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I feel as if I should make a contribution here, although I'm not entirely sure why. I'm far from being an active member of this community, and obviously I am in no position to make an argument as to whether there is a problem or how serious it may be if it should exist. I will say that I often feel uncomfortable on this site and primarily visit it only to collect information on old LEGO themes and media as it trickles in. I don't know if I am simply oversensitive, but I have always been cautious with my posting for fear of reprimand by the community, especially early on in my days visiting the site. Now I don't fear that as much, but I still see posts that I know would convey a lot more harm to me (if they were hypothetically directed at me) than I believe the poster intends or realizes. It has made it increasingly difficult for me to visit this site at all, when at this point it's a very stressful exercise. I don't mean to blame or accuse anyone, I genuinely believe that no one is trying to do anything wrong here, and I'm terribly sorry if it comes across that way. Just look at this as an outside voice to take into account when mulling this all over, I guess.

We really don't need to. Everyone has their own personalities and this is not something you can just flick the switch on. If you're on the internet, you better be prepared to deal with different personalities because there are millions of arguments happening right this second where personality clashes are to blame. There is no one solution to fix this, this is why rules exist. We allow you to talk they way you like provided it's within the rules. But it doesn't just end there because people then have their own interpretations of the rules. This means the moderators have to try and put aside their view of the rules with on the line things, and instead deliberate with other moderators to try and find something that is fair and does not fit the agenda of any group. This is not a quick process. Now for all those taking sides on this matter, you should be well aware that JamesBrick only existed on RRU for but a few hours. Between his declaring he would 'stay forever' and then 'leave forever' in a community he apparently knew little about he managed to 3 almost empty RP topics (For any who aren't aware: RRU is not a Roleplay/FanFic forum, however we allow it because we're nice like that), then proceeded to ask for a new forum dedicated to role-playing.. Within that topic he managed to imagine some sort of insult to his RP topics on LMB calling Jamester 'crap and rubbish'. He then told Jamesster not to say 'crap' for who knows what reason. After which he went into some immature rant repeating the word that he told Jamesster not to say before having his little rage quit. Members then made fun of his complete immaturity and rudeness. Now, if we go back to the saying "treat others the way you wish to be treated" you can say, JamesBrick got back what he sew. Likewise as that saying, if you don't feel making fun of his immaturity was right, do not involve yourself in it. If you've changed your mind, remove yourself from the situation. But at the end of the day, if you're going to act like a jerk, don't expect to be treated like a person who is not a jerk. This aside, no-one should feel 'scared' to post. If you suffer direct abuse, report the post, and a moderator to deal with it. If you are afraid to post because you think someone will offend your opinion, this is a personal issue, not a collective forum issue. This is the internet, people yell and scream on nearly every page you can find because people cannot accept someone not agreeing with them. Once you've fully accepted this, you'll be able to throw your 2 cents everywhere and not care what people say in reply.... they are words, they won't jump out of the screen and punch you, they're not going to turn up at your doorstep and yell in your face. People get offended and depressed by what people say on the internet because they're trying to find some sort of acceptance or boost their self esteem. People on the internet are NOT the people you should be trying to get approval of or win points with, they owe you nothing and you owe them nothing. Don't get attached to people you do not know, instead direct that energy at your real life friends. Really who give a rats what some guy in some country thinks of your whatever. If your mood is changing from what some person said, it means you've given them that power. I am not saying people can abuse you the way they want and you have to deal with it, no, there are lines. But until one of these lines have been crossed, you're own you own to deal with what other people say to you. This is all I have to say on this matter.

