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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Carl on October 21, 2001, 03:31:00 am
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I'm so glad this site exists. The VBB has gotten 5x worse in the last month, and I don't see an end to this trend coming any time soon. I remember way back in the days of yore (a year and a half ago) when everyone was nice, there was almost no flaming, and the admins patrolled the board with the mighty Hammer of VBB Justice. there was a new page every day, and all the topics were decent and Freespace related.
But now the Admins are gone, the Newbies and flamers have taken over, and the board has descended into chaos. There are only a few topics that actually have to do with Freespace, and posting has dropped to one third the amount it used to be. Anyone can do anything and get away with it. All of the old fanboys have gone. If only Daveb would return and smite the trouble makers with his hammer, the forum would be filled with laughter and glee once more! But alas, the V-gods have abandoned us (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
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True enough, it's a shame but... well at least we have here (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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I just checked the VBB - it's terrible. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
Not that I'd miss this opportunity to say that HLP still rocks. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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The collective IQ in that Monkey pit is that of the stupidest member divided by the total number of registered members. Personally I think most of the Monkeys that appear to populate that place nowerdays are too young to understand and/or care about what their pointless posts are doing.
Thank the Monkey for HLP (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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How come things always change like that were its all fine and perefct with harldy anything making you mad and nothing anoying, but when you leave for a little or let something go for a second it all turns to chaos (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign ("http://www.vidavision.com/entertainment/drzer0/index.html")
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" - untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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actually, the RFPCVBB is still relativly sane, with only the occasional tit shouting 'PS2 RO><0Rs yu0r PC'...
the less said about the RFPS2VBB, the Summoner boards & the FS2 boards the better (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
NO!!! Its a Hyperkinetic Rabbity thing!!!
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The VBB is dead. Sad but true.
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Burn Baby Burn!
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Originally posted by Wildfire:
The VBB is dead. Sad but true.
Correction, rolling around on the floor dying in an immense amount of pain but not yet dead.
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The history of the VBB goes something like this. It’s a beloved hometown that you’ve lived in since you were born. Then, one day, a giant, evil megacorp run by a bunch of Morons who literally think they know more than you (but never aptly demonstrate this (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif) ) comes into this town and basically takes it over, destroying the old way of life, the culture, the very community
that held it together. To add insult to injury, the new owners of this desecrated town make sure to rub these facts in the faces of the original residents everyday. They then proceed to mock just about everything and everyone that remains, peeing on old customs and flaming down each other.
Kinda like what happened in Afghanistan. The moment the admins pulled out, everybody sorta just turned on everybody. A savage, wild pack of scavangers picking at the emaciated body of the VBB.
Still, as everyone said, HLP remains a haven for those who want justice in FreeSpace discussions and don't want to worry about flame wars and that kind of nonsense. Unlike on the VBB, we can take comfort in a sense of security here.
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I haven't been to the VBB since...
Well, a long time...
I'm actually afraid to look, because I'll probably start crying...
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The events at the VBB in the past two years are explained by the below link. http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame67.html ("http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame67.html")
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Yay for the HLP!
Thank god somebody at the VBB refered me to this site, I was about to abandon my project altogether until I got here.
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Thats why I don't visit the VBB near as much as I used to. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif) I miss the days when Volition would interact with ppl. Now you're lucky if you get a reply from them.
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"You know you've played Freespace too much when you're driving along trying to use countermeasures to shake off pursuing highway police." - Top Gun
Material Defender Studios ("http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/index.html")
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Originally posted by Slasher:
Unlike on the VBB, we can take comfort in a sense of security here.
(http://www.caesar3.com/images/ppl-vigil.gif)
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It isn't quite that bad. Unless it's managed to disintegrate totally during the weekend...
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Your right, it really has gone bad, and I should know, I just came over here and registered.
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Without the VBB, where would we people with nothing to say and a lot of time to say it go?
But seriously. The VBB is better than could be expected from an unmoderated forum (this I can say from experience, as a member of several other aging game forums who have been more or less abandoned), and worse than could be expected from humans (as opposed to, say, howler monkeys ("http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame49.html"), who are apparently the dominant form of life in many parts of the internet. Look at it this way: the VBB catches all the jerks, and when (if?) they grow up, they move on to the HLP. Sorta a rite of passage. It still serves a function in the community, albeit a limited and unenviable one, so be glad you've grtaduated, and never look back.
[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 10-22-2001).]
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it's like the VBB is Earth, and HLP is Heaven
(and Warpstorm is Hell)
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Does that make me God?
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No, that makes Setekh God
that would make you an angel or something...
(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif) j/k Thunder (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
[This message has been edited by Mystical (edited 10-22-2001).]
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How did I get in? That Peter dude must be one sucker...
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heh
[This message has been edited by delta_7890 (edited 10-22-2001).]
