CoT dustjacket info [Archive] - The Wheel of Time

TaskmasterJack

12th May 2002, 10:26

Originally posted by Vivacia
Hate to post anything from there here...but if you wanna check this out, it's pretty cool. It's the text from the inside of the Crossroads of Twilight dustjacket.

Hate to post anything from there... here ?! Now, that's not very nice. Do you dislike wotmania? I recognize this sn from there. So you obviously stop in. Or were you afraid of being ostracized for browsing wotmania? :p

I'm surprised this hasn't received more replies... On the other hand, it hasn't been up long, I suppose.

See you back at wotmania Vivacia... hope you don't mind if I tease you about this if I see you there... ;)

Beowulf

12th May 2002, 11:51

Relax, Sparky.

So, I hope the new book moves at a faster pace overall than the last one. Seems like all the really good confrontations and things happened in that last chapter. :(

The jacket sounds good though. I think I am getting a little eager for it to come out! :)

supuradam

12th May 2002, 12:25

alright... novembers a long way away... slow deep breaths...

VerBATum

12th May 2002, 14:27

Hey beowulf, great AV! =]

where you get it?

Jacob

12th May 2002, 16:16

Originally posted by TaskmasterJack

Hate to post anything from there... here ?! Now, that's not very nice. Do you dislike wotmania? I recognize this sn from there. So you obviously stop in. Or were you afraid of being ostracized for browsing wotmania? :p

I'm surprised this hasn't received more replies... On the other hand, it hasn't been up long, I suppose.

See you back at wotmania Vivacia... hope you don't mind if I tease you about this if I see you there... ;)

Well, I suppose that by posting something from wotmania here (with a link to wotmania and all!) it could be seen as somehow making it appear that wotmania is supperior to wotism when it comes to top notch wot info....

Sadly, this is currently true :cry:
We do hope to rectify this in time though. I do think that we'll need the help of our members for this of course. E.g. it is with the help of wotmania members that this info (the info wotmania posted) came to wotmania's attention etc.

And yea, I do brows wotmania from time to time, as does many other wotists.

Beowulf

12th May 2002, 16:51

Originally posted by VerBATum
Hey beowulf, great AV! =]

where you get it?

It's Sirius Elsrum, a werewolf from Ogre Battle. I used to turn the portraits from the game into partly transparent gifs myself, but now that I've seen other people are doing the grubwork already, I just get them from random internet websites.

Mysmilies.com was where I got this one, under the games section. :D

Ulk

12th May 2002, 16:51

~groans~ to me it sounds like nothing is going to happen... again!

wingo

12th May 2002, 17:27

Wait - whats the thing about Perrin selling his soul?
Edit: I also really can't see any major storylines being tied up or any major characters (Read: Moraine) being brought back. It looks like Ulk is, unfortunately, right...

archely

12th May 2002, 17:51

I don't know, maybe since mat dropped out for a book he gets his own feature now. I like mat so i think this is a good thing...

Vivacia

12th May 2002, 21:05

In case anyone doesn't already know, CoT's isbn# is 0312864590. Amazon is supposedly taking pre-orders.

Arawis

12th May 2002, 23:21

it seems like its just going to branch into a whole bunch of different plots (as if it hadnt already :rolleyes: ) and then at the end of the book we'll be left with a lot of cliffhangers. :( its kinda sad

archely

12th May 2002, 23:58

No way, 10 is going to wrap everything up in a neat little package....10 is a nice round number...of course, so is 100... :rolleyes:

wingo

13th May 2002, 00:41

well it looks like ol' rj seems to be padding his retirement fund...
Not that i'm complaining - as long as the books have quality i don't mind if the keep on coming. But if no ending ever comes - then i will be upset.

GWINNA

13th May 2002, 01:25

heres and idea to through out, if we're suffering in the news department, why not cut a deal with Wotmania and cooperate on it, you know work with each other instead of against each other.

QuirkyTemplate

13th May 2002, 07:03

No, no GWINNA ... that makes FAR too much sense!

Plank

13th May 2002, 07:38

I'm pretty new, so what is up with the Wotmania/Wotism rivalry that seems to exist?

Why can we not have a big ass, RJ inspired, GROUP HUG?

SHARE THE LOVE!

TaskmasterJack

13th May 2002, 12:47

There is no rivalry Plank... it was only a misunderstanding.

I'm sure "the love" is being shared aplenty. :D

Jacob

13th May 2002, 13:41

*Ahem* Sometimes you don't need to say things outloud, you just smile and everyone knows the truth of things. Clearly the smile isn't seen here though. OF COURSE there is a rivarly plank!

Cut a deal with wotmania so that we (wotism) share the news with him, i.e. get the news from wotmania?? Hello, we did try that already! Doth thou not remember the Great Exile??

And why stop at sharing news, why not share art gallery too? It'd be a heck of alot easier to just point a link to the wotmania art gallery instead of updating our own. And why not ask wotmania for a wotism msg board on wotmania like we had during the Exile...hey, why not just point the wotism.net domain towards wotmania while we're at it....

