Saturday chat?

Blazemane · Unread post by **Blazemane** » Wed May 05, 2010 3:14 pm

I guess my question is as simple as my title. Would anyone be interested in doing a chat this Saturday?

I'm actually having a little bit of trouble pulling up the bravenet room though. Maybe it's just my computer...

Unread post by **Nurann** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:55 pm

Bravenet...? *scratches head* Oh yeah! Jeez, I don't think we've actually used that in... 7 years? I think that thing has been a part of BWInt since before it was BWInt...

Actually, I wouldn't mind trying to revive the old tradition a bit. Used to be Saturdays at 2pm eastern time on AOL, although, I'm thinking skype or msn is much more reliable these days.

Optimal Optimus Primal · Wed May 05, 2010 7:22 pm

A chat would be cool, Blazemane! I never participated in one for BW Int yet. ...That I can recall. Either AIM, MSN or Skype works for me.

Unread post by **SilverfromOZ** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:02 pm

Ooh! A chance to publicly humiliate myself in a digital medium! I'm definitely keen on this plan

Sadly, though I am pretty booked this saturday however I would love to be a part of this old school tradition resurrection so if we organise things I'd be very much up for it. Personally, I should have Saturdays free after the 22nd May (up till then I have a 21st, my little counsins' communion and a LAN party).

So are we talking a type-y chat or a talky chat? I'll go with whatever for a type-y chat (just let me know what you guys use) but if we want to take it one step further and use voices then I'd push Skype as I have found it to be very reliable. If we want to go one step further again and have a multi-user video extravaganza then I have recently come across a program called ooVoo. I had to implement it at work for one of the bosses to chat with important people overseas and it seemed to work quite well. I know that some people may not be comfortable with the latter two and if thats the case then the type-y chat is fine by me

Blazemane · Unread post by **Blazemane** » Wed May 05, 2010 10:38 pm

I've never done this skype thing... it sounds intriguing.

If it accepts my laptop's microphone, than I'd probably be able to do that.

But I guess what other people want. I feel like it'd be strange to be having 1/2 the people on a chat room, and 1/2 on skype.

Then again... maybe probably could work. I don't know, hee hee hee. I guess the best thing for us would be to experiment.

Darkshadow14 · Thu May 06, 2010 11:49 am

The good ol' days of Saturday chats! Lol Yeah, sure I'd attend it or try to.

Unread post by **Nurann** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:14 pm

Blazemane wrote:I've never done this skype thing... it sounds intriguing.

If it accepts my laptop's microphone, than I'd probably be able to do that.

But I guess what other people want. I feel like it'd be strange to be having 1/2 the people on a chat room, and 1/2 on skype.

Then again... maybe probably could work. I don't know, hee hee hee. I guess the best thing for us would be to experiment.

Skype does mine, so you should be okay.

We used to do primarily text chat, and if everyone wanted voice, we'd slip in to one or two of those occasionally. The advantage with skype is that it does that mix very well (aol and yahoo never worked all that well for most people when trying to do that). Lol I think the first time I did that was with Sinead and the other Blaze... XD It's fun, it really is. That's the funny thing about our community; when we start talking more in RL, it's like, "hi, you aren't a stranger, I've known you for years! What do you mean this is supposed to feel weird?"

If anyone has scheduling issues while trying to figure out time zones, Silver showed me this interesting site... http://www.timeanddate.com/

Unread post by **Phoenix** » Thu May 06, 2010 3:24 pm

Unfortunately with only three days and three exams to go at school, there's just no way I can make it to a chat this weekend.. First exam is tomorrow, next is Monday, and final is Tuesday.. *gasps for air*

Blazemane · Unread post by **Blazemane** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:19 pm

Ok, I've set up a skype account under the name "Blazemane". I think I've found SilverfromOz, but I don't know other account names.

And sorry to hear you've got that much work ahead of you, Phoenix. I hope the exams go well.

Jagna · Unread post by **Jagna** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:42 pm

Oooh, a new Skype account? Sounds quite good. My only problem would be forgetting I have it after a while

EDIT: You should be able to find me as Jagna_the_one_and_only

Optimal Optimus Primal · Thu May 06, 2010 5:51 pm

My Skype "number" is candi.santora

Unread post by **SilverfromOZ** » Thu May 06, 2010 6:38 pm

Oooh people adding me on Skype. Hooray

Mr Burns: "Welcome to my summer home.... Ahhh more helpless victims to feed my ever-growing army of the undead."

Mr Smithers: "Uh sir.. you've still got the button pressed."

Mr Burns: "Well sonova" #click#

Darkshadow14 · Unread post by **Darkshadow14** » Thu May 06, 2010 7:17 pm

Skype is fun! But if on Sat chat's people use skype everyone will be talking over one another. I had that happen years ago on Y.I.M. And it was so confusing.

Blazemane · Unread post by **Blazemane** » Thu May 06, 2010 8:23 pm

I hate to say it, but now I'm busy with something from 12 to 4 (Eastern time for me too).

But maybe we could just have it later in the day.

Either way, we've got to do this at some point. And then, perhaps, do it some more.

Unread post by **Nurann** » Sat May 08, 2010 2:14 pm

Does anyone thing they may be on at some point this afternoon?

You can find me under my full "Nurannoniel."

I look forward to chatting with any BWInters that may be online!

Update: So some of us are on Skype now if anyone wants to join us