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Jan 24, 2003, 4:53pm

That im just such a cool cool person.


Okay, Friday night sitting with a bottle of vodka fun over....

time to go out. bwahahahaha....London shanty djbars, here I come.

F.

Jan 27, 2003, 1:21pm

[View Quote] Deary, dont include my name in your little rants please - when you have
spent six years in this newsgroup you kind of get over the whole "want to
get known" thing, and in all honesty, once you have an intelligent post of
some sort then I may actually reply to your own posts with a fair amount of
respect and consideration, until then, you are merely what your posts
purport you to be - boring. I've seen so many people grandstanding like you
in the life of these ngs (even back to synergy corp days - oh, you dont know
what that is/was.....)

Do you actually know anything about me?

"Wouldn't doubt if it was
> due to the fact you have no other way of becoming known. "

Im sorry, thats ust SO so sssooooooo very, very laughable. hold on one
second whilst I cover my head with a pillow to block out the gales of
laughter (muffled noises) I dont need this newsgroup for a grandstand (like
yourself), nor am I seeking any publicity, in fact, int he past year I
disappeared from "public" aw life for several reason...do you want to know
why?

Hay, I have a great idea - why dont one of you guys tell Seiya something
about me, I think I'd find more amusement in that than explaining it to her
myself hehehe...

F.

ps - guys, have I mentioned how much enjoyable it is being back amongst the
actual community again? Oh joy, back to the NG of old. h0 h0 h0.

Jan 27, 2003, 1:30pm

[View Quote] See, I take offence at her post.

She placed my name in it, so therefore I am offended by it - especially
seeing as she has absolutly no idea what she is talkinga bout, nor *whom*
she is talking about.

I cant see how a post is on topic when it merely continues a boring litany
of rubbish and also then goes one step further in introducing personal
attacks against individuals that she wouldnt know from the hairy nose of a
wombat.

F.

(I was going to use another owrd int here besides "nose" but hay...)

Jan 27, 2003, 9:07pm

[View Quote] hmm...last time I talked to Springdew she mentioned that he did once in a
while...but then again,t hat was probably about two years ago....

wow, so many gone huh? Wierd...

F.

Jan 27, 2003, 9:11pm

[View Quote] awww, and I think your pretty special too phalphy! :)

Yeah, mushrooms...steak and...of course....

;) hahaha

F.

Jan 27, 2003, 9:14pm

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Nah, coz I used to be guilty of that too :)

Damn, you know, I wih that russ still had backups somewhere of the synergy
newsgroups...that would be REALLY fun reading through those posts from
way-back....

But yeh, I only just splice in comments when I get bored these days.... I
must be mellowing in my old age..hahaha

F.

Jan 28, 2003, 8:20am

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Im not a lady.

How's this - piss off you stupid little bitch. You have no idea what you are
talking about. Nobody here knows why I left Activeworlds, nor does anyone
know any of the circumstances behind it - needless to say, I was NOT "fired"
in the vulgar way that you are putting it across as, nor were the
circumstances anything to do with my "mannerisms" nor anything else for that
matter. The reasons are purely personal, and confidential between myself and
my then bosses. In fact, I did a damn good job when I was working there, and
worked my ass off for the company doing TWO jobs at once which really
required two people - and as anyone that has had suport from me will
testify, I sam an extremely helpful, and kind individual. What I dont
appreciate, nor like, is people like yourself coming in here and thinking
that you know anything about the community from your limited time in here,
and pretending that you are the be all and end all, and that people actually
overly carea bout an apology five thousand times from someone that they have
never heard of before and whom for all intents and purposes is a bloody
newbie.

Check your god damned head you stupid little prat, before you go off talking
about stupid innuendos and spreading idiotic rumours abut things that you
only have the very slightest grasp on, ie, the AW community. Dont bother
slandering me again either, because I think you will find that you will be
making a worse and worse impression every time you open that childish little
mouth of yours.

Really, you need to learn a little respect and also a little history before
you go mouthing off with such stupid little innuendos and accusations.

Pah. Not worth my time really, your not.

F.

Jan 27, 2003, 9:11pm

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Wow...hay Tom, good luck bro :)

F.

