Posts by Lace Sabatons

ONO

WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS TURN OF EVENTS!?

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Quote from Aphelion

It's true that Fallout 4 caused more of a craze that Witcher 3, but I would have to say Witcher 3 has more quality to it.

Also, I loathe EA, but I like the way they run Origin overall. Steam has upped it's game recently to provide better service to it's customers, which has made me happy.

We're talking about anticipation, not quality. =P

Sausage: 15 (+1)
Eggs: 2 (-3)
Muffins: 2
French Toast: 16

Quote from alakazam

Oh, I had no idea about this. Thanks for telling me. That's a really great franchise. The last Witcher game was the most anticipated game of the year.

That would be true if Fallout 4 hadn't come out this year. =P

The deep loathing I feel for EA has thus far protected me from signing up an origin account. Steam is far from perfect, but it wins between these two options easily.

Sausage: 14 (+1)
Eggs: 5 (-2)
Muffins: 5 (-1)
French Toast: 15

Eggs rarely taste good to me, and they're always so greasy.

That's true. A lot of us split off to start our own little forums as well. At the time I think we all thought about it like "I'm going to do my own unique thing, and it won't take away from TSR." But people only have so much forum time in their day, and we probably did dilute the TSR userbase a little bit.

Well, we're not voting based on objective truth here. As there is none to be had.

We're voting on what we believe to be the best entry. =P

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Well, I just got off the night shift. It's not really "staying up late," so much as "keeping odd hours." =P

Naw man. A selfish person would vote for themselves because they want to win. An arrogant person votes for themselves because they think their own submission is the best one.

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Pretty good, got to spend a lot of time on the forum tonight.

Time for me to go soon, though.

Sausage - 13
Eggs - 7
Pancakes - 1 (-3)
Muffins - 6
Biscuit - 2 (+1)
French Toast - 14

Pancakes suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

I was bummed that Xanga is gone, since I know I made at least one personally important Xanga post. BUT, I'm pretty sure I transferred all my Xanga posts to LJ as well!

I, also, recall not being super stoked on LJ in theory. But it was SOOOO popular with the TSR crowd. So much commenting and discussion, that I really got into using it for a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if it's responsible for the forums getting so dead, actually.

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I didn't look there. >.>

In olden times, the Internet was an even more disorganized thing than it is now. Sites were small, and covered usually very niche content. There were veey few professionally managed websites, and the ones that existed were usually just digital brochures for some brick and mortar business. Commerce on the Internet existed, but it wasn't as reliable or as easy as it is today. There was less accountability, and information moved more slowly.

Things have changed a lot. Wikipedia has replaced just about every website you would ever go to to find general information. For more niche info, there's almost guaranteed to be a wiki for that. Big news sites exist catering to most topics, and for many topica they're actually considered a primary news source. They recieve press releases, and have reporters.

We've gained a lot. I would never want to go back to what was. But there are things we've lost as well. And I think it's valuable to consider those things.

The big one for me is the way we socialize on the Internet. With a bbs, a mailgroup, or a forum, you've got a community that exists within human understanding. A village, as it were. Even the largest communities back in the day operated at a concievable scale. And while it didn't always work for the best, these communities were governed by people who were part of them. The ultimate authority on a zelda forum was a zelda fan themselves. And you could talk to them if you needed.

Today, we've given that up. Modern social networks are better in a lot of ways. They're more stable, more consistent, and have made the internet accessible to a broad array of non-tech-savvy folks who were stuck on the outside for many years. But Mark Zuckerberg doesn't give a shit about your zelda facebook group. You'll never be able to talk to him, and you'll never matter within the grand scheme of facebook.

Community admins could be assholes. They could even be bad people, sometimes. But they were still an accessible person who you probably had at least one thing in common with. And you were a member of a community, not a product enticed to participate in your own commodification by a community building device.

What are your thoughts on the evolution of social networking? What are other things we've lost as the Internet has progressed?

27 I'm holdin' on, buddy!!!

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x'D

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I really don't see it. I wonder if it doesn't show up on the device I'm using, or if I'm going to feel really stupid later.

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