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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: January 15, 2023, 05:57:40 PM »do you think the remaining users of this forum are a perfectly random sampling of the global populationNo, that was my whole point.
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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: January 15, 2023, 04:30:47 PM »Statistically trans and queer folk are over four times more likely to be victims of violent assault and other crimes.We live in the most peaceful and prosperous time in human history, we 1st worlders.
If you are middle-class in some suburb somewhere your local stranger-violent crime rate is effectively zero.
0 * 4 = 0
All of this is kinda tangential, however, to why are we even discussing the proportion of queer folk here? Is it somehow related to the toxicity in any way other than queer folk are frequently discriminated against and the target of abuse?I'm talking about confirmation bias, which is super relevant.
This whole thread is just confirmation bias.
Like the Red Sea increasing in salinity as it shrinks, so too is this forum's fate.
Satellite imagery from the time shows that in August 2010 the shores of the Blockland Forum Sea enclosed over 158174 mi2 of water. By December of 2022 that number was just 398 mi2.
Can you imagine how salty that puddle is now?
Most people played their virtual lego game, posted in the community, bantered, got made fun of, made fun of others, etc. and just sort of moved on silently as they grew up and got busy.
The people who are still here, are here for a reason.
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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: January 15, 2023, 03:32:08 PM »yeah but like, furries and bronies had a thread on every forum in existence, you couldn't go to a specialist forum for discussing new Subaru parts without seeing one.Yeah they were quite the evangelists.
But like, the Roblox forums would probably not have allowed a furry megathread by contrast.
It's the combination of a younger, less-than-casually-online, audience that this stuff appeals to and laisse-faire moderation that allowed it to grow so large.
Post real life pictures of yourself is insane though, in retrospect. We really made it easy for predators, we had a forgetin craigslist board as a forum thread.Intuition?
dunno how you're even quantifying that
If you can't notice it, it may just be the case that your own social group is disproportionally LGBT and so it's what you are used to.
Even the most LGBT-friendly sources then to say that world-wide adults are no more than 1% trans/non-gender-conforming or whatever. For example.
Given the BLF has maybe 100 active users at this point, we'd expect there to be maybe 2 people who are anything but cis-male and cis-female.
the proportion of people who grow up on the internet and present as LGBT will always be higher than the proportion of people you see in day-to-day life because it's not only easier to be clearly LGBT through profile pictures and usernames and the like, but also because it's just easier to be openly LGBT in the online space than it is in reality. people are still being ostracized, disowned, kicked out. and assaulted all across the world and unfortunately it doesn't seem that this is going to stop anytime soon. while the internet has allowed people to abuse anonymity to act as utter loving monsters without consequence, it has also allowed people to be who they truly feel comfortable as without running the risk of ruining their life. it's safe, at least in that regard.I mean realistically in a blue state in the US, you're not really going to get any stuff for coming out. Even in a red state you'd probably be fine unless you're really out in the boonies.
I doubt the users of the forum are hailing from Saudi Arabia lol
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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: January 15, 2023, 03:09:13 PM »It's also almost as if the people who used to occupy those threads grew up and have since learned about themselves and who/what they're intoYou don't think the proportion of people on this forum that are LGBT is higher than humans in general?
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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: January 15, 2023, 01:14:18 PM »
The most replied to thread in the forum's history is the Brony thread.
The second is the thread where children can post pictures of themselves.
The fourth is the furry megathread.
I think that really says everything to be honest.
N.B.
Anyone else notice how all the people who were Bronies or Furries in like 2012 ended up identifying with the LGBT movement as the Brony stuff died out.
Also how it seems like as the forums have died it seems like the proportion of people on here who are LGBT has really shot up. Like it seems like it's >50% of the remaining users.
The second is the thread where children can post pictures of themselves.
The fourth is the furry megathread.
I think that really says everything to be honest.
N.B.
Anyone else notice how all the people who were Bronies or Furries in like 2012 ended up identifying with the LGBT movement as the Brony stuff died out.
Also how it seems like as the forums have died it seems like the proportion of people on here who are LGBT has really shot up. Like it seems like it's >50% of the remaining users.
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Off Topic / Re: blf might outlast kiwi farms lmao
« on: September 05, 2022, 11:56:38 PM »
I heard someone posted a bomb threat on facebook.
I think it's time to shut that website down.
I think it's time to shut that website down.
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Off Topic / Re: The Sins of Youtube | All Centralized Power is dangerous
« on: December 10, 2021, 11:05:44 PM »
It feels like it was only a few years ago people thought youtube being oppressive was just a far-right meme, but these days I see everyone from Josh Strife Hayes, some guy that just reviews MMOs to youtubes that review/talk about guns, to youtubers that post historical music, to youtubers that cover news coming out of China complaning about how stuff the platform has become.
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Drama / Re: Possible DDOSing Suspects
« on: December 10, 2021, 10:59:27 PM »A DDoS attack doesn't stop the second you unplug your router, especially if the internet modem is still plugged in lol. Even then, they wouldn't stop attacking the second they lost connection. The whole point of an attack is to overwhelm your internet resulting in lost connection to begin with.Could get a new dynamic IP tho
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General Discussion / Re: I hope to God Brickadia is not most Blockland players choice as a successor
« on: November 27, 2021, 08:57:55 PM »i can understand why they'd do that, they obviously want to disassociate with the blockland community. i never understood why blockland users do edgy stuff like that but i know it's just filled with 16 year olds going through a phase to get acceptance ( i was 16 once)yeah i heard that brickadia devs were noncesI mean if you just want mainstream sanitized block building game Roblox already exists. Giving people a more "adult" environment to play block game without moderation is probably the only niche they could possibly fill.
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Off Topic / Re: lego only started with these colors because of this guy
« on: November 19, 2021, 09:36:46 AM »
There are legos in other colors
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Drama / Re: Does tony drink too much?
« on: November 18, 2021, 05:22:31 PM »It's strange to imagine tonys old enough to drink.
He made a brony documentary back in like 2013 he's probably older than I am.
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General Discussion / Re: I hope to God Brickadia is not most Blockland players choice as a successor
« on: November 18, 2021, 05:14:26 PM »
The fact they've integrated their community so greatly with discord kind of precludes having the same 'magic' of early blockland. You never had to give anyone your phone number to get an early BL account. You could create alts so long as your have badspot his $10 or whatever. Arguments of all severities we're settled on the forums without mod intervention. Literally any server was okay, once again the mods didn't care.
None of this means it can't be successful as a modern game though. The lack of modding is the main issue there.
None of this means it can't be successful as a modern game though. The lack of modding is the main issue there.
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Off Topic / Re: Read nineteen eighty four
« on: November 13, 2021, 06:17:11 PM »
Don't bother with Orwell, real Jacques Ellul instead.
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Off Topic / Re: Man, if only I could find my computer from 2011
« on: November 03, 2021, 09:04:20 PM »it'll live rent free in my head that drendran's mom took his bitcoin investment money when it was valued at $30My only consolation is that I would have probably sold when I made 2x my money.
e.g. turned $500 at $30/coin to $1000 at $60 a coin.
It seems unlikely I would have held $500 of BTC for 10 years until it was worth $1,000,000.
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Off Topic / Re: Man, if only I could find my computer from 2011
« on: November 02, 2021, 11:34:16 PM »whatd you do with itAt the time it was worth like $3 lol
It's still (maybe?) on some hard drive in my mom's storage locker