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Post by shaxper on Jan 7, 2024 19:59:25 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Jan 7, 2024 20:59:47 GMT -5
Wow! That really is a blast from the past. Just the look of the forum really takes me back and there are so many usernames that made me think, "oh yeah...whatever happened to them?" Chief among those that I still really miss are Lone Ranger (real name was Scott "something"), who never made it here due to ties with CBR, and Dan B. In the Underworld (dear ol' Dan Bailey, of course), who did transition over to this place but eventually left. I'm still friends with Dan over on Facebook, as are several others here, I know. I wish Ish Kabbible would come back too, though he did re-surface a while back, but not for long. I'd also forgotten that I was " The Confessor" over there, rather than just plain old Confessor.  Thanks for posting those, shaxper. That really made me smile. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2024 21:02:39 GMT -5
Oh yeah! I nailed that list.
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Post by Rags on Jan 7, 2024 21:06:43 GMT -5
Back then I was Jezebel Bond....I see me....
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 7, 2024 21:13:37 GMT -5
46 participants! I do believe that's the record (on the podcast, I guessed it was 32). I sure do miss some of those folks.
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I summon the days gone by!
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Post by shaxper on Jan 7, 2024 21:19:03 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2024 21:19:28 GMT -5
46 participants! I do believe that's the record (on the podcast, I guessed it was 32). I sure do miss some of those folks. Cei-U! I summon the days gone by! Yep. Lot of good peeps in there. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 7, 2024 21:39:29 GMT -5
Great to see a snapshot of the old CBR board. I'm impressed that such a wide range of topics was being discussed - movies, music, etc - as my hazy memory had been telling me that those topics were covered more elsewhere on CBR and the Classics stuck mostly to comics. Not so, as we can see above!
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Post by shaxper on Jan 7, 2024 21:41:32 GMT -5
Great to see a snapshot of the old CBR board. I'm impressed that such a wide range of topics was being discussed - movies, music, etc - as my hazy memory had been telling me that those topics were covered more elsewhere on CBR and the Classics stuck mostly to comics. Not so, as we can see above! I believe there was a big debate at one point as to whether we could have off-topic discussions like that, and the argument that won was that we had become our own separate subcommunity that wanted to talk to each other more than the wider CBR community. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 7, 2024 21:50:17 GMT -5
Great to see a snapshot of the old CBR board. I'm impressed that such a wide range of topics was being discussed - movies, music, etc - as my hazy memory had been telling me that those topics were covered more elsewhere on CBR and the Classics stuck mostly to comics. Not so, as we can see above! I believe there was a big debate at one point as to whether we could have off-topic discussions like that, and the argument that won was that we had become our own separate subcommunity that wanted to talk to each other more than the wider CBR community. Little did we know that this sub-community was soon to become one of the few survivors of that wider CBR community. Or maybe this is the only one, for all I know, as far as this kind of message board goes. I know there is or was a "Ritas" on Facebook on which a good number of ex-CBR users chatted but FB is a thing onto itself. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2024 21:51:57 GMT -5
I believe there was a big debate at one point as to whether we could have off-topic discussions like that, and the argument that won was that we had become our own separate subcommunity that wanted to talk to each other more than the wider CBR community. Little did we know that this sub-community was soon to become one of the few survivors of that wider CBR community. Or maybe this is the only one, for all I know, as far as this kind of message board goes. I know there is or was a "Ritas" on Facebook on which a good number of ex-CBR users chatted but FB is a thing onto itself. Ritas still exists on Facebook. But it’s a pale shadow of its former self. |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 7, 2024 22:00:00 GMT -5
I believe there was a big debate at one point as to whether we could have off-topic discussions like that, and the argument that won was that we had become our own separate subcommunity that wanted to talk to each other more than the wider CBR community. Little did we know that this sub-community was soon to become one of the few survivors of that wider CBR community. Or maybe this is the only one, for all I know, as far as this kind of message board goes. I know there is or was a "Ritas" on Facebook on which a good number of ex-CBR users chatted but FB is a thing onto itself. Facebook became the biggest threat to online communities in the years that followed, for sure. FB groups require far less commitment and effort, but the conversation is also so much more surface and anonymous. I must be part of 15 or 20 facebook groups, but I don't give a damn about any of those people and can't tell you the last time I engaged in a back and forth there that was actually meaningful to me. Still, that's where folks go now because it's familiar/what they already know. |
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Post by Jeddak on Jan 7, 2024 23:18:35 GMT -5
Weird. I took part in that year's event, back in my Jodoc days. But I don't remember it at all. Wish I could read what I wrote back then.
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Post by berkley on Jan 7, 2024 23:37:23 GMT -5
As an example of how the memory plays tricks, until seeing this flashback today I would have said that the Favourite Superhero Design topic was one of the first Christmas Contests of the current Classics Board, not one of the last of the old CBR Classics. Looks like there was more continuity between the two than I thought.
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Post by berkley on Jan 8, 2024 8:21:47 GMT -5
Little did we know that this sub-community was soon to become one of the few survivors of that wider CBR community. Or maybe this is the only one, for all I know, as far as this kind of message board goes. I know there is or was a "Ritas" on Facebook on which a good number of ex-CBR users chatted but FB is a thing onto itself. Ritas still exists on Facebook. But it’s a pale shadow of its former self. Yes, I've looked in there once or twice, though not lately. As Shaxper was saying, I don't find FB in general easy to get into, as far as having a conversation goes. It's more like just dropping a quick comment here and there, hardly ever more than one or two lines.
Unlike here, where I routinely post gigantic compositions of two or three lines.
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