Rather than taking up room on the LICC boards, here is where discussions of the Cybersoap Archives can be held.

Well, I'd like to point out that JD has more Phantom Returns stuff than Webber put up on the site (last I checked).

I was hoping he did! I'll e-mail him the password so he can upload the stuff! That is so cool! Thanks Paddy.

I'm going to change the coloring of the episode titles for Jack Mightee: Grey on Brown is kinda ugly.

I was going to make a pic of Jack Mightee for the page, but I can't find a head to use that looks anything like him.

HOWEVER......I'm writing a backstory for the page, and an author's list. The backstory will explain the relationship between Jack Mightee, Vic Hardin, and the Kowalski brothers.

BF: Great idea. BTW, I was just thinking about changing the colors myself. It's weird how similar we think isn't it?

YOu should mention that Tacoman's first appearence was on JARSO...

jon: I will. It will be for the JARSo Did You Know...

SOW (Speaking of which), dsid you liek the PhantomReturns Did You Know...?

The colored backgrounds have GOT to go.

Also why make the black text blue?

The combination of those two things have screwed up the formatting that posters did in color.

What is wrong with a white background & text that is the color it is meant to be?

A section for fan fiction? Eep! And it goes up to R-rated? Eeeeeek!
Why do I have the awful feeling that there will be a number of stories that begin Pattie was sunbathing on a secluded beach...

So will there be a section for art as well?

The front page takes forever to load.

FYI. Another NitCentral 'cybersoap' is The Puppet Ruling Council in the Angel sink. (Don't know what will happen to it when Mark steps down as moderator.)

As for the FAQ about Cybersoaps around the web. There are a couple at the Keenspot Forums. Don't know the exact addresses, but they can be reached through http://www.keenspot.com
I believe one is called Rooms & Mutants and another is The Order of St. Juval. Both were inspired by Keenspot comics (College Roomies From Hell!!! & Clan Of The Cats).

Dropped the R rating, sorry about JARSO but Homestead Site Builder doesn't leave me with many options. Once it's up, I'd have to take it down to fix it. As for load time, I can do one or two things to fix that, but I can make no promises at this juncture. The Puppet Ruling Council you say? As I've never been to Angel (if I don't watch buffy why watch Angel?), does it have it's own logo and/or website? And as for Keenspot, I was telling the truth when i said I'd never heard of anything like what we do before. But I'm not the only one answering the FAQ. I'm sure jake can ahdnle that. As for art, I'm iffy on that. I'm thinking a GIFs only rule, but if no one agrees to it, that would cause problems.

Don't know about the logo of the PRC, but Mark Morgan does have his own website, Voices Of Unreason. I don't know if he has any plans to move the PRC over there or not. I would guess not since his site uses Conversant, not Discus. Since you post at VOU you might want to talk to him.

I brought up the Keenspot stuff simply as additional information. You said you didn't know of any so I felt I should let you know of some.

I was somewhat tongue-in-cheek on my fan fiction comments.

KAM, Webber know abaout Voices of Unreason, in fact he's a regular there!

Ummmmm.....if we only put up GIF files, someone is going to have to convert pics for me, I think. I believe my art programs can only do jpgs and bmps. I usually start out with a bmp in one program, work on it a little, switch it to the other program, do a little more work, then convert it to jpg format.

VuePrint can convert anything into anything (image wise I mean. I can convert MP3s in GIFs).

As for PRC, I'll talk to Mark.

Thanks for all the pointers.

BF, I know in Photoshop the Image Mode can be changed (i.e. Greyscale, RGB, CMYK, Indexed Color, etc.). Check your art program for such a thing. If it does allow you to change modes set to Indexed Color (or something similar) and try Save As... a GIF file.

As I understand it GIFs can only show the basic 256 colors that most computers recognize. So if it's not called Indexed Color, it might have a name with a similar meaning. (Also you might lose some specialised colors.)

Padawan, I knew that. Reread the last sentance of the first paragraph of my previous post.

1: I need "Did You Know..."s for Prot Mike, Jack Mightee and TKOS.

