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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on November 04, 2004, 09:47:42 am

Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 04, 2004, 09:47:42 am: Is there anyone we're on good terms with?

There's a state of cold-war with the WC community, 'we' seem to hate everything related to GS, DG got a chunk of the HW community pissed at us, WS's official line is "HLP is full of pussies" last I heard, I personally think SectorGame caters to whores...

And I can't think of one group of gamers or geeks who actually get on well with our *****es forumites.

The only positive interactions we've had have been from the "We hate Derek Smart" demographic.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 09:50:18 am: Each to their own :)

Oh, and I like Sectorgame :) Hunter does a damn good job of maintaining it without changing the banner every day ;)
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 04, 2004, 09:51:31 am: Christ! I put one goddamn penis at the top of every page and I never hear the end of it.

And now that I think about it, even NW's official stance towards HLP is "It's full of fags" despite the fact that the entire user base migrated from HLP.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 09:53:26 am: LOL I didn't even mention the Penis of D00m :p

And hey, I'm happy, so I don't really give a squirrels nuts about other peoples assumptions about the community I'm part of :D
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Janos on November 04, 2004, 11:02:32 am: Well, HLP's gaming community, albeit small, is respected in... places... for their efforts in making the SCP better. Generally speaking all communities based solely on game/s are A) filled with cranky assholes who think they're superior to everyone and B) degraded to levels known only to primordial soup. They are not very good meters on "are we liked or not".

As long as we don't openly wage war with WC community and everyone else and they don't want to bring us down 'cause of some asshole's deeds, I'd say we are doing pretty well.

And small competition and xenophobia always makes thing better. And jingoism, too.
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Post by: karajorma on November 04, 2004, 11:12:08 am: To be fair no one here really seems to care much about the Wing Commander community. We have our own port and that's about the only WC thing anyone cares much about.

They however seem to hate us. The only explaination I can think of for this disparity is jealousy.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 11:13:30 am: I must admit, I agree with Kara here, the only time we get involved in the WC community is when they try to pull off yet another rather poor joke at the expense of Freespace.

Other than that, I never hear them mentioned here.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Fineus on November 04, 2004, 11:35:39 am: I prefer to take the stance "why should I care what the rest of the 'net thinks?"

I know that there's a core of excellent modders and very capable people who frequent this place because they enjoy the subject matter (and hopefully) the site as well. Sure - it's nice to be liked - but then I'm not going to lose any sleep over the communities that don't like this place. If they don't like it - let them stay away and get on with discussing things they do like. It should be no more complicated than that.
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Post by: aldo_14 on November 04, 2004, 11:39:09 am: I can't speak for other modders, but I like to try and create stuff for an audience. Obviously, I'd prefer that audience to be as big as possible.

At the same time, I don;t care enough to learn modding another game.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Galemp on November 04, 2004, 12:08:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
I prefer to take the stance "why should I care what the rest of the 'net thinks?"

Of course, that's the kind of mentality that got W re-elected...

/flame on
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Fineus on November 04, 2004, 12:12:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Galemp
Of course, that's the kind of mentality that got W re-elected...

/flame on

But, generally speaking, the administration of HLP has only ever stepped outside of our own community to interfere if we find that another community is having/making trouble with us.

Otherwise, what should we care whether the WC community thinks FreeSpace bombed the space combat genre? It doesn't need to affect us and we know that reasoning with them doesn't get anyone very far. It's mutually beneficial to just leave eachother alone.
Title: Re: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Rictor on November 04, 2004, 03:39:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
The only positive interactions we've had have been from the "We hate Derek Smart" demographic.

In other words, everyone.
United we stand, against The Smartness.

I am so smart, I am so smart
S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T
Title: Re: HLP and the Internet
Post by: HeX on November 04, 2004, 03:42:55 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
WS's official line is "HLP is full of pussies" last I heard,

:wtf:
That's NOT the official line. Just the opinions of some of the members. Hell, alot of Warpstormers are at or from HLP. WS is fine on terms "officially", that meaning my opinion. The rest can bite me. :p
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Post by: Lynx on November 04, 2004, 03:43:35 pm: Yeah, no need to continue pondering that issue. It stays quiet most of the time until some ****head starts a thread like this.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on November 04, 2004, 03:45:42 pm: DSC, or at least a part of it, likes you SCP guys.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Goober5000 on November 04, 2004, 03:48:58 pm: Who's DSC? :nervous:
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Post by: NGTM-1R on November 04, 2004, 03:49:49 pm: DropShipCommand.com

Big MechWarrior/BattleTech/MechAssault community.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: JR2000Z on November 04, 2004, 03:54:21 pm: Yes, we're the best community. HLP Represent!
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 03:56:58 pm: I am HLPPY
I am HLPPY......
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: HeX on November 04, 2004, 03:57:49 pm: Bah! Warpstorm forever! Drama Eternum! ;) :p
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 04:00:55 pm: Flamus Maximus!

