The Forums Are Back

Unfortunately, the forums were completely restarted, so they must be rebuilt from scratch. Go ahead and start posting now if you want. I’ll just be setting things up in the background, making the forums good as they were before, perhaps even better.

It May Be Quite a Delay

I must depart to my bed. Because the hosting site is still down, it will probably be at least nine hours before the forum board is back up. It is 1:13 AM in my time zone and I like getting more than five minutes of sleep, Which is a goal I may not achieve if I wait for the hosting site to come back up.

A Bout of About

The “About” page is here. Now to link it to each page. It’s past 1:00 AM in my time zone. Curse my dislike of coffee.

A Bit of a Delay

Well, apparently, the forum host server is down again. I’m about ready to bang my head on the keyboard. Or, more appropriately, bang my keyboard over the hacker’s head.

Anyway, I might be a bit late in reconstructing the forum board as a result. While I am waiting, I’ll be making you an “about” page. You don’t mind that, do you? Didn’t think so.

Forums: the Sequel to the Sequel

Well, apparently the guy who hacked into the forum database managed to completely delete mine, so we must rebuild ours anew. Accordingly:

• All accounts must be recreated.
  
• The freefall game will be started over.
  
• All RPs will continue where they left off.

On the bright side, the guy who did this is about to be cleaned dry (as opposed to dry-cleaned) of everything he’s worth in court.

Forum Trouble

Have you ever found yourself carrying a whole bunch of stuff, then you suddenly drop one of those things? You know how it goes. You go to pick up that thing and drop two more in the process; then you go to pick those two things up and you drop another two things while picking those things up…

To my knowledge, that’s basically what happened to the forums. A problem occured, then in fixing that thing, there came another problem, and now the entire coding of the forums seems to be falling down around the hosting site’s staff.

Of course, this is only an educated guess; it may just be the same problem appearing over and over again. Either way, I think I’m about to offer my expertise to them and try to fix the problem myself, ‘cause I’m tired of just sitting around waiting for somebody else to fix the problem.

Hellion has joined the Force!

…I think. I’m not exactly sure. Anyway, this is the famous-ish author of Replica Saga HCO, a webcomic I like that shall soon be put on my links page.

New pages are here!

Things were getting a bit cramped, so we have added to this site a couple of new pages. Namely, the Contact and Q&A pages. Now you don’t have to join the forums just to tell me stuff or ask a question.

Er… Scratch that

Well, the hosting site tried to put ads on my site. Right then and there, I left that place and came back home to the more trustworthy blogger. Anyhoo, I will be making efforts to make this look more like a site than a blog. Minor things, you know.

Also, new forums are up on a different forum host. And these forums don’t have objectionable ads. Three cheers for a new forum!

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I’ll get to those cheers eventually.

A blog leads to…

I finally got a free hosting service with no ads or anything. Best of all, I should also be able to host my own forum on it (bye bye, objectionable ads) and many other things. Things are looking up for the Fire Wolves!

No more!

This is it; the last straw. Put simply, the ads on the forum have become to outrageously inappropriate. As of now, the forums are closed. They will soon be re-opened under a different hosting service.

Mystical Creatures in The Ballad of Dreams: Zombies

To make up for the fact that I am a bit late on my magazine, I shall bring you a special report on the zombies of “The Ballad of Dreams”.

Zombies are corpses magically re-animated through the use of dark magic. Zombies have no will of their own and obey only the one who rose them from their graves. They are incapable of feeling anything, emotionally or physically, and can fight even if it is missing a few limbs. However, it does need its brain to retain “life”, thus destroying it is the only non-magical way to kill a zombie. They are also highly sensitive to magic and will die if hit by any powerful offensive magic, though weaker spells will also suffice if cast by a powerful magic-user.

Zombies are able to spread disease and rot by touch. This only works on organic materials, such as animal or plant matter. Contrary to what some may believe, those who are killed by zombies do not become zombies themselves.

A bit of a delay

I am sorry, but the Fire Wolves Magazine may be a bit late.

Ratings Wars

Now in the forums are the “Rate the Above Person’s…” games. Varieties include avatar, signature, location, and class. I also may be adding more “say something about…” games.

What else can I say? They’re games and they’re grrrrrrate!

Over 100 Views

This page has officially been viewed over 100 times. It may not sound like much, but it’s an important step… I think.

The forum problem and how you could help

The forum hosts won’t do anything about it. Looks like if I ever want to have those ads removed, I’ll have to have ALL the ads removed, which means paying them $50. So here are the options:

- We wait until I manage to get the $50. With no allowance and hardly any starting money, that could take a long time.
- One of you hosts the forums instead. If you have your own site, maybe you could lend me a bit of that space? I’m afraid blogger doesn’t allow file uploads, which are necessary for forum boards.
- One of you pays the $50 to get the ads removed. Yeah, like that would ever happen.

Until one of these things happen, I suppose an all-ages forum board is beyond our reach.

Measures are being taken

I am doing all that I can to make spboards.com do all that they can to remove the more offensive ads on the forum board. Perhaps sometime soon, the boards can be safely browsed by a six-year old. Yeah, that’ll be when I invite Cole.

New feature in the forums

I have added the Battle of the Pics to the forums. No, this is not where you go to throw pictures at each-other. This is where you go to put up a picture/drawing that can defeat the previous picture/drawing. Low bandwidth computers be warned: many images will be in this thread.

If you decide to join, may the pic be with you, Luke.

A clarification of the last post

When I said it was getting closer, I did not mean that the ads that the hosting site put on my forums actually have nudity. But they are tip-toeing closer to that.

Somebody willing to help get rid of the ads?

Alright, the “find your mate” ads on the forums are tip-toeing ever-closer to nudity. Can somebody donate $50 so I can get them removed? I will need the donor to do the actual payment to get them removed, because the hosting site only allows payment via credit card or PayPal, both of which I’m pretty sure I’m too young to sign up for.

Or alternatively, maybe one of you readers could host the forums on your site. Of course, I do not realistically expect anyone to offer to do either thing, but I thought it would be worth a shot.