2: How about we have the Nittys at the new site?

3: When you submit stuff for the Art Gallery, please try to keep it under 9000 bytes.

4: I made some room for some more links on the left side. But I can't think of any. Help!

Thanks

Took Padawan's suggestion and added a What's New for the Site.

Did You Know that Visitor #25 first appeared in Port Mike? KAM needed a generic name for various comments and when visiting Matthew Patterson's Sailor Moon site the counter said "You are Visitor #25".

It's funny, I didn't assosiate Visitor #25 with you , KAM, I thought of it as a sort of "25th post" or "unnamed 25th member" thing. Possibly I also confused him with "The Twelfth Man" from the Movies board who was belived to be either Nyla or Ccabe.

IIRC I thought he was either you or JD before you confessed.

KAM: I'll add that today if I edit the site today. I might not since there's really nothing I could do for the moment.

I just saw that other cybersoap thing and was rather amused...

No, Ansh's sister is not named after Tammy from MTVille. if I knew about that then she'd have been given a different name.

*sigh*

I still need a Did You Know for Port Mike and Bizarro World. Also, my middle two suggestions in the last post were never addressed.

2: How about we have the Nittys at the new site?

3: When you submit stuff for the Art Gallery, please try to keep it under 9000 bytes.

All I need for #3 is someone to say if they agree or not.

I can live with those suggestions.

But, I still think the Nittys should be exclusive to LICC. We could do a separate awards for the other Cybersoaps. Call them the Soapys, or something.

BF: Well, you'd be wrong about the Nittys, because JARSO and Phantom Returns have all gotten Nittys before (JARSO got two in it's last chapter). You just don't want Arhcangel to get any you jerk! *reacts to strnage looks* Well, he doesn't! He said so once!

Oh bTW, added the Did You Know that KAM gave me to port Mike, which is now working link wise. Added links to the TKOS page as well.

The Nitty Award voting process will begin tomorrow. It is limited to LICC. More details then.

Judge: LIAR! I've seen the awards given to Phantom Returns and JARSO! You are a liar! LIAR! I don't think you're even a real judge! You're BF trying to exlcude Archangel. Yeah, you SAY it's limited to LICC, but I wouldn't be surpised to see Sprinkle Boy and TKOS pick up at leasta nomination or two.

Brian, I don't believe so. I put my faith in this person, and I know when he says it's limited to LICC then it will be.

JARSO's awards were in a different set, and were unofficial (no-one voted, they were just given by KAM)

Phantom Returns only got awards because LICC originally was part of it.

Paddy: Well even so, the word Nitty implies that it applies to NITCentral in general. If it was JUST for the LICC, it should be called something else, like the Lickys (LICCees) or something.

Actually Padawan, one person voted for the JARSO Nittys.

Also I gave a Nitty to Margie for Trekspotting on one of the Jokes & Groaners board.

Then I decided to give out Nittys in honor of LICC's first anniversary (from their founding on the Phantom Returns boards). Only LICC-related Phantom Returns was part of that.

This year I was asked by JD if I would allow them (JD & ?) to give out Nittys for LICC and I agreed.

As far as I know the voting is only for LICC entries.

Basically the Nittys are specific to whoever I think deserves them (in the case of Margie) or a board I liked (JARSO & LICC).

Yes, the name did come from NitCentral.

9000 bytes equals how many K?

Uh, well, it's about, oh I'd say, um, well. Ah ••••, I don't know.

The 2001 Nitty Judge was not me!

And I didn't exactly say that I didn't want Archangel to win any Nittys. I said I didn't think it should be included in the Nittys, but in another awards, along with all the other, non-LICC soaps.

(With only four people posting, and the gaps in between posts, I don't think Jack Mightee is going to win any, or even be nominated for any!)

Well it's incredibly unfair, and as such I shall go out and enlist some celebrity aid. That's right, I'm going to e-mail Michael moore (Roger & Me, The Awful Truth) and Kevin Smith (Dogma, Clerks)! And if that fails, I'm sure Gloria Alred is press-hungry enough.

