Anyone remember the news of 'new content' on the site in two weeks? That was December 11. This is February 2. No new content. Why even bother? This website (as neat looking as it is) is nothing more than a playground for a couple dozen people.

haha maybe the new content is the update for january 9th that tells about the show. who knows. it's not kept up.. too bad we can't be in charge of it brianeno2... i'd help you. then the world would know.

or maybe theres nothing new to report?

ya know, i should be in charge of everything in the entire world.

featuresgirl, welcome to my relevant list.

yes, yes, i'm tired of empty promises. some new song downloads would be cool. maybe some shockwave features games would appease us all, or at least a downloadable version of oregon trail.
oh and eno, i'll vote for you as person who shold be in charge of everything in the world.

Yea I remember the promise of 'new content' awhile ago because I probably made it. And I'm still going to hold true to it.

Basically after this site launched I was informed that the band had a concept for a version of the site. Lo and behold I had just finished the site and they wanted it redone. No big deal really - just wish they'd been that involved since Day 1. So I'm waiting on some materials to begin redesigning the site.

Secondly, I have a job - and other independent projects - AND an attempt at doing fun social things that consume my time. So even when I do get the materials for the new site, it's going to take me 'a minute' or so to get it all together, working properly, and looking good.

Third, I can't post new content I don't get. I was told I was going to get a copy of 'God Save Rock N' Roll' to put on the site and I haven't. I believe that deal is that the band doesn't want to release anything to the website that isn't 100% finished to them. If it's going to exist somewhere on the Internet, they want it to be the best version of the song they have. I suppose that version hasn't been reached yet.

I understand the frustration and I apologize for it. I have been in the situation loads of times where a 'new site was coming' and it pretty much never did. I am doing my best to assure that this isn't one of those times. Even if this site is just a playground for a few dozen people, at least it's that much.

Sorry so sloppy!

Michael

thanks brianeno2. and michael, we're not slamming you. it's just that it gets frustrating cause we want the world to know, and we get impatient. we believe in the features world domination... in our lifetime = )

new downloads
i'd love to pimp out thefeatures.com, but i'm holding out because i'm not into that version of serious and i'm waiting for god save rock n roll..or even another mp3. i'm so ready for the band and this website to take off.

Oregon Trail!!!!

Hell yeah, man, bring it on.  That would be the official DEATH of all productivity in my life.  But the part where you hunt for food!?!  Are you kidding me?! So worth it.

if we took the band on oregon trail..who would be the first to die????

michael, it wasn't a slam on you. i think you should be on salary. and f-ck them if they want to change the whole site. tell them to do it theirselves. as someone who also designs sites (although at a much lower scale), i know how much work it is.

parrish has dysentery. press 8 to hunt. grueling pace. bare bone meals. float down the river?

i swear to god i'm going to look for oregon trail RIGHT NOW.

Rollum would definitely be the first to die in a faux Oregon Trail scenario. Sissy. I think Pelham would go down second. Parrish and Roger would last the longest because of their facial hair. However, I think in the end Parrish would reign victorious. I can just picture him rising out of a river with a fish clutched in his teeth.

yes neu, you are on the right track. however pelham might be the first to go because of the whole vegetarian thing. oh yeah you're a pussy if you don't eat meat or are in the strokes. rollum would develop scurvy, that sissy. but, i think parrish and roger both might befriend some injuns and make it through.

I quit after Joe died from Measles, William and Ryan drowned (unfortunately along with 3 oxen while attempting to ford a river that was just too deep) and Luke died of exhaustion. Maybe next time I'll go with JamieCarroll, Eno, or members of The Features. They're not such huge pussies. Thanks for the game, Eno, although I remember being better at it.

I've gotta check this out. What was the name of that fishing game?

Keith,

Is it possible to be 'good' at Oregon Trail? I have always percieved it to be a game of chance. Maybe that explains why I can never get to the end - I just suck at it, like every other video game in the world.

>>I can just picture him rising out of a river with a fish clutched in his teeth.<<

oregon trail is a game of luck.....i've made it to the end before but just barely. i do think parrish would be the last to die.....

-kelly

The army is building.

this is absolutely classic. my observations:

1. rollum - would never break an arm but would break a leg easy. still a sissy.
2. matt - sissy vegetarian. i'd throw him off the wagon.
3. roger - he looks like he was on the oregon trail. would drink bad water.
4. parrish - dumb enough to be run over by oxen.

fjord at 2.5 and below
never hire a stupid injun
be a farmer (triple points)
buy 3 oxen, no clothes, no bullets, 1250 lbs food, 1 spare part of each
start at greuling pace and barebone meals - go 1/4 of the way and rest
switch to meager meals - go 1/4 of the way and rest
switch to filling meals - go 1/4 of the way and rest
switch to strenous pace and go rest of the way (rest right before dulles).

with a little luck, you'll get 5 people in fair/good health, unless you take matt who is a sissy vegetarian injun lover.

All this Features talk is making me hungry.

