You might ask yourself, “My great Overlord, why? Why do you express things the way you do?”
Well, like a lot of other dictators, there is one persons opinion that I value above all others. Mine. And community, I have a lot of opinions, I have overwhelmed my ability to document myself, so much that I use all the forums I take over as my personal file cabinet. I thought having my own minions of the “Slacker Army” would well… Cut some slack. But here’s a little secret. When the post’s are submitted, I’m still typing and talking. And right now all that opinion is going to waste. Well no MORE (sorry couldn’t resist). It’s time to impregnate this community with my mind.
I’m not afraid to come out and say something. This blog is my truth and my truth alone. I deliver my truth hot and hard. Fast and furious. So either accept my way of thinking or get the hell out of the way, because somebody might get hurt and it sure as hell ain’t gonna be me (it’s gonna be you).
Think you can handle it?
Pink Gerbils are the 12th sign of the apocalypse.
BAM! That’s me off the cuff. Blunt and to the point. No editing (unless it’s someone disagreeing with my thinking pattern), I think it, and I say it, sometimes I skip the first step and just say it. In the end I always win.
Bean bag chairs are jealous of potato sacks because they are easier to eat.See? I’m a loose canon when I wanna be. I tell it like it is. Get used to it or change to another webpage (don’t change to another webpage). Because this blog is for Uru’s Heroes. And who are the Heroes? The people who read this blog.
Just because I haven’t put a lot of thought into this blog, doesn’t mean you don’t have to put much thought into my blog either. I want you to read my entries carefully. Savor my ideas. Memorize pertinent passages. Eat with it, sleep with it, go to the bathroom with it, let nature take it’s course.
Because what I have dictated is nothing less than a Constitution for the Tomalaladingdong Nation. And, like quite a few of my fellow MOUL board posters, I hold my truths to be self evident, which is why I do absolutely no research behind what I post anywhere.
I don’t need to. The only research I need everyday is a long hard look in the mirror. For this blog is my story, and as such, it’s an Uruite’s story.
I read this quote recently.
“I celebrate myself, and sing with myself,
And what I assume, you shall assume.”And who was that “I” in the quote? It’s me.
Bottom line: Read this blog. Be me.
I am Uru and so can you!
>The idea is just NOW good enough to think about.
So I was going over this and thought there was some serious dejavu going on in this thread.
Jamey:
Hi all,
I really wanted to post this topic in response to the recent announcement of MORE being put on indefinite hold.
Ok, First off, I really want to keep this community alive, together, and hopeful. And since MORE is being put on hold, the community only has these (and a few other) forums to stay in contact.
Here is what I suggest, and ask of Cyan to make sure this would be ok by them. Do you all think we should run our own 100% community version of Until MORE? (the place we can go, well, until the MORE project at Cyan continues)
I know a lot of people, like myself, were against the idea of an Until Uru right before MORE, but now that MORE has been put on hold, I think we need UU (or Until MORE) to keep this community alive and well and hopeful. And when MORE finally does get back to production, Until MORE could be shut down.
And besides, if we don’t do something to keep Uru’s dream alive and well right now, who will?
What do you all think? And Cyan, what do you think?
[Edit: huh?! I thought this post was merged into another topic by a mod, now it’s back?! O.o]
The fact that the mods kindly put this back in a thread of it’s own tells me that this has to be a good idea and that Jamey is onto something. But even then I’m still at a bit of a fork in the road after reading some other interesting posts in the same thread.
Ewlian:
Well, the good idea would have been not to shut down until in the fist place. And now the same peaple want until back and complains ?? It’s too late to say “we want until back”. You should have said that back in february 2007.
Now until is no more, and though i wouldn’t mind it comming back, i don’t see that happening.
Here is where we reach the double edged sword. On one hand we currently have a choice of either meeting each other in a text format, or in a form of Uru. If you ask me, the people who pushed for UU to be shutdown are going soft on us. Why are they choosing now to think things over? Keeping interest? If anything it endangers MORE specifically because if you were to compare UU to MOUL, UU outlasted MOUL 3 times over. Would it be fun to run or even go to a UU server? Yes, but we’re not here to have fun, we are here to support Cyan, by waiting for them to do all the work while we sit around and nag about it.
BAD:
Are some of you really so selfish and immature to say you don’t want a game to play while MORE may or may not be worked out?
The only thing I see is “I didn’t like the bad times of UU and I refuse to admit there were good times. I want everyone to be as miserable as myself so I’m gonna poo poo any idea that may help get people back into playing Uru.”
Way to be folks.
Cyan, please don’t bring back Uru in any form. With people sporting this attitude, it will never last.
No wonder I dislike this forum.
And here I thought you’d be begging the mods here to lock the thread because Jamey is discussing as much hacking content as Dickens did.
