Thousandth Post

Baron · Fri 19/04/2013 03:13:56

Allow an old hand to recollect the good old days for a bit.... It used to be AGS tradition that you couldn't start threads of no particular use or purpose in the general forum EXCEPT when the original post was the original poster's 1000th post. Of course that was in the days before the subtle art of useless threads was cheapened by the advent of a Rumpus Room specifically for useless threads.... Nevertheless, being long in the tooth and something of an old fart I hereby claim this traditional right.
I suppose some reminiscing is in order. Over the years I've come to think of the AGS forums as my internet home, a place where I can go knocking if I need to borrow a pixelated cup of sugar or find someone to e-mail food to my cat when I'm away for more than a couple of days. I don't always post frequently and am not often deeply involved in community issues, but know that I value this virtual neighbourhood deeply. I guess I'm less the muffin-baking community booster and more of the creepy guy who's always got his eye through the curtain, keeping tabs on when you come and go and what kind of stuff you leave out in your trash bin. But despite my introverted tendencies this place has always been friendly enough to lure me out of my shell. Thanks for that guys. There've been so many fond memories: MAGS comps, animation comps, writing comps, that time Ponch got bovine spongiform encephalopathy and was just spinning around on the floor for hours (good times....); the swarm project, that Mittens I attended, the community role-playing adventures, the avatar lovechild reunion.... and so many more. Many thanks to my generous collaborators, my incessant PM correspondents, and all the rest of the cheerful folk who make this place fun to hang out in.
Finally, in honour of this occasion, I've made you all a little something. A new smiley:

. It means something around the lines of villainous cackle -use it wisely!
Yeah, so.... Reply, won't ya? Otherwise my useless thread would seem extra useless and probably end up demoted to the (*gulp*) R-board $:-\$ . Looking forward to the next thousand folks,

Baron

Ghost · Fri 19/04/2013 03:21:22

Cheers, that's a lot of posts, a lot of fond memories, a lot of cow-spinning and a really cool smiley. Now start the next swarm or I'll have to draw monocles on all your posts until you do so!

kconan · Fri 19/04/2013 04:11:40

One would hope that you will be around to one day make a 2000th post...

Seriously, congrats on being an AGS old timer. I recall you PMing me with a few nice thoughts (talking about historical game ideas) after I posted in a newbie thread, which then caused me to play a few of your games.

Babar · Fri 19/04/2013 04:49:13

Who on earth is this young upstart lording it about like an oldie?!

Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the Winter Rose, one of my favouritest AGS games ever.

* Babar clanks his bigbluecup with Baron's monocled receptacle

Baron · Fri 19/04/2013 05:00:47

Quote from: kconan on Fri 19/04/2013 04:11:40
...caused me to play a few of your games.

kconan, I want you to know that I have begun to consider you as a son to me. Not a real son, obviously, but more of a twisted, cigar-smoking, bow-tied and bemonocled puppy dog spawn that I can count on to avenge me if I were to meet an untimely demise

. I remember being really enthusiastic about making a historical game at one point. Actually "Besieged" kind of grew out of that, until it evolved into the world's longest toilet joke (good times....

). I also started this (very incomplete) design doc for an adventure in the Roman Empire... but nothing ever came of it. Oh well, you can't build 'em all....

Quote from: Ghost on Fri 19/04/2013 03:21:22
Now start the next swarm or I'll have to draw monocles on all your posts until you do so!

I encourage you to draw monocles on all my posts!

As for swarming.... It was fun, it really was. But man, it was time consuming! If someone reliable volunteers to assemble the assets and code the game, I'd throw my hat in for the position of Project Facilitator.

Quote from: Babar on Fri 19/04/2013 04:49:13
Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the Winter Rose, one of my favouritest AGS games ever.

Thanks! Speaking of time consuming -all those hand painted backgrounds in TWR

-man! Where did I find all the time...? I'm glad it was enjoyed, but I could have made that game so much better knowing what I know now.

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* Babar clanks his bigbluecup with Baron's monocled receptacle

Hey...! Did you.... Did you just smash me in the face with your bigbluecup?!?

miguel · Fri 19/04/2013 11:14:59

Hooray for Baron's 1000th post!
We should convince WHAM to create a new community game, that was really great.
Take care and it is really comforting to know that whatever we do or say, you'll be there: watching, nursing odd thoughts about our personas, silently making comments about our bad sense of humour, thinking that monocles should be trendy but at the same time being proud of being the only AGser with a monocle...

CaptainD · Fri 19/04/2013 12:53:12

Yay for the creepy guy peering through the curtains!

Darth Mandarb · Fri 19/04/2013 13:47:26

I don't want to admit when I hit my 1000th post

but congrats on yours

I seem to remember making a post with a picture of a horse or something...

Tabata · Fri 19/04/2013 17:30:26

YAY!
You made it! Congrats!

... and I like the way this is going

Andail · Fri 19/04/2013 18:52:16

I just realized that of all currently active members, only Gilbert, Mods and Joseph Di Perla were here when I joined.

AGA · Fri 19/04/2013 19:51:23

Quote from: Andail on Fri 19/04/2013 18:52:16
I just realized that of all currently active members, only Gilbert, Mods and Joseph Di Perla were here when I joined.

Ditto, plus you.

Joseph DiPerla · Fri 19/04/2013 19:55:48

Yeah, and I don't even have 800 posts yet. Although, if you were to tally up my old EZ Board posts, you might come up with over a thousand then.

AGA · Fri 19/04/2013 20:08:37

I was half tempted to work out everyone's original EZBoard registration dates, then set the reg dates on these accounts. Unfortunately EZBoard has gone through so many changes since then that it's not really possible.

AGA · Fri 19/04/2013 20:48:43

Okay, so I made this thing. Enter your own username to find out when you passed various post milestones!

LimpingFish · Fri 19/04/2013 21:23:35

Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Fri 19/04/2013 13:47:26
I don't want to admit when I hit my 1000th post...

Seems like I made my 1000th post...six years ago?!

AGA · Fri 19/04/2013 22:14:29

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/milestones.php with no ID will also work if you're too lazy to work out your own user ID, by the way.

Babar · Fri 19/04/2013 22:29:07

It still only tells yours

LimpingFish · Fri 19/04/2013 22:36:44

Quote from: Babar on Fri 19/04/2013 22:29:07
It still only tells yours

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/milestones.php?user=1265 <--- these are yours, Babs.

Babar · Fri 19/04/2013 22:40:33

Yes, I got that from filling in my own number (had to go to my profile, then find the number from the link for stats or posts). Almost 3000 in my case now!

Atelier · Fri 19/04/2013 22:59:49

Call me dumb, but this seems like a good time to ask. What does the 'most popular boards by activity' thing actually show? It doesn't add up to 100% and I barely ever go on the recruitment board. Is it something to do with when the board indexes were shuffled?