RIP QBN
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- ideaist
QBN was once an oasis from everything outside of QBN.
Now it's societal regurgitation.
Shame.
- drgs0
regurgitation
/rɪˌɡəːdʒɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
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noun
1.
the action of bringing swallowed food up again to the mouth.
"see your vet if regurgitation becomes a problem"
2.
the repetition of information without analysis or comprehension.
"regurgitation of this or any other textbook will cause your essays to be marked down"
- ideaist-2
"An bunch of über elitist designers who run an online design community and think that their shit doesn't stink. Can also be referred to as the QBN Reich."
"Man, thos designer over at XYZ designers are bunch of fuckin QBN's."
~ https://www.urbandictionary.com/…
What happened to "an online design community"?
- "Quarantine of the Day", "Coronavirus", "China, "Donald Trump", "America is Fucked", "capitalism", etc.
These are not QBN.ideaist - We grew up?
Real life intervened?
This isn't Neverland, you know.Continuity - I think I thought of QBN as neverland; impenetrable group of bros untouched/unscathed.ideaist
- Sorry, "bros & shellie".ideaist
- And sea_seaContinuity
- And Sutterklut, before she went and lost her log in credentials.Continuity
- People still post inspiring things, they just get lost in a sea of misery.PhanLo
- To be fair, QotD isn't the clusterfuck of partisan bigotry that those other citations are.MrAbominable
- "Quarantine of the Day", "Coronavirus", "China, "Donald Trump", "America is Fucked", "capitalism", etc.
- dmay5
- LolGnash
- +1 @dmay.
You win.ideaist - Damn it, you beat me! I've just spent the last 3 minutes hunting down this bloody image from ideaist's last bumpsplurgeNairn
- +0.5 @Nairn.
You ALSO win.ideaist - Jokes aside, I guess these times are not the best to assess the state of QBN.dmay
- ^
+1 dmayNairn - https://cdn.instruct…nb
- ahah next time just look here:
https://www.qbn.com/…sted
- Continuity7
This reads like another one of Bennn's tedious THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!11ONE!! threads.
- ideaist0
I'm trapped like y'all and just contemplating the state of the world, countries, communities, tribes, etc. etc. etc.
I always felt QBN / NewsToday was outside of it and was a sort of oasis from the ordinary, BUT in these trying times, its become complacent.
Honesty is always the best policy.
Love y'all.
- I think abrasive language / thread titles are needed to create a real dialogue.ideaist
- Hasn't been like that for YEARS...not sure why you haven't noticed.BusterBoy
- ^ this.MrAbominable
- Nairn5
It's just the times, innit? I presume many people aren't working as they normally are and have their heads buried in the shit storm that is 2020. Design as a profession takes a back seat a bit.
There are still people posting design stuff occasionally and, more interestingly, stuff they're farting around with at home.
Personally, I really appreciate the sciencey Coronavirus posts from some of the less froth-mouthed, slightly more high-foreheaded QBNers (you know who you are), but I get where you're coming from - there is a LOT of it, and unfortunately, some of it is absolute bilge.
The social media crap regurgitation's annoyed me for a few years now, so I agree with you there - especially all these shitty, shitty histrionic ALL CAPS YouTube videos, often with some bullshit political or slightly sinophobic angle.
- Frankly, 2020 is feeling to me like a great big long bank holiday Tuesday, but I'm not really minding it.Continuity
- Ianbolton7
"If the internet exists, so will QBN."
Like no other!
- ideaist-1
This is at best a reaching out to say I miss normality in this community whatever that looked like.
Cherish this tribe.
- Oh, dear.
You're on which glass of booze, now? 3? 4?Continuity - 3.
Can't a guy be honest on QBN with OR without booze!?ideaist - No way. No way. Whenever the 'I LOVE YOUSE GUISE' comes out, there's always booze involved.Continuity
- This reminds me, I need to put some beers in the fridgedmay
- Men can only be emotional with booze.
Life 101, eh?
Haha.ideaist - I'm on dark rum and Orangina on ice #2, and I still think you're all cunts. Except Nairn. He's just unlucky.Continuity
- @Continuity Fantastic.ideaist
- haha ContinuityNairn
- LOL @ContinuityKrassy
- ha, nice line.Fax_Benson
- Oh, dear.
- ayport6
Seems to me QBN is currently an outlet for all of us to confide / blow off steam with each other about the current state of the world. Considering we're all in similar professions, there's an element of mutual respect that allows us to practice "societal regurgitation" without any sort of mass judgement (sort of) from social networks and even family...
Although I really miss the type of distraction QBN once was; especially the old front page, it seemed to keep creativity the focus of conversation.
- @ayport = My sentiments exactly.ideaist
- I came for design finds & humour, but it swerved hard to opinion forum. TDS infection everywhere, well beyond the DT thread, which I provoke for entertainmentBustySaintClaire
- A safe space for cunts.Chimp
- Hayoth-15
Follow the communist line or else!
- NBQ00-5
Design & creativity got boring in like 2014’ish or so.
- sted2
Same cunt. Same rant. Same site.
- nb4
RIP QBN
Long live Newstoday™
https://www.qbn.com/today/
- mantrakid3
I remember a post made by QBN a few years ago that said something along the lines of "Be the QBN you want to see."
- pedromendez1
Sounds like time for a coronavirus QBN print exchange
- < this is the content i'm here for!capn_ron
- cap'n, I still have that roll of film we worked on like 6 years ago, undeveloped, sitting right heremonospaced
- the photo swap where you and I did double exposures ... I THINK it was youmonospaced
- Maybe i should get them developed and scanned. LOL.monospaced
- I totally remember. I processed a roll way back then. It actually came out pretty amazing. I'll have to see if I can find the digital files of that.capn_ron