As far as additional lore is concerned, I recall that when Yoss first joined, he was so excited he posted in every open thread (probably a hundred or more), and he claimed royalty (King). But king only requires owing the last post of every post on the first page, so we created a new category of Necromancer (reviving dead threads) or something like that, which eventually became the NO LIFE award.

Yoss' enthusiasm for the game also eventually resulted in him being quickly escalated to GM status.

I miss Yoss. Hope he's doing all right.

I kind of wish I'd joined back in the day when it was at its height. It sounds like it was a lot of fun. Of course, I probably wouldn't have understood it back then, seeing as I was still in the single-digits of years when this game was first created.

Oh yeah, I joined back in '07 and I guess I was in...middle school? And wasting time was what I did best in my teen years, so it was a blast back then. It's kinda nostalgic every time I come back on here.
If it had that level of activity these days I don't think I could handle it, but then again, I have other ways I waste time just as efficiently...like Netflix. I will always find a way. ^^;

It would be hard to keep up if those glory days were repeated, but it would be nice if we picked up some steam here with more posters.

Note that I changed the thread "(Testing) In the year 2012..." to just "In the Year..." I assume 9 years of "testing" is plenty, not to mention the year in the title. ;)

I think for that, it's necessary for more than one person to be online at a time.

And yeah I think it's safe to say nine years is sufficient testing... XD

comes in with an armload of beakers, electrodes and probes in varying sized
But.... okay....

Yeah, having multiple people online at the same time is definitely a struggle anymore. I'd like to say I had way more time to waste before I graduated college, but that's not entirely true. Like Kitty said, I just waste it doing other things, like watching videos on YouTube or streaming services, or working at my big girl job.

I will say that after spending 16 months doing full time school and full time work, I appreciate my leisure time way more than I ever did before.

"SilentMouse, please use personal protective equipment.  The goggles, gas masks, gloves, radiation suits, salt and condoms are in the cabinet next to the work bench and summoning circle."

Must I, if we’re no longer testing?

Wait...
Am... am I the reason we can’t have nice things again?

>.>
<.<

For me, it's never about time wasting as much as letting some steam off to take a break from the stress of work. Sometimes it's good to make a little time to waste.

For me it's a weird balance. I'm an extrovert, unlike most of my friends, so finding the line between taking a break in a restful way and just plain wasting time is pretty tricky sometimes - especially in these weird corona times, of course.
So I just end up calling most of it "wasting time," whether it's truly a waste or not.

As an EMT in these times of the 'Rona, it's nice to have something I can look at that doesn't require a full lengthy character developing post, but rather just a quick answer or thought. Something that pulls me out of my day even for a second.

Not a waste of time, but rather a simple, sometimes needed, distraction.

Yeah. I thought posting would pick up with so many stuck in their houses. I was kind of out of it for a couple years, though, and it looks like others gradually started disappearing too. Time to shake the hornet's nest!

FourLegged points at the cabinet

If you're gonna start shaking hornets' nests, I'm outta here.
I'm not letting that old nemesis get anywhere near me.

FourLegged brings a freshly fermented piece of fruit to the slightly inebriated murder hornet at the end of the bar.

I had a near-death encounter with a murder hornet a few months ago.
Actually I was climbing up some rocks and nearly fell down in my hurry to get away, so it was a double near-death encounter. Good times.

I lived in places with tons of hornet's nests, including California. Been stung many times so I'm with you on that. Stay far away!

I had thought about sending a mass private message to all players stating that we are still here, and they are welcome to jump back in at any time.

Oh I have a particular string of bad luck with hornets (and other bees/wasps/etc but mostly hornets). Been stung a lot, my whole life. That's why I was particularly scared for my life when I moved to Japan and encountered the real MurderHornet^TM live and in the flesh.

I'm not sure how much that message would help, but then again, what could it hurt?

I didn't know you were in Japan! I'm in Japan.

What really? Small world huh! :)

Did anyone else notice this site went down for a couple days?

Yes. I'm always afraid when that happens that I'll lose players.

We must be getting old because now we are posting "Back in my day..." posts about ASWoT. :)