EPlaya Exodus

THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN · Post by **THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:43 pm

antron wrote:maybe strongbad was too aggressive an avatar.
let's try this one instead.

looks nice.....i'm not sure it fits you....maybe i'm used to the other......wear it awhile ....lets see.

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 4:23 pm

antron wrote:maybe strongbad was too aggressive an avatar.
let's try this one instead.

It still scares the crap out of me, but it does have much more style.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:39 pm

> What is your reason for leaving the new EPlaya?

Had to go to the store to get cigs and adult beverages.

I know, I know, it's hard for you to keep up.

Harriet's board is nice, and I'm sure will continue to be so, though people simply taking refuge because of the post-Burn/September state of the newbieplaya may find themselves a bit adrift from the main current of things.

Yeah, the software and interface sucks big green donkey dick through a siphon hose, but the old one did too, and what do you expect from web-based apps?

In the longer term, I doubt whether I'm going to contribute much here other than in a few discussion areas, if I log on once a week or so via a slow connection.

BTW- Nobody ever asked my input on this load of crap before it was launched, which is another aspect of the current state of things that doesn't really surprise the hell out of me.

Don Muerto · Post by **Don Muerto** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:40 pm

Bob wrote:Had to go to the store to get cigs and adult beverages

God teaches us to share, Bob.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:48 pm

I'm going to the Ramp.

Or maybe the pier next door.

I'm posting now from the SF Office, btw, which I guess is as fast as you can get, but it's a Mac house and the lack of key commands and functional mouxen is driving me nuts. I'm out of here.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:51 pm

Somebody explain how THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN has a hundred more posts than me.

Now I'm really out of here.

PJ · Post by PJ » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:11 pm

Bob wrote:...Harriet's board is nice, and I'm sure will continue to be so, though people simply taking refuge because of the post-Burn/September state of the newbieplaya may find themselves a bit adrift from the main current of things...

I'd be surprised if, as time goes on, those that prefer the conversational style of H's alt.eplaya (and thus adopt it as their hang-out pub) don't also make periodic lurks in the Official E-Playa.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:16 pm

bob, the key commands are all there, you just don't know them.

Spokes · Post by **Spokes** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:59 pm

I'm certain that many eplayans will be at both locations.

JonoVision · Post by **JonoVision** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:30 am

I'm out of here too, mostly just because I'm holidaying for a good while in a place far from internet access, and when I do get online I will be heading for Harriet's board. I may lurk here from time to time, but at 15pesos/hr it won't be much. We'll see how things look here and how I feel when I get back to Canada next year.

Angry Butterfly · Post by **Angry Butterfly** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:37 am

need to spend time with people in the "Real" world, plus I am a really bad typist

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:02 pm

> bob, the key commands are all there, you just don't know them.

And the Mac OS key commands for maximizing or switching windows in the active app are...?

Don't start with me, youngster.

nipples · Post by **nipples** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:13 am

My opinion is that it was only the "bad timing" of the new formatt hitting right after the burn (tweaker!), being more spread out/less immediately navigable combined with the usual rush of new posters following the burn that made a lot of the old regulars find it daunting & unfamiliar.

In the Poetic Justice Department, I found it a slap in the face myself, too, to come home looking for familiarity & it was BURNED TO THE FUCKING GROUND just like the man & the playa being bare & everyone gone.....

So we start over, I thought, laughing at myself for being staid. Build it up, burn it down. But then I spilt a beer into my freaking keyboard last week, and rinsing it in water did not help much. Lots of keys sticking, plus, I am a sporadic writer at best.... er, that is to say that I write here sporadically, because my mood is often times best not shared. I'll buy a new keyboard next week though cause this really sucks.

Yes, there have been some posters here that got started showing their uglies a bit early (they had formerly waited til after January 1, thank you very much!), at least one of whom I think I recognize as someone whom most probably not by accident teaches me by opposites how I'd rather not be myself. Sort of like "Oh, I get it now! If I enter a room swinging a rake, I will be swung at with a rake"... that we/I invite my own destiny, that I am not persecuted by anyone but myself.

Lets say for instance that someone is trying to build a web-page at work, and a co-worker says, "Gee, Herb. That computer is awful slow for that sort of thing. Might be impossible to do on that one.", that can be taken the right way, or the wrong way. The right way is that Herb was trying to be helpful. The wrong way is that Herb was attacking.

When reading other peoples posts, it may be best to assume that people are trying to be helpful, and diffuse it within your own mind, at least.

CAse in point: Two years ago, I'd posted that I wanted to build a sound-deadening box around my generator. I was "flamed", by someone saying to leave my generator at home. First, I got defensive, and retorted that it was none of their business "why" I needed a generator on the playa (art installation, but I did not tell them that), & that I was trying to do the right thing & lower the noise, not increase it.

But, then I realized that even the flamer was trying to be helpful... to make the playa quieter.