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Nah, it's just that the people who act like jerks over there tweak their demented behavior and Monkey attitude when they visit here. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
But seriously. The VBB is better than could be expected from an unmoderated forum (this I can say from experience, as a member of several other aging game forums who have been more or less abandoned)
The sad thing is, that the VBB did used to be moderated. The devs were around talking to us and everything, and we made new discoveries and had sane, intelligent discussions. Not anymore - they're all too busy RF and Summonering. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
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Originally posted by Carl:
it's like the VBB is Earth, and HLP is Heaven
(and Warpstorm is Hell)
*cue harp music*
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"You know you've played Freespace too much when you're driving along trying to use countermeasures to shake off pursuing highway police." - Top Gun
Material Defender Studios ("http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/index.html")
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Originally posted by Setekh:
The sad thing is, that the VBB did used to be moderated. The devs were around talking to us and everything, and we made new discoveries and had sane, intelligent discussions. Not anymore - they're all too busy RF and Summonering. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
Lost interest? We could take over those boards and ask them questions and stuff...[ (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif) rubs hands together]
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we've tried asking them questions alot, but they don't respond. the next time anyone interviews a V guy, ask them why they can't take 5 mintues to delete stupid topics will ya?
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Because then the board would be empty.
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Mostly because, like it or not, FS has died. Why would the developers care when they have new programs and settings like summoner and Red Faction to work with.
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Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Mostly because, like it or not, FS has died.
I used to think of that as a possibility, but then we opened up HLP! And look at how this place is flourishing. VW is still going strong, too. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Mostly because, like it or not, FS has died. Why would the developers care when they have new programs and settings like summoner and Red Faction to work with.
FS died?! It may have aged yes, but it's not yet dead. the Babylon Mod prooves decisively that FS is still alive and kicking.
The VBB on the other hand... Send it to Kabul to get bombed. Once it's cleansed this way it can return (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80:
FS died?! It may have aged yes, but it's not yet dead. the Babylon Mod prooves decisively that FS is still alive and kicking.
The VBB on the other hand... Send it to Kabul to get bombed. Once it's cleansed this way it can return (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Or make me an admin for about 10 minutes. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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"You know you've played Freespace too much when you're driving along trying to use countermeasures to shake off pursuing highway police." - Top Gun
Material Defender Studios ("http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/index.html")
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Originally posted by MD-2389:
Or make me an admin for about 10 minutes. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Or Me for about 0.00010 minutes (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)
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Originally posted by Slasher:
The history of the VBB goes something like this. It’s a beloved hometown that you’ve lived in since you were born. Then, one day, a giant, evil megacorp run by a bunch of Morons who literally think they know more than you (but never aptly demonstrate this (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif) ) comes into this town and basically takes it over, destroying the old way of life, the culture, the very community
that held it together. To add insult to injury, the new owners of this desecrated town make sure to rub these facts in the faces of the original residents everyday. They then proceed to mock just about everything and everyone that remains, peeing on old customs and flaming down each other.
Well I guess thats it for that town
but its more like a nuclear test corp full of incompitant idouts running it carelessly but its so small atfirst that you harldy notice it untill they do something big but after a while it all simmers down and is forgoten and it happends a few times untill something ereversable happends and... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign ("http://www.vidavision.com/entertainment/drzer0/index.html")
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" - untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
[This message has been edited by Dr.Zer0 (edited 10-24-2001).]
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Originally posted by Setekh:
I used to think of that as a possibility, but then we opened up HLP! And look at how this place is flourishing. VW is still going strong, too. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
hence why I pimp this place instead of the VBB everywhere I mention freespace.
And WS used to be hell, until the past few weeks when we decided to clamp down on the troublemakers. now things are going great (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
by the way,I need yo to ICQ me setekh, I got a present for ya (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Currently experiencing the unbridled excitement of interstellar commerce
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I'm still there, but mostly on the RF and FRED2 forums. The FS forum has mostly, but not entirely, turned into a personal playground for Newbies.
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You know I pridected it all
It was first the RF forum and then I pridected that it might spread to the FS forum, I hoped it wouldent but after a few newbies came it started to all begin
I think it was all becuase of RF and since it was alot bigger than FS they all went to the (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/v.gif) site and found the forum went to the RF bored then saw the FS forum and saw how meny posts it had and thought it was good for newbies and flames and... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign ("http://www.vidavision.com/entertainment/drzer0/index.html")
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" - untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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You likely did, but since little of what you say makes any sense or has any meaning, nobody could understand you. It's tough being an inarticulate prophet.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
You likely did, but since little of what you say makes any sense or has any meaning, nobody could understand you. It's tough being an inarticulate prophet.
Its becuase you are not a newbie (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
or atleast semi newbie(and dont call me a newbie I can jsut uh think like a newbie (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign ("http://www.vidavision.com/entertainment/drzer0/index.html")
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" - untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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My point exactly. My vocabulary-challenged compatriot, I fully comprehend that you are not a newbie, but rather among the elder members of the game. However, that would appear to have little or nothing to do with speech patterns or the propensity for fortelling the distant future.
(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
And yes, I'm extremely bored over here.
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maybe you should play with your goat.
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I think this one has outlived it's purpose...