Oh, so did you 2 (Ed and Phil) help start the forum and thats how you became admin guys?

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 12/15/2004 12:45:18 AM)
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They e-mailed me quite a bit and helped flesh out the database, and when the forum was created, as far as I knew, they were the only people who visited the site.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/14/2004 8:01:38 PM)
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I think we were the only 3 in the forum for at least 2 or 3 days. Then we started to see Obsession and EC showing up and it kept going.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/14/2004 9:49:21 PM)
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure there were accounts that existed before the forum. So people could pretty much only make a collection and edit reviews. I don't think I can backtrack and see though. It'd be interesting to see how things evolved though.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/14/2004 10:00:02 PM)
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Phil and I let Dann do all the hard work making the web site and forum so we could banter back and forth easier. Work is a lot more enjoyable nowadays :-)

It definitely has been fun watching the member list grow, especially all you folks far from the U.S.



Ed Chiu (eddyc - 12/14/2004 10:01:51 PM)
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Actually on second thought, view the stats and see what day the first post was, then sort the member lost by date the account was created. I'd do it, but I'm on dial-up, and I'm heading to sleep now.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/14/2004 10:02:03 PM)
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Heh, seriously, it's like all I do at work now.

And you're still using that silly clown icon, that I put up as filler until I got real icon's in place. That shows your vintage.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/14/2004 10:02:52 PM)
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I feel like I don't ever get any work done, yet amazingly I do. I do love hanging out here all day though. Makes me want to come to work.

The first post was on 7/9/2004 1:27:28 PM (157 days ago).

10 members had accounts before that. We were able to write reviews for a while before you set up the accounts though.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/14/2004 10:39:46 PM)
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Ha! I wondered when someone was going to say something about the Pink Clown! I thought about changing it to something cooler, but I developed a strange fondness for it.

Ed Chiu (eddyc - 12/14/2004 10:56:07 PM)
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Yeah once people who were review regulars made accounts, I manually assigned their username to them. There's actually a hidden field in each review which ties it to the member. The name that shows up is independant of that, but can be the same.

And that clown is from the 4th of July parade in 2001. I thought it was exceptionally disturbing. The icon was then made for the Oakley RPG game that I wrote, and then ended up here as a placeholder for the real user icons.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/15/2004 8:31:16 AM)
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You wrote an Oakley RPG?

?Dude?

Darren Taylor (rolyatnerrad - 12/15/2004 5:56:27 PM)
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Yeah, I'll integrate that into the site here someday when I figure out how to limit it so it doesn't crash the server with people refreshing the website every five seconds.

I made a text adventure too, but that was sort of dumb. The Oakley trivia section is quite lame at this point too.

Stats:


Other players:


Inventory:


Battle:


I'm by no means an RPG player, I just did it as a programming project to see if I could create balanced gameplay.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/15/2004 7:26:40 PM)
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Heheh

cool, I used to play some stuff like that with my cousin a while back, used to like the books that you read then you get to a page and you make a choice of which page to turn to next kinda thing.

shoulda kept into it really, but lost touch, you must be busy programming! must have understanding employers!!

Darren Taylor (rolyatnerrad - 12/16/2004 12:52:24 PM)
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Yeah, it's cool here. I can pretty much do what I want, whether work related or not.

I did one of those Choose your own Adventure books too :P This was years ago when I was in highschool though. I HTMLized it later on.

http://www.decemberized.com/cyoa/

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/16/2004 12:58:55 PM)
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Eh, have a go:

http://dcj.amaltd.com/oakley/RPG/

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/16/2004 1:51:12 PM)
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I just read throught the Help section. That's real cool that you set all that up.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/16/2004 2:07:04 PM)
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Thanks, it was my big programming project before I started this place.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/16/2004 2:15:24 PM)
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heheh, i made a friend and got greasy fries! cool

Darren Taylor (rolyatnerrad - 12/16/2004 2:43:49 PM)
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Just scratching the surface man.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/16/2004 4:39:17 PM)
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I have two boomerangs and I had some sushi. I can't get the "cash in" funtion to work though.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/16/2004 4:59:33 PM)
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Do you get an error. Sushi can't be cashed in.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/16/2004 5:08:45 PM)
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No, I was trying to cash in one of the boomerrangs. It just spins then stops. No error.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/17/2004 10:16:56 AM)
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Could be a javascript issue or a pop up blocker. It prompts you before you sell something with an alert. Do you see the alert when you log in and have a new PM?

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/17/2004 11:10:11 AM)
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I don't have any pop up blockers. I will try again see if there is a prompt. Yeah, I get the prompt for PMs and the like.

I get the prompt, I click okay, it goes away but nothing else happens. I close the inventory window and open it agian, the item remains. Same happens with archive and trash.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 12/17/2004 11:28:39 AM)
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Hmm, must be a javascript error, and I suck at javascript. I wonder if I can rework it to some degree.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 12/17/2004 12:27:13 PM)
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