KAM - 9k. k=1000 (cf Y2K) therefore 9000 bytes equals 9k. QED.

Okay folks, here's how it goes...

TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE NITTYS!!!

Starting today, the Nomination Round is open. Nomination is open for
the following categories:

Best Main Character
Favorite Main Character
Strangest Main Character
Best Villain
Worst Villain
Favorite Villain
Best Supporting/Guest character
Strangest Supporting/Guest character
Favorite Supporting/Guest Character
Character you want to see more of

Best Plot Twist
Strangest Plot Twist
Best Storyline
Strangest Storyline
Best Individual Post
Best Chapter/Board
Concept you want to see more of
Best Author


Send in your nominations to the above categories to the Archive Site
address, thelicc@yahoo.com.

In one month, the Nomination Round will conclude and the Voting Round will begin. The most popular nominations in the Nitty categories will be announced, and you can then vote for the 2001 Nitty recipients!

In two Months, the Nitty Awards will be held, on the Archive Site (to allow the award graphics). A new Nitcentral board will be created for speeches and discussion. Nominate your favorite characters today!

One vote per category per person, please. Be honest. Nitty voting is open to EVERYONE, not just LICC authors. All you who like to read LICC
are welcome to vote.

That's
thelicc@yahoo.com

Is there a time limit about how far back the nomination can come from? I'm sure some people still think the Superhero Convention was the best, but it was voted on last year.

Brian, 9k is pretty small. Only my first Hamburger Pattie pic fits. The first Tacoman pic was 21k. (Although I suppose I could shrink it down, but then it could be hard to see.)

I think we should make the limit more reasonable. Say, 30k?

Nominations on characters, storylines, etc, are eligible from the last Nitty Awards (July 16, 2000) to now.

BF: Ok, I'll meet you in the middle. 18k.

Made some changes to the site. I hope you like them, adn the new POLL.

Well, I'm getting ready for the next batch of updates (next Saturday), which will include the first 9 chapters of Port Mike! But I'd like to go in with more than that. Like the unwritten intros for port Mike, TKOS, Jack Mightee, etc. Also, you know on the JARSO page there's the thing that say "The Early Tales from the MST3k Kitchen Sink?" I'd like to have those. Seeing the great job Padawan did for that thing on the Sprinkle Boy site, I thought maybe HE could help me. Also, I'm thinking of dropping the Art Gallery general thing, and just adding indivual art galleries to the pages, the way LICC Archangel and Sprinkle Boy have their own. There are a few buttons on Bizarro World already that hint at this. I could add buttons like those to the other pages too.

Actually, if I had payed attention to KAM's Crystal Quest properly I'd have worked out what characters were all played by the same person (him). Actually what got me suspicious was seeing them all return at pretty much the same time near the end of LICC1.

I was wanting to make a site for TKOS, so don't get too carried away with your one, Brian Webber.

Aw, c'mon! I thought Floyd liked my TKOS page!

BTW, tomorrow I'm following through on my Art Galleries idea.

I DO like your TKOS page, but if Padawan wants to do one, too, we can just make the logo on the front page of the Archives a link to his page.

And, DON'T call me Floyd! I HATE being called by my last name. "BF" or "Lord & Master" will be fine.

Webber, I don't have time right now to make the changes to the Jack Mightee page that I wanted to. If you get a chance, just reverse the colors of the Episode Title Text and the Text Box.

No prob Floyd. :-)

Brian, where the TKOS page?

Nit: "the TKOS" is redundant.

No, because it means "the The Knights of Silvercliff page."

Okay, I went and changed the Jack Mightee page. I recolored what was there, and added an introduction\backstory. Let me know what you think.

I redid everything in brown on white, because I believe that with Jack Mightee, less should be more!

Brian Webber - I don't know what the "Early Tales from the MST3K Kitchen Sink" were. I think it was basically James tracking rachgd around Nitcentral, and then KAM suggested they have a board and Matthew Patterson created one. All the stalking posts are displayed on the first JARSO board, AFAIK.

