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One thousand posts, lets Review
by Cptadder Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:14 am
Excuse the egotism of a big round number getting it's own post but I figured it was justified as I wanted to look back at my time here. I joined back in June of 2012 after picking up Fallout Equestria on a friends recommendation from sd.net the other forum I frequent. After spending pretty much the month of March reading through the entire story on my downtown then reading all ten thousand and change comments I stopped. And I decided I should go watch the show this thing was based on. Fast forward one marathon stream session later I've added EQdaily to my regular sites I check every day and settled into the new fandom.
A week after that I was working my way through Pink Eyes and Heroes on recommendations from that same person. I've expressed my views on both stories before (here in fact) I mention it only for completeness. The completeness was because about the time I was complaining about the odd twist Pink Eye's takes I was pointed towards another little fanfic know as Project Horizons. Well it was May by this point time to read the thirty seven chapters of that should be a fun read.
Chapters one that starts interesting, two to five are a rehash of FoE with a tiny bit of interest here and there.... Then chapter six hits and I get generally interested. Reading two chapters a day I spend the half of April and the first part of May reading through only to hit infamous chapters like Walk the Hard Road, Hell of a Night and Birthday. Some might point towards Black as being a long dark chapter but after the long slow pony drama so soon after Choir it lost it's impact. For other Black was weeks after Choir. For me it was minutes after reading Black. When I finished Lucidity (Chapter 43) had not yet been finished. And I decided I don't know why to read the comments for Project Horizon as well... fast forward to June 3rd I register here in order to read the better read the comment here... all four thousand of them at the time (Oh those were the days). After reading 18,567 comments in two weeks I make my first post on page 9 of the third comment thread.
My first post
Since then we've added another 14,000 comments. Why mention this twice as my first post ever mentioned said comments? Simple because I have read all of them. Way back in May I set out to read all of the PH comments as I read the Fallout Equestria comments. Then as now it was so I could get all the speculation, all the interesting theories and reading some of the fascinating side conversations that went on.
But being just over half a year later I wanted to look back as I looked back on post 1. It's why I'm giving you all this background, to justify the shout outs I'm about to give. As I read those comments and contributed in the discussion I learned a few things. No earth shattering life lessons but I had a good time I was welcomed and those discussions I was reading about before I was participating in now. Some of the people here... well take one example when O.Hinds and I got into a discussion about Zebra airforce planes and over the course of two weeks I started arguing against them having an air force at all and against all of O.Hinds idea... fast forward a week and we both had switched positions as I argued for the possibility of an airforce as O.Hinds vehemetly but polity argued his own ideas were unworkable. Never once did we hit vitriol or rancor, just interesting and lively debate. And that's what I want to mention here in my thousand post, the many people on the forums in this last year and thousand posts.
This next section is for all of you... thanks you.
To Robo and Camo who help admin this forum I thank you for putting up with us bag of screwballs and nutjobs.
To the superadmins Derpy, Moonlight Sky and Tia thank you for never once editing any of my many racist and profanity filled tirades against the Danish.
To the PHCC Minecraft server, for getting me back into Minecraft and buildings.
To Kattlarv who posts just like I do in massive blocks of text and those always interesting spoiler blocks
To O.Hinds for constantly low balling your construction ideas
To Swicked for being my number 2 crazy theory disscussion buddy
To Harmony for those late night(For you) TS conversations
To Admiral Rum for those late night (For me) TS conversations plus Drunk Rum Sober Adder show is hilarious (Sadly the Sober Rum Drunk Adder show was cancelled)
To Stringtheory for running the Steam Group
To Sinidri who is the 4th man in the swicked/onemoreday/Silencarto/Cptadder crazy theory group
To SilentCarto who tags in during crazy theory discussion hour
To Wavemaster who made my avatar and posts Boo
To Caoimhe, I swear that article of yours will be released in 2020 at this rate
To Meleagridis, who produces the most interesting PH fanart
To Kippershy, he of the interesting insights fyi your back on for the PHCC server
To IncoherentOrange&IncoherentOrange, good work this year on the server your half the reason I kept it running
To Tylertoon2, Your the other reason I kept it running
To Necr0maNceR, I spent this evening typing this up, the spice must flow and the server will run... shortly
To Fuzzy I swear to Thor I'll get caught up on Murky. I'm cursed I tells you anytime I sit down to read my house catches on fire
To Erumpet, I swear I'll get right on it
To, OneMoreDaySK... you will get an avatar I vow it, I have not forgotten nor forgiven.
