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Unwashed Village / Re: Gay? There's nothing queer about it!

« on: November 03, 2012, 12:51:47 AM »

ARRRGGHHGHGHGBBBLLELELAGGE!

Danish -> Denmark (Vintage 70s softcore porn, Legos, Awesomeness)
Dutch -> The Netherlands (Windmills and Tulips. Nothing else.)

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Unwashed Village / Re: Your gaming rig! (bragging time, because it's been too long)

« on: October 25, 2012, 11:39:33 PM »

Nice choices for the rig. Any comments on SLi is working out for you, or did you get both cards immediately?

i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz
16 GB 1866Mhz CL9 RAM
ASUS Sabertooth Z77
Samsung 830 working as cache for a 1 TB WD Black
BenQ XL2420 3D Monitor
GTX 580
Dorky 3D Glasses

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Unwashed Village / Re: OK, I admit it; the real BlueCross is really showing in this one...

« on: September 30, 2012, 11:53:13 PM »

I'd clap, but that is impossible with one hand.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Life is awesome and awful

« on: August 29, 2012, 11:19:48 AM »

Thanks guys.. Yeah.. I've been lurking a lot lately

Sound advice you're giving, I suppose. Taking my dad to a bar is out of the question though, hehe. He's not the drinking type. I think we (my siblings and I) have agreed to make sure we enjoy every last moment we can have with him, and make sure we let him know how much we appreciate all he has done for us. Right up until he got sick, he's been helping us build our house.

This is just two very big pieces of news that are kinda hard to process at the same time.

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Unwashed Village / Life is awesome and awful

« on: August 29, 2012, 01:51:54 AM »

I haven't really told anybody about this, but by the marvelous powers of internet semi-anonymity, this seems like a good place to unload my mind.

First of all, my girlfriend through 7 years is pregnant. This time everything is looking well. Last time ended in a very early miscarriage. I'm very much looking forward to being a father.

But speaking of fathers, mine is dying, 68 years old. Within the same week I found out I was going to be a father, I also found out that my own father has bladder cancer. It has spread to the lymph nodes and the pelvis, and doctors have already told us that the chemotherapy, he will receive will only be to prolong his life. There is no hope of a cure.

By some bizarre twist of fate, there is a risk that my son will never meet his grandfather - and that even if he does, he will never be able to remember him.

I literally have no idea how to feel right now.

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Unwashed Village / Re: What can we do to restore the UV to its former glory?

« on: June 01, 2012, 04:54:51 PM »

Haven't really read the entire thread, but has the topic come up of starting multiple game groups? Stuff like Steam (if you use it,) bnet (non real ID, so limited to D3 if you can stomach it.), etc, etc.

It may not get everyone, but you'd have a listing of everyone you COULD play with if you don't want to go alone.

Gaming groups is definitely a good idea, I think. It's extremely easy to implement, and I think we stand a chance of building a community of gamers without actually turning into a gaming site.

Insanity is a general quirk, afterall.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Thoughts on Moving the UV to be part of "The Vault" community.

« on: June 01, 2012, 04:52:54 PM »

Has anyone ever been to the board in question? Is the software looking ok, and is the community active?

The Vault community is very active, but the site is mainly used for posting news and that is why we can offer it to you and still allow you to be autonomous. If there is any issue with software, Porter will undoubtedly be able to fix it and Ausir works for Curse, so he'd be able to if Porter can't. However, I must admit that I have seen people on the news site that I have never seen on the Vault, so people who are drawn to fora like yourselves. If anyone does have issues with the site layout, background or general design it can be changed. And don't pay too much attention to what is there now, we're going to overhaul it completely for you

Being a CS major and all, I'm curious regarding some details on what it is you are offering in technical terms.

Are you offering to basically host our site (FTP and MySQL access), and we host our own forum software (e.g. SMF)
Are you offering us a sub-site on your Content Management System (if so, which system are you using) and a sub-forum on your community forums (if so, which forum software are you running, and where is your forum)

Or is it somewhere inbetween?

I'm thrown a bit off by your statement of "anyone does have issues with the site layout, background or general design it can be changed" - here, we are talking about the Unwashed Village subsite, right?

Also, any limitations in regards to advertisements? (Will our forums have a single banner ad, several banner ads, popups etc)?

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, I'm just trying to comprehend exactly how we will be hosted should we accept.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Thoughts on Moving the UV to be part of "The Vault" community.

« on: June 01, 2012, 11:18:00 AM »

Has anyone ever been to the board in question? Is the software looking ok, and is the community active?

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Unwashed Village / Re: Thoughts on Moving the UV to be part of "The Vault" community.

« on: May 31, 2012, 11:24:25 PM »

This might not be a bad idea at all. What the Village really needs is three things:

1. More active members
2. An identity

As I see it, this suggestion helps with #1. Also, actually having an audience might bring back the village idiots in all of us.

Best case scenario: Village is revived with the influx of new members
Wost case scenario: We bring back this forum (I'll maintain it in a read only state in case of a move)

The only hinderance I see from a techincal standup is that we have to reach some sort of concensus.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Can anybody ID this line of comics for me, Google isn't helping!

« on: May 13, 2012, 01:37:16 AM »

Closest thing I can find is this one: http://paradoxcomicsgroup.blogspot.com/2012/01/cover-to-cover-dead-mans-run-1.html

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Unwashed Village / Re: Captiony

« on: May 12, 2012, 11:57:55 PM »

Some called them nerds, but for these people Fallout LARPing was a way of life.

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Unwashed Village / Re: I'm thinking I know why the Village is failing...

« on: May 12, 2012, 11:56:54 PM »

We're gonna need a bigger van...

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Unwashed Village / Re: I'm thinking I know why the Village is failing...

« on: May 10, 2012, 11:44:04 PM »

I agree with AcdQueen, we need to get a van and start grabbing them off the streets!

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Unwashed Village / Re: Conspiracy? You decide... (or caption, if you so desire)

« on: May 02, 2012, 11:09:13 PM »

At this exact point in time, in his bloated suit, Neil realized that it, perhaps, would've been a good idea to go to the toilet before the trip.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Pain

« on: April 30, 2012, 11:59:59 PM »

Wow.. That is the most heartfelt post I've read on this board. No, you can't be too personal.

I'm so sorry for your loss, I can't even begin to imagine what that must feel like. I mean - I've had family members pass away, and I was even there when my grandfather passed away when I was younger, but my memory of that experience was nothing like the one you describe. Except for being unable to speak to him. Perhaps because I was never alone with him as he lay dying, and perhaps because I was only 15 or 16 years old.

I honestly don't know what I'd do in your situation. I think you are in some ways blessed to be able to speak to him before he passed away. I wish I had been able to say a few things to my grandmother before she died. As I got older, I always wanted to visit her and have a long chat about her life. She lived during the nazi occupation, and I always wanted to ask her what that was like, and to tell her how grateful I was for having her around when I grew up, but my last words to her were "I'll see you, grandma" as I left for home after the funeral of her twin sister 6 days before her own death.