Topic: BBoard vs real life

I've been wondering this for a while, how many of you know each other and/or have ever met outside of the BBoard/online...

Just curious as I'm still fairly new to he BBoard, but some of you seem like
You go wayyy back.

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How many have I met in person? None. But many of us have been around various boards together for 15 or 20 years, so there is some history. Outside of the board, there is also email, Facebook and stuff like that. I know some better than others.

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Info and I live in the same city.  There's a chance I've met him before.  I guess there's a chance we're even friends outside of the board and don't know it smile

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I've never met anyone from the bboard in person. I joined the SciFi Sliders board in March of 2000, and a few people on this board (Quinn, Info, Chaser, TemporalFlux, Transmodiar, Vortex62, Grizzlor to name a few) were active on that and other boards well before then.

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Slider_Quinn21 wrote:

Info and I live in the same city.  There's a chance I've met him before.  I guess there's a chance we're even friends outside of the board and don't know it smile


That would be weird. I should go to more cons. We probably would have met if I did that stuff. I'm an introvert by nature, so I suck at, like... doing stuff.

And Griz lives in the area where I was born (or, he did... I guess he could have moved without my knowing it). Small world.

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I've been around since the old MCA Net Forum back in 1996 (that being one of the original official boards; as you notice in the end credits of the early Sliders seasons, Universal was known as MCA Universal back then).  The MCA forum was the best of the two choices at the time; the official Fox board for Sliders was a pretty dark place filled with immature and vicious people.

I've seen a lot of people come and go, and I've met a good many in person. Of those still around, I've met Vortex62 and tom2point0 (WrongArturo) through Atlanta's annual DragonCon convention; and JessieMallory lived near me for a time.  But most of my connection to this community comes through longevity; I've been at this for almost 20 years at this point.

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Waaaaaaait what? You never met me! And I've been tom2point0 online since 2004-5!

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I've met a handful of BBoard regulars in my time, but I don't think any of them are members of this current incarnation:

  • darkslider

  • RMScream

  • mrbrown1602

The old BBoard is actually responsible for at least three children being born! Tony (mrbrown1602) met his wife through Ryan (RMScream). Ryan and I were in his wedding a few years back; they've got a little girl with twins on the way. smile

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tom2point0 wrote:

Waaaaaaait what? You never met me! And I've been tom2point0 online since 2004-5!

Ah; that's my mistake.  For some reason I thought you were Tom Holste under a different name.  Sorry about that.

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I'm afraid I can't accept this. Temporal Flux doesn't make mistakes when it comes to SLIDERS. Therefore, tom2point0's memory is faulty and TF did indeed meet him. This is merely one of those peculiar discrepancies. Like Rembrandt suddenly having served in the Navy! Which I'm sure can be resolved in some spin-off material. Like one of the online slides on the old Sci-Fi site later revealing that Rembrandt was a *cook* on a Navy ship. Get to it, everyone! Let's fine some way to reconcile the continuity here.

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ireactions wrote:

I'm afraid I can't accept this. Temporal Flux doesn't make mistakes when it comes to SLIDERS. Therefore, tom2point0's memory is faulty and TF did indeed meet him. This is merely one of those peculiar discrepancies. Like Rembrandt suddenly having served in the Navy! Which I'm sure can be resolved in some spin-off material. Like one of the online slides on the old Sci-Fi site later revealing that Rembrandt was a *cook* on a Navy ship. Get to it, everyone! Let's fine some way to reconcile the continuity here.

lol  Thinking of the old online slides reminded me; this article popped up while the board was offline and made me think of Synthia, the counselor A.I. From "The Chasm" slide:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/ … ogrammers/

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TemporalFlux wrote:
tom2point0 wrote:

Waaaaaaait what? You never met me! And I've been tom2point0 online since 2004-5!

Ah; that's my mistake.  For some reason I thought you were Tom Holste under a different name.  Sorry about that.

Haha no problem! No Holste here! I'm Stitzer!

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ireactions wrote:

I'm afraid I can't accept this. Temporal Flux doesn't make mistakes when it comes to SLIDERS. Therefore, tom2point0's memory is faulty and TF did indeed meet him. This is merely one of those peculiar discrepancies. Like Rembrandt suddenly having served in the Navy! Which I'm sure can be resolved in some spin-off material. Like one of the online slides on the old Sci-Fi site later revealing that Rembrandt was a *cook* on a Navy ship. Get to it, everyone! Let's fine some way to reconcile the continuity here.

I know what happened... He met Alt Tom2Point0. He's a... SLIDER!

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Haven't met anyone.  I've exchanged emails/IMs with a few, but that was mostly during the Scifi Dominion days, and sadly mostly pertaining to fights on it.  Never seemed to have many ppl from the NY/NJ area.

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Grizzlor wrote:

Haven't met anyone.  I've exchanged emails/IMs with a few, but that was mostly during the Scifi Dominion days, and sadly mostly pertaining to fights on it.  Never seemed to have many ppl from the NY/NJ area.

How is the area looking these days? I saw some episodes of This Old House that took place in Manasquan after Sandy and the place looked like a mess. Have they fixed up all of the boardwalks and stuff yet?

I wish I got back there more often. If only for the food. smile

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Yes the boardwalks are rebuilt, although only a few were actually damaged.  Many homes are not, as the homeowners fight with insurance companies.

