Merry (early) christmas everyone!

So this thread will just be a maintained list of some of the most epic posts created by community members here at Makestation. Feel free to add your own as well.

(May 25th, 2013 at 12:42 AM)Durfsurn Wrote: Might be 20

Jeez are we really already at 19 today?

19

(June 1st, 2013 at 3:36 AM)simlink Wrote: 55
Baby steps, Darth, baby steps. We're not going to get there instantly.

(June 6th, 2013 at 4:37 AM)AcoG000 Wrote: 62
If this takes off well, what are your plans for the future (lol this is turning into "The Future of Makestation chat - With Aco and Blake!"

(June 6th, 2013 at 6:44 AM)AcoG000 Wrote: How about, makestation gold! Edit your posts for as little as $99.99!

(November 11th, 2013 at 9:35 PM)AcoG000 Wrote: I have superpower. It called grammar.

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(July 22nd, 2013 at 6:39 PM)wasi90lk Wrote: Which one do you prefer?

Both have pros and cons.

In communism, lazy people will get benefits.

In capitalism, poor will remain poor and rich will remain rich.

(July 23rd, 2013 at 10:06 PM)AcoG000 Wrote:

(July 23rd, 2013 at 5:54 PM)Darth-Apple Wrote: haha, that's the chick-fil-a slogan right there

I actually used to feel bad for the chickens, and I'd say eat mor cow (when I liked beef better)

(June 11th, 2013 at 10:04 PM)AcoG000 Wrote: Romulus is a bot on #smfnoobs. He is a smart one.

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN CONTENT!

What romulus thinks:
Makestation: "php"
Simmania: "can't kick it from falling into utter catastrophe, but fortunately the superhero called superman saved simmania from stuff that can do about it. there is no linux tool like hurricane electric's bgp looking glass. cloudflare connects to your father, he"
CSGforums: "you think of republicans"
Simtropolis: "you think of republicans"
SC4Devotion: ":"deep throat : think about it, but if you acutaly break those numbers into financial demographics"
Simopsis: "you think of republicans"

So as you can see here, he takes his valuable time to provide valuable criticism for various SimCity 4 Sites. I think these opinions are the most fair and balanced I've seen yet!.

Me: "my son decided to be a little stupid, so i grounded him by sending him to the spanish monk bin where he will learn many important lessons and"
Cheesesc4: "coffee is great. what do you know simlink"

He seems to have collapsed. We will interview him more later.

A session in smfnoobs: http://pastebin.com/E25k864h
Romulus can speak spanish:

Code:

