I went through a whole thing with Tube about my name and he refused to change it and man, I'm glad he didn't cause I really like it after all. It's a perfect time capsule of who I was and what I thought was cool in 2003.
I remember him as the guy who couldn't stop shitting up the 'Murderous fascist thug [Kyle Rittenhouse] acquitted on all charges' thread with posts about how awesome it was he got to shoot someone and get away with it, so they had to make 'The Kyle Rittenhouse Thread In Which We Take As a Given That Kyle Was Wrong and Stupid' and he continued to shit up that thread until he got kicked.
I remember him as the guy who couldn't stop shitting up the 'Murderous fascist thug [Kyle Rittenhouse] acquitted on all charges' thread with posts about how awesome it was he got to shoot someone and get away with it, so they had to make 'The Kyle Rittenhouse Thread In Which We Take As a Given That Kyle Was Wrong and Stupid' and he continued to shit up that thread until he got kicked.
Oh there's many more threads he's been kicked from for very similar reasons
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
JRosey, noted fascist.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Oh not the holiday forum one, no. This was waaayyyyy back.
Yeah, this was back in the days when we had "Deputies." They couldn't ban (and I don't think we had the infraction system back then), but they could do maintenance on threads, and we had that big, juicy merge button....
Deputies could infract, IIRC? They could infract, but that's it. Cause I think that's how they dealt with spambots?
We didn't have an infraction system yet, we had jail or ban and thats it. Deputies could jail but not ban.
THAT was it. They could jail, thank you. I was going crazy trying to remember.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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I remember him as the guy who couldn't stop shitting up the 'Murderous fascist thug [Kyle Rittenhouse] acquitted on all charges' thread with posts about how awesome it was he got to shoot someone and get away with it, so they had to make 'The Kyle Rittenhouse Thread In Which We Take As a Given That Kyle Was Wrong and Stupid' and he continued to shit up that thread until he got kicked.
I didn't get to take part in Fishman's (multi year long, deeply loreful, absolutely amazing) X-Com LP, but I did get to take part in the also amazing Terror From the Deep forum LP (technically both of them, but the first one didn't count). It was a lot of fun, and seeing the incredible creativity from other forumers that spawned out of a mutual freeform storytelling experience will forever be a highlight of my internet journeys.
I sometimes wonder if Ketchum Ash ever found his creepy, perfect waifu concubine, or if maybe even now he's got a basement full of body pillows stuffed with human hair and teeth, or something much worse
That fella was my first IRL brush with "OK, I call bullshit: I don't believe you're a real, actual human being", a skill which would sadly become called upon regularly in the decades to come
Also, was it "koba" who had the Hobbes avatar, and was suspected to be Jon Bois much much later? It was early after I joined and all I can remember specifically is "the dude who got banned for, I think, being inscrutable?", but even all these years I still think he was just a masterful troll? Or performance artist? He's stuck with me, regardless
I sometimes wonder if Ketchum Ash ever found his creepy, perfect waifu concubine, or if maybe even now he's got a basement full of body pillows stuffed with human hair and teeth, or something much worse
That fella was my first IRL brush with "OK, I call bullshit: I don't believe you're a real, actual human being", a skill which would sadly become called upon regularly in the decades to come
Also, was it "koba" who had the Hobbes avatar, and was suspected to be Jon Bois much much later? It was early after I joined and all I can remember specifically is "the dude who got banned for, I think, being inscrutable?", but even all these years I still think he was just a masterful troll? Or performance artist? He's stuck with me, regardless
"Good poster with a Hobbes avatar" is riotcow, in my mind
One of my most distinct memories is once asking Robcham for a doodle in the old doodle threads and getting told to fuck off until I had a post count higher than the number of days I had been registered on the forums and I was so embarrassed and angry at the time that I learned how to draw out of spite
I joined in 05 and have made less than 500 posts. Mostly wrestling and some game and movie threads. Even though I don't post much I feel like this place has been an intrinsic part of my life for years. I say to myself 'maybe I'll post more' and then I realize I've re-typed this message like four times because every time I look at the words they seem awkward and weird. Never quite feel cool enough to be a part of all this, even after all these years. That's me though, and not y'all. Lord knows I'll get there right before this place gets sent into the sun or something.
I joined in 05 and have made less than 500 posts. Mostly wrestling and some game and movie threads. Even though I don't post much I feel like this place has been an intrinsic part of my life for years. I say to myself 'maybe I'll post more' and then I realize I've re-typed this message like four times because every time I look at the words they seem awkward and weird. Never quite feel cool enough to be a part of all this, even after all these years. That's me though, and not y'all. Lord knows I'll get there right before this place gets sent into the sun or something.
I know you.
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
Robcham once drew a comic about Darth Waiter being my friend where he blew himself up inside of a space capsule because he couldn't stand me. On balance, I think that was pretty funny.
