K’ter l’oracne’ktr ESB’crkn rhl l’oac’rkthahrl tr’lac.
L’on t’hrl’ory, l’on l’oa’rhl’ktr tr’tract l’on t’rac r’ar r’arhl’rac.

(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

♫ Did you ever know that you’re my hero ♪

I’m late to the party on this one; thanks #a1 for finding worthwhile stuff while I’m at work.

I wanted this domain to be http://cliquestories.blogspot.com but they beat me to it!!!! So i left a comment, i love their CLIQUE stories, maybe theyll love mine?

Someone knows what’s up.

I’ve patched together a combination of Perl (to process the -misc.txt files from the collected Mariusnet data) and XSLT (to format the resulting XML into HTML) that gives a list of all hosts since February 2008, sorted by the total number of games they’ve hosted. Each host then has a table containing each map he’s used and the number of times he’s used it. This table is sorted by the latter number. The data ends on the last month published (for example, as of today, the data goes all the way through July but lacks anything from August). This is not an automated process (yet). Assume it will be updated within 24 hours of each monthly Mnet Stats release.

I hope this information comes in handy to those who don’t know anything about a given host; the goal here is to find good hosts who use maps you like. The XSLT page is here for users of most modern browsers, while a slightly-more-static index exists if your browser does not support XSLT natively.

CLIQUE Stories 1, 2 & 3 are just the beginning…

Before the #alephone IRC channel became as “popular” as it is today, and before a metaserver existed to allow people to play games easily, there was the Aleph One chat room on the AOL Instant Messenger servers. These were interesting times, when Ryoko was just beginning to test Red Spectrum publicly, when I was wreaking havoc with AORPG, and when W’rkncacnter was being the best keyboarder on earth. Then we got the meatserver and the chat room suddenly became locked.

Thanks to Appleswitch, I now have in my possession chat logs from that period of time, intermittent conversations from April 29 to October 12 2005. I’ve converted them to slightly more readable HTML and split the giant text file into daily digests. You can read the HTML here, and if you’re hard-core, you can pick up the text file here (~764kb, BZipped).

So, back in the day, when I was still running ITO as a Marathon site, we had the House of Luck Companion. It was a blog in which Wrk, Ryoko, and I wrote; Wrk and I covered JUICE stuff, while Ryoko handled most of the mapping articles. I deleted HOLC when I loched, but… Google Reader caches feeds; just found out! So I took the entire library of HOLC articles (nearly a hundred) and converted it as best I could into basic HTML. I might end up using a stylesheet on this page, but for now it’s pretty damn raw. There are many images missing and not all the words are still there. We were some pretty serious motherfuckers.