Oh. Well, I could delete that then and replace it with something else. Like an Observer Chroniles thing. In fact, I think every Cybersoap (except PRC) should have Observer pages.

BF: You should've mentioned your changes to Jack Mightee in What's New.

What will this Observer Chronicles section entail?

Well, you know the Observer's record of the LICC right? First appearnces, last known location, etc. as well as summaries off the major storylines in another Observer thing?

Padawan - Actually, if I had payed attention to KAM's Crystal Quest properly I'd have worked out what characters were all played by the same person
If you'd read Phantom Returns XI you could have figured out some of them as well.

Well, I'm sharpening up my axe. Did you want the Drama Group cut?

KAM, if you get a chance, please remove the Mysterious Detectives board. Its not going to happen. At least, not anytime soon.

Yes, KAM, make it so.

I'd be happy to write a Com-style reference guide for JARSO. I've started, in fact.

If you'd read Phantom Returns XI you could have figured out some of them as well.

I have read Phantom Returns XI, I don't see how that would have shown me who was you.

Padawan: Sweet. I'll give you the neccesary info for uploading the thing later today.

I was rereading it a bit ago & winced at how some of my characters like The Queue & Hamburger Pattie would post so close together, indicating that they had the same author.

Updated the site. First time since a million years ago.

I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind!

Actually, I've got a problem. Or maybe Homestead & Xara do. I just started my own site (its my Sims stuff), and when I try to select the Xara Modules, I get errors, saying "Try again later". Webber, you ever have that problem when designing the Cybersoaps site?

By the way, I'm going to put up a link to MY site on the Cybersoaps site, eventually. I'm working on LICC stuff to post at the site (if I can convince KAM to let me use his artwork, and if Kira doesn't mind me using the LICC logo!).

I have that sometimes. Typically it does that once every week wether it needs to or not. Keep trying.

Be careful when you put up the link Floyd.

BF - whens your Sims site going to be ready?

Reddo, my Sims site is already up!

http://simsheadzup.homestead.com

I use the name GhostMachine there. (GhostMachine is my EzBoard name)

Please sign the guestbook if you stop by.

Cheers, I'll have a look

Cheers

Frasier!

--Cheers--

Where everyone knows your name!

Why did I say that . . . .

Neat site BF, are you going to put objects up there sometime?

I'm afraid there will be no objects there, Reddo, unless I start taking submissions. I have the T-Mog, but I have no clue how to do what I want with it, even WITH the tutorial! A shame, because I want to make a new tv. The pics would be from "Iron Chef", "Gundam Wing", "Godzilla vs. Destroyah", and a Cincinatti Reds baseball player.

By the way, the site's been updated. I added a few things and moved the Guestbook and Links Book to the front page.

BF - How did you make the skins? I'd really like to but I don't know how

I'll give you a basic idea how, but I'll post in the New Art Gallery board, instead of here. Okay?

I may make a tv after all. I now have a general idea how to do it, but I don't know if it will work with any of the three (crappy) paint programs on my computer. I'm not about to spend $80.00 on Paint Shop Pro, or spend 5 hours or more just to download a demo!

Hey, Webber, do you get your terminology from coffee?

If you like something, it's "Sweet".
If you don't, it's "Weak".

Just wondering...

I have a question:

With Homestead starting to charge $10.00 a month for sites that are currently free in a couple of months, or making them pretty much undesirable (I already moved my Sims site to Geocities), what's going to happen to the site? Is someone going to foot the bill, or should we start looking for a new home for the site?

My site, if anyone cares:

http://geocities.com/simsheadzup

I only have heads available for download right now.

Homestead's not gonna be free anymore? ••••! ••••! ••••! I can't believe I'll have to go through moving my personal site AGAIN! ••••! Look, I might (keyword: MIGHT) be willing to pay the 10 a month for my personal site, but not the Cybersoap site. And since I work five days a week, 8 and a half hours a day (sometimes twelve on bad days), someone else'll have to take responsibility for moving the Cybersoap site.

