User talk:Amazing

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JESUS Bike-Riding CHRIST.......again

For one of our own was crucified for our sins and left this plane for five long years, while our spirits soured and crops withered. It was foretold our lord and saviour Amazing would return one day to govern the masses.

That day is here.

Rejoice o brethren of the beard! Sing high to the angels that greatness once again walks among us mortal men! For everyone else, your bikes await. Ride on to the darkness, cast away from the light of the bearded way! Hallelujah! --Zod Rhombus 01:24, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Gosh, it's almost like you think I was God or something. (HOLY SHIT I'M KIDDING YOU GUYS.) -- JJJameson 03:13, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Response.

1. Yes 2.Yes 3.Yes 4. Make a request on the Vandal Banning page if you have a concern. --Rosslessness 23:50, 22 April 2011 (BST)

The questions were:

1. If a tree falls in the woods, does it make you horny?
2. Can I have a bite of your Egg McMuffin?
3. Am I going to get banned again right away?
4. What should I do if the headmaster at my school keeps calling me into his office for "special touching"?

-- JJJameson 03:13, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Also, I have no idea why my screen name was set to JJJameson. -- Amazing?! 03:23, 23 April 2011 (BST)

I really can't stand mcmuffins. They don't seem real.--Rosslessness 12:39, 23 April 2011 (BST)

That explains why you didn't so much give me a bite of it as cram it in my face while I wept. -- Amazing?! 18:18, 23 April 2011 (BST)

lurrve u

I did it! I helped get you unbanned! Now don't make me look silly -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 12:31, 23 April 2011 (BST)

So... no writing on your face while you nap? :( -- Amazing?! 18:18, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Welcome back, Amazing. :D --Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 18:53, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Why Mr. Koponen, you're trying to seduce me. -- Amazing?! 19:14, 23 April 2011 (BST)

Damn straight.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 19:46, 23 April 2011 (BST)

*Runs out of the room quickly*--Arthur Dent BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!! 20:29, 23 April 2011

oh look

look who is active again... glad to see you around this place again, 'mate. Sorry i didnt took a bigger part in this than i was hoping, but i was kind of busy renting a new home for myself and the lady :) --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[talk] [wcdz]} 20:13, 25 April 2011 (BST)

On the contrary, if you hadn't been posting about it, no one would have cared to do anything. Give yourself credit. :) Also, it looks like Arthur ran out of the room so fast he forgot to close the tag behind him. -- Amazing?! 00:39, 26 April 2011 (BST)

because i can

and nobody cares about me here. welcome back here. maybe >.> -leaves cookies on a plate on a table over there---Mikalos209 04:47, 26 April 2011 (BST)

Thanks for the cookies and the welcome. I'll try not to choke on either. :) -- Amazing?! 06:51, 27 April 2011 (BST)

Zar's Nostalgia Corner

I swung by the wiki to see whats up with UD, as I do every few months, and who else should I see but Amazing! I can remember when me and grim were always hashing it out with you. Until we banned you. And Grim went kind of nuts and I banned him. And then people kept writing new policies about stuff and I stopped paying attention. Five years, makes me feel old! Unfortunately I'm retired now, so I won't be available to be locked in endless wiki-combat with you. I'm sure you'll find something else do though. Wish you all the best in your new lease on life. XOXOXOXO. --Zaruthustra^{Still a Mod in His Mind} 05:06, 29 April 2011 (BST)

There's nothing saying we can't flame each other anyway. I'll start: "UR A POOPER!!1" -- Amazing?! 06:22, 29 April 2011 (BST)

ZOMG... the shadowlord has spoken :D --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[talk] [wcdz]} 14:09, 29 April 2011 (BST)

I swear, there must be a planetary conjunction or something of the sort… ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 04:55, 30 April 2011 (BST)

New Forum?

Any o' you new folk I haven't pissed off yet want to go in on a sort of "Zombie Game Oriented Forum"? I just bought Zombied.com recently and have been itching to do something with it. I don't have the time though for original content, so a forum system might be interesting. Mostly, I wanted to test out my signature. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 05:36, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Hmm. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 07:09, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Come to UrbanDead.Net and talk to us, I know I'm interested. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 09:36, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Yes, I'm also known for skulking about forums and helping out on zombie related projects. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 09:52, 30 April 2011 (BST)

hows HR going? Yon still screwing with your wiki? --Rosslessness 10:06, 30 April 2011 (BST)

fuck HR whats going on with DiL2 -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 10:51, 30 April 2011 (BST)

And ZPwiki? -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 10:52, 30 April 2011 (BST)