BAD, you let me down…
Jamey:
I have to agree with you BAD. I’ve been seeing a lot of it myself and I don’t like it that much either. And if I think if they’re going to have a negative attitude about UU/MORE returning (whichever happens), they don’t have to participate in either one, because I really don’t think the people that want Uru to succeed to be surrounded by all the negativity. They deserve better than that, and so does Cyan.
Yes we have to if these rogue servers show up Jamey. It’s important to go to those shards and protest while conveniently partying at the same time. We have to login and tell all people who are on there to get off because for every time they sign into the game, a coder doesn’t get a redbull to get his wings.
mcbride3:
Oh, BAD just gets pissy from time to time; otherwise he can’t live up to his name.
If we are voting, [b]I vote for Gondar’s version of the SHARD system.[/b]
Otherwise, matthornb’s likening of all this to the current stock market seems quite appropriate. I can’t think of many other things with such scintillating breakneck ups and downs. But remember, the economy had been basically sound. Cyan has not.
And even with what had been a strong economy (until Congress and the SEC began encouraging balloon mortgages for people who had no business buying a house in the first place) – we are headed for many more downs. I hope the economy remains strong enough to show a bit of oomph at Christmas.Saying this, I think the economy is more predictable than Cyan.
Maybe so, but compared side by side, they are equally consistent.
Here, follow the link and form your own opinion, on the condition it resembles mine.
>I wonder if it pickles after extended use.
http://www.uruobsession.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=34122&s=576ef2d200d1b0fa6968b47c375693b4
Oh the things you find at a family board. I never would have thought UO would have let this link stay on the board. IMO they couldn’t have made a better product for the veggie tales franchise.
That is a strongly offensive joke. I demand that anything in the shape of that toy be banned from the US.
All pickles, cucumbers, bananas, Russian Banana fingers, certain potatoes, certain yams, certain squash, Chinese eggplants, broom sticks, mops, daikon radishes, turnips, parsnips, Anaheim peppers, any pepper in the shape of large cucumbers, pickles etc, big tobacco, little tobacco and ohhhh yeah some priests just to be on the safe side!
>Adventures in Honolulu
Today was another fun filled day. We walked the streets and went to bazaars and stores plus played at the beach again. We got to see people offer to put parrots on your arm so you can have your spouse take a picture, then CHARGE you money for taking a picture of the parrot with your own camera… No, I didn’t fall for it. I found better things to spend my money on. There are going to be some happy people getting some mementos when I return from my trip.
I’m posting this because you never see signs like this back at home.
I also learned that the MOUL forum is stationed here in town. I found their HQ:
And before PB and I went back to our hotel room, we caught part of a luau.
>MORE waiting among other things
I couldn’t help but notice that over at the MOUL forum, that semplerfi just HAD to bring back that locked thread by the evil Dickens in another thread. How dare he use the limited speech at the MOUL forum to get away with that! And as of now the thread is still not locked! I propse we gather a big mob of people to shut this one down! Wait, someone tried to lock it already?
ddferyne wrote:
I tried to lock the thread but I seem to have spasms in my hand which ALWAYS make me click the wrong button, damn.
ZOMG! This Cyantist can’t do to a thread what Whitch2 can do to 5 threads in 3 minutes. But that’s a Cyantist, so I guess it’s ok.
CrisGer wrote:
The point all along was to follow Cyan’s lead and decisions, and support them and the game, and the commuity. Whatever they decide about this and anything else, I will as always totally support.
For him to give up actually thinking for himself and letting other people do it for him is nothing short of dedication. But alas some people have to ruin it by showing us they can think on a plane of reality…
AdamJohnso:
I see you guys blow the same way the wind does. That is useful to know.
Thinking for yourself is a great thing BTW.
NO!!!! It takes time to think for yourself! Allowing other people to do it for you is much easier and you’ll have more time on your hands for things like cheetos, verbal masturbation, sockpuppeting, and all other things asshats do . See, no one likes a know it all because they know things. And people like us don’t like that unless it’s in the form of a Cyan employee. They’re allowed to think within reason.
Which is why us folks at the MOUL forum will not listen to Dicken’s, he’s not a Cyantist therefore anything he does in this community is not worthy of our attention, that is unless Cyan says it’s ok, then he’ll be the greatest guy who ever lived! After all whatever Cyan chooses is ok with me.
As an aside, anyone read about MORE being put on hold? Why didn’t those stupid UU people listen to us? They just HAD to keep talking about UU being used for reasons like “keeping interest” and “Ways to see each other”, well thank you, because of you not only is MORE on hold, the stock market is on the verge of going tits up. Yes, UU is bad, but did you people listen? Nooooo, now because of UU being mentioned people besides Cyan are losing money.
IT’S ALL YOUR FAULTS EXCEPT MINE!!!!!!
>Hawai’i day one.
Good news everyone! PB and I made it to Honolulu in one piece! The only bitch was having both flights delayed. The one to SanFran by about an hour, and the one from SanFran to Honolulu at around 2 hours… But we managed to survive both flights and I didn’t have to put beaver tranquilizer into PB during the 2nd flight. Though it was touch and go for awhile.