Romulus    Aco: gracias por escuchar mi voz. Me gustara presentarles a la maestra de mi universo, tambin conocido como VPS, que sabe ms de lo que yo. l comparte mis sentimientos.
Aco    Romulus: How can you 'try' to walk into walmart
cheese    romulus - whats your opinion on walmart?
Aco    Romulus: It's not that hard
Romulus    Aco: doj helped at&t
Romulus    cheese: scrolling items
Aco    Romulus: All you have to do is walk into the door with 'Exit' above it\
Romulus    Aco: with the homework;
Aco    Romulus: Was that so hard?
Romulus    mis entraas. Ahora vete.
Romulus    <Romulus> Aco: el objetivo es construir un joven que no merecen - y yo no lo veo inclinarse y caminar con ella. realmente
Romulus    <Aco> Romulus: Usted chupa en el hielo
Romulus    <Aco> Romulus: Vaya mueren en un incendio
cheese    romulus - should i go get something to eat now?
Romulus    <Romulus> Aco: pero pic republicmaster con numerosos pequeos besos suaves y caning doloroso?
Romulus    Aco: and mayorm
Romulus    <Romulus> Aco: por curiosidad, alguien sabe una manera de hacerlo o slo voy a discutir con l. pero yo soy un hombre de 37 aos de edad
Romulus    Aco: for the project's completion made it hard to sleep, but my fatigue granted me a few minutes
Romulus    <Aco> Romulus: Qu pasa con su obsesin por republicmaster?
Aco    Romulus: Are you spanish?
Romulus    cheese: sexy
Romulus    Aco: one of the biggest ever web attacks.
cheese    romulus - speak some spanish
Romulus    cheese: on the web
Darth-Apple    Bienvenido a Makestation! Somos una comunidad destinada a hacer posible que los usuarios puedan compartir los proyectos creativos que han trabajado, al estar en una comunidad llena de como almas importadas? A fin de mantener toda la discusión pública, constructivo y libre de caos controlado, tenemos algunas pautas que nos hemos fijado. Pedimos a todos los usuarios que lean estas reglas, como vamo
Darth-Apple    s a aplicarlas para mejorar la comunidad en general. :)
Darth-Apple    1. Tenemos una política de PG-13 por todo el contenido publicado en makestation. Se prohíbe cualquier cosa racista, sexista e intolerante, pornográfico, ilegal, difamatorio, insultante o de ninguna manera. Tampoco se permite la promoción de grietas juego piratería, ilegal, etc .. Cualquier contenido ilegal o inapropiado sera eliminado inmediatamente y sin previo aviso.
cheese    romulus what do you think of makestation?
Darth-Apple    2. Por favor, haga un esfuerzo por mantener la lengua limpia, especialmente en los foros. Esto es para proteger la reputación de este sitio web, así como para asegurar que la comunidad es amigable con algunos de nuestros miembros más jóvenes.
Darth-Apple    3. Usted debe tener 13 años de edad o más para registrarse y participar en Makestation. Los moderadores y administradores están obligados a hacer cumplir este por razones legales, de acuerdo con la ley COPPA acto en la ley EE.UU..
Romulus    cheese: php
Darth-Apple    4. Sea constructivo! No requerimos que usted ofrece sólo información positiva sobre las obras publicadas aquí. Nosotros pedimos que usted tiene una actitud amable con todos nuestros miembros. La regla de oro es generalmente una buena política a seguir en nuestros foros.
Darth-Apple    5. No se debe publicar contenido con derechos de autor o plagio en nuestros foros. Se extraerá cualquier contenido que infrinja las leyes de copyright aplicables o que se demuestre que ha sido plagiado. Somos una comunidad que tiene como objetivo hacer posible que los usuarios puedan compartir sus propias obras, no las obras de otros bajo su propio nombre.
cheese    OMG
Darth-Apple    6. Debates filosóficos, religiosos y políticos abiertamente recibidos en la Filosofía y Debates y consejos Eventos actuales. Con el fin de proteger a la discusión abierta y libre, pedimos que todos los usuarios sean respetuosos de las opiniones de otros usuarios, incluso si no están de acuerdo. Debates que se convierten incivil serán eliminados o bloqueados por uno de nuestros miembros del pe
Darth-Apple    rsonal.
Darth-Apple    7. Por favor, no spam en nuestros foros. Spam se considera generalmente perjudicial y se eliminará por uno de nuestros miembros del personal. También pedimos que no se registra en nuestros foros con el único fin de hacer publicidad de su sitio web o para cualquier tipo de beneficio económico. Publicaciones realizadas con el único fin de cualquier tipo de publicidad serán removidos para manten
cheese    romulus - what do you think of simmania
Darth-Apple    er a nuestros foros limpio y organizado para nuestros miembros.
Darth-Apple    Disfruta de la comunidad Makestation! :)
Darth-Apple    Romulus -  Por favor, no spam en nuestros foros.
Romulus    cheese: can't kick it from falling into utter catastrophe, but fortunately the superhero called superman saved simmania from stuff that can do about it. there is no linux tool like hurricane electric's bgp looking glass. cloudflare connects to your father, he
Romulus    Darth-Apple: 7. por favor, no spam en nuestros foros con el único fin de
cheese    romulus - what do you think of csgforums?
Romulus    cheese: "well, i think the whole text is imho) but still, i have it

(October 27th, 2013 at 11:08 PM)AcoG000 Wrote: We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury the Bieber video as deep as we can.

So where do you stand on the issue of homosexuality in America? Do you support the idea of laws against it entering the American constitution, or are you generally for pro-choice for Americans today?

The subject has certainly become a very hot debate lately, and many concerns, both morally and politically, have come into play. Personally, I feel that there are some significant arguments on both sides of the issue. What is your opinion on the subject?

