If you haven’t been back to the GNE lately, it’s time to go right now!!! Items are back! Karma is back! Mood is back! xp is back! Wonderful fuzzy feeling after eating a butterfly is back!
See the changelog and Stewart’s post.

Let us now acknowledge the presence (oooh, very John Edward) of Eric’s new daughter. We don’t have a name for her yet, but either way, congratulations to you and your wife, Eric (I hope she’s your wife =P), and we hope she grows up to be a nice young lady :)

Now onto smaller news. This week we got an Away status on the GNE chat. Just recently Stewart revealed that there would be several additions in the next six (ish) weeks. Is this the beginning of the New GNE?

Apparently, it is. I hope they add items and a basic map first, or else the new players will just think this is a $20 (AU$40 for me) chatroom.

Very nicely done: the Stewart Butterfield Interview also has quite a charming photo of the winner of the coveted “The Stewart Butterfield Is Not Allowed to Win Best Developer” Award.

Forget the Real Game, I wanna play Nanoswarm!

Thanks to all the people contributing questions I have been able to set up this GNE quiz.

http://www.pstoever.de/gne/

That’s my way of dealing with GNE withdrawal syndroms :)

I’m interested in any kind of feedback so tell me how you like it or what I can change to make it better :)

For those who missed the great wipe, relive the memories at Puckish Pitstop’s End of the World Post coverage

The letter X traditionally marks the spot.

Hallo! Musta? I was able to add a few hubs at the gallery. Hope you guys can visit its almost the end of the world =)

http://puckishpitstop.mine.nu/hubs.htm

Thanks!

Hello Everyone! I love GNE so visit the Puckish Pitstop at http://puckishpitstop.mine.nu/

If you can, share some things at the site. Comments and suggestions are welcome =)

Thanks

When plagued with thoughts of woe and dread Last night, to Bentown’s streets I fled For smoke, for drink, but lo! Instead: Fine GNE’ers, “giving head!”

Amazing what you can do with a little produce, isn’t it?

Hi all,

The zoo in Twee has now been populated. I populated it a few nights ago, and since then have been busy restocking! For some reason the cows and ptarmigans disappear quickly! I’ll have to look at upgrading their enclosures. :)

Feel free to squeeze the chickens and milk the cows, but do drop them when you are done. If I have left any GNE animal out, do let me know!

As for the Purple Unicorns, Blue, Yellow and Pink horses with long blonde manes, bunny rabbits and Tamed Rainbows…well they *were* there, but some scoundrel must have made off with them. ;)

It’s long, but worth the read. About this thing called lard… caused a huge surge of creative power from most of the GNE kids who were online at the time. I must admit i was quite surprised at the frenzy that a lil ol bit o lard can work up.

(Please read from the bottom up)

