This BBS

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:36 pm

I would post A) way more content, and B) much better content on a telnet BBS than I do or would here. Without question. The reason for this is because:

1. It would be easier to spend more time here, because it would look more like I was working than surfing the web.

2. Telnetting would bring me back to the old days and rekindle my love for the BBS medium.

It would be like Pinback II: The Ultimate Reckoning around here. There.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:51 pm

I actually kind of *like* the public accessibility of the BBS... to the point that I like it when totally random people just stumble in and join the conversation. Like the thread way back whenever about Wild Tangeant where we actually got a developer from teh program to chime in. That shit's cool. Also cool is the ability of me to link people to threads I like. So maybe we could have some way of automatically archiving all the threads somewhere so that after, say, two weeks of no responses they get automatically moved somewhere for paroozing pleasure?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:59 pm

Lysander wrote:paroozing

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:03 pm

maybe having a 60 minute time limit, like on the old dial-ups would force us to think and write in terse coherent sentences. Nah....

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:23 pm

You guys all make good points. If there were a way to "export" a base or two maybe that would be a good compromise. Hell, I don't know.

Noted on the WildTangent thing. Man, was that guy sucking down the Kool-Aid. Actually, quite a few random pieces of human shit have "dropped by" to give us their worthless takes on a variety of subjects. We're probably due for another one.

There are a few of you that obviously need to make it over to the new system or it's not worth doing. You all probably know who you are. I'll research what it would take to get a telnet port open to where we want it. I think that will be the toughest part of the whole thing -- just getting a nice, secure machine somewhere.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:53 pm

What would be cool is a BBS that lets you do either.

Quick, someone write a telnet BBS server which interfaces with phpBB databases. Then we could have both.

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:53 pm

I request that Jolt Country be a MUD

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:16 pm

THis would require work.

FWIW, durring hte fighting games discussion I actually linked the topic on bot hte Game FAQs fighting board and the Shoryuken forums, which is why that particular thread had so many page views from random people. I'm disappointed more of them didn't stay around to continue the discussion but these are people who's only existence revolves around memorizing the most strings of button presses to create infinite combos that kill the player in thirty boring uncreative seconds, so we probably aren't losing much by the lack of their presence and lackluster conversation skills. That said, that was my way of trying to attract more people to this place. I don't even care if I like them or not, having an idiot trying to troll us would honestly brighten my day at his point because I would have some hilarious CONTENT~! to look at when I sign on ot the internet.

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:01 pm

May I reitterate a desire for a telnet bbs/mud for Jolt Country?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:02 pm

Yes. You reiterate that, Draal.

I will also reiterate.

DRAAL IS A THE THING.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:09 pm

Draal wrote:May I reitterate a desire for a telnet bbs/mud for Jolt Country?

Reiterated! Noted! Might be a couple weeks before I can do it, though.

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:29 pm

As opposed to being a person?

Yes, I am the Thing.

And pinback is going towards a celestial crown that happened to be part of the sky (dazy nights and all that)

I ask for coffee and deserve this.

This desire to move back to the telnet system is intriguing; tell me Jonsey, has the generic and oft chimed wasteland that is the modern interconnection of communications, slowly ground out the mystical idea that has surrounded the ability of any number of people from anywhere on earch, to talk with eachother?

May I suggest climbing a mountain for the purpose of jumping off it?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:23 pm

I think it's just to get rid of spam and so we can play LORD.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:35 pm

Draal wrote:tell me Jonsey, has the generic and oft chimed wasteland that is the modern interconnection of communications, slowly ground out the mystical idea that has surrounded the ability of any number of people from anywhere on earch, to talk with eachother?

I'm going to go ahead and say it is mostly so we can play Legend of the Red Dragon and Pimpwars.

May I suggest climbing a mountain for the purpose of jumping off it?

Me??? Or Pinback? Pinback's the one throwing around the accusations of poor genetics here.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:42 pm

I want to play The Thing :(

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:46 pm

Another great thread. Cootis everyone!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:40 pm

This link has proved helpful: http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/telnet.htm

I am going to ask Inky, from the ifMud, who he uses as a host. (Actually, I am presuming he runs the Mud, as he is the most helpful person on it and possibly the most helpful person on God's Green Earth.) That discussion may bear fruit. Hopefully not apples because seriously who wants to hear someone suck down an apple like they had survived a mid-air collision months ago and just found a bag of Granny Smith.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:41 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I am going to ask Inky, from the ifMud, who he uses as a host. (Actually, I am presuming he runs the Mud, as he is the most helpful person on it and possibly the most helpful person on God's Green Earth.)

When did he join Goatwhore?

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:03 pm

Jonsey -

Does the health of this forum contribute to the day to day running that occurs around you? There are over 20,000 posts, around 140 people who have been a part of the community from time to time, and now the move to a telnet BBS?

Isn't this just adding a layer of exclusion to the process of simply, communicating with people?

Recently, I've seen two sites make concentrated efforts, to seperate themselves from forums that didn't "meet the expectations or express the values they wanted associated with their site" and its a curious approach to the whole "I'm busy, feel obligated to this place, so I'm just going to seperate us as a way to make myself feel less committed."

This forum is neat and everything, a place for people to vent feelings and be people they couldn't be else where, except its just a few pages imposed in a few pixels, marked with words that happen to express an idea.

Maybe the whole process that has moved from a place to talk to friends, which has turned into a kind of committment, and is now dissapointing because of a lack of what is expected (that is, posts and content in the form of people taking time to create them expressly for this place) isn't really an important faucet of everything, and will continue to be just a place for friends to gather information and mock eachother?

And with this Telnet move, it appears that its just a way of trying to recreate whats already here?

I've formed an opinion! And now what will I do with it?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:05 pm

My answer is the correct one.

Keep this one around for Hugo stuff, for IF stuff, for Jonsey game support, and for serious, useful matters such as that.

Keep the telnet one for dicking around. (Which is 95% of this whole place, admittedly.)