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Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: sleeper on July 04, 2002, 03:28:41 am
No offence but the VBB was just so much fun...

*sigh*

What really gets to me is that they still havn't taken down that link to it on all their pages =\

I guess I'm just venting, sorry...
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: CP5670 on July 04, 2002, 03:32:58 am
yeah I know what you mean... :/
Title: Re: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Darkage on July 04, 2002, 04:03:49 am
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Originally posted by sleeper
No offence but the VBB was just so much fun...

*sigh*

What really gets to me is that they still havn't taken down that link to it on all their pages =\

I guess I'm just venting, sorry...




The glory days where fun but the year off hell wasn't fun.

I hope you ment the glory days, otherwise you found the spam fun.

I like this BB much better then the VBB. You can actualy learn something here.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2002, 04:04:09 am
I don`t miss most of the VBB. There were a lot of pointless flames/trolls on that board.

I DO miss the Fred forum though. That place was nice and quiet except for real questions about Fred.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Darkage on July 04, 2002, 04:08:46 am
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Originally posted by karajorma
I don`t miss most of the VBB. There were a lot of pointless flames/trolls on that board.

I DO miss the Fred forum though. That place was nice and quiet except for real questions about Fred.



That was indeed the most usefull forum there was. i learned most of my fred1/2 skillz from there.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 06:40:55 am
Yea, well you were the lucky one, I had to learn by bashing my head into the keyboard and being flamed for my horrible missions:p
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: saturn114 on July 04, 2002, 11:11:24 am
that used to one of the coolest forums ou there lol
lotsof llamies
trolls and the infamous tell a stroy thread
anyone remmebr the total bs on that thread is  was a wfully funny
and no tonly that but i was well known on that forum
:D
yeah that was the =best no trashed rep or anything just being  cool
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: TheVirtu on July 04, 2002, 11:24:37 am
HLP supports the English language, not jibberish :)
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: saturn114 on July 04, 2002, 11:40:11 am
sorry  poor grammar?
:doh:

i wass trying to say  yeah i miss the VBB too everyonr undertood me and i didnt havea bad rep arrrghhh
whatsthe differnce between then and now?
what can't you guys understand saturniun english?
lol

am i that different?
:jaw: :mad:
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2002, 01:27:19 pm
I`ve never understood this. Why is it that it's people from the USA who have really dreadful grammer? :confused:

There are tonnes of people who don`t speak english as their first language who write much more easily understood comments.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: vadar_1 on July 04, 2002, 01:37:55 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma
I`ve never understood this. Why is it that it's people from the USA who have really dreadful grammer? :confused:

There are tonnes of people who don`t speak english as their first language who write much more easily understood comments.


Because the Americans (Canadians don't... because we are just better :rolleyes: ), like to abuse their language, just because they think everyone can figure it out. They are lazy, and don't wish to look up words they do not know, or check structural grammatical integrity.

no offence to anyone of course :)
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Darkage on July 04, 2002, 01:48:20 pm
I am actualy glad they closed the VBB, damn what a place of crap was that. The one thing the should have kept open was the Fred forum.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 01:51:15 pm
I'm glad that they closed everything, and not just the Freespace forum.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Darkage on July 04, 2002, 01:52:51 pm
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
I'm glad that they closed everything, and not just the Freespace forum.


You must admit the Fred forum was the only place left worth posting, i know there would be a flame from time to time but it was never as bad as the General FS forum.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: CP5670 on July 04, 2002, 03:28:10 pm
It was really fun to read though. Nothing like a couple pages of flames to start off the day. :D

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I`ve never understood this. Why is it that it's people from the USA who have really dreadful grammer?  


I'm not that bad. :p But most people I know are. :D Probably because the public education system here is completely worthless.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2002, 03:39:12 pm
I wasn`t saying that all people from the USA have bad grammer. Just that the people on forums like this one who do are almost always from the USA. Never the UK or australia or any other English speaking country.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: IceFire on July 04, 2002, 10:26:15 pm
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I wasn`t saying that all people from the USA have bad grammer. Just that the people on forums like this one who do are almost always from the USA. Never the UK or australia or any other English speaking country.

