Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
Quote from: jlam on March 03, 2022, 11:02:05 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
He has been using that quote for about 5 years
Quote from: Mapmikey on March 03, 2022, 11:19:22 AM
Quote from: jlam on March 03, 2022, 11:02:05 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
He has been using that quote for about 5 years
Thanks for clearing the air! Phew! I thought he passed away. :paranoid:
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 11:25:09 AM
Quote from: Mapmikey on March 03, 2022, 11:19:22 AM
Quote from: jlam on March 03, 2022, 11:02:05 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
He has been using that quote for about 5 years
Thanks for clearing the air! Phew! I thought he passed away. :paranoid:
Because he hadn't logged on in 3 days?
Years ago, I once made the same comment about agentsteel53 with a 9-day gap (this was before he left for good), but I thought he was banned at that time, not dead.
Quote from: 1 on March 03, 2022, 11:33:03 AM
Years ago, I once made the same comment about agentsteel53 with a 9-day gap (this was before he left for good), but I thought he was banned at that time, not dead.
Thanks everyone. Cryptic messages (regarding death and hymns) are the key to detectives! :nod: :spin:
Quote from: cabiness42 on March 03, 2022, 11:31:53 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 11:25:09 AM
Quote from: Mapmikey on March 03, 2022, 11:19:22 AM
Quote from: jlam on March 03, 2022, 11:02:05 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
He has been using that quote for about 5 years
Thanks for clearing the air! Phew! I thought he passed away. :paranoid:
Because he hadn't logged on in 3 days?
He hasn't posted in almost a week, and this (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30605.msg2711380#msg2711380%5B/url) is one of his most recent posts.
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 03, 2022, 11:53:19 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on March 03, 2022, 11:31:53 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 11:25:09 AM
Quote from: Mapmikey on March 03, 2022, 11:19:22 AM
Quote from: jlam on March 03, 2022, 11:02:05 AM
Quote from: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Speaking of deaths, Any word yet of HB Elkins?
Has not logged on since the 28th and theres a message at the bottom of the profile picture that says
Quoteit is well with my soul
Has he passed away or he isnt active?
It is probably just a period of inactivity. That quote is from many popular hymns.
He has been using that quote for about 5 years
Thanks for clearing the air! Phew! I thought he passed away. :paranoid:
Because he hadn't logged on in 3 days?
He hasn't posted in almost a week, and this is one of his most recent posts.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30605.msg2711380#msg2711380%5B/url)
Yep. :-(
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 03, 2022, 11:53:19 AM
He hasn't posted in almost a week, and this is one of his most recent posts.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30605.msg2711380#msg2711380%5B/url)
Did you mean to link to the last post in that thread instead of the first?
Quote from: webny99 on March 03, 2022, 12:00:51 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 03, 2022, 11:53:19 AM
He hasn't posted in almost a week, and this is one of his most recent posts.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30605.msg2711380#msg2711380%5B/url)
Did you mean to link to the last post in that thread instead of the first?
Yep. I also didn't mean for the hyperlink to span several words, so I fixed that, too.
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 03, 2022, 12:03:04 PM
Quote from: webny99 on March 03, 2022, 12:00:51 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 03, 2022, 11:53:19 AM
He hasn't posted in almost a week, and this is one of his most recent posts.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30605.msg2711380#msg2711380%5B/url)
Did you mean to link to the last post in that thread instead of the first?
Yep. I also didn't mean for the hyperlink to span several words, so I fixed that, too.
If you click on the thread title at the top of the post you want to link to, it will give you a direct link to that particular post.
Geeze, if I'm not on here for a couple days are you guys going to think I'm dead also? I always figured Jake alone would go to show most people have lives outside this forum.
Also, am I alone in thinking this is tacky that snowc replied to this thread which involved the actual death of the namesake forum member?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 03, 2022, 01:11:30 PM
Geeze, if I'm not on here for a couple days are you guys going to think I'm dead also? I always figured Jake alone would go to show most people have lives outside this forum.
Also, am I alone in thinking this is tacky that snowc replied to this thread which involved the actual death of the namesake forum member?
I can't answer your first question (No from me but who knows what others are going to think), but my answer to your 2nd question is no.
For what it's worth, since he's been mentioned, Jake Bear is alive and well. I talk to him on a daily basis, actually.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 03, 2022, 01:45:34 PM
For what it's worth, since he's been mentioned, Jake Bear is alive and well. I talk to him on a daily basis, actually.
