[Discussion] "NS Summer" and other assorted silly trivia

[The Blaatschapen]

There should be. *sulks*

Poor Mousey & Mall.

You mean poor me.

I've worked 9 months for nothing.

Nothing!

[Cerillium]

Uh... you do know that forum activities contribute a grand total of 0 points toward the Game Mod Olympics, right? Forumside warns and bans don't count toward the game mod activity tally.

Inquiring minds want to know the heraldry behind your flag.

My opinion is that the symbols are ancient Repanese warnings. The golden "Do not annoy us" is superimposed by a more potent advisory that "All NSers are crunchy and sugar-free". The white stripe indicates purity of intent which holds the maroon stripes at bay; these signify the glowing frustration that brews whenever one must deal with Obviously Stupid Actions and Activities undertaken by the General Populace.


I am undoubtedly 100% incorrect in my interpretation!


Don't hurt me!

[Ikania]

I've also heard the term "bolloxed" used to refer to totally screwing something up. But I don't think that's NS-specific ...

I know this is an old post, but can we totally make "bolloxed" a slang term for banning?

"Hey did you hear about [nation]? He got bolloxed for trolling."

"How long was he bolloxed for?"

"Bolloxed for three days."

"He better not post past bollox."

[The Blaatschapen]

I've also heard the term "bolloxed" used to refer to totally screwing something up. But I don't think that's NS-specific ...

I know this is an old post, but can we totally make "bolloxed" a slang term for banning?

"Hey did you hear about [nation]? He got bolloxed for trolling."

"How long was he bolloxed for?"

"Bolloxed for three days."

"He better not post past bollox."

Slang is not something one can decide on.

It grows and evolves, as language is wont to do.

[Ikania]

I know this is an old post, but can we totally make "bolloxed" a slang term for banning?

"Hey did you hear about [nation]? He got bolloxed for trolling."

"How long was he bolloxed for?"

"Bolloxed for three days."

"He better not post past bollox."

Slang is not something one can decide on.

It grows and evolves, as language is wont to do.

Well of course there's no official slang sanctioned by the mods, but if we could adopt "bolloxed" as a term for banning, it would be fantastic.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Slang is not something one can decide on.

It grows and evolves, as language is wont to do.

Well of course there's no official slang sanctioned by the mods, but if we could adopt "bolloxed" as a term for banning, it would be fantastic.

This seems necessary. Start the trend.

[The Blaatschapen]

Well of course there's no official slang sanctioned by the mods, but if we could adopt "bolloxed" as a term for banning, it would be fantastic.

This seems necessary. Start the trend.

To be honest, I think it's a lot of bollocks.

[G-Tech Corporation]

This seems necessary. Start the trend.

To be honest, I think it's a lot of bollocks.

Hence why its rather necessary. I mean, just think about telling our summery friends that they've been "bolloxed" for three days, and not to post past bollox.

[Reploid Productions]

Uh... you do know that forum activities contribute a grand total of 0 points toward the Game Mod Olympics, right? Forumside warns and bans don't count toward the game mod activity tally.

Inquiring minds want to know the heraldry behind your flag.

My opinion is that the symbols are ancient Repanese warnings. The golden "Do not annoy us" is superimposed by a more potent advisory that "All NSers are crunchy and sugar-free". The white stripe indicates purity of intent which holds the maroon stripes at bay; these signify the glowing frustration that brews whenever one must deal with Obviously Stupid Actions and Activities undertaken by the General Populace.


I am undoubtedly 100% incorrect in my interpretation!


Don't hurt me!