Jan 28, 2003, 4:08pm

[View Quote] Try to get a hold of Cakewalk....or go to maz-sounds nd find some other
stuff, theres some good midi tools out there...

F

Jan 29, 2003, 10:45am

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Well, I actually use CubaseSX, and have only tinkered with Cakewalk..it
annoyed me because it was so simple..but for someone like Seiya it would
probably be perfect to start out with, and it has a hell of a lot of
features...

eh, cubasesx 1.0 has a few midi problems though...but that timing problems
with external gear...grr

F.

Jan 28, 2003, 11:38am

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I dont mind her psots at all - even though they are quite boring and
meaningless sometimes - what I do mind is her making up things and making
comments on circumstances and situations dealing with matters that she has
no idea about, nor that she has any right to speak about.

Hell, if she apologises to me for her rude and most presumptuous comments, I
might even apologise for being so blunt towards her (and calling her a
bitch - hay, reading that little comment first thing int he morning did
nothing for my wake-up-mood) - I might be blunt, be thats how I am - and I
am never discourteous without reason.

Not sure if she is big enough to actually apologise for insulting me so
badly though, nor attempting to tarnish my reputation by insinuating that I
was fired from AW for "blunt and shallow responses", again, something
neither she nor any of you here will ever know anything about.

Guess we will see if shes up for another apology, if not, then no skin off
my nose, I dont really care one way or another - everyone who knows me knows
that her comments are completely without any foundation - it jsut bugs me to
think that she, who knows nothing about me, can judge me in such a way.

Hell, I jsut called her boring - she had no need to attack my reputation.

F.

Jan 28, 2003, 11:38am

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Yes :)


F.

Jan 30, 2003, 7:35am

It started popping up a few years ago...in all honesty, its bloody stupid if
you ask me...

....you DID ask....

F.



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Feb 2, 2003, 7:06pm

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Comrad Yanst! It is not that you dont have rights to test it, it is that you
have the priviledge of being FREE from it! Imagine! No bugs! No crashes! No
having to talk about features endlessly!

....alternatively, it could be because you are inferior.

Take your pick.

F.

Feb 2, 2003, 6:53pm

> me it is best to not get involved. To those people, I ask you, if you had
> been through an event that knocked your heart and soul out on the ground,
> would you pick them up, turn around and walk away? Would you become a
> rebel? Or would you search for peace within yourself, your surroundings,
> your country, your world? And if you saw someone else struggling, would
you
> help them, walk away or take advantage of them and conquer them? No, I'm
> not married to it, I can and do enjoy movies, travel and other activities.
> But I won't turn around and walk away. Again, I know I am still
struggling,
> but I am trying. I've made my choice which is peace. Not Communism,
peace.

If you knew anything about communism, and also about a related political
theory known to the world as socialism, or even anything about marxism, you
would realise that what you just uttered there was the most delicate, pearl
like string of beautifully ununciated bullshit this NG has seen since
....errr....hmm, let me think about this one.

Go take political theory 101 please, an then comment on communism in general
please - did you know that communisim is seen in almost all political theory
circles as one of the most ideal forms of government (in theory) that this
world has seen? No, you dont know that do you. Have you read any Marx? Have
you read the Red Book? Have you read any Thomas More - hell, I'd even settle
to call you knowledgable if you've read some bloody Ken McLeod. Hi Mr
Freedom, your right you know! WE gotta look out for those GOD DAMNED PINKO
LEZZO POOF-O COMMIE BASTARDS!!

Help! Its the Red Menace! Gasp! Squeel! Oh no, the ching chiongs are after
us!!! Ohhh, yellow peril!!

My god, I bet you have a life sized print of McCarthy above your bed dont
you...next to those mirrors...

> Which brings me to the China theme. To the ones here that question if I
am
> a China hater. The answer is absolutely not. If you recall, Alpha World
> almost loaded a complete China theme. They uploaded textures, but we
never
> got the full use of the avatars. I'm not completely sure why this
happened,
> but I remember about the time it happened. I remember what was going on
> with me when it happened (ed - wow, you remember? Yeah, I remember back in
Nam (CompuNam that is), those god damned geeks runnign around int he jungle
throwing cd's at me and begging me to play Worms...)And I do believe it was
a very negative
> situation, in which I very much tried to tolerate, recover and move on. I
> do not like the China theme in Alpha World because it came at time when
> something very negative happened. I think of Alpha World as China because
> of the theme that was almost put in use, and the fact that it has turned
> into communism and it has to stop. I do not like communism, I like
freedom.
<snip blah blah blah>

> that can be worked around for the benefit of ridding Alpha World of
> communism. Communism must leave this place and the old Alpha World must
> return, community, tourists and all.

