NESer Impressions Thread

[Abaddon]

NVRMND. Can we not just get back on track?

 

[Kraznaya]

I don't know why attention whore backseat modders are always whining about thread derailment. If the side discussion is serving a useful purpose by discussing a pertinent topic, it is an added benefit to the original purpose of the topic.

NESing has three subcommunities. The first is the #nes community, which is primarily American and attracts the playerbase of many prominent mods, although for some reason it has become primarily known for althists, probably because althistorical NESes moderated by Dachs, Thlayli, and Perfectionist vigorously supported by the chat have been the most active in recent years, even though the of course impeccably reputed Fresh Start/Fantasy moderators Iggy, NK, and Daft also frequent the chat. The second is what I like to call the EQ community, which from what I can recognize tends to support much more arcadey/board-gamey games or liter NESes, although still usually on traditional alt-history or fresh start frameworks. They are also primarily American. The third community are the FFHers, who despite venerating their (American) god Immaculate, is primarily European. The cultural divides are obviously much more complex than mere nationality , and of course there is significant intermingling between communities (especially Daftpanzer and his NESes, who are adept at bridging the gaps), but the NESing cliques are pretty clear and evident, as this thread has obviously shown.

This is neither a good or bad thing. Segregation is done not forcibly, but voluntarily. I haven't seen anyone rejected by a mod for crossing community boundaries from a NES which they want to play in, which would be a serious breach of etiquette in all NESes, throughout the communities. It seems as if most FFHers or EQers simply have issues with the settings or rulesets of the first community's NESes, and don't wish to play them, or interact with their players, and vice versa. I don't see why this is such a big issue that the forum has people of different tastes.

 

[Masada]

I don't know why attention whore backseat modders are always whining about thread derailment. If the side discussion is serving a useful purpose by discussing a pertinent topic, it is an added benefit to the original purpose of the topic.

Because apparently peeps just like to have their epeen stroked or somethung.

 

[Azale]

I don't know why attention whore backseat modders are always whining about thread derailment. If the side discussion is serving a useful purpose by discussing a pertinent topic, it is an added benefit to the original purpose of the topic.

NESing has three subcommunities. The first is the #nes community, which is primarily American and attracts the playerbase of the many prominent mods, although for some reason it has become primarily known for althists, probably because Dachs, Thlayli and Perfectionist have been the ones to mod the most active/prominent NESes backed by the #nes community in recent years, even though Iggy, NK, and Daft also frequent the chat. The second is what I like to call the EQ community, which from what I can recognize tends to support much more arcadey/board-gamey games or liter NESes, although still usually on traditional alt-history or fresh start frameworks. They are also primarily American. The third community are the FFHers, who despite venerating their (American) god Immaculate, is primarily European. The cultural divides are obviously much more complex than mere nationality , and of course there is significant intermingling between communities, but the NESing cliques are pretty clear as evident in this thread.

This is neither a good or bad thing. Segregation is done not forcibly, but voluntarily. It seems as if most FFHers or EQers simply have issues with the settings or rulesets of the first community's NESes, and don't wish to play them, or interact with their players, and vice versa. I don't see why this is such a big issue that the forum has people of different tastes.

As far as I can tell, this is definitely an impression of NESers Seems on topic to me.

 

[Masada]

Cowgirls also suck.

As far as I can tell, this is definitely an impression of NESers Seems on topic to me.

Buuut buuuut it's like totally off topic and stuff, so say I backseat modder!111!!

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Masada]

This might help.

 

[Kraznaya]

As far as I can tell, this is definitely an impression of NESers Seems on topic to me.

<3 you too, but I'm still editing my confused post in my sleep deprived state. :3

Board games? I don't think we've had board game neses since RoddyVR.

Stuff like "Superpowers NES" definitely holds to the boardgamer school of NESing.

 

[North King]

Guys, let me put this plainly:

I don't consider myself part of any NESing clique. I run an NES for whoever wants to play in it and doesn't want to screw up the setting for the sake of screwing it up -- not for people who go on #nes or who have a certain join date by their name. I play in whatever NESes I want to, assuming I have time for them -- I don't judge by who's running it. I tend to gravitate towards certain NESes, and sometimes that's not even the setting, it's the part where one of my friends on here badgers me into playing it.

