Thank you Starkers for the blind(s) comments.  Hope you get the situation solved.  Hum, if this post keeps growing we will have to have an unmemorial.  Not quite sure how to do that, as there seems  to have been a miracle resurrection.  Alas.  But at least I don't have to hunt for the fish.

Yeah. I looked into that yonks ago, and disabling AdBlock Pro and DoNotTrack programs for WC makes no difference.  If I uninstall them then I can make comments, but then that leaves me open to a multidude of internet parasites... a prime example if which is Facebook.  If I uninstall or disable these protections I seem to get inundateted with Facebook related crap. 

Went there once to sign up to 'so-say' keep in touch with people, but well justified privacy concerns made me think better of it afterwards. Shortly thereafter I began to receive bucketloads of Facebook related spam, despite blocking them several times in my email client AND opening a new email account to distance myself from Facebook AND them from me.  It was like they knew the new account was me, but since implementing blockers, etc, I get little to no uninvited emails, so being unable to make skin comments, for me, is a small price to pay to be left alone

Yup, I remember back in the good old days when people used to go visit friends and family, to sit down and communicate with each other over a meal, etc.  Or if the distance was too great, they'd write a letter with - get this -  a pen and paper,  Does anybody remember pen and paper?  Nah, not these days, it's all texting and damned electronic communication that's missing the personal touch.  I know of several mobile phone users who never ever make voice calls so the person on the other end can hear their voice.  No, it's ALL done by text.  Sad, so, so sad.

Anyway!

Re: the WB comment, you're more than welcome.  Your work is more than worthy of praise and admiration.

As for not being able to comment in the galleries, maybe the situation will improve when internet parasites are slapped with a none-too-nice smelling trout and sent into oblivion for crimes against humanity.

As for fish, haven't had any seafood for a while, so tomorrow is fish n' chips day, with maybe some crumbed prawns and scallops, etc, etc.

Eat hearty mate, and send some my way (I'm starved and the only fish I caught is earning his keep.)

Aye, tha heartier tha bett'r, I always ses.

An' that thar fish wot be earnin' 'is keep, be that tha one ye slaps Dave round tha jowles wiv?

Aarrgghh, any day be talk like a pirate day fer me... bein' pirate blood flows thru me veins

I was kicking back remembering the old days.  Here is some of the people that made the forum lively that are missing now. 

Chris, joetheblow, AngleWings, Keila, DavidK, Voo, Darkmist, Lecrayon, Paxx, Werewolf, IPlural, GoodMorphing, Elfkura, LadyWolf, Jebland, ChefGarry, JamMeisteres, PJPowell.

I know there are more but remember I old so forgive me if I missed someone.  Fell free to add them.

Yeah, I fell over thinkin' about 'em all.

Yeah, I know....you're old.  Not to worry, it happens to the best of us.

As for some of the people I miss on the forums:

Sleeping Dragon

Night Train

Seldomseen

Mumblefratz

Bichur

Fairyy~

Steph.... can't remember her nick off-hand but a regular contributor back a while ago.

And Uvah... hope he's okay.

Bebi Bulma.

Mumblefratz is still around, I think. Seems I saw him here not too long ago. I could be mistaken...... 

BTW, anyone remember PuterDudeJim? He was a mess, as I remember.....

JamMeisteres... I know where  he is!! lol!!  

CarolLee....  

It was quite awhile ago since I last saw him around the forums, so again, hope he's alright.... and Seldomseen.  [we sure had fun in the pirate thread]

Granular lives! Son of Granular! 

And where's wife of Grandular... and daughter of Grandular?

Are these people not important in the grand scheme of things?

Or have they been excluded because they ran off with all the fish?

BTW, Doc, your toilet brush apparently has a romantic thingie/come obsession with Dave Bax's moustache... over at the Is It Possible thread.

If I were you, I'd chain it up in the lavatory so it can't escape.... AND lock all yer doors in case Dave Bax tries to reciprocate with 'romantic' gestures of his own.  I mean, what would the neighbours all say with that kind of ruckus going on?

Also, Dave Bax is on 'the' list for casting asprsions about my ability to keep a secret.  I mean, did I ever tell anyone you had a Phyllis Diller fantasy and you'd have liked to have exchanged 'personal' photographs [among other things] with her?  No, no I didn't!  Nor did I ever tell anyone you once had a bit of a man crush on Liberace because he had nice nails for a piano player.  No, you told me those things in confidence and I'd never tell another living soul.

I just hope that you pay me the same courtesy and never tell anyone about my obsession with Dolly Parton's chest.  It's a magnificent chest, isn't it!  And it has all her wigs and costumes in it for her stage shows, but I told you in confidence and I hope it stays that way.

