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dessgeega
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in time you will.
(a neighboring forum just died. we're expecting refugees.)
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| It isn't dead, so much as it's under new management. Time will tell though how all that's going to work out. |
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BalbanesBeoulve
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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km
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Hi guys.
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Shapermc
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Dale, when did you change your avatar to the Space Cat?
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DaleNixon
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Shapermc wrote: | | Dale, when did you change your avatar to the Space Cat? |
See here.
I work right next to a Fallout fan every day. We both stumbled upon the Space Kat at the same time on the same day. It's become a bit of an in-joke between us at work. I realize that doesn't have much to do with my avatar change.
In any event, I'm sure John Vernon (the dead actor) will return at some point. |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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So umm... I can't seem to get on the insert credit forums? I guess this was the planned meeting place? Did they just go kerput? Or maybe I got banned? I've never been banned from a forum before so I don't know what would happen!
Well... that was interesting.
Hi guys!
Maybe I'll post some serious videogame discussion here some time. This seems like a nice crowd! |
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internisus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh wow, there's a Currently Reading thread here. This is great! |
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internisus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| In the Ban List Thread, he banned like five people all at once and announced that they called in the goonsquad from NeoGAF. But, like, I don't know if we can believe him. |
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internisus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| oh wow do they have people here who can do that? |
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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are they paid or what
I'm pouring myself with Skol beer, which you don't know what's lime but it's good. |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, seriously.
I would say about the point where I was put on the ban list, things were at the point where icy had basically fucked himself over, and then as soon as he added internisus that pretty much sent the forum into a whirl of madness and chaos until uuh...
...yeah...
...so how about those forum backups?
Anyways though, I was reading the videogame forum here just now, and it's fresh and friendly perspective gave me some warm fuzzies and almost makes me feel like posting about videogames again, and maybe being more open with people than I am on the IC forums!
Though... I'm going to hold off for a few days. It probably only feels so warm and fuzzy because of the hellstorm we were just in. |
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internisus
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| Quote: | | I can attest, as someone who posted there seriously for a year, there is no forum on the intarwebs that needs a /b/ invasion more than this one. |
icyclam?!?!?? |
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ajutla
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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hey guys
that shit was pretty fucked eh what
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| Man, the forums went down just as I had registered through a proxy and was just about to post a shit-ton of Fran hentai. One of them involved a carrot! |
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internisus
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the very very funny thing is that I posted that "I am glad to not be almost banned" at the exact moment that I was made almost banned. I didn't know until someone PMed me right after.
I'm kind of exhausted. I've been chuckling morbidly for like three hours now. |
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| It seems like IC forums were back for a bit and then they shut down again. |
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internisus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| please share Greatest Links if you find 'em |
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dessgeega
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i don't drink, actually!
before i googlesearched "rome burning", incidentally, i searched "icy clam". i decided the former would be pithier, though.
hey dongle. glad to see you've made the transtition!
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internisus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| dessgeega wrote: | | i don't drink, actually! |
So how do you handle crisis? |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| internisus wrote: | | Also, I am wondering how exactly it works that a php database is overloaded by such a mass spamming. |
In general, it's called a DoS attack... there's a lot of different ways people can do it for all kinds of different sites and whatnot. |
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ajutla
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Yeah, I don't know that I have much to talk about. I was going to post something about Final Fantasy 12, but then I got kind of self-conscious because I didn't want to be talking about Final Fantasy so goddamn much on there. It would give people the wrong idea. I would write about my real actual life, I mean, there are totally things I could say, but after my insane angstsplosion over the summer I have grown simultaneously embarassed and wary.
Yeah, guardian, I don't know why the hell you were put on the banned list. there was nothing really insulting about the poll you posted. At worst it was redundant, but still nothing to get all U 1 CLICK AWAY FROM BE BAN about.
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Mr. Mechanical
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| dhex wrote: | | in all seriousness, i may put up a request in a month or so for a project - an online ethnography of insert credit's forums. i can get 30 pages out of that easily, i would need to do interviews however. |
You would have to let us all read it when you were done. That's my only condition. |
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I just do not like his forums enough to lose some time with them. And he claims it's the "niciest place on the internet". okay. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| internisus wrote: | | ajutla wrote: | Yeah, I don't know that I have much to talk about. I was going to post something about Final Fantasy 12, but then I got kind of self-conscious because I didn't want to be talking about Final Fantasy so goddamn much on there. It would give people the wrong idea. I would write about my real actual life, I mean, there are totally things I could say, but after my insane angstsplosion over the summer I have grown simultaneously embarassed and wary.
Yeah, guardian, I don't know why the hell you were put on the banned list. there was nothing really insulting about the poll you posted. At worst it was redundant, but still nothing to get all U 1 CLICK AWAY FROM BE BAN about. |
Well you should write an exclusive expose about this dramatic event perhaps.
