TerraDreamer opened this issue on May 01, 2005 ยท 150 posts
xoconostle posted Fri, 06 May 2005 at 6:32 PM
You too, and have a good weekend! By way of explanation, Ironbear's forum (which you can find under "Virtual Tavern" at www.xfx-3d.com) is Radio Free Ironbear, formerly hosted at 3D Arena. XFX-3D is Dodger's site. Ironbear sometimes aggregates amusing and salient news, links to interesting editorials, and his own commentary in the thread, which I think is where the "RFI" name came from. This goes back to "before my time." I've only been hanging out there for about a year or so. On my first visit, you and I were being made fun of, so instead of reacting negatively, I joked about it, and was instantly accepted by the regular crew. It's a barely-moderated forum where people can speak their minds. Thus there are some heated times, especially when non-regulars drop in to insult everyone, but for the most part it's just Poser folks who've been around for some time shooting the hay. The atmosphere is generally very friendly. Dodger has been posting images of some of his cool works in progress lately. "The regulars" get along very well despite considerable differences of personality and opinion. In fact, as occurred a couple of times recently, when people drop in with drive-by attacks as the result of arguments elsewhere, Ironbear usually calmly invites them to feel welcome and join the conversation. It's not a place for all tastes, though, as the daily routine usually consists of gossip about other sites and the silly things that people say in the forums. Despite the bizarre habit that some have of labelling people who enjoy gabbing "off topic" as "malcontents" or whatever, in fact some of the people there are involved at the most respected and well established venues in the Poser/3D scene, and appear to be quite content with everything except for general stupidity and ostentatious obsequiousness. You might drop by and say "hi" sometime. Just watch out for my ugly avatar, and whatever you do, don't look behind the bar! Sorry for the long off-topic meandering, all. ;-)