RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
Died of neglect, but will live on in our hearts. Like a tumour.
If anyone happens to still read this, now might be a good time to drop alternative contact info.
If anyone happens to still read this, now might be a good time to drop alternative contact info.
People in glass trousers shouldn't shit bricks.
- The Spartan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I recall invitations to other boards being run by posters here. I didn't really become active on those boards due to thinking I already had enough forums, as well as other assorted internet nonsense, to eat up my time, but perhaps we should collectively choose one of those boards to go to?
Kinda feel guilty....
Kinda feel guilty....
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
yea it is kind of a shame, this place was a laugh
I did sign up for xon's forum. Is there any space for a testingstan pity party thread over there I wonder
got an inactive wordpress blog (evilsoup.wordpress.com) with mostly fiction, some of which is good. Also have a tumblr (again, evilsoup); I mostly use this as a sort of newsfeed, but feel free to follow send messages etc. (Will probably have a more active political theory blog up sometime, but no way am I going to leave any pathway for my revolutionary marxist persona to be linked back to a My Little Pony fanfiction lol)
but yeah it's funny: this place has been dead for ages, but it feels a lot more real now that a thread has been posted. I wouldn't have thought it, but it is a bit emotional. "The end of an era", except that's too grandiose a cliche.
I did sign up for xon's forum. Is there any space for a testingstan pity party thread over there I wonder
got an inactive wordpress blog (evilsoup.wordpress.com) with mostly fiction, some of which is good. Also have a tumblr (again, evilsoup); I mostly use this as a sort of newsfeed, but feel free to follow send messages etc. (Will probably have a more active political theory blog up sometime, but no way am I going to leave any pathway for my revolutionary marxist persona to be linked back to a My Little Pony fanfiction lol)
no need to feel guilty mangKinda feel guilty....
but yeah it's funny: this place has been dead for ages, but it feels a lot more real now that a thread has been posted. I wouldn't have thought it, but it is a bit emotional. "The end of an era", except that's too grandiose a cliche.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I keep thinking I should write up my ideas for a 6th season of Breaking Bad. But I never came up with a good name for the crystal ice dragon.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I'm waffling on the idea of setting up an IRC server. If anything gets up and running in the next month or so I'll leave details here.
People in glass trousers shouldn't shit bricks.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
also ues dot bounty at gmail
People in glass trousers shouldn't shit bricks.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
wouldn't an IRC have the same basic problem as the forum i.e. it'd be a ghost town
- Agent Bert Macklin
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
yesevilsoup wrote:wouldn't an IRC have the same basic problem as the forum i.e. it'd be a ghost town
no
maybe
the old AIM chat worked even if it was mostly the Schuyler Colfax show
People in glass trousers shouldn't shit bricks.
- Big Orangutan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
Sigh, it was OK while it lasted, but this place was more like a tiny break room than a convention centre or shopping mall, to use a loose metaphor.
Also I was distracted in the past year by my dad recovering from a dangerous operation.
Also I was distracted in the past year by my dad recovering from a dangerous operation.
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
does nobody on this site have any good luck
hope your dad is ok big o.
hope your dad is ok big o.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I have to say, you don't look anything like I imaginedAgent Bert Macklin wrote:AIM: tuckerapc
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- Agent Bert Macklin
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
haha. I'm about 30 lbs heavier than my FB profile photo shows.evilsoup wrote:I have to say, you don't look anything like I imaginedAgent Bert Macklin wrote:AIM: tuckerapc
Skype: jltucker05
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- The Spartan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
Where was that?evilsoup wrote:I did sign up for xon's forum. Is there any space for a testingstan pity party thread over there I wonder
Seems like a good starting point to try to recover our forum that just can't be allowed to die!
![duchess :duchess:](./images/smilies/SA/emot-byodame.gif)
Sorry, had to get some sarcasm in there.
Edit: Sufficient Velocity? I actually did set up an account, but never started posting for some reason.