Fuck me drunk, but can you be any more clueless?

Talk to us in a few years, when you have the benefit of hindsight in being
able to actually understand what kind of a garbzage speel that was you just
uttered. And if after a few years you dont actually understand what garbage
you just uttered, you have my permission to remove yourself from the gene
pool.

Have a nice day.

Peace! Love! Tentacles, hail all leaders, its the Red Peril!! Woot!

F.

Feb 5, 2003, 6:46am

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I'm not a child, and I'll do and say what I bloody well want to, newbie.

F.

Feb 9, 2003, 11:36am

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It was a bad day, I have those a fair bit :)

Sorry if I was a tad abrupt, and yes, I will mind my langauge....but when it
comes to bigots, sorry, I dont really hold back all that much so you'll have
to excuse me if I come out flaming :)

F.

Feb 3, 2003, 6:49am

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Yes, but he needed to say it as well - you could be Chinese you know, and he
cant let those red bastards comment here without a fight!

F.

Feb 9, 2003, 11:33am

I have to agree.

This is the worst decline I have seen in my six or seven years in
Activeworlds, even when charges were first introduced it wasnt this bad -
and a hell of a lot of people left when they started charging money for the
program (even $20 a year). Only the very hardcore and dedicated remained -
trust me, if all those people had of stayed the community would be huge....

....but this is worse, much, much worse. AW GZ is most oftent han not now, a
virtual ghost town - most people go to AWten GZ or even the GATE to chat to
people, because there is more likelihood of people being there than at AW
GZ...it used to be, that on weekends, there would be upwards of fifty people
in AW GZ at any one time..now your lucky if there are even TEN.

The monthly rate is the definate cause of this. There is jsut not enough in
the worlds to give people satisfaction of paying $7 a month. They can go to
other online gaming communities for only a little more than that, and garner
a huge amount more satisfaction than here. They are still developing AW,
yes, but I jsut dont believe it is being done fast enough. If, they had of
spent all the money that they had a few years ago on actually getting a
large group of programmers together, not jsut two or three at once max, then
they could be seeing a larger statisitcal mass of users now - instead, they
went the whole "business" route instead of the more "recreation route" and
they lost out. I thin that they chose too late to go the "recreation route",
much, much too late.

In al honesty, I only go into AW now to see if anyone is on. I can count the
number of "new" citizens I have met in the past few motnhs on one hand. It
used to be that I would continually meet new people, every day, and have new
things to do all the time.

I'm afraid that the whole monthly payment thing hasnt worked out. In doing a
monthly payment, they didnt have enough new eatures to justify the huge
price increase, and thus people ahve now turned away. And yes, the
gradiation is now being seen - those whose 1 year memberships have now
expired are not renewing like AW had hoped, and I thinkt hat even they are
probably starting now to realise just what a negative impact that has had.

There are also much fewere universe sales these days as compared to not so
long ago.

Yes, the community is in a very big decline, a decline that has been talked
about for years, but is now actually coming to pass. Those of us who have
been arouind a logn time can see it, and know it, those who are new are jsut
used to the fact that there are not that many people around. People will
keep coming to AW, but unless things change drastically again, then the
community will never gain the loft heights that it once attained. Instead of
growing, the memberships are shrinking, and as memberships are a fair
portion of the companies income (not as much as universes, but they are also
declining I presume) then they are goign to ahve to actually TAKE that
drastic action.

What they need, is a new tier - and it was something that I suggested so
many times when I was working there. Originaly the plan was to have
citizens, and then a Premium citizenship on top of that - the premium would
probably have been the monthly fee, but with special bonuses - 3D homepages,
access to special options and special features, access to the NewAW building
world. They may even stillb e planning to do this, but I wouldnt ahve the
foggiest. Reduce actual citizenships back to a yearly fee of even $15 and
year, implement a third tier structure with special functions at a monthly
rate. People WILL pay it, because there are enough of a hard-core user base
that would go for that option. At the same time, plain citizenship fees
would be reduced by hundreds of percentiles, even loer than originally, and
believe me, you would see such a large influx of users coming back.