I might have a FFH-origin NESer in my NES. I wouldn't even know it. Some of the people who are currently playing I've never heard from before now. Of course the majority aren't, but that's not because I'm barring anyone from playing, it's because they simply aren't joining for whatever reason. And I don't mind -- whatever they want to do, they can do.

But for the love of God, do not point a finger at me or anyone else and say, "man, they hate us," when in reality it's simply a lack of interaction. When I say, "I've never met you," it's a statement of fact, it's not a statement of dislike.

Now. Back to impressions:

Spoiler older impressions :

Iggy: Iggy is an eight cubit tall lumberjack from British Columbia, and if you don't believe me, you can ask him yourself. He'll probably deny it, but what does he know? One of the nicest people you'll meet on this forum, and one of the most creative as well.

fc: An interesting character by any definition of "interesting" or "character", fc seems a bit off his rocker at times. Probably because of this, he's really entertaining and one of the funniest people on this forum. For some reason I never think of him as a flyingchicken, though, just fc.

Owen: Owen is an old newbie, who seems like he's been here forever but also is just getting started. He's a great chap, though, and a fellow history major, which is always a plus.

Abaddon: Abaddon is stereotyped as a metagamer, but he does acknowledge this and mostly embrace it, so it's not actually all that annoying to me. It broke my heart the one time he decided to do something anti-metagamey in my NES and I had to follow that with destroying his nation.

Northen Wolf: Northen strikes me as a fairly quiet individual, but then, he and I have almost never (never?) been in the same NES.

Yui108: Thorough, competent, and a good person to chat with all around.

thomas.berubeg: I can't honestly say anything about thomas. Maybe I'm just too antisocial to have met him.

das: The old ghost who came back to haunt the NESing forums, das was one of the greatest moderators of all time, and still one of the better players on this forum. Also an "interesting character", by which I mean, this time, a would-be brutal potentate of some Asian hole-in-the-wall nation. He's also a polar bear. So, a polar bear potentating over a hole-in-the-wall Asiatic nation.

taillesskangaru: I've talked to him maybe twice. Seemed nice both of those times, but you know, it's a small sample size.

Ninja Dude: Ninja is a good fellow, one of the more reliable on here. He's been here a while, and been consistently good for most if not all of it. Of course, all I think about now is Krato.

Terrance888: He's getting all grown up these days, dawwwww. Also, he's actually quite nice if you're just talking to him randomly.

Omega124: I do not have a negative impression of him. Unfortunately, I've never talked to him, either. I'm sure he'd be fun to talk to, though! Looks English.

Kal'thzar: A smart, good NESer, who has a decent amount of the creative flair about him. Also, his avatar is apparently a negative of a rose, not a spirit fox. Or so I've been told.

Thlayli: A good friend.

ZeletDude: Seems like a good fellow, but I haven't known him for long.

Matt0088: A reliable NESer who insists he can never write. He seems like a pretty chill dude.

spryllino: An English laddie who's sharp as a tack. And rides horses. I made that second thing up.

Luckymoose: I never think of a moose when I think of Luckymoose anymore. Instead, I think of a raccoon. Not really sure why. He's fun to talk to when he's not serious. And sometimes even when he is.

Eltain: I don't really know much about Eltain. Sorry, laddy.

alex994: Alex gets stereotyped as the one who builds an expy of China in every NES. I'm not really sure why; he's only done it in six of them. This, of course, sounds like a lot, but a lot of people just build Europe expys over and over, and they never get called on it. That said, he's definitely a giant panda bear, hunched over a keyboard.
Immaculate: I haven't talked to him much, but I'm told he's got an excellent NES running.

Kraznaya: Almost as snarky as I am on the average day, Kraz is a competent NESer, but I'm not really all that familiar with his playing history. I know him mostly through #nes, for obvious reasons.

Boy I sound cheerful today.

Immaculate: Seems like a remarkably competent mod who I've never had the time to really pay attention to. This makes me sad.

