OS-tan theories and disscusion

[Smokey]

See, there's always uses for a placeholder...

Maybe those red links may get interesting nao?

[C-Chan]

Now now, I've never made any cable TV references...they've always been network TV references

Okay, then just flat-out "TV references".  Having been touching that lately.... TvT

Of course not! Have you seen the track record of OS-tans you've dumped on me? VMS-sama, Unix-sama, Multics-sama...all designs I'd have never come up with.

WAAAAAAAAH!!! She said "dumped", which denotes negative connotations!  ;^0^;

*C-chan rolls into a ball and mopes*

Oh noes, this must be my Russian side. Lawl. /quote]

I've always found Russians to be more realist than macabre.  Then again, one could make the argument that that's one and the same thing.  ^^'

Sorry to interrupt your jolly conversation, but I'd like some help with brainstorming here.
In the light of the recent maint downtime, Smokey-kun notified me of the fact that our maint page lacks a maintenance-tan. While seemingly trivial, I think fluff is vital to success (at least for us!) on the 'net. Thus! Any ideas, everyone?

I'm thinking hammers, ladders, and a miner's hat, btw.

Oh noes, a Kagura clone is interrupting our jolly conversation.... TvT'

Rather than spending time creating specific "status"-tans, why not just revisit the old idea of creating an OSC-tan, then having her due maintenance, wear a funny hard hat and so forth?  Â¬Â¬

Personally, though, I would opt for a picture with multiple preexisting OS-tans doing stuff.  Having them in the Infinity-style would certainly make it easier.....  Â¬v¬

It's great that Apple ][-tan has always been kind to her, giving System 1-tan a reason to live... there. But it's sad that while working hard to build a better future for her younger sisters, she was not there to help her younger sister that needed her help right now-- err... then!

That's called "the curse of the modern parent".  ^^;
Or in her case, parent substitute -- without Apple I-san, she had to fill in the vacuum of mother, sister, caretaker, teacher, breadwinner, primary shareholder, and so on and so forth ad nauseum...  TT;

Sometimes she would return home just to sleep.  ;___;

How mean of Lisa-tan! That spoiled rotten... girl! (I still like Lisa-tan though) But at least what came around, went around! Lisa-tan did so little with her self the people saw her as useless, favoring the hard-working System 1-tan! And although the work has hard and mostly thankless, it most likely did make System 1-tan a better person, not be spoiled and do learn what the common folk really wanted in a computer! Fortuneatly, she did later manage to live a fairly posh and glamorous lifestyle but with understanding of what the people want and without the being spoiled!

You got the money on the ball.  ^^
Can't really blame Lisa-san  -- there are a lot of real-life cases of kids spoiled to an extent they can't conceive of basic morality.  Some grow out of it, but many others stay that way forever, growing up mostly to be parasites on society.  ^^;

She did grow out of it, but not in the smoothest way possible.  ;__;

Although she did cheer up considerably after being given a second chance and proving herself to the world, she still had some degree of paranoia as well as feelings of uncertainty of her new family's future which explains some of the less-than-good things she has done.

However in the present time, she is willing to interact with outsiders for redemption and hopes that one day she will encounter GEM-tan and hope that GEM-tan's feelings of fear and hatred towards her have died down!

Yeah, after getting used to seeing 1-chan as the cute little Newspeaker, it's kinda easy to forget that she was once an active OS-tan and did not exactly have a spotless record either.  

Almost everyone really has skeletons in the closet....  -___-'

And here's the preview of the story!:

WOW!!  That's a brilliant little sketch.  ^.^
I'll offer the same advice as before -- do try to keep the story as short as possible so that you can finish it and move on to another one.  Other than that, it looks like a winner, and a great educational view at a world most of us never even knew existed.  ^^

As for the artwork itself, I love the cute gentle style with which you draw these particular characters.  Lisa-san has that proud Marie Antoinette look that's so essential to her character, and 1.0-chan's little imagination bubble is funny as hell.  ^.^

It would be nice to see the origin of 1.0-chan's Newsspeak though, as it seems from the preview that she didn't always speak that exclusively.  ^___^

[Bella]

Sorry to interrupt your jolly conversation, but I'd like some help with brainstorming here.
In the light of the recent maint downtime, Smokey-kun notified me of the fact that our maint page lacks a maintenance-tan. While seemingly trivial, I think fluff is vital to success (at least for us!) on the 'net. Thus! Any ideas, everyone?

