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I hope it proves to be more aligned towards Band of Brothers on the scale of Awesome, than to The Pacific. That said, I am genuinely excited to see that series. Hanks and Spielberg tends to be a fantastic duo.

We are very proud.

That picture is such a great writing prompt to help with writing a small D&D campaign set in space.

Sal's will die when we are all dead, and our fond memories are truly forgotten by anyone who cared to hear about them. We will live on for decades still.

Way to go on crushing Leo's hopes and dreams. On a side note, what on Earth went wrong with teenagers this school year?! I have done more work and handled more crises in the first month than I have done previously in entire school year.s What is up with all the drama and insanity plaguing teenagers in August/September?! I just want to sleeeeeeeeeep.....

The Santafish taketh and giveth.

Wait, what? I mean, I will gladly take the cake, but.. that was a bit confusing.

I think this might go a tad too much against the spirit of being a friendly forum to warrant being open, even in declining days. If you have a wish to have your soul drained of any hope, joy and confidence, might I suggest one of the many roasting communities on the internet? You could also play a popular multiplayer game, you will be roasted pretty hard then.

"3 day special military operation" was what the Russians called it in the beginning. Of course the glorious Russian army would not waste 30 days taking feeble Ukraine, they can do it in 3! The war itself is an odd thing for me, but before I begin to type, I will say that I am 100% in support of Ukraine, so keep that in mind. One thing that has become abundantly clear to me is how this conflict is immediately one of the era-shaping events that will impact the future, and go down in history, alongside events like the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and so forth. With Russia being bled dry by the world as a whole, we are witnessing the slow death by a thousand cuts of one of the three global superpowers that has dominated the global political structure for most of the past 100 years. That is pretty historic. On a personal level, I have a few students currently that are Ukrainian refugees. I am the designated teacher to assist/help/support one of these students, and she fled from Donetsk with her mother. It is hard to not form strong opinions when you get human faces to attach to the situation, and you get to realize the extent of the horrors that occurs on a daily basis. That is why I get immense amounts of pleasure reading the morning casualty figures for the Russians, and see the progress feeds coming out of Ukraine. I do not have a shred of humanity to give Russians supporting this war. This is what happens when you mess around, and suddenly find out what happens when you interfere with NATO and also the EU.

Hmm, I see that AI at least cannot adapt itself to sound more human in its behaviour when the issue is broached.. for now.

June 15th, 2007. It was my 4th 99. Oh, I totally agree in safe PVP. It was the only true way to take on groups of people and even have a chance to win, and it was versatile, so hard to not enjoy that concept.

99 Magic is the most useless and terrible 99 there could ever be. I am not saying that because my own 99 Magic party was interrupted by a random event taking me to a jeopardy quiz, not at all. Congratulations though. Magic is just great in P2P, although beyond using it for Clan Wars, I never got much familiarity to it. Most of my P2P PvP came from being a Barrows pure just north of Edgeville, so... it was more about the SURPRISE DHAROK TO THE FACE. Magic was effective though, as there was always a numbskull ready to Ice Blitz or Barrage when you got a win.

One of the things I have realized is that the use of AI is going to change society to think in different terms. For some professions, this is literally the modern technical equivalent to the industrial revolution. Where once a weaver or a spinner found themselves obsolete compared to a machine that just performed at a different rate, so will modern day professions in the face of AI evolutions. I fully recognise that a lot of teaching can be done by AIs, but at the same time, teaching is highly dependant on the social interaction and forming solid educational bonds with students. An AI cannot provide that for quite some time, so luckily I am safe in my job. Looking back on it, it would have been interesting to go back 20 years in time and use a current day AI to write forum posts. Would anyone truly notice? How much editing would need to be done of the posts to pass off as a regular human being? Take current day AI-generated art, game GFX, music and other creative fields designed by AI that is causing issues. How skilled do you have to be to be able to separate an actual artist from an AI? ..and if the boundaries are becoming hard to differentiate, how then are we going to handle people abusing the capabilities of AI?

Correct. This is an issue that is beyond what I can do. According to Lilshu, he spent significant time trying to figure out if there were something we could do about it, and he came up empty-handed. I have tried the same, but there simply is not something I can do, because there is nothing that has happened to Micael on a forum level that a Forum Administrator can fix. Sal is the only one capable about doing something about this. ...but no, this thread is totally made to cover up the fact that a friend of mine got banned and I want him banned for some reason, when I have been one of his greatest supporters on this forum. There honestly would not really be a need for a moderator for the sake of actual moderating the forum. I believe we have had 4 reports in all of 2023. Most matters is stuff that is just easily fixed by logging in, spot an advertiser, and then just handle it before anyone gets a chance to spot and report it. The Discord is separate from the Forum though, so those do not go both ways. It should not be a carrot to encourage people to strive to be better, but rather a symbol of showing people they are distinguished, and serve as an example of what to be.

The topic is pretty serious. I am genuinely asking for the community to decide, as the entire creation of it was intended to drum up some hype for the release of another DSZ episode, and between being busy with a busy year, and not feeling a good place to remove it, let it stay for longer than I originally intended. The only thing goofy here is the title to get you to read the topic and form an informed decision. If you find it unfair, simply vote "No". This poll exist because I want to know what the community thought about it. As for IP banned.. Micael is actually not IP banned, which is why I cannot just remove it from the forum's IP-ban list to grant him access. I am not sure how that is unfair, however. It is literally something outside of my control. What is more baffling to me is that you seem to imply that I am trying to divert attention away from Micael being banned, so he can remain banned. If that it is what you are implying, then you obviously do not know the depth of my respect I have for him. He would be one of the last people I would ever want to intentionally ban or keep banned.