Open Threads

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Ghost Stories Open Thread

Good evening my friends. Hope you’ve had a great day. Since we’ve all started spending time here I have occasionally been sharing tales of the scary, weird, and paranormal. Since this seems to be a lot of fun I am going to make this a weekly tradition. So wrap up in a nice blanket and let’s trade whispers in the dark about the mysterious things we often leave unsaid in the light of day.

 

Is this you right now?

Let’s all stay together and everyone turn on their flashlight. We will be back to the camp site soon. Have a great night.

Happy Hour Open Post

Well hello there! Please excuse the earlier unpleasantness, life on the internet is often brutish, nasty, and short. Let’s put it all behind us, shall we? Grab your 4 Loko and let’s get the party started.

Important Message: We are moving servers again this weekend, probably Sunday night. We’ll do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum, but depending on your ISP you might have some issues. I’m letting you guys know now so you can check Twitter and Facebook for our status.

Another important message. This Sunday we will be having another writers work shop to brainstorm ideas and help each other develop stories. It will be a great chance to get feedback or come up with post ideas. The post will go up in the late afternoon or early evening depending on when The Grand Inquisitor decides to get out of bed.

Friday Afternoon Time Wasting Thread

Happy Friday. Bet you don’t feel like working. Let me help you out with that.

Now it’s 10 minutes closer to the weekend. You’re welcome. Have a great day.

Important Message: We are moving servers again this weekend, probably Sunday night. We’ll do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum, but depending on your ISP you might have some issues. I’m letting you guys know now so you can check Twitter and Facebook for our status.

Friday Morning Open Thread

Wake up gang. Destiny awaits. Today is another big day for our little home on the internet, so we better get moving.

We are moving servers again this weekend, probably Sunday night. We’ll do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum, but depending on your ISP you might have some issues. I’m letting you guys know now so you can check Twitter and Facebook for our status.

Please, before you come here and let us know that you’re having issues posting, do the following. Please update your browser. Crasstalk will NOT work with IE. Run the Adobe Flash updater and the Java updater. A lot of the newer functionality works with the latest and greatest version of Java, so you’ll need it. Run https://browsercheck.qualys.com/, and download any software that is out of date. Please clear your browser’s cache and reboot. If you’re having the issue of comment windows disappearing, or comments not showing up on certain pages, it’ll band-aid the problem. IntenseDebate is still having issues. Please be aware that if you’re posting animated .gif’s or other large files, it will take a while for the file to upload! Finally, if you are having problems one of us might email you. Please respond. If you leave a message saying that you’re having problems, please at least respond when we ask you questions: things like your browser type and version. When we submit ‘trouble tickets’ with IntenseDebate we need to know this information. If you’re reading Crasstalk on a mobile phone or non-standard browser, its kind of a crapshoot as to if the page will display properly. We are going to have a mobile version of Crasstalk soon enough. Thank you. -Ben

Oh, fuck yeah.

Thursday Overnight Thread

Good evening everybody. Hope you had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day around here, so try and get some rest. Let me help you out.

Not sleepy? Me neither. Fuck it!

Someone grab me a damn beer.

Thursday Afternoon Open Thread

Good afternoon. Hope your day is coming along nicely and that you had time for a nice lunch.

This is Cooking with the Dog. Just the title should tell you how awesome it is.

Have a great afternoon.

Important Announcement! Word Press and Intense Debate are the target of DDos attacks today. There are probably going to be some outages, but hopefully they will get it under control soon. Courage!

Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning. Hope you are ready for a good day. Here’s something to get you started, you damn hippies.

This is why I stay out of Washington Square Park.

Have a great day.

-= Message from Ben =-
Guys IntenseDebate seems to be a little slower than normal today. Please don’t close the window and re-open it, refresh it, etc. Just please wait a second or two. THANKS! And keep jamming up the internet with the gospel of crasstalk. The honeybagder will be benevolent and eat some pit vipers, so we don’t have to deal with them!