To Overlong Analysis Cobalt who seems to either completely agree with or totally disagree with me and no room for any in between
To Iron_Monger and Mister Frost or as I refer to them in my head Mr Crazy and Mr Angry
And the rest, Jeremyrush, Randomblank, Katarn, Noodlemind, Aoonee, Scruffy, MrMagma, Cannonfodder, ScytoHarmony, Downloaded Skill, Orm, Last, iLateralGX, XT Vengeance, CalamityWhen
To the PH Editing team for helping scrub the story and get it ready for prime time
And to Somber himself who wrote a fanfic of a fanfic and still managed to make it interesting to myself and others.
After all this time I know you don't take praise well or even like it, so imagine I said that above line in a very sarcastic tone of voice.
Goodnight and good luck
A week after that I was working my way through Pink Eyes and Heroes on recommendations from that same person. I've expressed my views on both stories before (here in fact) I mention it only for completeness. The completeness was because about the time I was complaining about the odd twist Pink Eye's takes I was pointed towards another little fanfic know as Project Horizons. Well it was May by this point time to read the thirty seven chapters of that should be a fun read.
Chapters one that starts interesting, two to five are a rehash of FoE with a tiny bit of interest here and there.... Then chapter six hits and I get generally interested. Reading two chapters a day I spend the half of April and the first part of May reading through only to hit infamous chapters like Walk the Hard Road, Hell of a Night and Birthday. Some might point towards Black as being a long dark chapter but after the long slow pony drama so soon after Choir it lost it's impact. For other Black was weeks after Choir. For me it was minutes after reading Black. When I finished Lucidity (Chapter 43) had not yet been finished. And I decided I don't know why to read the comments for Project Horizon as well... fast forward to June 3rd I register here in order to read the better read the comment here... all four thousand of them at the time (Oh those were the days). After reading 18,567 comments in two weeks I make my first post on page 9 of the third comment thread.
My first post
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First off a repost of my comments from the now dead Comment thread 3 over at EQ daily
I had to post a comment because I've reached the end of Chapter 44 as
well as just about finished off comment thread two, counting the
original comment thread plus thread 1, and thread two that's 14,000
posts and reactions I've read with 1437 odd posts to read. I did the
same thing when I was reading Khat's Fallout Equestria but there I only
had to read what 8000 odd comments? A quick moment to mention in no real
order swicked, Fuzzy, Kim, silentcarto, Fuzzy Porcupine Paws,
JeremyRush, and last winner of the most interesting comments award
Sindri.
Also like to give a shoutout to the fanriffic artists
Mech and WavemasterRyx plus the proof readers O. Hinds... and the other
one (Sorry but only O. Hinds had interesting little behinds the scenes
comments so which made me eager when I saw one of his comments)
And
I'd like to take a brief moment of silence for the roughly 300 comments
that Blogger ate in these four threads, we will never see their like
again (Second monitor and note pad, for all your internet posting needs)
and last a special moment of hate for swicked not because of anything
said but because of the Avatar which is just close enough to Sombers to
get me confused as who's writing which post, after a few hundred
comments some of which are pages long in length I tend to skim right
past the name and ID people by Avatars and I always had to squint trying
to tell the difference between swicked and Somber.
Finally
before getting in my general thoughts of this story over all just a few
notes, one I've just finished off forty four this morning as I was
reading a chapter then reading all the comments to get caught up except
when forty one rolled around I had to rush to the end because I had to
know if Littlepip had set the bomb off in story yet. I got into this
story only because I got the recommendation from Sindri over on the FoE
comment thread to stick with the story until Chapter six. I came in late
enough (Just a month ago) I never saw the original chapter 1 which
judging by the comments about the first chapter 1 would have never
caught my interest but Chapter Six did and once I hit six I had to keep
going to know how things end up. That's a huge motivator for in my own
life, once something catches my interest I have to know how it all turns
out. This story however nearly lost me twice however once while
reading, one was Chapter 11 when it fades to black and P-21 and Glory
are gone, that greatly annoyed me but I was saved by Drunken Blackjack
brawling to keep going. The second time was thirty three because at the
time, having known rape victims have seen two of them take their own
lives it seemed way to pat the way Blackjack just forgave them and sent
them on their way. In my thirty odd years on this planet having seen the
worst and best of people, I don't believe I've ever met anyone who
could have spoken up and told her friends to let them go not out of fear
but out of pity and forgiveness. To this day reading the comments it's
one of three instances of author fiat where it does not strike me as in
character for anyone to use a comic book analogy but frigging Batman. No
matter how many innocents die, no matter how much chaos occurs or how
many times the Joker escapes Arkham asylum Bats will never kill him or
for that matter take the time to build his own private Joker prison.
