Yellow Diamond

Agreed with those who mentioned Godeneye and Perfect Dark: those games aged really poorly. There's no question that they helped popularize the modern FPS -- but when I tried going back to play Perfect Dark about a year ago, the poor controls and sluggish gameplay were readily apparent. The N64 and its controllers were not kind to those games, either.

This thread appears to be some manner of random (but strangely enjoyable) nonsense, or something spammy of the sort. Thus, it has been sentenced to the Forum Lounge section of Cloudsdale Colosseum.

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I don't think I ever mentioned us being afraid of chat rooms. We're cautious, yes, but for plain, easy to understand reasons (I hope). The staff has a responsibility to protect users on this site as well as represent the general Poniverse community. Yes, it's a restriction -- but a restriction put in place from years of experience. You're more than welcome to stay. Derplight suggestion to use our RP resources is a good one. You can get in a lot of practice there without fear of making a mistake in public.

Admins are the only ones who have access to private messages, and we only search them if we have good reason to believe there's something foul afoot. Because all of those messages are hosted on our servers, nobody here has an absolute right to privacy; but we won't go around telling everyone the content of a private conversation. We always seek to honor confidentiality whenever possible. As to your points, @Glimmerlicious -- Private RPs are prohibited because we can't reasonably monitor whether or not those roleplays are appropriate. Someone would have to go out of their way to tell us about the RP session in the first place, and even then a moderator would have to take the time to subsequently check through the content. Frankly, it's an unreasonable amount of work for us to handle. More important, however, is the general safety of our members -- especially minors, who in the past were approached to do erotic private RPs by adults. This puts us in a precarious position -- both legally and ethically -- knowing there are adults and legal minors simulating romance and even sex acts. All it takes is one parent to discover their child's involvement for the whole community to fall into serious trouble. It's better therefore to cut the possibility off entirely and disallow any RPs that otherwise can't be seen in public. Finally, the IRC link falls under our advertising rules. One reason those links are prohibited is because they can drive traffic away from the forums; another is that confusion occasionally erupts over whether or not those chats are "official" MLP Forums chat rooms. Again, we find it's easier just to nip the matter in the bud. I hope these help answer your questions.

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Oh deer me! How fawn'd I am of Path and his finally getting the promotion he deserved. You're one of the best members to have joined the admin ranks -- not because the rest have been slackers (though everypony knows that we really are!), but because you've proven yourself time and again at every level. More than that, you're an awesome guy. That's the best part, honestly. Anyone can be taught how to push buttons and even how deliberate on forum stuff. But being a good person? You can't teach that. Thankfully, you've got it in spades. So welcome aboard -- again!