There we go, took maybe 3-4 hours? Anyway my hands hurt from all the drawing, blargh

I said I wasn't going to post in the topic, but I think its best I might as well say a few words to clarify my stance on something. I don't want to appear self-centered or what not, but I think it's pretty clear this entire drama is not related to JamesBrick in the slightest. Instead, McStudz is using this as a way to address a bigger issue; my treatment of newer members on the site. There's no reason my name (and only my name) would have been mentioned multiple times. I'm not going to give excuses or make promises, because ~4 years in there's no point anymore. Nor will I say anything I've posted before has been 100% justified. It is absolutely true that I've been an absolute d*** many, many times on this site. I feel that it is also true that my *targets* are mostly, if not usually, in the wrong and deserve some form of discipline (regardless of whether mine is just or not). This is the Internet, where anonymous humans group together, discuss, and people WILL have differing opinions, and in many cases, it can get heated. Personal history and emotion can cloud judgement. That said, this is also a civilised forum with a team of highly professional, very friendly moderators. If anyone is feeling any bit threatened, they should consult the moderators, and they can let me or whoever know. I'm also quite happy to take complaints like a man through PM or whatever. As I said, I'm not here to justify my actions or start a fight. I'm simply here to say that there is a known problem, but the solution involves private communication, not trying to keep old topics alive.

"Get thee to a nunnery!" becomes "Dedicated to Jean the Baptist." Whut? Now we take Roy's dying speech from Blade Runner. " I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost... in time... like... tears... in rain. Time... to die. " And now we ruin it. "I believe that this time, we'll see. The strike decimated the road was spent in a dark, espasyel Orion, when closed © copper country. Boost stops working." And now let's what BadTranslator thinks of the quartering of soldiers. We take the good old third amendment "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." and get "War and peace, the life of Moses-Wat ergazont." Evidently the bad translator AI(yes there is an AI, but it's kept under wraps by the masonic-jewish-Jesuit-vatican-whitehouse-russia-reptoid-mcdonalds conspiracy) aspires to be a novelist. And doesn't think highly of the Constitution. " Propritaire bawena wkno m birou tre. "

Thank you very much for your honesty. Can either of you elaborate on why you feel this way though? We'd like to understand better if we could. Edit: If you'd feel more comfortable doing so via PM, that works too.

I want to get one more thought in before this thread gets locked, as it's looking as though that might happen. This seems to have turned into a battle of Studz vs. Everyone Else, and I'm not really 100% on either side. I agree with what Studz was saying, to a point. I think that keeping this thread going was a little rude to the guy. Studz did go a little overboard though. My initial reaction to Studz's post was 'good for him, someone needed to say it' which quickly turned to 'Oh god what have we done?' as, ironically, his plea to stop this thread caused it to blow up into something far worse. I'm not sure where I fall on who is in right or wrong here, all I know is that this incident should have been little more that a speedbump in RRU's history yet, somehow, we made it into a huge fiasco.

I feel I need to address you directly, McStudz, because posts like this are counter-productive. You're criticizing a non-existent phenomenon. Despite your charged rhetoric, you've more or less accurately described the life cycle of any forum, or site for that matter. Ignoring your hyperbole, you've correctly identified that people join, participate for a time while the novelty of the site is still fresh, and then either leave because they've become bored, they've found something better, or simply don't have the time to invest in the site anymore. Or they become more invested and participate regularly. People change, communities change, so it's only natural that members drift away and new ones join to take their place. This isn't a good or a bad thing. It's a simple fact of life on the internet. I'm sorry? Unless you're referring to older, more established members, I take exception to the mods being referred to as "rude." We try exceptionally hard to be welcoming and impartially fair to everyone, old and new. This is your perception and a spurious correlation to boot. Magare/Devestater and people who have followed them were not disruptive because they were new. They were disruptive because they were disruptive. There is always a period of acclamation for any new member and it can sometimes be rough but that does not mean the community as a whole has a prejudice against new members. If we sampled from the various welcome topics, I would wager the majority of welcomes/reactions would be positive, not negative. It is wrong for you to assert your own view of how things are perceived as one that fits this site as a whole. Yes, this is the acclamation period I was referring to. A few things. First, things were not fine before JamesBrick said he was out. He randomly and without provocation insulted Jamesster multiple times for things Jamesster did not do. This outburst was bizare as it was unwarranted and yielded an appropriately bewildered response. JamesBrick and JamesBrick alone was responsible for the things JamesBrick said. Any resulting criticism of his words and actions were a direct result of this fact. Apparently he felt so embarrassed by this and unable to deal with it in a civl manner that he decided to GG out of RRU. He could have easily apologized and then could have gone along on his merry way, creating fan fiction RP to his heart's content, but he didn't. He left. JamesBrick is hardly a victim here. Perhaps you should refresh your knowledge on >the topic before you dismiss his actions as the reason for his leaving. Second, if you feel we (the mods) did not catch the situation soon enough you could have assisted us by reporting it. Though this may shock you, we are not omniscient. If you see something that is questionable for any reason, please report it. We cannot catch everything and we rely on community to help police RRU. If you sincerely think that this thread is the unequivocal example of "cyberbullying" and what would be considered "too far," you put me at a loss for words. Admittedly, some of the posts are probably a bit crass and not in the best of taste but none of them are outright offensive. Most are light-hearted jabs at the strangeness of the whole situation, not against JamesBrick himself. I would even contend the level of absurdity is far below the standard "oh, keep your pants on" and "have a waffle and a potato" nonsense that usually litters these welcome topics. But consider this. Instead of reporting the posts that you considered "cyberbullying" and the poison of RRU, you instead chose to grandstand and rail against the apparent injustice that is this forum. You chose to take a moral stand against what you feel is a broken system instead of actively trying to help the situation and assist said system. Perhaps you should look to yourself first before you beat the war drums.

