Nice forums....

[Biyobi]

...but are you ever going to update the site again? Get me all excited that you guys are updating the site again and then disappear? Bastards!

[Mark Asher]

Guilty as charged.

I'll whip up some news tomorrow. I've been meaning to. Tom's out of town and won't be back for a bit.

[Aszurom]

Do you guys accept reader contributions to the site, or do you want to maintain the "Mark and Tom show" purity? I know you've had Bruce do a thing or two before, but he's a respected comrade. Just curious if you're open to submissions or no. Not asking for myself, but in general...

Also, I have an idea that may help support the site. You could sell banner ads - so I don't have to look at that Tenenbaums thing anymore. However, not regular banner ads, but in-house stuff. Say, like $10 a month via paypal donation and you get to design your own banner and have it run on the site. Doesn't have to be an ad either, just anything you want to share that fits in 768x60px.

[Sparky]

I'll give you three dollars if you put my "F Star Wars" banner up there, as long as you promise not to spend it all on Episode II action figures.

[Joe O'Malley]

I think a great Shoot Club article would be the gang trying out Neverwinter Nights. Shoot Club always seems competitive; even in cooperative environments Trevor ends up killing his teammates. NWN is also, from what I hear, a fairly deep game. It'd be interesting to see if they could even wrap their noggins around it.

[Mark Asher]

We may sell banners, but Chet's involved in that. We're on his network.

As to articles, we're not ask for contributions at this time.

[Kevin Perry]

Also, I have an idea that may help support the site. You could sell banner ads - so I don't have to look at that Tenenbaums thing anymore. However, not regular banner ads, but in-house stuff. Say, like $10 a month via paypal donation and you get to design your own banner and have it run on the site. Doesn't have to be an ad either, just anything you want to share that fits in 768x60px.

Hey Mark, you really want to think about that. That's a great idea. That would let people pay for the right to show off how humorous they are(n't), and cover your bandwidth costs at the same time.

[chet]

The way we do banners now, and have been doing them for the past year or so allows people to purchase banners. This has kept our little network profitable (very,very small profit, really just covering costs). You can purchase a banner for a month vs cpm, so it is easier to figure out.

We offer payment from either paypal or straight credit card. And since true micropayments do not exist (cough, nor will they), we have a min price of $10 for non-commercial sites and higher for commercial sites.

The rest of the banners will be a tasteful mix of other programs, amazon, our hosting, domain registration, hot games etc.

We will stick with 468x60. A larger banner does nothing on a site like this but eat bandwidth and take up space, you either ignore the banners, or you don't. No popups etc.

I/Mark will be introducing this next week. And yes, since I will have something to do with it, it will be evil, i will firebomb your house blah blah blah whatever fantasies people without lives have that think I have the time to give a shit.

Chet

[Alan Au]

So, uh, Mark, where's that news update? ;)

- Alan

[Mark Asher]

So, uh, Mark, where's that news update? ;)

- Alan

You think I sit motionless in front of the computer for hours on end, growing fatter just from reading the gravy-laden Sinner posts, feeling my arteries harden from too many long nights bingeing on microwave pork rinds and vanilla coke as I think about and carefully plan the next news update? You think I do that just for me? Feh! I do it for you and the people like you.

Always with the wanting you are! You should get a tumor for asking! A tumor!

[mtkafka]

You can always post a link to the trusty comedy of The Onion!

Like this link about wanting to see Yoda's Penis!

http://www.theonion.com/onion3829/yodas_penis.html

"Oh, come on. All the times you've watched Star Wars movies, it's never crossed your mind even once? You're just going to play dumb and say, "Oh, gee, no, that never occurred to me"? Give me a break. Don't even try to tell me you've never wondered what Yoda's penis looks like."

Go to link to see the rest!

etc

[Met_K]

The way we do banners now, and have been doing them for the past year or so allows people to purchase banners. This has kept our little network profitable (very,very small profit, really just covering costs). You can purchase a banner for a month vs cpm, so it is easier to figure out.

We offer payment from either paypal or straight credit card. And since true micropayments do not exist (cough, nor will they), we have a min price of $10 for non-commercial sites and higher for commercial sites.

The rest of the banners will be a tasteful mix of other programs, amazon, our hosting, domain registration, hot games etc.

We will stick with 468x60. A larger banner does nothing on a site like this but eat bandwidth and take up space, you either ignore the banners, or you don't. No popups etc.

I/Mark will be introducing this next week. And yes, since I will have something to do with it, it will be evil, i will firebomb your house blah blah blah whatever fantasies people without lives have that think I have the time to give a shit.

Chet

So your hack network is kept together by a bunch of gaming nerds paying for shitty advertisements on shitty sites who worship the ground you walk on because you wrote one funny article and managed to keep a somethingawful rip-off site going for awhile? Jesus Christ, give me the name of your economics teacher, I got jipped!

[Aszurom]

http://hem.passagen.se/markusyt/skola/fysik/troll.jpg

[Anonymous]

"Jesus Christ, give me the name of your economics teacher, I got jipped!"

Moses. The man could do miracles juggling the tablets. You'd be out of everything and he'd squeeze water from a rock and make manna fall from the heavens.

[Met_K]

"Jesus Christ, give me the name of your economics teacher, I got jipped!"

Moses. The man could do miracles juggling the tablets. You'd be out of everything and he'd squeeze water from a rock and make manna fall from the heavens.

Next thing you know Muhammad will pop up and we'll all be reliving that god-awful SNL skit where there's everyone in the restaurant asking Jesus for autographs and not knowing who the other two are.