And if he finds you?punkbass2000 said:
New Official Arriving / leaving / introduction thread.
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punkbass2000
Des An artiste
Then he certainly doesn't hide well.
The game of life, it's hide and seek,
And not for the faint hearted nor for meek;
for when life's riddle is finally unwound,
It's only yourself that you've found.
Happy hunting!
And not for the faint hearted nor for meek;
for when life's riddle is finally unwound,
It's only yourself that you've found.
Happy hunting!
WickedSmurf
pr0
Back on the forums, still in Stockholm for about one more month. Happy days, I have practically nothing to do at work. Let me explainify:
Come to work: 10:00
Lunch break: 12:00-14:00
Leave work: 15:00
But, since I am working away from home, I have negotiated with my boss to get an extra 300/month. Sweet deal.
Come to work: 10:00
Lunch break: 12:00-14:00
Leave work: 15:00
But, since I am working away from home, I have negotiated with my boss to get an extra 300/month. Sweet deal.
Rambuchan
The Funky President
Nice work Smurfovich. Gotta take my hat off to that! 
(Now go fix the funny pics thread man)
(Now go fix the funny pics thread man)schmiddi
Prussian
Just wanted to tell you: I'm away for the weekend, celebrating my birthday at the Oktoberfest in Munich.
I wouldn't mind finding a birthday thread upon my return.
I wouldn't mind finding a birthday thread upon my return.
nonconformist
Miserable
Oktoberfest, haha. With all the fat Liederhosened Oompah-bands?
well, I'm back from Crete. Had a great time, didn't even miss CFC 
now it's back to work.........
now it's back to work.........
schmiddi
Prussian
fat? only partial
Lederhosen? for sure
Oompah? yup.
Lederhosen? for sure
Oompah? yup.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I was planning to wait to my 6000th post before putting up anything dramatic, but at the 1-2 posts a day I've been averaging, its not gonna happen soon enough. Despite a seemingly negative tone I intend this post in a postive way.
When first came to CFC I was 15½ years old, sick as hell with lyme, shy (though strangely bold and friendly) a democratic hack, and a new-age zealot. Much has changed. One of those changes is that civfanatics hasn't. The others are that I'm 18, much healthier, far less zealous, far more outgoing (still friendly and bold to boot).
Like many before veterans before me, I'm "done" with Civfanatics off topic. Oh, I'll be here and there, maybe vote in the occasional poll. But officially I'm finished with off-topic.
Off topic here has been an amazing ride. Fast paced debate from people across the world and even here at home has greatly broadened my perspective of the world. But it wasn't soon after I recognized the patterns and the lack of change. New people came and old people went, but it was the same. Some people changed, the rest didn't. Moderators came and retired. Still nothing changed. At this point following OT is a dying addiction in my heart. Intellectually I've learned as much as I will.
Every day, I type "civf" and then hit the down arrow and then "enter". Then I click user CP. I click on my subscribed threads (the ones I post in) and sometimes add a useless comment. Then I click "off topic" from the thread and scan the list and see hardly anything interesting that hasn't been covered. (digression: I was seeing repeats of thread themes since 2003, my first full year here, and I still do. I've probably seen about 5 waves of regulars, whose membership changes only slightly from each previous one. Each wave gets fed up with the debate and posts something in site feedback... and no one in the group or in charge of the group acts to change it). After seeing nothing of interest I close the window. A few hours later I repeat the process.
Heh, I remember the time when I actually tried to become a moderator here for the civ3 section. I would post everywhere I could to help people out. At one point my "reputation" had become such that I had a thread with "Hygro" and "help" in the title. Then Moonsinger got the job
I was also proud when I was maybe the 40th biggest poster. Hopefully I've fallen off the second page.
I contend that the collective intelligence here in OT is tremendous. But the level of debate just doesn't add up. I'm more than guilty--I'm a great writer, a great reasoner, a great debator. But did I shine here? HELL NO! Though I worked at a few debates on a few topics, I rarely applied myself. I'm sure for many of you its the same. Before writing up this thread I came up with what I'd write--the thought-version was many times more eloquent than this could hope to be. I'm about to hit the post button and I don't even know if its coherent. But that's part of the problem with us as a group.
But even if the debate did add up to your intelligence, so what? It wouldn't change much. It's funny, so many of us, as I was guilty for the year and some here, complain about being stuck to specific political parties, but in the end are such horrendous party hacks. You probably don't know who you are
I really do love you all. Despite my jaded tone, its true. You all helped me grow in so many ways. One big way other than accumulating perspectives was legitimizing my right to express my spirituality, in the intellectual forum.
If there's one thing I learned in my most recent spiritual understanding, is that places like civfanatics become intellectually stagnating. At first we grow and gain much. But once you've been here long enough you know who is going to post in what thread, who is going to say what, and who is going to mean what.
Of course, civ 4 is coming around so I can't just jettison the site from my life, but off topic is through.
So in all, thank you. Thank you for what you've given me.
Two P.S's: Moderators, please don't move this into the official coming and going thread. It's more of an address to offtopic people than an announcement that I'm done.
Moderator Action: Pls take up issues like this thru PMs, and not publicly. You know better. - KD
PS - Probably best thru TF.
