State of the Brontos

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Grath » Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:25 pm

Mongrel wrote:Okay now that's weird.

I don't get any of these problems you guys are having >___>

It's been loading just fine without the SSL issues on my end these last couple days.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Lady » Thu May 10, 2018 11:29 pm

Büge wrote:I keep getting security certificate warnings.

sorry, didn't check for a few days. Is it the warning about some images not being secured or something else, or do you still get it?

@mharr it sounds like some unfathomable CSS jitter edge case

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Büge » Fri May 11, 2018 6:59 pm

Hmm, not lately. It was just that day.
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Cait » Fri May 11, 2018 11:51 pm

I'm using the prosilver theme, and suddenly a lot of the icons have been replaced with the dinosaur ones from the Brontotheme, making it hard to tell which threads have new posts.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mothra » Sat May 12, 2018 1:49 am

Yeah, sorry, was trying to change "http" to "https" but I don't really know what the eff I'm doing. I'll set them back.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Wheels » Thu May 17, 2018 8:55 pm

So, I'm still unable to access the server on my landline (currently on 4G to post this) since late April, about the time the switch went through. Pings timeout, but it's not on my end as far as I can tell. I've cycled my hardware, had a reset from the ISP end and they claim innocence in terms of blocks or throttling.

Not sure what to do from here.
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Esperath » Wed May 30, 2018 3:58 am

we've got a sleeper agent sending spam PMs
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mongrel » Wed May 30, 2018 5:30 am

Yup. Got one too.
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Büge » Wed May 30, 2018 8:26 am

Me too.
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby beatbandito » Wed May 30, 2018 9:33 am

Weird, he sent me a completed comic!
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mothra » Wed May 30, 2018 11:52 am

Ugh, somehow that fucker got through the dragnet.

Tried "deleting his outbox" to see if I could undo PMs, but no luck.

Anyways he's been banned and deleted like the rest of 'em.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Esperath » Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:27 am

Mothra, could you toggle the a couple flags for the Webm BBCode?

Not sure if it looks like this by default:

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<p>
<center>
<video controls="" autoplay="true" loop="true" style="max-width:1000px;">
   <source src="{URL}" type="video/webm">
</video>
</center>
</p>


but can you toggle autoplay and loop to false?
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mothra » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:45 pm

Alright, so, banned Sora again. The cycle continues.

I absolutely do not think this is working out for him or us. Best stop it now so we can all move on to the next thing.

Esperath wrote:Mothra, could you toggle the a couple flags for the Webm BBCode?

Not sure if it looks like this by default:

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<p>
<center>
<video controls="" autoplay="true" loop="true" style="max-width:1000px;">
   <source src="{URL}" type="video/webm">
</video>
</center>
</p>


but can you toggle autoplay and loop to false?


Sure, I'll do that when I get back home today.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Blossom » Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:04 pm

I forgot about the thread move and thought he'd already tried again.
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mothra » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:55 pm

Esperath wrote:Mothra, could you toggle the a couple flags for the Webm BBCode?

Okay, done. Let me know if anything needs further tweakin'.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Wheels » Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:07 am

So, it works again magically today. Not sure what happened, if it was on the server end or mine or whatever (I definitely tried completely purging the history of my router settings, two different routers after that, no routers direct into the modem, yelled at my ISP, and did everything I could think of on my side to get access to this server back to no avail) but if our grand admin team did SOMETHING to let me access this again perchance, please keep doing it and thank you <3
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Thad » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:02 am

Mothra wrote:Alright, so, banned Sora again. The cycle continues.

I absolutely do not think this is working out for him or us. Best stop it now so we can all move on to the next thing.


Sora, man. I don't know if you're still reading. I know I'm late on this.

It's clear you're not in a good place. I want to help you, but I can't; I don't have the knowledge or the skill.

You've suffered some recent trauma. You've talked about suicide. It's clear that you're not well.

You seem to understand that you need help and support. That's good! But you seem to think that this community can provide it for you. You're mistaken.

You have a medical problem. Mental problems are medical problems, just as surely as physical problems are. If you needed a kidney transplant, you would not come to Brontoforumus. You would go to a doctor.

Please, Sora. Go to a doctor. You need a therapist. We cannot help you.

There are a couple more things I'd like to add.

