The Death Of Hobbyist Forums

[ripster]

No, mine is NOT made up. It is a GH Group Buy.

THAT is the scary part.

[wiredPANDA]

Showed it to a co-worker and now he's trying to find the group buy.

[ripster]

But you POSTED in that very thread. Your "friend" must be you.

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Hmm...maybe I should pick up a couple of keys too.

I keep forgetting the passwords on my sockpuppet accounts.

[TexasFlood]

No, mine is NOT made up. It is a GH Group Buy.

THAT is the scary part.

Damn I was hoping you weren't going to say that, I'm disappoint, and slightly frightened.

Having said that my daughter might like, nawww, even she's outgrown that.

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I would be tempted to get the black sheep cap though.

[ripster]

rofl, I'm surprised that worked.

[wiredPANDA]

Apparently, I missed the Hello Kitty keycaps on that group buy...

Though, I did want the white/pink for my daughter's board.

[wiredPANDA]

So, I managed to read the thread and skip the Hello Kitty post.

[TexasFlood]

I would be tempted to get the black sheep cap though.

I did that as a Ripster bahhh joke but after looking at it might be kinda cool...

[ripster]

And we were just talking about the level of discourse on Hobbyist forums..........

BTW I did find OCN's "CapsLock Day" hilarious. Especially since it is NOT!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_lock# ... s_Lock_Day

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/22/happ ... /#comments

C'MON, ALL YOU TOUCH-TYPISTS.. NAIL DOWN THAT CAPS LOCK KEY AND GIVE YOUR PINKIES A BREAK!

E.E. CUMMINGS WAS A COMMIE!!

ROFLMAO!

[Typhaeon]

Trying to get used to Deskthority, but I hate the massive amount of wasted white space on either side of the center strip. Small price to pay for not having every fucking post be "wut shud my frist mech keybrd be lol" though. It's depressing how much the mediocre hordes swallow up what were once bastions of the learned.

Also why is that company logo in TX's avatar also a Q-Bert map? Was someone in their graphics design department just feeling really lazy that day?

[ripster]

It's depressing how much the mediocre hordes swallow up what were once bastions of the learned.

Wait, that's what the DT oldtimers are saying about the recent flux of Geekhackers!

By the way was this thread 100% predictive or what? Fucking Sherlock here.

Is it me or does the dramatic decline at both Overclock.net and Geekhack.org signal the end of hobbyist forums?

[Typhaeon]

Welp, my sincere apologies for my undoubted contribution to the mongrelization of webwit's (always so tempted to add a -less suffix onto that, tee hee) very Scandinavian fora.

[JBert]

It's depressing how much the mediocre hordes swallow up what were once bastions of the learned.

Wait, that's what the DT oldtimers are saying about the recent flux of Geekhackers!

By the way was this thread 100% predictive or what? Fucking Sherlock here.

It's just that these new guys post too much as if the whole forum is a chat channel. There should be a difference, y'know. Take the "geekhack hacked again!?" thread for example, it's got 20-something new pages since the last few days?


Sadly, you aren't helping by replying to about each and every post.

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Sadly, you aren't helping by replying to about each and every post.

I know... :/
here, have some q-bert (with j-bert on his shirt) [youtube]uDDtDUs4wkM&#t=294s[/youtube] damn thing doesn't want to do proper embeds
Also Typhaeon; 'that q-bert map company logo' is from a certain movie, meaning it probably was an hommage.