Anonymoose: Is convinced I hate him. I'm not sure why? Also apparently has excellent taste in comedians. I now associate him with greyscale images, though.

hbar: Also is convinced I hate him, I think. I'm really not sure why, cause unlike Anony I haven't even talked to him?

Birdjaguar: One of the ancient ones who someone manages to NES despite having an engaging real life. I don't understand it. I'm going to have to ask for pointers.

Technojock: Has only been here a month, I don't know him yet.

Bill3000: Ludicrously talkative, but the only thing I really remember about him was that one nation he had in FarowNES.

germanicus12: Has been here for such a long time that it is a little shameful that I don't know him.

azale: One cool cowboy. He seems like the best NESer to chill with. It's a shame he lives in the only part of the USA where I hope never to set foot.

Perfectionist: A good moderator and player who I have never really interacted with. Seems to be a physicist with a massive knowledge of history, so kudos.

The Farow: Longtime player and mod, I always appreciate it whenever he starts running another NES.

Milarqui: Also seems like a good mod, also never played with or for him.

Dachs: The reason why history departments will refuse to hire me. Kidding aside, a fun dude to talk to. Used to be much better friends with him before RL started intervening apparently for both of us.

GamezRule: I'm sorry, never met you. Hopefully will someday.

TheLizardKing: I swear I've seen you hanging around a lot, but I can't remember where?

Carmen510: An interesting character who's playing interests don't usually seem to intersect with mine.

Daftpanzer: One of the most singularly awesome people to grace this forum; unfortunately he seems to be unable to believe that himself.

LittleBoots: I never want to go to war with LittleBoots. Which could prove a problem. Seriously though, I always picture him as some sort of Irish janissary, which makes a lot more sense if you played jalapeno dude's NES.

Imago: Seems like a good mod; never played. Slight respect for you as well.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Masada]

Iggy - Eighty foot Canadian lumberjack who uses fully grown pine trees to pick his teeth, snorts down a herd of elk to clean his noses and hawks globules of unnameable amber liquid that go to explain how Canada became a major shale oil exporter in such a short time.

NK - Nk reminds me of an otter I once saw in the Zoo smacking two clams together trying to get one or the other open all infinite patience for the small and simple things in life like Satari philosophy.

Azale - I imagine him sittin' a horse complete with a stetson hat, snake-leather boots set with spurs on the back and a fat cigar lit off his boots between two meaty fingers poised before fleshly lips stained with scars of years of drinking boot-leg liquor.

Thlayli - The Ancient Enemy. That thing that creeps out during once every few months to haunt me with visions of my plans in ashes and ma' people enslaved. When the day of reckoning comes and its been foretold that it will I'm going to cast down his altars and burn his temples.

Dachs - Whenever I think of Dachs I'm left with an image of some vaguely German dude in a great coat surveying some muddy faux battlefield with all the coolness of a cucumber before expiring the next week from pneumonia...

Daftpanzer - Some stange enviro-hippy living out his days in mock penury after selling off his multi-billion dollar tech start-up quite why he doesn&#8217;t pay himself a living wage is beyond me and why he hasn&#8217;t bought the government yet is essentially unknowable it might be that he has a conscience it might be that the braying of the highland cows had sent him mad&#8230;

Perfectionist - Perfection need I say more?

Kraznaya - I was all for him marrying into a good job in the CCP becoming one of those faceless men who will soon be ruling the world but he didn't seem to take to the whole idea and has since fled into exile in California.

 

[Kraznaya]

What's with all the cowboy impressions of azale, he's obviously more of a Zapatista at this point. :3

 

[Symphony D.]

Symphony D.: Speak his name backwards three times and he shall appear, wreathed in shadow and flame, and WREAK HIS TERRIBLE VENGEANCE UPON YOU, YE WRETCHED MORTAL.

Speak of the devil. I'll give my permission retroactively (hah!) just to put you in the clear, but you know, you people really should stop bringing me up on a monthly basis.

