New Admin 'n' Such

[manaman]

Hello all,

This is manaman here. A few of you were asking in the Shoutbox, so I thought I'd post a news item (haven't seen one of those in a while, right?).

First of all, some of you may remember me. I have been a pretty active poster since October of 2006 when I first joined in order to get help temporarily emulating the games I had to leave in storage 3,000 miles away. The majority of my posts were in the Roleplaying section where I met some great people and enjoyed a real feeling of community but which now doesn't even show up on the main page because people haven't been posting.

For those of you who are new here to EmulatorWorld and don't know me, welcome and hello! I know many of you newcomers likely see this site as a little . . . unexciting right now. Help us change that! Please post!

Now, onto the news: April 27, 2009 I became an Admin and joined other Admins Shadow Dragon (the one and only who created this site), Patrick (who mostly comes by to work on the programming side of this site) and Dark Hero.

This came about because of a desire to help the social side of this site. Seeing it struggling and knowing Shadow Dragon has been busy with other things, I thought I'd come by to help keep the boards in order and continue posting. I've always enjoyed the community here. Sure, there are ups and downs, but I think people here are generally pleasant and I'm mostly interested in seeing a renewal in the community feel of this site.

Finally, this applies to those of you who know me: in a lame attempt at updating my avatar (to something very similar to my original avatar that I've had since the beginning in 2006), I ran into a problem with the site accepting something bigger than 50x50 pixels. Therefore, until I can manage to put back up my original avatar (who needs change anyway?) please put up with my smallish picture of Undine (it fit the 50x50 rule, what can I say?). Yup, that has newbie written all over it, huh?

Happy gaming, posting and socializing,

manaman

[Darksol]

I'm thinking that if you plan on "reviving" this forum, then we should start with the roleplaying section . It is probably the most interesting thing on these forums and I'm sure if we make a couple of active roleplaying threads people will start showing some interest. I still remember one of the threads there, some kind of bar where different people hung out and that was one of the main reason I stuck around for as long as I have, it was a lot of fun, but even though those threads are gone I still come here, bad habits die hard. heh.

Oh, and also congratulations on becoming an admin.

[manaman]

Hey Darksol,

Thanks! You know, the Roleplaying thread is an excellent one. I'll look into reviving it right away. Do you have an idea for what you'd like to see happen? Do you want another low key pub setting?

Peace,

manaman

[Zetsubera]

I remember wayyy back when, we attempted to do a DnD game over a chatroom. It was interesting, but the dungeon master was kinda... iffy. I could maybe run a game since I have the necessary books for it to run.

Edit: And I could sum up each session of gaming and post it up onto a thread to allow others to follow along if they're interested.

[texasgurl]

Congrats manaman.. know I said it in the shoutbox, but here looks more "official"

[Darksol]

I'd suggest anything that is easy to follow and not too difficult to participate in. Even if you lack fluency in English you could still take part in it. A bar would be great, but I also like Zetsubera's idea a lot.

[manaman]

Yeah,

Zetsubera's got a great idea there. My only concern is that it might be a tad complicated and there aren't that many currently active posters. I'm not sure if it would draw non posters in. That being said, Zets, if you want to start a thread, go for it.

Darksol, perhaps you'd like to start something a little more casual? More like a joint story? You can also feel free to start a thread.

Peace,

manaman

[Zetsubera]

I'll begin making a campaign, might take a bit. If it isn't a success here, I can always use it at another time.

[manaman]

Sounds great!

[Kyprian]

This is certainly late, but for what it's worth, congratulations.

[manaman]

Thanks, Kyp!