Forward my Brothers! :p
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Post by: Thorn on November 04, 2004, 04:05:56 pm: HLP has replaced WS as the "Most Likely to Crash"
Why would we be pissed?
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: HeX on November 04, 2004, 04:06:43 pm: :lol:
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Post by: Cabbie on November 04, 2004, 04:22:32 pm: Why can't we sci-fi communities simply love each other?

::wraps barb wire around baseball bat ::
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Windrunner on November 04, 2004, 04:27:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
Flamus Maximus!

Forward my Brothers! :p

lol thats funny
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Post by: Shrike on November 04, 2004, 04:41:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
Why would we be pissed?
Because you got drunk last night? Or this morning?
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: HeX on November 04, 2004, 04:42:48 pm: Or both.
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Post by: Mongoose on November 04, 2004, 04:45:23 pm: You've got some friends in the Descent community (that is, if aldo doesn't stop flaming us (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,27667.0.html) :p). Hell, Inquisitor is one of the co-admins of PlanetDescent, and I know several Descenters who know and love the Freespace games.
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Post by: kode on November 04, 2004, 05:14:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Because you got drunk last night? Or this morning?

when is thorn sober? hell, he's the one person to post drunk more often than I. on ws, at least, now that T has left and gone sober.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Thorn on November 04, 2004, 05:49:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Because you got drunk last night? Or this morning?

I can't afford to get drunk.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Ford Prefect on November 04, 2004, 07:05:43 pm: I honestly just come here for chit-chat. I haven't played FS in months.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Black Wolf on November 04, 2004, 10:30:30 pm: Do spacebattles hate us?

And, err, if so, we can at least take solace in the fact that vast swathes of the internet do not even know we exist.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Knight Templar on November 04, 2004, 11:17:00 pm: Better to be notorious than anonymous, I say.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Setekh on November 05, 2004, 03:17:06 am: As far as I know, SB doesn't hate us. Have to ask Shrike, Styx and Tiara I guess. :p
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 05, 2004, 03:38:25 am: Yes, Tiara.

The woman who was debating wether the Galactic Empire could build a Dyson Sphere.

She's such a ****in' geek, it scares even me.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Lynx on November 05, 2004, 03:43:53 am: This types at SB are all weirdos. I just looked there and there's a thread where they discuss their penis sizes.:wtf:
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Martinus on November 05, 2004, 08:10:19 am: [color=66ff00]There's quite a few groups that despise us at the minute, off the top of my head:

alt.gamers.die.die.die
alt.must.flame.everyone
and for some peculiar reason alt.communities.suck.

I still haven't figured out why we're on their hate lists.
[/color]
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 05, 2004, 08:23:57 am: Because they're all a bunch of ****ing fags who live in their mom's basement, wrapped in their dressing gowns, eating a luke-warm bowl of Cheerios, *****ing about the world on the internet and wrongly believing that anyone gives a **** about their worthless opinions that're based on their extensive lack of anything resembling actual life experience in anything other than sitting on a couch, in their moms basement, dressed in a dressing gown, eating warm Cheerios.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Lynx on November 05, 2004, 11:14:10 am: Who? Those alt communities or SB?
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Post by: karajorma on November 05, 2004, 12:21:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
As far as I know, SB doesn't hate us. Have to ask Shrike, Styx and Tiara I guess. :p

Considering that I've seen about 20 or so HLP members over on SB I doubt anyone could get away with slagging off HLP for long :)
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Post by: Black Wolf on November 05, 2004, 12:23:49 pm: Unless they were really, really big and scary looking.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 05, 2004, 12:26:09 pm: Yeah, but we've got Tiara and Shrike.

