I don't want to sound disrespectful...

DaGaffer

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...and I'm really not saying this to be funny, but that 'Fallen Freddy's' forum has an awful lot of dead people! It just really surprised me on a board that I'd guess skews fairly young. Scary.
 

Ardas Nails

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jees, I have only recently returned to DAoC, and I just wandered into that section before I noticed this post, and was both shocked and saddened to spot several familiar names :(

Three from my past guild, TDS, have passed on, so so sad.

rest in peace to them all :(
 

Trem

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Its a sad fact of life but, we all die, some sooner, some later.

Back to star dust.
 

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Makes me wonder what the percentages are (ooh that sounds crass :/) What is the board's footprint, how many users, what's the age range, how many have passed on, etc. I don't mind the subforum but it has made me dwell on my built in morbidness a bit :(
 

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yer, twas an excellent idea by ezteq.

not all the daoc folks are twats :)
 

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bigbb said:
Lordy, never knew that was there.

You are obviously a cock then :p


btw I am joking its just seems alot of people are OMG ITS THERE ON MY SCREEN ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! MUST READ 2 WORDS!!!!!
 

DaGaffer

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TdC said:
Makes me wonder what the percentages are (ooh that sounds crass :/) What is the board's footprint, how many users, what's the age range, how many have passed on, etc. I don't mind the subforum but it has made me dwell on my built in morbidness a bit :(

My thoughts exactly. I don't think it helps that I've been in a pretty morbid frame of mind lately. Maybe if it wasn't the very first thing you see it wouldn't bother me so much.

As a matter of interest, anyone know how many members we're up to? Deebs?
 

Dweller

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DaGaffer said:
As a matter of interest, anyone know how many members we're up to? Deebs?

13,279 according to the stats on the front page.
 

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Actually i found it a bit morbid.

But i suppose thats just me.
 

DaGaffer

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Oh yeah. Oops. :) So I suppose 9 out 13K isn't that many then.
 

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I think a lot of people with pretty serious illnesses are attracted to playing MMORPGs because it gives the chance to socialise and throws in escapism as well, and this attraction might skew the mortality rate slightly. Which is one of the reasons why, in the long murky past when I was a DAoC mod, I was so anti the whole "i hope u die irl" thing because I knew we had a fair few people with cancer using the boards.
 

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Calaen said:
You are obviously a cock then :p


btw I am joking its just seems alot of people are OMG ITS THERE ON MY SCREEN ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! MUST READ 2 WORDS!!!!!

QED.
 

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Maybe deebs could set up a census or something - all protected and anonymous but we get to see the figures?
 

Calaen

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now now Dys only posts with Topic content are allowed. Pm Yuck for instructions.
 

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the feedback forii are indeed policed a shade more than these hallowed green grounds :)
 

Calaen

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TdC said:
the feedback forii are indeed policed a shade more than these hallowed green grounds :)

GAMESDAY 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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I can't really see the mods winning that, even if they had me playing.

Though with a few careful promotions of other users...
 

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The real question regarding 'Freddys Fallen' should be what is it doing in general?

Its a DAOC section, the obvious place for it to be is off the top-level DAOC forum: not in General.

There are 2 groups of people using FH: those that play DAOC and a handful of others. Since the majority of the DAOC crowd are barely capable of stringing two words together in English (never mind whole sentences) the two should be kept as far apart as possible.

FF is a nice idea, but to most people looking at "General" its just one more pointless subforum to scroll past and ignore.

Edit: Bleh, I posted this here since I almost started a thread about this in feedback a few days ago (after a bunch of folks agreeing on irc). As soon as its posted I notice a 3-page now-locked thread in 'Feedback' with various folks saying the same thing: typical. Ignore this, points been made a few dozen times already it seems.
 

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Will said:
I can't really see the mods winning that, even if they had me playing.

Though with a few careful promotions of other users...

*stops fudgemonkey from joining FH*
 

TdC

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hehehe I actually like that :)


though this will be what happens:

  • MysticG will step in front of TdC and be teamkilled because TdC didn't reckon anyone would be so foolish as to step in front of a man firing a rocket launcher
  • Tilda will already be dead
  • Deebs will be afk shagging
  • Jup will have fallen asleep reading the evening paper
  • Chetan and MysticG will get into a slagging match on IRC
  • Wilier will be shaving his legs ;)
  • Gale will be down the pub
  • Shovel will create a standards complient XML based cutting-edge web tool to review our (lack of) scoring but miss the actual games because he was caught up in his quality assurance testing
  • every non-mod will kill TdC. with a knife. and dance on his corpse.
  • Will will harp about how cool his Mac is while not actually playing any games ;)
  • All the DAoC mods will stand about healing one of their number while that single one pulls aggro on the entire non-mod team ;)
  • the non-mods win
 

Trem

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Ch3tan and Will used to be very good at CS. Or was I really bad? Either way they twatted me whenever we played against them. I think Meg was pretty good as well. It would just be a good laugh if more regulars show up, thats all I ask for, and I don't care which side I play for this time, I feel US proved themselves last time :D

(dont tell throddy this) I do actually own WoW and another beardy game that babs talked me into buying so I could play it with him, of course he stopped playing it when I bought it. :eek:
 

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Oh yeah, on the subject of this thread -

People have too much to worry about if they worry about a Fallen thread. Its there, people die, lifes shit, get on with important things, before you know it your name will be in the Fallen section.

Thats my theory, lifes too short.
 

Will

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Trem said:
Ch3tan and Will used to be very good at CS.
I thinking the phrase "used to be" is very important in this quote. I'm a bit rusty, what with not having played FPS games much since I moved house. I've started playing ET on a weekly basis with a few RL mates, and they seem quite scared by my sniping skills, so I've obviously not got totally rusty.
 

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i dont think its daoc specific in the slightest. there is a lot of ex players there, because a lot of ex players visited here.
people form very strong bonds in MMOs, probably more so than just people who talk to each other on a forum.
people playing MMO are very different from people who dont. and everyone deals with things differently.

if you dont like it then stick some masking tape over the 3 cm space it takes up on your monitor when you open FH page.
 

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