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Once upon a time, there was a young internet forum full of potential and EQ nerds. One fine day, not so different from any other day, there was an ominous silence resounding through the cavernous halls of Allakhazam. Then it started.. What seemed to be the distant sound of a freight train barreling across the cyber plains, slowly increased in volume and intensity.

By the time the gates were nearly secured it was too late, the threat was upon us. Like the Orc siege on Helm’s Deep, THEY came in droves. First they stayed outside the chain link fences in their own pen known as =10. Who knew they could be so ravenous, devouring everything with their strange love for anything Japanese and skin like rice paper. Eventually, the numbers were too many and the threat poured into the out of topics.

Then Bob did see this was the beginning of the end of days and sent the 4 horsemen to slay they rice paper skinned with wet noodles, a stick and Twix bars for bait.

The war of years raged on as the horsemen and their legion destroyed mound after mound of thin skins.

After the great war, came great peace. The thin skins had been vanquished, the fences erected and Biohazard signs erected to ward away those who might wander into the forbidden zone. The wombats did feast upon the fetid corpses and stragglers alike, with the fury of a thousand ban-hammers.

There was no need for the 4 horsemen any longer. Eventually they were summoned back to Valhalla to await the next insurrection.

After a period of respite, The Flying spaghetti monster chose one horseman to check in on things at the once thriving metropolis of discourse. The results were grim. No longer did anyone understand what was funny. No longer was there wonder and joy of simply sitting and watching a train wreck.

No! Now the netizens resembled well adorned skeletons. Undead kings lording over their empty kingdom because all sense of humour had now regularly been stomped out like a spark from a fire.

Perhaps the new sanctuary will revive the eternal spark that once existed, but maybe it is where the dinosaurs go to die.


RIP sweet prince…





Dedicated to the old days.

wait.... are you trying to say that the majority of OOT have thick skins now? Do we need to test this theory?

Google

Judging by the number of posts the oot and asylum have had in the past years, I don't think there is a lot of prey running rampant with no predators to keep them in check.

No worries. With Google destroying our own environment, I'm pretty sure both will be merged at some point and the natural selection process will begin anew

Or Alma and gbaji...

Sometime's jokes are left unlaughted at simply because they're not funny.

I don't find walls of inane drivel funny but if that's your thing then more power to you.

As an escapee from =10 I resemble the OP.

No way an gurl could get this highly prestigious title legitimately.

Nope, you are correct. About the profile pic change I mean, who knows if people voted for her cleavage. Maybe she won by the gay vote.

Second Law of Asylodynamics:

It is impossible for a post to have as its sole relevance the transfer of troll-posts from a thin-skinned poster to a thick-skinned one.

The second law of asylodynamics is formulated in many ways, as will be addressed shortly, but is basically a law which - unlike most other laws of Allakhazam forums - deals not with how to post something, but rather deals entirely with placing a restriction on what can be posted.
It is a law that says Bob constrains us from getting certain kinds of posts without putting a lot of work into them, and as such is also closely tied to the concept of the conservation of interest and relevance, much as the first law of asylodynamics is.

In practical applications, this law means that any Asylumite or similar poster based upon the principles of asylodynamics cannot, even in theory, be 100% efficient.
This principle was first illuminated by the hot-headed EQer and poster Mobiuslord, as he developed his troll cycle post in 2001, and was later formalized as a law of asylodynamics by EQ elitist Smasheroo.

OOT and the Second Law of Asylodynamics

The second law of asylodynamics is perhaps the most popular outside of the standard OOT model, because it is closely related to the concept of =10, or the disorder created during the FFXI poster invasion of 2004. Reformulated as a statement regarding interesting and relevant posts, the second law reads:

In any closed forum, the irrelevance and lack of interesting posts of the forum will either remain constant or increase.

In other words, each time a forum goes through an influx of thin-skinned posters and circle-jerks, the forum can never completely return to precisely the same state it was in before. This is one definition used for the arrow of time, since circle-jerking and dullness of subject matter of forum posts will always increase over time according to the second law of asylodynamics.

Other Second Law Formulations

(quotes may be paraphrased)

To troll on a message-board with the only final result being to circle-jerk the other trolls of a similar level of douche-baggery throughout is impossible. - Bodhisattva, Drama Nerdvana

A cycle of trolling whose only final result is to troll the same trolls and maintain the same level of trollishness in a given forum is impossible. - NephthysWanderer, Eater of Souls

GFY, #12 - Nobby, Ministry of Silly Cnuts

(=28+#12)/=10 =GFY

Edited, Feb 26th 2014 2:57pm by Kelvyquayo