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That sucks. The last time I was there, a lot of the older homes that I loved to see when I was growing up were being torn down and replaced by new monstrocities (my grandparents' house included). The last thing that place needed was more help tearing down the history.

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18 (edited by Surf Dance Chris 2015-07-10 18:08:28)

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I'm from New York originally, and also a amusement/theme park enthusiast. The boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey (the one where the roller coaster "Star Jet" fell into the ocean during Sandy) has been recovering. Casino Pier, which is the park that owned that coaster, reopened the following summer with only a few rides (including some that survived the storm). I got to visit that year. They've been adding every year, and are getting to close to the size they were before the storm.

Funtown Pier, also located in Seaside Heights and further down the boardwalk, actually suffered more damage, never reopened, and that site is still vacant. A tragic fire occurred about a year after Sandy, destroying a carousel (and some other places). Independent merchants and restaurants along the boardwalk have mostly if not all reopened, or simply never reopened/were replaced. Most of the physical boardwalk was rebuilt after the storm. It's crazy how much damage occurred, but many businesses were rebuilt.

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Same as most everyone else been around since the old Fox/Universal board days as either Pete5125 or Sliders5125, thought the good fight to keep Sliders on the air, followed the Experts chronicles on what spoilers where coming in the Sliders World, Was excitedly awaited the year off between Fox and Sci-Fi Years, the thought of Sci-Fi taking over the show bringing back the Professor and Tracy Torme' and then instead we got the strange season 4 that would go six new episodes then reair those six episode then air 2 more weeks then rerun another 6 or 7 episodes, Sci-Fi Monday night, Sci-Fi found a way to run over a years time 18 episodes airing the first 6 at least six or seven times before Sci-Fi 2.0, where they used the last 4 episodes of season4 to lead into season 5's finale season.

Oh yeah, the question, I don't know anyone on the board, but it and earthprime helped me get through having 2 toddlers over the last 2 years and sleepless nights trying to get newborns to sleep...fun times, plus college, etc. life

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Seaside had a nice classic arcade called Flashbacks which was washed away.  Fortunately there are now better establishments like Yestercdes in Red Bank, and Silverball Museum (luckily survived) on Asbury Park boardwalk. 

Info, gentrification and McMansions are the order of the day around here.  There's really no reason to live out in the woods anymore, too many bears!

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Now I'm torn. If people leave the woods, maybe the woods won't be ripped up and built over... I used to live up in northern NJ in the early 90's and the woods were beautiful. When I went back about eight years ago, they were starting to build over everything.

I just don't get why people insist on making pretty things uglier. smile

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Wow, glad to see the board is back.

After a cursory glance at the user list, I probably have chatted with or emailed with a fourth. Although I recognize about half due to continued lurking, but as before this seems to be a male dominated board. I definitely miss the old crowd, but I am quite amused by the fact some of the conversations you guys are having are echoed in my writing group, gaming group, and friends.

At the moment Info is the only one I have continue to talked to on occasion, most recently when the anniversary and the board crash happened. Luckily we are both on Twitter and able to communicate. As for personally meeting anyone, Tf is the only one I have had the chance to know offline. As he said at one time we lived in the same city, and he actually helped save Christmas one year. BTW Tf she still treasures the gifts you gave her. She wouldn't go off to college without them and even uses the ornaments on her tree each year. Thank you for that my friend.

As I mentioned, I miss the old crowd, but as it always happens. We grow up. we move on as life changes. Hopefully the board remains for a very long time.

Jess

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I want to hear the story of how Temporal Flux saved Christmas!

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Wow, you guys have stuck together for a hell of a long time. I'm impressed. All the online communities I've seen have tended to fracture in a lot less than 20 years, mostly due to personal differences or just people changing their interests.

It's nice to see that trend bucked, honestly.

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Jess, I miss folks like MissingSliderRyan, Vortex62, QBall79, many others.  There are a few I don't miss, that's for sure.  One had something to do with a sock...

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Last I heard, Ed was teaming up with Avril Lavigne to create a new rock group called "Da Mooks".

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4cn2vLyuy2M/hqdefault.jpg

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I also hear Ed has been hanging out with Redbeard MacDeaver

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/11215810_10153436556458550_3600563168705933354_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=2&_nc_sid=174925&_nc_ohc=5VTNC7TtBfsAX97TYth&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=80f429cbcba406dc9905dcb7501d4054&oe=5FC75CFA

--Chaser9

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LOL!!!

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Never met any outside of the board. Was active during the sci fi years but the last few years, no. Still check in here few timesover couple of months.

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Like TF said, we met at Dragoncon in Atlanta http://www.earth62.net/miscitems/dragon … goncon.htm along with Alternity Orange. Hard to believe how time has passed since then.

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I may very well be the newest Sliders fan here, or even any other site out there... XD

I've been watching since early August and my "obsession time" is still going pretty strong, even if it's almost November. (In fact, it's grown stronger within the past month despite the fact I haven't watched it in weeks.) I hope to be into Sliders for a good while yet. I've just been having such a hard time finding an active community of fans!

So, needless to say, I haven't met anyone in real life that is even aware of Sliders. I plan on dragging a few of my classmates into it so I can at least have some people in real life to talk about it with... haha. XD

I doubt my being the only teenager who likes the show, but I certainly feel that way sometimes.

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I was a teenage Sliders fan. Of course, that was before phones had cameras, so... Yeah.

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