Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a channel on irc #stunts, where the stuntsers talked at evenings and at nights. There was Alan Rotoi, Bonzai Joe, Zak, Argammon, CTG, and some other drivers, too. When I didn't have a net, I went to the computer room in the evenings just to talk with these drivers between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. When I got my net, I spent there long long nights. The best was September 2003.
But then came msn, changes in private life of the drivers, some arguments... and drivers went away from there. I miss the good old stunts chats. Now we only meet once in a year, and visit the forum, where the most active drivers post 1-1,5 post per a day. That's not much. There's the message board, when sometimes a message appears. On msn, now I only talk a lot with CTG. Is there really no need of Stunts chat?
I read the logs of the previous days. Some drivers enter the chatroom, see that there's nobody, and leave. But according to their lines, they would like to talk with the others. Is it true or just Akoss Poo thinks that? Should we resurrect Stunts chat? Should I spend there hours in the evenings waiting for somebody?
I read such messages in the logs:
[19:03] Jacky- (~stdfgfkfd@3E6B2F10.rev.stofanet.dk) joined #stunts.
[19:03] <Jacky-> HELLO EVERYONE!
[19:03] <Jacky-> NICE TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE HERE
[19:07] Jacky- (~stdfgfkfd@3E6B2F10.rev.stofanet.dk) left irc:
[21:00] akosspoo (c1068a4b@chat.efnet.org) joined #stunts.
[21:00] <akosspoo> !seen CTG
[21:01] <akosspoo> mondom !seen CTG
[21:00] akosspoo (c1068a4b@chat.efnet.org) joined #stunts.
[21:00] <akosspoo> !seen CTG
[21:01] <akosspoo> mondom !seen CTG
[21:01] <akosspoo> kurva any?d goagil
[21:04] <akosspoo> B?FF
[21:05] akosspoo (c1068a4b@chat.efnet.org) left irc: Client Quit
[16:50] DieselJoe (d5078cb4@chat.efnet.org) joined #stunts.
[16:51] <DieselJoe> B?ff?
[16:51] <DieselJoe> OK, working now
[16:53] <DieselJoe> B
[16:53] <DieselJoe> ?
[16:53] <DieselJoe> F
[17:15] Last message repeated 1 time(s).
[17:15] Action: DieselJoe is ill
[17:47] Action: DieselJoe is away
[17:48] DieselJoe (d5078cb4@chat.efnet.org) left irc: Quit: http://chat.efnet.org/
[22:36] CTG (9842e893@chat.efnet.org) joined #stunts.
[22:36] <CTG> r?ph
[22:36] <CTG> b?ph
[22:36] <CTG> muph
[22:37] <CTG> stb.
[22:37] <CTG> what's more...
[22:37] <CTG> B?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
[22:38] <CTG> R?PA EGY R?PA
[22:38] <CTG> na cs?
[22:38] <CTG> bl?tty-r?tyi-potty
[22:38] CTG (9842e893@chat.efnet.org) left #stunts.
[19:40] Jacky- (~stdfgfkfd@3E6B2F10.rev.stofanet.dk) joined #stunts.
[19:40] <Jacky-> -seen zaqrack
[19:40] <Jacky-> -seen ctg
[19:40] <Jacky-> hey, that bot with the funny name is missing
[19:40] <Jacky-> I don't even remember its name
[19:41] <Jacky-> and after all, it's been here for years
[19:41] <Jacky-> something with G...
[19:42] <Jacky-> GoaGil!
[19:56] Jacky- (~stdfgfkfd@3E6B2F10.rev.stofanet.dk) left irc:
REAL pipsqueaks visit the chat sometimes, loosers and fictions stay away...
When I joined the Stunts community back in 2002, it was the beginning for me to play web racing competitions.
And there was only Stunts competitions for me.
Therefore, I spent many time talking of chat, mostly with Alain and Mingva (that's also why I joined Orion) but also Alan, Zak, Jacky, CTG, ...
This stayed up to the end of 2003.
Then, I got TrackMania (TM) and started non-Stunts offline racing competitions, and also online racing. So I raced more and talked less.
I still came to chat but found it empty more and more often, so I also came less there.
2004 passed, many Stunts competitions, many TM racing, less and less chat for me.
2005 arrived and I joined some others offline competitions (based on NFSU 2, ToCA/DTM Race Driver 2, Nascar 2003, ...) and came just a very few to chatroom. I have less and less "free" time for talk and I come to Stunts forum almost only from my job (as I do just right now).
I had to give up some competitions as I didn't even had time to do correct racing (I stopped Nascar because of that and because other pipsqueaks had a racing whell which a big advantage for Nascar racing and so I was always far away behind them).
Also, chat was almost on friday and saturday evening, but children are using more and more the computer, especially on saturday evening (because they don't have school on sunday), so it's even less time for me to talk to chat.
I don't know how to handle this. I don't want to stop competitions I play, I don't want to spend all my time on the chatroom expecting anyone, I don't want to let my wife alone in our bed just because I chat, I don't want to kill my children :-D to get back my computer just for me...
I must say that I don't use MSN also, I just use forum and e-mails to talk.
