While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[North King]

GalaxyNES earns an A- in my book; it achieved exactly what it set out to do -- creative, fun story-based space adventure game. The minus is because of inconsistency among the players in terms of creativity, which isn't Iggy's fault, but it does impact the enjoyability of the NES.

I can't think of a single fresh start I'd award an A to, however.

Maybe some of the old althists?

 

[SKILORD]

I would judge things on a scale from 1 to RTOR2.

 

[North King]

It must be nice, living in the past.

 

[SKILORD]

It is, but I'm really worried about the consequences of this dot com bubble.

And what's up with the buildup to invading Iraq? That seems like a bad idea. But I'm too frightened to say so.

 

[North King]

I'm surprised you know what an Internet is.

 

[SKILORD]

It's a series of tubes, that much is simple.

EDIT: Damn, that reference is three years early.

 

[Terrance888]

Birdjaguar is now also moderating the IOT forums.

So... what is it like on the other side of the Pale?

 

[Dachs]

GalaxyNES earns an A- in my book; it achieved exactly what it set out to do -- creative, fun story-based space adventure game. The minus is because of inconsistency among the players in terms of creativity, which isn't Iggy's fault, but it does impact the enjoyability of the NES.

Good point. I've always had a vague respect for GalaxyNES despite not really being involved with it at all, the sum total of my interactions amounting to a half-joking proposal to permit me to play an asari Expy because blue space lesbians. I imagine that if I'd been involved in it, I'd respect it even more.

I can't think of a single fresh start I'd award an A to, however.

Earth map or no?

 

[Thlayli]

Oh, I think that I can give an A to the DNES2/DaftNES 2 series, and also to NESLife 3. Those projects had longevity, detail, and were resounding successes in player participation.

A solid B+/A- to Nesse for perfecting what generations of NESers tried to do, a workable Nessos-like game. Had it lasted longer it would have also garnered an A.

 

[Dachs]

I wonder if it says anything about me that I apparently have never played in any of these A-graded NESes, despite the fact that I can agree on the grades for some of them.

 

[SouthernKing]

Something I've noticed.

Most NESers who I have had PM conversations with (or at least half) respond with their reply message above the quoted PM.
However, I have always replied under the quoted PM - and pretty much all non-NESers do the same thing.

Is putting the response on top a NES thing or is it just personal habits?

 

[tuxedohamm]

Something I've noticed.

Most NESers who I have had PM conversations with (or at least half) respond with their reply message above the quoted PM.
However, I have always replied under the quoted PM - and pretty much all non-NESers do the same thing.

Is putting the response on top a NES thing or is it just personal habits?

I cannot speak for anyone but myself. However, I reply above the previous message quote so that I can be courteous and not force the recipient to scroll through a mountain of their own text to find my response.

Honestly though, I never really think about it. Probably more of a lazy desire to not scroll to the bottom of the message box when typing and editing my message.

 

[Terrance888]

Me neither, although I remember an alliance PMs (before the Social Group revolution) where some posted above and some below quoted text.

 

[Angst]

I rarely get or send pms. When I send them, it's orders. When I get them, somebody has a problem with me.

 

[Dachs]

Something I've noticed.

Most NESers who I have had PM conversations with (or at least half) respond with their reply message above the quoted PM.
However, I have always replied under the quoted PM - and pretty much all non-NESers do the same thing.

Is putting the response on top a NES thing or is it just personal habits?

I've never put the response on top.

Then again, I haven't actively NESed in aaaaaages. And if I did, I would probably use #nes for the overwhelming majority of my communications.

 

[Nuka-sama]

What if we just did Yelp ratings?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Man, lots of love for GalaxyNES here. Thanks! I'm intending to bring it back once I'm back from Iceland, and thus finished all of my academic year. It's roughly 9 days until I'm back in the Yukon.

Something I've noticed.

Most NESers who I have had PM conversations with (or at least half) respond with their reply message above the quoted PM.
However, I have always replied under the quoted PM - and pretty much all non-NESers do the same thing.

Is putting the response on top a NES thing or is it just personal habits?

I inconsistently use both, but I tend to respond below.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Birdjaguar is now also moderating the IOT forums.

So... what is it like on the other side of the Pale?

Yes I moved out of OT and into IOT so that the forum would be moderated correctly and not whimsically or mercurially by folks who would just fly in with out a grasp of what is going on. I am actually going to play a game to see how it all works. Humorously, the game I am joining is an alt history one that begins in 1500 AD.

 

[Terrance888]

Good luck Birdjaguar. As an ambassador of CFC and NESing, we hope that you may find something that reminds you of home in the far off and distant lands of IOT.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Hey guys, is BananaLee around these days? I'm trying to work out what cultures may be free to take in DaftNESIV. Its more of a pixel art project than a NES, but an update is taking shape.