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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Kilyle on April 20, 2011, 06:41:10 AM

Title: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Kilyle on April 20, 2011, 06:41:10 AM
Dunno how useful this might be, but I recently joined Facebook, and as I was flagging various things as "liked" I thought to look for Charas Project and realized it's not on there.

Since Facebook is one way to passively direct friends, family, and miscellaneous strangers towards topics that interest me and might be of interest to them, and since Game Maker and RPG Maker are already on there, I'm thinking maybe we ought to have a page there.

But it's just a thought.  So I thought I'd post it here and leave it to whoever to decide what to do with this suggestion :)
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 20, 2011, 07:48:19 AM
I'm largely against anything social-networking, so I cast my vote against this motion.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 20, 2011, 09:09:23 AM
I don't see the need to show my friends and family a random internet forum where I talk to people I've never met. Keep internet life and real life seperate, methinks.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: fruckert on April 20, 2011, 10:56:34 AM
While I could care less about how much people know about me, lots of people like to keep their internet lives and "real" social lives seperate.
I personally don't have much of a distinction between the two, so again, I don't care.

Basically my point is the answer is likely to be "no", although I'm personally impartial.

Personally.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: zuhane on April 20, 2011, 11:20:13 AM
I don't want hot babes knowing I make RPGs in my spare time!
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on April 20, 2011, 12:53:16 PM
No.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Grandy on April 20, 2011, 01:08:21 PM
I'll say yes just because everyone else said no and that makes me unique.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 20, 2011, 01:49:09 PM
I barely even use FaceBook. I sometimes even wonder I keep my account active considering how inactive I actually am. Because FaceBook is a social network and I am asocial. But that's beside the point.

I'll say maybe, because it'll make me even more unique than Grandy.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: zuhane on April 20, 2011, 01:49:58 PM
I'll say yes because Grandy's saying yes.

EDIT: Also, Kilyle, your sig is really weird!
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: SaiKar on April 20, 2011, 02:02:17 PM
I don't mind a Charas Facebook page. I don't use Facebook, but lots of people do to the point where I can see where Kilyle is coming from. I don't want to have to handle it myself, but if someone else were to make a little page that does us justice, that would be fine by me.

EDIT: Also, Kilyle, your sig is really weird!
It's a respect list. A big fad a long time ago was to put the names of users you respected in your sig. It was sort of a passive-aggressive thing, back when the community was a lot more split. Wow, that takes me back.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Felix-0 on April 20, 2011, 02:18:44 PM
I don't mind a Charas Facebook page. I don't use Facebook, but lots of people do to the point where I can see where Kilyle is coming from. I don't want to have to handle it myself, but if someone else were to make a little page that does us justice, that would be fine by me.
It's a respect list. A big fad a long time ago was to put the names of users you respected in your sig. It was sort of a passive-aggressive thing, back when the community was a lot more split. Wow, that takes me back.
Which was horrible, I'm glad I joined in on the tail-end of all that.
I vote Yes. Because I use facebook a lot. And I guess when the mods update the front page you could update it on FB too. (70% higher chance I'll see it. +5 Crit rate also)
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Osmose1000 on April 20, 2011, 02:22:13 PM
You didn't look hard enough: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6064959923

The lack of activity indicates how well the idea went. :P
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 20, 2011, 04:00:05 PM
So that's that. Already exists, didn't go over well.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Zerlina on April 20, 2011, 04:54:56 PM
It did help me to add you guys so that I could sta...I mean...get better acquainted with you...
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 20, 2011, 05:17:18 PM
Yeah, no, MyFace sucks.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Natako on April 20, 2011, 05:59:27 PM
I'm indifferent to this idea. I don't use Facebook because I couldn't care less about social networking sites, but if somebody wants to make one, more power to them.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Felix-0 on April 20, 2011, 06:02:20 PM
Still, I think it's a good idea. but then again it is me speaking here
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 20, 2011, 06:05:48 PM
You could always join the current existing group and raise the member count to 10.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 20, 2011, 06:21:34 PM
Yeah, no, MyFace sucks.
We know, Lucas.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Felix-0 on April 20, 2011, 11:05:54 PM
We know, Lucas.
I didn't wanna say it myself.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 20, 2011, 11:22:22 PM
I didn't wanna say it myself.
Since your face is somehow worse than mine.