HR's going fine. I update it a ton and listen to the community, though I don't always agree. We get tons of players in bursts, then it peters out again, probably because it's hard to find other players on the map, which is something that I need to address some time soon. UD is like Doom, and HR is like Quake. A lot of people prefer the original, but we're doing some new fun stuff that hasn't been tried before, etc. <_< -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 19:56, 30 April 2011 (BST)

More like Rise of the Triad, for the sake of analogy (Quake was also made by iD). And yeah, lack of active player visibility is the biggest issue I've heard from those who've tried it. What kinda stuff do you have in mind? ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 23:05, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Okay, UD = Doom, HR = Going outside and meeting a girl. :D Heh. But seriously, folks - Some of the things seperating HR from UD on the positive side would be an actual structured group system where leaders actually control who can get in and can keep track of member log ins, the greater amount of skills/items/location types/etc., and of course the inclusion of vampires. "30 Days of Night" vampires, not "OMG He's such an old soul!" vampires. And of course, there are things I'd like to get into the game in the future that are above my programming skill level. Like weather systems, complete with rare natural disasters, etc. It's just sort of like... what if there were a game where what people suggested was actually MORE likely to be included than LESS likely... assuming the suggestions aren't bat-shit crazy, of course. :) -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 00:42, 1 May 2011 (BST)

I don't know whose site UrbanDead.net is, so forgive any bad vibes - but some strikes against it are the stock template, complete with unedited stock logo, the fact that the template is flowery as sin, and the fact that it's using phpBB. "Ouch" on all counts, unless it's like that for humorous purposes. I know I've set stuff up in the past with a purposefully tongue-in-cheek vibe. I'm sure the community is great and it's probably run professionally, but the first impression is an uppercut in the dick. Plus... dot net? :X I can accept that there's already a place people prefer to hang out, but I don't know if I necessarily want to swing by. (Huge loss, I know.) -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 19:56, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Oh, and I was mostly talking about a site larger than UD fandom, to handle fans of all "zombie genre" games. I'm sure there are others, but probably not with a URL like Zombied.com Heh. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 20:04, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Which may well be a good way of roping more people in to Urban dead and hell rising to increase the player base.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 21:12, 30 April 2011 (BST)

Mos Def. (Especially Hell Rising, har har.) -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 00:42, 1 May 2011 (BST)

Aye, I gathered. It's certainly a catchier URL than most of these, but a lot later to the game. What do you see as being the key ingredient to get people visiting your site? ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 23:05, 30 April 2011 (BST)

That's definitely a huge amount of results - but I don't know what percentage focus on zombie gaming. I'm assuming many do, but of course there's the URL advantage, etc. A big draw is also what sort of community framework you set up. Is the forum a living entity that grows and shrinks to fit the user base? If there's a 200+ thread called "Post items you want to trade in zombie games here!" will the admin take the hint and create an "Item Trading" section? etc. etc. etc. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 00:42, 1 May 2011 (BST)

Fair enough; those are (mostly) valid criticisms, as the forum is still mostly as adjunct to the Rogues Gallery (and I'm a lazy bastard ). I'm curious, though: what's your beef with phpBB? ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 23:05, 30 April 2011 (BST)

The phpBB thing just comes from the administration end of it. I haven't used it in many years, so I'm sure it's proably changed - however I usually find Simple Machines forums (SMF) very, very, very versitile, easy to set up, easy to use, etc. With two clicks you can have a blog on it. Two more clicks and you have a trade rating system. Two more and you have an entire art gallery, etc. I don't know if phpBB now offers the same ease of use and vast amount of features, but based on the sites I've seen using it - it doesn't seem so. People often have phpBB as "just a forum" when you can build so much more with other scripts. Plus the permissions feature of SMF is really great, enabling you to make a forum where people can only reply (IE: Comment on news) or make a member group that can post on a forum that displays on your main page (articles, reviews, gaming news, etc.) and much more. Ramble, ramble, ramble. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 00:42, 1 May 2011 (BST)

As an example, check out this site I'm (still) building: Germ Comics - The "blog" in the middle and the "store items" on the left side are actually taken from the forum. The whole "Germ Comics" page is actually one PHP file that just displays info I posted on the forum and in the forum's "store" add-on. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 00:42, 1 May 2011 (BST)

I should probably clarify the reason for the rant. Imagine, if you will, UrbanDead.net as a mock-up of the Urban Dead game view - but all the recent activity is actually posts and events pulled from the forum. Click them to bring up the post, or click the map view to go to a category on the forum, etc. There are a lot of possibilities with SMF that would enable the building of a unique and memorable site. Hell, it could even display your proper forum username in the proper space on the UD layout. -- Amazing‽ (UD + WTF = HR) 18:12, 1 May 2011 (BST)