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Weekly Update 1-07; Oh yeah - it's a must read
Topic Started: Nov 5 2007, 09:23 AM (406 Views)
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[size=8]WEEKLY UPDATE 1st issue, 2007[/size]

[size=6]-What has happened recently?[/size]

Lord Sunnycool presents the WEEKLY UPDATE!
All right people, I am sure that only the most hardcore veterans, who have been here since the dawn of this awesome forum community would recognize this! THE WEEKLY UPDATE IS BACK! Yeah – I probably won’t be able to keep it up every week, but it still is a cool thing and all credits to Ariakas, our most honoured Loremaster for telling me to write this again. Now – why is it that only veterans of TWC would know this old tradition – I checked – the last one of these was written for the White Counsil’s THREE-MONTH-ANNIVERSARY! (EDIT – I saw there was one after that one, but whatever) Holy fiddlestick! At least the following one isn’t for the three-yearr-anniversary!

The basic idea of this little weekly update is to get some overview on the White Counsil, come up with some opinions, suggestions and so on. I don’t think we can return to the good old Newsletters, but if people are up for it, we might just be able to do it!

I hope I can keep these updates frequent and otherwise, just slap me and I will try to get off of my sofa slash away from my xbox 360.

For honour and glory!
I really am an arrogant son-of-a-weisslending. You see – I just can’t get enough of bragging about my coolest idea EVER! For Honour and Glory – also known as fHaG. It started so damned long time ago with Ariakas posting that cool “timeline” after I had given some medieval-ish medals to some members. And then it was born – I made the forum and we had it – our own Fantasy world to write about, create and immerse ourselves with! It has been awesome to see so many people getting sucked into it and spending so much time (and letters) for this awesome project! I must admit, I did not believe it would be this huge, but that was not a first – I made the same mistake with TWC itself – deeming it a short little thing for me to be an admin for. :D
Now – For Honour and Glory has expanded from medals given to Brannalbinn for deleting Dylan’s spam to dozens of written works, discussions, drawings, polls, jokes and games – climaxing into the awesome Charred Marble RPG (credits to Rudder for this awesome idea, and credits for me for this awesome-yet-not-confirmed-name). FHaG has grown so large, it has been the pounding heart of this community for nearly two years, I imagine. The core of TWC was LotR SBG, but that thing was neither unique nor long-lived. For Honour and Glory however must be the trademark of our community – it is unique, fun and über-cool, because we started from nothing and now have a huge universe, inspiring the creation of new lands, kingdoms and tyrants *cough*Tthaendil*cough*.
The RPG has indeed added fiddlestick-loads of content, ideas and most importantly cohesion to our world and I just love the fact how we have some borders and yet it is so free and one can write almost anything. It really is awesome. I have to brag about it being my child, although I have been far from the greatest contributor of written works ;)

Thanks to all authors of stories, descriptions and so on as well as participators in the RPG. Keep it up!

P.S. For Honour and Glory (the forum) has beaten down both Off Topic and Die Grosse Spam-Grube for this year’s activity statistics and I think that is pretty awesome. I remember the old days of TWC, where Off Topic had as many topic views as all other forums together :P
NEAT!


Activity
You know – I think that this part is inevitable for a Weekly Update. You also know – I don’t want to give it too much attention. The truth is – TWC has most activity when we don’t think about how fiddlesticking dead the forums are. When we whine about it and you see me saying: “We gotta do something!”, then nothing happens – we get depressed and the activity does not rise. The statistics show this year had its peak around the Counsil’s birthday, but I have a feeling November might be a good month too, with this weeks posts being as many as the last THREE weeks’ posts. Good job people!

So focus on the solution (posts, new topics, fhag) and not that much on the problem (dead forums and inactivity). A spring cleaning of some forums might be needed soon, but we can discuss that here if people wish!

Russian Porn
We have had reports from various UPBs (Unidentified Porn Bots) around the White Realm, and what can I say – Spamith village is advertising for their high-quality harlot services and so on. We are a free Realm after all, right? Anyways – since some of the younger members might find such links disturbing (or tempting), the administration of the White Counsil has now removed all of these advertisements and banned these damned Russians from our web-site. Special thanks to Svenkill, diplomat of The Golden Empire for helping us ban the bots forever!

FhaG – our weapon
If you think someone you know might find the idea of the For Honour and Glory concept interesting, don’t hesitate to tell them about TWC. Once we got our members from the (now-non-existing) Games Workshop forums, but now we have to sell on FHaG. It really is the most active part of the forums anyway. Just keep it in mind. I am going to show it to some friends soon – might get a few new active members. Who knows.

