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QoTD 183: What are your opinions on the Last Letter Game?
Last Letter threads are the biggest fucking cancer that inexplicably plagues every single forum I've ever been to. Websites with awful "post number reward" systems had dozens of variants. My city council's geocities-looking forum has a goddamn Last Letter thread.

Like, Christ, you're on a website with more content than you could probably read in a couple of decades, yet you're wasting hours of your life on finding a witty follow-up to "two years worth of semen glopping" that starts with the letter "g". Why, who the fuck would would find that fun?

There are tribes in the Arctic Circle that are completely untouched by civilization, who spend a third of their lifetimes with no more than four hours of sunlight a day, all of which are dedicated to hunting and eating raw blubber off bacteria-ridden sea mammals. If you're short on said disgusting whale blubber, there's also a distinct possibility of getting pushed out by your younger, stronger offspring from your home into the freezing tundra to die, so as to save resources. Not even these people could come up with a game as dull and miserable as a Last Letter Thread, let alone keep one up for 450+ pages with constant new participants joining.

There's only one thing worse than that exercise in communal suffering, and that's those stupid-ass Competitive Counting games. Counting threads are where fun goes to die. Presumably after being castrated in a Last Letter Thread. Every one of you is a massive fucking numbskull.
 
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...That being said, it's time for today's question.

QoTD 183: What are your opinions on the Last Letter Game?
Last Letter threads are the biggest fucking cancer that inexplicably plagues every single forum I've ever been to. Websites with awful "post number reward" systems had dozens of variants. My city council's geocities-looking forum has a goddamn Last Letter thread.

Like, Christ, you're on a website with more content than you could probably read in a couple of decades, yet you're wasting hours of your life on finding a witty follow-up to "two years worth of semen glopping" that starts with the letter "g". Why, who the fuck would would find that fun?

There are tribes in the Arctic Circle that are completely untouched by civilization, who spend a third of their lifetimes with no more than four hours of sunlight a day, all of which are dedicated to hunting and eating raw blubber off bacteria-ridden sea mammals. If you're short on said disgusting whale blubber, there's also a distinct possibility of getting pushed out by your younger, stronger offspring from your home into the freezing tundra to die, so as to save resources. Not even these people could come up with a game as dull and miserable as a Last Letter Thread, let alone keep one up for 400+ pages with constant new participants joining.

There's only one thing worse than that exercise in communal suffering, and that's those stupid-ass Competitive Counting games. Counting threads are where fun goes to die. Presumably after being castrated in a Last Letter Thread. Every one of you is a massive fucking numbskull.
 
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...That being said, it's time for today's question.

QoTD 183: What are your opinions on the Last Letter Game?
I feel like last letter threads are a waste of time but-
Last Letter threads -
Last Letter threads -
Unlike these two - edit: ELEVEN, as I've been so graciously told- I think they have their place for when boredom reaches it's zenith. Sometimes a little ongoing activity goes a long way for a web forum as web forums have been declining in popularity due to applications such as Discord.
It also allows for a vague sense of community for participants who may be disenfranchised enough to lack enough quality social interactions.
Try to keep on top of your mental health everyone!
I've been told that sometimes I sound like an AI has written something when responding to things which has made for some awkward conversations with HR and my boss. AI is not permitted for my job in most cases, and I am vehemently against it for things that the average person can learn with some effort.
 
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I feel like last letter threads are a waste of time but-


Unlike these two I think they have their place for when boredom reaches it's zenith. Sometimes a little ongoing activity goes a long way for a web forum as web forums have been declining in popularity due to applications such as Discord.
It also allows for a vague sense of community for participants who may be disenfranchised enough to lack enough quality social interactions.
Try to keep on top of your mental health everyone!
I've been told that sometimes I sound like an AI has written something when responding to things which has made for some awkward conversations with HR and my boss. AI is not permitted for my job in most cases, and I am vehemently against it for things that the average person can learn with some effort.
shut the fuck up you fucking tile ceramic fish pattern.
 
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Unlike these two
Two? There's more of us. @bigtiddyoneesan @sterven @pandascepter
RIP @PantsMan.
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Unlike these two I think they have their place for when boredom reaches it's zenith. Sometimes a little ongoing activity goes a long way for a web forum as web forums have been declining in popularity due to applications such as Discord.
It also allows for a vague sense of community for participants who may be disenfranchised enough to lack enough quality social interactions.
TL;DR: Easy way to get your message count up.
 

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