New arrivals were greeted by Captain (Someone, I've forgotten the entire name) with an offer of a Fishy Stick.

Don't ask me what made me think of it, I think it was a reminder somewhere of some things that M'aiq would sometimes say in Oblivion when he appeared there. But I haven't seen any mentions, and the Search didn't turn up any threads with the words Fishy Stick in their subject lines.

I'm sure there are people around who remember, especially among some long-resident moderator types.

I heard of the phenomenon, but never got one myself. Which is ok, cause I don't like fish sticks. It goes back to when I was a kid, don't ask. I'll take a beer, tho!

I got a fishy stick! And I only registered last fortnight.

Yeah. He says something like "I wish I had a fish shaped like a stick that I could give you"

http://www.minyanville.com/assets/Image/fishsticks.gif



http://www.minyanville.com/assets/Image/fishsticks.gif

It started a bit before Morrowind's release, in 2001 first being given only to people who deserved it for whatever reason, and later to all newcomers. In MW there's also a book to be found in a shipwreck called the 'Capn's Guide to the Fishy Stick' because the Bethesda devs thought it was funny.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General:Fishy_Stick (Since that's even before my time )

AAAAAAAaAaaaaaaarrrrrgghhh......

Yeah fishy sticks still existed in the early Oblivion days as well, i recieved a few on my old forum handle (which i forgot)...

I have seen only one given in recent times, like in the last two weeks, but it isn't nearly as popular as before.

I've handed out a couple, but I keep forgetting I've had several newcomers come over from Nexus looking for support on one of my mods, so they sign up and post in the mod thread.

some guy here was handing over loads of fishy sticks, I actually thought of starting a poll asking whether he should be like THE Official Fishy Stick Giver.

Guess he quit...

They are still handed out in the Oblivion forums. I hand them out when I notice someones 1st or 2nd post.

But with all these (unnecessary, IMHO) forum changes sometimes I miss new members.

They were even handed out in the Fallout forums. I was going to search to find a recent post, but with the new software I can't even seem to get to advanced search anymore :shakehead:

Maiq wishes he a stick made of fish... sadly he does not.

I chose this forum to mention it, because of the connection to the M'aiq of Oblivion, and yes, I do recall someone five years ago on the pre-release Oblivion forum who was handing them out fairly often. What's funny is that I also spent time in the Morrowind forums back when that game was still in its original surge of popularity, and I hardly ever saw them given out. I think someone today mentioned that initially, Captain Whosis / Whatever was rewarding special type events / posts. But no matter how I tried to like that game, I just couldn't ever handle the extended tutorial-like boredom of its beginning segments.

I finished Arena back in its day, and replayed it a number of times. I "played at" Daggerfall quite a lot, in spite of how buggy it was, even after patching, but never finished it.

Ever since Might & Magic VI, I've longed for another game I might want to replay a dozen or more times, like that one. There has never been another, for me, especially none of those from New World after that one (I've never been a Strategy Game fan, not turn-based, nor Real Time, so "Heroes of Might & Magic" was not my thing).

I got a fishy stick when I joined, not so long ago.

The tradition is still very much a live, just a little less common now.

I still see them being handed out fairly often. :shrug:

Certainly not as much as they used to be, but myself and quite a few other people still try to give them out to new members.

What is fisy stick :teehee:

That quote always makes me think of LOLcats.

"M'Aiq had a stick made of fishies to give to you....but he eated it. "

The forums were tiny before Morrowind's release, no doubt it was much easier and less common to see new members.

Here is a http://images.uesp.net//c/c4/Fishystick.jpg for you!

I know I, and a lot more people definitely got them back around the time when I joined.
They seemed a lot more common then than they are now; but it's a tradition that i'd like to keep going.
Maybe i'll make an effort in future to hand them out. ^_^



Here you go!
:foodndrink:

OMG peoples, they're like $1.99 at your local food pusher, just get a bag already!! =)

I've given out several dozens myself... Yes, the tradition lives.

I never got a fishy stick

Have a http://bncomputing.com/ob/fishystick.jpg

Now that I saw this thread, I remembered this time. Just handed one out to a new member in the mods forum

I still hand out Fishy Sticks