I just *attempted* a game of OT using the Beatles as my crew. Let me tell you, they suck. Those English sissies. John and Paul died of Cholera, while George and Ringo died of the measles. I didn't even make it to the split in the trail.

>>matt - sissy vegetarian.  i'd throw him off the wagon.

what a waste! pelham's got to be a good 150-160 lbs. of food... even after the dysentery sets in. yeah that's right, you heard me, i said eat the vegan.


(Edited by I Heart Rollum at 4:34 pm on Feb. 3, 2002)

awww don't pick on matt. he's so cute. and he's good, even if some people don't think so. he's got energy, good crowd appeal. and he's got beautiful twins. he's nice to his wife, loves God, his country.... he's great.

wait wait wait. he's a vegan or vegetarian? because a vegan is three times as bad as a vegetarian. imagine not wanting leather seats in your car just because they had to torture and kill a harmless living creature to get it. i wish i could make vegan and vegetarians eat bare bones meals (consisting entirely of meat) and having filling meals for myself and other normal people on the wagon.

You wouldn't want to eat Pelham if he is a vegan. He would be low in protein. The irony of such a situation is pretty undeniable.

and the fact that we have incisors and enzymes to break down proteins in meat, but lack the enzymes to break down some proteins in veggies shows that vegans go against the natural social darwinist order of things.  such people should be locked away (with nic:() for good.

that makes sense why matt is so skinny!

-kelly

I wish Ringo would die of the Measles.  2 beatles had to die but the irrelevant one is still left.  I bet he outlives Paul.

he will out live paul...thats how it is the unimportant ones are always the last to die.....btu wouldnt be cool if the one beatle that is already supposed to be dead is the only one alive?

-kelly

how can that be? i buried paul.

cranberry sauce???
anyway, so maybe matt's just a vegaterian, but i prefered the way 'vegan' sounded in the sentence. so has anybody else heard that parish is a megan? he only eats meat and won't have anything to do with plant products. that's why all of his clothes are animal hides.

megan. damn that's funny. i once knew a girl named megan.

Parrish is relevant. I am a megan, too. Absolutely no vegetables. In fact, I don't even eat green M&Ms. They remind me of vegetables. How nasty is it to eat something that grows in the ground?

finally downloaded oregon trail. parrish drowned. roger died of dysentary. luke caught measle then drowned. the big suprise was rollum who developed cholera, broke both arms, had typhoid fever, was bitten by a snake, and finally drowned (probably since his arms were of no use). guess he's not such a sissy after all. this left matt with no oxen to continue around soda springs. poor bastard.

I feel so lame in this forum b/c
1) I am a vegetarian who went for velour car seats and
2) I was the 4th grade champ at OT & thought I was cool until I read on here that's it's all about chance...

yeah, eating stuff out of the ground just isn't natural.  hey, here's an idea: how about we round up a bunch of wild animals (bears, tigers, sasquatches, giant squid and what have you...), put them in a big cage and lecture them about how eating meat isn't natural. then, we rally up some vegans and mixed vegetables and put them in the cages too, that way we can see if the animals took to our message. That's the only scientific way to really know what's natural, right?

i mean no offense lauren, i'd probably be a vegetarian too if i could stand the taste of vegetables.

(Edited by I Heart Rollum at 9:31 pm on Feb. 3, 2002)

There is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, or with not being one.  It's a personal choice.

i eat pork everyday. i loveeee bacon and thick cut pork chops. so not only am i 'cruel' to animals, i'm also going to hell according to the old testement.

i think most people who post in this forum (or at least who make it onto eno's relevent and very relevent lists) are going to burn for eternity.

my coat is made of more than one fabric, so i'm going to hell as well.
rollum's arms were of no use.  treading water with two snake bitten broken arms.  classic.

i know of a more scientific experiment.  we could lock 20 vegans up in a cage.  kill half of them (start with any italians or homosexuals) and leave for a month.  then, come back and see if the living ones ate the dead ones.  i'm not sure what purpose it would serve, except that it would be fun to kill italian and homosexual vegans.

sorry lauren, vegetarians can't be relevant.

Daaaammnnnn, Gina!

wait wait wait
Lauren was an OT champion? Back on the relevant list.
wait wait wait
Did I say Italians? I mean Irish. Man I hate everyone.

actually eno, you'd need a control group for it to be an experiment. what's the independent variable? any confounding variables? i mean if yer gonna be scientific and all...sorry...i've been in the library all day. please kill me.

control group - an established mean
independent variable - number of successfully converted vegans
confounding variable - green peace

i have taken 3 statistics classes ya know  but 2 of them were at MTSU so that's worthless.

i like this guy more with every post! keep em comin', dawg!

i tried to be a vegetarian once. it lasted 5months. i loved meat too much. i was in the 6th grade i think..

in the fluid ounces song vegetable kingdom....do you think everyone that lives in the vegetable kingdom is a vegetarian?

Listen (shhh) to what the flower people say.