Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-1496755-20160225180445

Well then, sir, you should know that the pepper roaster was voted #1 Bulgarian technological innovation of the century :P

(true story!)

Gamespy is a great example - once it was an institution in the gaming world, who would have imagined its downfall? When I first saw it (at some point in 2000/2001), it was the most impressive network I had ever seen. And joining felt like... well, when you are introverted boy that had grown up in a small and poor country, always feeling isolated from the world or the universe as a whole, joining such a community felt like wealking through the pearly gates of Heaven! You can imagine how awkward I was at first - starting new topics just to tell everyone that I had changed my avatar, ha ha :)

When I came back in 2004, the first signs of decay were already visible. Not on PlanetDoom, though - Doom 3 had just come out, and many Classic Doom fans were flocking there too (including myself), so it was very lively. Other communities, however, were already dead - PlanetDuke, for example. Imagine a dead forum, visited only by the few remaining admins/mods, who had become horribly bitter and hostile towards any newcomers. And the biggest part of the forum was this huge tomb of locked topics and banned users. You know, at first these guys were pretty mad at me too, but then we started to get along somehow. PlanetDiablo had also lost most of its old regulars, leaving just a few guys, who were very nice and funny nonetheless. Digging through forum archives was an unnerving experience - imagine all these long-forgotten old topics featuring so many once-regular people who had since left the community, never to return. I felt like an archeologist digging through the old bones in a mass grave. (I should really stop thinking about this because it reminds me of Raadec's departure as well...).

As for Wikia - who knows? I see they are trying to avoid such a fate by evolving, first with this mobile compatibility, and now with the whole "fandom" thing going on. Change improves the chances of survival, so I approve their efforts... as long as they don't mess up our Wiki too much. The Quake Wiki is a reversed story, in a way - it started from a pathetic thing to become something really nice today.

(sudden change of subject in 3... 2... 1...)

Tarator is one of the best things in the world, especially when my grandma makes it. The main ingredients are yogurt (real yogurt, not that strange white stuff you have), sunflower/olive oil, cucumbers and garlic. Optional ingredients include ground walnuts, dill and black pepper. It is more than just a soup - if thicker, it can be an appetizer... and if diluted with more water, it can be a refreshing drink for the summer ;)

Fromage!