Sort of new site & forum - PirateBricks.com

WebTechie · Post by **WebTechie** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:27 pm

I know a lot of you have already been to http://piratebricks.com. But I just wanted to announce it incase you have not known about the site yet and also because we've made some recent improvements and we are officially out of beta mode. Hope you enjoy it!

WebTechie

P.S. Check out our new smileys (emoticons)!

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:22 pm

I agree! I strongly urge everybody to check it out. It PWNED Classic Space by a landslide

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:00 am

PWNED

Wuts that mean? I never heard of it before...

Anyway, I checked it out... looks cool! Pirates are my second favorite theme... I really love it, so I'm glad to see this site up, although with school and what not I won't have time to join now... CC is my favorite site and castle my favorite theme...

Anyway, like I said... great site. How is the member list going?

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:26 am

I'm glad you like it

PWNED-pawned- The act of trading in a posession in for profit-slang for beating someone

Drucifer · Post by **Drucifer** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:13 am

OFFTOPIC:

TheOrk wrote:PWNED-pawned- The act of trading in a posession in for profit-slang for beating someone

Actually, pwned is a corrupt form of owned.

UrbanDictionary.com wrote: 1. pwned
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."

Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."

It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
"Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned."

OR

"That team totally pwned us."

To be fair, one definition does list a secondary meaning as a misspelled version of pawned. (Note the Urban Dictionary often contains foul language, so it may not be appropriate for you to visit. You've been warned.)

ONTOPIC:
I like the idea of book reviews on PirateBricks. Perhaps, CC should start a list of castle reference material.

Section8 · Post by **Section8** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:40 am

Drucifer wrote: I like the idea of book reviews on PirateBricks. Perhaps, CC should start a list of castle reference material.

A good idea, though it will be huge; when I go to the bookstore I usually only find 3 or 4 pirate books amongst the sea of castle books.

Drucifer · Post by **Drucifer** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:54 pm

Section8 wrote: A good idea, though it will be huge; when I go to the bookstore I usually only find 3 or 4 pirate books amongst the sea of castle books.

I agree that there's a great number of books out there, but you could probably break a list up into categories. Also, reviews might help to spotlight those books which are truly useful for creating castle MOCs.

Post by **Formendacil** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:36 pm

Drucifer wrote:
Section8 wrote: A good idea, though it will be huge; when I go to the bookstore I usually only find 3 or 4 pirate books amongst the sea of castle books.
I agree that there's a great number of books out there, but you could probably break a list up into categories. Also, reviews might help to spotlight those books which are truly useful for creating castle MOCs.

Speaking as a library employee, there's a lot of books out there, but only so many good ones.

IF CC were to have a reference list, it could perhaps be kept at a manageable size by only including the books recommended as good by the users.

Although I personally don't think that a reference list is needed myself. Of course, as noted, I DO work in a library, and thus know where/how to find most things I'm looking for.

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:10 am

How about a suggested book or two Senior Librarian?

Post by **Formendacil** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:36 pm

ottoatm wrote:How about a suggested book or two Senior Librarian?

Heh!

I just shelve the books. I'm the page (which is nice, medieval title, let me point out). As a general reference for a broad look on medieval life, I recommend any of the DK Eyewitness books dealing with Castles, Knights, etc.

However, for the actual construction of Castles, I have yet to run into anything personally that struck me as good.

WebTechie · Post by **WebTechie** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:44 pm

TheOrk wrote: PWNED-pawned- The act of trading in a posession in for profit-slang for beating someone

must be Canadian thing.

Thanks for all the nice feedback.

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:43 am

DK Eyewitness books

Heh heh heh... cool - thanks for the feedback... in terms of the books, is the "DK" series something that librarians or the computer system will recognize if I come to the library with that name?

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:39 am

ottoatm wrote:
DK Eyewitness books
Heh heh heh... cool - thanks for the feedback... in terms of the books, is the "DK" series something that librarians or the computer system will recognize if I come to the library with that name?

DK is the publisher, Dorling-Kindersley. I don't know if putting in the publisher will help in your computer system or not- there's no point in the central Alberta system. But it might help the librarians- or the Pages. I don't know about all Pages, but if you're looking for a specific book, the Pages here in Olds are an excellen resource.

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:22 am

Cool~ thanks for the extra info... I'm gonna see if I can find it... first in my school library and then in the city library.

Maedhros · Post by **Maedhros** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:20 pm

What happened to PirateBricks? I tried to go there today but I got this:

This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

Has it officially died or is this just a temporary problem? I know the forum was a bit slow but it was a nice site...