When first came to CFC I was 15½ years old, sick as hell with lyme, shy (though strangely bold and friendly) a democratic hack, and a new-age zealot. Much has changed. One of those changes is that civfanatics hasn't. The others are that I'm 18, much healthier, far less zealous, far more outgoing (still friendly and bold to boot).
Like many before veterans before me, I'm "done" with Civfanatics off topic. Oh, I'll be here and there, maybe vote in the occasional poll. But officially I'm finished with off-topic.
Off topic here has been an amazing ride. Fast paced debate from people across the world and even here at home has greatly broadened my perspective of the world. But it wasn't soon after I recognized the patterns and the lack of change. New people came and old people went, but it was the same. Some people changed, the rest didn't. Moderators came and retired. Still nothing changed. At this point following OT is a dying addiction in my heart. Intellectually I've learned as much as I will.
Every day, I type "civf" and then hit the down arrow and then "enter". Then I click user CP. I click on my subscribed threads (the ones I post in) and sometimes add a useless comment. Then I click "off topic" from the thread and scan the list and see hardly anything interesting that hasn't been covered. (digression: I was seeing repeats of thread themes since 2003, my first full year here, and I still do. I've probably seen about 5 waves of regulars, whose membership changes only slightly from each previous one. Each wave gets fed up with the debate and posts something in site feedback... and no one in the group or in charge of the group acts to change it). After seeing nothing of interest I close the window. A few hours later I repeat the process.
Heh, I remember the time when I actually tried to become a moderator here for the civ3 section. I would post everywhere I could to help people out. At one point my "reputation" had become such that I had a thread with "Hygro" and "help" in the title. Then Moonsinger got the job
I was also proud when I was maybe the 40th biggest poster. Hopefully I've fallen off the second page.I contend that the collective intelligence here in OT is tremendous. But the level of debate just doesn't add up. I'm more than guilty--I'm a great writer, a great reasoner, a great debator. But did I shine here? HELL NO! Though I worked at a few debates on a few topics, I rarely applied myself. I'm sure for many of you its the same. Before writing up this thread I came up with what I'd write--the thought-version was many times more eloquent than this could hope to be. I'm about to hit the post button and I don't even know if its coherent
. But that's part of the problem with us as a group.But even if the debate did add up to your intelligence, so what? It wouldn't change much. It's funny, so many of us, as I was guilty for the year and some here, complain about being stuck to specific political parties, but in the end are such horrendous party hacks. You probably don't know who you are
I really do love you all. Despite my jaded tone, its true. You all helped me grow in so many ways. One big way other than accumulating perspectives was legitimizing my right to express my spirituality, in the intellectual forum.
If there's one thing I learned in my most recent spiritual understanding, is that places like civfanatics become intellectually stagnating. At first we grow and gain much. But once you've been here long enough you know who is going to post in what thread, who is going to say what, and who is going to mean what.
Of course, civ 4 is coming around so I can't just jettison the site from my life, but off topic is through.
So in all, thank you. Thank you for what you've given me.
Two P.S's: Moderators, please don't move this into the official coming and going thread. It's more of an address to offtopic people than an announcement that I'm done.
Moderator Action: Pls take up issues like this thru PMs, and not publicly. You know better. - KD
PS - Probably best thru TF.
Posters come and posters go
But none are quite like our Hygro;
He's off to do some better thing
And his kind post helps reduce the sting.
Happy Trails!
But none are quite like our Hygro;
He's off to do some better thing
And his kind post helps reduce the sting.
Happy Trails!
blackheart
unenlightened
I love you too?
h4ppy
You sir, pineapple?
I too have thought of giving up but I am still here. I just don't have anywhere else to go. So you can sort of think of this as goodbye, Hygro.
I know exactly what you mean. I have seen a lot of waves of posters came and went, since 2001. And I know better than to dabble too much in OT, right fr the very beginning. 
Well, I did try to change the OT a bit. Twice. By suggesting to split off the political portion, and leave OT for stuff like humor, science, music, poetry, literature etc. Alone.
It was 2 years back.
But the support for my idea was less than the opposition. So there.
Well, I did try to change the OT a bit. Twice. By suggesting to split off the political portion, and leave OT for stuff like humor, science, music, poetry, literature etc. Alone.
It was 2 years back.
But the support for my idea was less than the opposition. So there.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Bye Hygro! (I mean this in the nicest possible way: ) Don't come back!
h4ppy
You sir, pineapple?
Well I liked your light and dark (or was it light and black?) idea, shame most of the people wanted to keep the things together.Knight-Dragon said:I know exactly what you mean. I have seen a lot of waves of posters came and went, since 2001. And I know better than to dabble too much in OT, right fr the very beginning.
Well, I did try to change the OT a bit. Twice. By suggesting to split off the political portion, and leave OT for stuff like humor, science, music, poetry, literature etc. Alone.
It was 2 years back.
But the support for my idea was less than the opposition. So there.
Nice post, couldn't agree with it more. Although you need to work on your moddesty in the 7th paragraph.
I also agree with KD...
Funny we spend so much time debating post counts, a meaningless thing yet we've never even tried a "change" in OT in the last few years.
Although you need to work on your moddesty in the 7th paragraph. I also agree with KD...
Funny we spend so much time debating post counts, a meaningless thing yet we've never even tried a "change" in OT in the last few years.
h4ppy
You sir, pineapple?
Yeah but the debate format actually cut down on debate it seemed like.
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