f13.net

So, after a few drinks and shots with a couple buddies it comes up that they read F13.  I am making this thread in an effort to encourage posting and/or creating accounts of the lurkers.  So, no personal attacks allowed!

Fuck you.  :hello_kitty:

'Sup thou.

Build it, and they will come.

I don't understand. 

PS  All the pink went away.

You run out of stuff to smoke again? I here Oregano is Awesome.

any reason for your interest in lurkers? 

Also hello all.

Yes. I wish every lurker would register.

Also, I don't like people recognizing me and then having them say "I'm a lurker. ^_^" and then run away.

This happens at least once at every convention. I should stop carrying around a broadsword and bag full of severed heads.

I saw one guy do the ^_^ face, too.  It was astonishing, but he ran away before I could take a picture.

Hello, I am new here. Please welcome me into your fold of angsty game nerds.

Hell, you should have a Nice Lurker thread and a Nasty Lurker thread.

Nice one gets the nice people around here welcoming them and giving them cookies.  The Nasty one has the rest of us verbally beating them about the head for being useless fucking maggots that their parents couldn't be more ashamed of.

I'd sign up for that.

Hello, my name is Sinij and I'm a lurker. I like to play UO and be nice to people.

Keep telling yourself that and the ladies won't be able to resist you.

funny/scary, David Eddery mentions f13 on his blog (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GameTycoon/~3/41787298/)

I don't know who David Eddery is but it doesn't appear I'm welcome on wherever it is he keeps his equally unknown to me blog.

We are hungry?

One. One Lurker. HA. HA. HA.

We lurk.  It's what we do.

Ah. I'd like to have an argument, please.

 got it right this time (http://www.edery.org/2006/10/articles-of-interest-62/).  He's now at MSFT on XBLA.  Was very breathless about it at the AGC.

I still don't know who he is but I never know who anyone is so... alrighty, then.

Your ways confuse and frighten me.  Much like fire and MTV programming.

I wish MTV programming would catch fire.

DDA, have you used that handle elsewhere? It sounds familiar (and not just in a Charlton Heston kind of way). Oh, and welcome.

Thanks.  I haven't used this handle before now.  Many moons ago, I posted sporadically as Dr. Gonzo on Lum's old site.  That was before I ran screaming from MMORPGs due to utter contempt for EQ and burnout from UO. 

http://www.filecabi.net/video/gochimpypac.html

Damn, the camera crew promised they wouldn't start filming until I'd warmed up a bit more.  The bastards.

I think I:m the oppisite of a lurker.  I have an account, I just almost never read the forums or post.

Certainly, today is Opposite Day.

This thread is a failure.  Contributor to lurker ratio is outlandishly skewed against lurker.

We got at least 2 lurkers to post.  What have you done to drum up support?  WHAT??? 

I dunno, I was extremely hammered when I started the post.  Seems to have worked for some reason.

At first I thought you had typo'd David Eddings, and was marginally impressed. However, I suppose its unusual that an MS blogger is referencing something outside Redmond, so grats Mr Eddery.

3 lurkers

*returns to lurking*

I see Signe lurking in thie thread.

(http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/lurk2.gif)

Am not.  Was working.

And in other amazing news, tomorrow the sky will be blue, and some one will breath air.

You're being, like, snarky or something, aren't you?

I lurk because I lost all my fingers in a deep fat fryer accident.

You know I wished I was a catfish
Swimming in that deep blue sea
I'd have all the good looking women there boy
Fishing after me

The Lurker's Union is currently busy planning a violent forum uprising. Your repression shall be your undoing.

Longtime lurker, firsttime poster. 

Hi.

HEY CHEDDAR!


...okay, I'm all out of breath now.

Been lurking since before f13 became f13 (picked up the habit from an old office-mate), only recently registered to post in the xbox developer tools thread.  Currently playing the hell out of FFXII, which is addictively fun, even after 50 hours or so of gameplay.

-Q

I lurk you longtime.

Its better to lurk and have people think you are a fool, than post on a message board and remove all doubt. Or something like that.

Yesssss, keep on coming out of the woodwork.  Soon we will overthrow our oppressors!

Im scared, slightly confused, and maybe just a tad aroused.

Lurkers are the new page boys.

I am forming a zerg army made of lurkers, and we will steamroll you 2000+ post people!

Dude, we in the uberguild TopTen will crush you with our l33t raid gear.

Either that or we will just blather on and on and on until you get bored and quit.

I think this is a much more likely outcome.

I do have a slight rep for jumping games every few months.  Oh well, could be worse!

Slight rep?

I have a slight rep for jumping games every few hours...

Anyone else get the mental picture of Schild jumping over a game box like Jack Be Nimble?

"Lurking since waterthread.org"!

Just pretend I made a gimick account and posted as Dr. Twister.

Ill trade you 10 'sploitz for a blue name.

I'd bite.  I just want to be able to post to the den. Oh wait. Schild - want some sploitz?

When does one stop being a lurker and start being a contributor?

Does contributing to the lurker thread to try to raise our (lurkers) numbers lead to failure automatically?

-Q

Ten posts.  Please to be turning in your Lurker Union Card.  Dank you veddy much.

Present.

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Hello, I'm a Scottish lurker!  :-)

Shit is hot.  Bring on the nooblets!

Yes.

This thread perpetually fails.

I love all of you more than Rrava.

We went on this hot date to Austin, and he still hasn't come back to my house bringing gifts.

Hey, wanna come see the PS3 on Saturday?














































Assuming it works. Otherwise you'll just be "seeing" the PS3.