[size=6]-Interesting Stats[/size]

Ok – I will just compare the ones from the last Weekly Update with the current ones.

[last Weekly Update:
Total posts: 3,395
Members: 35
Most active users this week (my own judgement and I am not included): Ariakas (nice to have you backi on the active-list), Branalbinn, Locky12, Babygurl, Pezza, Lieutenant of Morgul]

Now:

Total posts: 106 134 posts
Members: 233
Most active this week (my own judgement, I am not included. Random order): Ariakas, Andy, Alex, Derek (welcome back :P ), Lathaon, Chadden, Gorfang, Rudder)

I know we still were more active back then, but numbers are numbers, right? :P

[size=6]- The Lord’s Opinion[/size]
I am happy to be back. I remember how absent I was last November and I am still ashamed (my FHaG-character represents me in that sense), but now I am happy to be back and I will try to be as active as I can. You people also keep up the good work – no need to give TWC up yet – thanks for keeping it alive so long with and without me and I really appreciate it!
Also good to see the spam level falling :P

-What’s about to happen?
I only included this thing, because it was in the old Updates.
What we will do is that we will work hard to make November a busy TWC-month. No doubt about it – the RPG is getting closer to the Shiverland Crusade and there are great things in the work of FHaG. Speaking for myself, I plan on expanding the Encyclopaedia with the Zealous County and hopefully the counties will be all covered soon, so I can move on to other things.
I also think we should somehow incorporate the Encyclopaedia and the glossary into each other, Ariakas. You take a look at that old “The Lore” thread and see if you can freshen it up. You are the Loremaster – live up to the name :D

Discuss
Discuss my (awesome) entries here and have fun!

Enjoy the community!

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Russian Porn
We have had reports from various UPBs (Unidentified Porn Bots) around the White Realm, and what can I say – Spamith village is advertising for their high-quality harlot services and so on. We are a free Realm after all, right?

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I am liking your update sunny, the activity in the roleplay, I think I have a new member, a guy from uni who will join the rpg and possibly add to our world, he is a talented author.

I like the upbeatness and your right we will not dwell on the past, FOR WE ARE THE FUTURE!!!
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Should your charge falter under heavy resistence, roar your devotion in His name and amount whatever strength you have left at one enemy point and crush it utterly! Let the enemy feel your pain by turning their's into agony!

Should you lay beaten and dying on the field, laugh with pride for even in death our enemies will fear us, leave them with a scar that will haunt them till the time of their retribution!" - Chaplain Valorus

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Nov 5 2007, 08:30 PM
I am liking your update sunny, the activity in the roleplay, I think I have a new member, a guy from uni who will join the rpg and possibly add to our world, he is a talented author.

I like the upbeatness and your right we will not dwell on the past, FOR WE ARE THE FUTURE!!!

Thanks Andy! Sounds awesome - I am going to tell a mate soon as well! I also focused on making it light-hearted and cheerful! That's the spirit we should stick to :D
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We need more booze and metal...


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Nov 5 2007, 11:44 PM
and metal...

Working on it.... :P
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more booze

I second that! Who can supply us!?
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I think Johannes should be renamed the (T)alemaster, then he can supply us with both stories but also booze :P

But excellent to see this back :D
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Haha - a lame joke, but still funny :P

Yeah - I am glad to see it back too :D
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I joined for the three month anniversary one, back when I replied to everything in an even less constructive manner :lol:
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Nov 6 2007, 06:40 PM
I joined for the three month anniversary one, back when I replied to everything in an even less constructive manner :lol:

AKA Spam :P

Good times though. Damn you posted a lot!!!
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I still do, although I think what I reply now is slightly more constructive and appropriate.


But I have to say you're right. They were good times.
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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I still do, although I think what I reply now is slightly more constructive and appropriate.


But I have to say you're right. They were good times.

Oh yes - you still do, but as you pointed out - now there is a point in your posts. I remember some that were just: "I agree" or "Yes" or ":lol:" or "haha"

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:lol:
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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It's a braillaint update :lol:

Although I am most sad to see that spam levels are own we must rectify this :P

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Over my dead body. I'm chuffed that we're getting activity through readable posts :)
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Spam has really dwindled - thanks to FhaG I must say :P
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I agree - there is so much to talk about at the moment. The RPG is in full-flow, and more light is being put on Ahm-Shere.
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Over my dead body.

That can be arranged quite easily :P

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Moving swiftly back to topic.

When will the next update be?
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Should you lay beaten and dying on the field, laugh with pride for even in death our enemies will fear us, leave them with a scar that will haunt them till the time of their retribution!" - Chaplain Valorus

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