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Aug. 28th, 2016 12:10 amSo, it looks like Gamingforce has finally gone to the great server farm in the sky. I am not surprised by this but I am surprised it took this long. I mean, it's just one of those websites that limped on seven years after it has ceased to be relevant in the public consciousness. I'm also a lot less surprised by the fact that someone else has coined "great server farm in the sky" than the fact that someone else brought up "thirteenth day adventists."
I've made my peace with Adara and I saved every worthwhile post a long time ago. I'm not sad it's gone; there was naught but ghosts there. I contemplated posting using their journal system with no context, as if everything I posted was there already, but (a) I couldn't strike up a balance between "look at how crazy-awesome my life is" and "too uninteresting," and (b) I didn't want to blow my chance to talk to Adara again.
Some members like Hyde liked to say that forums themselves were on the way out but nay, I think what killed Gamingforce was its toxic community, its descent into a morass of unfunny in-jokes like "a sometimes mountain" and moderators that encouraged said toxic community and morass of unfunny in-jokes. Yeah, I've met cool people there but they were mostly driven off.
Hopefully Vanguard News Network is next.
***
As a fuck you to Christopher Chupik, Larry Correia, James May, Richard McEnroe, Shadowdancer Duskstar, Weird Bard, Rawley Nyazi, Patrick Chester and everyone else on Monster Hunter Nation, I am going to buy Laurie Penny's new novella Everything Belongs To The Future upon release, even if I have to go completely out of my way to buy it, and I would suggest you do the same and recommend it to all your friends and followers and have them recommend it to all their friends. Remember, I have zero presence on the internet. That's why I'm so awesome with art.
***
Brie, like the cheese as she says, has hair in braids which I captured in my drawing while they were tied back and two hang loosely, while Nina has pink hair and back tattoos.
Kali Stoddard-Imari was playing a set in Copley Square but I didn't have the time to listen. But he has a bandcamp so go check it out.
Sofia threw a piece of beet from her salad for the Boston Public Library's resident house sparrows but I guess they didn't want it. She said "eat it, it's good for you."
A woman had a sea turtle tattoo on her ankle. A woman had a tattoo of an hourglass with wings on her arm and a calligraphic great horned owl on her leg and something on her back.
All the operas were set in Seville, a city less humid than Boston, because the BLO is doing both The Marriage of Figaro and Carmen this year. They performed accompanied by a piano and sung Carmen in French, Fidelio in German, la Forza del Destino and Figaro's aria from the Barber of Seville in Italian, and the two Mozart operas and the duet from The Barber of Seville in English. Carmen and José wandered about and interacted with the audience members when performing and acted out the final scene from Carmen.
"Bird flu is real" a woman said.
It started raining when I got out of Chili Duck. I saw the Hynes Convention Center (A long time ago, the ICA was in this area) and went to that station instead of scouring for the Prudential Station.
It stopped by the time I got there. I had to double back to Arlington to get to the MFA. There wasn't really anything new there but I had time to kill.
At least I met Alex. I'm assuming her name is spelt Alex and not Alix or Alyx or Ãlÿx. Alex said my portrait of her was beautiful and brought up the epi-pen scandal and her friend sighed and said that people can be so selfish and how the world would be a better place if people would just help each other even if they get nothing in return for it.
There was a woman with green hair.
Aniya (I dunno, I'm totally guessing on this one) drew Rick and Mortified (yes, that was deliberate) Simpsons family and paints over photographs of pipes with neon paint. She says she really likes photomanipulation, but there were only the pipes, some bicycles, and the background to the drawn Simpsons family members. She said "you have talent" to me.
Olivia, it seems, has become a really common name.
I overheard a conversation about how the only reason to travel to downtown Denver is to go holiday shopping once a year and how the Macy's Day Parade has floats that fold up.
She says to her girlfriend "this is our stop." and I'm likc "sorry" and showed her a half-complete portrait depicting just her nose and ears and hair and she's like "at least you tried."
Julia, Maddie, and Sammie stayed put for the whole trip, as did Marian. Julia can't draw anything more advanced than stick figures, she says.
There was a guy doing push-ups on a crowded train. Marian says he's been doing that for the entire trip. Marion writes stories, not poetry. She has a pendant with glass lensing some green matter.
