Art Asylum Forum Closure - Any Other Refugees?
#1
Posted 15 August 2008 - 05:17 AM
I'm just curious if there are any other "refugees" here from the old Art Asylum forums? You know, the ones DST shut down on us all the other week when they "revamped" the Art Asylum website...
That was my source for Trek and other Merchandise discussions. Alas, I've had to find a new home for such, so I came here. On the plus side, this place looks a bit more active. I was just hoping to touch base with any other former "inmates" who've washed up upon these far shores.
#2
Posted 15 August 2008 - 05:53 AM
I was one of the first people to ever sign up on the AA forum back in the day. It was the one forum that no matter where I went, I always came back. However longer work hours and having my own forum here, in time, I hardly made it back. Although when I did, I could still find a few of the old timers that know who Fatheadcookie was!!
I was a bit disappointed in it shutting down, but glad that some of the really great members have found their way here.
#3
Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:06 AM
AA boards = thehsbr
TT boards = TheHSBR
Shocker, I know.
#4
Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:19 AM
My name there was "reverie".. my name here is .. um..
#5
Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:39 AM
#6
Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:44 AM
#7
Posted 15 August 2008 - 04:40 PM
Yeah, I am an early AA member too. Been around a long time, but FHC will always have been around longer than me.
I have to admit I do miss the news and information that the AA board brought. It was a cool place to go and get some stuff that members here miss. We are getting better and I think that, with the AA members finding us, we will have that again ... just with a little more civility.
We are glad to have all the new members signing up and hope we are offering some useful stuff!
#8
Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:04 PM
Fortunately, I heard about these forums from there, and the AA forum dying was the kick in the but to get me to register.
At first I was bummed because the activity here ( at least the AA/DST board) seemed to be a heck of a lot slower than the AA forum, but things seemed to have picked up quite a bit as of late.
So far, I really like this place and think the discussions contain a lot more civility. The AA/DST boards tended to spiral into flame fests at the drop of a hat.
#9
Posted 15 August 2008 - 07:09 PM
#10
Posted 15 August 2008 - 07:57 PM
#11
Posted 15 August 2008 - 08:08 PM
drum roll
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr bump bump
The words to Refuge by Tom Petty!!
We get somethin' we both know it, we don't talk too much about it.
Ain't no real big secret; all the same, 'somehow we get around it.
Listen, it don't really matter to me.
Baby, you believe what you wanna believe.
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.
Tell me why you wanna lay there, revel in your abandon.
Honey, it don't make no difference to me.
Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free.
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
No baby, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Baby, we ain't the first.
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned.
Right now this ain't real to you.
It's one of those things you got to feel to be true.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied-up, taken away, and held for
ransom.
Honey, it don't really matter to me.
Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free.
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
No, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee.
now back to your regularly scheduled topic.
#12
Posted 15 August 2008 - 09:31 PM
Anybody else a TrekBBS refugee?
#13
Posted 15 August 2008 - 11:44 PM
#14
Posted 16 August 2008 - 08:08 AM
#15
Posted 16 August 2008 - 05:33 PM
Tell me about it. I found myself caught up in a few of those threads (battle grounds) trying to be a voice of reason along with 2 or 3 other people. I found that many of the people there were so opinionated, negative, and hateful towards the majority of subjects, that it was very scary. I find it hard to fathom that those people were Star Trek Fans.
#16
Posted 16 August 2008 - 07:43 PM
I lurked over at the AA forum but never posted much do to the fact that I was not interested in starting a thread, or even posting in one, only to see it turn into a cyber fist fight. I also go back far enough to remember that FHC here, which I'm sure was fatheadcookie over AA, was the one that helped so many of us get our stuff from the Collector club after it's true leader, and future con promoter, failed to get it to us.
FHC runs a good ship here in my opinion.
#17
Posted 16 August 2008 - 08:18 PM
TrekBBS was the first forum I joined when I got on the Net so many, many years ago. I abandoned that place when the rampant negativity just go to be too much for me. Now, I only post there two or three times a year.
I became an AA fan when they released their Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon line and joined their forum then. It got out of control for a while, so I left, but I came back when their collectors club was starting up. Like many here, I suffered through that debacle. I left when the club was dissolved, I think. It was when Don and some of the others came here. It's all a little fuzzy, and I'm trying to repress those memories, on the advice of my psychiatrist.
#18
Posted 16 August 2008 - 11:30 PM
#19
Posted 17 August 2008 - 12:25 AM
My real "home" though is the Omega Sector. (http://www.theomegasector.com)
Those are the forums for TrekCore.com. They're really nice, if I do say so myself. Granted, I'm a bit bias, being an admin there, lol. But we really strive to take the best elements of TrekBBs... and leave the rest there! LOL.
This place, and Superherohype (which I'm not too fond of the admins of... they seem to delete posts without even telling you why...) are my other forums. I need many homes.
#20
Posted 17 August 2008 - 01:27 AM
As do I. Anyhoo, I was "Mrs Shinzon" over at AA, but that's prolly a no-brainer!
I thought there were a couple of real pests over at AA whose posting came very close to trolling at times. I am pleased to say that the pests haven't found there way over here...yet, but if they ever do than they'll quickly stick out like a wart on a behind, and no doubt they'll be swiftly ejected.
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