WinCustomize is one great place
Thursday, January 13, 2011 by ZubaZ | Discussion: Community
I just got off the phone with one of the master skinners from this site.
I needed some pixels pushed (because I'm a no-talent hack) and sent a private message a few days ago asking for some help. I got 25 images sent back the next day that were over and above anything I could have asked for.
Unfortunately, because I described what i wanted poorly . .they were not useful. I PM'd again apologizing and describing better what I was hoping for.
Not an hour later I get a PM with a phone number. We spent two minutes talking about the image and anther ten jsut talking.
Now . . I've been on teh internet since there were only BBS. I was a Compuserve member and then a AOL and then . . well . . I've been around a while. In all those years though, in all the sites I've visited, only one has reached across the cyber-space into meat-space; this community.
I've made real friends here that I've become closer with over the past ten years than I have with my neighbors. I've even had skinners over to the house and gone out to dinner with.
Crazy? Yes.
Cool? Also yes.
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Reply #2 Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:43 AM
It's kinda 'fun' to discover skinners are 'real'.... meeting them ... comparing notes.
Aside from the crew at SD I have met just 3 'in the flesh' and 3 more via 'real' phones..... not a lot considering the 14 years or so that I've been 'at it' ...
Grimspoon....Transmutate.....
Names from a distant past....
Reply #3 Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:50 AM
nice to hear good friendly comments on this marvelous site.
Reply #4 Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:06 AM
For me, it's been a shock each time I've spoken to a "virtual" friend to hear their voice and have it be so different to what I heard in my head.
The skinner I spoke to this morning had such a Southern drawl. Not what I was expecting at all.
Reply #5 Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:20 AM
Wonderfuller for me would be no accident. Its a lot like more betterer which is what this site really is. We pull together for our own like family. It just doesn't get any betterer than that.
Reply #6 Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:21 AM
southern drawl? it definitely wasn't mike bryant then.
Reply #7 Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:38 AM
Yes, i wasnt actually that surprised when i was asked 'what are you wearing?'
I replied, why, zebra pnats of course 
jk, wasn't me 
although mixed in with some remnants of my original English, some may say, I'm a southern drawler 
My guess - Z71 
Reply #8 Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:28 PM
Its an age thing, try and be friendly on a games website and see what happens 
nice friendly crowd here from what ive seen, but i bet there are a few zimmer frames parked next to the desks 
Reply #9 Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:40 PM
You shouldn't be talking about Jafo and his Zimmer.
Reply #10 Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:57 PM
While you are likely right Grograt, we have had many teenagers pass thought here adn stay . . . and many of the skinners here are gamers too.
Reply #11 Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:16 PM
Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself... 
Reply #12 Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:16 PM
Kudos to Zubaz. No one can miss-spell with such consistency without doing it deliberately. Hats off to the man with pants named after him. 
Reply #13 Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:39 PM
southern drawl
Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself...
Yall can say that again, Navi!
WC is the awesomest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zubaz is second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #14 Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:42 PM
Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself...
Yall can say that again, Navi!
Everytime I talk to Jim I fell like a plate of southern fried chicked is on the way, but he never sends it.
WC has always been a great place for help, knowledge, and many other things since I have been here and much before my time I'm sure.
Jafo: Call me anytime 1-800-i-alwaysneedhelp
Reply #15 Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:53 PM
Wait, you mean you're all not just bots? 
Everything I know is a lie!!!
Reply #16 Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:09 PM
lol when I heard Jim (redneckdude), I thought I was talking to dr Phil....... he really sounds like him! i had a good chuckle about that last year when he helped me with desktop x.
Reply #17 Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:44 PM
I like the way Aussies sound..it's like they're always in a , "What the hell, it's all good" mood. I have taken Yanks as smart alecks but that was usually in the middle of writing 'em a ticket not so long ago. (we like taking that yankee money down here...'sho nuff) Ain't nobody, nowhere got better sayings than folks in the south tho'...here's some good examples> http://socyberty.com/languages/top-75-southern-sayings-and-southern-dictionary/ I use some of 'em proudly daily...
Reply #18 Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:52 PM
Vamps, do I really sound like Dr. Phil?
Navi, where did yall say yall is from in the south?
Reply #20 Thursday, January 13, 2011 5:54 PM
SC - by way of the Peach State (or as a military brat - CA, TX, OK, MD, NC, FL and Germany) 
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Reply #1 Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:40 AM
It's a wonderful Community. You my friend, make it wonderfuller.