Morning Discussion: 'Splosion Wednesday!

by Chris Faylor, Jul 22, 2009 6:00am PDT

I still remember the first time we heard about 'Splosion Man. It was April 1, and there were so many other joke announcements, we thought that was one of them. But no, it turned out that the story of a man who explodes his enemies into "chunks of ham and ribeyes" was real, as evidenced by its current availability on Xbox Live Arcade.

I had meant to get up early and play for a bit to provide a more comprehensive overview, but, you know how getting up early is sometimes. And hey, there's a free demo!

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Is there a way to page a complaint about a shack moderator? Who should I contact or reach? Any idea?

Jul 22, 2009 5:27pm PDT

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Is there a way to page a complaint about a shack moderator? Who should I contact or reach? Any idea? : excessus
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- Send a shack message to Duke Nuked. : paulatreus
- talk to jokemon : Downforce
- Alas poor excessus, we knew him well. : abrasion
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  It will be ignored. I saw the nuke, your reply, and then the mods reply. We will all side with the mod on... : haiku
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    haiku sees EVERYTHING! actually, that sounds pretty terrible. Sorry you have to see so much crap, haik... : Robotic Puppy Eater
    - Only two days in the whole of July, and I only made it to one of them. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. ... : haiku
    - I wish i was a mod again so i could read his post it sounds like this was a really unfair decision!!!!!! : boring gegtik
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    the nuke and the ban wasnt right and you know it. I was replying to a "I like Valve ideas" with a sarcast... : excessus
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      A nuke is always right unless 3 or more mods disagree. And we all select different things that we nuke ba... : haiku
      
      this makes me glad i'm not a moderator. fuck dealing with this shit!!! : manero
      
      STOP MAKING SENSE AND BEING RATIONAL actually for this post alone im going to buy you a beer : CoRDS
      
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      I have been shacking since 2000. All I posted was: "I liked the one that made us pay for their betatest p... : excessus
      
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      i can feel it coming. it's like the static in the air before an electrical storm. : dirge23
      
      it's like the quickening in highlander : stoned wallaby crop circle
      
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      dirge can feel it, coming in the aiiiiiiir tonight, oh lord : pharom
      
      <epic drum fill> : dirge23
      
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      paints another shack on the side of his monitor That's 3 in one year motherfuckers. : haiku
      
      hahahahh you should get some shack stickers to use : CoRDS
      
      Man your monitor must be really clunky. and old. : Jonathan
      
      hahaha : manero
      
      How does that fit on the side of a LED TV? : RyDogg1
      
      We need a greasemonkey script that shows your kills next to your name. : Prozium
      
      amusing : ]pm[chem
      
      Bets on how many it will be by the end of the year? : magistersmax
      
      you celebrated and posted something clever! no way you're a stubborn imbecile. : porp
      
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      You will never be happy until it is Phil : gmd
      
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      Who would perma Phil. That's just cold, Phil has nowhere else to go. Plus he never learned to read. : RyDogg1
      
      Phil doesn't need us anymore between him trolling Twitter as brad pit and neogaf as cliffy b. : Hoax
      
      I am haiku : Phil
      
      What have you done. : Head Rush
      
      lol. i dont know if this is a joke or not. : Mmmmmoo
      
      THANKS.TXT'D ;OLLOLOLOLOLOL P34<3 : ateam311
      
      ahh fuck, I can't believe you've done this. : Slowtreme
      
      o gad : das_runt
      
      I was about to side with you before you grabbed your teddy bear and went home : Ovate
      
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      that is quite tame even if the mods were valve bootlickers. there's got to be more to this than that. : fathertime
      
      It was only a 30 minute ban. Bit of an overreaction on his part. : Merlin13x
      
      i agree with the content of his statement, but it's a pretty lame post to self-immolate over : dirge23
      
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      it wasn't clever, it wasn't contributing meaningfully, and like haiku said probably not every mod would n... : pharom
      
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      I hope you're prepared to lose 99% of the shack, then. I wouldn't mind watching Phil talk to himself all... : Ovate
      
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      I won't lie, I'm really getting sick of LOL @ L4D2 posts : pharom
      
      There are so many things to get sick of, for the same reasons people are sick of excessus. Can we ban... : Felraiser
      
      If it's getting worn out, then fine, make it nukable. I'm just saying we shouldn't expect every post to ... : Ovate
      
      I won't lie, I'm really agreeing with every single one of them, the whole thing is a joke, I still, still... : abrasion
      
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      I would say 50% of thread starter posts in comments on fp stories are trollish. It is obvious this one m... : fathertime
      
      I appreciate a nice, clever troll like the next guy. Calling L4D a betatest when many of us have gotten c... : pharom
      
      And we should probably be nuking 50% of the root posts in front page stories too, it's just that we tend ... : zakk
      
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      The whole point is discussion isn't it and that is a topic which people are discussing at the moment, alt... : abrasion
      
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      He might have meant it as a joke, but it could also be interpreted as threadshitting or trolling, dependi... : pupismyname
      
      It's also noted on the mod board though and makes him look like a douche in advertantly - too many 'notes... : abrasion
      
      Hahahahah, wow : Serpico74
      
      CELLEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON nanananananananaaaa : laurgasms
      
