

I wouldn't be assigning a decent amount of blame to Badspot if he took steps to not let things like this happen.

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Off Topic / Re: Post old messages that make you cringe

« on: September 15, 2023, 09:41:27 PM »

Don't really want the link.

I think roleplaying is garbage and completely useless to do because nearly all of the roleplays of today become love RP's or live a short lifespan.
The lack of criticism that many roleplayers so direly need nowadays.
Most existing RP's end up staying the same but the only existing roleplays are private.
I got like 20 omegle conversations where the question i asked both of the two people said they loved love RP's.
How the forget people don't know normal RP i don't even.

For hiring blocklandian as your white knight, he had requested you pay a monthly bill for being your white knight, it could range from $125,000 to $1,000,000.

For the first month the current bill is: $186,206

Pay by cash through screen or credit card or cancel white knight subscription services.

Trymos is a free white knight service for equally as good white knighting.

My dream is the cause of my phobia of star9578 because of the gayness in the dream.

Remember that picture of spike seeing applejack and rainbow dash together in the bath tub? It's sorta like that until the raping came. I was thinking of that image before i fell asleep, i was thinking about star9578 at the same time too. stuff happened when i fell asleep.

Star's OC was in the bath tub too in the dream. Spike found out they were all in the bath tub and he went to get his rope.
He tied them all up with god powers and then raped them all while star's OC being raped the most by triple the amount applejack got. Then my OC came in and helped the raping, star's OC vowing that she will hate me forever.

I can't continue because i can't remember the rest.

I never dream that kind of stuff, this being one of the first gay dreams i ever had.

I actually wrote and sent this message, what the actual forget.

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 15, 2023, 09:30:37 PM »

While Badspot is a pretty flawed and pathetic person, he doesn't deserve a lot of this blame for people's personal problems. Every person who still clings to this place despite thinking it was the worst thing ever should evaluate whether something was Badspot's fault or the fault of their upbringing. I'd wager a lot of these folks (Swallow included) were on here completely unsupervised while growing up, lacked the direction/support they needed as a child/teen, or were already suffering from unfortunate living circumstances in their offline life.

Really his worst crime would be telling a child on the Internet that they're an idiot. Nonetheless, I hope these folks get the genuine help they need, because blaming Badspot for their current troubles while convenient, is not going to help them in the long run.

Both Badspot and people's parents can be responsible for the situations many of the people on this forum found themselves in.

Parents for not supervising as they're neglecting to properly care for their kids, but it's also worth mentioning that even that is also not as clear cut as it first seems since the internet was still relatively new and most older people weren't familiar with it even going into the early 2010's when Blockland was at it's height in popularity.

Badspot is responsible because it's still his responsibility as the owner of the site to, you know, moderate it. You could argue that poor upbringing is the reason that people get into grooming situations, and you would largely be right. However, it's hard to deny that if Badspot actually banned many of the groomers (and we're not even getting into the racism/family values/telling the entire forum to kill themselves) then the risk of getting groomed on the Blockland Forums would be significantly lower even with the stuffty upbringing. This was something he was aware of and is completely within his power to accomplish, whether by hiring actual moderators or doing it himself.

Swollow, i understand why you're resentful, i really do (i also agree that badspot needs to get a bit of a grip)

but i seriously recommend you try to let go of that anger and blame, i held resentment towards this place for years and it negatively impacted my life without me realizing. 

letting go and forgiving is not condoning the actions or agreeing with anyone, it's nothing more than taking the weight off your own shoulders and not allowing the people who hurt you to have power in your life.

it's going to be okay.

also try to remember what you're doing at your current age vs what trolls did at the same age back then, and that should tell you that you're far better off than any of them.

Badspot's opinions are wacky and he's really out there, but it shouldn't bother you that much. don't even worry about it and just breath.

you seem like you went through some stuff but seriously, you just beat life on hard mode and should be proud of that.


who should we even blame for this kind of stuff?

i blame the 2000s. i blame ignorance towards mental illness and the internet.

i blame the times and the society we lived in for endorsing that kind of behavior. a lot of us hid this kind of stuff from our parents, leaving them unable to properly supervise us.

i used to hold badspot and his moderation responsible, but i realized he was unable to control the community due to either his own mental issues or not understanding the depth of internet harassment. i'm not excusing the type of stuff he allowed to fester, i'm just saying i don't blame him for it.

hell, the way he discusses and views the opposite love could be evident women treated him badly, we don't know what happened in his life.

