Back in the Day...
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High Hopes
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That's because there was no "back in the day..." to speak of.
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You never really got the proper reply to this: GamingW has been around FOREVER. I followed a link from that site to get here (rmxp.net) when the site was in it's infancy. It feels like a world away...
Anyway, I cut ties with GamingW when they started to get too elitist (which is probably why Des began to proclaim it better than here :wink: ). I mean, they went through "phases" where each project *had* to look a certain way, or *had* to contain a certain skill. They genuinely began to have lengthy multipage threads in people's topics about whether a pious nun should have a custom "Steal" skill, or rant about creating streets/scattering houses everywhere - whichever was in vogue.
It's one of the ways in which this community is far superior (and frankly always has been) to GamingW: If you ever posted anything that looked as though it had a Princess, a crystal, or you had the audacity to burn down the hero's hometown, it would kill your topic thread instantly - the most you get around here is one or two people spamming that it sounds "a little cliche".
Anyho. On a lighter note, can anyone remember that guy, I think his name was MasterMind, who had a thirty page topic thread in which he took requests and was constantly "working on them" but never produced ANYTHING, despite proclaiming himself the greatest scripter?
Frankly when you look at all the things which were being requested as a "challenge"... Those were the days when creating your own textbox was a novelty!
I miss some of the old staff. ;_; Does anyone know what's happened to Lene for instance? (With all her forum RPGs! :lol: )We spoke quite a bit, mostly incidentally, and she went off to Uni and I want to know how she got on etc. I saw something a couple of months ago and thought "I must tell Lene, she'd find that funny" - but then remembered she's not around anymore*.
I even miss Nix and his spamming of Carrie; the Musical lyrics in the IRC.
Finally, can someone give a full account of the whole "Stolen the Kingdom" business - because I've only heard bits and pieces, and I was slightly dead at the time, so naturally missed what sounds like quite an interesting coup.
*Unless she's operating under a different name - and if you are, make yourself known Lene!!
from what I've heard, the deal was something like this:
the site was about four hundred dollars in the hole for hosting. ccoa had retired from staff to devote her attention to real-lfie stuff, and Erk was frequently AWOL. Ceroscuro tried his best, but found it tough to manage a site of its size as a one-man team. TREG approached Erk (and Erk relayed the proposal to ccoa) with the intention of purchasing the site from them and inheriting the debt. after some deliberation, they both agreed, and TREG became the site's owner in partnership with Ceroscuro.
the root of the drama that split the site shortly afterward was that before power changed hads, TREG was widely thought as of a spammer and a generally shitty member. his time as admin showed this wasn't quite so, but whatever, people have their cares. to make things worse, Erk began to deny having agreed to TREG's poposal in the first place (never mind that that would raise obvious questions as to who made him root admin.) the schism effectively split the site in half (maybe it was more 60/40 than 50/50,) with the indignant masses going off and forming a new site called SponGen (Spontaneous Generation, the one with the kid in profile predictably wearing large headphones and looking pensive.) ccoa and Erk have avoided the site ever since, stating that they wouldn't be welcome (although staff had assured many times when the issue came up that they weren't about to ban either of them simply for coming back.)
cole's notes version: a bunch of kids disguised as adults thought that internet forums about making bad jrpgs were serious business. this is still the case, and is more widespread than you'd think (on both sides of the conflict. I'm not just dumping on ccoa and Erk with this.)
I'm probably not incredibly qualified to recall it all, though. I was just settling in when it happened, and a great deal of it was behind the scenes and beyond my first-hand perception.
the site was about four hundred dollars in the hole for hosting. ccoa had retired from staff to devote her attention to real-lfie stuff, and Erk was frequently AWOL. Ceroscuro tried his best, but found it tough to manage a site of its size as a one-man team. TREG approached Erk (and Erk relayed the proposal to ccoa) with the intention of purchasing the site from them and inheriting the debt. after some deliberation, they both agreed, and TREG became the site's owner in partnership with Ceroscuro.
