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Re: Activity on .castle
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:22:07 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Alex Polimeni writes:
In lugnet.castle, Tanya K. Burkhart writes:
1)  We've got lots of lurkers and not a lot of posters?

This is a sure thing. tons of people have sighned the roll call, and ive only
seen about ten of them...so i think they are still lurking...

I'll be posting something soon!  ;)

2)  The people on .space are having more fun than we are?


well, i went around .space before writing this, and as far as i can tell, their
hard core maniacs. so, i would say they are having ALOTTT more fun than us.

Hard core maniacs?  Yeah, that's us.


3)  We need to have more inspiration from each other?

we need insparation period...(the lord of the rings is where i get mine!)

I get mine from other lugnet.castle creations, and from my own head.  If I
just think of a cool way to build a little house into a cliff or something,
I just go out and do it.  I've found in my .space experience that getting
all your inspiration from other people and not yourself often leads to
models that aren't exactly top-notch, because all you really are doing is
just re-creating their stuff.  I'm not saying some is bad, but when you just
go and try to mimic somebody else's work, you won't exactly produce an
original work of art.

These are the general observations I've been reading lately regarding we
castle-heads as a group.  Are these really problems?  Or are they just an
indication that we're adults and we actually have lives away from our bricks?


Not all of us are adults. I am a mere eleven and i have ALOT of life away from
my bricks. i spend more time contemplating and scanning and drawing etc etc etc
of my Brickworlds than i do acually building...
Yes, i believe these are problems. I have been observing the same thinks since
i delurked. there is alot of talk about getting castle a rival, etc. but
NOTHING HAPPENS!!! we talk about it and dont do it. i was attempting to get
somewhere with the Game Project...but the internet is a damn big road block....

IMHO, I think castle would get jump-started if people started building and
stopped talking.  Look at .space.  They still have games and stories, (IE
Starship and Jassim's Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads) but the majority of the
activity is posting models.  Lugnet.castle wasn't supposed to be a
discussion board for games- IMO, lugnet.fun.gaming would be a better place
to talk and not swamp everything else away.

Nothings gonna happen in castle if nobody builds.  I think that thats the
major advantage of .space.

So, if these observations are _not_ really problems, then:

1) There's enough interest here that people are taking the time to lurk, and
that's a good thing.

2) Who's to say what's fun?  If you've got an Army of Darkness/Dogma/Monty
Pythom and the Holy Grail sense of humor, share it!

I agree. i dont have the blood to create  a humorus story, but i like reading
em! (i can only write epics that include alot of plot lines, tons of mysticles,
and a WHOOLE lot of orc killing.)

3) Inspiration comes from a lot of places - books, movies, comics, travel,
songs, spirituality...  What inspires you?


GO lord of the rings! for some stretched inpiration go to www.bionicle.com...

If these observations _are_ really problems, then:

1) Stop Lurking!  Say "hi" once in a while, even if you really don't have
anything else to say.  Let us know you're around, what you've been up to,
even if it's not to announce some grand MOC that you've been working on for
months (2 years now, in my case).  "Hey, guys, I'm working on the wizard's
tower on my castle."  "Hi, been saving money to buy a Lego Storage Unit.
Not much going on building-wise.  Had a great idea, though..."  "Total
structural failure on the north wall of my castle.  Rebuilding."

Great ideas! i agree totally.
as for that wall failer...how about the time my tower on the front gate fell
over and smashed the defending army? that was bad....

2) Post a joke.  Start a Mad-Libs type story that we can continue as a
group.  Doesn't have to be complicated.  Don't even have to be logical. ;)

I find wacky illogical things to be very funny.

Extremely.  Look at the .space fleebnork and sea monkey business.  All that
provides Lego inspiration and yet is fun as well.

Just my humble opinion,

-JHK



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(...) This is a sure thing. tons of people have sighned the roll call, and ive only seen about ten of them...so i think they are still lurking... (...) well, i went around .space before writing this, and as far as i can tell, their hard core (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle)

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