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      why do you stand in front of someone with quad and the chaingun spinning?! BAD STRAT : Downforce
      
      I love you for this post. : tomservo
      
      hahaha (although I agree it was not ban worthy unless there is more to this) : mwasher
      
      See you tomorrow. : omnova
      
      You're blowing it way out of proportion, we all get nuked at some point in time. : jingletard
      
      what in the fuck dude, I had just stepped away to prepare a nice hot bowl of popcorn for this thread and ... : vynn
      
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      you'll be back : pancake humper
      
      No he won't. Thanks.txt FTL : sm00v3d
      
      you got banned for that ? lame. Come on guys : kainen1
      
      Permabanned for thanks.txt : TastyWheat
      
      no please, come back. we need you. : thekidd
      
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      moderation is a very difficult job, and very subjective. shacknews has an excellent mod team. they are... : dahanese
      
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      ^^^^^Sleeps with a mod. Goddamn mod apolegists... : Hoax
      
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      i ran the 2K community long before mike became a mod. it changes your perspective. : dahanese
      
      Still going to blame mike. What's he gonna do, nuke me? you know I was kidding above right? : Hoax
      
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      God this is so heavy handed. Yes, they're unpaid volunteers, and they get a lot of leeway for it. But... : Ovate
      
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      God i am so over whining about moderation - it's never going to be completely 100% utopian fair. who giv... : FrayLo
      
      And the post happened two days ago. He's bitching about a nuke and 30-minute ban due to a throw-away pos... : Arcanum
      
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      I don't want to think that I can be banned for a half hour for saying something innocuous. Oh noes I mus... : Ovate
      
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      who gives a shit, it's a fucking half hour!!!!!! : FrayLo
      
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      Who cares how long it is. If it's heavy handed and capricious of course I'm going to be annoyed.
      
      Now, he totally overreacted in this case. I'm just defending the mod whine in general.
      
      Jul 22, 2009 6:18pm PDT
      
      Who cares how long it is. If it's heavy handed and capricious of course I'm going to be annoyed. Now,... : Ovate
      
      allow me to clarify - getting a nuke and/or ban isn't the end of the world. i know lot of people like to : FrayLo
      
      As long as you don't act like a complete douche you aren't going to get a perma. I think most people have... : Ctrl-Phreak
      
      It's not a childish comment. It's a threadshit. You can't go into a post about Valve (or PS3, or 360) a... : redfive
      
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      I don't think you mods quite understand. This guy has been shacking since 2000 motherfuckers. : NastyJack
      
      I just checked his profile an he is 37 years old. : Hoax
      
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      anyone know what game he was talking about : Chandler55
      
      L4D? : vynn
      
      Fucking lol. Man let it go. Btw I have called haiku worse and I'm still posting so stfu accept the nuke. ... : Hoax
      
      Here's your sign. : Arcanum
      
      ooh waaah waaah waaaah : moshman
      
      Why so serious? : unsound
      
      Hahahahaha teary vagina : El Tigre
      
      Honestly, the first two paragraphs of this post should (with the tiniest of tweaking) become the defacto ... : Jonathan
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      I think the key is to not go batshit insane with rage over a 30 minute nuke. It was a trollish post, it g... : pupismyname
      
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      Some people take that shit personally. You know this. : RyDogg1
      
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      i can understand that, but i have a hard time imagining waiting the 30 minutes and then coming back in st... : dirge23
      
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      The nuke in question was TWO DAYS AGO. : pupismyname
      
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      hahaha what the fuck :D : mwasher
      
      (still a stupid ban) : mwasher
      
      ahhahahahahahahahaha what : pancake humper
      
      Hahaha : magistersmax
      
      i guess some people just don't have a lot going on in their lives : dirge23
      
      hmmmm. well: LOL : Downforce
      
      Hahahah HOLEE SHIT!!! This just made this whole thread fucking EPIC! : Solstice
      
      hahah yesss : das_runt
      
      Holy lol. : Hoax
      
      I would say this is it. : abrasion
      
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      it's worth noting that the nuke was two days ago : mikecyb
      
      Oh god. That's just pathetic. : RyDogg1
      
      Lolololol : TastyWheat
      
      I see my post was too late. Excessus just lived up to his name. :( : pupismyname
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    haha. your complaint has been noted and summarily disregarded. : dirge23
    - Don't forget the public humiliation. : yoonix
  - Translation: ignore it or Haiku will rape you through the intertubes, I heard he can do that from a very ... : locater16
- was it one of the terrible mods? : CoRDS
- Oh, I have an idea but you probably wouldn't like it. : rosewood
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  was it brickmatt? it was brickmatt, wasn't? it was probably brickmatt. : lightly inclined
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    It was moz :( : abrasion
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      abrasion you are such a kangacocksucker : ateam311
      
      I don't even think you know what I'm joking about, why bother replying? : abrasion
- I suggest you attend the next Gamefly shareholders' meeting and broach the subject there. : dirge23
- STFU AND GTFO! ffs : m0rfus
- I don't get the whole complain to a mod thing, does that ever work out for anyone on any site? : boomdeath
- I once received a nuke-and-ban for posting something about poop. Just enjoy the lol's and get over i... : mlev

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