It's clear that you're looking for validation, for a sense of community. You're constantly posting stuff -- your projects, your thoughts, your experiences, your ideas -- and expecting not just a response, but a positive response. When people do not respond to you, or respond to you negatively, you do not take it well; you lash out.

It is also clear, from some of what you've posted -- the thoughts you've expressed, the videos you've shared, that reaction GIF -- that you're seeking community in some other places on the Internet, and some of those places are decidedly unhealthy.

Look, there's no easy way to say this -- there are a lot of people in the gaming community who are absolutely awful people. Just because somebody likes the same video games you do, and makes videos about them that make you laugh, does not mean that he is a good person. If somebody makes fun of or belittles women, minorities, LGBT people, etc. -- even if he adds some kind of "just kidding, jeez, relax, I didn't mean it, why are you getting so upset?" kind of defense at the end -- then he is, in the very best-case, a clueless and immature person who has not considered other people's experiences and feelings. And, at worst, he may be a full-on, actual Nazi. Seriously; there's a real problem with white supremacy in US culture in general and the gamer culture in particular right now. Those people are not your friends. No matter how lost and lonely you are, you're better off alone than you are falling in with bigots.

And this brings me to another point, and kind of a delicate one: from your dismissive comments about LGBT people, I kinda feel like maybe you're uncomfortable with your own sexuality.

I don't know much about your relationships, Sora, and I'm not here to label you. I know that you dated another man at one point. I don't know what that says, broadly, about you or your sexuality; it's up to you to figure that out in whatever way best suits you. Maybe you're gay, or bi, or maybe you're straight but briefly went out with a man at one point. Maybe you're not into the whole label thing at all and don't want to call yourself any of those things. That's totally fine. It's up to you to define yourself in whatever way you see fit. But understand that other people have different experiences and perspectives than you do. If you don't want to label your sexuality or emphasize it, that's your right. But that doesn't mean other people who choose to do so are wrong. What's right for you may not be right for somebody else.

The important thing is, there's nothing wrong with being LGBT, and there's nothing wrong with dating somebody who's the same gender as you.

I also remember you saying that the same-sex relationship you were in was an abusive one. And I want you to understand that that's not your fault. Domestic abuse is never okay and it's never excusable. You did not, and do not, deserve that.

It's also important for you to separate being in an abusive relationship from being in a same-sex relationship. The two things are unrelated. There are good people and bad people, healthy relationships and unhealthy relationships, all across the human race. It's not because of their race or their sex or their gender or their sexuality. The man who hurt you didn't do it because he was bi, and he didn't do it because of who you were or because of anything you did; he did it because he was an abuser.

I think that, deep down, you know all this stuff.

I think you know which ideas are pernicious and hurtful.

You started a whole thread to share unpopular opinions. Now, maybe that really was exactly what it appeared to be: maybe it was just you seeking validation. Maybe you really did start that thread because you want people to praise everything you say and do.

But I don't think that's it.

I think that you started that thread because, deep down, you knew you were wrong and you wanted someone to tell you so. It was a sanity check. You had an idea -- or heard an idea from somebody else -- and it sounded good to you, but it somehow *felt* wrong. And when you broached it to this community, you weren't really seeking validation; you were seeking someone to tell you why this video you'd seen on YouTube was actually wrong, no matter how much it appealed to you on the surface.

Maybe I'm off-base. Maybe I'm imagining motivations that aren't there. But if I'm right, if you really do have a voice in your head saying "Hang on, there's something about this that isn't right" when you see a video like that, then maybe you should learn to listen to that voice.

Sora, I don't really know you. I've seen you posting in this community for the past decade or so, but that's not the same thing. I've got opinions, and I've got ideas, and I've got hunches. I hope the advice I've shared in this post is helpful to you, but maybe it's not.

But if you take one single thing away from this, it's that you need real, professional help. You need to stop looking to Internet randos for help, for advice, for validation. You need therapy, man. Find a good therapist. Make appointments and keep them. Treat your mental suffering the same way you would treat physical suffering; go see a doctor who can treat it.

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mongrel » Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:23 pm

Mothra wrote:
Esperath wrote:Mothra, could you toggle the a couple flags for the Webm BBCode?

Okay, done. Let me know if anything needs further tweakin'.

Seems like autoplay is still autoplaying everything on page load?
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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Mothra » Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:50 pm

What page is Webm being used on so I can see this

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Re: State of the Brontos

Postby Joxam » Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:53 pm

I changed it to a link, it was on the cute thread.
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