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Presenting The RPS Talk-O-Tron 3000
Written by Alec Meer on October 6, 2008 at 2:15 pm.
Good gentlefolk,
I bring glad tidings. We have made a unexpected breakthrough! Thanks to science and witchcraft, Rock, Paper, Shotgun now offers for your pleasure a ‘forum’ upon which men from the ‘internet’ may ‘talk’ to one another. We call it the Talk-o-Tron 3000, in tribute to the 2,999 unicorns that perished during its torturous creation. And to the one that yet lives, though I fear it shall never dance again.
Please, go forth and word-procreate upon it. But first, a few brief, essential statements you should know.
- It is very much what internet colloquialism refers to as a ‘beater.’ The design needs a fair bit of tweaking, much may explode and much may change. Make your realistic and constructive suggestions for such changes in the appropriate place. Please do not, however, deposit your griping about how forums are a waste of time here. For that would truly be a waste of time.
- You do not have to register to read, but registering does grant you posting rights, and means the system can keep track of what you have and haven’t read. Also your comments Gravatars should carry over, so long as you use the same email address.
- Standard rules of gentlemanly behaviour apply: no prejudice, no abuse, no grammar fascism, no sharing of pirated (im)materials, no picking of fights. We shall truck no savagery here.
- We intend to keep it relatively separate from the main site: please discuss stories posted here here, rather than there.
- We will in time be seeking moderators. Do not come to us - we shall come to you. In the night. Wearing hosiery.
Now, away with ye!
And for a convenient place to start, let’s start with some introductions in the introduction thread.
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Ketch says:
This pleases me!
October 6th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Malagate says:
You had me at ‘beater’.
hur hur hur, ‘beater.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Fashigady says:
RPS is getting pretty impressive what with the steam group, the TF2 server, the podcast, and now a forum. What’s next?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Heliocentric says:
Rps just sold out to the angry internet man.
For real though.
Most gaming forums are either too console focused or to focused on a specific game. This might be interesting. I still feel the steam group is the true “rps community”.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
ChaosSmurf says:
[i]We shall truck no savagery here.[/i]
THE INTERNET IS NOT A BIG TRUCK
October 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Dante says:
@Fashigady
Why is your post beige? I thought that was a reserved only for the for gods of RPS themselves?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Looks like forum registration ties you into our contributor theme. Will fix.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Feet says:
Awesome stuff.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Bobsy says:
Disappointing! Oh my sirs, for this injustice to be thrust upon our unhappy busoms in this twilight hour! Thy forum software is based upon the vile UBB format we have grown to abhor! Why do ye, cultured gentlemen of wit and poise, refuse to acknowledge the superiority and sophistication of Beehive?
For shame! SHAAAAAME!
October 6th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Ben Abraham says:
@Fashigady
Grats! Temporary and fading glory, but what magnificent glory it be!
October 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Tom says:
I would have thought some kind of threaded comments section would have been better to be honest, rather than a fill blown forum. Much like Shacknews’ for example. Comments that spur debate tend to get more attention that way. Although, as ever, it does greatly depend upon the debaters. Forums are just too all-encompassing for sites so focused.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
James G says:
This is good news, I think. I was just about to suggest adding a link at the top, only to find that you have already done so you clever people. I shall be registering for forum postage shortly.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
AbyssUK says:
The forum goes a bit odd with my fox lingo firefox extension, its highlight word pop-up box actually embeds into the post which is funny
October 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
ImperialCreed says:
Nice one RPS. Looking forward to the inevitable flame wars and troll plagues 
October 6th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Mr Pink says:
This is very bad news for my PhD…
October 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Muzman says:
Not dancing is a sure symptom of excess guilt of the feet/hooves.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
MonkeyMonster says:
Average wait time on the ye olde p/w email ? Been over 30 mins I feel or that could all be due to a watched inbox never updates syndrome…
October 6th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Should be more or less instant. Checketh yon spam folder’s maw.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
The Hammer says:
AWESOME.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
MonkeyMonster says:
Twas not instant in the arrivals lounge alas - shakes fist at angry internet man for slowing it! But hot diggity am alive n kicking! (sent 3.12 arrived 3.50 - go figure)
October 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
sana says:
I would be pleased if you could concentrate on proper forum titles instead of using the usual… “wacky” phrases for that.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Klaus says:
It has occurred to me that if I register soon, later on I can be elitist and grumpy.
“RPS is getting pretty impressive what with the steam group, the TF2 server, the podcast, and now a forum. What’s next?”
An RPS RPG, or FPS obviously. Or a dating sim, which would be kawaii. ^_~
October 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Nero says:
Excellent. I’ve had experience with the Talk-o-Tron 1500 but not this new version so I’m eager to check it out. Lovely.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Trousers says:
Most excellent, I’m surprised the podcast came before this, but either way this is great.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Scandalon says:
Fashigady - wait, what, we have a TF2 server? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!? (Seriously…where?)
October 6th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
teo says:
yay, great
only downside is the ads taking up so much room
October 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
TentSalesman says:
The TF2 server lives here: 85.236.101.56:27115
October 6th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Down Rodeo says:
Hoo boy, I feel stupid as the first poster who has not been able to register. It tells me my password is wrong but I am fairly certain that it isn’t (I might be mistaken but I have tried several times). If I am wrong, well, I’m sorry for inconveniencing you guys; as it stands it no worky for me. The username and e-mail are the same as here - it has occurred to me that the space in my name could be an issue as it often is. Yes I have seen the “lost password” button but I figure if it hasn’t worked the first time then for the sake of beaters I might as well inform you. Also I guess since I haven’t logged in once yet your server probably wouldn’t give me a second chance.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Kadayi says:
“I still feel the steam group is the true “rps community”.”
Nice to see the elitism is creeping in already.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
StalinsGhost says:
Excellent.
That is all.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Pace says:
Well, seems quite popular. Something like 750 posts in, what, 7 hours?
October 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Andrew Doull says:
Will be interesting to see how this helps the RPS-money-o-meter as I hear forums are where the traffic is at. Good luck!
October 6th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Mil says:
@Down Rodeo:
You have to use the password you get in the registration e-mail.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
yxxxx says:
Mil says:
@Down Rodeo:
You have to use the password you get in the registration e-mail.
yeah and if you copy and paste make sure that you dont have any spaces copied or else you will get the wrong password thing up.
oh and if doing it manual like take care of caps and things like o 0
October 6th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Satsuz says:
I like forums. I like RPS. Time to see if these tastes go well with one another, methinks.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Dorian Cornelius Jasper says:
On Hosiery:
For a second there, I was wondering whether you gentlemen had the legs to pull it off. Then I realized that whether you did or not, you’d find some way to make it work.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Down Rodeo says:
I did try all those. I mean, what other password would I put in the box? I shall try again, I suppose.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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