Funny story about the flag, and it actually pre-dates the existence of Nationstates itself. See, I'm a Gundam nut, as is my buddy who joined NS about the same time. The two of us spent a considerable amount of time designing the specs for original mobile suits, mobile armors, spacecraft, and so on back in the late 90s and early 00s. We lumped those designs together under the fictional "Reploid Productions Revolutionary Army" for the purpose of assigning model numbers to our designs, because our older fictional Solar-Orbital Defensive Alliance left an unfortunately silly acronym. Basically, "RPRA" looked cooler than calling ourselves "SODA." Several pieces of my in-character military hardware still use the RPRA codex today, for instance the RPRA-TBS01 "Hand of God" class orbital fortress or the RPRA-BC02 "Harukaze 45" private jet.

The RPRA insignia itself is a none-too-subtle derivative of the Zeon and Neo-Zeon emblems from Gundam. Not necessarily due to liking those groups and their methods, but mainly because they had the coolest looking mecha and snazzy emblems. My version of the flag also borrows the maroon and white backdrop from one of the Zeon flags, though I went with the simpler 3 vertical bands as opposed to the Zeon flag's white-cross-on-maroon. For awhile my friend and I flew the same flag, but he recently changed his after a decade of being regularly mistaken for being one of my puppets.

One of these days, I really should sit down and make a cleaner version of the thing- you can tell that the emblem itself is blown-up from a really small GIF file from, like, 2002 or so.

[Ikania]

To be honest, I think it's a lot of bollocks.

Hence why its rather necessary. I mean, just think about telling our summery friends that they've been "bolloxed" for three days, and not to post past bollox.

Don't tell the mods what to do. You might get bolloxed.

[The Risen Jaguar Warriors]

Poor Mousey & Mall.

You mean poor me.

I've worked 9 months for nothing.

Nothing!

Well you got Game Mods status... And you got scary red text on your name and access to The Rolled-up Newspaper of Warn and the Banhammer...

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Poor Mousey & Mall.

You mean poor me.

I've worked 9 months for nothing.

Nothing!

It means that you get to get right into the middle of all of our petty squabbles and heated bickering even though you had nothing to do with any of it, and pissing someone off no matter what you decide. Isn't that reward enough?

[Cerillium]

:lol2: Funny story about the flag, and it actually pre-dates the existence of Nationstates itself. See, I'm a Gundam nut, as is my buddy who joined NS about the same time. The two of us spent a considerable amount of time designing the specs for original mobile suits, mobile armors, spacecraft, and so on back in the late 90s and early 00s. We lumped those designs together under the fictional "Reploid Productions Revolutionary Army" for the purpose of assigning model numbers to our designs, because our older fictional Solar-Orbital Defensive Alliance left an unfortunately silly acronym. Basically, "RPRA" looked cooler than calling ourselves "SODA." Several pieces of my in-character military hardware still use the RPRA codex today, for instance the RPRA-TBS01 "Hand of God" class orbital fortress or the RPRA-BC02 "Harukaze 45" private jet.

The RPRA insignia itself is a none-too-subtle derivative of the Zeon and Neo-Zeon emblems from Gundam. Not necessarily due to liking those groups and their methods, but mainly because they had the coolest looking mecha and snazzy emblems. My version of the flag also borrows the maroon and white backdrop from one of the Zeon flags, though I went with the simpler 3 vertical bands as opposed to the Zeon flag's white-cross-on-maroon. For awhile my friend and I flew the same flag, but he recently changed his after a decade of being regularly mistaken for being one of my puppets.

One of these days, I really should sit down and make a cleaner version of the thing- you can tell that the emblem itself is blown-up from a really small GIF file from, like, 2002 or so.

I like your definition much better. Would be interesting to see an OOC 'coalition' of Gundam-based nations and all the different ways people adapted it to fit their needs.

NS seems to be one of the few places where we can creatively breathe a bit of ourselves into the mix - interests, favorite genre - and game with it yet still remain autonomous from it to engage in other things.

[Kaboomlandia]

Can someone explain what exactly that term means? I've seen it around a couple times, but I'm not sure what they're talking about.

[Mousebumples]

See here.

[Kaboomlandia]

See here.

Thank you.

Brace yourselves, NS Summer is coming!

