Perfect Isolation 2.0beta

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I entered the messageboard. It was dusty. And not morbyd dusty. Just dusty dusty. It hadn't been used in a year or more... then again,  it felt like it <i>used</i> us.

My ib code was rusty... and so was my heart. The home i once knew was gone. Abandoned. And it was all my fault.

Lives. Social media. Time. Lack of a really decent nin release? Sure. Those are good excuses. But it was easier to shoulder the blame on myself. And aol. Damn, how i missed aol.

"Hello?" I called out. "Anyone there?"

Silence. Nothing but silence.

I found an old smiley that i recognized.
:rock:
"Hey rocking out smiley, how have you been, buddy?"




Silence.

Oh hey

Suddenly i see a familiar face. Luna. Dear, Sweet luna. I met her outside of the rickshaw bathrooms. It was weird but altogether perfect. So very pi.

"Omfg! Hey Luna! I haven't seen you in forever! How are things? It's cold and lonely here. So very cold."

You feeling ok buddy?

And now Aaron?!? I've seen enough genre films to know this had to be a hallucination. Or Clones. Or Hallucinatory clones.

"Aaron, old pal! I haven't seen you since the robot attacks in 2011!"

We kept in touch via mutant carrier pigeons... but there was no sure way of telling if aaron actually sent those messages on those 3 winged birds. Sure, he wrote them on Fred Myer receipts... but anyone could have known about THAT trick. Communicating in this futuristic wasteland was always a gamble.

Always.

Jeebus H., whoever's running this place should be ashamed of themselves.

It was good to see Goose. Clearly his memory was lapsing. This was his board. He got it set up when the quazars hacked the last one to shreds. Then again he was infected by that nanobot virus. The robot arm looked good tho.

"Hey goose, glad you made it!"

Hey Teddykins, did you know you're covered in...cobwebs?  Silly String?  Somebody's really...uh...fibrous spooge?

Holy shit Chim! TPD you are amazing!

And that's pretty much par for course for him....

I'm here, Teddy. I'd forgotten my password, but accidentally put in the right one when I logged in to make a new one.  :lol:

Chim! This feels like 2006 all over again.

Everytime we drive through cracksville to get to some place better I see the rickshaw and think of teepers ;)

This place is so goth

 :lol: :o :huh: *happy dance*

Quote from: luna on April 03, 2016, 06:11:36 PM
This place is so goth

Gray would be the color if I had a heart. OH SNAP.


Fuck I've missed this place. Also means I can swear and my grandma can't give me shit about it... (Fb...)

Fuck

It's gonna take some work to get this place back up and running, I think

Man, I totally don't even recognize my own avatar.  Like, I haven't seen that one since LiveJournal.

Shit, I think the last time I posted here was either right before the shit hit the fan with my ex or right after my (now) husband and I started dating.  I suppose I could always look it up.

Are we gonna do this thing?  Are we gonna keep up on it this time because facebook's privacy is shitty and Teeps is probably never getting in again?

Also, what the actual shit, I realise Ted posted like 8x in this thread alone, but when did he almost DOUBLE my postcount?!

Quote from: Nayl_Girl on April 15, 2016, 05:12:27 PM
Also, what the actual shit, I realise Ted posted like 8x in this thread alone, but when did he almost DOUBLE my postcount?!

I learned from the glory days of PI 1.0 never to doubt how prolific Ted's posting can be. 

I thought he'd mellowed or something; I lead his postcount both here and on... one of the bunkers... for a pretty substantial chunk of time.

Also don't flip him so much shit... It looks like I'm the biggest post whore here... (Totally ok with that btw.)

I'm not flippin him shit, I'm upset that he blew my postcount away and wanna know when it happened  :lol:

Someone needs to flip him a lot of shit. He deserves it!  :lol:

Fair enough. That being said, when did I get this far past you? I remember saying you were the biggest post whore here... But I got you beat by quite a bit.
(I also remember now that quick reply is still fucked up and ultra long... )

Meh, you were still pretty active when I last fell off, that doesn't surprise me much.  Teeps, on the other hand, is even more prone to vanishing acts than I am, and, without seemingly being more participatory, blew past my postcount.

Conclusion?  Ted is magic.

That's an insult to magic.

:ninja:

Wow. This is... here? And my login exists?


Hello.

Most everybody moved over to a Facebook group, except for a few stragglers who fear Zuckerberg's 1984.

I haven't been here since..... 02? see a few familiar faces however. Do you still have a copy of that song you parodied off of slim shady TPD?

Quote from: Goose on October 03, 2016, 12:01:11 PM
Most everybody moved over to a Facebook group, except for a few stragglers who fear Zuckerberg's 1984.