At one point i began blaming the community as a whole, then i realized not everyone was responsible or "knew better"

finally i blamed the perpetrators themselves, but then i realized something probably happened in their life to make them act like a richard or want to kick down at children.

the ones that turned into freaks were probably touched, this does not excuse child enthusiasm, obviously, but it's a true fact. loveual predators usually come from a long string of abuse that never got properly dealt with. they are forgeted up and sick in the head, obviously not condoning their actions, and yes they should still be held responsible for such actions.

i'm just saying if society had given them the proper help at a young age they could probably recover and be a normal person. (yes i know some people are just wicked and do it for no reason, those are the ones that need to be punished/executed/locked up/whatever)

there is probably some kind of weird psychological stuff we don't understand yet. there is probably something mentally going on with the people who used the internet at a young age, we were the first generation exposed to this kind of technological bullstuff during a crucial age.

so in short, i just blame the world for being a forgeted up place. we grew up in a really weird time (i don't need to explain how trashy the 2000s were) and just need to do what we can to end the cycle and deal with these newfound issues that literally did not exist 40 years ago.

People meet like minded people all the time, abused often befriend abusers for familiarity; thinking that's how a relationship should work. People unsupervised and with stuffty parents often befriend others in the same situation. People with PTSD find solace in others who also have PTSD strangely enough. Healthy and successful people befriend other healthy and successful people. There's an adage for all of this: "Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are."

The point I want to make is that the world isn't broken or especially bad, but it appears broken as that's all you see and are familiar with; seeing positive and healthy people with a good outlook on the world doesn't resonate and often aren't befriended subconsciously due to the unfamiliarity and lack of understanding of each other. This is also why rich kids/young adults are genuinely surprised to hear not everyone gets a Ferrari for their birthday (and you are surprised that they do); they both didn't get an opportunity (private schooling) nor did they befriend or properly get to know someone when they did have the chance.

The world is both thriving and broken, and whether or not it is thriving or broken for you is determined by how you see it and what you're familiar with.

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Off Topic / Re: how have the last 5 years been for you?

« on: July 19, 2023, 08:52:26 PM »

Just the average normal thing you can expect every Blockland forumer to go through in the past 5 years. A family member completely shattering my reputation throughout my entire family through lying, thinking about Self Delete for several months after, lots of therapy, starting gender transition which saved my life and never thought about Self Delete again, staying low profile from my family while I worked on myself, I lose my insurance which ends up repairing my relationship with most of my family while I make the decision to go live with someone I met on the internet 2500 miles away, going to a community college to get my GED then going there for real living out the best days of my life, and now I'm planning a trip to meet my boyfriend I met on the internet.

You know, the usual stuff we all go through. How about you?

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Drama / Re: Badspot came back (kinda)

« on: June 30, 2023, 09:46:25 PM »

I'm surprised Badspot didn't reply to my criticism. Is it that I made you actually have to think about your values once in your life? Do you only like easy targets? Is it that I'm to "mentally unwell" to be worth replying to? Is it that I chose not to criticize the core discussion of your article? I can absolutely spend another 3 hours refuting your core criticisms of western character design if you'd like.

Why do you only pick easy targets to bitch at?

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Drama / Re: Badspot came back (kinda)

« on: June 29, 2023, 07:58:23 PM »

It's been so long since I've gotten angry at someone.

I don't think I've ever been as enraged as I was reading that article. To think I used to look up to Badspot a long while ago. I seriously can't loving believe I'd be here right now so enraged having read that absolute dog stuff dumpster fire that he calls an article.

You know what? I've been considering it, but maybe it's time to go out and try to make a difference.

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Off Topic / Re: happy pride month everybody

« on: June 29, 2023, 07:41:10 PM »

Well your argument was stupid to begin with. He made an article making fun of ugly troonified characters in the modern gaming sphere? That's not a dissenting opinion to hold, in fact this stuffs been well documented for the past several years. This is basically your definition of beauty vs his, don't see your point.

...By also saying stuff like calling a character a "fat ugly queer black cripple"? Is this supposed to be a joke? Am I supposed to be laughing?

Oh yeah, you're saying stuff like troon, what else could I have expected from you?