So I recently stumbled across Fusetalk, the only "professional" CFM-powered forum software option I have come across yet. It does look professional, but it also seems to lack a modern look and feel, as well as many "modern" features. Even vBulletin seems to be ahead these days.

Particularly surprising, however, is the price tag. On their pricing plans page, it appears that the standard edition is around $5,000. Would anyone in their right mind actually pay that much for forum software?

Anyway, I'm still surprised that anyone can maintain sales with pricing like that. Anyone have any thoughts on the software?

It's official, Makestation has now been around for roughly eight months as 2013 comes to a close. In a short time span, we've had one major forum software conversion and not one, but four full theme overhauls, but have grown nicely as a community, thanks to our ever dedicated members here.

As the community has grown, it has become clear that neither SMF nor MyBB have really been able to fully meet our needs (although most will agree that MyBB has been great and has been quite customizable as well, making it a huge step above the old SMF days). In light of some of the feature requests as well as the growing community, I am now considering paid software for the community that would be much more powerful and bring back some coveted features such as user blogs, a new knowledgebase, better CMS-integration, and more.

Most likely, we'd be upgrading to Invision Power Board. It is significantly more expensive than Xenforo, but it has more of the features we would need, so I think it would be worth the additional expenses. Xenforo, however, isn't completely out of consideration. It's a good forum software option as well, although overall Invision Power Board seems more suited to the needs of the community and is more similar to what users are already used to. In either case, as with the last conversion, all users, posts, etc... will be converted seamlessly, so there won't be too many headaches with any conversion.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on the idea? Anyone have any feedback, questions, or suggestions? Be sure to vote in the poll!

P.S. we'll probably be bringing on some new moderators, or potentially even administrators for the next major site upgrade. I may throw in some competitions as well. Stay tuned!

(Unsure of where this would go.)

This game is based off of another game of its type found here (registration required). The original game is a simulation of a 19th-century settlement in the Oregon Country; However, instead of that, the settlement is in an unknown world, and was brought to this world by Alien Space Bats. Don't ask me where new people come from! Otherwise, though, the setting is more or less the same, with the technology level at 1848 and moving into the modern day and (possibly) beyond. I'll quote the rules from the original thread to give you a good idea of how to and how not to play:

Quote:Rules:
1. Be fairly plausible. I don't want to see things like Airstrips and Highways until the technology can match that.
2. Claim before a turn. You have a full day to post your turn. You can claim one period of grace worth twelve hours. After that, you lose the claim.
3. Buildings and structures have black outlines. Natural things do not.
4. You must include the city info form as well as the map with each turn.
5. Users can claim up to three non-consecutive years at a time. They may not post until the year prior to their turn is done.

Note that like me, you don't have to be a great artist or designer for this. simple shapes and forms with the appropriate zoning type will do just fine.

I was doing some research on some of the fees required, the tax policies, etc... of the new "Affordable Care Act," and to be honest, I'm still not impressed. I think the concept of overhauling healthcare in and of itself has potential, but as it stands now, Obamacare is a hot mess. According to healthcare.gov, an uninsured individual will have to pay a $695/year fine. For those who are in the working poor who are lucky to make $15,000/year on minimum wage jobs, this isn't a small fine. Not only that, but their website remains badly messed up and is nearly impossible to use after you actually start the registration process, or at least it is right now as I'm trying to use it. When they start threatening severe fines for not getting health insurance and then make it difficult to obtain health insurance, many people end up getting screwed over by the already overly complicated system.

To be honest, I don't really consider myself a supporter at this point. What is your opinion?

What OS does your VPS or dedicated server run? Why does it?

Mine has Ubuntu Server 13.10. While I don't like the choices Canonical has made with Ubuntu recently, they make a nice server OS (widely used, software somewhat up-to-date, plus I love Upstart cause it's so much easier to code with than initscripts.)

They seem pretty unprofessional at first glance, but there is always a certain feel about forums on free hosts that is a bit harder to replicate on paid hosting, at least in my experience. I personally like the simplicity of free forum hosting, although I of course strongly recommend being selective about which hosts you choose to consider.

Anyway, is free forum hosting something you have ever considered? If so, why?

Personally, I love applebees. Their food has really improved a lot over the past few years.

What is your opinion?