You're right. What's there to discuss?

Why?

I agree, but I don't think we share the same reasons.

As long as /tg/ keeps parroting the "lol we derail all troll threads" line I refuse to call it the best board

This particular case of delusion is simply unforgivable

Shit I've known that for twenty years.

>>18915244

Storytiem thread time?

/lit/ is the best board, with /tg/ a close second.

>>18915172
No, YOU discuss. Describe this "extensive analysis" of yours. How do you define and measure the quality of a board? I want to see some rubrics and statistical data, dammit.

Its the best board because most of us can agree on at least one thing. All other boards are shit.

>>18915286
/lit/ doesn't have anything on proper storytimes.

>>18915172
It isn't, but it has a terrible, desperate want to be.

>>18915286
lolno. /lit/ is hands down one of the WORST. /lit/ was good for maybe three weeks after it was first made.

>>18915244

nice dubs

>>18915286

nice joke

>>18915301
That's total bullshit though. And /tg/ has plenty of godawful shit relating to racism, politics, misogyny, insane levels of investment of personal worth in meaningless elfgame bullshit.

/tg/ is fun board, but there's no reason for anyone to call it the best board. There IS no best board, there's only the board that is best for you.

>>18915300

Fun to Bullshit ratio.

(though sometimes they can overlap)

>>18915339

Woah man.

Deep.

This is why.

>>18915402
So /tg/ is the best board because it caters to well-meaning (but also kind of psychologically uncomfortable/weird and totally ineffectual) escapism?

I don't think so Tim.

I like this board. Hell, I really fucking love this board. But I don't get the obsession with having to be 'the best' and our searching for highly dubious justifications like that one as to why we *are* the 'best'.

Shit, let's look at it in the context of RPGs. What's the best RPG? Well, you might think there's one - but could you get everyone to agree on one? Even just at your FLGS? Probably not, no. That's because there isn't really a best RPG, but there's probably a 'your favorite RPG'. That goes for boards too.

/tg/ would be a better board if there was room for games like chess, risk, catan, etc.

still its pretty good.

>>18915263
Oh there's one coming soon. If you've followed our current adventures so far, the next installment will blow you away... we really picked up in the last two weeks.

>>18915463
wat.
We've discussed each of those plenty of times.
We've had entire threads about solving Chess puzzles. Is there a thread you think we're missing at the moment?
MAKE IT

our illithids are angry.

>>18915504
>unsupported file type

The fuck? it's a .jpeg!

I'm more interested to see your research. I believe you, of course, being a frequenter of /ck/, /v/ and /pol/ and thus having what I feel is a good test spread, but in order to make the claim as fact rather than opinion... Indeed, it must be an extensive set of observations.

Of course you're also talking about establishing objective criterion for 'best board,' which is something that one cannot exactly do from an enjoyment stance.

Perhaps I really like getting into arguments with liberals, /pol/ is certainly the best board for that.
Perhaps I like yelling at atheists, well, then I should probably be on Reddit. Is Reddit the best place on the internet? Jesus Christ no.
Maybe I like futa. Welcome to /d/!
Perhaps I like Traditional Games and... Historical stuff. Then I'd probably say /tg/.

/tg/ is bad at magic....

AaJ threads included.....


This saddens me

>>18915339
> And /tg/ has plenty of godawful shit relating to racism

JIDF faggot detected. Just because we know the truth, you'll slander us.

You are incorrect, OP. The best board is, quite obviously, /po/.

>>18915554
I had to look up what that was.

>>18915558
/diy/

>>18915510
>>>/g/24548501
You need to edit 4chanX, find this line:

mimeTypes = $('.rules').firstChild.textContent.match(/: (.+) /)[1].toLowerCase().replace(/\w+/g, function(type) {

And delete the space between (.+) and the slash.

/tg/ is best like Golden Age Superman is a good teacher

/v/ is the best board.

>>18915402

I was genuinely shocked that didn't end with a 'wants to be the little girl' joke.