Anyway, nothing wrong with getting the skeletons out of the closets. I did honest to god hate this place, and most of the people in it, with a burning passion. But time chills all fires. I think it was the fact that, at its core, this place is honestly much more about socializing than it is about the business end—the games, the stories, however you want to view it. It was very frustrating at the time. I overreached and overreacted. Though, to put a bit of a finer point on it, it was my work, my right to do as I did, and what was disposed of wasn't very valuable anyway. Certainly, nothing notable was done with it, despite Matt0088's efforts to the contrary. The past is past.

Seeing the development of the walls and #NES, apparently actual reality converged with my opinion of reality. You're having fun, and that's fair enough. I'm not here to play, since I've got my hands full with other endeavors. I'm also not here to hand out evaluations, because my opinions don't really matter.

Figured I'd say "Hi," and "We're cool," and toss out a few presents to people I stiffed a bit too much along the way. Otherwise just passing through. Carry on.

 

[Milarqui]

Egads, gentlemen, this thread is to post our (humorous or not) comments on the other NESers in here, not to debate on NESes quality.

 

[Kraznaya]

I think it was the fact that, at its core, this place is honestly much more about socializing than it is about the business end&#8212;the games, the stories, however you want to view it. It was very frustrating at the time. .

Really? I think #nes log activity would prove very much to the contrary; in fact, activity jumps up incredibly when there is actually an active NES update cycle going on to be discussed, and fades to a fraction of its former self when there isn't. Even if there are definitely secondary factors in deriving enjoyment from NESing, players wouldn't be playing the game if they didn't enjoy the game itself.

Anyway, regards and best of luck to whatever you're doing, even though we never actually crossed paths.

Egads, gentlemen, this thread is to post our (humorous or not) comments on the other NESers in here, not to debate on NESes quality.

Not only are you way behind, you evidently also have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Matt0088]

Though, to put a bit of a finer point on it, it was my work, my right to do as I did, and what was disposed of wasn't very valuable anyway. Certainly, nothing notable was done with it, despite Matt0088's efforts to the contrary. The past is past.

No need to worry, despite saving that set of rules, I no longer have any intent to use them. They're just languishing in the NES development thread nowadays.

 

[Abaddon]

Since more people have opted in, I will have to update my impressions.

 

[Immaculate]

venerating their (American) god Immaculate

Canadian actually- just not very nice like most.... i can see why you might think i am american.... its the time i lived in scotland and america... it makes me mean.

. And there's a suspicious lack of enjoyable content in most of what you guys run.

Thats not very nice Masada and since i am the one running it, i take it personally.

Immac-Funny AND nice, and apparently has a kid. That makes him my role model I think. Women are pretty.

Not sure why you wrote that last part; i mean i totally agree with you, but for the record i am a very well endowed male.

EDIT: added an underline to the very.

 

[Anonymoose]

Not sure why you wrote that last part; i mean i totally agree with you, but for the record i am a very well endowed male.

I was saying that you're my role model because you got a woman. And I wouldn't have even dignified Masada's trolling if I were you, he's just an angst-filled islander.

Littleboots: Funny, but I haven't gotten to play with LB that much. Entirely based on #nes chat.
Masada: Funny, a little rude sometimes, but I heard he has a sweet tan.
Gamezrule: Don't know you, homie.
TLK: I don't know TLK that well, but we've been in a couple of NESes together, he's obviously a master of stealth. I just don't remember.
Carmen510: I feel like I should know you better than I do, because I have no negative recollections at all... Too many ninjae in here.

And I think my final word in this thread is that the cliques Kraz described do exist. I don't really fit into any of them, because I've tried everything except a FFH NES, but they're here. The EQers and the AltHisters and FFHers etc sometimes don't even know people outside of those circles, or so it seems to me. I'm just glad that I've gotten to know as many people as I have. I feel like that was a good evaluation of NESers' impressions on me. One last item: You're relatively interesting folks.

 

[das]

Hello there, Symphony. Glad to see you're not bitter. Will do with regards to carrying on. And yes, of course it's a social hub first and foremost. Not necessarily such a bad thing, though, as you already said.

I'll probably wait some more before writing more impressions.

EDIT:

And beside that -- how on Earth did we manage to screw up this thread, too?

"We never fail to disappoint", I believe the quote was.