Anyways, I've found it calming to look for the good in people instead of the bad. Few people post things with harm as the intention..... when they do, blow em' a kiss. That is what they are asking for. PArt of my phsyco therapy a few years back was to ask my siblings & parents if they really hated me a child. My sibs all said yes, my Mom said only "You were a hard child to love". But, she did blow me (a kiss!).

As my favorite T.V. detective from San Francisco says, "Who loves you, baby!".

nipples · Post by **nipples** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:15 am

p.s.

Don Muerto, everytime I see your avatar, I giggle inside & secretly hope (& know!) that it is NOT just an avatar, but that that is really you.

thank you, Don Muerto for being you.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:08 am

> ...spilt a beer into my freaking keyboard last week, and rinsing it in water did not help much...

Which is why I use a Grandtec "Virtually Indestructible Keyboard".
http://www.grandtec.com/vik.htm

It's a rubber keyboard that conforms to irregular surfaces and can be washed off in the sink.

You could, conceivably, type posts on III's ass, whilst spitting beer all over the place.

<img src="http://www.grandtec.com/images/vik_low.jpg">

Don Muerto · Post by **Don Muerto** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:09 am

nipples wrote:Don Muerto, everytime I see your avatar, I giggle inside & secretly hope (& know!) that it is NOT just an avatar, but that that is really you

\

Odd you should say that. Everytime I see your nipples I- err...

Nevermind.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:59 pm

I'm not leaving, but I don't like it 1/2 as much as I did before BM 2003.

Seems like most discussions are just post-pissing contests to see who can post the most. Every discussion not about that reverts back to that.

Everyone's focused on getting everyone else riled up by posting the most idiotic bullshit ever.

Hardly any really interesting or truly funny discussions.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:34 pm

Maybe I can come up with a daily affirmation for you.

Kinetic II · Post by **Kinetic II** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:40 pm

madmatt wrote:I'm not leaving, but I don't like it 1/2 as much as I did before BM 2003.

Seems like most discussions are just post-pissing contests to see who can post the most. Every discussion not about that reverts back to that.

Everyone's focused on getting everyone else riled up by posting the most idiotic bullshit ever.

Hardly any really interesting or truly funny discussions.

Well, start some threads, learn from Digiman's posts and add some thoughts to get it started and let's get going!

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:45 pm

Ailchinn wrote:
madmatt wrote:I'm not leaving, but I don't like it 1/2 as much as I did before BM 2003.

Seems like most discussions are just post-pissing contests to see who can post the most. Every discussion not about that reverts back to that.

Everyone's focused on getting everyone else riled up by posting the most idiotic bullshit ever.

Hardly any really interesting or truly funny discussions.
Well, start some threads, learn from Digiman's posts and add some thoughts to get it started and let's get going!

ditto.

so do better and rock us all.....(that was kinda corney but you get the point)

P.S. it was duller before DIGIMAN came along.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:37 pm

DE FACTO wrote:...it was duller before DIGIMAN came along.

Central Africa was duller before ebola came along.

Pompei was duller before pyroclastic flows came along.

Baghdad was duller before the US 3rd Infantry came along.

Kinetic II · Post by **Kinetic II** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:47 pm

Just a crazy thought....there are 870 copies of PJ's cow pictures scattered all around the e-playa. That's one famous cow.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:20 pm

PJ:
I'm no Digiman fan (I get your point and I agree), but the extremity of your repsonse and the examples you use, I find totally tasteless, and underscore one point on this thread - too meanspirited.

"Central Africa was duller before ebola came along. Baghdad was duller before the US 3rd Infantry came along."

PS - I love starting 'more interesting' threads, but doing it too much just makes it about me me me. I enjoy seeing others' intelligence on display. I often don't post anything at all on the threads I find most interesting.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:18 pm

Thank you for getting it, almost.

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:05 pm

Such is Life. As the old fade the new step forward to take their place. Seems that for every Old Eplayan we have lost 10 have step forward aand taken their place.

"Life is like a small furry little bunny wabbit. Smash the shit out of it."
the rebbi

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:22 pm

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote:Such is Life. As the old fade the new step forward to take their place. Seems that for every Old Eplayan we have lost 10 have step forward aand taken their place.

"Life is like a small furry little bunny wabbit. Smash the shit out of it."
the rebbi

right on!

RebA! · Post by **RebA!** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:28 pm

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote:As the old fade the new step forward to take their place. Seems that for every Old Eplayan we have lost 10 have step forward aand taken their place.

But some of old ones are still here. Just not as much as we used to be. Do we still get invited to the eplayan meet & greet?

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:34 pm

RebA! wrote: Do we still get invited to the eplayan meet & greet?

hey i was just thinking of that.
is there acually one cause i'd definitely be there for that one.

for sure.

please say there is one.

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:37 pm

Isotopia wrote:Maybe I can come up with a daily affirmation for you.

really love that avatar. it's devine.

i'll definitely stay.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:46 pm

Do we still get invited to the eplayan meet & greet?

I'd be surprised if we're not still *organizing* it.

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