Blackjack was taking on that same mentality. At least geld the bastards
before they go Blackjack!
But I kept going, and you know why?
Lacunae
Not
because she's my favorite charter but because in the back of my mind
since she joined up during Chapter 19 she has grabbed my attention as a
giant Chekhov gun. Each chapter... each day brings us closer to the
point at which the Goddess meets her end. Every page we get closer to
the point when her Unity is shattered but more than that it's not
sudden, there's a time when the Goddess spends seeing her old self
growing increasingly upset before suddenly she realizes Littlepip is
freaking out because... you know big giant bomb. And in that space of
time she saves her children as best she can.
So what's going to
happen to Lacunae? I've been waiting twenty five chapters to find out.
Considering the pacing it looks like we will have about six more
chapters to go.
Somber, I may question your choices at times,
find fault in sections of your writing or the actions of a charterer or
two but know that at the end of the day I eager to see each new update,
each new view the pages bring.
And I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
(Part 2 in thirty minutes)
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Re: [GRIMDARK] Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons Discussion
by Cptadder on Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:34 pm
Part 2 of 2
You know when being someone who likes reading comments is a problem?
When a story has 5000+5000+5000+342+990+990+990+255 (Only 255 as of time of writing this post) comments to read. That's 18,567 comments. Assuming every comment was Twitter length (Which thank you very much OAC some of them were not) that's 2,877,885 characters. You begin to grasp the fun of having known nothing about Project Horizons so you read 15,000 comments over the month of May get to the end and see oh look Chapter 44 just dropped but I've only got 339 more comments to read in the last comment thread on EQ... oh wait it looks like the comment thread moved so lets see Cloudsville huh, how many comments here, oh just about a thousand... wait no that threads locked so where is the current... okay here's one it's on page 30 here, I'm going to be busy this week so I'll read it next week easy, only a thousand and change comments.
So I get back and find not one nine hundred and ninety thread new locked thread but two....
But Can't stop me now because I frigging made it to this section and now to do what I've been waiting to do for a month
Rampant speculation and off the wall theories on what's going to happen next.
Or to be more exact, I have an excellent idea on what Project Horizon is all about... And why everyone on EC-1101's list had to die.
Part 3?
Since then we've added another 14,000 comments. Why mention this twice as my first post ever mentioned said comments? Simple because I have read all of them. Way back in May I set out to read all of the PH comments as I read the Fallout Equestria comments. Then as now it was so I could get all the speculation, all the interesting theories and reading some of the fascinating side conversations that went on.
But being just over half a year later I wanted to look back as I looked back on post 1. It's why I'm giving you all this background, to justify the shout outs I'm about to give. As I read those comments and contributed in the discussion I learned a few things. No earth shattering life lessons but I had a good time I was welcomed and those discussions I was reading about before I was participating in now. Some of the people here... well take one example when O.Hinds and I got into a discussion about Zebra airforce planes and over the course of two weeks I started arguing against them having an air force at all and against all of O.Hinds idea... fast forward a week and we both had switched positions as I argued for the possibility of an airforce as O.Hinds vehemetly but polity argued his own ideas were unworkable. Never once did we hit vitriol or rancor, just interesting and lively debate. And that's what I want to mention here in my thousand post, the many people on the forums in this last year and thousand posts.
This next section is for all of you... thanks you.
To Robo and Camo who help admin this forum I thank you for putting up with us bag of screwballs and nutjobs.
To the superadmins Derpy, Moonlight Sky and Tia thank you for never once editing any of my many racist and profanity filled tirades against the Danish.