I joined in 05 and have made less than 500 posts. Mostly wrestling and some game and movie threads. Even though I don't post much I feel like this place has been an intrinsic part of my life for years. I say to myself 'maybe I'll post more' and then I realize I've re-typed this message like four times because every time I look at the words they seem awkward and weird. Never quite feel cool enough to be a part of all this, even after all these years. That's me though, and not y'all. Lord knows I'll get there right before this place gets sent into the sun or something.
I know you.
Both validating and disconcerting in three words, genuinely impressive.
One of my most distinct memories is once asking Robcham for a doodle in the old doodle threads and getting told to fuck off until I had a post count higher than the number of days I had been registered on the forums and I was so embarrassed and angry at the time that I learned how to draw out of spite
One of my most distinct memories is once asking Robcham for a doodle in the old doodle threads and getting told to fuck off until I had a post count higher than the number of days I had been registered on the forums and I was so embarrassed and angry at the time that I learned how to draw out of spite
I have a vague memory of something breaking in an earlier version of the forums when someone hit some obscenely high number of posts. I think it was 100,000 or something like that. I think those were the days where the "once a thread hits 100 pages start a new one" tradition came about. If I remember right, back then it was because it played havoc with the database, but now it's no longer a technical issue and is more about making consistently repeated threads less intimidating to new posters.
I've seen threads in other forums that have like 4,000 pages and have been going for years, and although I can't really put into words why I prefer this system I prefer this system. It can be kinda fun going back to page one in a thread like that and seeing what people were getting up to in 2015 or whatever, but we can basically replicate that here since it's common practice to link the old thread in the first post when you create a new thread.
One of my most distinct memories is once asking Robcham for a doodle in the old doodle threads and getting told to fuck off until I had a post count higher than the number of days I had been registered on the forums and I was so embarrassed and angry at the time that I learned how to draw out of spite
No FUCKING way
What an amazing origin story
one of the few times being a petty resentful bitch has been a healthy decision for me
the idea that the people here aren't "real" and you don't care about them is super fuckin weird to me
My favorite PAX ever, and some of my favorite memories of the past few years, was meeting up with folks like Blankzoe, Cello, Rorschach Kringle, Madican, Houk, and more at PAX South 2020 and 2019. I'm really happy to have met a bunch of yall
i didn't have the ten bucks to become a goon, thank god
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
Neither did I. And I would have been doing a credit card transaction at a time where I neither had a credit card of my own, nor the trust of anyone with a card to use it on something as untrustworthy as the internet.
Now that I've grown up and have back pain/a credit card, I'll do whatever shady transaction I need to in order to make the chronic pain stop.
the idea that the people here aren't "real" and you don't care about them is super fuckin weird to me
My favorite PAX ever, and some of my favorite memories of the past few years, was meeting up with folks like Blankzoe, Cello, Rorschach Kringle, Madican, Houk, and more at PAX South 2020 and 2019. I'm really happy to have met a bunch of yall
Oh yeah no, it's a real bummer to think that some people see the forum this way. I only didn't say anything because there are a whole heap of folks here who, through no fault of their own, might never get to be part of an in-person meetup and I don't want them to feel left out. But yeah, the idea of this place as a turn-on-turn-off pleasure light switch is preeetty weird.
(And if it helps, I also remember meeting up with you and a couple other folks at a generic PAX South food court and it's stuck with me because brains are stupid but I'm super glad for it)
the idea that the people here aren't "real" and you don't care about them is super fuckin weird to me
My favorite PAX ever, and some of my favorite memories of the past few years, was meeting up with folks like Blankzoe, Cello, Rorschach Kringle, Madican, Houk, and more at PAX South 2020 and 2019. I'm really happy to have met a bunch of yall
Oh yeah no, it's a real bummer to think that some people see the forum this way. I only didn't say anything because there are a whole heap of folks here who, through no fault of their own, might never get to be part of an in-person meetup and I don't want them to feel left out. But yeah, the idea of this place as a turn-on-turn-off pleasure light switch is preeetty weird.
(And if it helps, I also remember meeting up with you and a couple other folks at a generic PAX South food court and it's stuck with me because brains are stupid but I'm super glad for it)
It was a joke. I've met a handful of people from the forum in person over the years and have had positive experiences with all of them. There are some forumers I haven't met that I genuinely think are good people even if they aren't perfect, and I like reading what they have to say. There have been forumers who have bothered me, some quite a bit, but if I were to make an actual statement about the impact of them it's that internet people matter exactly as much as you decide they do, so don't be afraid to switch people off if you have to. When Handgimp died it bothered me for a while though, mostly because of how it happened. I honestly don't think he was particularly fond of me, but regardless he was always willing to answer an endless deluge of dumb, childlike questions about submarines whenever we were in groupchat on Steam.
I've never been to PAX though, I'm not really a con guy.
I sometimes wonder if my life would've been radically different if I'd come up on the Something Awful forums instead of this place.
Probably wouldn't have, but it's fun to think about every now and again.
