What's with all these new boards?

What a bad excuse. If I would be number one on the ignore lists, I'd seriously ponder about my posting style and try to actually contribute something instead of just being stupid.
While some of your threads actually lead to some good discussion, many of them are just retarded [as if we wouldn't have had the FO1 vs FO2 argument a thousand times already]. Also, stop creating three threads per day.

Actually, I'm disabling that for the time being. It'll stop working some time this evening. Reason will be provided later.

Really?

Likely, since I never used the fucker I'm pretty sure I didn't come up with it. The thing DU implemented was actually pretty slick though, since it was also entirely client-side CSS "hide the div with the post" business.

... because we've always wanted a Codex love-in where everyone pats each other on the back for coming up with another awesome definition of what an RPG is? You tear out the retards (read: majority of the world) who come here arguing that Doom is an RPG, and you tear out the heart and soul of this place, the very reason for its existence. The Codex was always about "having it out", standing your ground and fighting to the bitter end and making the retarded majority of "RPG players" in the world look like exactly what they are. Truth is, you just forgot that in your ever increasing vendetta to remove everyone who had an opinion you disagreed with. And because arguing with them wasn't working (see influx of retards during the Oblivion-era), you resorted to abuse of powers. Yup, that's what I really think. I wouldn't have minded if it was the odd one here and there you wanted to nix after a good, decent discussion but you wanted to go nuclear and take out all the bystanders as well. As you said "stupid shit like that should be deleted instantly".

Actually most forums dissed the Codex. This is why I don't buy the whole "the good ol' days" argument that crops up. There never where any good old days. The good old days were when the Codex was derided by the mainstream because the mainstream don't get what an RPG is. That mainstream still don't get it. That's why the mainstream come here with their "stupid shit" and start threads or arguments about it. It's why we argue back. The only real thing we're going through now is a lull because there isn't a big mainstream RPG to bash. This site was built on bashing Morrowind, Oblivion and the other mainstream games of the day, which attracted an audience of retards (see Oblivion-era) which we then "educated" in our own unique way. If you really think that now, that's all just "stupid shit" and there's no point for discussion, instead that stuff needs to be deleted instantly, well then we may as well shut-down the Codex, stick up some long-winded article about what an RPG is in its place and be done with it.

The let's play thread here isn't a problem. Nor is yours. I really don't care what the difference is. It's a thread that people are enjoying. Who cares if it's only here "for the lulz"? Half of what we do (insulting mainstream retards) is "for the lulz".

Why do you think Oblivion generated so much discussion? Because of its in-depth RPG design and how much we loved the game as a Real RPG? Nope. It's because the forum was flooded with retards arguing how much of a decent RPG it is, while we batted them about with blunt objects. Why do you think Andhaira's threads hit page 5? Because he's an intelligent person capable of having reasonable discussion and everyone is so over-whelmingly in support of his views that he needs to be congratulated? No, it's because everyone's chewing him up and spitting him out for his asinine "rat diplomacy". Without a difference of opinion, there is no debate. Without debate, the Codex will be full of single page threads where someone posts another fantastic piece on why Fallout is the greatest game ever and eveyrone else posts "Oh sir, I do so agree with your opinion. Let us have some tea and scones". Sounds like a boring fucking Codex to me.

No different to this display of intelligent RPG discussion. Doesn't mean we aren't allowed to have any similar discussions ever again, just because we've already got a forum over-flowing with it.

sheek, bryce777, Sarvis, The Walkin' Dude, Warden, Mr. Van_Buren... Take your pick. The only people who did leave "after a day" (usually it was more about two weeks) were the fly-by-nighters who usually only came here defending their own article in the news forum.

Yeah, I had to re-work the forum layout to do that though. Instead of all posts being a row within one big table, each post is its own individual stand-alone table so that I could hide it without messing things up. It didn't seem to like divs in-between table row tags. It's why when someone posts a fat ass image now, it only breaks the width of that single post and not every post in the thread (which I see as a positive upside).

I don't know what direction Saint's going to take the Codex now that he's back but I trust it'll be a good one that won't involve some kind of apocalypse. I've known Saint long enough to trust that he has good judgement, so we'll see. Mind you that was an awesome ignore feature. It'll be sad to see it go.

Yup. The Codex was setup to discuss what we want in RPGs and to defend it. We've always been against deleting the moron's arguments (it's why Retardo Land was setup) and against using the ban hammer against people who simply stated an opinion we didn't like (EG: Banning SpaceMoose, dumbfucking vrok etc..).

"Ever increasing vendetta to remove" them. Your stated course of action was quite clear, you wanted them gone. No ifs, no buts. Eventually what happened, happened, because you were insistent that it was either your way, or you were gonna take your bat and ball and setup elsewhere.

I honestly don't know why you raised the issue again, suggesting we should be nuking threads now before they even start and once again lamenting the "demise of the Codex". Apparently knowing full well you still wouldn't have any consensus for that and the other admins would never go for it. Hell, Saint's back now and even he's just said he won't go for it. And it wasn't so much a consensus you wanted, as it was us to capitulate to your demands. Sad fact is, it probably would've been fine... Assuming any of us had actually been able to trust your judgement.

I've always been around (after all, it's why my join date is earlier than yours). I just wasn't on staff at that time. As I've said previously, I was initially on staff when it was being set up and everyone was talking about what sort of site they wanted (that was back when the Codex was a secret planning forum on Terra-Arcanum). I left staff shortly after it was setup but stuck around the forums and have been here ever since. I came back on staff after Rex left. I've always been "around" though.

Yup. That's the one. I see that article was posted before you even signed up on the forums here. You obviously weren't around at that time to know better.

I mean look, it's clear you and I disagree with the state of the Codex and how things should be handled. It's clear the rest of the admin's disagree. That's fine and I don't mind discussing it. I don't know how Saint's return is going to play out yet but I'm confident he's going to have good reasons for what he does, because I've known him as an admin long enough that I trust his judgement. But as I've said before in this thread, we've got groups within the forum insisting that other groups within the forum be banned because they seemingly just don't like them and I'm sorry, but I don't see the need to begin arbitrarily deleting threads instead of Retardo'ing them. And hey, if the state of the Codex bothers you so much, make a thread about some RPG design elements instead of complaining that we're still not nuking threads like you want us to (and know we never will). You have your own forums now. If you're adamant the Codex has gone to hell and don't believe the new regime is going make the Codex you want, you're perfectly free to do whatever you want on your own forums. After all, I've got better things to do than to pop over there to tell you that "ur doin it rong".

/grabs some popcorn from Gnidrologist.

D&D alignment has always been a pisser if you stop and think about it both as a player and a DM. Is it a guideline? Is it an immutable law? What if my character changes due to circumstances of events in a campaign? What events can I, as a DM, cause that puts a character in internal conflict or should I even do it?

Depending on the philosophy of the players and gamemaster, it's either. Declaring alignment is like declaring a character's emotional state on the character sheet. "I am Bob the Dwarf, a 10th level fighter and I'm always HAPPY!" Other than a paladin, there's not much need to even declare an alignment. But that's just my take on it. I can also see the point of view of the DMs/Players who insist it's sacred.

Oh, the popcorn picture was classic.

PS. VD, you still must complete AoD before Clive completes Grimoire or face eternal embarrassment.