I'm thinking hammers, ladders, and a miner's hat, btw.

*walks through the hall, looks to the left, sees Nej talking in this thread (glass walls/doors), hears conversation, walks in*

Ah, yes...
Thank you Nejin for taking my comment to the proper thread.

Well, there are error-tans (404, 402, etc.), so I don't see any reson why there should be no maintanece-tan. Unfortunetly, I really have no ideas for one; but it seems that the two of you could probably come up with something

How mean of Lisa-tan! That spoiled rotten... girl! (I still like Lisa-tan though) But at least what came around, went around! Lisa-tan did so little with her self the people saw her as useless, favoring the hard-working System 1-tan! And although the work has hard and mostly thankless, it most likely did make System 1-tan a better person, not be spoiled and do learn what the common folk really wanted in a computer! Fortuneatly, she did later manage to live a fairly posh and glamorous lifestyle but with understanding of what the people want and without the being spoiled!

Although she did cheer up considerably after being given a second chance and proving herself to the world, she still had some degree of paranoia as well as feelings of uncertainty of her new family's future which explains some of the less-than-good things she has done.

However in the present time, she is willing to interact with outsiders for redemption and hopes that one day she will encounter GEM-tan and hope that GEM-tan's feelings of fear and hatred towards her have died down!

Hmmm...there's really a lot of drama in System 1-chan's backstory.

Incidentally, I've always figured GEM-chan and Lisa-san would be really good friends...mostly because both had bad experiences with System 1-tan : /

And here's the preview of the story!:

Oooh, looks interesting....

WAAAAAAAAH!!! She said "dumped", which denotes negative connotations! ;^0^;

*C-chan rolls into a ball and mopes*

Ah, I was merely quoting you. Without those ideas being dumped on me, VMS-sama would be one helluva lot nuttier, Unix-sama would be quite a bit more Multics-sama-like, and speaking of Multics-sama--she wouldn't exist

I've always found Russians to be more realist than macabre. Then again, one could make the argument that that's one and the same thing. ^^'

Exactly

Rather than spending time creating specific "status"-tans, why not just revisit the old idea of creating an OSC-tan, then having her due maintenance, wear a funny hard hat and so forth? ¬¬

Personally, though, I would opt for a picture with multiple preexisting OS-tans doing stuff. Having them in the Infinity-style would certainly make it easier..... ¬v¬

But an OSC-tan would be kinda a tough design to create...I mean, how to you personify a site that's so...diverse...?

It would be nice to see the origin of 1.0-chan's Newsspeak though, as it seems from the preview that she didn't always speak that exclusively. ^___^

Hmmm...yes, I just noticed this too....

[Smokey]

BTW, nice work on infiltrating pics as DOS, C-chan...

http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-4627

[Smokey]

Oh and i saw the site down for maintenance...again...
So i made a quick n dirty placeholder...

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[NejinOniwa]

Hm...
I don't know if the motivator format is a good idea for this, actually.
Nice pun with the coffee and java, but again it doesn't really belong.
No, I suggest we take (or make!) a Crashed pic, and simply caption it "Under Maintenance" or something.

[Smokey]

That was merely a reaction to seeing the site under maintenance for the third time, now

[Bella]

Heehee...that's not bad at all! I, too, think that's a great pun...though, it'd be better with a Solaris or Java-tan picture.

And have you considered that perhaps the character used should be a Linux-tan, since the site is hosted on Linux servers? I'm not exactly sure what distro, I think it's Fedora Core...

[Smokey]

haven't considered that, i just assumed that the server was Windows-based, since it needed all that maintenance...

[NejinOniwa]

Oh you, Smokey, you. -w-


Come to think of it, is there an Apache-tan yet?

[Smokey]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

It should be very smug against all things M$, since Big, Bad M$ sells Big, Bad Server editions wich can handle anything and is soooooo secure that M$ is running Apache on their servers, cuz they don't trust their own software....

Excuse me for one second.....

*goes into another room to laugh his brain out*

[Siya]

I have seen an Apache-tan around...

[Smokey]

What, here? On the galleries?

[Siya]

I don't think it was in the galleries.



I'm not sure I like her design.  But, I can't see her legs, so the effect of the entire design is lost.

[Smokey]

interesting....

Very interesting....