No, of course there is rivalry. Rivarly isn't the same as animosity. Also, as a tad side note to this news thingy: We do hope that some people here will buy CoT though affiliate links here, helping paying part of the cost of the site...we wouldn't exacly go towards that target if we simply pointed such traffic towards wotmania, now would we? :)

Oh yea, and I wouldn't actually recomend pre-ordering the book. Sure, if you do it though a link here at wotism.net we'd be ever so greatfull and it'd benefit wotism.net the most but...in previous experience, there's been no discount on the price on amazon until just after release date. If you care about money, well, the discounts has tended to be significant. Thus leading to even more significantly lower compensation from those affiliate links (due to amazons affiliation deals) but what the heck...users would save more per books than we'd loose per books so there's the math.

cross

13th May 2002, 15:48

I dont think wotism.net is working against us, are you?
btw,
her nick is Lirael :p

Vivacia

13th May 2002, 16:05

I usually go by Lirael at wotmania, but I also go by Vivacia and Khaleesi. Khaleesi is my msn screen name and the one I use everywhere but here. I'll look for you, Cross and Taskmaster Jack the next time I drop in. :-)

cross

13th May 2002, 17:32

As I will look for you.

Hope you like spam!

Arawis

13th May 2002, 23:09

~thinks all these people are crazy~

:D

TaskmasterJack

14th May 2002, 11:14

Originally posted by Arawis
~thinks all these people are crazy~

~ agrees ~

:D

Vivacia

14th May 2002, 14:08

Originally posted by cross
As I will look for you.

Hope you like spam!

Spam!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam

Tayhlon

14th May 2002, 17:19

"Do you have anything without spam in it?"

:D

LaughingTurtle

14th May 2002, 17:50

"Do you have anything without spam in it?"

Try the spam :D

Turtle

14th May 2002, 20:49

What's wotmania? Do they talk about drug use and orgies and wonderful things like that, or are they professional? i gotta enough professionalism in my life. i'm lookin for some real wierd people here. if i'm gonna be a wot website junkie, i wanna do it right

Mike

14th May 2002, 20:53

You're doing it right now! Welcome :D

Vivacia

14th May 2002, 23:16

Ooohhhhhh...Mike! Love the avatar. Spaghetti westerns are the BEST!

Turtle

15th May 2002, 00:29

Whoa! i just saw the front page of this website. it's so beautiful! nice work. how did i ever miss that front page and all those links? i have the forum address in my favorites file and have never been to the front of the house.

DUDE. you all are reallly professional. i don't know if i can hang here anymore. ~sighs regretfully~

archely

15th May 2002, 00:47

professional? PROFESSIONAL? Well, just because the admins do a nice job doesn't mean we all have to be so sane...

~gets on his newfound unicycle and rides off~

And i've just discovered that I have become wotism's resident clown. Damn it, i hate clowns.....oh well....

~smacks self in face with pie~

mmmm......pie....

Harun

15th May 2002, 01:58

Yes, but Wotism is more fun. I know loads of really great people here. That's why I've stuck around for about three and a half years, in all of Wotism's incarnations.

You can post at both sites, you know, Turtle.

Mann

15th May 2002, 15:41

Don't listen. Just post here and at the .org

Nicks Archely's unicycle and rides up the nearest wall. Het look no hands...

supuradam

15th May 2002, 16:33

~sticks a stick in the unicycle spokes~
~squirts arch in the face with seltzer~

Mike

15th May 2002, 16:38

Professional? Well...
Don't know if I should say thank you, or laugh.

It's all simple really. We want to have the best place imaginable for wotists to express themselves in whatever way, or just to hang out, or whatever.
We grow into that. That's not professional, that's evolution.
So hang please, and evolve with us :D

Turtle

15th May 2002, 16:58

i'm a one-site woman, at least till i get dsl at home. y'all's nutzo. i love it. my friend helped do an avatar last nite after she saw me on this site. she asked what site it was for, i told her. she said, doesn't look like anything a/b rj. what's this a/b masturbation? i told her it's been awhile since the last book came out. we're amusing ourselves in the meantime. heehehehehehehehe
~throws back head, opens mouth wide, laughs maniacally, and solemnly returns to work~

supuradam

15th May 2002, 21:50

work?! HAH! you won't find any work here.

Mann

16th May 2002, 15:21

Arghhhhh! Evolution is NOT improvement just change. Mike.

Jacob

17th May 2002, 22:03

Like the wise Garth said in Wayned World....We fear change...

cross

21st May 2002, 10:08

Originally posted by Turtle
What's wotmania? Do they talk about drug use and orgies and wonderful things like that, or are they professional? i gotta enough professionalism in my life. i'm lookin for some real wierd people here. if i'm gonna be a wot website junkie, i wanna do it right

Its just a matter of taste hon, personnaly I prefer wotmania coz of all the nice ppl there, whom I became friends with, and we have people all over the world so theres no dead time. the only downside with the site is all the badspammers. we are closing in to 300000 posts in a few weeks, and thats after our server crashed. I dont know whos biggest of the two sites, but we have over 13000 registrations.

and jordan visits the site from time to time too, at least thats what I've heard. we have a lot of cool community things goiung on and the admins not bad either. with a collaboration with dragonmount, they're interviewing mr. jordan. Its all written in our wonderful site.-

Mike

21st May 2002, 10:34

Well, maybe one day we'll have nice people and community stuff here as well :rolleyes:

Turtle

21st May 2002, 11:27

Mike, you know you're the best. I love it here. btw, nice avatar.

