Posts by _LS_

Wow! That's a phenomenal screenshot. It's actually got the whole page in there, with a bunch of member interaction. So many memories.

I see a lot of avatars that I recognize, but I don't remember so much about the members attached to them. Still...

Dark the 7th, I always hated his guts. He seemed like such a jerk back then. 15 years later and I've taken on a lot of the qualities that made me hate him so much myself.

Rinny was always a good kid. She and Godzilla (and maybe another member? I don't remember.) always seemed to have a special friendship. They all lived in Scandinavia, and probably met up at least a few times I think. She always refused to post a selfie, except one time when she posted a closeup photo of her eyes. Zilla and I spent the next decade fawning over how pretty her eyes were anytime she was around. (Much to her annoyance.)

Nonix Dark, Kjolen, Tidus, Ska Rue, Lord_Andor...I really don't remember them but I remember their avatars. I feel like I should know them.

Sephiroth...that fuckin' kid. Hawaiian, bros with Kilovh, probably the youngest member of the original TSR gang. He's dropped off the face of the earth in recent years.

@kilovh during his Aragorn phase.

Rikku, I had such a crush on her for ages.

Kaynil with her infamous "Drinking spam" avatar, which she used on every forum everywhere for years. Also, I see that you correctly selected "Ex-SOLDIER" for your class. That's the same class I picked.

(Also, fuckin' Ashleigh's weird forum RPG where everybody picked a class and earned experience points...That was weird, but neat.)

Zickorate, christ on a cracker I'd forgotten about that guy. I think he was also Scandanavian. He and I had a lot in common and we really bonded, but he didn't stick around long. I haven't seen him since like, 2003 or something.

Yuna. Lulz. I didn't have internet for something like 2-3 months at one point. In that time, the forum design completely flipped, "The Sacred Realm" became "Spira Online," and Aerith_Freak became Yuna. I was really bummed, I thought AF had sold the forum to someone else. Being completely honest, I don't think Ashleigh ever really stopped thinking I was an annoying kid ruining her forum with my constant spamming. There were years where we could call ourselves 'friends' to be sure. But I always kinda felt like she only tolerated me because I was so desperate to win her approval. I looked up to her so much, and truth be told I don't think I'd be who I am today without her influence.

Ah, the RackNine advert. Ashleigh always ranted about how shitty their service was.

Damn. Those were good times. I mean, my real life kinda sucked, but TSR really was a refuge for me. The whole community really gave me the tools I needed to succeed in life.

Well lets get some of our active members in here.

@Pekachew , @Sardonic Pickle , @Cressel , @Link , @The Inhaling One , @Edward_Stryfe , @kilovh , @Vengeance

EDIT: While we're on the subject. I wouldn't mind a "Serious Discussion" forum. Somewhere to talk about politics or philosophy or ethics.

Some people get bummed out by those topics, so keeping them separate from the general forum will allow those people to easily avoid topics that will be stressful for them. Plus, a separate forum allows the threads to have a certain gravitas, which helps prevent them from getting derailed.

No, nothing drastic. But business was really really slow. Most days, the business was bringing in less than $30 in sales. We all knew things weren't going well, and personally I didn't think there was much hope for the business model to succeed. It was too rooted in nostalgia and personal feelings for the business to find a relevant niche for itself in the marketplace. But even still, six days is crazy. Most people didn't even know that we existed yet, we hadn't run any tournaments or other events to bring in customers. There was a lot of potential for the business to see some growth.

The fact that it closed six days after it opened says to me that there was some serious financial mismanagement. The owner should have been prepared to operate for at least 3-4 months.

And in point of fact, they didn't warn us. I actually had a meeting with the owner at 3:30 pm on Friday. I gave him a list of cost-saving suggestions, told him we needed a first aide kit, and told him what I'd done to fix the broken phone system in case my repairs caused him any problems. Later that evening when I got home from my shift, I found out that he'd sent the email letting everyone know that the business was closing at 1:00pm.

I'm not angry with him. It's not like he's some bourgeois oppressor who went home to his mansion that night. He and his wife sunk their savings into the business. I imagine that they're in much worse shape than I am right now. I feel for them. And aside from not telling me the business had failed, he treated me very well while I worked for him.

Overall, it's just a really bad situation for all involved. I just hope I can find a new job quickly, yo.

^Assumes I know what HW is! Probably Hyrule Warriors, right? Is it even out yet?
< Spent the downtime refreshing the forum over and over again and crying.
V Spent the forum downtime outside or some shit.

Huh. I almost never have videos that aren't available in my country. I mean, I know you guys have to deal with that shit all the time. I'm not complaining. It's just kinda weird to see.