I still buy signs from Jake, I've known him since some time around 2010. I had no idea he was a forum member here until I joined in 2016. He was apparently already gone from here by then.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 03, 2022, 01:47:10 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 03, 2022, 01:45:34 PM
For what it's worth, since he's been mentioned, Jake Bear is alive and well. I talk to him on a daily basis, actually.
I still buy signs from Jake, I've known him since some time around 2010. I had no idea he was a forum member here until I joined in 2016. He was apparently already gone from here by then.
That's awesome. I've been helping him out with his sign business the last few months, so if you've bought one recently it might have been one I worked on. We're in the process of getting his website (https://signsbyjake.com) set up so that he doesn't have to go through eBay/Etsy for everything.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 03, 2022, 01:53:34 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 03, 2022, 01:47:10 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 03, 2022, 01:45:34 PM
For what it's worth, since he's been mentioned, Jake Bear is alive and well. I talk to him on a daily basis, actually.
I still buy signs from Jake, I've known him since some time around 2010. I had no idea he was a forum member here until I joined in 2016. He was apparently already gone from here by then.
That's awesome. I've been helping him out with his sign business the last few months, so if you've bought one recently it might have been one I worked on. We're in the process of getting his website (https://signsbyjake.com) set up so that he doesn't have to go through eBay/Etsy for everything.
I remember buying a bunch of signs off Jake when I lived in Arizona. I recall that I was looking for a colored US Route shield and he had this US 80:
https://flic.kr/p/SxYTd3
I want to say that I was introduced to Jake through someone in the license plate collecting crowd? I have bought a lot of Jake's newer stuff over the years. Usually I tend to buy Jake's replicas if I think that is little to no chance I'll find a real shield for something I want for my garage.
I guess that might also illustrate by proxy that I didn't just appear out of the ether circa 2016 in the road world. I guess that I just missed this forum being a thing for several years or just was working on the road too much to invest time. I want to say that I registered an account at one point but posted very little.
I'm very much alive, I've just been battling a sinus infection from Louisville and haven't feel like forum-ing too much.
Gee I wonder what will happen here if by any chance, I haven't logged on for more than 5 days. Really thought that no one would care or assumed that I'm taking a break, but I've been proved wrong.
It makes me wonder what happened to Beltway? He seemed like a good guy with nice proposals and such
Quote from: hbelkins on March 03, 2022, 02:13:15 PM
I'm very much alive, I've just been battling a sinus infection from Louisville and haven't feel like forum-ing too much.
Hope you get well soon HB. Sinus infections suck, it's like the only physical illness I ever get so I know the aggravation.
Quote from: tolbs17 on March 03, 2022, 03:14:45 PM
It makes me wonder what happened to Beltway? He seemed like a good guy with nice proposals and such
Might be wrong on this, but I believe he left the forum because he didn't like the moderation. I've heard secondhand here that he's on Facebook.
Quote from: tolbs17 on March 03, 2022, 03:14:45 PM
It makes me wonder what happened to Beltway? He seemed like a good guy with nice proposals and such
That came up in the "Favorite Forum Quotes" thread in response, interestingly enough, to a comment you made:
Quote from: hbelkins on July 12, 2021, 11:34:09 AM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 12, 2021, 10:04:33 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 12, 2021, 07:40:47 AM
Quote from: tolbs17 on July 11, 2021, 09:21:14 PM
sprjus4 and Beltway's posts in the Virginia and the I-81 threads.
:rofl:
Oh boy I remember that... the I-87 thread lol! What happened to Beltway?
He got tired of the heavy-handed moderation (which, he felt, came in part because of his political beliefs) and decided it wasn't worth his time to post here anymore.
Sorry, I'm dead. Haven't posted in way too many hours.
I could die and no one on here would notice. :ded:
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on March 04, 2022, 09:13:43 AM
I could die and no one on here would notice. :ded:
But would people notice dead cats?
Quote from: hbelkins on March 03, 2022, 02:13:15 PM
I'm very much alive, I've just been battling a sinus infection from Louisville and haven't feel like forum-ing too much.
Yay! Welcome back!