That would be my solution, and it isnt even all THAT drastic. You reduce
normal citizenships, adda premium level....and watch everyone stream in. I
can see only this as the one hope they have of getting the user base back.

We will wait and see. I think that this year, will show us what they want -
a ghost town of a community, or a real one.

Heres a case in point - the old timers who are here, will remember
Yellowstone. Once upon a time, at most parts of the day,t here would be a
community of at least ten people int here, then up in the thirties in peak
times. Now, its is a ghost town, I dont even think anyone hangs out inth ere
anymore - it is, in effect, a utterly dead community.

One needs only to look at the yellowstone community example to see that
something has gone drastically, and completely, wrong.

Facter.



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Feb 9, 2003, 11:33am

I have to agree.

This is the worst decline I have seen in my six or seven years in
Activeworlds, even when charges were first introduced it wasnt this bad -
and a hell of a lot of people left when they started charging money for the
program (even $20 a year). Only the very hardcore and dedicated remained -
trust me, if all those people had of stayed the community would be huge....

....but this is worse, much, much worse. AW GZ is most oftent han not now, a
virtual ghost town - most people go to AWten GZ or even the GATE to chat to
people, because there is more likelihood of people being there than at AW
GZ...it used to be, that on weekends, there would be upwards of fifty people
in AW GZ at any one time..now your lucky if there are even TEN.

The monthly rate is the definate cause of this. There is jsut not enough in
the worlds to give people satisfaction of paying $7 a month. They can go to
other online gaming communities for only a little more than that, and garner
a huge amount more satisfaction than here. They are still developing AW,
yes, but I jsut dont believe it is being done fast enough. If, they had of
spent all the money that they had a few years ago on actually getting a
large group of programmers together, not jsut two or three at once max, then
they could be seeing a larger statisitcal mass of users now - instead, they
went the whole "business" route instead of the more "recreation route" and
they lost out. I thin that they chose too late to go the "recreation route",
much, much too late.

In al honesty, I only go into AW now to see if anyone is on. I can count the
number of "new" citizens I have met in the past few motnhs on one hand. It
used to be that I would continually meet new people, every day, and have new
things to do all the time.

I'm afraid that the whole monthly payment thing hasnt worked out. In doing a
monthly payment, they didnt have enough new eatures to justify the huge
price increase, and thus people ahve now turned away. And yes, the
gradiation is now being seen - those whose 1 year memberships have now
expired are not renewing like AW had hoped, and I thinkt hat even they are
probably starting now to realise just what a negative impact that has had.

There are also much fewere universe sales these days as compared to not so
long ago.

Yes, the community is in a very big decline, a decline that has been talked
about for years, but is now actually coming to pass. Those of us who have
been arouind a logn time can see it, and know it, those who are new are jsut
used to the fact that there are not that many people around. People will
keep coming to AW, but unless things change drastically again, then the
community will never gain the loft heights that it once attained. Instead of
growing, the memberships are shrinking, and as memberships are a fair
portion of the companies income (not as much as universes, but they are also
declining I presume) then they are goign to ahve to actually TAKE that
drastic action.

What they need, is a new tier - and it was something that I suggested so
many times when I was working there. Originaly the plan was to have
citizens, and then a Premium citizenship on top of that - the premium would
probably have been the monthly fee, but with special bonuses - 3D homepages,
access to special options and special features, access to the NewAW building
world. They may even stillb e planning to do this, but I wouldnt ahve the
foggiest. Reduce actual citizenships back to a yearly fee of even $15 and
year, implement a third tier structure with special functions at a monthly
rate. People WILL pay it, because there are enough of a hard-core user base
that would go for that option. At the same time, plain citizenship fees
would be reduced by hundreds of percentiles, even loer than originally, and
believe me, you would see such a large influx of users coming back.

That would be my solution, and it isnt even all THAT drastic. You reduce
normal citizenships, adda premium level....and watch everyone stream in. I
can see only this as the one hope they have of getting the user base back.