dashcat: Lard is in the air
Mira Arianrhod: It must have been lard, but it’s over now.
inspoetica: but I can’t help falling in lard…with…you
flippy rice: me lard you long time
Zion El-dar: now ya got it yogi
Yogi: Lard me two times.
Mira Arianrhod: I’m larding this.
Loli: ha
dashcat: I’m ready for Lard…bad company :o)
poxaV: so i bought an oncidium today
flippy rice: lard is a many splendid thing
georgie parker: yes yogi - lard = oxygen
Gorgik: Whole Lotta Lard
Yogi: Lard, sorry.
Kyle Stein: Excuse, the LARD of god.
Yogi: Lar is like oxygen?
Kyle Stein: This HAS to go to Paperlane. For the love of god, save it.
flippy rice: lard machine
georgie parker: for the lard of lard…
Loli: Yay, Mira!
georgie parker: do you all feel it?? the power of the lard? kinda catchy ?
Kyle Stein: Mass GNE Cardiac Arrest.
Mira Arianrhod: Feel like making lard
flippy rice: haha boys ii men
capodistria: hunka hunka burnin’ lard
Yogi: You’re not mad at me because the girls left messes in the rooms, are you Kyle?
inspoetica: I’ll make lard to you, like you want me to
georgie parker: can’t get enough of your lard baby
flippy rice: eww nyquil tripping
Gorgik: it needs more lard, right?
Zion El-dar: im just a lard machine
mood +5 The clown wig cracks you all up.
poxaV: triple onion dip: NOT ONIONY ENOUGH
poxaV: visions/fever/hallucinations… kyle, stop sucking on the nyquil bottle please
Gorgik: no, transcend entitlement
Gorgik: ooooh
Yogi: Are you having visions, Kyle?
Zion El-dar: I must waddle off with my full pack here
georgie parker: the summer of lard…
Yogi: I’m about to do something?
Mira Arianrhod: You walked in on a lard-in.
Kyle Stein: It’s not what you did. It’s what you’re about to do.
Loli: Yoggers, you being bad?
georgie parker: actually - lard prevents premature death poxaV
Yogi: Whaddid I do?
Kyle Stein: THEN sell it.
poxaV: we will all die
Kyle Stein: No, make it into enlightenment.
inspoetica: yup
Kyle Stein: YOGI, you are so gonna die.
Gorgik: should I just sell it?
flippy rice: elton john right?
Gorgik: I have a bunch of entitlement
flippy rice: wow good one inspy
Gorgik: so
Mira Arianrhod: To Sir, with Lard
Yogi: ‘lo all. What’s new?
Gorgik: Married With Lard
inspoetica: can you feeeel the lard tonight?
flippy rice: goes together like a horse and carriage
georgie parker: lard and marrriage… lard and marrriage…
Zion El-dar: mira, kyle, gorgik all rule
Mira Arianrhod: Going to the Chapel of Lard!
georgie parker: i’m *crying* over here
dashcat: lol elder
Zion El-dar: Brother Lard’s traveling salvation show
inspoetica: what the world needs now, is lard, sweet lard, its the only thing that theres just too little of
georgie parker: the power of lard
Mira Arianrhod: As long as you lard me.
Kyle Stein: Summer Lardin’
Gorgik: by Lard Trick
poxaV: hahaahhahahahaha
Mira Arianrhod: The Lardin Spoonful…
Kyle Stein: RADAR LARD
dashcat: Righteous Brothers, Four Tops…
Zion El-dar: not to mention MIke Lard of the Beach Boys
Kyle Stein: Jennifer Lard Hewitt?
Gorgik: Courtney Lard
Zion El-dar: gorgik, whoot!!!
Gorgik: oooh
dashcat: wow, a whole lotta Motown fans here tonight
Kyle Stein: That’s even BETTER in the uk
Gorgik: 50 ways to leave your larder
Gorgik: lol
Kyle Stein: Ain’t no mountain high enough to take me away from my lard.
Zion El-dar: you’ve lost that larding feeeling, ohhhh, that larding feeling
flippy rice: np
Mira Arianrhod: Baby, I need your lardin’
georgie parker: ok - thanks
flippy rice: email selva
flippy rice: you get a paperlane account
Zion El-dar: whole lotta lard — gonna give me evry inch of your lard
georgie parker: hey - how does one post to paperlane? i’ve got a clipboard covered in lard that i need to put somewhere
Matilda Dacuycuy: If anyone needs a room I have some to spare :)
Zion El-dar: if I ever I fall in lard, in wouldn’t be in springtime …
Kyle Stein: O, Lard, carry me home.
Loli: hahaha
georgie parker: lol!! you leave the screen for two seconds… and then LARD!
Kyle Stein: Funny, the lard seems to be on my front today.
konamouse: jeesh, georgie, look what you started!!
Kyle Stein: Zion: LOL
Matilda Dacuycuy: the lard is on my side today..lol
Zion El-dar: capo : lol
Loli: heee
Kyle Stein: Well done Purple!
inspoetica: lardie don’t leave me
capodistria: sweet new age lard
Zion El-dar: praise the lard and pass teh ammuniton
Loli: (Is there a leveling tunnel somewhere?)
poxaV: purple crayon is one of the best and oldest MOOs :)
Mira Arianrhod: And Matilda too! Share the lard!
Gorgik: that’s “larding out loud”, by the way
georgie parker: it just doesn’t stop…
Gorgik: LOL
Zion El-dar: lard is a many splendored thing
