In 17 days - Friday November 27 - Halforums will have been around for a year. It's been an interesting ride, fraught with peril, drama and much gnashing of teeth. We've seen server changes, software changes and mod changes.
So what should we do that day? I have the day off so we can do about anything.
Ideas?
#2
Rubicon
I say we have a long running live podcast, like a marathon podcast all day long
Yeah if this was anything like last year, I'd be so involved in getting my main to 80 after the release of WotLK that I wouldn't even notice when the forum went down.
Neither am I. But I can't see how he'd take it any other way than sarcastic.[/QUOTE]
Either way. [/QUOTE]
Does anyone still have that Avatar based art that someone did months ago? With everyone's avatar's hand drawn? I think we should take that image, turn it into a card, and send it. Too bad we all can't sign it!
Neither am I. But I can't see how he'd take it any other way than sarcastic.[/quote]
Either way. [/quote]
Does anyone still have that Avatar based art that someone did months ago? With everyone's avatar's hand drawn? I think we should take that image, turn it into a card, and send it. Too bad we all can't sign it![/QUOTE]
We could use MS paint.
#24
Baerdog
We could do another big mosaic with everyone's avatars, put it on a card, and send it to ol' Kurt.
Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Edit: I actually have nothing against Kurtz...thats just what popped into my head.
#33
Dave
Yous peoples is EVIL!
#34
Espy
Yeah, nothing mean, just a "hope things are going well for you, we are doing great!"
You know it would be funny.
But really, I dunno, maybe we do a 1 day contest, like which mod can ban the most people in 24 hours?
#35
Cajungal
That all day podcast idea is great. And the day after we could all ship Dave some lozenges.
#36
Piotyr
Hey Scott,
Thanks for inadvertently giving us the push to become an independent community. A year has passed, and it's shown us that we can survive without a common theme, and we're also no longer your responsibility to police.
Without fans to worry about, maybe after a year you can finally get back to writing some enjoyable comics.
#37
Dave
You people are rough, man. Rough.
#38
Piotyr
Maybe a note isn't such a good idea. Tone is the toughest thing to portray through writing.
#39
Cajungal
Why don't we make our 1-year anniversary "Get it out of your system" day. People have one more chance to bitch about it, then the day after we get to start saying, "Get over it! It was more than a year ago!"
#40
Dave
Or an Alt-o-rama.
#41
Piotyr
We could just do something silly fun that won't drive Dave to insanity.
Seriously, though, if you made me mod, I'd probably just forget about it and not come here at all that day.
#45
Rob King
I have a Montecristo No. 4 which I have been saving. Perhaps we should all simultaneously smoke a cigar of celebration.
What about some sort of yearbook-style video. Pick a song (nothing lame), and do a slide show of our avatars, (or whatever picture you'd rather to represent you), username and one or two lines about the forum, the occasion, or whatever else.
It's been years and years since we went off and formed our own little community. Now some other people are all acting like they thought of it first and are all cool and shit. Well, what they don't know CAN and WILL hurt them. Right when they least expect it. Consider it an early Christmas present.
Love,
The Krewmembers
P.S. General Zod sends hugs and zashes.
...wait, this isn't... crap!
#49
Shannow
All day podcast, go! Dave, I will be in on it with ya, brah!
#50
Gusto
If it's on a Friday I can be there for a fair chunk of it too, if not all of it.
And I can drink!
#51
Dave
Wow. Could I even pull off an all-day podcast? WTF would I talk about?
#52
Fun Size
Hour nine: Dave's arm itches, and he may be out of beer.
Y'know, every podcast you say this and it makes me laugh.
"We aren't going to have enough to fill the time"
And yet I've never listened to one that didn't end up going overtime because you/guests just start blabbing away.
You could do an 8 hour podcast and just leave the phones open for people to come in and chat, almost like Vent. In fact, almost identical to Vent, just recorded.
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#55
Dave
Filling an hour with a vague idea of an outline is much different than filling an 8 hour shift.
Really? I don't think you could get Psyclone or Shannow to stop talking enough over that 8 hour period to let anyone else talk
Add in Ross, Frazwozel and some of the girlies, I don't see it as too difficult. After all, I remember 12 hour raids in Onyxia that just gets filled up with nonsense. Just don't be afraid to have some dead air I suppose - let someone else fill it.
Or set aside 30 minutes to an hour for each person to chair their own "Halforum Podcast"
#57
Rubicon
Hour 14, Dave runs out of stuff to ramble about and busts out the funky grooves on the turntable
#58
Shegokigo
Baerdog nailed it if we write a letter, it MUST be started:
Dear Kurt,
and yes, Scott is only a few hours drive from here.... How about for our anniversary I post a pic of me holding my mug/lil'richard in front of his house?
Baerdog nailed it if we write a letter, it MUST be started:
Dear Kurt,
and yes, Scott is only a few hours drive from here.... How about for our anniversary I post a pic of me holding my mug/lil'richard in front of his house?
Baerdog nailed it if we write a letter, it MUST be started:
Dear Kurt,
and yes, Scott is only a few hours drive from here.... How about for our anniversary I post a pic of me holding my mug/lil'richard in front of his house?
Here's a better letter (I'm sorry Dave, I'm just so tickled by this I can't help myself)
Dear Kurt,
As fellow tastemakers perhaps you understand our need to grow on our own. You set us free to be who we needed to be.
Our podium is not large. But most of us are pretty big dudes. I mean, this is the internet. We also have skinnies.
So that's cool.
Maybe someday we can get together and make taste together.
Peace.
-Halforums
You're all being very not nice to Mr Kurtz. Since the anniversary is around the American Thanksgiving, we should extend out thanks to Scott and show that we may have parted on poor terms, we wouldn't exist today without him. I think we should pitch in and get the man a nice present for helping create this community, something useful though, like a newspaper subscription.
