The universe according to MMM

[Molandfreak]

Maybe we should just nuke this place and move over to Reddit like the rest of the world. At least there you're only able to view how prolific a user is if you click their profile.

[hotdogPi]

Citation needed.

Citation. It's lower now than when I made that post.

Maybe we should just nuke this place and move over to Reddit like the rest of the world. At least there you're only able to view how prolific a user is if you click their profile.

Strong disagree. I have an irrational fear of being downvoted, and I would likely lose interest. In addition, threads are archived after four months, meaning project updates sometimes can't happen.

Something that can be solved with a single ban doesn't warrant abandoning the forum.

[Roadgeekteen]

You're just as guilty in terms of making post counts a problem.  One of the first issues that I can even recall with post counts originated with you.

Why are you so obsessed with my post count, and why are other users so interested in how many pages this thread had or whether a post is on page 76 or 77?

If your post count kept going up like a normal user nobody would care. Your post count keeps going up and down wildly and you keep deleting tons of posts, which is not normal.

Citation needed.

You post count used to be well over 2000. Now it's about 1950ish. You've deleted at least 100-150 posts. That's over 5% of your total posts. And nobody else deletes 100+ of their posts at once. In fact, I heard that you can actually get in trouble for messing conversations by deleting posts, but a mod can confirm.

Citation needed.

Citation. It's lower now than when I made that post.

Maybe we should just nuke this place and move over to Reddit like the rest of the world. At least there you're only able to view how prolific a user is if you click their profile.

Strong disagree. I have an irrational fear of being downvoted, and I would likely lose interest. In addition, threads are archived after four months, meaning project updates sometimes can't happen.

Same. Karma ruins reddit by creating an echo chamber. Karma does not work well in the small community that we have. But reddit threads can actually be unarchived for longer than 4 months now- I've had people respond to my 3 year old posts.

[jeffandnicole]

In fact, here's my personal suggestion for post count tags:

0 = Parking Lot
1-9 = Dirt Road
10-99 = Unpaved Road
100-249=2 Lane undivided Road
250-499= 4 lane county Road
500-999=6 lane county Road
1000-1499= State Route
1500-1999 = US Route
2000-2499 = Cross Country US Route
2500-2999 = Interstate
3000-4999= Cross Country Interstate
5000-9999= Interstate 80
10,000+ = German Autobahn

Where are there 6 lane county roads (serious question)?

While they're short stretches, CR 534 in Deptford NJ is 5 lanes, and CR 563 (Tilton Rd) on Northfield, NJ is 7 lanes:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fpAB77SGHT4DoeF28

Oh yeah, CR 541 in Burlington County has a significant stretch of road at 6 lanes:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KJUwomQwM1LQqFHN9

[MultiMillionMiler]

427 12th Ave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kUwdTXSxQzSAJ4jU6

West Side highway local section is 8 lanes, it's also one of those annoying roads where you start in the right and lane and slowly end up in the left lane as the right lane keeps vanishing and a new left lane forms for every left turn. They recently lowered the speed limit from 35 to 30 and put speed cameras on it.

[Roadgeekteen]

427 12th Ave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kUwdTXSxQzSAJ4jU6

West Side highway local section is 8 lanes, it's also one of those annoying roads where you start in the right and lane and slowly end up in the left lane as the right lane keeps vanishing and a new left lane forms for every left turn. They recently lowered the speed limit from 35 to 30 and put speed cameras on it.

That's not a county road, unless you are just letting us know about this. Since this is road related, you could probably post it in NYC roads in Northeast instead.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Yes it is Route 9A, but it is technically in New York County, I thought you all wanted me to stay in this thread?

[Roadgeekteen]

Yes it is Route 9A, but it is technically in New York County, I thought you all wanted me to stay in this thread?

If you have road related or actual useful on topic stuff to post, you can post in other threads. Stay in this thread for your rants and tangents.

[webny99]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

It's not being moved to fictional highways because it's not about highways. Or at least it wasn't at the beginning when it was MMM inventing his own physics.

I guess it depends whether you weight "fictional" or "highways" more heavily. I can certainly understand both sides, but when it's pages and pages of mostly nonsense, I think the scales start to tip towards the former because there's precedent for such content being in the fictional board (although admittedly, I don't think we've ever had explicitly fictional-but-non-highway content being posted to this degree.)

[Roadgeekteen]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

It's not being moved to fictional highways because it's not about highways. Or at least it wasn't at the beginning when it was MMM inventing his own physics.