I was always pestering PJ for DX scripts and tweaks. Same for Adam "SkinStudio". Hippy and MikeB I drove around the bend. Martin and PJ always DX'ing… Some other names locked away somewhere trying to raid… Mmm, ^^Gabriel, brewman, ChaNinja, PixelPirate, b0se, m0rphium, -xino… I'm cheating. This is some list down memory lane. MadIce, Koasati, grayhaze, AJCrowley, RadialFX… I'm sure there is more. I.R.Brainiac… Can't forget Dangeruss. He's big on Deviantart with his car/bike renders and read he's done graphic covers working for Microsoft/Xbox at one point… I can't get over remembering back to DavidK and the Alienware theme of 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooNsuPrNhc

Heh, I usually jump on Youtube for the good old days. "Remember Year" Then reading comments… "no smartphones/iphones, no twitter, no facebook, no hipsters, no justin bieber, no lady gaga…."

Oh if only that were true of the world today... it could well do without that little tw*t.

Same goes for that Miley Virus piece... the world 'd be a better place if she hadn't been born, that one.

Hmmm, IR Brainiac is a name I not seen or heard of for a while... a few of the others as well.

I bought a couple of IR's master skins [No Load Limit being one of them] and hoped he'd do more, but alas I haven't seen his blip on the radar in years now.

[e digicons]:'([/e]

I remember PJPowell, Paxx, Voo', Angelwings, Darkmist and JJ-Ying.

IPlural..........What a guy on the forums! Fun times!.............Jafo will tell you it was like 'herding sheep' at times.........

So many amazing artists...........and my favorite suite of all time..........Abracadabra by Pixtudio, Renato and Alex............Fond memories 

There were so many its hard to remember them all. 

Koasati

Granulated, Granuloid, Granulicious, Salt, Sugar - something like that.

Time will tell.

And what about the classic forum threads, such as "My Throbber's Broken", by bichur, and the infamous 'pirate' thread, hijacked from someone who thought Stardock was preventing him from opening a blog account because of his political preferences.... when he was told that was NOT the case, he replied with: "And my bunghole tastes like chocolate,"  and somebody asked if others had confirmed this or could he lick it himself.  Yup, that was/is the most hijacked thread of all time here at Stardock, and quite a bit of fun for all those who participated in making it so.

And then there was 20f3's "Blank of Borg" thread'... another thread that seemed to take on a life of its own.  Again, though, I digress from my original train of thought, which these days seems to be a common occurrence.  If only my body wandered as easily as my mind!   I'd be out chasing loose women and trying to rescue them from a life without me.

So, back to my original train of thought... or was it a bus?  Anyway, back then - back in the good old days - people were queuing up to post in popular threads, even some of the less popular one, but not nowadays.... no siree.  What we have here is a failure to communicate, and instead of people queuiing up to post we have 1000's upon 1000's of lurkers, who are queuing up to contribute eff all 

Yup, that's exactly what it is, 1000's of lurkers turning up in droves to read all our hard work and considered thoughts, just to hi-tail it out of here and piss off without as much as a 'by-your-leave' "kiss my arse' or 'thank you'.  It's bloody rude, that's all I got to say.

Well it's not all I've got to say, but it's a start.

Another name from the past I miss seeing around the forums... Zoomba!!!!  Now there was a 'management' identity with the sass of a rank n' file member, a real character who brought much to the forums.  Then there's our beloved Zubaz, who too infrequently pops in and fumbles his way through a couple of lines of Zubish before popping back out again.  And what about Po Smedley and Skinhit?  Their ongoing 'shopping' feud was very enjoyable as a spectator.

Ah, the good old days!  Now what we got?

* A Dave Bax, who thinks he's a comedian - when all he is is plain funny did I say peculiar.

* A Doc, who thinks he's Skinhit and Po Smedley all rolledc into one - when in fact he is but a part of that duo without an archnemesis to 'shop' him back.

* A RedneckDude, who thinks he too is a comedian AND a rednrck - when in fact, all he is is a redneck with a sheep-bothering fetish

* A Wizard1956, who knows no magic at all but can make food disappear. He can also say 'poof'... but not in exactly a wizardry/magical context

* A Jafo, who thinks he's a bit of a PC tech - when really he's just a walking dictionary with a few tech words he picked a few things up from.

There's a bunch of other people with a mish-mash of talents ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime, and frankly, the place wouldn't be the same without 'em, so please, no more departures, old timers or not.

Thanks Voo, I forgot about some of those people. Damn. MadIce, I.R.  Yes, all that are mentioned bring back the good old times.

I wonder now I.R. is doing.