What did you do...

[Amphion]

During the Otaku down time?

Just curious. When it closed up for a while, I found myself with alot of extra free time on the net. Im just curious how you all spent it.

I'll let you know what I did after a while. I want to see if anyone is interested first.

[Juu]

[color=deeppink] [size=1]Well.... I went to the otaku chat.

Not just because OB was down though...

I hadn't been there for a while, so I decided to pay a visit! ^^

And... I went to Mike, sirven, Lauren..and D_A's boards ^^[/color] [/size]

[SS Vegeta]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i]
[B][color=deeppink] [size=1]Well.... I went to the otaku chat.

Not just because OB was down though...

I hadn't been there for a while, so I decided to pay a visit! ^^

And... I went to Mike, sirven, Lauren..and D_A's boards ^^[/color] [/size] [/B][/QUOTE]
Woah, that many people have boards? I only knew of Sirven's and I just now found out. But I was at Kevin's boards and Altron's too! :smirk: But yea, that is about it.

Juu, you [B]will[/B] send me links!

[Chaos]

Played PT, started school, resisted numberous times to kill myself. I'm starting to regret the latter.

[Mist]

[color=crimson][size=1] I moded a few boards, did all my school work, resisted the urge to kill my teachers, carved their name onto my hitlist on bed woodned bedframe instead, and wrote a story for ff.net.

Overall, I was bored. T.T[/color][/size]

[Hideki]

I wasn't at Otaku Board when it closed down ^_^ I found about last night then got on after school at it said 45 more minutes:p

[BlueGender]

[COLOR=blue][SIZE=1]I have been spending endless time researching Grand Theft Auto Vice I even made my own [URL=http://racerx1017.tripod.com/grandtheftautovice]website (clicky here)[/URL] on it. I also have spending more and more time on the Gamefaqs board(I became a level 32 user *claps hands*) which I haven't really been on for a long while.Finally I have been consintrating on my school work, yes school work...I actually have A's now.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[RicoTranzrig]

[COLOR=darkblue]I've done a lot of things on my off time...mainly, I built my new computer and moved into a new space. I also did that college orientation stuff and been out most of the time with people I know, don't really know, etc. Then I keep checking to see if OB's up yet or not.[/COLOR]

[Kinetic]

It was horrible, litterally horrible. I had nothing to do at all. I found time to waste by making many, many, many layouts for my website, which I got running until my host restarted their hosting, deleting all of the accounts, and then they put banner ads up causing EVERYONE's pages to screw up, so I'm still searching for a good, non-ftp host.

Also, later, I rediscovered AEBoards, and spent alot of time there, and really enjoyed it, especially the new layout.

But yeah, very glad OB is back.

[Transtic Nerve]

Worked on my site like crazy. And checked my e-mail obsessively

[Guest Hikaru Ichijyo]

:D Well I just did my usual routine site work, site work and more site work. Also bothered Adam quite a bit on AIM out of pure boredom. And of course no usual routine would be complete without tons of anime dvd and video purchasing.

:D :toothy: :p

[Charles]

During the down time, I didn't do a whole lot on the internet. I just went on about my personal business, and began attending class for the fall semester.

On the internet, I re-started a little niche rpg club of mine and wasted my time elsewere. Plus, I honed my writing skills a bit more.

I also finally re-established contact with my mommy via e-mail, lol.

[Zidargh]

[SIZE=1]Hmm I basically got hacked on MSN Messenger. Found out who it was, and hacked him back with this downloaded thing. Now my account's safe. Erm, started school this week's Monday. Talked to AJ, Seph, SG, James quite alot. Played Xenogears, made some animated gifs, and did some FF spriting for weapons. Meesa was bored. :D[/SIZE]

[Sephiroth]

I basically went up and down throughout the whole of the UK participating in Tekken 4 Tournaments, thats what I did while Otaku was down

[Guest SunRiZe]

I really had not alot to do, i downloaded a few songs, and worked furiously on the Rising Sun Project, my own anime series. now it's on the internet here at [url] [url]www.geocities.com/risingsunrules[/url] [/url]

hung around on chat-avenue.com and met a fellow Digimon fan called Smokey the Bear, very glad the boards are back, i'll introduce Smokey sometime.

um, yeah that new logo is interesting, to say the least. :p

[Guest cloricus]

Ha.... Got a life. (Or part of one any way...)
Learnt to write html. (Or better than I new before.)
Learnt how to spell a bit better.
Researched Broadband.
Got broadband.
Researched wireless.
Scabbing money for wireless.
Learnt Linux.
Increased my school grades (avg) from c- to b-. (AND AN A+!!!!!!)
Did some beta testing. (Open cola, winmx 3.2.9 and ostat.)
Learnt how to make icons.
And a whole heap more...

Plans for next time Otaku goes down? Take over the world?
(Or the good bits any way.)

-Eps

[Rain]

Well, I waited eagerly for the boards to come back on in the first few days, then realised that they weren't coming back for a [i]long[/i] time, so I got on with my life:p

So then I made a website:

[url]http://chibi_monkey.tripod.com[/url]

and changed my email address but had to change it back. Oh, and I did homework. Fun!
Well anyway, it's so good to be back, I was very bored
:D

BTW, if anyone wants to add me to their MSN messenger contact list, use this email address: [email][email protected][/email] but you can't email me at that address (u have to use the one in my profile). I know, its weird and it's really pissing me off

[Sandy]

Well, i joined a Finnish digimon-boards 8probably the only one there is), and introduced myself to finnish digifans. But now i'm back HOME, so I don't think i'll hang around there that often anymore.

