Bormiar wrote:Blackbird wrote:So, back in the heady days of 2006 or so, there was a chat sometimes called "Kandarin's BBQ" that was usually hosted by Kandarin, the longtime Delegate of the Rejected Realms. It was an AIM chatroom, and we all mostly goofed around in it. I still have the logs. It had players from all the feeders and (of course) the sink, as well as defenders and a few invaders. It was really kind of all-comters.
It's hard to say that it was an "old players" chat. It was certainly very established players, but we weren't checking at the door to make sure you started your nation in 2002 or anything.
Sounds like current TRR, but I thought Kandy’s BBQ was public.
It certainly doesn’t sound like an elitist cabal like miniluv.
No, it wasn't a cabal at all. It was mostly people shooting the shit. Talking about politics, about technology.
Keep in mind, for most players in NS who were older when it started, NS was sort of seen as an extension of old political BBS boards and things like that. NS was 100% text, very little graphical interface, very international, and with the main NS boards total crap, people had to talk elsewhere. So offsite boards became big, and of course, whatever people used to communicate at the time, which was mostly AIM, MSN, and IRC. So Kandarin would just invite, I think, pretty much anyone he talked to these large chatrooms. You'd have NPO people and ADN people, who were bitter enemies, in the room. You'd have people who had held leadership roles in the Atlantic Alliance/Atlantic Central Command and defenders in there. You'd have staunch anti-UN people like Meritocrats and others who embraced the UN. Etc., etc. It was an eclectic group and whoever got the invite came in. It was a slightly different group every time.