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Started by Slargos, October 27, 2009, 12:42:55 PM

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Slargos

October 27, 2009, 12:42:55 PM
The "are you a gamer" poll got me thinking.

The year is 2019.

What is Languish like?

Are we still here? Are YOU still here?

Forum technology has only received cosmetic upgrades the last decade, but look 20 years back and people Languished on BBS and mailinglists.

For my part, I think I will probably be around as long as Languish is alive (or I upset someone's delicate sensibilities enough to be sitebanned, or I die in a flaming wreck of metal, plastic and rubber), since it fills a useful function in my life.

It's hard to imagine any change to the way we interact as big as the move from dialup servers to internet forums.

stjaba

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October 27, 2009, 12:48:11 PM
The other day I was just thinking about how long I've been in the Languish/Paradox community. I think I joined P-Dox in the summer of 2001. I've been on different message boards over the years, but never for as long as 8 years. I know Languish is different from Paradox, but nearly everyone here used to be members there.

lustindarkness

#2
October 27, 2009, 12:58:21 PM
I'll be here.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Siege

#3
October 27, 2009, 01:00:43 PM
I'll be in Afghanistan.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

lustindarkness

#4
October 27, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Quote from: Siege on October 27, 2009, 01:00:43 PM
I'll be in Afghanistan.



Siege! How are you?
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Syt

#5
October 27, 2009, 01:02:26 PM
If the board is still around and I haven't become a bestselling author millionaire ... yeah, I'll be around.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

MadImmortalMan

#6
October 27, 2009, 01:04:02 PM
I've been around since 2001 or so, and so have most of you tards. That's a long time, so if things were going to go to hell in a handbasket, collapse, explode or disperse, it would have happened by now. As long as somebody is willing to keep the domain and server up, we'll still be around in some form or other that's remarkably similar to this.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Barrister

#7
October 27, 2009, 01:06:34 PM
I'm not going anywhere.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Sahib

#8
October 27, 2009, 01:07:24 PM
ATM I'm not optimistic  about languish long-term survival. It's getting stale lately.
I think it might be dieing  :cry:
Stonewall=Worst Mod ever

Eddie Teach

#9
October 27, 2009, 01:09:28 PM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josephus

#10
October 27, 2009, 01:15:54 PM
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Eddie Teach

#11
October 27, 2009, 01:18:23 PM
Listen to it again and draw your own conclusions.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#12
October 27, 2009, 01:18:38 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Grey Fox

#13
October 27, 2009, 01:19:00 PM
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Siege

#14
October 27, 2009, 01:29:24 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 27, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Quote from: Siege on October 27, 2009, 01:00:43 PM
I'll be in Afghanistan.



Siege! How are you?

Bored. The damn war is pretty much over, not counting the occasional bombing.
We are suppossed to go out in missions with the iraqi security forces, in support role, but they don't want us to go with them because it makes them look bad in the eyes of the local populace.

We still go out every day, but is just travelling from base to base. No more raids for us. At least not here in Baghdad.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"
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