To the PHCC Minecraft server, for getting me back into Minecraft and buildings.
To Kattlarv who posts just like I do in massive blocks of text and those always interesting spoiler blocks
To O.Hinds for constantly low balling your construction ideas
To Swicked for being my number 2 crazy theory disscussion buddy
To Harmony for those late night(For you) TS conversations
To Admiral Rum for those late night (For me) TS conversations plus Drunk Rum Sober Adder show is hilarious (Sadly the Sober Rum Drunk Adder show was cancelled)
To Stringtheory for running the Steam Group
To Sinidri who is the 4th man in the swicked/onemoreday/Silencarto/Cptadder crazy theory group
To SilentCarto who tags in during crazy theory discussion hour
To Wavemaster who made my avatar and posts Boo
To Caoimhe, I swear that article of yours will be released in 2020 at this rate
To Meleagridis, who produces the most interesting PH fanart
To Kippershy, he of the interesting insights fyi your back on for the PHCC server
To IncoherentOrange&IncoherentOrange, good work this year on the server your half the reason I kept it running
To Tylertoon2, Your the other reason I kept it running
To Necr0maNceR, I spent this evening typing this up, the spice must flow and the server will run... shortly
To Fuzzy I swear to Thor I'll get caught up on Murky. I'm cursed I tells you anytime I sit down to read my house catches on fire
To Erumpet, I swear I'll get right on it
To, OneMoreDaySK... you will get an avatar I vow it, I have not forgotten nor forgiven.
To Overlong Analysis Cobalt who seems to either completely agree with or totally disagree with me and no room for any in between
To Iron_Monger and Mister Frost or as I refer to them in my head Mr Crazy and Mr Angry
And the rest, Jeremyrush, Randomblank, Katarn, Noodlemind, Aoonee, Scruffy, MrMagma, Cannonfodder, ScytoHarmony, Downloaded Skill, Orm, Last, iLateralGX, XT Vengeance, CalamityWhen
To the PH Editing team for helping scrub the story and get it ready for prime time
And to Somber himself who wrote a fanfic of a fanfic and still managed to make it interesting to myself and others.
After all this time I know you don't take praise well or even like it, so imagine I said that above line in a very sarcastic tone of voice.
Goodnight and good luck
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Derpy Hooves Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:45 am
You crazy fool and your being all weird.
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by RoboRed Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:58 am
Hey, I'm one of those screwballs. 
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Ketchup Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:18 am
I'd like to assume that means me too.Cptadder wrote:
To IncoherentOrange&IncoherentOrange, good work this year on the server your half the reason I kept it running
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Ironmonger Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:23 am
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Cptadder Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:08 am
-To ketchup for getting that jokeKetchup wrote:I'd like to assume that means me too.Cptadder wrote:
To IncoherentOrange&IncoherentOrange, good work this year on the server your half the reason I kept it running
You and somber have different avatars now. All is forgiven long ago.swicked wrote:From "special moment of hate" to "number 2 crazy"!
Me and my selective reading are moving up in the world!
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Ketchup Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:24 am
I finally got one of your jokes. Wheee.Cptadder wrote:-To ketchup for getting that jokeKetchup wrote:I'd like to assume that means me too.Cptadder wrote:
To IncoherentOrange&IncoherentOrange, good work this year on the server your half the reason I kept it running
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Harmony Ltd. Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:14 pm
Gotta go back to the Server to finish my tower one day.Cptadder wrote:To Harmony for those late night(For you) TS conversations
If only the lag wasn't so bad and my client didn't crash each time I try to come back and play...
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Kippershy Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:29 pm
Jesus, thanks. I never expected to get back after my childish desire for destruction and lulz.
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Re: One thousand posts, lets Review
by Cptadder Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:35 pm
You should have tracked down the original artist and got them to make you a "happy somber" avatar for maximum aggravationswicked wrote:
I had such an urge just now to go take Somber's avatar and give it a goatee or something before using it as my own... but given my artistic skill has never progressed beyond MS paint, I feel the result would be slightly TOO stupid to be worth even that.
Feed the Beast, the server is down as I try and sort out the pack issue. Our attempted upgrade turned into extended downtime.swicked wrote:
In any case, I haven't been able to get on to your minecraft server in a while. I forget what the exact warning was, but last time I tried it said I was missing a program or something, I think...
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