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Off Topic / Re: happy pride month everybody

« on: June 29, 2023, 04:06:24 PM »

Camel, I've already explained this but I'll try again.  That is a raw image I saved from 4chan that I included as an addition at the end of my article.  I did not create that collage.  I did not verify the contents of the collage beyond a passing glance.  It is bonus content for the reader to examine themselves.  That's why the images are linked with tiny thumbnails and no captions.  Normal people can figure this out from context.

You did not understand what "unfiltered" meant in context.   You did not understand the use of a phrase as a noun in a sentence.  You got confused about who the word "I" was referring to.  There isn't really any point talking to you because you don't know how to read.

Your argument is valid, and makes a lot of sense, so let's go ahead and actually read your article.

Producing defective artwork like this indicates a defective mind, so it is unsurprising that the game was also plagued with technical problems and design issues.

...Oh dear.

Of course, I shouldn't cherry pick quotes from your article, so let's use plenty, and for good measure let's post the link to the full article here:
https://badspot.us/Ugly-on-Purpose.html

The entire article, from top to bottom is largely about picking apart various female video game characters as ugly, and explains in detail why they are ugly. In this article, there are various parts where you insult the developers and/or journalists in bad faith. On top of the quote above, here are some examples:

"""Real""" Woman
A "Gamers have never seen a real woman" article,
written by a delusional male to female transloveual.

In reference to Aloy's appearance, also includes a picture of the journalist. This is in it's own section, so I'm not leaving out much irregardless of her appearance.

Niko vs Aloy
Unfavorable comparisons have been drawn between Aloy and professional fat sack of stuff, Nikocado Avocado.

Diversity High Score
The ultimate in diversity, a fat ugly queer black cripple. They have the technology.

They love making black people ugly because they want to make sure you don't have any enjoyment from the diversity that is being forced upon you.

Lawbreakers was a failed multiplayer hero shooter shat out by delusional billionaire and cringe black-belt Cliff Blezinski.

Epic games ran an online course titled Defining Real Virtual Beauty where an expert 'appearance researcher' defined real virtual beauty as her own stupid face and doofus haircut

This is based off a real person. Her name is Debra Wilson. She used to be on MadTV and was more normal looking, though still bug-eyed. As she has aged, she has done several things to intentionally make herself ugly such as gauging her ears, tattoing her entire body up to her neck, and shaving her head. This firmly cements her as a priest in the satanic cult of ugliness. They love her because she defiles her own flesh.

These are examples of you insulting the game developers, and if this is meant as a joke then it kind of shows that you get a good laugh by putting other people down. If this is meant to be something serious, then why are you using ad hominems in your own article?

There are also examples of you calling fat people things or hambeasts. There are different kinds of insults here on various populations that you have wrote as well. I could spend another 30 minutes reading your article and gathering them up, but it's prominent enough that it shouldn't be hard to see for anyone who decides to even so much as skim the article. Nevertheless, I'll show off a couple of the highlights in case you decide to edit or delete the article:

Finally we have fat ugly downs syndrome albino cripple representation.
It's like a stuff version of the Burger King Kid's Klub.

Tweet
They captured a weird potbelly goblin, digitized her, then tweeted about it.

Seriously, some of the parts of this article I read and I can't even tell if it's meant to be funny, actual commentary, or both. The humor seems to be largely about putting other people down, and the commentary, while potentially worth talking about and is capable of provoking discussion, is ruined by the jokes about the developers and various populations at their expense. I do want to emphasize that there is actual commentary here that can provoke genuine discussion, like face scanning people can lead to uglier people and how this can be interpreted as disrespectful to the women who provided the scans, but since the article was written the way it was it's just going to set off emotions.

Furthermore, I could go into arguments about how I think a lot of the examples in the article look fine and how stories of normal people doing exceptional things exist, or how some pictures are cherry picked like in the Injustice: Gods Among Us part, but you are accusing others of using ad hominems while either you are using them yourself or your entire sense of humor is about attacking other people and their appearance, and that's what this post is meant to address. If you do respond, do not pretend I ignored your article; this is about your writing. Why write it like this?

Bonus:

Q: You are [a|an] [.*ist|.*phobe], douchebag, virgin, starfish, loser.
A: But am I wrong?

Wording matters, has always mattered regardless of the generation, and this rule applies no matter what your beliefs are. If what you say offends the people you're trying to convince, and let's face it, a decent number of otherwise neutral people who would otherwise agree with you or laugh about it now probably wouldn't because of the insults you used in this article.