Just noticing in the absence of controversial threads that folks seem to be turning in on the community, kinda like piranha devouring the weak as the flood pool shrinks.

Not that I think the controversial threads are all that enlightening (folks tend to stay with their presuppositions) , I'm just suggesting they give the meanies a good place to vent their hostilities instead of attacking others (for petty reasons).

Or is it just that a lot of jerks are starting to flow into the forum and games and nothing will appease their anger?

*sigh*.... So much nastiness in the forums these days.... Argh.....

Agreed. Isn't it nice how the Left, the Right, and the Middle can agree on things like this? XD

I must agree. What happened to the religious arguments? Did we overcome our differences that easily? We still got politics but we may soon get over that too! We're done for.

I think that once we got used to each other, our controversial threads became discussions rather than flamewars. In general, flames are inevitable on the web, but there seems to be a serious conflagration running around PTT lately. *sigh* Since we're all anonymous to each other, it seems to loose inhibitions, so that folk think they can say anything they want without any consequences. Add in the folk who are that way all the time, or just too young to know any different...

And lets face it, you can only talk so much about the game. I haven't been posting, 44 and tally haven't, most of you above aren't either...the forums are full of nastiness and pettiness....

Sigh

Ummm... ? I like light tanks ? XD

Actually, just a quick note that Rabban might be interested in: I was in a Team Battlemode server the other day: Blue was 3 Heavies and a Light, Green was 4 Lights. It was VERY interesting fighting against a coordinated Heavy Assault. The Lights had to team up just to break even.

I don't agree that we need controversial threads.....

How about a TT post?

The other day I was driving my tank, it was a beautiful day in Lush and I was enjoying the sun.

Suddenly a shard of light cut across the pristinely blue sky and I heard an explosion of biblical proportions on the other side of the mesa. Curious as to the extent of the damage, I drove up the side of the hill and perched atop the bluff looking down... I was surprised to see a burning bush...NO... A burning tree.

Intrigued, I slowly made my way down to the tree. Although the tree appeared to be burning, there was no heat, no destruction, no hissing or crackling commonly associated with fire.... Just an incredible blue-white glow. Idling close to the glow, I felt a peace come over me, I felt that I witnessing something.... Important. It was as if a dark corner of my innermost self had suddenly been illuminated. I felt peaceful, and yet invigorated. I felt as if I could enjoy either the most incredible sleep of my life, or the most incredible marathon run. I knew deep inside my soul that I had been awakened and fulfilled. I was elated.

Then I heard a muffled, and yet enormous rumble..... Reminded me on a massive lightning strike from 10 miles away. Seemed to resonate all through the land of lush.....

After a short pause, I felt the need to try to communicate with this fire, this glow. I have no Idea why I would think to talk to a "burning" tree, but I somehow knew that if I did speak, I would also be spoken to.....

I pointed my tank directly at the glowing tree and I moved forward ever so slowly until I could actually FEEL the light glowing on the front of my fenders and the tip of my barrel.

Suddenly I was ashamed to approach this light in an object of war.... I was almost enraged that this spiritual event could happen and here I am in a cartoon tank..... I watched myself turn the tank around and drive away from the tree.... Positive that I am not worthy.... Suddenly I needed to flee, to run the empty map... And dive unto my death.....

Then came a louder rumble. The sound seemed to be everywhere, and yet it did not seem to emanate from anywhere. The rumble shook the land, and my tank.... And I again stopped.

My breathing was fast and shallow, and I could hear my heart pounding.... I was scared for no reason...... But I knew that I must return to the light. I sat motionless for what seemed like an eternity, the only sound being that of my tank engine idling roughly.......

..... Then I heard it..... Faintly at first.......... And I heard it again, this time louder...... It was a voice.

I was confused. In all of the time that I have played TT, I have NEVER heard a voice.......

..... And there it was again......

I called out "Who are you??!!"

After a short pause, I heard a reply... "come to me"

The voice was beautiful, warm, honest, true. There was nothing but love in the tone of that voice and I was immediately disarmed. My fear slipped away and was replaced by awe.

I backed my tank up (as I am known to do) and spun it off the lip of the mesa for a perfect landing with the nose of my tank again in the glow of light.

I could "feel" a vibration in the light.

I said again, but this time more of a whisper.... "who are you?"

I noticed the vibration began to grow more intense and I saw that the light was beginning to reach over more and more of my tank.... I wasn't scared..... I felt nothing but contented in the glow and warmth of the light.... I wanted to be completely submerged in the light.....

Then light completely enveloped me....

...... And soon I was no longer in the physical world.....

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I like beer. :)

@TG; Wow! I wanna get in that MOD! Did you get any screenies!

@ TG; Do you have any more of that stuff ? %)

Walk to the light, Katherine!

@TMO - I had talked with LC50 about the idea of putting together a heavies vs lights scrimmage, but it never panned out. I think it would be a good idea if we could still get something together. I've ran the simulation with bots and (to my personal satisfaction), the heavies ruled. I just wonder if there are enough consistant heavy players out there to put a "Heavy Metal" team together?

@KBC,

Yes, I did get a screenshot after I was enveloped by the white light.... Here it is....

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Incredible eh?

Katherine

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LOL!....err I mean, WOW! Just looking at it makes me feel nothing but contentment!

