SUPER LONG CONVO WITH SCHNEE AND THEN TIME FOR BED POST ALERT... OMG.
At 4/17/07 04:27 PM, schneelocke wrote:
Yup - but if somebody has less than 60 XP listed as their gain, then you know they DID miss deposits. :)
Indeed. 50 or lower = GREAT NEWS FOR YOU, if you're behind the person in question. Such lovely numbers to see on the top 2000... 50, 40, 30, 20, 10... and the best of all, 0!
Just making sure. :) It's better to say things too often than not often enough. :)
True, true. I do repeat myself all the time because I clearly go by that same basic tenet, as you do. #;-}>
Ah, OK. So ht52 wasn't even depositing himself anymore? For shame.
ht52 has long been a collective of people. I won't begin to guess who all has posted with the account, but I know that multiple have deposited for it.
Especially back in the days when HT was 30 and then 20 ahead of Pimp, a period which lasted for a good 2+ years back in 03 and 04.
Yeah, but there might be a time when you don't see the point anymore. Case in point - I used to play Kingdom of Loathing for a while, but in recent weeks (or months), it's just become so incredibly boring that I don't even let KoLmafia (a bot) churn away in the background anymore. It's just not worth it, and I imagine that some people could conceivably feel the same way about NG.
True... but I would hope that a simple thing such as depositing exp for one main account on NG, both in how little time it takes, and in how cool a site NG is and has been for so many years, would weigh a little heavier in NG's direction than KoL or other things such as that.
No offense to KoL, I've heard it's fun and I once considered playing myself, but... come on! #;-}>
When the whole site becomes irrelevant and a waste of time to someone, I'd actually be surprised if they did not stop depositing - after all, why should they still do so? Things like "I'm the level 30 user" (or "I'm one of the level 30 users") or "I need to defend my XP rank" stop being relevant when the site does.
Why? Simple.
The reason to keep depositing even if NG has lost all its charm to you, is that you recognise there is the possiblity that someday the charm will return, NG will regain its mojo, or you will again become into the site again for your own reasons.
If you're thinking rationally as you detach yourself from NG, you should surely realise that there may come a day when you would kick yourself for missing 10s or 100s of days of deposits.
And that is why, even if I didn't want anything to do with NG for say a year... I would still probably deposit every day.
Just in case.
At 4/17/07 02:13 AM, gfoxcook wrote:
You can do that already anyway, just make an alt and you get all the funs of a new account without having to sacrifice the old one.
True, but then I wouldn't get 800 bucks.
Yeah, but... but... but...
Offer me 2000 and we may have a deal. I need enough to get my dream desktop computer to even make the idea worth thinking about, when it comes to this account at least, like I said.
Oh, sure we can. And 36 is only thrice twelve, and 48 is only four times twelve, and so on... we can do all that, too, but that doesn't mean we will. I hate to say it, but sooner or later, NG *will* come to an end, unless you want to believe that it'll still be around when the last black holes evaporate completely and when the universe will be an entirely uniform, cold, dark place... :)
TOM FULP MUST FIND A WAY TO ENSURE HIS SUCCESSORS KEEP NG GOING FOR TEH EVER.
And by forever I mean "the next 100 years or so." Come on now... we're not talking about billions of years in the future here when we speak in relative terms of the foreseeable future. #;-}>
And in any event, I'm a believer in the type of universe Isaac Asimov posits in his greatest short story of all time, "The Last Question." If you've read it, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, I highly suggest you do a google search for it and find it and read it online.
Yes. ^.^ *tailwags*
Awww... why is that period just so damned cuter than an underscore?
Most likely because I don't see the anime smiley that way quite as often, I guess. FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT.
Or at least... finding things a bit less cute.
Though why that doesn't work with me and my girlfriend never ceasing to find each other cute despite having lived together for nearly 6 straight years... I will never know!
Oooooo yeah.
"Take that, crappy flash... ride my boomstick!" ^^
Oh, baby. Will the dirty never end?
You uh... that's a dirty thing to say. :::blushes:::
That's just because you've got a gutter mind. :P
BETTER THAN A GUTTER BALL.
Or pair thereof.
Oh wait, it'd take like 100 times more than that to make me blush.
FAKEBLUSH ALERT, FAKEBLUSH ALERT.
Heh.
FEAR the fakeblush.
I once heard a cover of "Sharp dressed man" by a bluesrock musician I met on the street that was really good, though - he went by the name of Dr. Harmonica. I bought a tape from him, too, but I'm not sure where it is right now.
Eh, it's an okay song.
Just Got Paid and La Grange are the bestest ZZ Top songs of all time in my opinion, though. They're more from the 70s period of the band, not the "popular MTV vids" 80s era.
No, I do not. Thank the maker.
Naw, I'm an atheist.
Again, see Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" for a great example of how a universe without a traditional God but yet still a creator (or creators) can exist quite easily in theory.
Ah, yes - thanks to the internet archive, I found some copies. Eh, what can I say, though? Just collages of shock pictures really, so once you've seen those, it doesn't add anything new anymore.
YAY FOR THE WAYBACK MACHINE @ ARCHIVE.ORG!
Wow, no shock, eh? Impressive. I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it being quite distasteful. I suppose what they say is true: with each passing year, the benchmarks for what is shocking to us just rise and rise and rise and get further out of reach.
Oh, you're welcome. :) (FWIW, I still hope the new levels will be delayed, too, so I can get to level 17 before they arrive. At the same time, of course, I also hope they'll be implemented ASAP so I can see what they're like and advance through the new levels. ^^ And no, I never claimed to be free of contradictions...)
Why would you want to get to level 17!!?!?! NO MORE 16?!? ;_;
OK, I'll try to keep it in mind.
Awesome.
At least you ARE catching up... :)
THIS time. I dunno if I would again if given the chance. Egad...
Whole bunch of scanning, some searching for replies to my posts, etc. etc. But... boy... a headache nonetheless.
Yeah, that sure makes sense. Of course, alternatively, you could just write a small script to grab the info for all NG users, and then go through that (using another script, not by hand) to see who should be tracked and who shouldn't. I imagine that if it's just a one-shot thing, the admins should be OK with it.
Except I don't write scripts. I'd have to ask SK or someone to make it for me.
But of course, just using the pentalist thread makes sense, too. :)
Yeah, that too. #;-}>