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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Hippo on April 11, 2004, 03:56:30 pm
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The (http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/v.gif)BB has been destroyed. Many lives, many friends are gone. Everyone in the FreeSpace Community feel this loss deeply.
Yet, greater is the tragedy of the newbies. There is nothing between finishing the FreeSpace campaign and losing interest. Soon their salvation will be gone.
Our members fought bravely to preserve the (http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/v.gif)BB, but there was nothing to be done. THQ was too powerful.
Many lives were saved by the post of a link by Shrike. For that we are thankful. But we mourn the loss of Todd Millar. He was a great moderator and he disappeared with the forum he loved.
All surviving members are reassigned to the HLP Forums. Though we all lost friends on the (http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/v.gif)BB, there is no time to mourn the dead. The fate of the community is grim.
It has been two years as of tomorrow, that the (http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/v.gif)BB was closed. Few of the members there relocated, and many gave up hope when the shining beacon of hope was extinguished.
All of us who were there will remember it well. It was something, which for us, can never be forgotten. And so I present my 2 year memorial render.
(http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/vbb.jpg)
We must all remember.
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*hunts for sad music, with a gleam of hope in it*
*found the last starfighter theme...will work*
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I'd prefer something that used SCP graphics.
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The ironic thing is that at the time I was already actively playing on PXO, but I never got round to register on the VBB. :rolleyes:
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hmm there is a pig like creature of some kind in the lower left hand corner
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I've got screenies of all the VBB forums, if anyone wants to recreate them sometimes. Yes, I'm a wierd little bastard.
Ah well, rest in peace VBB..
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Originally posted by Bobboau
hmm there is a pig like creature of some kind in the lower left hand corner
I ought to whack you for that... :D :D
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Originally posted by Bobboau
hmm there is a pig like creature of some kind in the lower left hand corner
It's a water horse.
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I remember the day, and i also dont see it so grimly. Unfortunately the community shot itself in the foot, and that is why the VBB went away, from the problems on squadwars, to the flame wars on the general forums regarding issues that were not related to FS2, to the constant bickering between even the most honored people, all for the last word.
I remember the VBB closing down and remember thinking it was our own faults. This is a lesson to me, not to take things for granted even online.
R.I.P. VBB
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A wha?
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This, but small: (http://i.expage.com/images/topimg/animals2/hippo.gif)
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I was there when it went down.
There was quite a lot of unnecessary flaming, someone posted Kazan's address and so on.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
It's a water horse.
I was referring to this...oddity :D
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As long as there's shivans, there's Freespace.
And trust me, there's enough shivans.... ;7
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
I was referring to this...oddity :D
it's a friggin' hippo, you preschoolers.
we need to make a VBB template for the HLPBB.
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I wasn't there when all hell broke loose. Why would someone post kazans address?
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That VBB memorial picture's compression is hurting my eyes... The Bank Gothic font is not meant for red colors!
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i don't remember anyone posting my address. but i do remember a certain loser who would do that *cough*orange*cough*
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Originally posted by Carl
we need to make a VBB template for the HLPBB.
That wouldn't be too hard, either.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405105007/vbb.volition-inc.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=FreeSpace+2+(and+Freespace)&number=1&DaysPrune=10&LastLogin=
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*screams for Odyssey to find 'that render'*
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AHA!
(http://www.penguinbomb.com/images/n00b-syndrome.jpg)
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it would be funny if dave magically appeared and posted a message.
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Wow, that was two years ago? Man... I remember I almost didn't come to HLP.. it was just so unfamiliar.. but lucky for me, it was welcoming enough, and now it's my home! w00t! :D
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:lol: at the render. Even though n00bie rush is actually a good thing, as it proves the forum has vitality and isn't just a circle-jerk of grumpy old men who've "seen it all, boy,"
Originally posted by Kazan
i don't remember anyone posting my address. but i do remember a certain loser who would do that *cough*orange*cough*
I don't remember it all that clearly, but it was a long and incoherent ramble which began roughly like
"D**** KAZAN M*** YOU A LOSER AND ARROGANT PRICK".
Then it went downwards from there. I believe the poster had some really good point. He apparently went in for constructive criticism.
But VBB was good, now we have VWBB [dead] and this [small]. :(
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idea: make a picture with a SCP'd ship and a few retail escape pods and transports like the one at the top of the page.
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It's been already 2years darn :
R.I.P VBB.
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Orange never went in for constructive criticism - after the first time he argued with me and got owned really bad he just started acting like a ten year old
which could also be said about a certain volition employee who i've given up trying to be nice to - i think i very publically embarassed him, especially when i pointed out the arguments to a professor
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LOL I love this place, only on HLP could someone post a picture for the anniversary of the death of the VBB and have people have as much to say about how the render should have been done as the subject itself.
HLP, there's no place like it :D
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/me doesn't think anyone noticed the name of the Orion :nervous:
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What? Hard Light? Isn't that the point of the picture?
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Yes, but the Flak cannons aren't firing at the escape pods....
;)
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They should be :p
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Originally posted by Flipside
LOL I love this place, only on HLP could someone post a picture for the anniversary of the death of the VBB and have people have as much to say about how the render should have been done as the subject itself.
HLP, there's no place like it :D
Wouldn't have it any other way. :lol: :D
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Originally posted by redmenace
it would be funny if dave magically appeared and posted a message.
Try saying his name three times.
DaveB! DaveB! DaveB!
Nope, didn't work...
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yeah, well, the debate after the Columbia wreck caused him to leave in disgust, so i doubt he'd come back.
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Hardly surprising. I was pretty disgusted with it too.
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Originally posted by Carl
it's a friggin' hippo, you preschoolers.
we need to make a VBB template for the HLPBB.
For reference
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hippopotamus
hip·po·pot·a·mus ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hp-pt-ms)
n. pl. hip·po·pot·a·mus·es or hip·po·pot·a·mi (-m)
1. A large, chiefly aquatic African herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius) having thick, dark, almost hairless skin, short legs with four
toes, and a broad, wide-mouthed muzzle. Also called river horse.
2. The pygmy hippopotamu
river / water. Meh - close enough.
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I actually saved some VBB pages from ages ago, I was planning to save more but never had the time, well lets just say they took the forum down too fast. Heres one of them (http://home.iprimus.com.au/nexus387/forums/vbb_betawing.htm)
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I had already jumped ship to HLP well before that point. BTW, anyone have the Volition Bible floating around? Wouldn't mind reading that again....
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I spotted this while searching the Wayback Machine Steak posted,
'Blackwater Ops Canceled!!!!!! ' Posted by daedauls1224 (04-01-2001)
At the time people would have probably thought, yeah whatever, seeing BWO now makes you think what we could have missed out on, a 5 star campaign :D
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This one is a laugh :lol: FS3 @ the VBB (http://web.archive.org/web/20010414161723/vbb.volition-inc.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/013135.html)