Q23 - This is what happens when your admin isn't me.

[Ironwood]

Interviewing Hobos would be good.  You could provide tea and chocolate biscuits during the interview and call it Hobnobs with Hobos.

Winner.

[Hutch]

Interviewing Tom Chick would be boring and not with my, or anyone's time. He has no insight to provide, isn't important to the gaming industry in any fashion, and offers nothing of value.

And think of the aftereffects. The Q-band will find the article, parse through Chick's responses in search of new inconsistencies, register dozens of new user accounts, and proceed to shit up the accompanying News thread into an epic spiral of interlocking martyrdom and recrimination.

Which might sound like fun, but I've attempted to read Q23 and the new Lum forum. Blech. They've already provided us with a train wreck to gawk at, let's leave it at that.

[HaemishM]

The fact people aren't coming here as much as before might be due to the origins of the site, the lack of any big Warhammer-like events raising awareness around other parts, and no frontpage stuff. Also schild not being here as much in recent times.

The lack of front page updates or any sort of "buzz-generating" stories is a good part of what has kept new users out of here. A lot of the newbies that come and stay come as a result of being linked here like any other site on the web that doesn't really market itself at all. We haven't had a good asspolsion in a while. The Warhammer starfucking was the last big one I can remember. Since then, there really hasn't been a lot of "scandal-worthy" stories to post about in gaming, and most of the devs people might have come to the site for are no longer the hot rock star devs of the MMOG or gaming community. Raph barely posts and I don't think many people even know what he's working on, Mark Jacobs rightly fucked off to Facebook games because he couldn't take having cratered so badly with a sure hit franchise in Warhammer, Lum has his own site, and Curt Schilling fucked off to friendlier climes and hasn't released a damn game anyway. We are fossilizing. It's ok, everybody gets old. 

[Lantyssa]

Interviewing Hobos would be good.  You could provide tea and chocolate biscuits during the interview and call it Hobnobs with Hobos.

I love this idea!  You'll never know what you end up with, perform a community service, and we end up with possible entertainment.

Maybe do some kind of spin-off where we see how people living on the streets can design better games than most of the current industry.

[Paelos]

A game designed by hobos would be pretty awesome.

We could be frontrunners of a new industry turning point.

[IainC]

I could interview Iain for the front page. I would do it in a Bond villain character and only really talk about painting minis, saying "No, I expect you to PAINT, Mr. Compton."

Then I could interview Raph about alternate tunings.

We could have a whole new life as a website that interviews developers but never about games or the industry.

No, wait. I'm lazy. Never mind.

I think this would be pretty cool actually. Not so much the interviewing me part but talking to game people about stuff that is interesting rather than stuff they'd normally be expected to talk about. Reminds me of the time I sat in the guest lounge at GamesDay UK and chatted with Brian May about infra-red astronomy.

[Engels]

I think we were all waiting for that one last MMO to unite us all, hearkening back to the days of EQ, UO, AO, etc. It never happened, and it has dawned on us that its never going to happen, so like a doomsday cult awaiting the end of days after the umpteeth failed prediction of the Second Coming MMO, we sit about in angstful chit chat about anything and everything.

By now its a way of life, so routine we do not know what else to do with ourselves. There may be one last hurrah down the line, or a series of decent communal experiences like DA and Skyrim, but that sense of being in it together in something entirely new to the world is lost. We're pioneers that found the last known border of space.

We're like Menelaus, telling Telemakhos of the golden days of war, and how he misses Odysseus. Schild is like the patient weaving Penelope, accosted by suitors yet rejecting all, awaiting the return of Odysseus, although hope dwindles with every passing month.

[Merusk]

So poetic, Engels.

Really we're just a collection of bored geeks in various industries with a penchant for grousing on the 'net when we should be working.  There isn't even a common hobby that unites everyone here anymore, much less a common game.  It's all about 'the community.'

Fuck me, how times change.

[Fordel]

I'm just here for the complete sentences and lack of wank.

[Ironwood]

You don't browse the T&A thread ?

[Fordel]

Ironically, that thread has the most wank and not the fun kind. Lots of knees to sharp and all that going on there.


-edit- There's also The Hobbit thread, where I wonder how half of you go on breathing. 