@Rabban - IIRC, it was Brent, Killer and 1 other that I don't know if I've run into before. In a match with even numbers of tanks on both sides, I'm not sure who would win. The heavy is not an inferior tank in and of itself - it's just that many of the scenarios played favor speed over brawn. The weakness of an all heavy squad would be distant spawns - if your tanks spawned far apart you'd never be able to get together for coordinated defense. If my Strategery Squad were real, I'd be interested in taking up that challenge.

@TG, Are you sure that wasn't your Bong instead of a tree? You must have stumbled into a special Sheep grazing pasture planted with Special Sheep Nutrients. XD

-Rx

Good grief, I got a contact high just from reading TG's post! :P

Hmmmm....sounds like you got smacked by a heavy volley of Area Effect to me! XD Near death experience, perhaps?

- BombJames Bomb

I thought maybe she fell in the mist - perhaps she hit a hallucinogenic patch?

Lol guys.... Just trying to get people chatting about fun stuff instead of all the evil floating around the forums lately...

I hope you found my little story interesting.... And at some point, I hope you were interested in finding out what was going to happen next.... If so, your momentary life diversion was a gift from me.

Katherine

Yes it was an iteresting story but it sounded a lot like moses's story. Thought you were about to say you were told to set the good people here in the forums free from those of evil. But if you want to anyway I'm all for it. Take us to a promsed land TG

LOL baklava....

It was supposed to be a moses(ish) story....

I had originally conceived the story with god being a woman who was attracted to me and invited me to heaven for an eternity of orgasms of biblical proportion.... But I decided that would probably be too controversial.

:)

What a strange little world we all live in.......and we all drive around in little tanks with a brain on it..... :P

I KNEW that burning bush ref had a double meaning! ;)

Rabban!!! You are going to hell for that!!!! Making a sexual joke about a story in the bibbbbbble..... It is one thing for ME to make a joke like that since I am going to hell for eternity anyway (due to my partners missing penis), but YOU... You have just condemned yourself to purgatory unless you confess your sin to some dude in Gods telephone booth and say about 300 Hail Mary's while you rub your balls.... Er.... Beads.

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Case Rested! :P

I thought the burning bush reference was alluding to something non-controversial like this.

As long as we're in a religious mood, I was watching one of those late night movies on a premium cable channel "wink, wink" and I kept hearing this phrase repeatedly;

"God, you make me wet!"

Was it wrong of me to continue watching? Will I burn in hell?

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@TG; your partner's missing a penis!?! If you need any help looking for it I'd be happy to help! XD

KBC = Hellbound

KBC, save yourself my friend..... Quickly apologize to the man in the booth..... Rub your beads and you will be forgiven for every damn thing you ever did wrong, even if you killed, raped, and plundered. Tell the guy in the booth, rub your beads, and enjoy an afterlife in heaven.

Just don't kiss your best buddy on the lips... Or you will burn in hell for eternity.

Regarding my partner missing a penis.... Lol...... Truth be told, we are not missing a dang thing...... Penis be damned... Those things just cause nothing but trouble.....

:)

@TG

Amen sista... Totally agree with your comment about the penis causing nothing but trouble!

Most men get into hot water because they think with the little head instead of the big one.

It may get us into trouble but hey gotta take the bad with the good.

Is everyone here catholic TG? That is catholic aint it?

What?!? Anywhere I go, Big Jim & the Twins are right there! In fact some of my fondest memories are with Mrs KBC, me, and Big Jim & the Twins! Ahhh, kinda reminds me of the old "Barney" theme song...

Lol my bro pointed out somethin funny to me in TankGirl's story, if you think of it differently, and don't read the beginning, it sounds like a girl having an orgasm...

"my innermost self had suddenly been illuminated. I felt peaceful, and yet invigorated. I felt as if I could enjoy either the most incredible sleep of my life, or the most incredible marathon run. I knew deep inside my soul that I had been awakened and fulfilled. I was elated."

"My breathing was fast and shallow, and I could hear my heart pounding.... I was scared for no reason...... But I knew that I must return to the light. I sat motionless for what seemed like an eternity, the only sound being that of my tank engine idling roughly......."

Errr.dunno why I'm posting this but it's funny to me lol, my bro has a mind to point out things like this to me a lot lol.

Good Job GunMetal.... I was trying to be controversial (in the spirit of the thread) so I was taking a well known biblical story, throwing it into ThinkTanks, and giving the whole thing a heavy (yet implied) dose of sex. If you notice, nearly every one of my posts in this thread include sexually explicit content.. (though toned down).

My "burning bush" story IS about sex.

I think your brother is the only person who picked up on that.

FWIW "..... And soon I was no longer in the physical world...." = orgasm

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I'm glad to see that not only are we all going to hell in this thread, but we're digging a hole to help speed the process. :)

...and since when am I Catholic???

Sorry Tank girl for being so "off" , I only just got Think tanks like 2 weeks ago and not seen any of your posts, if I had known you at a longer rate I would have picked it up. Anyways, still funny, props to my brother.

Why waste time delaying the inevitable?

Thanks guys/girls I think I just broke another rib from laughing so hard after I read all of this :P

I also thought you where gearing up for the Big one there TG B)