On the other hand, my time spend on the net decreased quite a bit, leaving me with a smaller bill, but that doesn't concern me anymore because I can be online on school -for free!

Well, I'm off to see how my digifellas are doing in the digisection! :D

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]I spent a lot of time (and still am spending a lot of time) on writing the walkthrough for ShineGet.com. Also, I worked on my Zelda website some more, and nearly got the A Link to the Past section done! I also joined a few other boards, such as D_A's and Sirven's, though I wasn't on them much... Oh, wait, I'm only telling about what I did in the evenings and nights... In the daytime, I was (and still am) playing Super Mario Sunshine (up to 113 Shines!) and Perfect Dark. :) I usually play about two, three hours of games a day, and spend maybe a half hour, 45 minutes writing for the walkthrough a day, on average... Okay, so maybe not quite that long on the walkthrough, but I'm a quick writer for that sort of thing. :toothy:

Oh, yeah, and I started my first year of highschool, too. That might've meant something to me if I hadn't been doing highschool level work for the past year. :p[/color]

[Genkai]

i didn't know it was down for a while, i was crashing with a few cousins and when i finally went online i was like ok, whatever, a week isn't bad. well, a week passed. and another. then when the FAQ came on i read it twice. everyday. i worked, got money, and spent it at best buy, my new fave placefor anime. i LOVE excel saga, it's me fave, saw VHD again,etc. i drew more, and i loathed going to school. i saw my friends again. came back from vacation, finally. read my manga library again, though im not done. halfway through "juline". I LOVE JULINE, IT'S SUCH A GOOD MANGA! oh, and the girl that's not bakuya and isn't juline is hot. can't remember her name now... anyway, school started last week, but i was sick yesterday and the day before... that happened last year... anyway, what's up with images? oh, and i can't change myu profile, y not? oh well, it'll work out......

[Trumen]

Well I joined D_A's board and created my own. Also talked to James, Siven, and HyperShadow via IMs a bit. I Started writing a book about..... well I'll post it in Stories/poetry some time. That is the wrap for me.

[Guest Solid Snake]

[color=teal]When Otaku was down, I found that I had so much free time on my hands.

Whenever I'd get online, it would just be a checkup. Check my emails, see if OtakuBoards were back, see if WoolongCentral.com was activated yet, skim through AE Boards, do my theOtaku.com work (that's a secret ;)), then get offline and do some homework.

That's basically how I spent my days online. Then I'd get off and play some video games or something. And wow, I got a lot of homework done!

It's really been a nightmare without OtakuBoards. Thank you for the early opening.[/color]

:blah:

[Roxie Faye]

[color=indigo]I did a LOT during the down time. Yeah, I waited a week, and realized it wasn't coming back so I did other things.

I was at Nerdsy's board for a while, then started talking to Kevin and Charles, joined AE, got a mod job there, and towards the end, I joined um..... that Digimon board that Devidramon's on. The one where I started screaming at him, saying I knew him. -_-'

But, most of the time, was spent talking to Kev, Charles, or on AE. I did a LOT of things there.

Got a mod job, and one time, while talking to Kev over AIM, he whacked me with his Administrator's Saber (don't ask) and in retaliation, I smashed a bottle of purple nail polish on his head, thus my location. I also created a weapon from that, WoPP which I used to smash several people on the head with and turn off kuja's unwanted attention of me. *kills kuja*

Shortly before OB went down, while trying to create a private AIM sn, I wanted something with Mistress on it, Lumi helped me some up with some words. I ended up not using them, but some of them were cool, so I kept them on a sheet of paper(which I still have). One night, over AIM, I created the title "Mistress of the Darkness" for myself(darkness was one of those words), but didn't really think much of it, until I used it as my username on the MYiB support forums(which is where I found out about AE). Then, I remembered one of those words, "heart" and had "Mistress of Hearts" as my user name(those boards turned up being totally stupid, but I still had a title I liked). And then, of course, Yu-Gi-Oh cards came into play over the summer, and I liked "Doma the Angel of Silence", so I took the "Angel of Silence" as another title. I haven't been using the titles "Mistress of Hearts" and the "Angel of Silence" until rcently, and I changed "mistress(I couldn't be the mistress of TWO things)" to "tsarina". Thus my introduction to myself in my sig.

I also thought of a wicked awesome story/ fanfic, but I can't tell what it's about. *clamps mouth over Lumi, Charles and an un-named other, and if this un-named other tells who s/he is, I might have to kill him/her*

So, I really did a LOT of things during the down time. Although I was upset that OB was down, I sort of have that to thank for these cool new things, especially the FANFIC! *grins insanely* ^^;[/color]

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Our internet had been giving us trouble, so half of the time the boards were down I couldn't get online anyway.

So instead I wrote up a bunch of new Character profiles, and RPGs!
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[Guest Matt]

[color=red][b]I spent a lot of my time playing games online like Day of Defeat or Battlefield 1942. I hung out with my friends, did some crazy shiat, and found a gross website! :D [/b][/color]