There was a woman with pale purple hair getting on the train.
burning question: why, if these operas are set in Seville, does no one sing in Spanish? Or whatever they speak in Seville. Which is Spanish. Arabic or Latin or Phoenician or Tartessian, which may or may not be Celtic or it may or may not be a language isolate, if these operas are set in the far past.
I've made my peace with Adara and I saved every worthwhile post a long time ago. I'm not sad it's gone; there was naught but ghosts there. I contemplated posting using their journal system with no context, as if everything I posted was there already, but (a) I couldn't strike up a balance between "look at how crazy-awesome my life is" and "too uninteresting," and (b) I didn't want to blow my chance to talk to Adara again.
Some members like Hyde liked to say that forums themselves were on the way out but nay, I think what killed Gamingforce was its toxic community, its descent into a morass of unfunny in-jokes like "a sometimes mountain" and moderators that encouraged said toxic community and morass of unfunny in-jokes. Yeah, I've met cool people there but they were mostly driven off.
Hopefully Vanguard News Network is next.
***
As a fuck you to Christopher Chupik, Larry Correia, James May, Richard McEnroe, Shadowdancer Duskstar, Weird Bard, Rawley Nyazi, Patrick Chester and everyone else on Monster Hunter Nation, I am going to buy Laurie Penny's new novella Everything Belongs To The Future upon release, even if I have to go completely out of my way to buy it, and I would suggest you do the same and recommend it to all your friends and followers and have them recommend it to all their friends. Remember, I have zero presence on the internet. That's why I'm so awesome with art.
***
Brie, like the cheese as she says, has hair in braids which I captured in my drawing while they were tied back and two hang loosely, while Nina has pink hair and back tattoos.
Kali Stoddard-Imari was playing a set in Copley Square but I didn't have the time to listen. But he has a bandcamp so go check it out.
Sofia threw a piece of beet from her salad for the Boston Public Library's resident house sparrows but I guess they didn't want it. She said "eat it, it's good for you."
A woman had a sea turtle tattoo on her ankle. A woman had a tattoo of an hourglass with wings on her arm and a calligraphic great horned owl on her leg and something on her back.
All the operas were set in Seville, a city less humid than Boston, because the BLO is doing both The Marriage of Figaro and Carmen this year. They performed accompanied by a piano and sung Carmen in French, Fidelio in German, la Forza del Destino and Figaro's aria from the Barber of Seville in Italian, and the two Mozart operas and the duet from The Barber of Seville in English. Carmen and José wandered about and interacted with the audience members when performing and acted out the final scene from Carmen.
"Bird flu is real" a woman said.
It started raining when I got out of Chili Duck. I saw the Hynes Convention Center (A long time ago, the ICA was in this area) and went to that station instead of scouring for the Prudential Station.
It stopped by the time I got there. I had to double back to Arlington to get to the MFA. There wasn't really anything new there but I had time to kill.
At least I met Alex. I'm assuming her name is spelt Alex and not Alix or Alyx or Ãlÿx. Alex said my portrait of her was beautiful and brought up the epi-pen scandal and her friend sighed and said that people can be so selfish and how the world would be a better place if people would just help each other even if they get nothing in return for it.
There was a woman with green hair.
Aniya (I dunno, I'm totally guessing on this one) drew Rick and Mortified (yes, that was deliberate) Simpsons family and paints over photographs of pipes with neon paint. She says she really likes photomanipulation, but there were only the pipes, some bicycles, and the background to the drawn Simpsons family members. She said "you have talent" to me.
Olivia, it seems, has become a really common name.
I overheard a conversation about how the only reason to travel to downtown Denver is to go holiday shopping once a year and how the Macy's Day Parade has floats that fold up.
She says to her girlfriend "this is our stop." and I'm likc "sorry" and showed her a half-complete portrait depicting just her nose and ears and hair and she's like "at least you tried."
Julia, Maddie, and Sammie stayed put for the whole trip, as did Marian. Julia can't draw anything more advanced than stick figures, she says.
There was a guy doing push-ups on a crowded train. Marian says he's been doing that for the entire trip. Marion writes stories, not poetry. She has a pendant with glass lensing some green matter.
There was a woman with pale purple hair getting on the train.
burning question: why, if these operas are set in Seville, does no one sing in Spanish? Or whatever they speak in Seville. Which is Spanish. Arabic or Latin or Phoenician or Tartessian, which may or may not be Celtic or it may or may not be a language isolate, if these operas are set in the far past.