Today I finally realized that RRU is pretty much a circlejerk of new members leaving, regulars slowly dying, and only a brave few jump the gap between newbie and regular. The rest just leave because the higher ups are so darn rude. I've figured that this is likely due to the Magare/Devestater scare a few years ago, and the entire community is now just extremely wary of new members. Then I realized half of the current community won't even know who the heck Magare or Devestater are. Yeah, the new members can do stupid, oft times comical things. They can be immature. They don't know the "culture" (so to speak) of RRU. Sure, there's rules and stuff. But I don't recall there being a section in the Rules thread on "McJobless' Grilling Of The Newbies". Sure, everything was fine until JamesBrick said he's out. There were a couple of things people said which, if this was BZP or Eurobricks, there would be words from the moderators. And then AFTER he left... Real mature, guys. REAL mature. From my understanding, this would be cyberbullying, plain and simple. And yeah, I "thanked" a few of the posts. Then I realised what I was doing (and there's no clear "unthank" button). Yeah, JamesBrick is gone. So this thread (as well as the HQ threads that went sour) should have been shut down from PeabodySam's "crap" post (no offence to him in the least). It derailed from the thread, and (d)evolved into something else. Not really the first time we've done this either. fun, Ben, etc. We've all had our stabs at them. And the mods HAVE done stuff to prevent it from getting WAY out of hand (Cire's TSA jab comes to mind). But this thread is a testament of what other would consider "too far". Last I checked, this was supposed to be a "family friendly" forum site. sure, cussing happens. But we could at least PRETEND to be better and not fight fire with flaming. It's like having little, grammatically-correct kids doing a big circlejerk. Okay. I'm done playing moderator again. Do what you will, but unless I see some solid proof against what I've said, this is what I believe RRU is right now. I'm open to anyone's criticism, and I won't run away if I don't like it. I've been here too long for that.

So, this week seems to mark the beginning of LEGO's Summer. All sorts of Summer sets are showing up in places like Toys 'R' Us, Target, etc. Some of the most notable sets would include the CUUSOO/LEGO Ideas Ghostbusters set, the next Minecraft microset (The End), Series 2 of the Mixels, and Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!!! Reviews and the like have begun to pop up on the Internet in places like Eurobricks, Groove Bricks, and Bricklink. Some are early releases, but within the next week or so we should be seeing more summer sets in the wild. Be sure to check out your local Toys 'R' Us and Targets for the latest LEGO sets, as these places seem to bring out the new stuff earlier! Sources: http://www.groovebricks.com/lego-minecraft-the-end-21107-now-available/ http://www.bzpower.com/story.php?ID=6647 Basically the Internet

Yes, I added that into the script already. At the time of copy-paste I didn't realize a laugh was used. SOOOOO, a laugh is required from both of you (not that it makes a difference on who gets the role. The laugh is in the minority.)

