Where are they

[Gopher Gary]

The latest is PowerWash Simulator,

I've never been a gamer, but I can relate to the appeal. I once got hooked for a short time watching pressure washing videos on youtube. 
A few months ago I bought myself a small electric pressure washer, and it's my new favorite thing. 

Sounds cool. I might look into a smaller one when my old one gives up or pisses me off again.
I went to a small electric chainsaw years ago. Got rid of the gas one.

OMG, I love my pressure washer, but mine is old school and I have to put gas in it and maintain another lawnmower type engine.
However it is very powerful (it can whiten concrete) and if you accidentally let it go and it swipes your skin, you will have a scar from the water hitting you at Mach speed. Ask me how I know this.
Yeah, not a toy, but a very cool tool!

I was surprised how well it performed on the driveway and sidewalk. Granted, I also used chemicals and I'm certain it took much longer to do than a powerful gas model would take, but I figure it will be fairly easy to maintain if I don't let it get so bad again in the first place. 

It's not so much that I am vying for favor with Mother Nature by going Fake Greenie, getting all these electric tools, but I just do not need the kind of big power available with these gas powered machines as a modern homeowner.

When gas powered machines was all I could get, OK, I still have occasional need for a chainsaw and a weed whacker and a pressure washer, but those all spent way more time idle than in use.

If I did this kind of shit for a living, yeah, I would have a big, powerful, quick one I would probably pull behind a truck, but if it takes me an extra twenty minutes to de-winter-creepify my shed, that will be fine!

I wouldn't know how to manage a gas powered tool.  Plus my hands are very sensitive to vibrations so I can't use them anyway. My fingers swell up like sausages and they itch to the bone.

[rock hound]

He didn't make much of an impression on me, but we never hung out in the same circles.

I can understand that.  It seems like most people who came here from the beginning were from wp.  A forum I never spent much time at, Aspergian Island and AFF were my places for quite some time.  He seemed to be an impressionable kid and got sucked up into an emotional whirlwind with amy and others.  I just hope he's ok now.

[Fun With Matches]

He was fine before Amy showed up. I think Amy and I had an argument as soon as we were introduced. Then again, it was waaay back when. I was immature, they probably were too. I think I was what…15? Gareth was a few years older, I think.

I still like WP, to a degree. It was just that the same topics kept coming up. I think it’s good to expand and meet new people, so Reddit, I guess is decent.

[odeon]

Heh. I haven't thought about WP in quite a while.

[Pyraxis]

I can't believe it's still limping along.

[Fun With Matches]

WP has been around for so long, Alex could have made it a lot bigger and better, and could have done much more with it. At the same time, if it had become bigger, there would probably now be swarms of bots on there as with Reddit.

I like the old forum style where posts can be necro’d. It makes everything more relaxed, too, and it’s more of a community because you see all the posts and get to know all the people, rather than having to scroll through the latest posts. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit style posts expire really, really fast.

It makes old information much harder to access, like Google had thousands/millions of results before that now don’t show. My browser history on my computer is harder to access too.

[rock hound]

Heh. I haven't thought about WP in quite a while.

I rarely do, as I don't think about forums in my past.  Most of which are long gone.  Plank has his little empire and though my user name and my daughter's is still there.  It's one among thousands and I have outgrown it or my need to belong.  I have my little corner of the multiverse and I am content with that.  The remembrance just creeps up on me once in awhile.  Sort of like the faint echo's from the depths of cyberspace wafting to my ears.

[rock hound]

I can't believe it's still limping along.

All part of Alex's little empire.  And he's welcome to it, as Amber and I have moved on from it long ago! 

[odeon]

Yup. Nothing to see there.

[Jesse]

I can't believe it's still limping along.

same

[odeon]

Is Alex still around, does anyone know?

[rock hound]

Is Alex still around, does anyone know?

I think he gave it up to autism speaks and runs his own quasi empire like a mini-version of the fb founder.  Who knows?

[Jesse]

That reminds me, I haven't been to wp in like 5 years. Gosh, I remember when I couldn't live without that damn forum 

[odeon]

Is Alex still around, does anyone know?

I think he gave it up to autism speaks and runs his own quasi empire like a mini-version of the fb founder.  Who knows?

Alex, hopefully.

Giving it up sounds like one of his more sensible ideas.

[Natalia Evans]

I lost my password to WP and haven't been on it. I couldn't be arsed to try and recover it because it's always pain to always reset my password whenever it quits working when I reset my cookies or have to clear my cache. This time it's not working for real after I got a new phone. I sent cornflake a message about my issue from an alt account I found while trying to recover my password. I will see if he has access to resetting my password for me so I can log in.

I am mostly on Reddit these days. On WP all I ever posted about was politics. I rarely post on aspies central because there isn't lot of threads there that interest me. Same with WP these days.