#65
Gusto
We could put PVP in a newspaper of our own publishing so that his agitated spirit can finally pass on.
Can the Podcast be Ventrilo-'d and still recorded? I'd like to join in, but have no way of making a call that's not, y'know, long distance... and Skype needs credit card, which I don't have
#74
Dave
I understand there's supposed to be a way to record Vent, but I haven't figured it out.
#75
Gusto
Doomdragon records our DnD sessions, it's possible.
#76
Calleja
Yay free calling in!
#77
Dave
With a maximum of 15 people.
Hmm. Vent + IRC for chatting. This might be possible.
#78
Calleja
You could eject people at certain intervals so everyone that wants to join in gets a chance?
With permanent members, of course, like Dave and me and Dave and uh.. me. Maybe Goosto and Cajun and me and Dave, too.
#79
drawn_inward
Does Kurt have a mug? We could send him one of those with our note stuffed inside.
Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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I finally got around to starting up a personal blog. This is where I’ll dump all the stuff that doesn’t really fit at PvPonline.com or Webcomics.com. You can check it out at www.scottkurtz.com.
While I don't share as much of the hate of Kurt (there's some, but I wasn't around long enough on the last forum to really build that bond) I do have to say that the suggestions in here are Hi-fucking-larious.
Like snort laugh at work with coworkers looking at me funny.
Also I fully endorse Silver Jelly showing his boobs.
What's that?
Oh, I'm being told I voted for the wrong set...and that I'm stupid.
#94
Twitch
I think the letter shouldn't be rude. I think it should show that we're all adults here despite our best attempts to prove otherwise, but hey, that's just me.
Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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And I vote for this as the official celebration.[/quote]
You know, she's probably not talking about the boobs that are attached to her. Just boobs she happens to own.[/quote]
Well, yeah. I mean, who hasn't got a few dozen stuffed in the freezer?
Or is that just me?[/QUOTE]
No, it's not just you. We usually buy a large bag of frozen breasts at sam's club every so often. They are so handy to have around when you need to make a casserole. Just like Mable taught us.
#104
Soliloquy
Other podcast ideas:
1) Schedule a live debate between two of our more vocal, ad hominem-prone forumites.
2) Feature the music or writings of some of the forumites.
3) Make cheezy, 30's style, halforum-related radio play. Get some forumites to help with the voice work.
4) Have some kind of game that people can call in and play.
#105
CynicismKills
Hello Kurt my name is Dug and on behalf of Halforums I wanted to tell you tha-
SQUIRREL!
-that we are doing well one year later.
#106
Shannow
Oh sure, noooooow everyone wants to be on the cast
It occurs to me that a daylong podcast would probably have a HUGE file size and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone besides me would ever listen to it.
Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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It occurs to me that a daylong podcast would probably have a HUGE file size and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone besides me would ever listen to it.
Wow, can you believe it's been a whole year since you shut down the PVP forum and we went our separate ways? Things have been going really well for us. We recently moved to our own dedicated server and Halforums seems to be doing really well. How are you? We heard that Assetbar didn't work out so well. That sucks. Keep trying though; eventually you'll find something that works to keep you in touch with the community. Anyway, stay classy.
Love,
The People at Halforums[/quote]
I vote for this as the final note to send him.
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And I vote for this as the official celebration.[/quote]
You know, she's probably not talking about the boobs that are attached to her. Just boobs she happens to own.[/QUOTE]
Well of course, that's what I meant! It would be creepy otherwise!
[/QUOTE]
So we are agreed then? We all want to see Howdroll's prize winning collection of boobs.
#113
ElJuski
Excuse any holes in my reading comprehension, but the podcast goes up Thanksgiving? I might be able to pop in if its the day after, or sometime after that...
#114
Shannow
Day after, though I would say best bet would be the saturday, for folks who still have work on friday.
#115
Dave
Anyone with a credit card want to order a product for Scott? Unfortunately I don't have the funds but if someone wants to step up I would be more than happy to drop all fees from Cafepress. A mousepad would be the cheapest, even though with the shipping it can be pricey.
BUT! I also have $14 worth of CafeCash that I can put towards it. So it can be as cheap as $2 or as expensive as $18. I'll leave that up to you...but I get to write the note.
Also note that when this is done I can NOT go back in and see your credit card number. The system will show me the last 4 numbers but that's it. You will be getting my login information so you can basically create havoc in the store so there's a 2-way bit o' trust going on.
And I'll have another Anniversary announcement coming up about what's going to go down on that day. Stay tuned!
(If you want to help send a mousepad to Kurt then send me a PM and we'll discuss.)
Anyone with a credit card want to order a product for Scott? Unfortunately I don't have the funds but if someone wants to step up I would be more than happy to drop all fees from Cafepress. A mousepad would be the cheapest, even though with the shipping it can be pricey.
BUT! I also have $14 worth of CafeCash that I can put towards it. So it can be as cheap as $2 or as expensive as $18. I'll leave that up to you...but I get to write the note.
Also note that when this is done I can NOT go back in and see your credit card number. The system will show me the last 4 numbers but that's it. You will be getting my login information so you can basically create havoc in the store so there's a 2-way bit o' trust going on.
And I'll have another Anniversary announcement coming up about what's going to go down on that day. Stay tuned!
(If you want to help send a mousepad to Kurt then send me a PM and we'll discuss.)
What if someone used PayPal to send you the money to you can order it?
#117
Shakey
Get him the thong.
#118
Dave
Nope. You have to have a credit card. Which totally bones me.
Scott,
This mousepad is given to you as a sincere gift commemorating the 1 year anniversary of Halforums. I know that there have been some issues in the past, but without you there would be no us. So seriously, man, thanks. We still love you and hope you're well.