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POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Friday, August 21, 2009 13:11
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Hi Niki. Welcome!
There's all kinds of goodies buried away in old threads on fff.net, just waiting for new eyes like yours to dig them out and refresh them. The Blue Sun Room forum has many insanely thought-provoking discussions of characterization and plot. Mostly in terms of fanfic, but even if you're not into that, the writers here are pretty clever and their ideas are good insights into Joss's lovely `verse.
Most show-related topics have been pretty much gone over to death by now though, so RWED is the liveliest place. There surely are some great discussions happening there, and I've gotten many eye-opening insights into politics and such through those threads over the years. I've lurked now and then this summer and the mob has seemed well behaved lately. There hasn't been much of the usual tit-for-tat and name-calling.
I'm telling you, though, beware! You never know when someone unexpected is gonna jump out of nowhere and rip you a new one. It's happened to me, and wasn't pleasant. I don't have a tough enough hide for it. I generally only jump into the RWED fray if there's hard science or cute kitty pictures involved. 
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Ah, the cute kitty RWED threads. Those fiendish felines, luring us into our false sense of security! I owe much to the advanced warning those threads have given me.
I am now fully prepared to accept our fluffy overlords. There is no resisting those adorable little eyes and whiskers!
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Wow, what wonderful welcomes!
I look forward to many lively debates. I have no problem with people laying into me, I can pretty much hold my own.
Nathan is an incredibly well-mannered, gentle person from what I heard (a number of those there have met him and others of the BDHs--do you call them that here, too?). His Twitter signature is a good sign of that. I respect him, Joss and Firefly.
I only discovered Firefly by chance (having been somewhat of a Buffy fan and hearing good things about it) a year or so ago. I had rented what looked like a kind of neat movie called "Serenity", really liked it.
So when I discovered Firefly I fell in love...of course. It wasn't until several epis in that I realized it was connected to Serenity, which was a gas. Bought all of it, plus "Done the Impossible", of course, and been in love ever since!
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As to stuff to find, oh, I will. I really look forward to exploring (oh, boy, a brand new boat!), especially as this boat is FAR more advanced than the OB and has places in it I'm dying to investigate!
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Okay, I gotta find those cute kitty threads...!
Just had a bit of that on the board I left, and it was FUN! Myself, I'm a dog person, but we've had up to eight cats at once and it was quite an...ahem...learning experience! All rescues of one form or another, and I'd never had cats (!), so there were a few years of them eddicating us. Eeep.
Can anyone gimme a hint where they are? If not, I'll scrounge around...hee, hee, hee!
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Originally posted by Niki2:
Okay, I gotta find those cute kitty threads...!
Do not fear me. I am a benevolent fluffy overload...
Kitties tend to take over the oops threads, like this one:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=39402
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no it's not safe!! get out! get out while you still can!!!! before you get sucked into the--aw what am i saying, we all love it here @_@. welcome to the madness Niki ^_^
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Hey, niki, welcome aboard. I haven't visited the OB is several months because, as you said, the Off Topic threads were practically the only place with any activity, and I am not one to discuss politics and religion with someone I do not know, and not that often even with people I do know. I learned my lesson years ago when Adam Baldwin himself chastised me for less than "right" thinking, if you know what I mean.
One thing we don't have here that you were used to on the OB is the UMTM (that's "Unread Messages To Me" for those not familiar with that board). I've noticed you've already responded directly to some other members, but here it is best to hit the "Reply With Quote" link on someone's post so that everyone knows to whom you are addressing a particular comment.
All of the various forums have a link on the right hand side of the main page, and clicking on one of them will take you to a page with a list of the last fifty or so active threads, and at the bottom is a link to threads that have been archived. Also, when you click on any thread look at the top left of the page for the "Latest Posts" to see if there are new, unread posts on that thread. If there are, it will say "Since your last view," but if not it will display posts "As of today."
There are several informative threads around about how to post images here, how to upload stuff to the Blue Sun Room, etc. I'll look around and see if I can find them to bring them back up to the top of the list for you.
Enjoy your time here, and as always, keep flying!
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Hi there new guys.I would like to reiterate what a cool little site this is.Appreciation goes out to Haken, who is the site's owner.It's colourful,user friendly and interesting to browse around.I've noticed loads of new converts entering the fray recently and it's fun to look at reactions to episodes that have been watched by them for the first time.So even the stuff that we've been over hundreds of times before is still often revisited from a fresh newbie perspective.I can remember posting a question about Inara not so long ago(as a relative newbie)and the guys who have been here for eons turned it into a thread that was 200 posts long.So even well explored stuff still illicits fervent discussion.Welcome aboard.I'm sure you already own plenty virtual brown coats,but may I be so bold as to bring out a fresh one from the site cupboard and issue it to you on behalf of everybody.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
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"Mal" & Mike: Your Cosmo and Rodger look SOO much like my beloved Missy (especially Rodger), only she never got bigger than your pix as kitties. She was cat of neighbor across the street who keeled over in aerobics class in her early 40s. Family came, took one cat, left Missy who ran away. I heard her one night, started leaving food out for her--VERY shy. Finally trapped her by leaving food in our pickup and standing in the rain waiting for her to enter, then shutting door.
She was my miracle cat. TINY, never left my bedroom, adored me more than any cat I've ever known or could imagine. I nursed her all through cancer (which she got by hiding under that house while they blanketed it and sprayed it, I believe). One day, for the first time ever, she left my room, came upstairs, walked up to my husband and rubbed against his leg, up to my brother-in-law (who lived with us off and on) and rubbed up against his leg, walked out into the back yard (!) and lay in the sun for a long time. That night she died.
And they say animals don't know. I've never gotten over her, even tho' I'm a dog person for the mot part.
The pix are wonderful--the captions almost as good, thank you!
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