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The Infidel wrote: 2022-02-27 09:43am I miss when this place was alive. There was always this person who was an actual expert on stuff. Darth Wong on engineering, Kamikaze Sith when it came to police matters in the US, Coffee and his stories about flooring, Seraphina, Duchess of Zeon and others taught me a lot about transgender people and their problems, Starglider when it came to weird computer stuff. Kanastrous about movie sets and how stuff are done in movies. Thanas kept us in check when Dalton was too busy. These days, I rarely see posts from Dalton anymore. I miss Aly, Wong and so many people. So many are gone...
I'm also still around. You can find me on the SDN discord server. I became less active here for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have what I can only describe as discussion/debate fatigue (is that a thing?). I use to just love getting into a good discussion with people but now I just kinda shrug my shoulders and move on.

Still I have very fond memories of this place. Glad I joined 20 years ago.
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Tomorrow would have been Nitram's 40th birthday.

I wonder what he'd have thought about the world today and especially the US.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-05-17 11:30am Tomorrow would have been Nitram's 40th birthday.

I wonder what he'd have thought about the world today and especially the US.
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Kamakazie Sith wrote: 2022-05-17 01:43am
The Infidel wrote: 2022-02-27 09:43am I miss when this place was alive. There was always this person who was an actual expert on stuff. Darth Wong on engineering, Kamikaze Sith when it came to police matters in the US, Coffee and his stories about flooring, Seraphina, Duchess of Zeon and others taught me a lot about transgender people and their problems, Starglider when it came to weird computer stuff. Kanastrous about movie sets and how stuff are done in movies. Thanas kept us in check when Dalton was too busy. These days, I rarely see posts from Dalton anymore. I miss Aly, Wong and so many people. So many are gone...
I'm also still around. You can find me on the SDN discord server. I became less active here for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have what I can only describe as discussion/debate fatigue (is that a thing?). I use to just love getting into a good discussion with people but now I just kinda shrug my shoulders and move on.

Still I have very fond memories of this place. Glad I joined 20 years ago.
Nice to hear from you, old man. :)
So, this discord thingy isn't just for talking? I've always only used it for team chat while gaming with friends. It seems that the SDN Discord is quite active, am I right?
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The Infidel wrote: 2022-05-18 02:01pm
Kamakazie Sith wrote: 2022-05-17 01:43am
The Infidel wrote: 2022-02-27 09:43am I miss when this place was alive. There was always this person who was an actual expert on stuff. Darth Wong on engineering, Kamikaze Sith when it came to police matters in the US, Coffee and his stories about flooring, Seraphina, Duchess of Zeon and others taught me a lot about transgender people and their problems, Starglider when it came to weird computer stuff. Kanastrous about movie sets and how stuff are done in movies. Thanas kept us in check when Dalton was too busy. These days, I rarely see posts from Dalton anymore. I miss Aly, Wong and so many people. So many are gone...
I'm also still around. You can find me on the SDN discord server. I became less active here for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have what I can only describe as discussion/debate fatigue (is that a thing?). I use to just love getting into a good discussion with people but now I just kinda shrug my shoulders and move on.

Still I have very fond memories of this place. Glad I joined 20 years ago.
Nice to hear from you, old man. :)
So, this discord thingy isn't just for talking? I've always only used it for team chat while gaming with friends. It seems that the SDN Discord is quite active, am I right?
It has a text chat which is what we use. And yeah, it is pretty decently busy.
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The Infidel wrote: 2022-05-18 02:01pm Nice to hear from you, old man. :)
So, this discord thingy isn't just for talking? I've always only used it for team chat while gaming with friends. It seems that the SDN Discord is quite active, am I right?
Thank you. It's good to hear from you as well and everyone else.

Like Elheru said the text chat is decently busy.

As I'm sure you are aware Discord was originally for gamers but its use has expanded far beyond that. A bit and brief OT but they have servers in Music, Education, Science and Technology, and even hubs for students.
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I'm in a LARP club that uses Discord to organise stuff and hold meetings. It's a damn useful service.
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I miss the general activity, but I have to be honest that when we were really active 20 years ago I found the culture very toxic. But I liked to observe, and I didn't like to get involved much through fear of saying the wrong thing. But people were so passionate about things, which as an autistic person (I didn't know I was back then) I couldn't relate to for certain topics that were so important to many here.

I miss MKShepperd! He seems to be against the grain for the website, and I admired that. Also the Russian military expert guy ... Vympel? SeaSkimmer was a legend of military knowledge. And Lonestar was fun as well.

And of course Darth Wong, who I generally didn't agree with and when I was a kid didn't like, but I respect the hell out of him now I am an adult. What a smart and creative person but also he was very fucking brave putting himself out there as he did.

Take care everyone!
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Ubiquitous wrote: 2022-06-02 05:44pm I miss the general activity, but I have to be honest that when we were really active 20 years ago I found the culture very toxic. But I liked to observe, and I didn't like to get involved much through fear of saying the wrong thing. But people were so passionate about things, which as an autistic person (I didn't know I was back then) I couldn't relate to for certain topics that were so important to many here.

I miss MKShepperd! He seems to be against the grain for the website, and I admired that. Also the Russian military expert guy ... Vympel? SeaSkimmer was a legend of military knowledge. And Lonestar was fun as well.

And of course Darth Wong, who I generally didn't agree with and when I was a kid didn't like, but I respect the hell out of him now I am an adult. What a smart and creative person but also he was very fucking brave putting himself out there as he did.

