Also, that event was the main focus of the "The Day the Game Pond Died" song that we parodied off of "The Day the Music Died" "American Pie".Sorry. Forgot that was the real title.
The Day the Game Pond Died
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Posts: 540 (12/10/08 05:05:00) |
Some of those "admins" were sharing their names and passwords with people from other boards, too. I suppose we have some account sharing going on even now with so many people knowing each other IRL, but at least WE all know them, too. But at the Game Pond there were several times when the admin control center and the private forums had been breached by people from other ezboards like Bugforest's board.Another thing I just remembered about that is that when "everyone" was an admin here, somebody gave Bugforest himself access to our private forum, which made absolutely no sense. There was nothing in the private forum that had anything to do with Bugforest. We had (and they're probably still lying around somewhere) posts where we were fighting with him and/or making fun of him, but they were all out in the open. |
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Posts: 55 (12/10/08 10:09:15) |
When I was still in TeamVZQ, we made our own ezboard and several days later, Bugforest attacked it for no apparent reason. Shortly after that, his friends
bombed Deathspork's board and blamed it on us.
Strange, strange, strange group of people they was. ----- There is no spoon! |
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Posts: 177 (12/11/08 04:58:31) |
Most message board and email attacks seem to be "for no apparent reason" to me. If SlayerX really wants us to stop saying how stupid and psychotic he
is, then he should stop doing things that are stupid and psychotic.
When FO started talking about how people vanish for awhile it made me realize that many message board folks don't seem like full individuals to me. It's like you see a person for a while, and see how they act during that time, and then - bam - there's a cut-off point where you don't see them anymore and the only impression they leave with me is what they were like during that time. If people do stick around, they may eventually grow a little, mature, wise up, and/or realize they were being dumb. But Slayer is like perpetually stuck in that pre-cut-off point form. It's like if a user shows up and does nothing but make a bunch of annoying posts and/or posts some really awful fanfiction, I get this impression that it's not even like a real person. Just something that makes annoying posts or writes bad fanfiction. And then when he vanishes, it's like that thing no longer exists anymore. It's hard for me to imagine what that person could be doing now because I just can't envision it as a person with a normal real-world life. "No one can withstand
the power of KAIN"
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Posts: 296 (12/11/08 06:14:14) |
If I just see someone writing bad fan fiction, I won't think of them as less than a real person. I'd just think they were probably young and had some
growing to do. I'd extrapolate.
On the other hand, if I see someone acting immature for a long period of time and never changing, then I might start thinking of them as less than a real person. I guess another thing that makes me see a person as less than real is if they just spout cliches. A person can be immature but kind of an individual, or immature but not an individual, and the former is better. It sounds kind of horrible to be judging people as not seeming like real people, but what can you do? In a different context (maybe someplace other than a videogame board) their individuality might be more clear, but that doesn't mean we'd ever see it. |
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Posts: 88 (12/11/08 10:09:49) |
I HAVE GOTTEN SOOOO MATURE IN THE PAST YEAR!!!
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Posts: 178 (12/13/08 05:16:51) |
If I just see someone writing bad fan fiction, I won't think of them as less than a real person. I'd just think they were probably young and had some growing to do. I'd extrapolate. Yeah, I know I'm being way too harsh. It's just sometimes difficult for me to imagine what a person could be like IRL when they can seem so one-dimensional on the internet. I think in the case of people who write so poorly as to make lots of misspellings and leave out punctuation marks, unless English isn't their first language, it's difficult for me to imagine them in school because I don't know how you'd pass even the most basic English class if you wrote like that. "No one can withstand
the power of KAIN"
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Posts: 545 (12/14/08 07:02:57) |
If you got that rattled by that fanfiction, then I can't really recommend you do like I do and go through other topics looking for things to archive. As
badly-written as that story was, it's not actively offensive like the worst crap I've stumbled into.
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Posts: 299 (12/14/08 09:19:12) |
I think people who write that poorly must not like to read -- it's probably that simple. If you do read, you'd know real writers don't do things
like that, and you wouldn't do them yourself.
Really, probably no one learns English in school. You already know it (or you don't) and schooling is supposed to help you be more aware of and analyze the rules you already use. So, if you DON'T know English, you're probably fucked because schooling, especially this deadly-serious, no-fun-at-all, tedious-rote-and-busy-work schooling we have now, won't teach you. I've read something lately (nonscientific) where someone suggested that a love for reading is probably something that needs early nurturing -- like when a kid is three years old or something. I read when I was a little kid, but kids that didn't read, and whose parents didn't encourage them to read, might, through little fault of their own, end up crippled in that regard. |
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Posts: 1117 (12/14/08 09:55:22) PRANCE, TWIRL, JUMP!
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Also, as I pointed out before, people on the internet sometimes don't feel you have to proofread, or have good spelling and grammar because they feel
"it's only the internet".
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