But Archem is pretty much the uglyness (and fat) of both of us combined, so, I don't now.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Felix-0 on April 20, 2011, 11:25:26 PM
Since your face is somehow worse than mine.

But Archem is pretty much the uglyness (and fat) of both of us combined, so, I don't now.

*know :3
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 20, 2011, 11:40:45 PM
That was a typo. Obviously.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Grandy on April 21, 2011, 01:01:33 AM
Since your face is somehow worse than mine.

Join me, Lucas, and I'll make your face the GREATEST in Koridai.

Or else you will DIE.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 21, 2011, 03:54:04 AM
Since your face is somehow worse than mine.

But Archem is pretty much the uglyness (and fat) of both of us combined, so, I don't now.
huge bitch bluh bluh
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 21, 2011, 04:40:31 AM
I thought you didn't read HS.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: drenrin2120 on April 21, 2011, 05:15:31 AM
That is the most boring page ever. I mean, here's the description.
Quote
A group of members of charas-project.net and its forums

I say we put Archem's picture as our little profile thingy.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 21, 2011, 05:21:22 AM
It's sure to garner internet fame.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 21, 2011, 06:54:44 AM
I thought you didn't read HS.
I just talk to a lot of people who do read it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 21, 2011, 08:32:50 AM
Still not sure why you don't read it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 21, 2011, 08:37:12 AM
There's just so damn much of it. Fairly sure I'd be dead of old age by the time I got up to date.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: fruckert on April 21, 2011, 09:06:16 AM
It doesn't help that the first stretch of it is boring as ****.
It only gets interesting once John gets hit by a meteor.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: SaiKar on April 21, 2011, 12:12:11 PM
Nah, be fair. It gets interesting about from the time he confronts his dad onwards.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: fruckert on April 21, 2011, 10:58:10 PM
I'm going to have to disagree with that.

Well, it starts having more of a plot once that happens, but it's still kind of a tedious "do silly thing!" montage.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 21, 2011, 11:06:38 PM
I very much enjoyed the beginning. I was only really annoyed at the start of the troll arc.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Natako on April 21, 2011, 11:08:49 PM
I've kind of started reading it, though I have doubts that I'll ever catch up to the current updates. I have to say that I didn't really get interested about it until the meteor part and when Rose was introduced. I actually dropped it for a bit and picked it up later because I couldn't get into it on my first attempt to read it. It is pretty awesome once it actually gets going, but it's just a shame that it takes so long to get to that point. If you can get that far, it's totally worth it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 22, 2011, 01:54:49 AM
Whoever makes these really shoud rewrite the beginning to make it less boring, or something. Most people who don't like it (myself included) seem to dislike it because the beginning is such a pain in the ***.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 22, 2011, 03:23:37 AM
Again, I really do love the early parts. You know, before it gets convoluted as all hell.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Razor on April 22, 2011, 04:18:48 AM
Ahem.


>Facebook
>Charas page
>Admin: Jude O'Neil.

Wow. Most people won't even recognise that name.
When's the last time anyone saw Charaman on here or on MSN?
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: fruckert on April 22, 2011, 06:25:40 AM
Who?
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 22, 2011, 06:49:21 AM
Whoa. I remember.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 22, 2011, 01:41:36 PM
Charasman... Cool guy, I miss him.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: drenrin2120 on April 22, 2011, 03:31:35 PM
Funny you should say that. I was browsing through the photo topic for a picture of archem to post when I came across a ton of his posts. Back in 2007
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 22, 2011, 03:35:57 PM
Why would you post a picture of Archem?
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 22, 2011, 05:12:54 PM
Yeah, that's a pretty bad idea. It doesn't help that most of them are of horrible quality.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cosmos on April 22, 2011, 06:53:37 PM
..wasnt charaman was lord raffles? lmfao
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 22, 2011, 09:21:15 PM
Eh, I thought he was one of his friend of something. I suppose I missed something there.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: drenrin2120 on April 22, 2011, 10:08:18 PM
Why would you question posting a picture of Archem?
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 22, 2011, 10:25:54 PM
You know what? You are right. In fact, I'm going to post this authentic, clearly not MS Paint modified picture, this irrefutable proof that he was behind the Hindenburg crash.