Take care everyone!
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Try being ID'd as Autistic when you're 50 and female.

"How did it affect you?"
Uh... it made me the bottom of the school totem pole, made me never understand or make easy friends with other girls, made me think all the rules girls had to follow were BS so I was a tomboy? Made me too smart for some things at school, so I was shifted to "Gifted Class" and further estranged from the kids at my school?

Made me go thru a nasty divorce because I was taught "Love and Marriage and White Picket Fences"? Made me always the outsider at work, even as I wind up taking on more than my share of duties? Made me have a "helium hand" whenever people need help, because I feel that maybe they'd like me more if I was USEFUL?

Yeah... I know how it's affected me.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-04 09:38pm Try being ID'd as Autistic when you're 50 and female.

"How did it affect you?"
Uh... it made me the bottom of the school totem pole, made me never understand or make easy friends with other girls, made me think all the rules girls had to follow were BS so I was a tomboy? Made me too smart for some things at school, so I was shifted to "Gifted Class" and further estranged from the kids at my school?

Made me go thru a nasty divorce because I was taught "Love and Marriage and White Picket Fences"? Made me always the outsider at work, even as I wind up taking on more than my share of duties? Made me have a "helium hand" whenever people need help, because I feel that maybe they'd like me more if I was USEFUL?

Yeah... I know how it's affected me.
Yeah that sucks. Sorry you've had a shitty time with it.
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Ubiquitous wrote: 2022-06-06 01:20pm Yeah that sucks. Sorry you've had a shitty time with it.
I was born at a time when Autism/Asperger's was "Male Only". There's still a lot of women my age or younger who have either not been diagnosed, or have been mis-diagnosed.

I never once considered the face I was something more than just "odd" until I started dating Nitram. Only once I knew a full diagnosed Autistic did a lot of my 'oddness' make sense.

And dammit I miss him horribly. In 10days it'll be 8 years he's been gone. :cry:
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-06 11:06pm
Ubiquitous wrote: 2022-06-06 01:20pm Yeah that sucks. Sorry you've had a shitty time with it.
I was born at a time when Autism/Asperger's was "Male Only". There's still a lot of women my age or younger who have either not been diagnosed, or have been mis-diagnosed.

I never once considered the face I was something more than just "odd" until I started dating Nitram. Only once I knew a full diagnosed Autistic did a lot of my 'oddness' make sense.

And dammit I miss him horribly. In 10days it'll be 8 years he's been gone. :cry:
God damn ... sending big hugs your way. He was a big loss.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-06 11:06pm And dammit I miss him horribly. In 10days it'll be 8 years he's been gone. :cry:
{{{hugs}}}

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Broomstick wrote: 2022-06-11 04:53am
LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-06 11:06pm And dammit I miss him horribly. In 10days it'll be 8 years he's been gone. :cry:
{{{hugs}}}

I miss my Other Half, too.
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Ubiquitous wrote: 2022-06-02 05:44pm. Also the Russian military expert guy ... Vympel?
He pops up on the SDN Discord chat now and then. Shep showed up a couple of times, but was shown the door.
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Elheru Aran wrote: 2022-06-12 01:15pmShep showed up a couple of times, but was shown the door.
He trolls.
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Ralin wrote: 2022-06-12 09:20pm
Elheru Aran wrote: 2022-06-12 01:15pmShep showed up a couple of times, but was shown the door.
He trolls.
Always has. Still not sure why we kept him
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-13 10:56am
Ralin wrote: 2022-06-12 09:20pm
Elheru Aran wrote: 2022-06-12 01:15pmShep showed up a couple of times, but was shown the door.
He trolls.
Always has. Still not sure why we kept him
I think it's case of being mildly amusing even when he's trolling and not just annoying and the fact that when he feels like properly contributing especially in subjects where facts rule over opinions he tends to have informative things to say.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2022-06-13 10:56am
Ralin wrote: 2022-06-12 09:20pm
Elheru Aran wrote: 2022-06-12 01:15pmShep showed up a couple of times, but was shown the door.
He trolls.
Always has. Still not sure why we kept him
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Kamakazie Sith wrote: 2022-05-31 09:27pm
The Infidel wrote: 2022-05-18 02:01pm Nice to hear from you, old man. :)
So, this discord thingy isn't just for talking? I've always only used it for team chat while gaming with friends. It seems that the SDN Discord is quite active, am I right?
Thank you. It's good to hear from you as well and everyone else.

Like Elheru said the text chat is decently busy.

As I'm sure you are aware Discord was originally for gamers but its use has expanded far beyond that. A bit and brief OT but they have servers in Music, Education, Science and Technology, and even hubs for students.
I'm in the Discord chat now, but not sure it is something for me. Had to mute it, as it kept on pinging all the time.
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Yeah, discord can be a bit like that.
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IIRC You can set the settings so the app doesn't constantly ping the phone notifications without muting everything but the server I was on kind of died and I've not used it recently.
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I only have discord on my computer and only muted general chat in SDN chatroom only. If you tag me, I can still hear it if I'm around.
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Where am I at in the post apocalypse draft? When do I start getting picks? Because I want this guy. This guy right here. I will regret not being able to claim the quote, "The first I noticed while burning weed, so I burned it, aiming at its head first. It wriggled for about 10 seconds. Too long... I then fetched an old machete [+LITERALLY ANYTHING]"
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