For all the wooters out there...

[WayAbvPar]

I seriously can't remember on which board I first posted. My first memory of LtM.net was when I stumbled across an EQ rant that first exposed me to the word "fucktard". I recognized genius when I saw it  :-D

[Yoru]

I remember becoming a Lummie Lurker after seeing a cartoon on Newgrounds back in the late 90s. I'd come and read the articles and their associated threads about once a month or so for a couple years. I read through the Lum departure, the continuation with Arc/Myschyf, the creation and fall of SND at Eldin's hands, the WT.O year-and-change, and then the Splintering that formed F13.

At some point I got bored at work and decided to start posting. I think my first was to an Academy Award thread recommending a film about Hitler. A month later Schild IMs me while I'm playing Eve, finds out I've done "journalism" before, and asks me to write an article. It's history from there.

[HaemishM]

Pander was the angry flower. I did have a Milk and Cheese avatar here, but not at Lum's. Matter of fact, I think I read LtM once before he joined Mythic, during the EQ years. I didn't really start reading the "rant" scene until Slow News Day.

[Sky]

Did the basement/attic ever survive? That was a nice place (most of the time). I miss a lot of those folks. I should make a spinning demonic gif of Kiler's cat in memorium.

[Merusk]

I don't recall my first post at all.   I do recall how I found L:TM, though.

There used to be an EQ comic called "Evercrest" it's where "Abashi the Sock Puppet" originated.  One day, Drystart (the artist) did a comic about a feud between this guy called Lum and some female UO poster, where she called him a pedophile or something similar.

  That was the extent of the comic, so not knowing WTF was going on I did some research and found Lum's site and the chick's site.  Turned out the girl was just irritated at some Japaneese cosplayer posting pics of herself in a Morgan of Darkstalkers costume or somesuch.  Got to reading a few posts, realized the offended female was completly off her rocker and added Lum's site to my frequently visited places.  7 years later, here I am still harassing some of you.

[Bunk]

Hiya!  I love the pink.

Please don't be mad at me for totally reading that the wrong way.

I don't remember my first post. I do remember reading LtM for about six months before realizing there were forums beyond the threads attached to the news posts though.

[Jayce]

Hiya!  I love the pink.

Please don't be mad at me for totally reading that the wrong way.

I don't remember my first post. I do remember reading LtM for about six months before realizing there were forums beyond the threads attached to the news posts though.

I never posted at Lum's.  I read all his articles though, from fairly early in the UO years until.. well.. now. 

After it died, I sort of stayed away for a few years, reading SND, P2P, UnknownPlayer, Corp and such on and off.  Then one day the word "waterthread" somehow showed up in my browser in some context, and I thought it was intriguing (maybe I remembered the water thread from Lum's).  So I found it and started finally posting there.

[Righ]

I bumped into some of the cool kids from Waterthread in Shadowbane beta.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on five or maybe forty patches - or very long crashes - when I left New Haven half loaded, and instead of going to the Bog of the Black Drake, headed out across the plains towards this week's DDH town... absolutely certain that no matter which way I turned I'd find people experiencing as many bugs as I was. No doubt at all about that...

There were terrain bugs in every direction, at any minute. If not across the Swathmoor Swamp, then up the Ivorri Mountains or down to Paundrill Plain... you could sb.exe anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was fun, that we were beta testing...

And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Tyrant and Smedley. Not in any commercial sense; we didn’t need that. Our gaming experience would simply own. There was no point in developing - on our side or theirs. We had all the trebuchets; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

So now, less than five years later, you can go to a web site in Ubisoft and scroll down, and with the rose tinted shades you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the waterthread finally broke and rolled back.

[Tebonas]

I don't even know anymore when or where I started posting. I lurked for about ever and had fun just reading about all the drama without participating in it. I know though that I came to Lum via a link from a web comic. Could even have been Evercrest.

Some of these days I will be glad that I remember what I did yesterday it seems. Damn!   