[Todd McCloud]

Also, NS historically trends downwards in population growth as far as the feeders and sinkers are concerned. The increase in knuckleheadedness may be due to not much goin on in this span too. *shrugs*

Incidentally, Reppy's post also speaks of an increase in bad dudery from December to January, which is also where populations drop off a bit.

[Golgothastan]

Brace yourselves, NS Summer is coming!

Tom Lehrer has just re-announced his retirement.

[Naushantiya]

Can the moderator post a photo the 6 feet sword mentioned in nsg summer

[The Archregimancy]

Can the moderator post a photo the 6 feet sword mentioned in nsg summer

[Gregoryisgodistan]

NS Sports generally sees an increase in signups during the summer, though that could just be because there are more sports going on and people are more likely to sign up for a sport while it's happening in RL. Notably, the World Cup of Hockey, one of the few winter sports tournaments held in summer on the forums, has remained relatively constant no matter when it was held, while other tournament signups have gone up in the summer. RP'ers are also generally more active during the summer, meaning more posts. So it could be a combination of more time and more interest.

[Fortitudinem]

I remember last NS Summer. I eventually stopped using the forum as much because all the spam. And I tend to get into arguments that don't end well if I don't watch myself...

[Euroslavia]

:lol2: Funny story about the flag, and it actually pre-dates the existence of Nationstates itself. See, I'm a Gundam nut, as is my buddy who joined NS about the same time. The two of us spent a considerable amount of time designing the specs for original mobile suits, mobile armors, spacecraft, and so on back in the late 90s and early 00s. We lumped those designs together under the fictional "Reploid Productions Revolutionary Army" for the purpose of assigning model numbers to our designs, because our older fictional Solar-Orbital Defensive Alliance left an unfortunately silly acronym. Basically, "RPRA" looked cooler than calling ourselves "SODA." Several pieces of my in-character military hardware still use the RPRA codex today, for instance the RPRA-TBS01 "Hand of God" class orbital fortress or the RPRA-BC02 "Harukaze 45" private jet.

The RPRA insignia itself is a none-too-subtle derivative of the Zeon and Neo-Zeon emblems from Gundam. Not necessarily due to liking those groups and their methods, but mainly because they had the coolest looking mecha and snazzy emblems. My version of the flag also borrows the maroon and white backdrop from one of the Zeon flags, though I went with the simpler 3 vertical bands as opposed to the Zeon flag's white-cross-on-maroon. For awhile my friend and I flew the same flag, but he recently changed his after a decade of being regularly mistaken for being one of my puppets.

One of these days, I really should sit down and make a cleaner version of the thing- you can tell that the emblem itself is blown-up from a really small GIF file from, like, 2002 or so.

I like your definition much better. Would be interesting to see an OOC 'coalition' of Gundam-based nations and all the different ways people adapted it to fit their needs.

NS seems to be one of the few places where we can creatively breathe a bit of ourselves into the mix - interests, favorite genre - and game with it yet still remain autonomous from it to engage in other things.

For now...

[Farnhamia]

I like your definition much better. Would be interesting to see an OOC 'coalition' of Gundam-based nations and all the different ways people adapted it to fit their needs.

NS seems to be one of the few places where we can creatively breathe a bit of ourselves into the mix - interests, favorite genre - and game with it yet still remain autonomous from it to engage in other things.

For now...

<joins Euro in an evil chuckle>

[Usual People In Life]

I've gotta ask a few weird questions while I am allowed to - ahem - have the chance:

What's been the strangest or most humurous case/incident/rulebreak/prank/whatever the mods have ever dealt with?
Is violet really Max Barry?
While I'm thinking of it, how many times now has the above been asked?
How did Salusa get the job and his mask?
How many real and joke 'legal threats' have we had?
How close am I to being DoS for asking all these?
And finally, what's the funniest thing anyone (past or present) has ever said on NS and why?