No so much fearing 1984 as much as surrendering my information without getting paid for it.  ;-)

I miss you guys... I was going to keep posting this fan fic but got distracted by life. I think of you and miss you daily and you always inspire and influence my works...  *cuddles*

Quote from: TPD on December 14, 2016, 11:23:11 PM
I miss you guys... I was going to keep posting this fan fic but got distracted by life. I think of you and miss you daily and you always inspire and influence my works...  *cuddles*

preaaaaach

Quote from: Souless on October 03, 2016, 06:00:04 PM
I haven't been here since..... 02? see a few familiar faces however. Do you still have a copy of that song you parodied off of slim shady TPD?

possibly later i feel. Maybe 05? And yes. Yes, i do.

Quote from: Souless on October 03, 2016, 06:00:04 PM
I haven't been here since..... 02? see a few familiar faces however. Do you still have a copy of that song you parodied off of slim shady TPD?

Aw, fuck, Souless showed up and nobody told me?  I almost wish we hadn't pulled the facebook group together.

At least you didn't start the PI Facebook group.  How stupid am I?

that's why i smite you

I did say almost.  How active were any of us here when you started the group there?  Paradoxically, you reinvigorated our board attendance by giving us somewhere else to communicate and then leaving us  :'(

I have no idea how active this board was at the time that I made the FB group, but because we had been having one long Facebook chat with a nice chunk of people involved.  I'm not sure that I ever really reinvigorated anything, though.  You guys were more talkative than I was, and I can't really take credit for much more than making a group page.

It's sort of amazing that I remember that much as it goes, because most of the rest of my memory is pretty well shot these days.

And I'm here now, aren't I?  This is likely the most communicative I've been with you guys, outside of late night drunken private messaging!

Ya, you made it far more organized, that's for sure...

Initiative is important.  None of us bothered to do it, and we were losing people from the megachat because of time differences and dying phone batteries.

I'm just hoping more people start coming around again, and that I can keep in the habit of showing up myself.

I'm curious if anyone's been posting to the Facebook group lately.  As it goes, I get an email notification whenever someone posts in whichever threads, and I have Grand Miscellany saved as a bookmark on my phone's homescreen.  Works pretty nice for keeping up to date. :)

I'm not sure what kind of incentive we could give people to start coming around again.  Even with the Facebook Group, I was hard pressed to think up some cool activity or something to keep folks interested.

This is always a little weird though. :p

(https://i.imgur.com/cr0v5Zr.jpg)

Nope no one has posted anything :/

 :ph34r:

<3

:ph34r:



I could have sworn that it was : ninja : for the ninja face... (With out the spaces.)

:ph34r:

still remembered my login ?

Quote from: doom on February 12, 2017, 09:37:46 PM
still remembered my login ?

dust and i were just taking about you!

were you deadpool before doomsayer?

Quote from: dee on February 12, 2017, 06:25:53 PM
:ph34r:

<3 <3 <3

I could have sworn I posted on this thread before...oh well.  I have been here, now and again.

Come back, the water is fine!

I know doom is Joe because of his Dead Air Space project, and I'm pretty sure he used to be Deadpool back in the day.

I thought Deadpool was someone else?

I can't remember.  I'm sure I was equally mean to the both of them though.

Quote from: TPD on February 12, 2017, 10:13:00 PM
dust and i were just taking about you!

were you deadpool before doomsayer?

my icon was perhaps? but doomsayer, then just doom.

im kinda happy this page is back. I've been sick of Facebook.

Quote from: Dust on February 13, 2017, 08:56:10 AM
I can't remember.  I'm sure I was equally mean to the both of them though.

Way to be a jerk :P

I'm only admitting it because I feel bad about it!

Old dust would troll the fuck outta new dust.

That's a scary thought.  I think the only real difference is that I was way more persistant in trolling people back then.  New Dust would disarm Old Dust with charm and wit. :p

I'm not sure Old Dust COULD be disarmed with charm and wit.  I mean, maybe.  Is that what we're calling means of assimilation into the reg crowd?

Wait, did I really need assimilation?  Is that what we're calling that?  Was I that much of a bastard?  I could swear that I had at least a little bit of heart.

YOU didn't need assimilation, WE were an insular community that required a certain amount of...  je ne sais quoi (I assume I'm missing accents and my spelling is off, so you have my apologies there) before we ... assimilated people.  I don't have a better word for it.  It was the proof that you're one of us. 

As to not being able to charm you, I'm not suggesting you were a bastard, I'm suggesting we were ALL kinda on the defensive about new people, so being a charmer put us on higher alert, I feel.

I do suppose the wit might've gotten you somewhere.  That was probably a more endearing quality to the community as a whole (though I still wonder sometimes why you guys ever let me stay  :P)

Ah, I gotcha.  When it came to quality control, you could say that there was a certain sense of who was a good fit into the community.  I just liked instigating the people who were obviously going to be fun to pick on. :p

FAKE BOARD

WHYDO YOU HATE PI-MERICA DUST

Don't make me dig up AOHell.  You were just as bas as I was, if not better.