I was serious with that poll thread! It was a question posed to benefit Brandon, actually! I made it in the same spirit with which you wondered aloud how many people thought it was really fucked up to forcibly attempt to cull the collective personality of a discussion forum. |
Hey guys you notice how my poll topic asking whether people thought icy should be admin or not never got locked while yours did? <^_^> |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Rud13 wrote: | | Well, this is a new turn of events. |
Hi Rud13!
Please be mod again. ;_;
Edit
Oh my god! That was a Little Big Adventure picture on the rotating TGQ header just now! I love that game! :swoon:
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:17 am Post subject: |
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guys
were's this forums' rules regarding avatars and signatures?
like, I'm sure they're anywere, but i'm kinda drunk here so please help me. It's already hard enough to type things in your third language, i mind you ='( |
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dessgeega
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| internisus wrote: | | dessgeega wrote: | | moldy kitchen sinks. |
That's disgusting, Dess. Honestly. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| gutomatic wrote: | guys
were's this forums' rules regarding avatars and signatures? |
Officially, they're whatever the size mine are right now. Which I guess is 80X80. Don't know about the sig, because I don't have one. You could probably got a bit bigger than that though, and not get your head bitten off or anything. Just don't go crazy.
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internisus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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htt p://forum.inso mnia.ac/viewtopi c.php?p=521
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Shapermc
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| internisus wrote: | | I love the banners here, guys. You should have a list somewhere identifying all of the graphics and art involved in each, though. |
Yeah, you can add your own too!
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| GcDiaz wrote: | | This whole situation is really one of the few times where a story can be both a tragedy, and a comedy at the same time. Methinks IC as we knew it will be no more. A shame, really. |
Nah, my guess is the last backup will be restored, the old admins/mods will be begged back, an apology will be issued, and ummm... things will be awkward for a couple weeks... and maybe some new changes will slowly happen in a much better way, but IC will return to a sense of normalcy within a month or so. |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| internisus wrote: | I've never really known Brandon, but I had plenty of assumptions about him being, you know, normal, level-headed, capable in various regular sorts of ways. Today's events completely devastated that view. I have never been so shocked and disappointed by someone's immediately apparant failings in social intuition (to put it mildly), short-sightedness, ignorance of DEATHLY IRONY, poor judge of character, and lack of respect for human life.
Really. Wow. |
Oh, I think Brandon is very much a normal, nice, level-headed, and capable guy in a lot of ways. I just think that his ability to understand social situations is a little bit lacking -- something I decided when I realized that he had some strange and bizarre opposite to linking an RSS feed on the main page. |
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internisus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: |
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I'm really not trying to bash him. I can't overstate how shocked I am at what he's done. I have no way to comprehend it.
| icyclam wrote: | I don't see the point of you coming here, but if you can manage to keep it civil you are welcome.
To forum regulars: please ignore this thread. It's a long story. |
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: |
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IC is back, but you won't want to visit it until tomorrow.
edit: beat me to the edit
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internisus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Hot Stott Bot wrote: | | If someone wants to crawl a few of the "epic posts" and make sure to save them to their hard drive for Brandon, in case something happens and no one is able to express the sheer insanity of the evening, that would probably be very smart of you. |
Screencaps?
I'm not going to bother doing this, but yeah, I think some Icyquotes might be in order. |
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Shapermc
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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I use to know a way to set your printer as Adobe Acrobat and then print the page to acrobat and you could save the thread as a PDF... but I don't remember how anymore.
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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In firefox you can just go File >> Save Page As... and it will just copy everything down for you.
I think you could probably also use recursive "wget"... I should see if that'll work, actually. |
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Shapermc
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| Rud13 wrote: | Done.
EDIT: I mean the silent hill thread. |
Rad, can you email it to me too? It's all pages right? I love that thread, for some reason I think it shows a lot of people at their best.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, you really don't want to open any of the threads in there.
Like, really really really really really wish I hadn't don't want to look it there looking at them is actually probably on some level illegal don't look in there.
Seriously. |
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Shapermc
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| BalbanesBeoulve wrote: | | So has the CP been cleaned up? I logged in through a proxy and when I saw toups's thread in general and i saw the title of all the topics in the game forum i closed that shit asap. |
NO! IT'S NOT! And you just made me look at it. WARNING: DON'T LOOK
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dark steve
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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You should start a quick question thread! It would be handy!
I would like to mention how happy I am that the IC apocalypse came complete with the appropriate antichrist.
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| ow the white background it burns oh lord my eyes. |
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internisus
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aw man
can anyone think of anything noteworthy that i have ever done that i should save? |
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Shapermc
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Hot Scott, I like how it took you so long to find an avatar at IC yet you have one here within minutes. The irony does not escape me.
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Harveyjames
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| Hey, you refugees aren't going to attract dos attacks and penis bombs, are you? We don't need that sort of thing here! We're peaceful folk! |
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gutomatic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:23 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if I'll post here regularly, but I'm trying the best I can to not be offensive.
And I'll see that thread, thanks for the link. |
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