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[heydude6]

The danger of caffeine is not overdose. The danger is developing a dependency on it and not being able to function normally without it, without a lot of it actually. Just because something can't kill you, doesn't mean it can't hurt you in some other way.

[EuchreJack]

Already up to 3 boards with me as most recent posters, this one gets me up to 4, mafia is an obvious response, should I go for putting my name on as many as possible?

Discuss or I win.  Obs.

Asking for a friend.

[methylatedspirit]

Huh, 4? It's something. I can do 4, too: General Discussion (my bread and butter), FG&RP (Word association thread) Life Advice (Good ol' Generic Computer Advice Thread), Creative Projects (almost always Random Art thread). I've done it before, but it wasn't exactly a concerted effort. I just happen to be active at times that the US and Europe tend to be asleep. Timezones and all that.

Why restrict yourself? Why not invade the upper/middle ("middle" being Curses and Other Games) boards a little? A little invasion never hurt anyone.

[EuchreJack]

I have done it once before.  Placed myself on every board that I could.  But dare I do it again?  Dare I wield all that POWER!!!!

More seriously, the benefit is that it's a good opportunity to explore boards I usually ignore.  The downside it that it's kinda an ego trip.

I've a Curses and Other Games vet.  The real problem is going to be finding a bug to report in the Bug Reporting thread.  Oh wait, this is Dwarf Fortress...

[methylatedspirit]

In the wise words of Grace Hopper, early computer scientist, Navy rear admiral and total badass: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

[EuchreJack]

In the wise words of Grace Hopper, early computer scientist, Navy rear admiral and total badass: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

I see what you're doing.  Thou shall not thwart me, scurvy knave!

I like that quote too.

[Egan_BW]

A little invasion never hurt anyone.

From what ancient forum history I've heard, it did get a board deleted once. :p

[Eschar]

A little invasion never hurt anyone.

From what ancient forum history I've heard, it did get a board deleted once. :p

details?

[Egan_BW]

I heard that in the Various Nonsense days, marauding fortress-threads would migrate from board to board, causing havoc! These roving fortresses may have been manned by penguins? Maybe the penguins only came after, little fuzzy on that.

[Kagus]

To be fair, there were several reasons for VN to be deleted. The moving fortress was just one of many.

[Eschar]

hmmm wonder what the curses forums is up to. If anything.

[King Zultan]

What exactly was Various Nonsense, it was before my time.

[scriver]

It was the General Discussion board before General Discussion existed, but instead of a board of General Discussion it was a board of Various Nonsense

[EuchreJack]

It was the General Discussion board before General Discussion existed, but instead of a board of General Discussion it was a board of Various Nonsense

So basically the same as now. 

[Kagus]

"Various Nonsense", way back before the Great Migration, *was* the general discussion board. However, after the migration, we got a general discussion board with Various Nonsense as an additional board separate from that. So we had one board that was for "everything else", and another that ended up being "everything everything else".

Naturally, it devolved into a cesspit almost immediately. It was /b/ay12.


Eventually, with it repeatedly causing trouble and not really serving any distinct purpose that wasn't already covered by GD, it got purged and nuked from orbit.