To be fair, Something Awful eventually gave us Goonhammer, which can be a very useful information resource if you're into the various flavors of Warhammer that exist. Outside of that though I'd tend to agree with you. I don't really know a lot about Something Awful except for the Hurricane Katrina/Paypal fiasco, a mildly amusing interview on G4TV (the first one), and the fact that one of the site's creators got the absolute shit knocked out of him by Uwe Boll.
In many ways, it felt like us Aussie forumers were IRL friends first, posting buddies second. There was a strong cohort of posters living in Perth, and we tried to do relatively frequent hangouts. I think it played a big part in me thinking of forum friends as real, authentic friends in the first instance, regardless of having actually met you face to face
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I remember him as the guy who couldn't stop shitting up the 'Murderous fascist thug [Kyle Rittenhouse] acquitted on all charges' thread with posts about how awesome it was he got to shoot someone and get away with it, so they had to make 'The Kyle Rittenhouse Thread In Which We Take As a Given That Kyle Was Wrong and Stupid' and he continued to shit up that thread until he got kicked.
Oh there's many more threads he's been kicked from for very similar reasons
THAT was it. They could jail, thank you. I was going crazy trying to remember.
Like the mermaid emoji
You've got a pretty shit memory.
I didn't get to take part in Fishman's (multi year long, deeply loreful, absolutely amazing) X-Com LP, but I did get to take part in the also amazing Terror From the Deep forum LP (technically both of them, but the first one didn't count). It was a lot of fun, and seeing the incredible creativity from other forumers that spawned out of a mutual freeform storytelling experience will forever be a highlight of my internet journeys.
So are names with numbers in them.
Right?
I'm cool, right?
My mom says I'm cool.
My mom never said that.
That fella was my first IRL brush with "OK, I call bullshit: I don't believe you're a real, actual human being", a skill which would sadly become called upon regularly in the decades to come
Also, was it "koba" who had the Hobbes avatar, and was suspected to be Jon Bois much much later? It was early after I joined and all I can remember specifically is "the dude who got banned for, I think, being inscrutable?", but even all these years I still think he was just a masterful troll? Or performance artist? He's stuck with me, regardless
"Good poster with a Hobbes avatar" is riotcow, in my mind
Hell yeah, I couldn’t remember if that was them or not.
I still see that referenced among the secrets Santa
Yes
It was LewieP who sent K_A those gifts. LewieP being a citizen and resident of the UK at the time, which really made it that much more hilarious.
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I know you.
Both validating and disconcerting in three words, genuinely impressive.
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No FUCKING way
What an amazing origin story
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I still don't qualify for that
I've seen threads in other forums that have like 4,000 pages and have been going for years, and although I can't really put into words why I prefer this system I prefer this system. It can be kinda fun going back to page one in a thread like that and seeing what people were getting up to in 2015 or whatever, but we can basically replicate that here since it's common practice to link the old thread in the first post when you create a new thread.
one of the few times being a petty resentful bitch has been a healthy decision for me
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My favorite PAX ever, and some of my favorite memories of the past few years, was meeting up with folks like Blankzoe, Cello, Rorschach Kringle, Madican, Houk, and more at PAX South 2020 and 2019. I'm really happy to have met a bunch of yall
Probably wouldn't have, but it's fun to think about every now and again.
Now that I've grown up and have back pain/a credit card, I'll do whatever shady transaction I need to in order to make the chronic pain stop.
Oh yeah no, it's a real bummer to think that some people see the forum this way. I only didn't say anything because there are a whole heap of folks here who, through no fault of their own, might never get to be part of an in-person meetup and I don't want them to feel left out. But yeah, the idea of this place as a turn-on-turn-off pleasure light switch is preeetty weird.
(And if it helps, I also remember meeting up with you and a couple other folks at a generic PAX South food court and it's stuck with me because brains are stupid but I'm super glad for it)
It was a joke. I've met a handful of people from the forum in person over the years and have had positive experiences with all of them. There are some forumers I haven't met that I genuinely think are good people even if they aren't perfect, and I like reading what they have to say. There have been forumers who have bothered me, some quite a bit, but if I were to make an actual statement about the impact of them it's that internet people matter exactly as much as you decide they do, so don't be afraid to switch people off if you have to. When Handgimp died it bothered me for a while though, mostly because of how it happened. I honestly don't think he was particularly fond of me, but regardless he was always willing to answer an endless deluge of dumb, childlike questions about submarines whenever we were in groupchat on Steam.
I've never been to PAX though, I'm not really a con guy.
To be fair, Something Awful eventually gave us Goonhammer, which can be a very useful information resource if you're into the various flavors of Warhammer that exist. Outside of that though I'd tend to agree with you. I don't really know a lot about Something Awful except for the Hurricane Katrina/Paypal fiasco, a mildly amusing interview on G4TV (the first one), and the fact that one of the site's creators got the absolute shit knocked out of him by Uwe Boll.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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