The Shrine

<div style='font: 14pt Agatha, Modern; text-align: left; '>...you get the new Spineshank yet? I haven't bought it yet myself (no money), but I'm going to DL some mp3s to sample in the meantime. And are you ever going to have digital copies of those mix tapes (Alcohol and Narcotics) that you sent me? I know you don't think they're your best work, but they still kicked much ass and I want to listen to them again.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>1) I recently made 2 new mix CD's one of which has selections from the new Spineshank album. (Spineshank is somewhat different now but I still like them none-the-less.) Here's a little tip: Watch your mail...

2) I was thinking about how to go about recreating those tapes earlier this week. I figure I can get both tapes on 3 CD's. I'm not sure if I want to recreate them exactly as they were or to remix them with some changes. Still not sure. But I think it'll be the same songs just rearanged. But I plan to keep the Vader march intro for one of the disks. It is on my list of CD things to do.

3) I've been doing alot of music previewing lately in order to get a list of qualified songs for a "Return To Wonderland" CD's. Which will be like the first "Wonderland" disk, high speed, angry, aggressive music but with different bands mostly. And finally...

4) My Aliens tribute CD's which I WILL be working on today through this weekend and next week so I can have it done for the 15th anniversary. Still trying to figure out if I want it to be a COMPLETE mix with music from all genres or to be an intense go-go-go type album.

So I guess the answer you're looking for is: yes.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Agatha, Modern; text-align: left; '>In two words...fuck yeah.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Because you said something and the fact I was thinking about it anyway. I went home today, checked my song list from the Wolf 1 & 2 tapes (Narcotics & Alcohol...) weeded out certain songs for reasons I'll explain later, did my editting shit, and viola! I completed the Narcotics v:2.0 disk. I burned it and am listening to it right now for the first time to check for errors and other shit I don't like. So... watch the mail... ;)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Infantry and Subspace are so hard...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>It is a hard game and if you are new to it, it can be super frustrating. I am by no means the greatest SS player on the planet but playing for 4 or more years will learn ya a thing or two.

You know, when I switched my name from Slappy White to Little Washu I also changed my name in SubSpace from Slappy White to Washu! I changed my name on 12-2-00, I know this because SubSpace will tell you how many hours you have logged as certain accounts. Since then I've played for 300+ hours as Washu, 303:45min to be exact. So about 100 hours a month ave. So over the years I estamate I put at least 3500hours in (3200 of those as Slappy White). Wow!

I helped beta test the game after I found a demo of it on a CD from a PC Gaming magazine. I found out this game I was testing was never going to be released. The "beta test" was basically a test of onlne gaming in general. The developers were new to programming for online purposes and they developed SubSpace as a tool. Using this fairly simple "tool" they would test out online gaming procedures and capabilities or whatnot. It was just a tool...

The time finally came when the Beta was over and they were going to shutdown SS. Well, we all fuckin FREAKED! NO FUCKING WAY! I mean my addiction was just starting to peak and being without this game would fucking KILL me! After MUCH protest from the SS Beta community they kept SS up and running until they figured out what they wanted to do, tell us to take a hike or keep it running. For awhile there was talk of a monthly fee which was something I wouldn't have liked but would have payed because the Beta lasted at least a year it seems and I played it ALOT - for free. Well they decided to release a box version. I found mine at Best Buy for $20. Because I was all over that shit!

Eventually Virgin stopped supporting SS. When that happened some of the players bought the rights to it and set up new player run servers and it's been that way ever since. All player run, all the time, all something something...

I wonder when it will end. I hope never. It's unique. I play just about everyday. Other games have come and gone and they've been fun but what game have you played consitently for the last 4 years, the only one I can name is SubSpace. All it is, is a fucking chat room with a means of backing up your shit. Or chatting and fucking around. You can jump in and play and leave whenever. Play a few minutes or waste an entire day on it. It's EVIL! It's my addiction! El Kabong can't believe I'm still playing it.

It is hard and there are ALOT ( Oh man and I do mean alot!) of trash-talkers (Which El Kabong loves btw...) but there are many many many cool people that I've known for so long. It's something I care about. Some little computer game. So when I can think of it, I promote it and try and get other people I know to play. But nobody ever does. I'll continue to try though. I should have made a sig in it's honor years ago. But now that I have it I won't have to bring it up randomly.

PLAY SUBSPACE!

Whoa! I got a little carried away... Yes, SubSpace is hard and I've never played Infantry (The game that the SS beta was created for in the first place...)

Think I like SubSpace much?

Mmmm SubSpace. I think I'll play now.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>They're both really fun, actually. I never really got into them though because they're so damn hard</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>damn, you're a freak... I'll start playing again once I get a better connection, that was also the reason I couldn't get started up a few months ago...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Freaks? That makes 2 of you...</div>