I guess it depends whether you weight "fictional" or "highways" more heavily. I can certainly understand both sides, but when it's pages and pages of mostly nonsense, I think the scales start to tip towards the former because there's precedent for such content being in the fictional board (although admittedly, I don't think we've ever had explicitly fictional-but-non-highway content being posted to this degree.)

Even Alanland started off with roads.

[Scott5114]

Where are there 6 lane county roads (serious question)?

Las Vegas

[MultiMillionMiler]

I keep mixing the two up. Sometimes highway talk arises here, and sometimes irrelevant stuff/semi-relevant stuff comes up in the highway thread, but I try to stay in these two regardless. The mods can feel free to merge them into one thread called "MMM Fictional Highway Plans And Physics Theories" assuming threads from different boards can be merged.

[Max Rockatansky]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

It's not being moved to fictional highways because it's not about highways. Or at least it wasn't at the beginning when it was MMM inventing his own physics.

I guess it depends whether you weight "fictional" or "highways" more heavily. I can certainly understand both sides, but when it's pages and pages of mostly nonsense, I think the scales start to tip towards the former because there's precedent for such content being in the fictional board (although admittedly, I don't think we've ever had explicitly fictional-but-non-highway content being posted to this degree.)

Even Alanland started off with roads.

If you are going to tell the origin of the Magical Land of Destiny at least do it justice:

"How About having the North American Interstate Highway System, in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, not central america, caribbean, or south america because i considered them other continents, and i would also like to have to have the interstate highway system in Europe and Australia, in Europe will have them in every country, like the UK, France or Spain, and in Australia will have them also in every country, like in Australia (Nation), or New Zealand, and this interstates can also be in Antarctica, and maybe South Africa, because in Antarctica theres only 1 or 2 countries, and about 5 or 6 Territories, and in South Africa because it looks like Europe, Australia, or North America, and those continents like North America, Europe, and Australia do look alike along with Antarctica and South Africa, theres my plan"

[webny99]

I keep mixing the two up. Sometimes highway talk arises here, and sometimes irrelevant stuff/semi-relevant stuff comes up in the highway thread, but I try to stay in these two regardless. The mods can feel free to merge them into one thread called "MMM Fictional Highway Plans And Physics Theories" assuming threads from different boards can be merged.

They can, but it's not usually done because it makes it almost impossible to follow the discussion when they were both active at the same time.

[jeffandnicole]

So I guess we really didn't want to know about 6 lane county roads...

[kalvado]

So I guess we really didn't want to know about 6 lane county roads...

Its pretty much along tradition of this forum to make a "widest county road" thread and see if 8 ot 10 lanes would show up

[Roadgeekteen]

So I guess we really didn't want to know about 6 lane county roads...

I did want to know and found your example informative. Just didn't have anything to say in response.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Here's some County routes in Long Island that are 6 lanes, and at some points a couple of them may widen to 8.

519 NY-110
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3fixbxZ7tLNh4BWo8


500 NY-27
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HgZ1QdJ513keMK6UA

1053 William Floyd Pkwy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xyS5QKE9v6cSM7rV8

[Roadgeekteen]

Here's some County routes in Long Island that are 6 lanes, and at some points a couple of them may widen to 8.

519 NY-110
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3fixbxZ7tLNh4BWo8


500 NY-27
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HgZ1QdJ513keMK6UA

1053 William Floyd Pkwy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xyS5QKE9v6cSM7rV8

NY 110 is not a county highway. NY 17 isn't either but it does look like Suffolk County maintains part of it. William Floyd Parkway actually is a county maintained highway.

[Hobart]

@MultiMillionMiler @Scott5114 @everyone I rolled a 7 for initiative.

Getting MMM's HP to 0 might be the only way to end this thread without a lock (a lock would be counterproductive).

I can't decide what's worse: the fact that I just rolled a nat 1 on initiative, or the fact that this post jumped forward a page due to deleted posts.

[Max Rockatansky]

@MultiMillionMiler @Scott5114 @everyone I rolled a 7 for initiative.

Getting MMM's HP to 0 might be the only way to end this thread without a lock (a lock would be counterproductive).

Wouldn't matter if you blasted him with Ultima, I'm fairly certain he has Life 3 cast. 

[MultiMillionMiler]

What does "rolling an initiative" mean?

[thspfc]

This is reply 1911. I'm accepting bets: in 24 hours, will this thread have more or less than 1911 replies?

[kkt]

if forums existed in the mid 1990s

You do know Usenet was a thing, right?

I miss Usenet.

[Roadgeekteen]

This is reply 1911. I'm accepting bets: in 24 hours, will this thread have more or less than 1911 replies?

Well it's down to 1899 now. Wouldn't be suprised if MMM just deletes all his posts someday.