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[Lord Shonus]

I used to be heavily involved with the forum on Home of the Underdogs years ago (and I mean YEARS ago...well over a decade now), and I stumbled today across the sad remnants of the various site reboots. Sporadic messages from around 2009 with familiar handles, then it just kind of stops. It's a weird feeling....like finding notes in a Zombie Apocalypse-type game indicating where the survivors were trying to go, and then nothing. 

Also found a long and interesting interview with Sarinee Achavanuntakul, the woman who founded and ran the site. Glad to see she's doing well for herself but it was still kind of bittersweet, as a reminder of things that have passed and shall be no more.

It was a sad, sad day when that site died. Of course, by then, most of the game reviews were copy-pasted from other databases, and the site was never all that well-built. but it was a cornerstone of my early internet days.

Although, thinking back, that site gives me an idea.

Somewhat rambling theoretical nonsese. Feel free to ignore.

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What would rally help a site like that would be some form of "fragmented torrent." The idea would be that a torrent could be generated for any file in a main torrent. This would allow anyone to crowdsource their database storage to multiple users, without those users needing to uload a torrent for each file. They'd simply have "Database 1.23.2012" running, and users would just get the file that they needed. 

[SirAaronIII]

Oh hey, I found those Warcraft 3 CDs I never used. Let's try them out.
LATER.....
Wow shit I got owned really hard really fast

[Cthulhu]

Effortlessly twining two aspects of the recent conversation together:  I was sad to reinstall Warcraft 3 and head to Battle.net.  All the lovely old maps were nowhere to be seen.  No Parasite.  No Uther Party.  No Zerg Infestation.  It was hostbot after hostbot of DotA and Escape maps.  Most of them were up for hours with no players.

It was like going to the house you grew up in and finding it boarded up.

Also, I found possibly the most reprehensible show on TV since that Lie Detector show.  Haunted Collector.  Typical Ghost Hunting show, with a twist.  The guy finds items that "store ghost energy" and takes them to his museum in New England, to make the ghosts go away.  Since there isn't some kind of shrieking hell-vortex in New England, I'm assuming these objects aren't actually haunted.

You know what that means?  That means some mother fucker is going to vulnerable people and stealing their antiques, under the pretense of "ghost hunting." 

[Loud Whispers]

Eduard Khil is off trolololin' with the Lovecraftian beings now ;_;

[Sirus]

I looked up 'internet meme' on wikipedia, and one of the 'see also' links was 4chan.

normally, that wouldn't bother me, but it was at the top of the list

Aren't they the originators of lots of internet memes? Makes sense to me.

[Descan]

"see also: 4chan"

Nothanks.

[Tidal]

Effortlessly twining two aspects of the recent conversation together:  I was sad to reinstall Warcraft 3 and head to Battle.net.  All the lovely old maps were nowhere to be seen.  No Parasite.  No Uther Party.  No Zerg Infestation.  It was hostbot after hostbot of DotA and Escape maps.  Most of them were up for hours with no players.

<3 Parasite. That's the first custom game in WCIII I played. I lost horribly.

I won the third round I played, months later!

[Euld]

I'm going to a big reunion for the Christian club I used to hang out with at my last college.  I'm not sure how many of them know I don't believe in God and know that I'm gay.  At some point, I may have to explain myself.  I'm ok with this though.  I spent four years with these people, even if they believe I'm an abomination/sinner/sodomite, I'm willing to extend the hand of friendship and hope they don't bite it off.  If they treat me like a person still, maybe there's hope that Christians can accept gays.  If they treat me bad, I'm more than willing to join the "Christians suck" "God sucks" brigade.

[SalmonGod]

Sigh... we're basically fucked...

[Dutchling]

I'm going to a big reunion for the Christian club I used to hang out with at my last college.  I'm not sure how many of them know I don't believe in God and know that I'm gay.  At some point, I may have to explain myself.  I'm ok with this though.  I spent four years with these people, even if they believe I'm an abomination/sinner/sodomite, I'm willing to extend the hand of friendship and hope they don't bite it off.  If they treat me like a person still, maybe there's hope that Christians can accept gays.  If they treat me bad, I'm more than willing to join the "Christians suck" "God sucks" brigade.

"Christians suck" "God sucks"

Should it not be the other way around? It are (if thing do not go as you hope they will) your friends who choose to assume the intolerance they grew up in has a (true) religious foundation. Not the God who never said a clear word about it.

[Blargityblarg]

The responsible answer is 'A certain subset of the Christian population sucks'.

[kaijyuu]

Even better, "this particular group of people suck." Confirmation bias is no good.

[Blargityblarg]

I sometimes forget that technically something being true isn't good enough. Good call.

[Aqizzar]

I used to be heavily involved with the forum on Home of the Underdogs years ago (and I mean YEARS ago...well over a decade now), and I stumbled today across the sad remnants of the various site reboots. Sporadic messages from around 2009 with familiar handles, then it just kind of stops. It's a weird feeling....like finding notes in a Zombie Apocalypse-type game indicating where the survivors were trying to go, and then nothing. 

Yeah, on a lark I've before gone back to visit some forums I used to frequent.  One in particular struck me as poignant when I noticed the trolliest old guy had apparently recanted and then finally got himself banned anyway.  But it was a forum for a small webcomic, and when the comic ended, apparently the forum lingered on for a half a year until it was about four people having these constant circlejerk arguments, and they just stopped coming.  It was always a depressing place, but it felt like stumbling onto the last encampment of a dead expedition or something.

[GlyphGryph]

I haven't gone back to my old forum-home. My last memories were good - hanging out with the artist from Dresden Codak before he was cool, and a bunch of other neat people. Really brought my philosophy on life and the world to where it is today.

I don't particularly want to know what happened to it - it can't be better than the memories, and as an EZboard, it has to be utterly dead by now.