Anyone who has a Homestead Personal site already has until the middle or end of August, I believe, before they have to start paying. If you don't pay, you can still have a free site, but:

You only get 8mb instead of 16.
You're limited to 3 pages only.
You can't use the offline site builder.

I said "screw it" and moved immediately to Geocities. One advantage Geocities has? Its site builder loads about three times faster than Homestead's.

Anyone who gets a Homestead Personal site now has about a month before they have to start paying.


Not everyone got notices. My site had not been up for even a week when I found out about this! Someone posted a copy of the letter they were sent on a message board, and apparently Homestead still hasn't notified a lot of us.

BF: I know. It really sucks. And it was a pain in the ass moving from FortuneCity to Homestead in the first place!

There are some indications that some parts of NBCi (including the free webspace) will be shut down too in the near future. And they recommend moving to Homestead!

Homestead?! NBCi and Homestead must have worked out a deal of some kind!

Its true, Electron. Someone with a Sims site posted on a message board that she had been advised by NBCi to find a new home for her site.

Move to Geocities. The site builder loads faster, and you can upload 5 files at a time. However, you can't use Xara, and I recommend signing up for Bravenet and using their Guestbook instead of the one Geocities provides. I just went and changed the URL of my site in my Bravenet member profile, then posted the HTML for my Guestbook and Links Book in at the Geocities site. That way I kept both without having to start over. I looked at the guestbook Geocities provided, and it has one major problem: The exterior print is so small that its easily overlooked.

Forgot to mention, not that it matters, but if you do pay Homestead, you'll get 25mb instead of 16.

The people at Homestead said that they were going to charge for Homestead Personal because of the response they got for Homestead Professional. The people at Homestead are shooting themselves in the foot, because a lot of people with Homestead Personal are kids or teenagers who can't afford to pay, and those who can afford to pay are already abandoning ship (like me), or planning to.

What they haven't considered is that Homestead Professional is for businesses. The people who pay for it can afford to, because they're making more than enough money from the site to pay for the d@mn thing!

Parts of my (down) website are on the Juno/ Homestead alliance (AKA the parts that can't be on my College server website, or the parts like webpolls, Pestichat, and the like.) If Pestichat closes, my advice is to use IM. I have not recieved a notice on the issue, perhaps bcause of Juno affilation.

Well, Matt, I have to say Pestichat is one of the best things I've found for story discussion and plain conversation about LICC, and even if we have to fall back on ICQ or something, we still owe ya a big THANK-YOU!

BTW, Webster, I uploaded all of Phantom Returns to your site.

Webster?! Hmmmmm.....I hearby declare JD to be....Mr. Belvedere! Mmmmmmwwwwwwaaaaaaaa!

JD: Cool.

Anyhoo, I've been thinking. We CAN do the 10 dollar a month thing easy. I'll front half of it (5 a month), and you guys can help me match the other half. JD and BF can each send me a check for $2.50 (two dollars and fifty cents every month, preferrably a the next-to-last week of the month) and voila! The site stays as is!

?! If I'm not willing to pay $10.00 a month for my own site, what makes you think I'm going to chip in $2.50 for the Cybersoap site?!

Move it to Geocities! You'll have to find something to replace the Xara stuff, but that's about it. And Geocities' site builder runs faster,too!

I'll think of something. I always do.

Well, boys and goils, we're faced with the very real possibility, that becuase we mentioned where the Cybersoaps came from, NitCentral, we apparently have violated a copyright, and we may be asked to shut the site down. However, we can get back at the person responsible for this. Each Cybersoap just gets it's own site. (BF, the images made through Xara CAN be saved as GIFs. Remember that!) But DON'T mention Nitcentral by name. Just have a link that goes like this; "THIS is where this Cybersoap can be played. E-mail me (or us) if you have trouble finding it." Having a LINK to a WEBSITE is not a crime by any stretch of the imagination, and since we don't mention this place by name (you can use the initials NC if youw hcih, since there are hudreds of thigns with those initials), so by doing that, we're essentially cutting off the jerk who's trying to shut us down! And there's not a dam thing he can do about it! Because it's perfectly legal! HA HA HA HA!