No-one is bigger or scarier.
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Post by: Unknown Target on November 05, 2004, 12:34:05 pm: I think most everyone hates HLP, don't they? The only reason people know about us is usually because we got in some sort of fight with them.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 05, 2004, 12:40:54 pm: ****ing ingrates....
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Post by: Unknown Target on November 05, 2004, 12:51:38 pm: I would like it clarified, however, that pretty much everyone on SB is pretty ****ed up :D (and they're the biggest nerds I've ever seen, lol :D)
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Knight Templar on November 05, 2004, 04:36:46 pm: All the more reason why we should start a new forum invasion.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Shrike on November 05, 2004, 05:54:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Lynx
This types at SB are all weirdos. I just looked there and there's a thread where they discuss their penis sizes.:wtf:
There's a reason I try to avoid the NSF forum.... it scares me.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: deep_eyes on November 05, 2004, 06:53:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
All the more reason why we should start a new forum invasion.

did so in the STEAMPOWERED forums @ steampowered.com

home of the counter strike/ CS Source forums...

and boy they already dont like me HAHAHHA!
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 05, 2004, 07:09:01 pm: Anyone remember what that Freespace-based SD Shrike started over at SB was? I seem to remember it being the ancestor of NW or something....
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Unknown Target on November 05, 2004, 08:06:31 pm: ...I think we should have a designated HLP Assault team, for invading other forums :D We go in there and start double-whammy posting :D
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Post by: Hippo on November 05, 2004, 08:31:51 pm: *agrees*
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Post by: kode on November 05, 2004, 09:19:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Lynx
This types at SB are all weirdos. I just looked there and there's a thread where they discuss their penis sizes.:wtf:

:eek2:

now, what was my password to there again... can't be more than a year since my last visit...
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Post by: NGTM-1R on November 05, 2004, 10:47:14 pm: And, of course, they're all lying.
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Post by: Taristin on November 05, 2004, 10:55:58 pm: All but the ones who say 3 inches.
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Post by: Hollewanderer on November 07, 2004, 10:30:40 am: We love you too.:p
Title: Re: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Carl on November 07, 2004, 12:40:41 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Is there anyone we're on good terms with?

There's a state of cold-war with the WC community, 'we' seem to hate everything related to GS, DG got a chunk of the HW community pissed at us, WS's official line is "HLP is full of pussies" last I heard, I personally think SectorGame caters to whores...

And I can't think of one group of gamers or geeks who actually get on well with our *****es forumites.

I with you may be confusing "HLP" with "an0n"
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Kie99 on November 07, 2004, 01:29:28 pm: If we get slagged off who really gives a damn, at least we get noticed!
Title: Re: Re: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 07, 2004, 01:59:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Carl
I with you may be confusing "HLP" with "an0n"

"an0n is full of pussies"? :wtf:
Title: Re: Re: Re: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Martinus on November 07, 2004, 02:39:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

"an0n is full of pussies"? :wtf:

[color=66ff00]That chinese you had earlier, it wasn't chicken.
[/color]
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: Taristin on November 07, 2004, 03:21:20 pm: Damnit, shh! I had chinese for breakfast and I don't wanna hear how it was cat/dog/squirrel/emu...
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Post by: Black Wolf on November 07, 2004, 11:28:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
Damnit, shh! I had chinese for breakfast and I don't wanna hear how it was cat/dog/squirrel/emu...

Emu's actually not bad - expensive as hell unless you catch your own, but not bad.
Title: HLP and the Internet
Post by: an0n on November 07, 2004, 11:37:37 pm: Am I the only one who got a mental image of BW running round a zoo dressed as Rod Hull screaming "Big chickens, all for me!"?
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Post by: Black Wolf on November 07, 2004, 11:57:57 pm: Err... hopefully. :nervous:
Title: This MAY be a bad idea but...
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 08, 2004, 02:00:00 am: I have been to a few gaming communities and only have had an issue with one (the HW1 SAAB people, lying pricks).

Anyway please do not bug them but we are on decent terms with:

Klingon Academy
Shatterstar
Bridge Commander
Star Trek Unity (SFC3,BC,Armada combined forums)

As for Spacebattles.com I have been there 2 years and seen almost nothing against FS or HLP. In fact it's very well represented by us there! (including my fanfiction and numerous threads new people start that are FS related). Many people throw Shivans in their debates still.