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Games / fnaf movie (part 2)

« on: November 01, 2023, 05:21:22 PM »

continued from mr queebas post a while back, I just wanted to say I thought the movie was going to be terrible but it turned out to be actually pretty decent

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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here

« on: November 01, 2023, 05:16:41 PM »

a few times a day I'll just reflexively open a new tab and type "f", which inevitably autocompletes to https://forum.blockland.us/, then I'll look around for a few seconds, get bored, and close the tab

I do this same thing actually, except I instinctively type "for" and hit enter. It's usually the first website I check when I wake up just out of habit

i still check the forum at least once daily even though i barely even post here anymore. it's like a catch 22, i don't post because other people don't post but people don't post because others don't.

that's basically it for me too lol

I've made quite a few friends because of this game throughout the years, some who I still talk to on an almost daily basis - at least once a week or so if I'm busy. Also I still find enjoyment making things for this game in my spare time. had a lot of fun hosting the Halloween server this year as well. I'd like to thank Badspot & everyone who still plays/hosts/mods for continuing to keep this great game alive for so long

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General Discussion / Re: BlockOps: Zombies

« on: October 27, 2023, 05:53:08 AM »

testing & playing this was a blast! you guys did an amazing job creating a faithful blockland adaptation of black-ops

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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Vending Machine! (OP missed 10 year anniversary and should feel bad)

« on: October 21, 2023, 04:23:34 PM »

you receive 2 dollars worth of coupons

I insert a golden wrench

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

« on: October 01, 2023, 01:59:02 PM »

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

oh woops guess i missed that last part, thnx for the heads up

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Gallery / Re: [VIDEO] - Block Wars: The Complete Saga - Episode II - Attack of the Sand

« on: September 28, 2023, 05:02:47 PM »

lol, these are great. enjoy your vids

respect for all the work you put into this

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

« on: September 25, 2023, 06:27:21 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)

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums

« on: September 22, 2023, 04:46:51 AM »

Tbh I'd read the reports on this forum for sure. I'm sure it's pretty funny. It's literally 5 minutes of pure personalized humor for him, pretty sick imo.

lol if badspot did a topic where he posted the most whacky reports ever received

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Creativity / Re: TOBYWORLD and ALL THINGS TOBY

« on: September 21, 2023, 02:08:18 PM »

toby looking a bit rough these days

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 21, 2023, 01:16:51 PM »

Folks such as Bisjac and Otis da Houskat were openly spewing predatory stuff and still had a notable community presence for years. Bisjac having such a proximity or being acquainted enough with Badspot to regularly mention that he would watch his kids. The only things that got you banned on here was being overly loving annoying, crashing servers, or excessive flaming/posting 18+ material. Thats it. Any other behavior was essentially ignored save for some extremely rare exceptions, I'm sure. To say that Badspot didn't take measures to prevent these things from happening is definitely not "incredibly inaccurate". Like it's straight up reality.

It's one thing to have lax moderation and to let adolescents interact with each-other on a forum with more freedom than others, but obviously there were issues in addressing these individuals or else there wouldn't be this collective contempt about the fact that the behavior went mostly unaddressed.

I could see if Badspot took all the steps to deny these people access to BL and they somehow came back anyway like there's not really much more you can do there, but like Trymos said, there were no measures taken.

know of bisjac but not otis

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...

badspots mailbag, that stuff was hilarious

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Off Topic / Re: Kambucha, can you feel the alcohol?

« on: September 21, 2023, 12:18:16 PM »

did not know what kombucha was before reading this thread

there is no* alcohol in kombucha

*not enough

lol

I've only drank it once and I feel like I felt the general feelings of alcohol I get when drinking a beer but just light. It's like smoking a tiny tiny hit of weed.

Curious what other people think. I'm a pretty small dude at 130 pounds and I assume that might play a big part in it.

Fermentation experts say individuals who report feeling drunk after a serving of kombucha are probably suffering from a histamine intolerance.

as a fan of tea i am curious to try it tho

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 21, 2023, 11:52:02 AM »

rlly not trying to sit here and go on a BL history-venture to dig up old posts and bans. moderation was something that dwindled here as time went on and activity died down, not that it was super great to begin with but we had something.

because you asked though I did sift through some of baddy's old posts to jog my mind since it's been literal YEARS. This one dealt with a group of problem users - though I'm not very familiar with these people so I don't know if any of them were/are "groomers", but stuff like this was somewhat common back in the day. i'm sure it's more the further you go back in the blf history

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=315618.msg9750548#msg9750548

Life sucks, and we all go through stuff. Let’s not trace our problems back to an online lego game

blaming Badspot for their current troubles while convenient, is not going to help them in the long run.

overall, I agree with these posts.

besides, if there is anyone to blame it's the people who did the acts. A hypothetical situation for comparison: lets say you get robbed your life savings at an atm and it's all on camera. So naturally you report the crime to the authorities and they review the footage. You expect them to catch this guy. A few weeks go by and they can't find him.. months, years...decades go by and they still never founds the guy. Are you going to blame the investigators for your stolen life savings, or are you going to blame the thief? Of course this answer should be obvious - you can be mad at the investigators for not doing a more thorough job, sure. maybe they were underpaid, lazy, or just didn't give a forget. but if you actually pin the blame on them instead of the initial robber that is some terribly forgeted up logic

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 21, 2023, 08:20:42 AM »

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.

Plenty of people have been banned and some even key revoked over the years. 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. 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. To say he took no measures at all to prevent or address toxic behavior is incredibly inaccurate

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Creativity / Re: The new and improved 3D model topic!

« on: September 07, 2023, 08:16:25 AM »

they really do look like ps1 / nintendo ds characters , quite nostalgic

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Drama / Re: my final message to badspot

« on: September 04, 2023, 01:50:59 PM »

seeming a bit