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Title: Vbb
Post by: Woolie Wool on March 12, 2003, 02:04:40 pm: I never got to really see it but I have read about it.

Does anyone have archived flamewars or any of the nasty exchanges that hallmarked the VBB's final days? They would make interesting reading.
Title: Vbb
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 12, 2003, 02:10:40 pm: I believe that the Infamous ZylonBane archived some of the more important and useful threads, and was himself responsible for many flamings.

:remembers the VBBQ, and the VBB hammer of justice, which was made into a secondary weapon minimod.....:
Title: Re: Vbb
Post by: Razor on March 12, 2003, 02:21:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Woolie Wool
I never got to really see it but I have read about it.

Does anyone have archived flamewars or any of the nasty exchanges that hallmarked the VBB's final days? They would make interesting reading.

Why the heck do you want to read about flamewars. If you asked me those should not be archived. Flamewars are sick. Actually when I was on VBB, I didn't even know about: You will get flamed if you mention FS3. I got the Internet back then for the first time and I got FS2 only 2 weeks before I went to VBB (which was in May 2001)
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Post by: kode on March 12, 2003, 03:05:58 pm: flamewars is what happens when noobs don't bother to read a couple of posts before they join up. not doing so is retarded, and you should be flamed for it ;)

wish I had saved threads back then...
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Post by: an0n on March 12, 2003, 03:11:18 pm: Hehe. I remember being a n00b.

I think my first thread, true to form (but maintaining originality), was a "Let's make our own FS3" thread.

And, *coughs and points to the SCP in a 'told-ya-so' kind of way*.
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Post by: kode on March 12, 2003, 03:12:22 pm: hey, I remember that one... vaguely.

that's back when you were funny.
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Post by: an0n on March 12, 2003, 03:14:37 pm: You saying I'm not funny?

*grabs a huge cigar and his Groucho wig*
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Post by: ZylonBane on March 12, 2003, 04:12:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I think my first thread, true to form (but maintaining originality), was a "Let's make our own FS3" thread.

And, *coughs and points to the SCP in a 'told-ya-so' kind of way*.
Ya told us nuthin'. If it's not from V, it ain't FS3.

Anyway, what happened in the last VBB thread that was so bad it got deleted?
Title: Vbb
Post by: Razor on March 12, 2003, 04:18:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by kode
flamewars is what happens when noobs don't bother to read a couple of posts before they join up. not doing so is retarded, and you should be flamed for it ;)

wish I had saved threads back then...

Well yeah but people get also flamed because they ask something which they didn't even know about before and then people start spending about 5 minutes thinking on how to flame them instead of giving them a straight answer to the question.
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Post by: Kamikaze on March 12, 2003, 06:36:06 pm: I still have a whole page of threads from the VBB a few days before death... I can upload it if ya like (and I find the time :p)
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Post by: Unknown Target on March 12, 2003, 06:38:43 pm: trust me, dude, you do not want to see the VBB :D
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Post by: elorran on March 12, 2003, 07:34:56 pm: I lurked at the VBB on a few occations for a few months at a time as my interest in FS would come and go. I favourably remember the 'dead frozen goat of justice' clipping wrong doers under the chin with it's razor hooves a number of times. But who the heck was it who used that anyway?
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Post by: CP5670 on March 12, 2003, 09:28:38 pm: Has anyone archived anything from the Squadwar forum? Some of that stuff made great reading. :D
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Post by: Vertigo1 on March 13, 2003, 02:32:34 am: The only thing I have archived from the VBB is Plasma's jokes.
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Post by: Stunaep on March 13, 2003, 07:50:47 am: Read TAS, you'll know all you need to know.

plus 30 pages of the same post,.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 13, 2003, 08:09:50 am: To tell you the truth, I never was flamed. I gues I was just lucky in reading a few posts before almost making the fatal mistake in typing a thread called "When is fs3 coming out?"....:sigh: I'm coming out of the closet now. I mostly lurked around the Modding forum, trying to get people to join my Space: Above and Beyond mod. I remember even getting a invitation from HLP for them to host me! :D But no one seemed interested. The only thing I got was two models. One of the hammerhead fighter and the other of the Prototype chiggie fighter. Then I decided to see if anyone was interested in making a freespace movie. Some were interested, but most thought it a bad idea. Then I came over here, posted about it, and stayed ever since. Thats my true oddessy here. The true main reason was to keep away from the flame wars that were just starting. I mean people were attacking EVERYONE! I was a afraid. Afraid of ZylonBane! I knew it would be only a matter of time until he found me and flamed me, so I escaped! ;)
Title: Vbb
Post by: Cannikin on March 13, 2003, 08:16:17 am: Ah, the good ol' VBB days...

And be sure to read TaS. Someone around here has the link. (I actually read about 20 pages of that before my brain went numb)
Title: Re: Vbb
Post by: Sandwich on March 13, 2003, 08:18:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Woolie Wool
I never got to really see it but I have read about it.