[Llava]

I don't know how I ended up on Waterthread in the first place, but I know I became a regular reader with the Lineage 2 review.

It wasn't until sometime after the migration to f13 that I started posting.

I didn't know anything about Lum the Mad until after the whole Despair&Anguish of Camelot thing.  I wasn't really into MMOs until DAoC and wasn't interested in real game developing until right around the same time.

[SimuKaren]

I'm just wondering what one does with neon pink hair when you go to job interviews.

I generally brush it, even occasionally put it back in a ponytail.

But seriously, nobody cares. Everyone who has talked to me since I dyed has liked it, and those who don't talk to me can sit on a pin.

Oh, and thank you to everyone who has said that they like the pink. I, too, like the pink. 

[Ironwood]

It does a good job of detracting attention away from the nose. 

[Trippy]

It does a good job of detracting attention away from the nose. 

Another drive go belly up on you?

[HaemishM]

Oh, and thank you to everyone who has said that they like the pink. I, too, like the pink. 

In a similar vein to Bunk, I could go places with that. But I'm a married man, so I won't. 

I don't know how I ended up on Waterthread in the first place, but I know I became a regular reader with the Lineage 2 review.

You're welcome. Or I beg your forgiveness, whichever is appropriate.

[Strazos]

I generally brush it, even occasionally put it back in a ponytail.

But seriously, nobody cares. Everyone who has talked to me since I dyed has liked it, and those who don't talk to me can sit on a pin.

Oh, and thank you to everyone who has said that they like the pink. I, too, like the pink. 

Ah, ok. I've never worked in an...art-type position, so I guess it works differently for you types.


I'd probably get laughed out of the room if I went to an interview with hair like that, but then again, I never stepped foot into the FPA dept. when I was in school.

[Bunk]

It all depends on the industry. I work in business software, and we have a very eclectic group. Especially in tech support. Pink hair would get noticed probably, but wouldn't seem that out of the norm.

[NowhereMan]

I remember reading Lum every now and again back in the UO days (I think I got to him from a mention on Stratics). I never even realised there was a forum and probably wouldn't have been too interested if I had. I looked at UO as a game and didn't really get the idea of having a community outside of the game. Once I quite on UO I completely forgot about it and when I got into EQ I started hearing Lum's name again, then I read an interview with him on a webcomic where he mentioned waterthread. I started reading, really liked the community and I think my first post was in the actual Water thread that was going.

Of course that was all under a different username, I got bored a fter a couple of months and decided to come back a bit different. Of course this means I missed out on all the fun drama of the split with P2P and Eldin, etc. but I feel I've seen my share of community hissy fits.

[Yoru]

I have a coworker who's an out-of-the-closet furry. Comes in with raccoon eyes, ears and a striped hoodie every day.

So yeah, dyed hair wouldn't exactly make a ruckus here either.

[NowhereMan]

I have a coworker who's an out-of-the-closet furry. Comes in with raccoon eyes, ears and a striped hoodie every day.

Kill it! Kill it with fire!

[Signe]

I used to work in artist management.  I can't even think about some of the things I saw people wear/do to themselves without barfing.  Horrible business, filled with horrible people who rip off self absorbed psychos.

I think the pink hair is sweet, by the way.    

[Lantyssa]

Hiya!  I love the pink.

Please don't be mad at me for totally reading that the wrong way.

Gods, I did it again.  Don't tell Merusk and I'll be okay.  This is exactly what he was looking for a few posts up.

I'm glad to see our new dev has a sense of humor about it.

[Paelos]

I have a coworker who's an out-of-the-closet furry. Comes in with raccoon eyes, ears and a striped hoodie every day.

So yeah, dyed hair wouldn't exactly make a ruckus here either.

Where in the holy hell do you work?

[Miasma]

Website admin for mmogchart.com.