>>18915286

Lit would be a better board if it didn't spend all its time trying to out-obscure each other's literature references.

>captcha: sup mendards

Not sure what a mendard is, but I think it insulted us.

>>18915510
I got you covered, bro.

I agree.
Old /tg/ still was better, though

>>18915617
Which old /tg/ are you referring to? There have been many ages, not all of them golden.

>>18915631
Mainly the beginnings of the "anything goes" era. A lot of useless junk, but man, was it fun.

>>18915631
Who here remembers "sage for homebrew"?

/tg/ is definitely the best board on 4chan for me. Similar tastes in media all-around and less of the retarded /a/ or /v/ mentality where they troll anything they don't like.

>>18915606

Such as this?

>>18915662
>Teppu conversation on /a/
>Everyone pervs out over fighting martial artist girls
>Teppu conversation /tg/
>...everyone pervs out over fighting martial artist girls
Well, you can't have everything.

>>18915662
I remember Flare, and James T. Profit. That's about as far back as my memory goes.

>>18915685

Failure to link, should go here instead.

>>18915655

>>18915576

Dude, that's silver age superman

Nothing to discuss. We know.
In one way or another, /tg/ can fulfill just about anything you can find on any other board, with the exception of porn and we even get that some times.

If the mods lightened up a bit, we might even be able to get back into the idea of turning any conceivable concept into a game and thus be able to truly discuss any and all topics on this board.

I know some people get really pissy at the idea of stealth topic discussion under the guise of game design, but fuck those guys. /tg/ is at its best when it is filtering everything through concepts like dice and points and scores.

>>18915686
I didn't say that they didn't act like /a/ about things they like, I said that, for the most part, they don't flip out and start trolling due to rage.

>>18915686

I perved out over the martial arts!

...and the girls.

>>18915698
Is it?
I'm not a diligent /co/mrade, then

Mind you, I like my comics like I like my horror movies
Summarized on Wiki

>>18915755
I like Teppu because it is an unironically good, original shounen manga that is shockingly faithful to realism in its subject matter.

But I think most everyone else just wants to bone one of the chicks.

Also, it does strong female characters without doing STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS.

This board cannot be the best. All of those quest threads are pure cancer and a waste of space.

>>18915695
When did Profit happen?

I remember Flare, but don't remember Profit, though his legend was strong

I heartily agree. Ive been to many boards, and this and /d/ are, IMO, the best in terms of community.

I love you guys

>>18915792
2008.

>>18915792
Here you go.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3052712/

>>18915778
>unironically good, original shounen manga that is shockingly faithful to realism in its subject matter.
>unironically good, original shounen
Well let me just tell you about...
>faithful to realism in its subject matter.

Oh... never mind then

>>18915792
Profit did not bother me personally as much as Flee, Radical Edward and Zhaku did later. He was more annoying to most people though, because any thread he posted in would inevitably shitstorm.

Now he's just sad when he comes back though.

There was also Red Machine D, who was a horrible excuse for a human being.

>>18915778

It's astonishingly well written and I enjoy its lack of fanservice, I just wish it would come out more often.

/diy/ is possibly the best board in terms of staying on topic and doing what it was meant to do, but /tg/ has to best awesome to shit ratio of any other board.

/tg/ can sort of simultaneously cater to every topic under the right conditions. The very idea of storytelling and gaming are practically universal and all encompassing to the point of making the idea of "not /tg/-related" an astronomically stupid thought.

/tg/ is at its best when its posters understand and acknowledge this fact.

Additionally, /tg/ seems to be pretty good at ignoring shit they don't like or at least offering a conversation spurring counter-point to things they disagree with. I emphasize the "pretty good" part of that because it still happens, on occasion, but less so than other boards. /co/ for instance, is in a constant state of screaming about there being more than one of a certain kind of thread.

>>18915796
Oh, I was already here then

Must've been to busy in... every thread he wasn't on?

I dunno, he never really affected me.

