Mon Feb 26 17:45:41 2001
The OSY Navy!
I find the idea of "awarding" rank increases to be silly and a waste of time and emotional energy, so I've set it up to be completely automatic.
Here are the settings as they stand now (subject to change)
1-49 posts: Ensign (1 stripe)
50-499 posts: Lieutenant (2 stripes)
500-999 posts: Commander (3 stripes)
1000-4999 posts: Captain (4 stripes! WHAT YOU SAY!!)
over 5000 posts: Admiral (a big stripe)
Me: 1st Lord High Grand Poobah of the Fleet (a big stripe plus lots of little stripes to stroke my ego)
To be extra silly, the ranking stripes are encased in an Aqua-inspired gelcap. I expect to hear from Apple's lawyers soon, at which point I will refer them to the U.S. Military. ;)
Mon Feb 26 18:31:19 2001
Wouldn't it be the Metric Navy?
Mon Feb 26 18:50:24 2001
Canada doesn't have much of a navy anymore. When my dad was serving we had an aircraft carrier and a sizeable surface fleet, but everything got really old and replacements got really really expensive, and besides, we control the United States now anyway, so we can just use theirs! :)
Mon Feb 26 19:27:13 2001
Mon Feb 26 19:42:56 2001
Ha ha ha ha....
Mon Feb 26 23:39:53 2001
[edit: ahhh, there we go.]
(Edited by Robocop Q Einstein at 3:40 pm on Feb. 26, 2001)
Tue Feb 27 00:29:13 2001
Now go out there and fight. We're not sure who the enemy is, but go fight him anyway!
Tue Feb 27 17:03:36 2001
Tue Feb 27 17:09:34 2001
Then when you get that second stripe, you'll know you really earned it. ;)
Tue Feb 27 17:12:41 2001
Grrrrr! Fuck off people! I gots more important things to do, like earn my leuts stripes.
:D
Tue Feb 27 17:14:58 2001
I'll get around to it! Really I will! <argh>
Tue Feb 27 17:21:15 2001
Tue Feb 27 18:49:24 2001
Or I'd find a movie poster.
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 12:49 pm on Feb. 27, 2001)
Tue Feb 27 19:00:31 2001
Tue Feb 27 19:14:21 2001
Tue Feb 27 19:36:27 2001
I really want a Paul Hill pic for myself please.
It is Done.
I was looking for BEIGE's picture but he took it off his website. BOO!
Wed Feb 28 07:11:56 2001
Socrates
Wed Feb 28 16:39:24 2001
I REALLY liked your history of Apple. I thought it was very well done.
congrats.
Thanks, but I just lifted it from another web site (I give full credit to where it came from, though, right there on the page!)
I still have to go and fix a few minor errors in it though. And maybe add some stuff of my own. Embrace and extend, ya know? ;)
Thu Mar 1 03:11:17 2001
Anyone think we should change the post # scales?
Currently it's 1-49 as Ensign, 50-499 as Lieutenant, 500-999 as Captain, 1000-4999 as Commander, and 5000 plus as Admiral.
But that's a 50 post jump to first promotion, 450 to next, and 500 to next, and 4000 to the next. It doesn't seem exponential enough.
Shouldn't it be like, 50 for first promotion, 100 for the next, 200 for the next, etc? No, that will mean too many Admirals.
How about: 50, 350, 1000, 5000? That's close to the original scheme but would graph better. Hmm...
Thu Mar 1 03:14:34 2001
What was the question?
50
300
800
2500
?
Thu Mar 1 03:55:15 2001
(I might edit the CGI to add extra rankings above 3000 later... much later... ;) )
Thu Mar 1 15:41:23 2001
Thu Mar 1 15:55:10 2001
Thu Mar 1 18:17:28 2001
;)
Thu Mar 1 18:45:58 2001
Thu Mar 1 18:48:58 2001
Thu Mar 1 19:51:07 2001
Umm, I'm not far behind him.
It's true! I'm very impressed with your posting prowess. Well done, Lieutenant Einstein!
Fri Mar 2 00:02:49 2001
Fri Mar 2 03:38:36 2001
If some people post here as much as at ARS then we will be up to our asses in Admarils!!! :)
But it will be even better here because at least most of the posters here will recognize that they are, indeed, quite mad. And I'd rather have a fruitcake admiral posting here than, say, emergency breeching a nuclear sub underneath a Japanese fishing vessel...
Fri Mar 2 03:51:21 2001
I'll try and find it in the news archives there.
It was fucking awesome.
Fri Mar 2 03:53:25 2001
to quote JR: w00t!!!
Fri Mar 2 04:07:34 2001
Fri Mar 2 04:14:37 2001
Sun Aug 5 18:56:49 2001
Ranks and the people who hold them
5K+ posts: (none)
3K-5K: (none)
1K-3K: AYB, OW, RQE
300-1K: lots
50-299: a few (mostly) dead accounts*
<50: a few (mostly) dead accounts
* = HitScan and PaulHill are exceptions
Five-month old thread revivage! W00t!
Edit: Forgot PaulHill! What sort of two-bit dumbfuckery is that?
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 12:33 pm on Aug. 5, 2001)
Sun Aug 5 19:07:24 2001
Hurrah, as PH would say.
Sun Aug 5 19:13:46 2001
Where is RQE?
I need to bone him.
Sun Aug 5 19:28:51 2001
But you also talk a lot of shit.
Indeed,
I thought that was the point of this place?
Where is RQE?
He left soon after he was the first one to get 1k posts, he hasn't posted much on ars either.
Sun Aug 5 19:57:07 2001
Sun Aug 5 20:08:40 2001
:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 1:09 pm on Aug. 5, 2001)
Sun Aug 5 20:10:11 2001
Tue Aug 14 22:11:24 2001
Wed Aug 15 03:04:40 2001
Thu Aug 16 15:42:35 2001
He left soon after he was the first one to get 1k posts, he hasn't posted much on ars either.
RQE, I LOVE YOU
Mon Sep 10 07:53:25 2001
Mon Nov 12 02:54:47 2001
AYB and I are the only ones above 2000 posts. Heh; can't believe I'm the 2nd-highest poster here.
Tue Nov 13 03:19:45 2001