I don't think I'd even know how to play a shooter anymore. :P

The UT collaboration is essentially dead, Epic has pulled all of its staff off it. They're all working on Fortnite probably.

The Epic Store is pretty barebones right now, but it will be useful for Steam to have another competitor.

Weirdo. :P

Awhile back I tossed out all of my old game boxes and Tribes was one of the few I kept. It still has the price tag on it--$54.99. The store I bought it from has been gone for probably 15 years.

That makes me feel old. I had a full head of hair and a beard 20 years ago. And none of it had turned gray yet. :P

In retrospect the affair with Tribes ended up being intense, but ultimately (somewhat) short-lived. It had pretty much evaporated by the time Tribes: Vengeance (remember that?) came out.

I'd really like to get the old database back up and running. It feels like the history of QB/MC is locked away.

But really, Facebook and other social media have more or less killed most forums.

I admit I haven't been on here for months, but the issues the board had been experiencing have been fixed. Hooray.

I officially own quirkybastards.com again. I'm not promising anything, just saying.

(There's no website attached to it yet so you'll only get an error if you visit.)

QuirkyB's sounds like either a youth-oriented rap group or a dubious family restaurant chain.

Point taken about abbreviating to QB, though.

I really am not a fan of the current incarnation of phpBB. It's free and...that's its biggest asset. That said, I dislike vBulletin, which is most definitely not free, even more. Therefore I am going to devote time over the upcoming winter break to get Xenforo working with the old database. This wil...

The system, as they say, is working:

I'm really not sure how I feel about most of these things, though if the vanilla servers are truly vanilla, I think they'll see a surge of popularity up front then a massive drop-off a month or two later, because vanilla WoW was good, relatively speaking at the time, but it's pretty bad in most ways...

No, I'm not talking about the US election last year.

The offending "members" and their posts have been deleted from the forum.

User accounts now require admin access for approval.

Carry on.

Yeah, the whole reason we moved away from Quirky Bastards to begin with is because so many places would either censor or forbid the name. It just wasn't worth the hassle for a gaming group. If you're going for short, QB would do, otherwise I'd vote Martian Cartel. Most people (even in QB/MC) may not...

By the by, if you keep in touch with other Martians/QBs. let them know there is a forum once again.

If there's sufficient interest I will once again attempt to go mad by trying to revive the old database.

Mine are quite surprising!

Steam: Creole Ned
battle.net: CreoleNed#1641 (despite what it looks like, there are not 1640 other Creole Neds on battle.net--as far as I know)
Origin: CreoleNed

EDIT: Proving my tyranny, I have made Elegance the default style. You can switch back to prosilver (the default default) using the steps cleverly detailed below. By the way, I added a theme called Elegance that puts avatars/profile info on the left side where it belongs. You can find it in your prof...

Yes, phpBB, just like I used back when people still had 3dfx video cards.

We'll see what sort of activity we get before I look into trying to restore all of the old posts again. I know everyone is eager to relive the memory of me banning pogo all over again.

EDIT: And no smilies, for now. >:)