Does anyone have archived flamewars or any of the nasty exchanges that hallmarked the VBB's final days? They would make interesting reading.

Jeez you guys, talk about being helpful! :rolleyes: Not even one measly link!

Here's the latest (I think) archive of the VBB before closure: http://web.archive.org/web/20020205082928/vbb.volition-inc.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

And here (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vbb.volition-inc.com/) you can get to the various archives of the main Volition homepage and follow the link to the forums from there, perhaps there are different pages available from earlier versions.
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Post by: Woolie Wool on March 13, 2003, 10:49:53 am: Only a few threads appear to be archived by Wayback...
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Post by: Hippo on March 13, 2003, 02:25:14 pm: i don't think the VBBQ made it through the great purge tho... good thing too...

BTW, it was Stryke9 that had the Dead Frozen Goat of Justice
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Post by: ZylonBane on March 16, 2003, 11:23:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
i don't think the VBBQ made it through the great purge tho... good thing too...
Yup. The length of your sig would've had you on it in a heartbeat.
Title: Vbb
Post by: an0n on March 16, 2003, 11:27:59 am: New rule: Sig length !> Post Length.
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on March 16, 2003, 02:11:38 pm: Quote
an0n's post:

New rule: Sig length !> Post Length.

Quote
an0n's signature:

"I.....don't.....CARE!!!!!" ---- an0n
"....like having Einstein's brain in Norman Wisdoms body." ---- Unknown
"Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Kill all the parissioners. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!" ---- an0n
~-=™!@!™=-~ : Nodewar.com
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Post by: an0n on March 16, 2003, 02:22:50 pm: If I'm forced to start using Irony tags, I'm gonna start cracking heads.
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Post by: kasperl on March 16, 2003, 02:23:37 pm: :lol: :lol: :lol:

at least my signature is small enough to let me break that rule on a regular basis.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 16, 2003, 04:41:13 pm: Ok, ground rules for siggys are up to 8 lines of text at a browser window width of 1024 pixels, standard-sized text. In other words, I'm straddling the fence with my siggy. If yours is longer, shorten it. :D
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Post by: StratComm on March 16, 2003, 06:12:49 pm: what about locations ;)
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Post by: Sandwich on March 16, 2003, 06:29:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StratComm
what about locations ;)

*glares*

When your location extends the length of a single-line post, it's too long for comfort. :doubt:

Besides, all we asked for was a location, not a full-detail report on all one's current projects and positions. :p
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Post by: HotSnoJ on March 16, 2003, 06:51:37 pm: I remember when I first got FS1. I joined VBB looking for fellow gamers. When I made my first model and started :thepimp: ing it people would tell me to go to HLP. When I asked where to go fro tutorials and stuff related they told me to go to HLP. Never until I asked did they tell me HLP was short for Hard Light Productions and a link to get there.

*Shudders*

*looks for his own post at VBB*
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Post by: Vertigo1 on March 17, 2003, 01:50:28 am: heh, I joined when even mentioning FS3 wasn't a heresy. ;) Hell, my very first post was a workaround for [V] to release FS3 without being sued by Interplay....by ASCIIing the title! :D (some of you may recall that thread) I wonder if Mike Kulas is still waiting for me to show up with a horn so he can call security to have me arrested. :lol:
Title: Vbb
Post by: Sandwich on March 17, 2003, 03:42:44 am: Quote
Originally posted by Vertigo1
Hell, my very first post was a workaround for [V] to release FS3 without being sued by Interplay....by ASCIIing the title! :D

Eh? How's dat work?
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Post by: kode on March 17, 2003, 07:36:06 am: bah, I'd go for LibertyCosmos anyday...
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Post by: Stealth on March 17, 2003, 03:13:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Eh? How's dat work?

by ASCIIing the title, he means (i think) replacing "I"s with "l" (lower-case "L")etc. etc. etc.

i think... i've heard of that before :D
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Post by: an0n on March 17, 2003, 03:25:12 pm: ............Methinks he means making the title image out of ASCII characters. Like you do with ASCII art.
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Post by: Vertigo1 on March 17, 2003, 11:39:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Eh? How's dat work?

Hint: look in your Character Map. ;)
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Post by: CP5670 on March 17, 2003, 11:47:10 pm: Quote
Hell, my very first post was a workaround for [V] to release FS3 without being sued by Interplay....by ASCIIing the title! :D

or how about making it 1337?

ƒ®£€§Þa©e $

no more copyright problems. :D
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Post by: Vertigo1 on March 18, 2003, 12:20:17 am: hehe, that was pretty much it. ;)

I think that was the last FS3 thread that didn't have any flaming whatsoever...other than the usual *****ing about Interplay. ;)
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Post by: an0n on March 18, 2003, 01:06:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StratComm
what about locations ;)

Go check the Forum Leaders page and you'll see at least one good example of 'too long'.