Do you sometimes miss the trolls?

[Grandy]

 Yeah, they were raging and annoying. But there is no denying this place was much more livelier with them around.

[SaiKar]

When I was a more active admin, I was of the opinion that most of the members here were programming RPGs because they sort of kind of wanted to be in an epic storyline themselves. So I really tried to jazz things up with long, dramatic speeches and relatively ineffectual tactics against the trolls to make the stakes seem higher.

I was an insane, insane man. But it was fun.

[Archem]

I miss being awesome...

[Moosetroop11]

Put simply: there were more members.  More members means more interesting points of view, not everyone feels like they have to contribute to each topic, no-one notices when someone disappears for a while...

If I started an RP now and you guys in this topic didn't want to play it, I'd already be out most of the potential players 0_o

That's one of the reasons I came back.  I feel like trying to help it ease into activity again.  I never meant to be away forever, after all.

[Cerebus]

Yeah, the reason it's so silent isn't due to the lack of trolls, but the large amount of people who left...

All the trolls added was drama. Though of course, drama can be pretty entertaining, some times.

[SaiKar]

What I really miss are people making games, myself included.

It's harder and harder for me to work on games. My first game was, in retrospect, a POS, but I got a huge amount of stuff done quickly because I wasn't worried about every little thing. Now the games I make are much, much better in terms of graphics, storyline, and balance, but each and every part takes a hundred times more work.

It doesn't help either that, even after homework, I had like 9-10 hours free every day in college and only have like 3-4 free with a job, some of which I use on friends and TV.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Speak for yourselves.

I am currently coding and prepping my bosses for Mirror, as well as storyboarding an animated trailer for halloween.

As for troll


U MAD BRO?

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Well two jobs doesn't give too much time on game making, out of my three days off, I spend an entire one working on the game, and that's been going on for about 7 months now. I have a lot of threads through out the internet, but i stopped updating them cause each time i updated them, it was really nothing significant. So, come halloween, it'll be better. So maybe then I'll pull my game thread out from the charas archives (it's there) and update it.

[fruckert]

Hey, man. I'm trying to learn real programming here.
Hard work.

[Archem]

I'm too lazy to get any real work done. I'm all ideas and concepts, but I just don't have the will to actually sit down and work.

I'm more of a short-winded project person. Animated avatars and ****. Less than a month, instant gratification.

[Prpl_Mage]

I blame facebook, steals people's time. They don't want to make games anymore. Poor future generations with no creativity.

Got some projects on hold, turns out this life thing is a lot more demanding than I thought it was 5 years ago when people blamed it.

[Cerebus]

Ah, good ol' real life... always getting in the way, eh.

[drenrin2120]

What I really miss are people making games, myself included.

[Dragonium]

I'm working on a dungeon crawler in Processing, although I don't have anything to show yet since I broke it while working on the dungeon loading code and with it being the start of the academic year I've been too busy to sit down and fix it. BufferedReader is just a terrible thing.

Charas is quiet, but I don't think it's dead by any standards.

[X_marks_the_ed]

I'm still working in 6502 (NES STUFF), I might have something to show.


Someday.