So sorry for the sinus infection. :-(
No one misses that diesel mechanic from Chicago. :bigass:
I remember how everyday he would find someone to argue with and the amount of threads he had locked by moderators was astronomical. Then his hypotenuse in Chicago was the real getter as he was so obsessed in getting that one done. Oh and something he said about the Edens Spur was very argumentative.
Then who misses that young 12 year old with I-366 and a 75 mph speed limit? Or was it 85? It's so long ago I can't remember what his rant was.
Quote from: roadman65 on March 05, 2022, 09:37:59 AM
No one misses that diesel mechanic from Chicago. :bigass:
I remember how everyday he would find someone to argue with and the amount of threads he had locked by moderators was astronomical. Then his hypotenuse in Chicago was the real getter as he was so obsessed in getting that one done. Oh and something he said about the Edens Spur was very argumentative.
Then who misses that young 12 year old with I-366 and a 75 mph speed limit? Or was it 85? It's so long ago I can't remember what his rant was.
The amusing thing to me is that Sabb Boy is disappearing from collective forum conscious. I don't think Ethanman ever will though because so many of us reference I-366 and the 85 MPH speed limits.
Yup no one misses that guy just as another one called Blawp. He was before my time here, but tried to create sock puppets which one was spotted by a Mod and another by the Administrator.
I heard he was bad from others in the following.
i miss marf
/s
I know this thread was caused by a split, but it's a duplicate of this one (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12031).
I forgot about sparker...he was active in the North Carolina threads...hope he's doing fine!
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 15, 2022, 05:20:50 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
Roadgeeklich
Could always use a cure Spell or a Phoenix Down if he turns out to have gone undead on us.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:22:56 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 15, 2022, 05:20:50 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
Roadgeeklich
Could always use a cure Spell or a Phoenix Down if he turns out to have gone undead on us.
Depends on the ruleset we're using. I think they took the whole healing magic doing damage to undead/necrotic damage healing undead out of D&D 5e, but I think they retained it in Pathfinder 2e.
Unless you're trying to make him go from undead back to living, which is quite a bit trickier. The druidic Reincarnate(5) spell would only do the trick if he had originally died within 10 days, and he only has a 20% chance of coming back human (there's a 4% chance he could come back as a dragonborn though, which is awesome). You'd probably have to use Resurrection(7) or True Resurrection(9), and those require a diamond worth 1,000 gp (US$35,660) or 25,000 gp (US$891,500) respectively, so hopefully someone on the forum has one of those sitting around. Of course, if you've got ninth-level spell slots to blow on this anyway, you can avoid the faffing about with diamonds and just go all in on Wish(9). There's some DM discretion here whether anything short of Wish(9) would work anyway, since a lich's soul might not be "free and willing", which is a prerequisite for the other spells mentioned.
...We haven't gotten to play in a few weeks because of shit that keeps coming up so I can't help myself.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 15, 2022, 05:48:02 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:22:56 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 15, 2022, 05:20:50 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
Roadgeeklich
Could always use a cure Spell or a Phoenix Down if he turns out to have gone undead on us.
Depends on the ruleset we're using. I think they took the whole healing magic doing damage to undead/necrotic damage healing undead out of D&D 5e, but I think they retained it in Pathfinder 2e.
Unless you're trying to make him go from undead back to living, which is quite a bit trickier. The druidic Reincarnate(5) spell would only do the trick if he had originally died within 10 days, and he only has a 20% chance of coming back human (there's a 4% chance he could come back as a dragonborn though, which is awesome). You'd probably have to use Resurrection(7) or True Resurrection(9), and those require a diamond worth 1,000 gp (US$35,660) or 25,000 gp (US$891,500) respectively, so hopefully someone on the forum has one of those sitting around. Of course, if you've got ninth-level spell slots to blow on this anyway, you can avoid the faffing about with diamonds and just go all in on Wish(9). There's some DM discretion here whether anything short of Wish(9) would work anyway, since a lich's soul might not be "free and willing", which is a prerequisite for the other spells mentioned.
...We haven't gotten to play in a few weeks because of shit that keeps coming up so I can't help myself.
Or we could go 1990s and suplex him like the Ghost Train?
As an aside, my wife is working her way through Stranger Things. I'm greatly surprised she picked up on a lot of the D&D references like the Demogorgon and Mind Flayer. I would've never thought she would get RPG anything.
N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! !