- Agent Bert Macklin
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I'm highly interested in this.Bounty wrote:I'm waffling on the idea of setting up an IRC server. If anything gets up and running in the next month or so I'll leave details here.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
yea sufficient velocityThe Spartan wrote:Where was that?evilsoup wrote:I did sign up for xon's forum. Is there any space for a testingstan pity party thread over there I wonder
Seems like a good starting point to try to recover our forum that just can't be allowed to die!![]()
Sorry, had to get some sarcasm in there.
Edit: Sufficient Velocity? I actually did set up an account, but never started posting for some reason.
I think I've made, like, three posts lol
I guess I just haven't really had time for webforums etc recently
I don't know if there's a subforum there that would be suitable for the tone of a testinstan refugee camp thread though
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I check the forums more or less daily. It's just that no one says anything other than me.
Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
i don't check it daily any more but i still do fairly frequently
it is just i don't have that much to say and other things to do than type up the long-form essays i kinda enjoy on forums
it is just i don't have that much to say and other things to do than type up the long-form essays i kinda enjoy on forums
In the name of the moon, I will punish you!
- The Spartan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
Probably isn't, but that's not really what I had in mind. I was thinking more in terms of just the population migrating and integrating into the new forum.evilsoup wrote:I don't know if there's a subforum there that would be suitable for the tone of a testinstan refugee camp thread though
Something like that anyhow.
- Big Orangutan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
He was more lucky than unlucky (look at celebs like Bill Paxton and Carrie Fisher dying very young from maltreated heart conditions fairly recently) but I appreciate the condolences.evilsoup wrote:does nobody on this site have any good luck
hope your dad is ok big o.
So the plan is we're hopping over to SV or/and SB?
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
I can be found at SV these days; it's basically the only forum I really visit and/or participate in. Baks occasionally shows up there just to implode by being contrarian.
I can also be located on Discord as Jovi#1961. I imagine that there is room for a NewTestingstan discord channel; I find that small communities have an easier time communicating if they're forced to pay attention by virtue of being glued to other communities they also pay attention to, and Discord makes a convenient vehicle for such.
I've enjoyed all of your assorted companies for the shockingly many years I have known/known of you all, regardless. Being a part of this group and its thesis of becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with "the intellectual crucible" helped make me a better person.
I can also be located on Discord as Jovi#1961. I imagine that there is room for a NewTestingstan discord channel; I find that small communities have an easier time communicating if they're forced to pay attention by virtue of being glued to other communities they also pay attention to, and Discord makes a convenient vehicle for such.
I've enjoyed all of your assorted companies for the shockingly many years I have known/known of you all, regardless. Being a part of this group and its thesis of becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with "the intellectual crucible" helped make me a better person.
- Big Orangutan
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
Yes, making yourself feel big by making others feel small if they don't deserve that treatment all the time doesn't work.joviwan wrote: I've enjoyed all of your assorted companies for the shockingly many years I have known/known of you all, regardless. Being a part of this group and its thesis of becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with "the intellectual crucible" helped make me a better person.
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
not necessarily a bad way to build group cohesion
(well I mean, it is bad, but it can be effective)
definitely not a good way to get at anything like an objective assessment of reality. Or, more importantly, for an objective assessment of which fictional spaceship has enough pew-pews to beat another spaceship
(well I mean, it is bad, but it can be effective)
definitely not a good way to get at anything like an objective assessment of reality. Or, more importantly, for an objective assessment of which fictional spaceship has enough pew-pews to beat another spaceship
- uraniun235
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Re: RIP New Testingstan, 201?-2017
You don't need to start a whole IRC server yourself, just register a channel on an existing network. I hang out on Synirc, there's a bunch of SA goon channels there.Bounty wrote:I'm waffling on the idea of setting up an IRC server. If anything gets up and running in the next month or so I'll leave details here.
Also guys not sure if you've heard the news but AIM is shutting down soon.