Missing old friends & Reminiscences

[N35t0r]

(Some stuff)

Hello Rasmellon

Eventis is still online, at least as long as UH remembers to pay for hosting. Nothing much going on though, I'm not sure if anyone still has contact with Tassi though. You could ask.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

...MarkG told me I had the order wrong.

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He would...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

For them as ain't following my Smilies & Forum Graphics thread -most everyone, it seems- here:

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

(Oh, I'm Buster's Uncle - riffing on a Ming thing, mostly.)



He's a Finn. A FINN, I TELL YOU!

-You can tell by the pointy hat.


Allegedly, Astrid reports his face was delicious.

[Rasbelin]

AH.

My first thought was: Alexdander's Horse.

Buster (no relation) I got an email answered when he took CGN down - I was offering to host a mirror of CGN, but didn't know the answer to what files I'd need - radio silence since, despite several attempts to reach out.

Buster back then didn't necessarily reply quickly. He could be somewhat preoccupied and he then forgot about the issue you asked about.

-Speaking of Finns, Nikolai claims to no longer be 16, and is allegedly married to an actual woman. I've got a pic somewhere.

Except Nikolai was Norwegian. Well, probably close enough.

I suspect many of us Civ geeks are less geek now. Yes, including myself. But yes, Nikolai sure felt young back then.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

AH.

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-I believe that's Astrid on the left.



I did him a SMACX custom faction as a wedding present - the Believers w/ Miriam changed to him.

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Markos is on Facebook - doesn't seem to have much to say, but 'liked' when I posted the other day that the red logo was back. Buster (no relation) I got an email answered when he took CGN down - I was offering to host a mirror of CGN, but didn't know the answer to what files I'd need - radio silence since, despite several attempts to reach out. Dan once answered a query if Polycast was his day job now with a nod smilie, but that was a long time ago and he seems to not be involved much anymore. -No word on if the towels have gotten too expensive or what.

-Speaking of Finns, Nikolai claims to no longer be 16, and is allegedly married to an actual woman. I've got a pic somewhere.

[Rasbelin]

Oh, somebody with fat fingers erased my original lurker post. Well, I still seem to have my account and I'm not banned (Houston, are you receiving?), so it seems I'm still alive here. Now, I probably of course get that lifetime ban.

So let's try to rewrite and expand on what I did first post.

I haven't been around here for ages and it's a coincidence I happen to return today, but sure, I do remember a lot. E.g. I and several others were the unofficial chatroom features of ACS. And I don't remember just Poly, but also alternative ventures like Eventis and CGN (darn, I wonder how Buster is doing these days - at least the business is still up). And of course I remember being part of the Stella Polaris space TBS game dev project and running CivIRC with Kassiopeia and Buster.

I never made it to the first Poly meet-up (I think it was named as a convention?) in the US, but we did have several local Finnish meet-ups and we had Drogue visit us. There was plenty of Apolytoners I would've been delighted to meet, like e.g. IW (anyone else that remembers his Erm comics?) and Frozzy, but that never happen. My most recent Apolyton related encounter would've been, when several years ago (maybe like 2014-2016?) I planned to meet the CSM (i.e. Solver), but he had moved country, so we didn't end up meeting back then, when I was in Riga.

It was sad to discover today that Rah has passed away quite recently. My condolences to the last Ferret standing. I also noticed that Pekka, a frequent OTF poster back in the day, has died due to a brain tumor. He was one of those several Finnish Apolytoners that didn't partake in the Suomithreadi gang (either the thread or on IRC), so I never met him. I know he was active in the OTF more broadly.

Speaking of those who have passed away, I did personally have a cancer fight back in 2014. I did back then think with self-irony that maybe I forgot to build the WOW Cure for Cancer enough many times in my games. Well, I've since kept building it more frequently as a rule and it's my personal favourite WOW nowadays. Not exactly a great WOW as per say, but I like/appreciate the subject outside the virtual realms of gaming. Remember: it's #f**kcancer as a cancer survivor.

I haven't maintained active contact with any Apolytoners (or other associated online communities in the same sphere of TBS/RTS playing geeks) back from the day, so I don't really know what my old comrades (speaking of comrades: it would be great to hear from Tassadar) are up to in these 2020s. I personally still play Civ II, but it's just several times per year now, since it involves digging up my XP gaming rig. I haven't hooked up with the others from the Suomithreadi gang anymore, so I don't know how they're doing. Basically the subgroup dissolved as Poly changed as a community with Wouter & co. and our personal lives evolved.

One thing I'm not sure, if I ever back then mentioned, is that I was the one who resurected ottok (you remember the dyslectic Finnish Civ II map creator?) and he went ape shyte on Poly for an hour or so, until he ended up as banned for posting irrelevant garbage all over the place. What happen is that I tracked him down with his name and sent him an e-mail. And lo and behold - he replied to me and emerged on Poly like Jebus from his grave. After being banned, he sent me an e-mail and he never returned.

If anything, I wonder what our hairy Greek and Dan are up to these days? Is Dan still a teacher in Ontario?

Once the pandemic is over and in case anyone wants a rendezvous for old times sake, I can consider any suggestions for a meet-up.

What I understand is, he had some people over, there was drinking, it was a paahhtay. Some guest -eight or nine, I think- discovered Ming's computer logged on to Poly - and posted filth as him.

Markos banned Ming for a couple weeks, or something like that...

Yes, your summary of that case is pretty accurate AFAIK. I have a hunch which all were present, but it's really not that relevant. E.g. both Ferrets were actually posting as Ming. It wasn't like the end of the world, but sure, Ming's banning rod went wild for several hours. Now I smirk at it, but back then it felt bewildering.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Your bottom may indeed be an accident, but I was only going for a mild troll; I had no idea you were so blind you'd put it on.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[SlowwHand]

Accidently, my ass.

[EPW]

I miss Buster's Uncle

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

So, tell me the full story of The Nine Heads of Ming, someone.




What I understand is, he had some people over, there was drinking, it was a paahhtay. Some guest -eight or nine, I think- discovered Ming's computer logged on to Poly - and posted filth as him.

Markos banned Ming for a couple weeks, or something like that...

JR was one of the heads, I just was told.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I once accidentally tricked Sloww into putting on an avatar w/ Ozzy peeing on the Alamo...

[Jon Miller]

I was just Reminiscing. I enjoyed looking art the old OWO forums. I may have posted on the Ultimate Civ2 site, but I think I only downloaded scenarios.

JM
(An old-timer, I guess)