Quote from: kphoger on March 15, 2022, 06:02:28 PM
N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! N E R D A L E R T ! ! !
you come on to AARoads and are surprised by this why
Funny you should mention that. I used to purposely lie to people and say that I didn't know what RPGs or things like D&D were. The 1980s were a strange time in that if you appeared too intelligent you find yourself rendered a social outcast. I don't even think that I told anyone I had a D&D board, computer and a Nintendo until the early 1990s given how potentially taboo it was.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 06:07:01 PM
Funny you should mention that. I used to purposely lie to people and say that I didn't know what RPGs or things like D&D were. The 1980s were a strange time in that if you appeared too intelligent you find yourself rendered a social outcast. I don't even think that I told anyone I had a D&D board, computer and a Nintendo until the early 1990s given how potentially taboo it was.
That's certainly changed recently.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 06:10:10 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 06:07:01 PM
Funny you should mention that. I used to purposely lie to people and say that I didn't know what RPGs or things like D&D were. The 1980s were a strange time in that if you appeared too intelligent you find yourself rendered a social outcast. I don't even think that I told anyone I had a D&D board, computer and a Nintendo until the early 1990s given how potentially taboo it was.
That's certainly changed recently.
Yes, and I often find that when I tell this to younger people they are genuinely surprised it was a reality or growing up in the era.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 15, 2022, 06:03:52 PM
you come on to AARoads and are surprised by this why
Just the day before yesterday, our sons' barber asked if I had attended the recent ICTComicCon. I gave him a look. Then I thought better of it and informed that "I'm a different sort of nerd". Then he asked me what sort. I said music and . . . [pause] . . . roads.
I'm sure he had no clue what that was about.
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
Quote from: GaryV on March 15, 2022, 06:44:11 PM
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
He's not missing, you're just looking in the wrong place:
https://www.facebook.com/letsrideIL/
For awhile he was trying to sell the Flat Gospel on Facebook road groups. Eventually took to calling people who dissented his views as having some sort of bias and largely got run off. Essentially he has retreated to his hole at the channel/page formerly known as Crash_It
Quote from: GaryV on March 15, 2022, 06:44:11 PM
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
Shhhhhh!! You'll jinx us! :-o
Quote from: dlsterner on March 15, 2022, 07:53:27 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 15, 2022, 06:44:11 PM
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
Shhhhhh!! You'll jinx us! :-o
At this point the entertainment value would probably be worth it.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
My namesake (https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Liliana_Vess) is probably to blame for that.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on March 15, 2022, 07:55:50 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
My namesake (https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Liliana_Vess) is probably to blame for that.
You and Roadgeekteen were on opposite sides in the Alanland Insurrection. Why would you revive him?
Quote from: 1 on March 15, 2022, 07:58:35 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on March 15, 2022, 07:55:50 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 15, 2022, 05:16:54 PM
I haven't posted in almost a month but I'm alive so don't worry
You could be undead for all we know.
My namesake (https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Liliana_Vess) is probably to blame for that.
You and Roadgeekteen were on opposite sides in the Alanland Insurrection. Why would you revive him?
Because people I resurrect join my zombie army.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 07:54:18 PM
Quote from: dlsterner on March 15, 2022, 07:53:27 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 15, 2022, 06:44:11 PM
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
Shhhhhh!! You'll jinx us! :-o
At this point the entertainment value would probably be worth it.
You might be on to something ... Maybe introduce "Car Horn Guy" to "Barbed Wire Guy", start a new thread, and have somebody post a "bait" post. Let them go after each other there.
Quote from: dlsterner on March 15, 2022, 08:17:20 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 15, 2022, 07:54:18 PM
Quote from: dlsterner on March 15, 2022, 07:53:27 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 15, 2022, 06:44:11 PM
No one is seeming to bemoan a missing "Honk if IL is not flat" user.
Shhhhhh!! You'll jinx us! :-o
At this point the entertainment value would probably be worth it.
You might be on to something ... Maybe introduce "Car Horn Guy" to "Barbed Wire Guy", start a new thread, and have somebody post a "bait" post. Let them go after each other there.
Lord Car Horn seems to be on a kick about driving slow in front of truckers in the left lane. How do we work that into a bait thread?
A school bus is much like a truck in terms of size.
Okay, so we wrap a school bus in enough barb wire that it resembles a eighteen wheeler. We then send said barb wire bus to the flat lands of Illinois as a false flag operation. Some particular information gets to the Illinois is Flat Facebook page...and profit.