[Minvaren]

A game designed by hobos would be pretty awesome.

We could be frontrunners of a new industry turning point.

Can't top EQ's player-run economy being designed by a three-legged mule drunk on cheap scotch.   

[Ingmar]

I'm really only here because Fordel kept linking me posts with news about this game or that game and eventually I replied to something and just stayed. I have no connection at all to the old EQ Lum diaspora nonsense, I came from the VN Boards for DAOC more than anything else really. 

I never felt the OH GOD NEW POSTER MUST PILE ON effect. I did post in Politics too much at first, though.

[Chimpy]

You were given a pass because you brought Sjofn along with you and this community needs a husband and wife posting team at all times.  

[rattran]

That, and you're now a creepy, murderous bird. And we were short one of those to balance out the various cats and token red panda.

[01101010]

-edit- There's also The Hobbit thread, where I wonder how half of you go on breathing. 

Through only the mouth more than likely... 

[K9]

I think I came here during the Vanguard nonsense, I'm not sure. A bit of new blood might be nice, but erring on keeping old blood seems nicer.

Schild is welcome to interview me about epidemiology/evolutionary dynamics if he wants, although I'm not sure what sort of people that would bring to the site. I liked IW's hobnobs idea though.

Also, does this thread mean that kildorn is a girl?

[Lakov_Sanite]

10 year old avatars ftw

[Mrbloodworth]

Some post on Planetside brought me here.

[TheWalrus]

Now I'm confused. I though Sjofn wore the pants?

[Sjofn]

I wandered in because of Fordel too, mostly! I lurked for a little while, I didn't actually register until Vanguard provided such a lovely trainwreck. I stayed because you're all so lovable. 

[Paelos]

I came to Waterthread because Star Wars Galaxies led me there, and the site wasn't blocked by the filters at my internship. 

[RhyssaFireheart]

I ended up at Waterthread via Player2Player.net.  I think I followed Grimwell or something, but I liked what I read and stayed around, even if I didn't know anything about the "dropped my water on the floor" joke because I was never part of the Lum Diaspora.  I was an AC player and had no clue who he was, lol!

[Xuri]

Since we seem to be doing this: I have no idea how or when I ended up in here.

[Chimpy]

I came after the story on Brad McQuaid's classy "take everyone at Sigil to the parking lot and fire them". Thus I know nothing about anything or anyone pre-then. But I was in need of a forum to hang out at, as the forums I had hung out on were either very Chicago specific (and I no longer lived there) or lost their pizzazz as people got older/moved on.

[murdoc]

I was a silent part (outside of the spam forums at a couple of sites) of the Lum Diaspora and just landed here and stayed.

[Minvaren]

I originally started off at the Cackling Klacknak's site (EQ humor along these lines), and also started following Lum's around the same time.

I've followed many various Lum Diaspora sites around over the years, but have mainly been a lurker on all of them.  This site and TMDC are likely my favorites among those thus far.

[IainC]

I used to read Lum's original site back in the late '90s but wasn't one for forums particularly apart from a couple of specific clan forums where I was playing far too much Diablo II. A few years ago, a friend of mine who used to read f13 but I don't think ever posted suggested I should join in here so I lurked for a bit then started posting as part of my WAR related work before going native.

[Engels]

I came here looking for people to talk to about flight simulators.

[IainC]

Did you find any?

[Lakov_Sanite]

I followed the cynicism.

[Engels]

Did you find any?

Still looking. One of these days, one of you is going to come out to me.

[Merusk]

I wandered in to Lum's place in 1999.  It was after an Evercrest comic (who else remembers those?!) spoofed and argument between Lum and a female blogger.  Said blogger felt he was the most sexist man on the internet for posting the cosplay pics of some Japanese girl who'd sent them to him.   I'm still not clear on the controversy, even after all these years.

[Reg]

Hah I remember that episode. IIRC, the whole thing was a scam put on by Arcadian Del Sol. He found a picture of some pretty Japanese cosplay girl and gave her a name and totally stereotypical character. What did he call her? Tamuki or something like that?

[Morfiend]

I was orphaned as a young boy when my mother and father were killed by Orcs... Oh wait. Wrong thread.