Beowulf

21st May 2002, 11:36

people never seem to get the sarcasm, do they Mike? :rolleyes: ;)

I hope that someday wotism.net will have people from places all over the globe. I know it's just a wild and fanciful dream but let me have it damn you... !

Mike

21st May 2002, 11:42

Hey! Two replies in a row from nice people. One more and we have a community with nice people!

It's a shame we all live so far apart though, otherwise we could be all over the globe. Now it's just parts...

Turtle

21st May 2002, 11:54

i got the sarcasm, just sending an extra boost to mike's ego, like it really needs it. haha

and actually, this site is not only global, but i've noticed there's a lot of STRANGE ones on it. i am sure they are not of this galaxy, let alone this universe

Beowulf

21st May 2002, 12:01

I swear to the God of Most Holy Xerxul that I'm from Earth.

Jacob

21st May 2002, 17:08

Okay first of all: I find the fact that RJ actually communicates with Wotmania/dragonmount via email a heck of a lot more impressive than RJ actually visiting the site. Second of all...are you sure you've got those numbers correct?? I seem to remember that it was only about a year ago or so that Wotmania stated that the number of members were something like 1500. I know that Wotmania's traffic has actually more than doubled since then, but it's still a heck of a jump up to 13 000. Also, like I think you implied with those numbers: Yes, wotmania does have more traffic than us, but the ratio is not as great as you may think...and we're catching up. You have to remember that wotism was reborn not quite a year ago.

Also, I hear that God visits here from time to time and he see's everything that's posted here.

Abraxas77

21st May 2002, 17:18

I love this site, and that's all that really counts to me. So, nya nya! :p

Mann

21st May 2002, 17:42

Well I hate to spoil it. No wait a minute no I don't. I like to spoil it. You can't have niceness while I'm around....... well.....

TaskmasterJack

22nd May 2002, 13:50

Originally posted by Jacob
Okay first of all: I find the fact that RJ actually communicates with Wotmania/dragonmount via email a heck of a lot more impressive than RJ actually visiting the site. Second of all...are you sure you've got those numbers correct?? I seem to remember that it was only about a year ago or so that Wotmania stated that the number of members were something like 1500. I know that Wotmania's traffic has actually more than doubled since then, but it's still a heck of a jump up to 13 000. Also, like I think you implied with those numbers: Yes, wotmania does have more traffic than us, but the ratio is not as great as you may think...and we're catching up.

The over 13,000 registered names is misleading on our site (wotmania). That number refers only to registered sn's, and we are allowed to register as many sn's as we want (I notice a one name per e-mail address rule here, a restriction we do not have). Most visitors have only one sn. However, some members have more than 50 screen names (and there are rumors of one or two with MUCH more). Usually, those with multiple sn's have a common name (their callsign, nickname, codename, whatnot), then possibly their real name, variations on their sn (preceding the name with a humorous adjective), and finally, sn's registered for goofing around (like Santa Claus or Tom Cruise). So it is rather difficult to say how many members we have, exactly.

Mike

22nd May 2002, 13:56

Confusing that is ~nods~

And why would people want a zillion names anyway? I like people to know me for who I am and what I stand for. And if that's not good enough, well, ...
~breaks wind~

Mann

22nd May 2002, 15:05

I'd like a second. But it's too much work. (Mercenary Commander Mann that is).

LaughingTurtle

22nd May 2002, 15:12

just put it as your title...instead of senior member.

nightfairy

22nd May 2002, 19:04

besides, if its not quantity, but quality that you're after, then you're in the right place. This place is very silly, fun, intelligent, and creative, but most of all its very genuine. And in my book, anyway, that counts for a lot. ~nods in agreement with self~

Arawis

22nd May 2002, 19:29

Originally posted by Jacob
Also, I hear that God visits here from time to time and he see's everything that's posted here.

LMAO :D

me and my friends all have a zillion s/ns for aim. its fun!

also, the one name per email adress rule doesnt really do anything. someone could just make up an email and they would be alright. hmm..thats theoretical of course. i havnt tried it yet.

~goes off to do so~

Arawis

22nd May 2002, 20:21

ok, it didnt work. you have to follow a link that is sent to your email in order to start posting. thereofre, without an email, you cant follow the link, cant post, etc i think yall know where im going with this. i suppose you could makle a whole new email, but thats alot of work! its good to know people cant make multiple s/ns

also, it says "welcome to our newest member Wyra" at the top of the front page, ignore that, there is no wyra, that was me trying to do what i was doing