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General Discussion / Re: Auditioning a new player
« on: December 26, 2018, 21:35:36 PM »

Sounds too good to be true.

Keeping band members can be difficult. As near as I can tell, the trick is to be old and get young guns that need tutelage. So far, it seems to be working!

How was your Christmas gig?


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You were not the first. nor will you be the last. People do it with some regularity. It's why I keep that address reachable.

'Snot my first forum. Ol' Buddha actually used to help write the software that runs this forum. It's an OpenSource project.


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Don't reply by email. It'll have a link that'll take you right to the forum and right to the thread you want to be in! It's handy like that.

If you reply by email, I get it. That's probably okay, but not okay if you wanted it posted on the board OR you wanted it to be in any way private. I mean, I get 'em in plain text.

In theory, I can rip out the database and read private messages. So, those aren't really that private - but I have zero reason to expend that energy. You should know that, however.

Your passwords are hashed and salted, stored encrypted. That much I can assure you of. We store no plain text passwords and the hash will make recovering them via rainbow table pretty fucking close to impossible in a reasonable number of years.

The little Green Icon in the top tells you we're also encrypted - but that's only in transit. The rest is plain text.

So, if you value your privacy (and want to make the most of the forum) don't reply to the email. That just fucks everything up!


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Anything Else / I will tell you about Bob.
« on: December 19, 2018, 12:12:19 PM »

I have no particular reason to type this out, except to say that it should be typed out. Bob has zero to do with this site.

Bob was a dog. In fact, he was a not-so-cleverly named pug.

As some of you may know, some of my earliest years were spent on a military base, or very close to it. More often than not, we all stayed on property that was technically on the base but was like standardized homes filling a cull-de-sac. Some of them were quite large.

Not this one, however. No, this one was maybe four blocks by four blocks, and Bob knew it well. "Bob Dog" was usually called "Bob Dog" to the kids of the neighborhood, but Bob was his real name.

Bob,s owner had, at some point in time, just given up trying to make Bob eat regular dog food. I don't recall the actual owner feeding the dog anything other than Pepsi (later Diet Pepsi) and Reece's Peanut Butter cups.

Bob was rotund. Imagine a 30 pound pug.

Bob was run over at least twice.  Bob did not much care. He'd go hide and lay down and come back out a few days later.

Bob was on a mission. Bob was on a very important mission, at least to Bob.

He had a certain path to his outside activities - and he was constantly outside, except at night.

What Bob did was go from house to house to house at the houses that had kids. At which point, he'd hound for candy. The dog had a candy addiction.

He was good at it, too. As he'd make his rounds, he'd skip the houses that didn't have people who'd give him candy. When the ice cream truck came by, he knew where and when he should be there 'cause he could pant in the summer and the driver would often give him an ice cream.

He was also good at stealing. If you put a soda on the ground, he'd knock it over and lick it up. He'd taken things out of back pockets, etc. Bob pretty much lived on candy.

Strangely enough, that worked. He lived for like 16 years. I'm pretty sure Bob was a mutant.


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General Discussion / Re: Auditioning a new player
« on: December 18, 2018, 22:49:22 PM »

Yeah...

If the bass player ever came to me and told me they'd written a song, I'd fire 'em!

Same thing for the drummer! ;)

We're a cover band.


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General Discussion / Re: Auditioning a new player
« on: December 18, 2018, 18:28:24 PM »

Oh, and do keep us updated?


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General Discussion / Re: Auditioning a new player
« on: December 18, 2018, 18:27:54 PM »

I suspect it's a bit different, but I look for stressors. I want people who will retain quality and professionalism - even when you don't particularly care for the job, or even your fellow bandmates. Being good with their instrument is also a bonus!


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Anything Else / Re: I have had an epiphany!
« on: December 18, 2018, 14:49:10 PM »

I can mostly agree with that, until I start looking at his stuff that didn't make the charts. There's some gems, but there's also some really bad stuff in there.

When he nailed it, he nailed it well.


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Anything Else / I have had an epiphany!
« on: December 17, 2018, 12:51:02 PM »

Until about 30 minutes ago, I was wanting to say Tom Petty was a better guitarist than he really was.

I decided to listen to his entire discography. That was a mistake.


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Site Questions / Re: Playing with a new theme...
« on: December 14, 2018, 07:56:51 AM »

@SandHog You should be set and using the SunRise theme. Kindly post bugs in this thread, please.


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Site Questions / Re: Have you taken a look at the site stats page?
« on: December 13, 2018, 08:07:09 AM »

And, yup! Those numbers are correct. They even exclude bots. Those page views are real and were made by real humans.

Forums go through a lot of page views. They're quite different (in usage patterns) than blogs like the MFU site. So, the page view count will be much, much higher.

Hell, it's not even halfway through the month and we've chewed through almost 500mb of bandwidth.


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Site Questions / Re: Playing with a new theme...
« on: December 13, 2018, 07:58:07 AM »

Yup. I won't be playing with username colors for a while longer. That will be after I'm sure that I will be keeping the theme.

Sadly, username colors are independent of the theme settings, unless I want to do a ton of customization.


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General Discussion / Re: Re: 04.20.2018 FNGT Archive
« on: December 12, 2018, 17:37:48 PM »

And, I received the email in a timely fashion.

Your post was 17:31 and the notification email was received at 17:31 (all times Eastern).

Let's see if you get a  notification of this email.


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Site Questions / Playing with a new theme...
« on: December 12, 2018, 17:27:41 PM »

It has a light and dark mode and it looks like this:

If you're interested in taking a peek at it, maybe looking for some bugs, please let me know.

Because of the way the theme system works, and not wanting to introduce more hassle than required, there's only a subset of themes that you can use (unless you're an admin). Some of them have horrible bugs and some just need to be deleted!

Anyhow, if you'd like to play with it then let me know and I'll manually set your theme for you - when I have the time to do so. If I do set your theme, you can always reset it yourself. I'd also like it if you made it a point to look for bugs and place those bugs into this thread.

Bonus points if you come up with some nifty images for me to replace.

And, if you're uncertain, you can change back to your other theme at any time. However, you won't be able to flip back and forth between them.


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General Discussion / Re: Re: 04.20.2018 FNGT Archive
« on: December 12, 2018, 15:03:18 PM »

Thanks. I'll give it until December 14th and then I'll send 'em an email.

I believe the email was help@voat.co. I'll double check and send out one of my wordy emails.


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