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/cerebus_x01/Archem2Zeppelincrash.jpg)

You are a monster, Archem, and you know it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 12:13:15 AM
God, I sure was. Then. Now, I'm more of a malevolent horror.

I'm also somewhat more photogenic now.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 12:29:03 AM
..wasnt charaman was lord raffles? lmfao
No. Raffles got inside Charasman's account for a while, and impersonated him, but that account was then banned and he made a new one, if my memory isn't failing me.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: SaiKar on April 23, 2011, 01:10:47 AM
Yeah, Charaman was pretty cool for a while. He's the one that told us about that awful troll forum during the great ancient age of the Troll Invasion and Sanctuary Fortress. It was way more fun fighting them than it is fighting spambots today >_>
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Dragonium on April 23, 2011, 01:52:43 AM
What concerns me most is that Silas/ZKX is an Officer of that group.

Silas in power is an utterly terrifying concept.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 01:53:29 AM
Yeah, at least we knew that there was someone on the other side of the computer. <.<

I came here kind of late as far as troll-fighting goes, but Raffles still tried to post every once in a while. I'm not really sure why he still bothered, but he was much cooler than the bots.


And Drag, wasn't he a Mayor of Charas for a while? I mean, Mayors are as powerful as Mods are, pretty much.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 02:04:16 AM
Zeek is still my favorite Charasian.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 02:14:45 AM
He's the person that got me into music. I gotta thank him for that.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 02:28:30 AM
I still don't know if your musical taste is of quality.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 02:31:07 AM
Do you even know anything about my musical taste?
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 23, 2011, 02:37:29 AM
Well, I can Imagine what kind of songs you like.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 02:42:59 AM
Clever.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 02:44:43 AM
I guess, but that's a good one! You can't use the fact that I like a good song by a good guy as an argument for me having bad taste in music!
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 03:02:15 AM
Nobody is.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 03:03:52 AM
You know what sucks? The fact that you have more posts than I do. It gets me pissed. I had more posts than anyone. Then, crazy bug happens, and I lose one thousand ****ing posts. I mean, sure, I'm catching up, but damn. What the heck.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Cerebus on April 23, 2011, 03:04:31 AM
Just so you know, I didn't mean to label this song as bad or anything. In fact, I have this very song on my iPod.

Beside, musical tastes shouldn't be judged... to a certain point.

And post count means nothing!
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 03:11:48 AM
Sure it does! It is a representation of how much time we spend online and how much of a nerd and a loser we are!

...wait. You know what, Archem, keep the first place. I lost interest.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 03:26:40 AM
Pff, I stopped caring after I hit the 10k mark.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: fruckert on April 23, 2011, 04:33:30 AM
I don't think I've ever cared.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: SaiKar on April 23, 2011, 05:48:49 AM
After I crossed 50k it got kind of dull.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Osmose1000 on April 23, 2011, 05:56:04 AM
No one can derail a thread like Charas. :P
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on April 23, 2011, 07:18:37 AM
Oh lord.  I think just a page to like wouldn't be a big deal.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 01:32:27 PM
SaiKar, you cheater.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 23, 2011, 01:44:53 PM
Oh lord.  I think just a page to like wouldn't be a big deal.
Well it's there, even if it's not that well maintained.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: SaiKar on April 23, 2011, 03:29:44 PM
No one can derail a thread like Charas. :P
If this was old school Charas, this thread would have gotten locked on page 1 by Carmen or GhostClown ;)
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on April 23, 2011, 06:30:35 PM
Oh, nobody loves old-school Charas.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 23, 2011, 06:40:30 PM
Yep. Just the golden days in between where requests would be answered, teams and mini teams were actives, people were helpful, games were made, and there were no bots. Oh, the golden days, how I miss thee.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on April 23, 2011, 07:19:31 PM
Well it's there, even if it's not that well maintained.

Huh.  Just found the Charas-project group and joined it. =P
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: lilsniffs3 on April 24, 2011, 11:13:40 PM
Joined it under my account with a fake name. You'll know when you see it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: HobomasterXXX on April 25, 2011, 04:36:25 AM
Why would you even have a Facebook account with a fake name
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: FFL2and3rocks on April 29, 2011, 08:13:20 AM
Why would you even have a Facebook account with a fake name

Because using your real name is just asking for the online predators to find you.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Felix-0 on April 29, 2011, 12:26:20 PM
My FB first name is Felix. Although that's not my real name. It's what everyone calls me by. I'm more used to hearing Felix than my real name.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: drenrin2120 on April 29, 2011, 03:10:23 PM
Facebook won't let me change my name anymore. Damn nazis -_-
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: lilsniffs3 on April 30, 2011, 01:35:53 AM
Why would you even have a Facebook account with a fake name

Parents are a tad overprotective.