the root of the drama that split the site shortly afterward was that before power changed hads, TREG was widely thought as of a spammer and a generally shitty member. his time as admin showed this wasn't quite so, but whatever, people have their cares. to make things worse, Erk began to deny having agreed to TREG's poposal in the first place (never mind that that would raise obvious questions as to who made him root admin.) the schism effectively split the site in half (maybe it was more 60/40 than 50/50,) with the indignant masses going off and forming a new site called SponGen (Spontaneous Generation, the one with the kid in profile predictably wearing large headphones and looking pensive.) ccoa and Erk have avoided the site ever since, stating that they wouldn't be welcome (although staff had assured many times when the issue came up that they weren't about to ban either of them simply for coming back.)
cole's notes version: a bunch of kids disguised as adults thought that internet forums about making bad jrpgs were serious business. this is still the case, and is more widespread than you'd think (on both sides of the conflict. I'm not just dumping on ccoa and Erk with this.)
I'm probably not incredibly qualified to recall it all, though. I was just settling in when it happened, and a great deal of it was behind the scenes and beyond my first-hand perception.
That's pretty much the gist of it.
Lene went with that lot, Inco.
I tried to get into Spongen but it is in reality just those ten or so folks who left with Ccoa and Erk, as well as the few who Despain scared away (Volrath, Raven) and those who were banned (Sixty).
I sometimes wish the RM world would stop being asses and get together at one site, but then do we really want people around who are that way inclined (that they'd leave a site with 30,000 people just because of one or two)
Lene went with that lot, Inco.
I tried to get into Spongen but it is in reality just those ten or so folks who left with Ccoa and Erk, as well as the few who Despain scared away (Volrath, Raven) and those who were banned (Sixty).
I sometimes wish the RM world would stop being asses and get together at one site, but then do we really want people around who are that way inclined (that they'd leave a site with 30,000 people just because of one or two)
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So she came back briefly then? Because she was off a long time before that to concentrate on her college work. :\
Man I actually like remember when RRR was first created, and everyone was all "oh this site is cool lets check it out for a short while". Dunno if anyone actually left then, there was no real exodus, but like the site was actually really cool at the time - the mainsite and all. But now the template is broken with the ads and well you know what I think of RRR but like yeah. It looked cool and snazzy at the time.
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Personally I think something really cool could be made just with Wordpress with phpbb content addition whatsits. Like a really cool mainsite with image gallery and hosting and whatnot. (Btw where is our mainsite I know everyone asks it and I know it's in development but seriously, like, it's been years now wtf)
Anyway. Back on topic, if there was one, I remember when we had a mainsite. It had a cool image gallery but apparently either nobody knew how to moderate it or it wasn't very easy to moderate. Nonetheless it was really really cool and everyone used it. ~
Personally I think something really cool could be made just with Wordpress with phpbb content addition whatsits. Like a really cool mainsite with image gallery and hosting and whatnot. (Btw where is our mainsite I know everyone asks it and I know it's in development but seriously, like, it's been years now wtf)
Anyway. Back on topic, if there was one, I remember when we had a mainsite. It had a cool image gallery but apparently either nobody knew how to moderate it or it wasn't very easy to moderate. Nonetheless it was really really cool and everyone used it. ~
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I've been here since April 08, a whole year. I actually leeched before, but didn't give a shit about the administration ( I was a leecher). Anyway, I finally got VX and posted in eraly projects (what you young bloods call CD now) my Legends of Spiris: Chronicles of Riz game as Tachiba. It received good reception, and feedback that encouraged me to stay. I was originally known to just be in one specific forum, the Projects....then around June-ish, I branched out. I went to NFG and got exiled :sad: , and got a logo by Hanzo before he left. The Summer of Love as I call it came to an end with school. In the fall, I posted the recruitment rant topic that kinda was late...and the fall of 08 to me was the best time I had here. Des and everyone were all jokers, and I loved the whole joke of a staff we had. Of course, all good things end, which it did around winter when he got banned. My memory is fuzzy after shadow took over. Honestly, I feel wierd here now....too many people here I really don't know, and always ask me who am I...but I still love it here.
And pshh, what new administrations? Tachiba has always ran things around here!
And pshh, what new administrations? Tachiba has always ran things around here!
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who is Tachiba?TFresh":1pk6j75p said: