The Gamer's Quarter

[dark steve]

eh

better to run back to LPN and remake it in your image

there's also the new namako team forum

I see ajutla and guardian just registered at gameinsomnia
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[Gouki]

I can't really believe I got banned for asking about icyclam's stance of freedom. Still. I'm confident I will enjoy Gamer's Quarter.

Yeah. Whoever invited all those 4Chan people? Sorry, but you're less cool than icyclam. Man. I only looked at the "Wii is Overrated" thread and the "dead body" picture and that was more than enough.
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[dongle]

yay an ecstatica banner!

yeah calling for a retaliatory nuke was immature and uncalled for.

[internisus]

you don't have to tell wilkes, he was all up in it

[internisus]

hey dess i just found that illuminati is a word filter, but i cannot guess its source sadly.

[Hot Stott Bot]

Aaww man... what's wrong with me wanting to talk about my relationship drama?

[dongle]

oh, sorry mate!

yeah i was pretty pissed to see the axe gone. it was perhaps the best e/n forum on the net in terms of being full of vents and rants and irrelevancy without devolving into "hey guys look i'm the most hardcore and insensitive of all of you"

plus, you know, it's therapeutic to have a place where you can post things that you only half mean and know are half wrong.

[dongle]

[Isfet]

so this is all very interesting

if not a bit melodramatic.

[dongle]

i think structurally IC was ok, but i definitely agree that it went downhill recently as it became more about in-jokes and infighting than discussion. that said, i thought that having /some/ in-jokes and infighting amid the discussion was great.

perhaps the new forums needed a stated vision of sorts? the new IC was all iron fist blah blah (whether that was intended, that's how it came across to a lot of people), and the old IC was very nebulous and almost proud of its elitism and irreverence.

I like TGQ and I'll definitely be spending more time here, but I enjoyed the old middle-finger hi tim etc personality of IC because I didn't take that part of it seriously at all.

[dessgeega]

were it not for insertcredit i would never have become involved with tgq. a lot of good stuff came out of it. i wonder if it was about time for it to go, though.
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[internisus]

I don't even know where to begin saying something after that.

I think that I lost sight recently as to how important insert credit has been to me. The exchange of ideas and media, to say nothing of friendship, has been a key aspect of my development over the past couple of years. I always meant to become more involved with so many people on the board, and there are projects and promises left to fulfill. There was a time when I wanted everyone to unite and work towards something as a natural result from the incredible discussions our community fostered, and I still feel that the forums' potential was never met. But I don't want to look at it as something that has died. We need to take advantage of the fact that so many of us are still together in this place now and rebuild.

Let's say our prayers, and then let's move on in the best way that we can.

[internisus]

It's just good that we had plans and a place to go when it all went down.

[dessgeega]

[Mister Toups]

[Mister Toups]

[boojiboy7]

[108]

[internisus]

okay, so tim maybe you are in a very excellent position from which to explain just what brandon or rather all of you staff people were thinking with this radical move.

[enjoy all monsters]

[Dracko]

What the fuck is going on in here?
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[dongle]

I don't think anyone entirely knows, but it seems that IC imploded over something not worth imploding over.

IC got a new mod, some members baited him and spammed the forums, a banned member got the 4/7chan strike teams to invade, child porn was involved, IC is down.

I refreshed the forums all damn day and I think I got a decent portion of the facts but a lot of actions still don't make sense to me.

[Toto]

I didn't go to IC long; it's kind of sad that this happened. This is basically what happens when people don't relax If someone hadn't baited icyclam and gotten the people from 4chan involved, it wouldn't be so bad.
I was really looking forward to FKW '07. I couldn't even manage to be registered a year at the IC forums
Also I don't want to lose track of people from IRC and the forums. Hopefully they all find there way here.

[108]

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE, MY PHOTOSYNTHETIC APES
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[Hot Stott Bot]

Stotelheim, you are one click away from being banned!!