And my Italian teacher told me I should make my Facebook/Email/whatever Signor Lastname. Sniffles is just whatever because my last name is ridiculous.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 30, 2011, 01:41:14 AM
Pff.
Real name + Real Last Name is the way to go. A "_" in between works great, too. Oh, and don't use caps. Yep, there you go.

Like... lucas_irineu. The perfect handle.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: lilsniffs3 on April 30, 2011, 01:48:35 AM
Facebook is run by evil corporation man who was played by the guy who could easily be swapped with Michael Cera. They don't allow a username. It's first name and last name.

Basically, Ian_Lastname wouldn't work. As a first name, it also doesn't work.

Speaking of Facebook, Twitter all the way.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: drenrin2120 on April 30, 2011, 02:51:20 AM
I got myself a twitter. I haven't logged since the day I got it. I think my screen name was Deplorable_Puss, or something like that.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on April 30, 2011, 03:14:13 AM
They don't allow a username.

Well... they kinda do.  You're allowed to do the Nickname thing, as well as make it so your profile has a name.  Like mine is oboe.joe or something like that.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: ellie-is on April 30, 2011, 03:55:35 AM
I got a twitter on december. Deleted it last month because it was sending spam to people.
I had a total of one twit. "Okay, I have a twitter. Now what?"
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Kilyle on May 27, 2011, 11:07:11 AM
Well... they kinda do.  You're allowed to do the Nickname thing, as well as make it so your profile has a name.  Like mine is oboe.joe or something like that.

I'd like to know how to do that.  But then again, I'm not about to hook up my online ident (Kilyle, which I use for everything) with my real name.  As someone else said, there's plenty of reasons you might want to keep them separate.  I'm nervous enough about having my friends and my pastor on the same list (not that I post anything I wouldn't want my pastor to read, but my friends use some of the worst language I've ever heard in my life).

But anyway.  I'm not too familiar with Facebook groups, but I wasn't really thinking along the lines of "group".  Just "page" that I can Like.  I mean, I can... and am about to, after I finish this message... simply post a link to Charas, but that disappears after a couple days, which reduces its usefulness as both advertising and reminder.

But who knows how many of my friends on Facebook might be interested in joining Charas, or making use of the graphics here, or getting involved in making hobby games for themselves?  (Knowing my circle of friends and how I've discussed hobby game crafting before, I'm gonna say "practically none" but you never know....)  A link (that stuck around) would let people browse their way over here, just like my links to Alice Cooper, Teräsbetoni, Sabaton... Minecraft, Emily Rodda, etc.  Passive word-of-mouth advertising that doesn't require my active participation at the same time as my friend's interest.

P.S. My signature?  I think I was pretty peeved about a news story back when I wrote that.  I don't mess with my sig very often.  And yeah, the respect list was "Hey, everyone else seems to be doing it..." (which isn't my motivation for very many things in my life, so cherish it).

ETA: Post Count 108.  Boo-yah.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on May 27, 2011, 04:28:53 PM
Since '04? You're a real heavy hitter, aren't ya?

I'm poking fun, in case it's not apparent. Given that you're not a common forumite, I feel that it's worth putting a disclaimer in, just in case.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Valiere on May 31, 2011, 01:25:16 AM
I don't want hot babes knowing I make RPGs in my spare time!

There's nothing unattractive about creativity.  :(
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Archem on May 31, 2011, 02:24:03 AM
There's plenty unattractive about being an RPG dork. For example, you're pretty damn ugly, but if you never touched this site, you'd be quite hot.

I don't think this is working out like I envisioned...
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on May 31, 2011, 03:51:14 AM
This topic... is awkward.  Must be because Lucas posted in it.
Title: Re: No Facebook Page?
Post by: Valiere on May 31, 2011, 05:08:39 AM
Lucas does seem to awkwardify topics.