We will wait and see. I think that this year, will show us what they want -
a ghost town of a community, or a real one.

Heres a case in point - the old timers who are here, will remember
Yellowstone. Once upon a time, at most parts of the day,t here would be a
community of at least ten people int here, then up in the thirties in peak
times. Now, its is a ghost town, I dont even think anyone hangs out inth ere
anymore - it is, in effect, a utterly dead community.

One needs only to look at the yellowstone community example to see that
something has gone drastically, and completely, wrong.

Facter.


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Feb 9, 2003, 11:40am

Its all those damn chinky red chinese bastards I tell you, they should all
be shot!

Damn commies.

F.

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Feb 9, 2003, 11:42am

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Not many mate...its way too expensive on the aussie dollar....translates to
almost $200 a year, no one back home is really willing to spend so much.

F.

Feb 9, 2003, 11:46am

I'll be out of worlds and offline for some time as of today, I am relocating
back to Australia after three years due to impoverished conditions and a
general lack of sunshine.

Be back in a few months most likely..those who need to, know how to contact
me .....

Dont eat each other, and watch out for those damn commie bastards - they'll
sneak in with the humans you know.


Facter.

Apr 1, 2003, 3:47pm

*yawn*

...somebody woke me up with a statement I have heard a billion times....

...I'm going back to bed.

F.

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Apr 4, 2003, 3:37am

I've moved and am back home..I havnt got access to AW as yet becaus eI am
still waiting for a whole bunch of stuff to be shipped back from th eUK to
here...

:)

Hopefully I wont be in australia long..just enough time to save money and
piss off again...

F.

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Apr 8, 2003, 6:28am

> PS: We are forming a new AW citizen's group tentatively called the AW
> Citizen's Action Council (AWCAC), and are looking for volunteer members to
> get involved.
>
> Essentially the council will meet each week to discuss, plan and create
> different community projects, games and events aimed at uniting AW
citizens
> in an effort to make AW a better experience for all citizens and tourists.
> The Game is ready willing and able to donate its game points system and
> real-world prizes to many of the projects, games and events under the
> management of AWCAC; making them more exciting attractive to engage in.
> Meetings will be held in the-game world at an agreeable time and day and
> will be open only to AWCAC members. Please show your support as a citizen
> and get involved in this worth while group. Contact us if interested.


Great idea, well, it would be if it was original. Unfortunatly,
organisations like this already exist. I would suggest that you go and join
one of the existing ones and infuse your enthusiasm into one of them,
otherwise it will jsut look like you are attempting to create an
organisation of citizens over which you have some kind of power and
influence. www.awcommunity.org is a place you should go to, I suggest you go
there and look at AWEC. AWEC is established, and has a good amountof
prestige attached to it as well as history. It needs a good influx of
enthusiastic citizens such as yourself. The other good thing about AWEC is
that it has a long history of association with AW management.

Trust me, you would be much better off in joining a group that already
exists and working with them on your plans, otherwise it stinks of nefarism,
and I am sure that you dont want any more antagonism and suspicion cast your
way. I see very little point in attempting to replicate AWEC - it wont go
very far.

Just a word of advice from someone who has a good idea as to what he is
talking about.

F.

Apr 23, 2003, 4:11pm

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hahaha...its good to see you posting in here again Rick :)

F.

May 31, 2003, 8:42am

> Dear people (again),
>
> I am very touched by your replies here and by email.
>
> I am also happy to announce that I have just received an email from
> ActiveWorlds in which the requested extensions have been granted, and
> which end with the words "Keep up the good work!"
>
> I will reply personally to the emails of support I have received if I
> have not done so yet.
>
> I hope that this will settle the matter, and that I will not have to
> doubt again about the future of my bots!


See? Good things happen :)

F.

Jul 5, 2003, 6:48am

not to mentiont he whole historicaql aspect of it....

....tis relaly a shame if all those posts are gone - I remember whent he
first newsgroup was lost (russ's one)..that was tragic..but this is
horrible...

Rick, is there no way to keep them? what about a backup of the old ones or
something?

F.

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Jul 5, 2003, 7:26am

.....wasnt the original Nova owned by Ariel?

F.


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