TheJoe: You're aware of the post date on this thread, right?
WBGhiro: Yeah, that's like, last week, right?
Here's how it goes. Back in August 2009 there was lots of dialogue on Twitter and the IRC about pirates and ninjas. A couple of forum posts alluded to said dialogue and it became necessary to pose the question to the forums on the whole. This thread was later featured in GOG's weekly "best of" post which they discontinued.
As such, there is relevance. The community of GOG.com have an affinity to the discussion and it was good fun.
National crises, public masturbation and ex-Nazis, however, don't fit that affinity in the same way. They're not fun and there are
plenty of places to discuss them with a
much more informed audience with
far less stupidity.