After we checked into our fabu hotel, we went straight for the ocean! Water is very nice here. Only problem is wireless is crappy… I had to pay to get an internet connection to get in touch with family back home because even the cell phone isn’t getting good reception… Sigh.
Here are the latest pictures I have:
ZOMG!!! They serve GREEN TEA here!!!!! Oh and dinner was good. For desert one of the things you could get at the buffet was chocolate orange cheese cake. Tasted like a jaffa cake mmmmm.
You know what else is funny? Over here there are no Spanish subtitles for anything. If it isn’t printed in English, it’s printed in Japanese. Strangely enough there are lots of skinny people over here too!
Tomorrow PB and I have plans to go shopping, swimming and other fun stuff. I’ll post the pic of PB I have in teh meter room.
>Open Thread
http://www.mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16355
You know you’re a good moderator, when you don’t have to explain why you locked a thread. You just have to pretend you know what you’re talking about and win every time.
>This is it! I’m leaving!
I’ll be leaving for Honolulu tomorrow. Going to the airport at 7 am. Man this’ll be fun.
>Comment commentary
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what Dickens is talking about is hacking
Horse hockey, Cris, and it would be nice if you stopped demanding locked threads when you disagree with something. The mods can make those extreme decisions on their own without your help. It only attracts posts like this one, takes us off topic, and actually increases the likelyhood of an escalation. The point of this thread is not to discuss hacking. It’s to propose asking permission. For that, Dickens has shown improvement and willingness to join “the system.” Cyan will obviously and certainly reject such a request. And I do not agree with the proposal. But I disagree with your demand to lock the thread under false reasoning even more.
Excuse me, but he has the right to call hacking whatever he wants. He may not be a hacker, he may not be an age writer or ever used hacking tools in his life (or has the intelligence to). But he DOES have the right to call hacking whatever he wants. We will rewrite Uru history the way we want to, ok?
Patience is a virtue
Look Cyan is promising us a game, now all we have to do is wait. That’s part of their plan, and instead of doing anything to compromise that ultimate goal, I suggest we be patient until MORE comes.
This is the attitude we need to survive! It’s not about keeping interest. it’s waiting for the actual thing to come to life. So we lose a few people in the process who get tired of waiting… I call that thinning the herd!!! MORE asshats for the cavern!
I agree! As a loyal, Rand-Fearing Cyantologyst, I demand that you stop posting this heresy! UU never existed! It has been erased from history by the great GreyDragon! Any attempt to resurrect that abomination to Rand (that does not exist) must DIE!
Cyantology: Are you washed in the Lakewater?
Hear hear! Praise Cyantology!!!
He did not have to mention hacking… all he had to say is “we have the Ability to run a uu server, all we need is permission to to it”
Besides, this is a very fickle community that selectively attacks threads they don’t like (you all should be ashamed)… Just 2 threads down we have a topic on hacking ABM to see the un-relrased content, and not one peep out of the anti-hack members. So uh… can you all just shut up until you make up your damn minds about what “hacking” really is?
Simple. It’s whatever you want it to be. And single player doesn’t count because it’s not online. Duh… Though give it time and eventually we’ll have people moderating that too.
Some of these quotes are from page two of the latest thread that was removed. That was the only page I saved. Certain blogs and forums who believe in that damned free speech thing they are still talking about it.
You know, I’d almost protest MORE because age creation IS hacking. But with Cyan involved that makes it ok in my book.
>I demand a protest.
I voted no, you need to get Cyan’s permission before you do this. If they say yes, fine, otherwise it’s ILLEGAL.
But I still don’t want the fan-created servers to come up, because I’m concerned that if we all go to these fan servers, when MORE comes, I’m afraid some may decide to stay on the fan servers, and that won’t let Cyan get the money they need to run the servers that are going to have the fan created content, and that is what would really split the community,
And if Cyan can’t get enough money to run MORE, it won’t last.
Some of you know that I discovered how to get the old Until Uru servers working without Cyan’s central authentication/data servers… It’s such a waste that this information goes unused, so what if we, the community, made a proposal to Cyan that would allow us to run UU Shards until MORE is a reality.
You know, when I read it, as in word for word actually reading it. It sounds to me like they are not going to co exist, but rather it will give people something to do while waiting for the real thing.
I propose that if this does actually happen, that we hold protests ON these servers. First I think we should tell people to stay away from them, then after we agree. we go to those shards (if they still exist) login and protest. The more of us the better.
CrisGer wrote:
Mods please lock this thread, what Dickens is talking about is hacking and we have been asked to stop talking baout it.
Be patient. and wait for the right way.
Shorter CrisGer: I’m scared I’m scared! Help mods people are thinking of ways to stay interested!
Just kidding. We all know the 12 commandments of Cyantology. And I stand by: The asshat’s shall inherit the cavern.