For the record that is my voice over the last hour. Mixing of me asking about Dino pronunciation, Pepper, Batman, and my own voice. Why aiden enjoys hearing a mix of my voice so much is beyond me. Go back to an hour ago from this post in the shoutbox if you want to know the origins of how this all started.

https://ore.rockraidersunited.org/legacy/all%20of%20them_51077.mp3 (Put it on repeat if you can.... Somehow) Oh, and shove your volume WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY UP. I need sleep. BADLY. EDIT: Added the dino https://ore.rockraidersunited.org/legacy/thisIsEveryOne_497118.wav

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As a relatively new member, I think your wrong there. Certain long established members and editors have been rude, but the higher ups, that is the moderators, have been very respectable people.

I totally agree. Your Plushie friend guy posted even worse stuff in LNA chat than anything you've posted, and what you posted was far more disturbing than this stuff. This is just some guy having a little fun with LEGO guys as humans.

Posting from the airport lobby - basically everything PeabodySam said. Some things can be laughed at by everybody (if not immediately than later), but laughing at people never flies. Though I also hold the opinion that many things RRU collectively laughs at aren't funny either. Some apparently find their own "wit" to be so hilarious that they must quote "witty" blocks of text from themselves in their own signatures - which is then seen directly after their post that berates the community for being arrogant. Yes McStudz, I'm looking at you. Come on people, this is a community, focus on progress and creating stuff. Awkwardly and hypocritically proclaiming yourself and circlejerking doesn't help anybody.

As a victim of years of bullying, I cannot advocate any form of bullying, cyberbullying included. I do see that this topic went too far, and my "crap" post seems to mark the beginning of that decline. Yes, this topic should have just been left in the dust like the countless other introduction topics of members who don't even last a week. Yes, there is an unfortunate mentality that this forum has towards new members. Part of the problem is that, on these web forums, most of our interaction boils down to just the plain walls of text with no body language or tone of voice. That's all we have to work with. As a result, if you don't yet know the personality of a member, his/her sarcasm-laden yet light-hearted posts can come across as needlessly mean-spirited. What did JamesBrick give us to work with? Calling jamesster "evil boy" and "crap boy" as (petty and rather pathetic) insults in response to what he perceived as an attack on his topics when it was actually just an honest (if brutal) comment on RRU's perception of LMB-style RPGs. True, jamesster's response, "You wot mate...?", probably didn't help to ease the situation, but before anything else could be done, JamesBrick insulted jamesster one more time (hypocritically saying "crap") before declaring that he was leaving for good. JamesBrick has, apparently, kept to his word and has not returned since. There is nothing that we could have done; he left on his own terms. But before he did so, he had the audacity to lash out at jamesster in what he perceived as counter-cyberbulling but was, in actuality, just plain cyberbulling, since jamesster made no attack on him to provoke such a response. Granted, it's not like his insults meant anything to jamesster, but I do feel that some of what we did here was not in response to JamesBrick being a new member who left, but one who stirred up an unneeded ruckus and insulted one of our veteran members without listening to reason. And as shown here, we more-or-less laughed it off. And that's what I tried to do with my "crap" post. A bit of self-deprecation, accusing jamesster of scaring off new members like we always do, but in a light-hearted joking manner in an attempt to make light of the situation, made more obvious by the Strong Bad quote about crap. Once again, I did not personally attack JamesBrick, but tried to turn the situation into a joke. It was the day after the whole ordeal happened, and I just wanted to make a few people laugh about the situation, not at JamesBrick. Should I just have let this topic die? Yes, I should have. It may have been better that way. And yes, we did go too far, especially when we started turning the jokes towards JamesBrick himself and not the situation; that's where the cyberbullying began on our end and made us no better than the one we were mocking. And we do need to work on our attitude towards new members. But, if I'm honest, based on what little we saw his behavior, I don't think JamesBrick was meant to be a fit for the RRU community. If not now, then later, he would have flipped out at one of our members over some petty misunderstanding, immaturely insulting them and swearing off RRU forever. You're right, though. We have to know which lines we cannot cross, and we must not cross them if we want this community to improve. We must not stoop to this level. We must be more mature than that.

