INN OF LOST SOULS: general chit-chat thread

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:19 pm

Yeah, there was a little issue with date enumeration when the board was first set up...

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:16 pm

yes. and I was but a glint in my mothers eye.. but it goes to show.. I've been a DM fan from birth.. born to it..

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:09 am

It snowed last night !(about an inch)
From a very long and very warm autumn we had at my place an rather sudden change to a frosty white scenery..

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:07 am

It's sudden got freezing here in the last few days - so paornbaly no snow

Aparently a half inch of snow beside aberdeen though!

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:23 am

Yes, it has got a bit nippy down here too. I shall have to start wearing some underwear.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:13 pm

I feel like shamelessly showing off today:

www.is-magic.de

The guy on the very right of the photo there is me, after I won a Magic tournament with 54 participants. In case it is removed from the start page, look under "Turniere", then "Fotos" from "8.10.2006" (we Germans list the day first, then the month). The bottom photo is the one. Seems I am at least mildly successful in my Magic life.

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:31 pm

Hey, cool, nice to see another real life photo. I had expected you to look like your avatar though!

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:49 pm

That's funny. You won the tournament, so they gave you more cards. That's like winning a pie eating contest and being given more pies. But congratulations anyway. Knocking out 54 other people is quite a feat. I haven't played Magic since 4th Ed. It's probably a lot harder now that there are like a hundred-thousand new cards, and they gimped the value of all the originals by making reprints. *sigh*

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:29 pm

I wish I would Gambit!

Tom, you are right about the cards in a way, but after all, they are what we players are addicted to. I certainly wouldn't mind winning a dungeon-making contest and winning the right to play some more dungeons first.

By the way, really old and rare cards are now worth more than ever. Should you still have some original dual lands (Taiga, Tundra, Underground Sea and the like), they are at an all-time high.

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:57 pm

Congrats , Trant! Was not that easy , I guess

How's the weather at your place?
There was a storm and 3 metre waves, I heard in the radio..

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:06 pm

Thanks zoooom! Yeah, but I don't live directly at the coast, so I didn't really encounter the waves. The storm was rather heavy, but not so bad that it kicked trees over. I suspect we'll have worse ones this autumn.

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:23 pm

The weather over the previous few weeks has randomly wandered around between moderately warm, nicely sunny, annoyingly rainy, and averagely overcast. Then, suddenly, November comes along, and it's bloody freezing! Wtf? Looking out my window before I go to bed, I now see a thin layer of frost on the surface of all the cars. And last night I saw a BLOODY GORGEOUS beauty of a fox sniffing around outside our house

. Not that that's anything to do with the weather but he/she was such a beauty...and with a lovely floofy tail

.

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:42 am

I need some help. I can't seem to stop being a grumpy old fart on another forum that's overrun with children and over-sensitive moderators. Should I:
a) Keep it up
b) Leave
c) Nuke all the snivelling morons?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:04 am

a) Keep it up and just go into lurk mode for a day or so if somehting annoys you

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:06 am

a kid-forum with over-sensitive moderators? Wchich one is that? please give me a link... I`m just curious

If I had to guess... it`s 99% of forums on the web

Take option b) Gambit, that`d be the best way I think

or d): try to get a mod`s privileges and be very over-sensitive person

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:11 am

I've bloody well had it with your suggestions adamo! /ban adamo

Oh, it doens't work...ah well, as you were : )

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:39 am

So tell us what's the forum, Gambit?
Or do you not want children of an agrophobic, tunnel-vision, fireballing disposition in it too?

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:08 am

Continuing the 'board' discussion:
There are 850+ users registered on this forum, and it says in the index:
"Most users ever online was 53 on Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:12 pm"

Did I miss something? That's is not only quite a party, but a large percentage of people coming back to the forum. I assumed that the majority of people would register, post and then forget about it, or pop back once in a while.

It also indicates to me tha the DM 'thing' is still not losing it's appeal.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:37 am

53 users would have been a spambot logging on multiple times on to every forum

It would not surprise me if 10 people, luirkers and regulars, were loggedin if not more - flashchat once had 11ish - which still isn't bad!

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:41 am

Ahhhh. The spam thing-idea I can never work out... Still, someone, somewhere probably wants Viiaaaggraa.

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:17 am

Yeah, I think the actual amount of real users on line at the same time is probably single digits. We're not exactly mainstream...

As for that forum, I have left. Can't be arsed with it anymore. The circle is now complete: Once I was but the enthusiastic, wide-eyed youngster who could not understand the grumpy olds. Now *I* am the grumpy olds.

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:28 am

Gambit: You were doing a public service, I am sure. People forget that.

As a 'user' I never know how much work it is to set up (Cows?), maintain (Beo), and pay for (Cows) a forum. It's a great community, though.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:35 pm

Maintain = gambit alot of the behind the scenes forum, stuff, with GG, myself, cows and Gambit twatting spammers and splitting posts when we see them (plus other mods monitoring posts)

I reckon we've got a downturn on spammers or just we all delete alot, but sometimes if you are away a day or weekend you can spend about 5 -10 minutes of a session just checkign up on them deleting five users, and banning obviously spamming e-mail accounts

Similarly with guest posts, I usually take some extra time to taq the IP address and ban it

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:36 pm

And i'm getting grumpy too, dunno if age has anything to do with it!

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:50 pm

5-10 minutes would make me grumpy too, Beo. And I'm already old.

Post by **Ameena** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:47 pm

I notice a lot of fake usernames popping up - since the DM forum is one of the Net windows I keep perma-open when I'm on the computer, I noticed the "Newest User" thing at the bottom and tend to check it to see if it sounds like an actual person or not. I think I've deleted the grand total of two posts from the Creative Endeavours forum, which were spammy advertising crap, but generally I don't see much by way of actual posts - it's more fake members, really.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:11 pm

??????

No guests should be able to post spam to the creative forum - do you mean registered users? : (

Yeah, ever since knocking guest posting alot of the spam mail has dried up, I think IP blocking helps too

Post by **Ameena** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:16 pm

Oh, I don't think they were guests...just crappy, spammy users who hadn't been deleted by an Admin yet. T'was a while ago now...couple of months probably, that I last deleted a post.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:23 pm

Ouch,m that's nasty to have active users posting

Usually the pam bots are pretty passive...the active spammers rare ; (

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:36 pm

beowuuf wrote: Usually the pam bots are pretty passive..

Pam bots eh? are those like the ones in austin powers? only without the boob guns?