>>18915817
One Piece is way more typical but sure, it's pretty fun. Also OP is titties, titties everywhere.

True, /tg/ is probably the best board on 4chan.
But you have to understand, saying that is like saying that Urist McStoneBeard is the tallest dwarf in Boatmurdered.

>>18915795
Agreed. now only if we could fix /d/'s problem of ALL DICKGIRLS ALL THE TIME.

>>18915824
Profit pissed me off not because of his troll posts, but because of how people would flip their shit and instantly start raging at his 0/10 trolling to the point where every single thread he posted in was instantly derailed.

I couldn't use the board for weeks because he would show up in every thread I was interested in at the time and fuck them up.

>>18915834
>/diy/ is possibly the best board in terms of staying on topic and doing what it was meant to do, but /tg/ has to best awesome to shit ratio of any other board.
/diy/ also gets some occasional amazing threads like 'I want to make myself a superhero' or 'how do I defend myself from muggers' or 'I want to move out into a van'.

>>18915732

Hey man, game design isn't just a way to hide non-/tg/ conversation. It's often legitimate and results in two conversations happening in the same thread.

>>18915854
Kinda like how people would instantly shit their pants and burn down the nearest village every time sergalfag showed up?

>Additionally, /tg/ seems to be pretty good at ignoring shit they don't like

I have no reaction image that is laughing hard enough.

Good show.

>>18915874
Exactly like that. He at least had the courtesy to stick to bad threads.

>>18915854
You sir... I like you.
We should condemn the people who give into trolls and create aimless rage and thread trash just as much as the troll who starts the shit in the first place.

>>18915854
That's pretty much what I'm getting at, yeah.

Before I found /tg/, I never really came on 4chan very often. When I found /tg/, it was like I had found something I had always been searching for, which was perfect in every way that I expected.

>>18915871
I'm not saying it is. I'm saying that 'game design' is often viewed as an excuse by the easy to anger thread police who will spend all their time arguing in a thread while reporting and spamming it with /b/-style fervor.

To design a game based on an anime series or a movie or a book or anything else requires having those two conversations on the material and game design going at the same time. Some people just stopped understanding that, it seems.

>>18915878
I think
>/tg/ has been pretty good at talking about things they do like
would be better. and there are plenty of things we don't like, so we have much to discuss.

>>18915941
oh you sneaky contractions, unshackling yourselves from my apostrophe chains and slipping away while I'm not looking.

make that "talking about things they DON'T like"

>>18915883
I've tried telling people that they're just messing up a thread if they respond to the trolls, but nobody seems to listen even if I'm highlighting it and then the trolls claim that they're not actually trolling, which causes a second shitstorm to happen.
>>18915941
That's definitely true, but how many threads about B^U do you see these days? Just a couple of years ago there was a Buckley thread made every single day, no matter what.

/tg/ is pretty literate, at least compared to a number of other boards. I think that that contributes, in however minor a way, to raising the bar.

>>18915974
>I've tried telling people that they're just messing up a thread if they respond to the trolls, but nobody seems to listen even if I'm highlighting

No, you see, /tg/ is turning trolls into great things! Because feeding trolls is something something /tg/ is one of the most retarded boards here.

I visit /v/ and only come here sometimes
never post though

>>18915882
Sergalfag ruined any thread it showed up in. So yes, it did only stick to bad threads.

>>18916027
There's a difference between taking a troll at face value and discussing a topic seriously or even just facetiously and running with it until it snowballs into hilarity and taking a troll and flipping your shit into some sort of uncontrollable fucknado of rage and hate, just unloading seething fury unto a thread with unyielding persistence.

That second one is the problem. Some people just can't shut the fuck up and insist on stationing themselves in threads that they have made it their life's mission to hate into oblivion. What we end up with is the occasional blemish of a thread that is just shameful to have around and makes everyone here look retarded.

>>18916027
In my experience, what happens isn't actually /tg/ feeding a troll, it's /tg/ ignoring the troll to talk about something semi-related to the OP's post, another troll joining in and forming a troll circlejerk where they destroy a thread, and occasionally they actually do feed the troll.