I already said to discuss that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorococcus

Now stop shitting up the forums!

locked

[Wilkes]

huh. that's weird.
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[Lestrade]

[108]

[Wilkes]

that was a pretty good ending.
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[Wilkes]

I want to say it was interesting, and, really, somewhere, I did already.

Does that make me boring? I must be damn boring.
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[Hot Stott Bot]

I dunno Wilkes, I thought it was interesting and I am definitely not boring.

[Rud13]

[stotelheim]

Hot Stott Bot, you were always funny and charming. You obviously had a good idea about what life was about, and how to live it best. I think your wife is going to be a very lucky woman, and that you're going to become a great father. I think daughters would suit you best, but you'd do equally well with sons. It's a bit surreal to see someone like you so obviously distraught and upset, but I suppose that's just the way it is. I'd say that I hoped you'd live a happy life after this, but really too much of a foregone conclusion for me to bother with such as uncertain a word as hope. Lead the life you're obviously destined for man, you deserve it.

[Lestrade]

Guys, I'm trying to do some freelance web production work today, and I'm getting distracted by all this madness.

P.S. Do strikethrough's work up in here or what?

[Hot Stott Bot]

:group hug:

Oh stotelheim! I'll calm down eventually and go back to my usual shtick somewhere or another. Hopefully, on the insert credit forums, since I think it will still be possible to make a decent recovery from this if handled right.

If not though, then hopefully you will buy a videogame I worked on sometime and find something I've contributed to it funny and/or charming as well!

Anyways, I'm almost settled down... it... takes a lot to get me riled up, and even more for me to settle down in the (very rare) times that it happens.

[108]

[Rud13]

HSB I did not want to be dramatic. I just feel I should get an avatar if I'm going to post here. I'm concentrating on this thread, but having an avatar also makes my mind wind to say, you should post here.

[108]

[dhex]

yes, but if this were the french revolution, who is robespierre?

***
it struck me this morning as i was checking to make sure the tgq forums hadn't been invaded in a bad way (refugees are ok; kiddie porn is not, etc) that insert credit was killed by the human manifestation of anime=soul cancer.

i'm fairly sure that makes me a prophet of some kind.

[dhex]

walking away for 24 hours would have helped.
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[Isfet]

Wilkes, you can run but you can't hide.

[inmatarian]

I think what happened was long over due. Not the raid part, but the airing of grievances part. The raid part was because the moderator was totally inept at population control. When people start in like that, you sit out for a while and let them finish blowing off steam. Banning them only gets them more rilled up.

[inmatarian]

Here's my take on the night.

1) The axe was missing, weird.
2) Oh, people are venting in a "I'm leaving" thread.
3) Hey, README, new mod, swell.
4) It's be funny to defy the 80x80 avatar rule with a joke avatar.
5) Hold on a second, people are really getting pissed about this new mod.
6) #insertcredit wants to rebel, let me convince them to be non-violent about it.
7) MagnetMom thread, I want to see if it'd get locked because they don't like the game.
Joke threads everywhere, wow, this is funny but wrong.
9) Widespread chaos and bannings.
10) 4chan invasion.
11) Megas and Beige argue in #icyclam over ytmnd.

[danger dangler]

I dunno!

[Mister Toups]

[Wilkes]

[Wilkes]

[Mister Toups]

[LegatoB]

Mister Toups, please, you do yourself no favors by misrepresenting the events of last night as "mob rule." If anything, the vast, vast majority of the posters were on our best behavior that night. We protested the sheer stupidity of icyclam's reign in a quite rational manner. icyclam made very bad decisions from the outset of his reign. Some posters chose to bring a bit of the Axe to general, yes, but they were few and they did it in the spirit of light-hearted resistance, not mob violence. Brandon might own the forums, but I think we're right to express our outrage at how the man who is supposed to be in charge of them made such a thoughtless gesture to change the "problems" he saw with the forums without even thinking of discussing it with the people it would effect.

Do you really, truly believe that a week of simmering anger and resentment would have resulted in a better end for all of this? If so, you should start talking to icyclam about that. It is his actions that caused the outpouring of resistance.

[baronpatsy]