Zion El-dar: oh, lard, won’t you buy me a mercedes benz (sic)!!!
Gorgik: :-)
poxaV: hee hee, gorgik :)
Gorgik: Free Lardster Bisque in Centraal Station
Kyle Stein: Someone should post this to paperlane :)
Mary Elizabeth: lol yeah zion, very frightening
Gorgik: The Lard Giles Band
Mary Elizabeth: :) good night
Zion El-dar: go KS
Zion El-dar: ME: two minds with a single (and frightening) thought
georgie parker: LARD HURTS
Kyle Stein: LARD STINKS
konamouse: Stop, in the Name of LARD
indigo: sweet dreams mary elizabeth!!!! ill see you again soon!
georgie parker: what if the world i want IS filled with lard songs? am i an infidel all of a sudden?
Mira Arianrhod: Lard makes the world go ‘round.
poxaV: you’re just trying to taunt me
poxaV: hahahaha
Mary Elizabeth: “you’d think the world would have had enough of silly lard songs”
georgie parker: anyone feeling peckish?
Zion El-dar: some people think the world is filled with silly lard songs
kyntemis pravyn: and thus in one night, Babylon the proud nation, fell
Mary Elizabeth: I’m deliriously tired, I’m of to bed, hopefully to dream of lard
georgie parker: lard, lard me do… you know i lard you
Gorgik: Women who lard too much
flippy rice: a lard song for no one
Kyle Stein: Stop! In the name of lard…
poxaV: all yours, kyntemix
Gorgik: Lard Story
Gorgik: :-)
georgie parker: crazy little thing called lard
Mira Arianrhod: Make lard, not war.
Kyle Stein: YES GORGIK!
Zion El-dar: once more in the name of lard
Gorgik: The Lard Song of J Alfred Lardfrock
Mary Elizabeth: lol
georgie parker: yeccchh Z
Zion El-dar: can’t you see Bono crooning IN the naaaaame of lard
konamouse: Shakespear in Lard
poxaV: what’s lard got to do, go to do with it
georgie parker: what’s that?
flippy rice: all we’re missing is derxus’ limerick
georgie parker: once…. i had a secret lard…
flippy rice: hehe
georgie parker: and you see it goes on… and no flip - ALWAYS LARD!!
Mira Arianrhod: i can’t help falling in lard with you
Kyle Stein: Lard no!
flippy rice: so do you ever replace the noun?
Kyle Stein: Well done Indigo!
Mary Elizabeth: lol
Kyle Stein: I’d lard you to lard me.
georgie parker: ;-)
georgie parker: lard me tender… lard me true
Mary Elizabeth: can’t buy me lard
Kyle Stein: Indigo: CHOICE!
flippy rice: i will lard you
Mary Elizabeth: lol
flippy rice: lol
indigo: praise the lard!!!
Mira Arianrhod: i just called to say i lard you…
capodistria: lard will keep us together
georgie parker: the greatest lard of all…
konamouse: lard to lard you baby.
flippy rice: everlasting lard
flippy rice: lol
Zion El-dar: Lard Shack
georgie parker: what’s LARD got to do with it!!
flippy rice: all you need is lard?
flippy rice: eew
flippy rice: all you need is love?
poxaV: where time becomes a loop
georgie parker: replace it with “LARD”…
flippy rice: more games within the game would be nice
poxaV: there is the theory of the moebius, where time becomes a loop
georgie parker: any song you can think of with the word “love” in the title…
Mira Arianrhod: you’re welcome, poxaV :)
capodistria: tell us georgie!
flippy rice: what was it georgie?
georgie parker: learnt a funny party game over the break…

Four excited Stencilton residents welcomed in the new year this morning by all making their first GNEs together! mattan and Eleanor Rigby (me) started the train rolling downhill, and were met in The Back Room by Star Shine and Pom. All four lost their GNE-making virginity together, and returned to mattan’s philosophically-themed home in Noam for a small celebration.

An exciting first for Stencilton (as far as we know…): quadrophonic GNEs!

I think it’s safe to say the population of GNE right now is small enough that it allows for closer networks of friendship and comradery, but what about when the big game opens up?

Will there be a massive network, or several small ones? As much as I’m excited for when the big game comes, I’m a little worried about what might happen to some of the qualities that were great during this prototype.

I think that’s where the political parties, the other neverending parts will come in. What’s everyone else’s thoughts on this?

Francis Walsingham: fun, but I’m gonna get fired. We need a ‘panic’ button

Selva Morales: “hi, my name is eric and i helped you lose your job. in fact, i’ve written some code that, as you read this, will ensure that you don’t get hired again. if you’re in a hurry, just walk out the door.”

Stewart: Plurp - I swear to G-nesh, that this will be more interesting and support your odd and wonderful inclinations in the big game
Stewart: otherwise, I owe you $5
Plurp: Stewart: You’re beginning to frighten me.