>>18916062
Much like tripfags in general, the problem was generally that people would complain that sergalfag was posting in a thread. Not what sergalfag was posting, just that they had posted and that on its own was a heinous enough crime to require thread derailment and destruction.

Sergalfag was pretty awful on their own, but the bitchy complaining was just as bad and it should not be ignored because that's bad behavior. Bad /tg/. BAD.

>>18916074
Yes, because bumping a troll thread to talk about meaningless shit totally isn't feeding the troll.

/tg/'s problem is that it assumes everything it does is or will be a great success and not at all a steaming pile of bad ideas.

>>18916089
My time traveling lesbian themed game is going to be a runaway success, thank you very much.

>>18915545
You may be right about /tg/ being generally bad at Magic, but I bristle at your slander of the AaJ threads. galvanicAutogenitor is a scholar and a gentlemen among tripfags.

>>18916112
Not as successful as my Touhou game that uses Dark Heresy's rules!

>>18916089
If they were feeding the troll they'd be raging at the OP, not acting like /tg/ usually does.

>>18915874
Wasn't Sergalfag not that awful a poster (I've seen it come from beyond the vale of permabanning to join into a random thread, which turns into a combination discussion/shitstorm) but despised by a few who would create an instant shitstorm at the very sight of Sergalfag and its posting style & silly avatarfaggotry?

Sergalfag may have posted in a pretentious manner, though meaning nothing by it so it attests, but he's no Jim Profit. And even Jim Profit wasn't that bad; he was a stupid cunt, but no one could bother to ignore him. Mostly because of /tg/ poster's tendency to defend their HONAH and never shying from a friendly debate. Which usually leads to a shitstorm starting if the debater in question has no interest in keeping it friendly.

>>18916144
He was a pretty bad poster. Coming in to strike up pretentious devil's advocate shit when you know people will get pissed at you is trolling by any definition.

>>18916144
Sergalfag posted pretentious white noise while roleplaying some kind of creepy furry thing. It did a good job of acting like it was contributing to a thread, but really it was just posting things that kind of looked like a contribution.

>>18916089
So /tg/ is da orks? It all wot makez sense now.

RIOGHT. SEE DEM TROLL POSTAHS, BOYZ? LET'Z GO MUCK UP DERE SHIT! POINT! COUNTERPOINT! ARGUE! POINT! COUNTERPOINT! ARGUE! I'Z IZ DA DEBATEIST!

>>18916186

This fine fungus has it right.

>>18916279
OI. NO I DOESN'T, YA STOOPID GIT! DON'T AGREE WIT' ME! YA WANT A FIOGHT? YA GOTS ONE! YA SQUIGHEADED GROT LOVAH!

>>18916339

You know what? You're absolutely correct. My statement has been defeated by your flawless argument.

Here's the thing about /tg/. Ordinary threads are legendary for being easily trolled. Indeed, it has often been said that /tg/ trolls itself.

However, deliberate troll threads are frequently turned into something awesome that you would never find on any other board... indeed, anywhere else online.
> http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2590502/
> http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4878401/
> http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5189800/

And this is the true essence of /tg/. We're all here to have fun, and to help each other have fun, and to spend a lot of time planning to help other people have fun. Try saying that about any other board. We have a large proportion of non-pompous, creative-as-fuck, genuinely nice adults (or kids who act like adults) who are nevertheless incapable of staying on any one topic for more than 10 consecutive posts.

I wouldn't want it any other way.

>>18916587
Don't forget one of the most glorious stories ever committed to this board:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5114798/

There wouldn't be a Wasteland Warrior without that!

I was promised that there would be a Lucha-based RPG system in here! Where are the Luchadores at?

Failing that, who the heck archived this thread under the title Luchadores: power of the Lucha?

Or, y'know, we can just build this thing from scratch.

>>18916731
The finest ending of a neutral evil fighter ever.

That was three years ago.