Wish I could delete this.

[Morrus]

I hate to break anyone's hearts... but I do not believe even the last thread here is truly the last thread. Because if I'm not mistaken and remembering correctly (and @Morrus would be able to confirm)... I want to say there was one (if not a couple) massive message board losses back in the early 3E era. Where the entire system had to get wiped and started anew. And I don't believe Morrus was able to save old threads when the new boards got up and running (or at least not all of them), so I think the true starting point of the EN World universe is truly lost to time.

The earliest posts we have here are from 2002, but the forums started in 1999.

 

[NotAYakk]

The new generation of forum software come pre-populated with an infinite depth of AI generated content on the subject of your chouce.

 

[Umbran]

@Coredump

So I’m pretty sure under the GDPR laws released a few years ago you do have the right to be erased.

Technically, that means that Morrus has to remove all information linking the account to the person. The posts and threads can stay under GDPR.

 

[payn]

I'm fine with "phylactery" as it sounds sophisticated, which a lich probably would like. But "soul cage" has a certain badass appeal I feel sunglass-wearing liches would approve of.

 

[MoonSong]

I hate to break anyone's hearts... but I do not believe even the last thread here is truly the last thread. Because if I'm not mistaken and remembering correctly (and @Morrus would be able to confirm)... I want to say there was one (if not a couple) massive message board losses back in the early 3E era. Where the entire system had to get wiped and started anew. And I don't believe Morrus was able to save old threads when the new boards got up and running (or at least not all of them), so I think the true starting point of the EN World universe is truly lost to time.

IIRC, there was a backup going back to the beginning of the forum, what was lost was everything in between the back up and the failure.

 

[MoonSong]

Which is odd because I've never heard another Jew refer to it as a phylactery unless they were talking about DnD and pointing out the... connection? Honestly connection feels like a strong word.

Anywho I'm cool with horcrux. Everyone knows what a horcrux is these days.

I like Psyklovos. From Psyke -soul- and Klovos -cage-. Still Greekish sounding, but yet a totally manufactured word so no links to anything real that could be offensive?

 

[SkidAce]

I hate to break anyone's hearts... but I do not believe even the last thread here is truly the last thread. Because if I'm not mistaken and remembering correctly (and @Morrus would be able to confirm)... I want to say there was one (if not a couple) massive message board losses back in the early 3E era. Where the entire system had to get wiped and started anew. And I don't believe Morrus was able to save old threads when the new boards got up and running (or at least not all of them), so I think the true starting point of the EN World universe is truly lost to time.

But the last thread here is the last thread because the "lost" ones dont exist.

 

[TheSword]

Technically, that means that Morrus has to remove all information linking the account to the person. The posts and threads can stay under GDPR.

That’s good. Sounds like a reasonable compromise.

 

[TheSword]

To live for ever in the cage with me.

… awesome song!

 

[Parmandur]

Which is odd because I've never heard another Jew refer to it as a phylactery unless they were talking about DnD and pointing out the... connection? Honestly connection feels like a strong word.

Anywho I'm cool with horcrux. Everyone knows what a horcrux is these days.

Well, I mean, exactly, that's the point: it's an exonym with a long history in anti-Semetic polemic.

Not that I think Gygax or whoever meant that, theybwere probsvly just raiding a thesaurus or copying some shadynold pulp writer who had hangup about "Asiatics" that a lotnof readers wouldn't necessarily know about.