You're All Dead

[Drake Wingfire]

Paws and Claws was made quite some time ago as a no-bars-held kind of chat, so there was no god modding or overprotective "omg the children that might exist" types complaining about the subject matter that might pop up. Those types of individuals usually ruined other chats because people would be having fun, maybe something adult natured got brought up, or someone may have used a swear and then people would burst into this big offended spiel and destroy the conversation with their "morale values"

Lill bit of history on that, it was made after me and a few friends were chatting on the other skype chats, I forget what we were even talking about but me being myself I just let loose saying some stuff for humors sake... which was followed by some individuals getting a over protective soccer mom complex and taking it upon themselves to try and mute/ ban (unsuccessfully) and chastise me in front of a bunch of friends. After all that point a friend of mine created Paws and Claws just so there could be a free-flowing place to chat and hang without that chaos.

Its kinda sad that its become what it has over time (a bit dead and lacking in conversation), I was on it all the time till a few months ago after the conversation aspect started to take a decline in favor of it turning into a over glorified live twitter feed of who had what for breakfast and when they were getting a haircut or such lol, I grew tired of conversations getting derailed by too many spotlight seekers and the fact many of the people I enjoyed talking to just were not on there anymore, or if they were, they were on like once or twice a week. :/

[Vukasin]

Where are all of these chats you guys keep talking about?

[Neox]

In reply to Drake's observations, he's pretty correct in his assessment of what the Paws and Claws chat is like. However, since he left, I feel like we've adopted a few more members in there that make for a bit more actual conversation rather than the occasional, "I just bought groceries," or "I LIKE TRAINS." I just feel that it's nice to have a live chat surface in an IM environment rather than the "World of Text" canvas that is offered by the forums, and sometimes it gets pretty active and fun.

But at other times, it can get really boring and/or annoying when people are in there just talking about dick or (forgive me guys) gearhead stuff that I'm not really into, and I often don't feel like it's fair to halt a conversation for my own entertainment when people are having fun doing what they're doing. (Granted, I've had a few moments where I just randomly said shit because I WAS having a conversation that suddenly spun-off into a topic that I cared nothing for, but I digress.)

This is why I wanted to bring back some open discussions on the forums. I use the Paws and Claws Skype chat as a medium to just jump in and add my quips here and there, but I always loved the long, thought-provoking topics we've had here on the forums in the past.

[Neox]

Where are all of these chats you guys keep talking about?

Vukasin: I'm PMing you. Gimme a minute.

[Drake Wingfire]

Its good to hear there are some new guys who can spark some life there again, I guess there is always hope. I do enjoy live text because the fact it is more fast paces (not to mean unreadably fast) but it allows things to progress.

I think my biggest personal mistake in terms of the group chat and how I approached it. Was honestly my humor and contributions to much of the dick talk that happened in the past because I feel no shame or taboo about such things and I felt like it would lighten the mood and at least be entertaining if even for just like 5 mins. It was all good fun till you tried to actually have a legit conversation other days about more meaningful topics only for people to go "lul, its dat guy, cawks cawks cawks cawks cawks!" and that's all they would want to talk about while you were around because they seemed to only recognize people by like one feature that's what they stuck with.

It was more than a little frustrating to try and talk about more interesting and meaningful things when people kept wanting to shove a one-trick-pony persona onto you because they seem to like everyone being overly simplified down to one shtick...  Sorta makes me think they used this particual toy too much as a kid...

*crank* the Dragon goes....... Gaaaayyy!   *crank* The Fox goes....... Im a stud!   *crank* The Cat goes...... read my poetry!   *crank* the Dog goes.... Give me Attention!  XD

[Kuviare]

Hey Drake, I think you got the dragon and fox ones mixed, that's not what mine says.

In other news I think I'll be starting a few new topics once I get a chance. So probably something like sunday or something similar. :-X

I think we can pretty much surmise that everyone wants more meaningful and engaging topics and discussions, so now all that needs to happen is people need to do so! Come across a video that makes you think? Share and give your interpretation! Some recent event worrying/interesting? Post your thoughts!

[Tynder Bluekoinu]

I too am curious about the chat servers. I don't use the one here because I do not play Minecraft nor do I want to make an account for it.

[Star Wonder]

I too am curious about the chat servers. I don't use the one here because I do not play Minecraft nor do I want to make an account for it.

Does this help?

http://www.bcfurries.com/forum/index.php?topic=7833.0

[Tynder Bluekoinu]

^ Thank you :3

[mediar]

FUCK YOU NEOX

-MEDIAR AND PLANET EARTH!!!! <3 <3 <3