Has it been a whole week already? Hardly seems like it. I haven’t accomplished anything of value, although I did throw something at the road worker who managed to cut through my phone line when attempting to redo the pavement. On the bright side, peer is back in the saddle and has already resumed normal moderating operations in the tabletop forums. With his patented reign of terror style I’m sure we can look forward to lots of hilarious complaint threads in Forum Issues, which is good because I’m really running out of material here.
Anyhow, enough chit chat. Let’s get down to business.
This week on the RelicNews forums…
I have always suspected it. We are overrun by a bunch of not-yet-pimply preteens and even more old geezers. Someone started a how old are you thread, and the results are surprising. A lot of people who were around to witness the first world war seem to enjoy playing Dawn of War. Others apparently went straight from the cradle to the computer desk and are now happily spamming “ZOMG IMBA” all over the forums.
If you always wanted to know how old your fellow spam- I mean posters are, pay the thread a visit. I have to disappoint you though, my age is a closely guarded state secret. To find out more, you must be female, over twenty and extremely hot. I am looking forward to your application (with pictures).
Everything repeats itself sooner or later. In this case, “everything” means “a desktop thread”, and “sooner or later” means “on a monthly basis”. Still, I have to admit, I myself find those threads fascinating - it’s a great way to find out about cool desktop gadget or look for new wallpapers. We were all shocked to find out that fishy actually has something other than background-color: #000; set on his desktop though.
Have a look at other people’s desktops in the thread that has been creatively titled post your desktop and show us yours. Desktop, that is. Wondering why I deemed it necessary to make that clarification? Read on.
TOO MUCH INFORMATION. That about sums up the contents of this thread. The topic is, erm, hair, at least in a wider sense. I’m not going to go into detail here, because that thread created some very horrible mental images I really want to forget as fast as possible. I dare you to take a look at the body deforestation thread. Be warned though, it’s best not to do this while eating. Or while breathing for that matter. In fact, you may want to avoid it altogether.
However, knowing you dolts, I assume you actually clicked and are now struggling with the mental image of certain posters doing certain… things. Here’s something to help soothe your brain:
After this I was too scared to go back into GD, so I entered the creative forum aka The Studio. And I found something!
Everyone loves space. Everyone also loves races. So why not make a space race? Some pessimists might say “well, because it’s a completely moronic idea”. True, but they haven’t seen the space race thread. Riess came up with a bunch of concepts for participants and did an awesome job capturing stereotypes in his drawings. The thread currently contains a lot of pictures of people who might be involved in such a race - from the old school gentleman “Mr. Nostalgic” to the superhero to the nerdy scientist. Great fun to watch, I recommend you have a look. You might also come up with some more characters, and who knows? Someone might actually draw them for you, should you (like me) lack the necessary skills.
Time’s up already again, I have to revise some more ridiculously boring (and quite difficult) solid state physics. May the phonons be with you, or something to that effect. Until next week, this is Moe, hiding his socks from peer.
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Posted by Slow_Runner at August 30th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
Good stuff, keep it up Moe!