# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 228
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9025 "2023-04-08T16:24:53Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Vault Boy will be free! Will he be free, or will he be trapped forever as the avatar of a banned ex-poster who wouldn’t even be able to change his avatar if he wanted to? Sounds like that’d be the worst kind of hell if you ask me. Like that window-thing they used to imprison the villains in Superman II… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9026 "2023-04-08T16:52:16Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And the use of that name probably contributes to my earlier not-quite-justified irritation towards the above poster. ] Nobody disses Lassie & survives. Ralfy is dead to you. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9027 "2023-04-08T17:36:33Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Like that window-thing they used to imprison the villains in Superman II… The Phantom Zone is next door to the cornfield. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9028 "2023-04-08T22:45:33Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Will he be free, or will he be trapped forever as the avatar of a banned ex-poster who wouldn’t even be able to change his avatar if he wanted to? Vault boy transcends time, space, and nuclear holocausts, I’m not worried about him. Sure, as you point out, he’ll be attached to the frozen words of Ralfy in our archives, but on the OTHER side of the Ralfy will be the word: BANNED. Which will free his soul from the association. Although if I could flip the orientation of the avatar and his pistol was pointed at Ralfy’s name, it would be even better. (Note - I’m not intending to threaten Ralfy in any way, just that your own avatar threatening you is at least amusing) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9029 "2023-04-08T23:24:32Z")
What if there were lots of vault boy avatars? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9030 "2023-04-08T23:37:59Z")
Over in FQ “Amber13” asks a really stupid question about eyes and light, but in later responses seems to have already known the answer. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9031 "2023-04-08T23:50:54Z")
I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that “how come I can’t see anything when I close my eyes?” is possibly not the most perspicacious question ever asked in GQ/FQ. I may, however, be misunderstanding some profound epistemological motivation behind the question. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9032 "2023-04-09T11:48:21Z")
Possibly a misreading of the forum/category title. (It says “Factual” not “Fatuous”.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9033 "2023-04-09T12:39:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Over in FQ “Amber13” asks a really stupid question about eyes and light, but in later responses seems to have already known the answer. Didn’t we have someone awhile back whose whole _modus operandi_ was asking really dumb questions like that? Note her thread is now closed. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9034 "2023-04-09T12:47:13Z")
She originally posted in Cafe. The post was moved to FQ. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9035 "2023-04-09T13:01:31Z")
Though a weird question, it was not a Café topic. FQ from just the OP seemed like the place. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9036 "2023-04-09T14:36:23Z")
It doesn’t read like somebody who’s high, but like AI Chat generated from each successive response by a board member. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9037 "2023-04-09T14:58:14Z")
Yeah, but if your eyelids are made of metal, what color do you see when you close them? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9038 "2023-04-09T15:00:37Z")
It depends whether I’m dreaming of electric sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9039 "2023-04-09T15:06:22Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > FQ from just the OP seemed like the place. Sorry about that. I’d have made the same call though. Even though it seemed like they answered their own question in the OP, there was maybe an implied question somewhere in it. It’s only with subsequent posts that you could see that wasn’t the case. It obviously wasn’t for Cafe Society in any case. To me it was like they wanted to use the SDMB as a personal blog and not really create a discussion, so closing the thread was probably the only positive outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9040 "2023-04-09T15:25:46Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Didn’t we have someone awhile back whose whole _modus operandi_ was asking really dumb questions like that? Are you thinking of this dude? > **[@dude\_robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dude_robert/activity/topics)** (Who inspired this thread) > [@Help 'the dude" find his new thread titles.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-dude-find-his-new-thread-titles/789206/): > > Title sort of says it all, help dude robert find new exciting things to discuss by offering thread titles for him to explore. So many things we haven’t discussed yet. A few examples: Would taking dehydrated water on a space mission save weight? What’s the best way to fold concrete? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9041 "2023-04-09T15:31:47Z")
> [@susan](#): > > It doesn’t read like somebody who’s high, but like AI Chat generated from each successive response by a board member Yeah, it read to me like very bad AI. Pretty much repeating back what had been said in a very non-responsive manner. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9042 "2023-04-09T15:44:25Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Yeah, but if your eyelids are made of metal, what color do you see when you close them? > **[The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for April 09, 2023 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2023/04/09?ct=v&cti=1031701)** > > April 09, 2023 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9043 "2023-04-09T15:47:41Z")
Officially The Dope’s Greatest Thread. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9044 "2023-04-10T01:22:40Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Yeah, but if your eyelids are made of metal, what color do you see when you close them? Hues of _Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla_, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=227) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=229)