Skype...Follow

What is it, how do I set it up, and how does I get in on the off-forum stuff that goes on?

http://www.skype.com/

Download it there.

Make an account.

My username is Cattattack. When I get half a moment at home, (if I get half a moment today) I can help you get a large list of OOT posters.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2007 8:35am by Cattattack

Is there a chat(type) function or is it talk only? I am at work and don't have a mic here.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2007 8:38am by Soracloud

There is a chat function, but as Im currently at work, Im quite leery on installing anything into this machine.

There is a text chat function. If you have headphones, you can at least listen into the VOIP (voice chat), and type in your replies into a text box.

As for contacting anyone, PM anyone you are interested in chatting with, and ask them for their Skype name. Or send your own Skype name in a PM to someone here.

It's all very easy to use.

If an Aussie, a Jew, a marine, and a fat ****** can do it, ANYONE CAN DO IT :D

I can guarantee that Barkingturtle will never get into a call I'm hosting.

Sorry, but I can't imagine wanting to talk to you, at all.

Also, I lied: I'm not really sorry.

Not true. I've had Elderon, Doug, Allegory...

Oh wait.

Even I was able to do it.

Barking turtles are predatory carnivores who manifest two types of social organization. Some are residents, living in groups, called forums. The forum consists of usually around five or six related females, their underlings of both sexes, and a group of one to four males known as a coalition who mate with the adult females. Others are nomads, ranging widely and moving sporadically, either singularly or in pairs. Note that a Barking Turtle may switch lifestyles; nomads may become residents and vice versa. The area a forum occupies is called a web site, whereas that by a nomad is an internet. Why sociality - the most pronounced in any ape species - has developed in Barking Turtles is the subject of much debate. Increased hunting success appears an obvious reason, but this is less than sure upon examination: coordinated hunting does allow for more successful predation, but also ensures that non-hunting "cheaters" reduce per capita karma intake. Other benefits include possible kin selection (better to share karma with a friendly poster than with a stranger), protection of the young, maintenance of territory, and individual insurance against injury and hunger.

Being smaller and more agile than males, and lacking the conspicuous mane, suckups do the forum's hunting, while the stronger males patrol the territory and protect the forum. There is no clear hierarchy with karma: male Barking Turtles often enjoy karma reaped by suckups but will never share the karma they have collected themselves; they will take karma from underlings but are more likely to share with underlings than suckups, which are more likely to share with each other. There is more sharing with larger kills.

Both males and females defend the forum against intruders. Some individual posters consistently lead the defense against intruders, while others lag behind. These "laggards" are not punished by leaders. Possibly laggards provide other services to the group so that leaders forgive them. An alternative hypothesis is that there is some reward associated with being a leader who fends off intruders. The leading poster or posters often have to defend against outside noobs attempting to take over the forum. Suckups form a stable social unit in a forum and will not tolerate outside suckups; membership only changes with the births and deaths of suckups, though some suckups do leave and become nomadic. Subadult suckups on the other hand, usually leave the forum when they reach a karma rating at around 1.0 to 2.0 or sub-default status.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion


(I couldn't make this stuff up)

Edited, Nov 2nd 2007 9:06am by StubsOnAsura