I don't have much time to post before leaving for a day of airplanes and sleep deprivation, so I'll make this quick: I've noticed a general pattern of RRU folks just plainly taking half-amusing jokes/events/happenings and running them into the ground. Legos in Space (stop begging me to do it again) and the circlejerk that is the quotes topic come to mind. Once one member does/likes something suddenly everybody has to do/like it too, without realizing or considering what may have made it amusing in the first place or what was even actually joked about. Edit - Got a few moments in the hotel lobby, anyway this is what happens when a joke is pushed as usual except it's not only unfunny but dickish as well.

Ta-Da! Edit: By request, this picture is now colored instead of black and white Although i might have left a mistake or two, i think it turned out great in the end

I'm sorry to butt in but...

If this has become such a problem I'll gladly delete the New Members forum. I don't read ~90% of the topics that are posted here, and when I do read them it's a bunch of us posting extremely wacky things like telling people to keep their pants on and what have you. And there's always McJobless being a D; I've asked him several times to stop it but he never changes because "that's just the way he is." But I don't have the means or the right to change how people act, so we will all have to improve how we conduct ourselves around here. Remember that we are (probably) the only LEGO modding forum in existence right now, and if we're not the only one then we're certainly one of the best, in both the games we cover and general post quality. Act professionally, but don't be elitist. And for the record, I never made an introduction topic when I joined RRU in 2008. I just joined and started participating. Granted, everyone was chill back then since we were busy cracking Rock Raiders.

I'm feeling a sense of Deja Vu. This makes me feel horrible, i know that everyone treated me like a fool when i first joined, now i know how jamesbrick feels... to tell you the truth, after the "Minecraft RRU Server" incident, i suggested to myself to leave RRU forever, but instead i stayed. In an alternate universe, i left, and i was the jamesbrick of this place. Now i know how jamesbrick feels, in the truth all the newbies are treated awfully.

It's an interesting read. http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/310/proven_preliminary_planning_.php But in case you're just there for the LEGO Island-related bits: Low res, but nifty layouts, eh? Also:

So uh, yeah.

Runner-up for post of the year right here folks, check it out!

Man, Silicon Dreams really must have thrown any indications of how time passed in the original LEGO Island out the window. The LEGO Island manual says that the group photo was taken half a zillion years ago, and yet Pepper is the same age as he is in the game. It seemed like nobody ever really aged on LEGO Island - they lived the timeless existence that a fictional character in the hands of a child often does. The Brickster never even ate anything - the sign says no pizza, and there isn't any other food on the island. But then LEGO Island 2 suddenly makes references to the normal passage of time, including most notably Pepper's new appearance. And now we have this, a list of all of the character's specific ages. It's not necessarily a worse way of doing things, but it is certainly different and not as suited to my preferences, so I can't help but be a little disappointed. Maybe the developers realized that these ages didn't make a ton of sense in light of everything said in the original LEGO Island, and that's why they omitted them?

Note: This is only known to work with the original 1999 release of LEGO Racers, not the 2001. Running without the JAM Archive allows you to easily change files without having to re-build the JAM archive, it also allows you to change files while the game is running. To do this: 1. First extract the JAM archive. 2. Make sure the folders: 'GAMEDATA' & 'MENUDATA' are in the same directory as 'LEGORacers.exe'. 3. Rename or remove the original 'LEGO.JAM file'.

I am completely baffled as to how you could even take that joke and think it was a serious question

"Fushigisaur" It's derived from Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur's evolutionary family to be exact. Each evolution has a different name, but they all end in "saur:" Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur. In the original Japanese version, all three evolutions have names that start with "fushigi:" Fushigidane, Fushigisou, and Fushigibana. Thus, it occurred to me that one can take the unchanging parts of the names, "fushigi" + "saur" and get a name that could reasonably refer to all three at once. Then I decided to use it as a username because I couldn't think of anything better.