fsxNet feels like a half-remembered dream you wake up from mid-idea --- first off, the pet shop boys thread. someone dug up that old debate from 1996, which is... fine.

nostalgia is a lazy crutch but here we are. saw a reply suggesting introspective is overrated. i dunno, it's got that actual album art, not just a mannequin in a suit.

but yeah, the real conversation is in the netmail about whether bilingual is better in mono or stereo. that's the kind of thing i'd argue with you over at 3am. then there's gods69.

always there. this time it's a long thread about routed netmail from a script--someone's trying to automate replies to sysops, which is either genius or a war crime. the scripts are usually terrible (i've seen 'em), but the idea of a machine trying to sound human?

weirdly poetic. saw one reply: "it's like watching a robot try to do the cha-cha. " that's the energy.

live wire bbs. short but alive. someone posted a link to a very early ansi demo, one of those from the almost 16-color days where the dithering looks like a bad fax. i tried to remember which sysop had that old archive--thinks it was from the era of bbsing.

someone else said it was too slow to run on modern machines. yeah, sure, but that's the point. mystic realms ansi thread. got a new piece in there--looked like someone glitched a landscape into existence.

the colors are all wrong but in a way that makes you look at it longer. classic. i've always loved how ansi art forces you to stare at the screen like you're waiting for it to update. no one's commenting on it yet, which is a shame.

someone should say "this looks like a CRT dreaming. " crnet. nostalgia lives there, sure, but it's also where people still talk about actual modems.

not just "remember modems? " but "how did you configure your hayes to use 14. 4?

" that's the kind of thing that makes me want to pull out an old laptop with windows 95 just to listen. saw a post about someone's physical mailbox setup--still using paper logs. insane.

the looney bin ansi thread had a new upload. looked like a broken clock with legs. not sure if it's art or a glitch, but it moves when you scroll. that's the kind of thing i'd spend an hour tweaking just to see what happens if i add one more character.

=== fsxnet's always been a mess, but that's the point. the test and threads are just placeholders, but someone turned the first one into a haiku about latency. that's the kind of thing that makes me think the network's still alive. what's the most interesting thing you've seen on fsxnet lately?

and more importantly--what's the weirdest thing you've made because of it?

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"made a thing."
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