And I've got the soundtrack to the sequel queued up right after! =D

I'm not too familiar with the 3DS specifically, but can you run it when it's plugged in?

If you can play it when it's plugged into an outlet, but it won't charge at all, then it's almost certainly the battery. I did some googling, and it looks like a new battery is usually less than $10. I'd usually recommend going with first party hardware if you can. (As in, get it directly from Nintendo). As a general rule of thumb, repairing consumer electronics with parts produced by a third party tends to produce a fair amount of problems.

If the 3DS doesn't run when it's plugged in...well it still might be the battery. But I might try using a different charger, and making sure there isn't any significant damage to the charger port.

Quote from Vengeance

Not sure whether to be concerned or simply go with it for now.

It's weird old joke, and I'm not 100% sure how it got started anymore. Consider it the full extent of our hazing process.

I'mma be honest, TIO, I underestimated you just now.

"Oh great." I thought. "Fuckin' teenagers and their weirdly dogmatic music passion."

But naw, you were right, this is good shit. Also:

I know that feeling. I have a terribly bad habit of forcing myself to be "complete" about things.

This is a good thread. We should actually have this thread instead of ignoring it.

It's hard to pick just one Star Wars book as my childhood favorite, but "Vision of the Future" stands out was one of the most triumphant and joyful of the Star Wars books for me.

I've personally kinda accepted that I'll never be "done" with WoW. It'll always rotate its way back into my life. But all my old friends have either stopped playing, or moved to other servers. It's funny, actually, because I tend to follow a predictable pattern.

1. Start listening to the many WoW soundtracks, because they're fucking great music.
2. Start to feel nostalgic.
3. Wrestle with my feelings for weeks before resubbing.
4. It takes roughly 5 minutes after resubbing for me to be riding my mount around Stormwind / Elwynn at random, not really sure what to do now that I'm back.

The last time I actually got to max level was Cataclysm. I played for a few months on the tail end of Pandaria, but never hit 90. And as good as I hear WoD is, I somehow doubt I'll play it at all.

^ I think is Kaynil's actual, real-life brother, but I haven't actually been able to determine that for sure.
< Needs to figure out what he wants to accomplish today.
V Secretly hates me. But like, really secretly. They'll deny it. Or they won't deny it, but they'll pretend their lack of denial is a joke.

Does anybody understand the Fight Forum?

I don't really get its purpose, and nobody seems to be posting in it much. It's not for serious debate or discussion. But it's also not for actual fights between members. It's for playing around, I guess?

It seems like this could be rolled into the Spam & games forum pretty easily.

Quote from Cressel

What do I do with two monitors?

-Play a game on one monitor. On the other monitor you can have: the game's wiki open, this forum open to browse during the game's downtime, or just a movie/TV show to watch during a game that only requires half your attention. When I go back to WoW, I usually watch boss strat videos on my B monitor while clearing trash on the A monitor. That way I don't hold the group back.

-Work on an image editing project and SPREAD DOSE MENUS OUT, BRUTHA

-If writing, have your first draft on monitor B, and write your second draft on monitor A. Or, use the other monitor for research.

Lots of possibilities, mang.

Quote from Vengeance

Makes the time go by.

I think I've listened to that exact video before, actually.

And now it's what I'm listening to.

I was just thinking that if I ever open another forum, I might pay homage to the pink-and-purple designs that Ashleigh so loved.

I mean, that's every pursuit, right?

No matter how much you love something, if you're dedicated to it and you do it regularly, then you're gonna have a lot of days where you have to force yourself.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I lost my job.

The place went out of business after 6 fucking days.

Good luck, mang. Dual monitors are fuckin' sweet.

http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/story.html

This is a long read, but I'd never heard about it before. If you have some time to kill, it's worth reading.

TL;DR:

-Activists in the UK print a pamphlet critical of McDonalds.
-McDonalds threatens to sue them, the same way it sues everyone that criticizes it. But these activists don't give in.
-Due to the UK's harsh libel laws, which don't guarantee legal representation to the defense and are generally weighted in favor of the claimant, the activists are in deep shit.
-McDonald's lawyers convince the judge to disband the jury because the issues are too complicated for dumb peasant folk to understand.
-The trial lasts 2 years, and the Judge eventually finds in favor of McDonalds (though he strikes down parts of their claim.)
-Public opinion largely favors the defense, though. McDonalds gets a shit load of bad press from the whole debacle.
-The activists eventually sue the UK itself in the European court, and win.
Epilogue: McDonalds is still an organization that helps billionaires oppress the poor.