I love you John Grisham

Did you get a Cease & Desist from a California lawyer about this?

(I know some artists who did fanart who have recieved these things.)

I really don't give a rat's behind about having a site for Jack Mightee right now; if it doesn't get more authors soon (it only has four, and we post intermitently), Episode #1 may very well be the ONLY episode! *

Now, TKOS is another matter entirely. It has to have a site! Maybe I'll get another Geocities site and make it into a TKOS site, with the help of the other authors, of course. (At least the ones who have revealed their true identities....)


* If Jack Mightee ends after one episode, LICC is going to find him frozen in ice, ala Captain America, at some point! (Heck, I may just do that anyway. I have a good idea what to do with him in LICC..... Mmmmmuuuwwwwwwhhhhhaaaa!!! ;) )

Rereading that post I'm wondering what the actual problem is?

At first I thought it might be that someone read Phantom Returns or JARSO & got upset about the unauthorized use of their characters.

Now I'm wondering if it's using the Nitcentral name without Phil's permission?

Could you be a little clearer about the problem?

Anyone know if the LICC got a nastygram, since they have a page about the legality of the league?

I got an e-mail from Phil. He poltiely told me that I was violating copyrights by statitng that our cybersoaps are from nitCentral.

My guess; he e-mailed me since I'm listed as the site's designer. I wonder if Kira got an e-mail too.

In retrospect it makes sense. Phil coined the term NitCentral. It's his web address. He's invested a lot of money in it. Etc., etc.

I can see where he might see a site that he has nothing to do with, that uses the name Nitcentral as a threat to his Trademark. Remember, Trademark law states that a Trademark holder must diligently protect his Trademark or lose it.

A number of things I can see as being problematic. The page is called Nitcentral Cybersoaps, which implies an ownership, but Phil wasn't asked if the name could be used, etc.

Also since Trademarked characters do appear in the soaps he could be worried that any potential lawsuits might involve him.

Could you post the email here?

ScottN, the Legality of the League thing came about because I commented to Kira about the legal issues. (I think on one of the early LICC2 Discussion boards.)

Ok, I'm a bit confused. What's all this about copyright infringement? Is "Cybersoap" copyrighted by someone else on another site somewhere or what? This board was the first time that I remember seeing that word. How can our using it here on Phil's site be considered as infringement if you saw NC's cybersoaps are on NC? What brought about infringement charges and why remove this board if so ordered, and whatever else you can tell me? Please forgive my ignorance. This is my first time on this particular board, so I'll need some clarification about this whole thing.

And what are the Nittys? Obviously a take on award show names but awards for what, exactly?

Whatever I felt like. ;-)

The Nittys are an award that I first used on James & rachgd's Soap Opera (JARSO), then I gave one to margie for spotting a reference you missed on one of the Jokes & Groaners board, then I gave them out for the first anniversary of the League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions (LICC). This year the people behind the LICC Archive asked if they could give them out.

I don't think the problem is the word Cybersoap. I think the problem was using the name Nitcentral without getting the Chief's permission.

MarkN, go here and take a look. It'll be of interest to you, because it includes TKOS!:

http://nccybersoaps.homestead.com/index.html

That is what all this legal talk is about.

Thanks, BF. The legal notice sure was rather anticlimatic. I thought there'd be more to it than there was. Well, I hope things can be worked out with Phil over it.

I just emailed Phil about changing my mind on doing the mod job for "Murder in Small Town X" and would only like "Night Visions", since I'd be new to it and figure I could handle only one board for now til I've had more experience.

Well, Phil and I worked out a deal. He had NO, I repeat NO trouble with the individual sites for the Cybersaops, so we'll be doing that. Or rather y'all will, cause The Archangel Trilogy site is already up and running.

Go here to see the short version.