And as many of the new pipsqueaks that joined in 2004/2005 NEVER come to chat, it does not help the chat to stay alive... :?
I think everyone have many things to do and Stunts chatroom talking is now a rare thing. Sad but true.
Quote from: "the Chat"
[16:53] <DieselJoe> B
[16:53] <DieselJoe> ?
[16:53] <DieselJoe> F
[17:15] Last message repeated 1 time(s).
This one's my favorite! :-D
@Topic: Yes, sometimes I would really like to chat. But I'm afraid I could not say a certain time where I would be able to come regularly. I was ill some of the last days and stayed at home all the time -> I had plenty of time. But usually I prefer going away meeting some friends instead of staying at home, especially in the evening at weekends. Next week my holidays are over so time will become even rarer. :?
Since some of us are missing it, I think the best thing we can do is to arrange "chat dates"....simple just agree on a day/time where we know we are able to join the chat. Isn't that possible? :drinkers:
tonight baby ;)
I think the new generation is more passive and less agressive.
Quote from: "alanrotoi"I think the new generation is more passive and less agressive.
and less realistic... :-S
I can't tonight...but tomorrow evening/night I'll be sitting here all night :)
General information: Akoss Poo will be there on Stunts chat tomorrow evening. Not 100%, but 85.
me: strictly only after 11 pm, 70% :?
kb
Quote from: "alanrotoi"kb
=?
I will be there too, it's 1% sure :D
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"General information: Akoss Poo will be there on Stunts chat tomorrow evening. Not 100%, but 85.
Well, you were not there, but CTG, Jacky, Zak and I were there.
Nice chat and nice live races (3 races).
Too bad you missed it. :P
Quote from: "Krys TOFF"Quote from: "Akoss Poo"General information: Akoss Poo will be there on Stunts chat tomorrow evening. Not 100%, but 85.
Well, you were not there, but CTG, Jacky, Zak and I were there.
Nice chat and nice live races (3 races).
Too bad you missed it. :P
Krys can you read? I said 'tomorrow'. Since I wrote that yesterday, that means today.
Quote from: "CTG""kb" = ?
I think it means "kapd be"... :P
in Spanish... congrats Usrin, you proved a high level relationship between the two languages! :lol:
Akoss Poo is on stunts chat!
it is not spanish, it's "Argentinian chat language". It is hard to translate but it is not an insult. It's something like the "ha-ha" of Nelson from The Simpsons.
good... i thought it's something harder :D
nah, If I want to insult you I would tell you something like stallin dick sucker, bukkake lover and such things.
Tonight there were:
- Krys
- CTG
- Alain
- Lise
- me.
Another good chat. See you Sunday in the afternoon, if you can.
Just some stats based on #stunts logs:
Average log sizes:
2003 - 30531 bytes/day
2004 - 13303 bytes/day
2005 - 4007 bytes/day
Cathegorized by activity/day:
2003: under 1 kB - 3, 1-10 kB - 20, 10-50 kB - 151, over 50 kB - 26
2004: under 1 kB - 49, 1-10 kB - 154, 10-50 kB - 119, over 50 kB - 12
2005: under 1 kB - 145, 1-10 kB - 75, 10-50 kB - 31, over 50 kB - none
The most active chats in #stunts history (kB changed to ,000):
1 10 January 2004 122000
2 08 October 2003 97000
3 05 November 2003 91000
4 18 November 2003 88000
5 20 February 2004 85000
6 25 September 2003 80000
7 10 March 2003 76000
8 01 April 2003 76000
9 24 January 2004 76000
10 16 January 2004 74000
11 25 May 2003 73000
12 17 February 2004 73000
13 18 February 2004 71000
14 24 February 2004 71000
15 01 October 2003 69000
16 23 May 2003 67000
17 28 October 2003 67000
18 30 September 2003 66000
19 10 November 2003 65000
20 24 September 2003 64000
...
67 27 January 2005 44000
...
94 28 February 2005 38000
...
101 12 January 2005 37000
101 15 September 2005 37000
...
117 11 January 2005 35000
Quite sad... :?
I want that stats without your spams in 2003-04.
Spam is a part of chatting - but you can see the average was a lot-lot higher, independent from 10-20% spam...
Quote from: "CTG"Spam is a part of chatting - but you can see the average was a lot-lot higher, independent from 10-20% spam...
It wasn't 10-20% only. It was at least as many character as you needed to catch me in the spoken character statistics. And sometimes it was more. B?ffs with thousands of characters etc. And Sampi deleted your spam only once.
And spam isn't part of the chatting. Is it a conversation when you talk against the wall?
I don't want to say that we speak more in 2005 than in the previous two years... but these stats are not academic - exactly because of you.
Okay, I'll check my speech in ircstat and decrease the average log size. I meant the 10-20% of the total, not mine. It was about 40-60 from my talk. :D
I talked 12800 lines in 2003, about 12-13 percent of the total chat. If you say 80 percent of my messages was spam, than we lose only 10 percent from the overall chat: 30000 ---> 27000. Still a lot more than 4000 in this year...