Originally posted by DÛke
Weren't you a normal person Orgg? How did you gain the "godly" powers? That's crap...
First of all-- Everybody calm down. DUke, this means you too.
If you'd check the thread in the suggestions forum and take a look at the old CPA forums on hypermart, you'll notice somthing: I was there. a bit less mature, but I WAS there, and I tried to help as much as I could.
Newwave games's owner's name is Doust. I have forgotten his first name, but his last name is Doust. [It's David --Zadok001] I live in the area that his store(s?)are in. We, that is the CPA, were needing a place to go that had no ads that were not of a benifit and advertising somthing that we hadn't anything to do with.
Shortly after the "Mission Statement" went up on The Dojo and Brainburst, both sites offered to host us-- and doust offered to set up a server and ".com" for us. One of our best members at the time was Ferret(not Ferrett from starcity, same nicname, diff. person.). He paid somwhere around two hundred dollars to get both set up. The ".com" was set up fairly quickly, but only as a re-director. The server was a much longer thing. as a matter of fact, we still are kinda waiting for a reply as of the status of Ferret's money and/or a server for us. Needless to say we havn't gotten either.
Insert my first thing here.
I talk to Stacy Doust, Mr. Doust's nice wife, during three pre-releses to try to streighten this out. At the third PR I get his cellular phone number. I call him up and as soon as I get "I'm with the CPA"... either bad static or somthing cut us off or he hung up. I dunno which, but the CPA decided to assume the worst.
#1 over.
What did I get? a thanks for your help from Ed and the future savior of the site, Dune Echo. Also, on the UBB, Ed allows me to edit posts if nessisary. Do I use it? once--I delete a message from some one-time poster that just has the "f-word" about ten times. Kapow, it was gone. that's it.
>>Now here we are at Dune's accomplishment, getting ChaosDen to host the CPA. This was before we had two-hundred people who beleived in having fun with magic.<<
After this, I thought up the idea of making buttons for the CPA. The idea was liked by several, yet hasn't come even close to frutition untill now, and I belive you can expect Mike(or Ed on the board) Sullivan, the Webmaster and web designer for the CPA to make some annoucements later about this.
#2 explained, hopefully over in a few months.
>>insert several months and mabe an artical between the thought of this and the next deed<<
A thread starts up about the old dojo threads and several posters that we missed. I find the old forum's address out from somone who still had them in their favorites menue and gather as many addresses that I could from the "notable" people. Unfourtunatly, only one of the people who hadn't signed up did--Chaos Turtle. But I wouldn't say that that was unfourtunate.
#3 over.
>>Insert another artical here<<
I find out that there is a way to create your own apprintice theme for download on Dragonstudios. I wish to make my own theme for the CPA since it's a great site without any monitary revenue for "good offerings" like the (at the time) Dojo's contests and merchandice (like the caps) at the time. However, the link is broken. It would be several months before the link is fixed, and several more before I would be able to complete it.
#4 started, not finished.
>>Insert me gitting a webpage and asking for a little "official member" CPA "badge" to put on it(I'll post the code for it later if anyone wants to put it up) and the creation of meridianmagic.com<<
I ask Meridianmagic why they don't have the CPA on their large links list. They reply they didn't know about it, and It is added after being a "featured site." Inadvertenly, a curiosity shining out from the water of the mill I was behind turns out to be a goldmine. I am happy that I helped with this site's promotion, as it is probably the best forum for people who just want to have fun.
#5 started and finished by dumb luck.
>>Insert somthing I've been hinting at somtimes here and me getting moderator abilities on the VB<<
I then get the hair-brained idea of promothing the CPA to WOTC by asking several people in WOTC to do interviews: I jokingly throw this around a bit in a place it's up to Ed to disclose. I then think that an interview with a well-known person might be intertaining, insiteful, and might have the side effect of getting us on mtgnews or meridianmagic--or more places possibly. I send out the requests for interviews to several people. the first to respond is Peter Adkinson. I gather questions and interview him(as you probably know, as it was very recent). Mark Rosewater then contacts me and says to go through some Public Relations guy so he doesn't get another hernia from Mark accepting another unapprooved interview. after about six red-tape laden e-mails, I get that approved and gather more questions. I'm E-mailed about the questions that I thought I'd sent already and then re-submit some questions deleting the ones that Mr. Adkinson had sent good answers to, as his responces had come back by this time.
#noone's counting now, and I don't care really.
>>insert the completion of the CPA theme and it's posting here<<
In case you're wondering, Mr. Rosewater's questions are due back last week... <insert weird-al estique face of confusion here>
A side effect of the interview with Mr. Adkinson is I ask if he would forward a request for an interview to Dr. Garfield. He does and Garfield agrees to an interview. as of now I'm editing the twelve pages of questions for appropriateness and clerity, re-wrighintng them for clerity, and trying to order them in a simi-organized way.
#whoreallycares.
(does a king authourly impression of the 'dennis' scene)
And THAT is why I have moderation at my discression.
Did you really want to be called a $#*#eating bunch of mater #^@#ers? that's what an Dakken did, and I edited it because I didn't think that was really nessisary. I also deleted the identical posts that were in the areas that WASN:T the battle arena, where this stuff goes.
Duke, I believe that you are legendary in places that arn't here. but here, you are still just a relitive newbie, though I don't agree with Ed and say most of your posts are spam--Look at my posts, and probably half of 'em are actually just a humourus statement or just crazy. You are a good poster usually and also a good level head dedicated to playing Magic for the fun of it when you can. you have opinions of things just as all others do. In this place you become well-known and/or well-liked. Here the founders/privilaged few decided that "Vetern" status at 100 posts was as far as they would go due to post numbers. Why? Because they believed that everyone should look the same, breath the same, and post the same as all others.
What's to make yourself different from the pack? you can get a customized nickname from Child of Gaea or Zadoc001, or Ed. and you can post your honest opinions about subjects without fear of retalliation unless you unload on somone else.
When I edited out Mr. blackblade's post, probably the seventh I have EVER edited/deleted/mooved due to content, wrong subject, or completly off topic and without value, such as "hey, you just discribed me! that guy with the crossbow just had a heart attack and he's dead now. the end".
I really didn't want to have to post this, as i just don't feel right about telling everybody on this site about what I've done--I save that as a P.R. material for people at the gamestores I somtimes go to.
As for me, I'm still just a regular guy--Not a "god" as nonarb has attempted to perpetuate.
Also- Ed is getting irritated by the "god" title thrust upon him, and believes you to be confused about his joking around about it. All that was was a good joke--a joke that has gotten old.
sic semper,
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ORGG(
http://www.dork.com/theorgg)
Unless you really wanted to be called a $#*#eating bunch of mater #^@#ers.
[Edited by theorgg on August 13th, 2000 at 08:59 PM]