But in the end, this will work out for the best, becuase now every site will be more like what the creators if the Cybersoaps want. I noticed the reaction to the Bizarro and JARSO sites I built were lukewarm at best, so no outside designers are out of the equation.

Good luck.

Link's busted.

I saved the Jack Mightee banner to my hard drive. I don't know if I still have it or not, but I'll use it if I decide to do a site, which won't be for awhile.

Oops. It should be http://nccybersoaps.homestead.com

Yeah, I know.

The FAQ button\picture isn't showing up (red x, anyone?), and the Nitcentral button at the top of the screen isn't a link. Shouldn't it be, since you're using the link graphics?

No, I didn't get any complaints from the Chief. I just thought it would be a good idea to change the names to avoid future problems.

BF: Yes, it is a link. It's been a link since the first time I put it up, and I all I did was move it.

What was the link to that site with all the web comics on it that was at the site before it was changed? I meant to bookmark it, but never got around to it.

Do you mean Keenspot?
http://www.keenspot.com

It also has a companion site Keenspace.
http://www.keenspace.com

(Keenspace is kind of like the minor leagues. It has over a 100 online comics, some of which update infrequently or have been discontinued, while Keenspot has 30 or 40 that 'made the cut'.)

Yep. Thanx.

We're thinking of wrapping up Sprinkle Boy with a big finale storyline. Read the SB discussion board for more info.

JD and the Brians, do you accept this arrangement and wish to take part?

Paddy: I think Stormsaje'll sit out on this one. At least for now anyway. That may change as the story goes along.

I think what Paddy's meaning, Brian, is stopping the thing completely.

Yes, but there may be a sequel sometime.

Reddo, come to Pestichat!

Reddo: I know. But I figure at some point the heroes and villians will end up back in Manhatan, during the CURRENT storyline, and when/if that happens, Stormsaje will be worked in. But I'll probably kill him off since I'm not enjoying this superhero thing as much as I'd hoped.

So do you mind if the board is stopped then?

Reddo: Not really. I mean I work almost 45 hours a week, and only get weekends off anyway. I use what little time I have between getting home from work, and going to bed for the next day (only about two hours) for LICC and Archangel.

You could have just called it Nitpicker's Cybersoaps. That would be accurate as this is the Nitpicker's guild, and Nitpicker is not copywritten, to my knowlege anyways.

Okay, I think there's a bit of a problem going on . . . .

It seems to me that all cybersoaps at the kitchen sink are falling apart. Jack Mightee, Sprinkle Boy and even TKOS look like doom is drawing closer. Now if these boards stop getting the little regular posts that they are currently getting, then they'll fall apart and in the end probably be deleted . . . so instead of us all just watching this happen, why can't we all be be a bit more loyal to these boards? Isn't that better than just posting at one-or-two larger boards?

Reddo -

I am not currently involved in LICC, and I am ready to begin the finale storyline at Sprinkle Boy. I suggest you join in with the smaller "cybersoaps", since you are so concerned about their fate. (Although in TKOS they're currently in no position for anyone new to arrive - on a boat going through rapids!) I do intend to continue posting, but I don't want to do it on my own.

Floyd, do you have anything to say about Jack Mightee?

And Paddy, I will continue posting at S.B. once some-one else posts

Reddo, all I have to say about Jack Mightee is this:

I'm working on some ideas of how to wrap it up. Hopefully by Monday. That's why I haven't posted in Jack Mightee lately. No Episode #2 will be forthcoming, as only four people have been participating in Jack Mightee, and I have too many things planned that will be taking up my time. Namely working on my Sims site, which I just redesigned the first page of, and another project.
I'm waiting a bit before I post anything in TKOS; I want to see what happens before I have any of my characters say anything. I am reading TKOS and S.B., just not posting.
As for S.B., I'm game for anything you decide. If S.B. goes on, or later starts back up, I'm probably going to get stop posting as Pickled Fish Man, though. Maybe I'll bring in Whattaguy, who's only been mentioned briefly, instead.
Of course, we could have Sprinkle Boy and crew find Jack and Dan frozen in ice, or something....

