I actually didn't notice the Lounge had closed until a few weeks after, when I saw mention of it in a SR thread.

Im happy with the site the way it is. its helpfull, its good to talk to other players/gms, and cometo think of it, i hardly ever posted in lounge either..........

SR section is my addiction, along with booze, cigarettes, heroin......er um not heroin and Day of Defeat.

hehehehe

There are no plans to re-open the Lounge. We want to spend our time strengthening and expanding our Shadowrun base, not dealing with political discussions and the fallout. The offers to moderate are nice, but in the end, The Lounge doesn't fit in with our current plans for the site.

Go to Bulldrek. It doesn't suck.

If you miss the elitism of the lounge you can still find it here in the SR forum.

3 years ago when I started on the boards the lounge was pretty cool. But it seemed lately (the last year or so) it was taken over by a couple of individuals. And anyone who didn't think like them (regardless of facts presented) were closed minded Nazi's. I was also extremely tired of all the "whaa America you suck, everything in the world that is bad is your fault!" I mean I am an American, if I said that about another country in the forums I would be banned (and rightly so).

The lounge basically was full of people who had no interest in SR. The truth of my statement can be shown by the fact that a very few percentage of those people are still around.

If my vote counts for anything, leave the lounge dead.

P.S. If DSF is looking for new blood to help moderate I would be very interested

The Lounge is dead. Good riddance. Nothing good came from it, and never would.

The Lounge kept me here on DS during a time when the only things you found in Shadowrun where noobs asking the same questions again and again and the threads that weren't rehashes of old were soon engulfed in massive flamewars.

But then it stopped here in Shadowrun and the same started over in The Lounge and the only thing that kept me here was Shadowrun (just before T.C (The Closing) ). I'm still here because of The Lounge, but unfortunately I don't have much time and thus rarely post.

I've been around since early 2003. This forum was my fave place to go and I would open it the first second I got to work. Even if that encluded bribing our Sysadmin with M&M's and Choc-chip cookies not to log me through the firewall.

What drew me originally was Shadowrun, I developed a slight interest in the lounge, but ended up being put off the entire site by the idiocy and especially the hugs and kisses brigade. Yeah, I know, I didn't have to go read it, but the entire place did seem to suffer from it.

Since I've been lurking this place lately (A.C.), it seems that things have picked up and I find a lot more interesting posts. I miss Dvixen and Paolo and it would be good to hear from them. I DON'T in the slightest miss the lounge. My other interests e.g. Battlefield 1942 and Nintendo's GBA have found a home at Gamespy forums. So I'm all setup and don't miss nothing. (Cringe at grammar)

As soon as I get regular access to a pc again, I'll once again be spending most of my days back here.

Heh Folks , I'll admit that the Lounge rarely attracted me , but I did visit when someone directed me there . I'll stay on Lurker status until someone else starts a Shadowrun Campaign .

Good to hear you'll be back Plastic Rat . The boards just haven't been the same without you .

Cheers all .

I think he was referring to the derogatory use of "arm chair generals."

Truce? Actually I am more of an armchair colonel it took many years and a lot of hard fought battles to make it this far. I just don't have enough knowledge to make rank, maybe one day.

Does this debate have any effect on couch-bound admirals?

Or what about us bed pilots?

~J

I visited the lounge about 5 times. Didn't enjoy it. At all.

I prefer to think of myself as more of a futon Captain.