If we could only find a way to generate electricity from failure this thread would save humanity.

They're going to hate you.  Sorry.

You just keep telling yourself that the reason we don't like you is because you are Scottish if it makes you feel better.  :evil:

...

Nah, too easy.

Since I never had a single worthwhile contribution to this site, I still consider myself a lurker. And noone can take that away from me.

Maybe he's like Superman to Zod.

Aye well people can't help being jealous!  :-P

Wait, that's the standard?  Shit, in that case F13 has a lot more lurkers than I thought.

I am this site's most prolific lurker.

You forgot about Straz again.

Stray has more posts, and he's about to pass Signe to go into 3rd place behind schild and HaemishM.

What the hell is wrong with him?

It's amazing really.....That one could have so many posts, and not say much of anything at all.

Like I'm doing right now.

I think Stray is macroing.

Cheddar = Warden?

I've been lurking since I read an interview with Edward Castronova that pointed to Waterthread.  It's been good times.

I solved that whole post count problem.

I wonder if it'll stay at 1. Guess not.

noob.

Don't make me reset your post count.

I want a reset. Please?

No, I'm special.

I 'spose I should post here.

Being a lurker and all.

I like this a lot better than WTo, we used to eat lurkers there for fun.

And fiber, they are high in fiber.

Fiber?

Carbs maybe.  Yep.  Chock full 'o carbs.

Bones are ruffage. Mmmmm.

Last time I stated how much I hated postcount, Shockeye set it to like a bajillion or something.  I got PM's asking how I posted so often. 

Lesson: Never tempt fate.

Fuck Shockeye. 

This thread gives me hope for future generations.

I still don't get it.  And Sam wouldn't explain it to me either, no matter how drunk I got him.

Hey! Want to be a cool kid?  NOW IS THE TIME!  You could win free money and prizes.  Well, no money.  And no prizes.


It does help if you register, though.  It allows our overlords to track trends and whatnot.  Plus I will like you.  That is worth a lot.


SIGN UP TODAY!

Speaking of that, I went down to the whiskey shop today and picked up a bottle of that Bunnahabhain.    :thumbs_up:

Cool.  You can do what I do now and play the MMOG Discussion Thread Drinking Game.

Every time Hrose says something Strangely Creepy About Jacobs, take a swig.
Every time Hrose says summat you don't understand, take a swig.
Every time Schild participates in a discussion on a game he hates and has no intention of playing, swig.
Every time War is mentioned compared to WoW, take a swig.
Every time anyone thinks UO is relevant, put a puzzled look on your face.  Oh, and another drink.
Every time SWG is mentioned, down a pint of your whisky.
Every time someone convinces you to play SWG, take a full bottle and around 1500 Anadin Extra Pills and then get rid of yourself out of the gene pool.


It's a great game.

Oh great.  You'll all be face down in the gutter in 10 minutes.  I'll be left here all alone with my boobie avatards.

Too bad you can never drink for me. I intend and eventually do end up playing _everything_. Cept sports games. But then, I don't actually participate in conversations about them.

Hello, nice f13 people! I am a lurker, too. Some of you may have seen me on #f13. I lurk there, as well!

In the past I have read both f13 and waterthread, but am very poor at keeping up to date with internet forums, so I miss many posts and am generally quiet... but it is a nice place you have here!

Trippy decorated it.

Oh, dear. your ^^ ^^ came along with you. You should really get those looked at!

Those are her wings! 

See, this is why you should always read a couple of pages before the last page. I just saw this and thought is was about the Boobie avatard, I was thinking having wings on the front was awkward, but give some your other  bizzare avatards it wouldn't have been too great a shock.

I can't think of a good avatar for myself. I usually just use a Tottenham or other franchise crest. It just wouldn't fit here.

I like your avatar.  It suits you!   :-P

I think we should put random avatars on people that don't have them after 25 posts. Now that would be comedy.

Well, you could be all topical, and have a tank avatar to go with your moniker :)

I got totally smashed the time you were prancing around the Warcraft Forum.

Can you pronounce it though?

boonahavun

Hola como esta and such.

I think it took me 5 years to get an avatar at Waterthread/F13.....

Does someone still have that avatar picture of Bruce saved?  Hit 25 posts,  you get Bruced!

I  :heart: your little dogs with the bright blue eyes.  (they're really dogs, right?)

Silver Foxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tame_Silver_Fox&oldid=98030095

That's impressive.  I had to cheat by looking at the wee booklet that came in the tin.   :|

Nah, it's not impressive.  I'm married to a whisky drinking Scot.  I just ask him everything.

(Foxes!  They are totally adorable.  I want three.)

DID SOMEONE SAY FOXES?

(http://members.cox.net/sciatica/images/wildandcrazy.jpg)

Get a better host.

This thread doesn't have enough lurkers.

Vanguard right?

Meh, I picked out this latin word before Brad was expelled from Verant/SoE.

This one will do for now.

Like I'd host my own?

Ooo, avatar theft.

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Edit: Bah, the pictures won't work but they're of Anthony Bourdain and John Stewart. Purrrrrrr.

I am new here, so Hello, I'll probably stick to the comics forums for right now though.  I just got back from Iraq, so I am trying to read back up  on the gaming industry too.

Enter, Brother.

A few things about Sissy.  He is my Brother IRL.  We grew up together, but I left when I was 18 (ie a decade ago).  Also, he is completely different then I and happily married. 

So you must really hate your brother to let him have a username like "sissygirlman."  I'm guessing you regged for him?  :roll:

What?  It's something I'd try doing to my own brothers if I could get away with it.

oooo look I'm at 31