Not a lot of content here, is there?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:27 pm

Quick stuff:

1) I really don't feel like running a blog any more. At least, not right now.

2) This place hasn't been fun for some time

3) I am having a lot more fun at Caltrops

4) I am deep into trying to get my next text game done, and the difference is that this time, there aren't 12 good posters here to make conversation pass in the meantime.

I don't see this place making a strong comeback or anything, either. I think the end of the last golden age was when Debaser left, ha ha.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I already spend too much time in front of a computer, thanks to work. I take a look around, and my house is always a mess, I don't "have time" for sports, and I am staring straight down the barrel of suddenly being 40 and having nothing to show for it except some BBS posts that nobody reads, and some blog posts.

Additionally! I really don't play computer games any more. I try to psyche myself into doing so, but it just falls short - Dead Rising was probably the final nail in the coffin. When I realized I'd have to play the opening 20 or 30 times to get a good enough character to "do" things, I was just amazed. The video game industry is not getting any better. Games are getting worse, if you define worse as "increasingly becoming more obnoxious at wasting my time."

I have an interest in making games - I've got ideas and no time for at least the next three - and the BBS doesn't seem to be doing anything but taking time from that.

Or maybe I just need to recharge. I don't know.

I've been running this BBS in one form or another since October 31st, 1990, with a few years off as I transitioned from being off dial-up this web system. 18 years of writing dumb shit into forum posts, sometimes over a modem, and what do I have to show for it, really? I don't think my writing is getting any better, that's for sure. I get to worry that some future employer or girl I'm interested in may find something out of context and blame me. Hey, so there are two things.

So, no threats of shutting the place down or locking topics or anything - Ben and I did that before to drum up content, and that was fine, it worked. It pissed Jack Straw off for some reason, and I regret that.

Furthermore, if this place got bigger, what would be the payoff? When places get big enough, I start to hate everyone on the memberlist. So I don't even know what I am looking for. Caltrops seems to have it.

I guess it just comes down to the fact that I got really, really into a hobby - reading, and posting on, bulletin boards -- when I was 16 or 17, and I feel like it paralyzed me for twenty years and tonight, for some reason, I started to twitch myself around a lot. Maybe I just need a good night's sleep and it will all be fine. I don't know.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:53 pm

BEST OF!

JC support group · Post by **JC support group** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:50 am

Somebody needs a hug.

caltrops envy · Post by **caltrops envy** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:29 pm

Bring back guest posting throughout the forum! And down with the IP checking and post deleting!

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:20 pm

After perusing the Caltrops site I decided not to subscribe. I have exactly two boards I haunt and could not possibly try a third. I will settle for less content in the long run.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:39 pm

caltrops envy wrote:Bring back guest posting throughout the forum! And down with the IP checking and post deleting!

You can guest post everywhere but AB:101, right? That is how it should be.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:40 pm

AArdvark wrote:After perusing the Caltrops site I decided not to subscribe. I have exactly two boards I haunt and could not possibly try a third. I will settle for less content in the long run.

I will probably have more stuff to say by the end of the week. Yeah, we are gonna be fine.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:11 pm

You really think this stuff through! Stop.

caltrop envy · Post by **caltrop envy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:37 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
caltrops envy wrote:Bring back guest posting throughout the forum! And down with the IP checking and post deleting!
You can guest post everywhere but AB:101, right? That is how it should be.

Everywhere but politics? Fuck that. And what about the ip checking faggotry?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:58 am

What "IP Checking Faggotry"? Some of you bitches make bad posts, I am curious as to whether or not I should be embarrassed.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:21 pm

Knuckles fell in love this week so internet usage in the Clown mansion is down 95% :(

let the hilarity ensue

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:53 pm

maggots