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Well Im more of old-time-semi-lurker-ish type person. I can't even remember the first time I found the BG site and STZone, but I do remember chatting in that old Risa Beach chat quite a lot. Back then I called myself "The Overlord." I remember Tachy used to call himself The Overlord in that chat as well, so I changed my name Aaron the Overlord to stop people asking me to model a trek ship or whatever. Anyways I think I joined just before that Team 001 thing went live. Tachy was looking for people who wanted to model trek ships so I joined up, even though I was crap at making models.
I think I was in that Team 001 thing for all of a week or so before it was split off/booted out whatever happened at the time, as I'm buggered if I can remember what was going on at the time. When that happened I went from posting on the forum a lot back into my lurker mode.
Since then I was off trying to make models for Sector 001, 3D Warriors, 3D Warriors II, and finaly Scifi-art. But as I got older, doing my GCSEs, then my A-levels, and moving on to university I got tired of modeling things and tired of Trek. So I went AWOL from SFA, and kinda dropped off the net for a while. I'd occasionaly come online and lurk in some of the old places I used to hang out, like flare with most of the old BG people being on here.
I still model stuff occasionally, and I'm back posting on here. Still love my sci-fi, but I'm not the rabid Trekkie I used to be. I've been into online gaming with a passion for the last few years. Then got hooked onto World of Warcrack, but finally kicked that habit last year.
quote:Originally posted by B.J.: And poking around some more, I came across a link to this: The Behaviour Alliance I had thought all those places were gone! BTW, I may not have registered until 2002, but I had been lurking since around 1998/1999.
Had a look at that link, makes me feel a little nostalgic, and I was suprised to see my webpage linked there. *wonders what ever happened to it*
Just a random list of people I remember from back in the BG days, some are on here posting and others ain't:
Tachy/Cyrille Lefevre - In Australia with his wife last time I heard from him. Rutger Warrink/RW Mike Wright Daryus Ayden Baloo FrankG TheObssesiveC/TOC - Well Mr. Capps is obviously still here! Dani - I think that was her name, I believe she ran the old Risa Beach Chat Chris Howell - Or was it Gouch? My memory's all screwed up. I noticed that Great Link wasn't being updated sometime after Enterprise was canned, and just checked it now and it's passworded so dunna what has happened with that. Torah Ziyal - Still around here somewhere Adam Heinbuch
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of other people from back then I should remember, but like I said, my memory is shit.
Just looking through an old archived folder on my computer and I found this sitting there:
Now does anyone remember that? (Not the palm tree bit, that was something I drew on there a decade ago now)
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Daniel Butler
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I got the trial edition of WoW last week. I played for about 3h the other day...I don't like it. Just isn't very interesting to me. (Big surprise; I've never once finished any single-player RPG I rented or bought). I feel like such a non-geek saying this but...I think I only like FPS...
Flare was the first and only forum I ever joined or kept tabs on. Never found one before here that didn't appear to be populated by the same type of p'taQ that you see on IRC.
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quote:Originally posted by OverRon: Tachy/Cyrille Lefevre - In Australia with his wife last time I heard from him. Rutger Warrink/RW Mike Wright Daryus Ayden Baloo FrankG TheObssesiveC/TOC - Well Mr. Capps is obviously still here! [Smile] Dani - I think that was her name, I believe she ran the old Risa Beach Chat Chris Howell - Or was it Gouch? My memory's all screwed up. I noticed that Great Link wasn't being updated sometime after Enterprise was canned, and just checked it now and it's passworded so dunna what has happened with that. Torah Ziyal - Still around here somewhere Adam Heinbuch
Tachy - hasn't been here in ages... usually not welcome due to hijinks. RW - dropped Trek completely a few years back Mike Wright - don't know this one... Daryus Aden - still an admin here, haven't seen him in a while Baloo - dropped Trek as well, hangs around Snopes IIRC FrankG - aka Aethelwer. Has posted in this thread TheObsessiveC/TOC - The Capps will never leave Dani - still pokes around here now and again Chris Howell - don't know him either Tora Ziyal - aka Diane. Still active, she visited Jay's grave Adam Heinbuch - aka The Vorlon. Lurks around here, posts in a typical enigmatic Vorlon way when summoned...
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I remember when I was the new guy and wanted to know how everyone else got here. Once upon a time I had all that written up somewhere. I seem to have lost it.
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Charles Capps
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Mike Wright was another CG modeller. I think he left here around the same time as Tachy.
Chris Howell was the guy who ran The Great Link, a Behaviour Group site with general Trek news and such. Didn't he pretty much disappear from the Internet for some reason?
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Daniel Butler
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I keep hearing of this Behaviour Group. It sounds like a symposium of mental health professionals. Why was it named that?
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Those were the days of lurking quietly between the stars, watching, waiting......
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Charles Capps
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I keep hearing of this Behaviour Group. It sounds like a symposium of mental health professionals. Why was it named that?
Well, you hit it right on the head there...
*ahem*
It all started with Chris Gough and a few Trek sites he ran. Among them was chiefly "Obsessive Behaviour," with that very wrong British spelling of behavior. It just happened to have a little asstastic forum. And then came First Contact, and the new ships, and the niftiest little starship class database EVAR, Utopia Planitia (and eventually a better-designed Utopia Planitia 2).
Eventually Chris got all networky and crap, and a handful of us did the whole lots-of-sites-under-one-name thing.
And then the host's servers got hacked, or something. And there was no backup, sigh.
The sites were all restored into a nifty new conglomerate we named Star Trek Central (archive.org link unavailable 'cause they seem to have ignored simplenet), but the forums went elsewhere. We were desperate for hosting, so I pulled some strings and got hosting from a semi-colleague. Thus was the Starfleet Communications Relay, which lasted... uh, what, about a year?
Then there was drama and bullshit, and the SFCR went kaputski when I told someone to go do something in the control panel that would end up blowing the forums up, 'cause the code sucked. And then I was an idiot.
And then on March 12, 1999, there was Flare. Or rather, Solar Flare, since then shortened and relocated. (There's been a few reskins over the years. I think we're on the... er... Enterforum J now? SolarFlare was the -H, Flare 1 was the -I, the UBB6 version ("Flare 3") was the -J... and this newer skin ("Flare 4") is just a retrofit, not an entirely new model. Hmm, I guess that makes the next one the Enterforum-K. Mmm'k. Man. That's bad. I should probably go to bed.)
Around the same time, the rest of the Behaviour sites kinda went and did their own thing. Chris still runs his web shop, Behaviour Interactive Media. Somtimes he even drops by. The Great Link disappeared a while ago, as has been noted. Utopia Planitia became outdated, and our meager attempts to do yet another sequel never really materialized. What we did manage to get done has been released into DAC. The little 3D group self-destructed in a fit of drama. I think there was one more site, but I've misplaced all my Star Trek Central stuff. Ah well, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bits to bits...
But Flare continues, and will continue to continue. Continuously.
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Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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As it was, ever shall it be.
I remember reading the UP pages around '97 or '98 & thinking to myself that you guys had come up with the dumbest names ever for the FC designs, & that some of the extrapolated outlines were goofy. Don't I feel the right ass now.
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I think that, other than admin stuff, that was the longest post I've ever seen by CC.
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Daniel Butler
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I have this funny suspicion that he has a *real life* beyond Flare...
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