[Ironwood]

I have a coworker who's an out-of-the-closet furry. Comes in with raccoon eyes, ears and a striped hoodie every day.

So yeah, dyed hair wouldn't exactly make a ruckus here either.

Where in the holy hell do you work?

Tell me too.  So I can avoid there.  For, like, ever.

[Yoru]

I work at a software company in San Francisco. As in, the city itself, not "the Bay area".

[Ironwood]

You're near teh Samwise ?

[Yoru]

You're near teh Samwise ?

Yes. Different company though. He's across the bay.

[Merusk]

Hiya!  I love the pink.

Please don't be mad at me for totally reading that the wrong way.

Gods, I did it again.  Don't tell Merusk and I'll be okay.  This is exactly what he was looking for a few posts up.

I saw it.  It's just not as funny as a lesbian talking about how much she likes cocks, though.   :-D   

[Paelos]

I work at a software company in San Francisco. As in, the city itself, not "the Bay area".

I'd love for that furry guy to strut into the good-ole-boy real estate company I used to work for to see if he could make it out alive. Hell, they had problems with me because my hair was down to my neck.

[Samwise]

I work at a software company in San Francisco. As in, the city itself, not "the Bay area".

Rub it in, why don't you.   

* Samwise misses The City.

[Yoru]

I work at a software company in San Francisco. As in, the city itself, not "the Bay area".

Rub it in, why don't you.   

* Samwise misses The City.

Come visit more often then. :P

[Samwise]

Visiting just isn't the same as living there.  Having it all right on the other side of your front door.  Hills.  Fog.  Everything you could ever want just a quick Muni ride away (I used to badmouth Muni, but now that I've experienced AC Transit... never again).  It's hard to quantify.  The longer I'm away the more I miss it, though.  I'm thinking once the girl finishes college I might start looking at houses in the Sunset.  [/derail]

I bumped into some of the cool kids from Waterthread in Shadowbane beta.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on five or maybe forty patches - or very long crashes - when I left New Haven half loaded, and instead of going to the Bog of the Black Drake, headed out across the plains towards this week's DDH town... absolutely certain that no matter which way I turned I'd find people experiencing as many bugs as I was. No doubt at all about that...

There were terrain bugs in every direction, at any minute. If not across the Swathmoor Swamp, then up the Ivorri Mountains or down to Paundrill Plain... you could sb.exe anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was fun, that we were beta testing...

And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Tyrant and Smedley. Not in any commercial sense; we didn’t need that. Our gaming experience would simply own. There was no point in developing - on our side or theirs. We had all the trebuchets; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

So now, less than five years later, you can go to a web site in Ubisoft and scroll down, and with the rose tinted shades you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the waterthread finally broke and rolled back.

 

[Murgos]

Website admin for mmogchart.com.

Took me about 10 seconds to make the connection.  Then I lol'd.

Also, I thought Lantyssa was making a pass at the new girl too.

[Roac]

I'd love for that furry guy to strut into the good-ole-boy real estate company I used to work for to see if he could make it out alive. Hell, they had problems with me because my hair was down to my neck.

I get away with a ponytail despite being against policy (I only found that out a couple weeks ago... funny).  And that's working from law enforcement in SC - can't get a much more conservative culture.  Then again this is also IT, so maybe that's why nobody seems to care when I dress like a hippy.  Pink hair might get nixed for sworn staff, but I can't see anyone else caring. 

The furry though... yeah.  I could see an unfriendly sit-down with the boss for someone doing that.

[Sky]

I got grandfathered in on my ponytail, though I haven't dipped my toe into unbound flowing locks at work yet. Actually, I'd probably just keep it in a ponytail because it's better for working. Our previous Director was very strict on our professional look, but somehow I was allowed my long hair, my beard, and I stopped wearing a tie years ago. In a way it makes me a little sad, like I'm an agent of entropy. So I wear suit jackets, even though that was taken out of the dress code years ago (by the previous generation's 'rebel').