By the way, I will be reading TKOS and S.B., just not posting; if anyone wants to take over writing Pickled Fish Man for a while, that's fine with me.
I really need to work on some more Sims skins and heads, as its been over a month since I've updated my site, and I need to play Jedi Knight some more. I'm due for at least two promotions in my Jedi Knight clan, and I haven't played the game online in over three weeks!

Oh, if you haven't read LICC lately, Rocket Ranger left on the ThunderCrane and took Wayne and Kent with him. I'm going to start a separate Rocket Ranger board at some point; the war between the remnants of the Whyte Kastle empire, lead by RR, against the Dull-Ards (my version of the Daleks from Dr. Who). It's going to be a while before it starts, and aside from the hamburger jokes and Darth Tantruum, its going to be mostly serious.

BF - If you are planning to wrap up Jack Migtee then I have two things to say . . . .

One: If you are wanting more posters then Im happy to join in, I just haven't had the time yet nor any good character ideas.

Two: If you don't want any new posters and just want it over with then maybe we could link S.B. and J.M. together for the final board?

Jack Mightee takes place in the late 1940's, and its a non-superpowered world, at least so far. Throwing superheroes into it right now would be a BIG mistake.

I'll probably do Jack Mightee Episode #2 after the Rocket Ranger project is finished.

I was sortof meaning the frozen idea BF

Can I just cheak that it has been agreed that Sprinkle Boy is about to end?

I'm wondering what to do with the website you see

Reddo, I haven't said this yet, and I should've, but you've done a TERRIFIC job with the website. The movies, cartoons, everything! Could you perhaps make an opening movie for the LICC site, maybe featuring Kira's logo?

JD - Thanks a lot , yeah I'll try making some ideas up for the LICC site, if you want to give me some ideas that you think are good then I'll put them together and show you (some-how) what I've come up with .

All - as S.B. is being stopped here I might as well continue with the cartoons, movies ect. if Paddy or some-one else can come up with a bye-bye note for the site then that's great, hope to hear from you soon.

JD - have a look at the movies page at albyd, I've put an idea for the LICC intro thing there.

Just a reminder. The nominations for the 2005 Nitty Awards are open. The first week has gone by so be sure to send in your noms ASAP!

ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION

GeoCities is Dead. Can some kind soul archive (and possibly re-host) the LICC Web Site?

How much does that usually cost?

ScottN - GeoCities is Dead.
Not yet, it's more like it's on Death Row. Pick, pick, pick. ;-)

Josh M - How much does that usually cost?
Depends on the host you can find. Been two years since I've looked, so I'm not sure what's still out there.

Apparently to 'move' a Geocities site to Yahoo's new site will cost about $60 a year.

Geocities goes bye-bye in October.

Does anyone here own a domain? How big is/are the LICC archives?

Not terribly big, less than a hundred megs, I'd say.

Geocities is available as a 900GB torrent

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101029/03055711647/archive-of-geocities-released-as-a-1tb-torrent.shtml

I guess we could extract the site from there...

But who wants to use up that much bandwidth?

Purely by random chance, I happened to find a mirror!

http://www.oocities.com/theLICC/

That's not a mirror. A mirror would be a K.I.L.L. (King's Interstellar Lethal Legionnaries) website.

That's not a mirror, mate.

[pulls a 10 foot, highly polished mirror from a bag of holding]

Now, that's a mirror!

Oh, so that's where my looking glass got to!

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Lord love a duck. Discus needs akismet.

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Mark Morgan? Isn't he the guy who used to play the Observer? Or am I thinking of Keiran Morgan?

You're thinking of Keiran; far as I recall was only in LICC for about three posts when I realized I was terrible at it.

Yes, I am. There was a joke a while ago that you were the Observer, based partly on the Observer's *real* author having a fondness for the name Morgan. Later, the Observer character, adopting a human name, called himself Keiran Morgan.

(Not to be confused with Keith Alan Morgan, author of Rocket Ranger. I mean, Robot Redshirt.)