While I do feel posting here a month after the last post is a trifle close to nechromancy by the new thread age standards... Nonetheless I shall try to say my piece.

I don't feel like a 'leper' but I do still feel quite lost in the new forum. I always liked the fact that the threads ran long, and the topics had a chance to grow and mutate and become far more interesting, and often hilarious, before they reached 50 pages and got cut. Conversations were easier to play out without a chronological 'enddate', and since threads now END at the last post, new threads are often started days later, with no way to keep track of what was previously said.

I also desperately miss the 'Angst' corner. Yes, there was drama there (that was the point) and some of it was intense, but it was also cathartic to have a place to simply explode in text... Knowing you would have sympathy and empathy from intelligent friends. While I appreciate the efforts to create 'advice threads', most of the time I don't need or want ADVICE... I want to say "X really sucks and I hate it" and someone else can say "I know how you feel" "Feel better" "hugs" or some other heartfelt plattitude that helps get me through the day.

I know the place got ruined by people with too much drama. I know at least once I lost my head. I also know that what's done has been done. Probably for good. Probably forever. But I miss the old Macs. I miss my friends, and there's a void in my online social life where the old bar used to be. I miss the fun, the wackiness, and the way a thread could wander through twelve distinctly different subjects before it lost steam.

Like I said, what's done is done. I don't expect that what I'm saying will really affect a change, and I'm not deleting my account and running away. but I just had to say I miss the way it was. This place doesn't feel like home anymore, it feels more like a hotel... You're welcome to visit, just make sure your thread checks out on time.
That's all I'm going to say. Please don't take this to mean I need to get banned.

*Hug* I feel the same way, especially about the hotel bit. The funny picture threads all got a punch in the gut,meaning they lost a good bit of steam. No one posts anything remotely edgey anymore out of fear of the ban hammer. I actually forgot the Mods existed before the changes and now I'm very aware of your presence. Thats good for somethings but it makes me feel like Harry felt about the Wardens. Like I'm being watched.

It keeps bandwidth down. Imagine, if you will, several dozen people, all in the midst of rapid-fire reading-posting-reading-posting. That can't be easy on a server or an IP's connection.

That ridiculous! It's not like the site was always down with that very probl- wait. It was... Well this is awkward...cream on my face and hair a mess,I must look a sight huh?

Is there anything stopping a wizard from just putting down a circle around some tech? It seems very possible to put a circle around a water heater at least...(Cold showers are AWFUL)

I'm sorry if I struck a sore spot, but as I have pointed out earlier in the thread, and as Todjaeger just backed me up on, there is proof Butters is wrong, above and beyond the point that Butters is not a reliable source regarding magic. So, I would say that I have proof you are wrong, and you have a stubborn disbelief in facts, which makes it not 1-0 my favor, but one to negative one my favor.

And while I am normally hesitant to directly comment on another's posting quality, I'm going to have to say that if you don't work harder on a halfway decent argument, I'm going to be searching for this forums ignore function.

Your upturned nose hurts more than you can imagine. I'm going to go ahead and assume you were homeschooled  (or the fact that text is a very very bad medium for humor), because that is the only explanation for the fact that I wasjoking when WAAAAAY the hell over your head. So to be clear, I was joking.

And that makes it canon? A character with limited (at best) understanding of magical principles and faulty data premises makes an off-the-cuff guess, and Jim doesn't waste word count pointing the nature of the comment out. That is all that has happened. What Butters says is not Word of God Jim canon. People need to stop treating it as such.

On a different note, would you mind explaining your post in more detail, Slife? I can't figure out what you're trying to say, other than that it sounds relevant and possibly important.

Fanon is something the fans pull out of their asses. It's more than fanon.

Butter's theory doesn't really explain why internal combustion engines can be hexed. There's no way an emp could take out something like the beetle, but magic can. So I'm going to say that emp hardening wouldn't really be of much use against hexing.

The Battery.

I think that yes, this is probably one of the best games to pop the GM Cherry. Its very free flowing with the rules, and the book keeping should be pretty light. And the zone system for maps is very very nice. You wont have to worry about keeping track of a hundred little details like you would for say D&D.

Thank you! To be honest with you I really want to play and GM. So does my friend Drew so we will probably trade off on being a GM and being a player.

I am planning on buying the RPG and I want to GM it. Do you guys think this is a good game to "pop my GM cherry" as it were?