Most of the Americans here take their time and post structurally sound sentences and paragraphs too.  Its demographics.

I won't miss the VBB on bit...except that it kept alot of the nasty stuff away from things here.  What I love about this forum is the intelligence and integrity of most of the people around here.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Blue Lion on July 04, 2002, 11:13:17 pm
Hey, I went to public schools and I think my grammar is alright

*tests grammar*

 Yea, it works

 Anyway, I miss the VBB, mainly the *dramatic music* SW forum! Not so much the flames, which I hated, but seeing all my buddies that I missed on PXO that day or whatever. No matter what anyone says, the bulk of the SW guys were cool and good friends, we just lost our place to hang out as most didn't make the jump to HLP :(
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: ZylonBane on July 05, 2002, 01:27:27 am
Ahh, FRED2 forum, ye shall be missed.

I never could figure out why the spammers mostly left us alone. Not that I'm complaining. The mind of a spammer (as such) is an inscrutable thing.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: sleeper on July 05, 2002, 02:18:10 am
I was speeking mostly of the year 2000. Oh there were trolls and such but it was fun danm it.

Not sure if I had a bad 'rep' or not but getting into debaits with RJM Mal Vert or anyone from LOA was always worth my time.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: penguin on July 05, 2002, 08:06:37 am
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Hey, I went to public schools and I think my grammar is alright
alright isn't even a word :p  You didn't go to Baltimore City public schools by any chance, did you, BL? ;)

For those of you outside Maryland, one of Charm City's slogans is "The City That Reads," posted at bus stops, etc.  Many of them have been vandalized to such clever things as(I too am a product of the public school system, and a really swell state university)

EDIT: fixed misspellings!  :doh:  Boy is my face red.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Unknown Target on July 05, 2002, 08:34:49 am
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Originally posted by IceFire

 the intelligence and integrity of most of the people around here.


Most, unfortunately....:(:sigh:
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: IceFire on July 05, 2002, 10:46:11 am
Can't win all of the battles unfortunately...
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Lonestar on July 05, 2002, 01:52:20 pm
LOL, the VBB is bad.

Most game forums are worse then the VBB ever was. The difference is the other game forums were moderated, VBB wasnt.

For an unmoderated board, it wasnt nearly as bad as others think.

VBB may have had its bad apples, but which site doesnt. Im sure this place has banned its fair share. Or atleast warned a few
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Blue Lion on July 05, 2002, 02:50:28 pm
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Originally posted by penguin
alright isn't even a word :p  You didn't go to Baltimore City public schools by any chance, did you, BL? ;)



 No, Balt County :p
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: killadonuts on July 06, 2002, 05:25:50 am
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Originally posted by IceFire

I won't miss the VBB on bit...except that it kept alot of the nasty stuff away from things here.  What I love about this forum is the intelligence and integrity of most of the people around here.


After the glory days (and yes, I was there), all I ever saw on that forum were a bunch of whiny newbies all complaining to each other about how much they want fs3 and when it would come out, etc.
At least nobody here at the HLPBB announces the 100th post. :D
That was another thing the VBB was always full of.
At times it was just such an unpleasant place because of all the worthless threads and all the flaming.
I diddn't see much of the good times but I saw enough to understand what this is all about
Now I only come here and the VWBB exclusively.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: sleeper on July 06, 2002, 06:46:17 am
I kinda enjoyed the 100th post smacking to be honest.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Warlock on July 06, 2002, 09:18:07 am
*sigh*

Yea the old days ruled. Sadly the closing ofthe SW Forum was kind of the first stone that tore it all down. EVERYthing went downhill from there.

Even sadder is the fact that with a very very LITTLE support from V,...FS2 and SW could have gone one to outlive many other games and make one hell of a name for itself.

I'm kinna suprised it ever lasted this long without any support.

But now ...SW itself is on barrowed time,...I mean all it takes is a few teams to lock up matches and it's done with. Hell right now a new player can't play fs2 online AT ALL because PXO never emails new accounts. No new teams are able to sign up for SW at all.

It's all just a big damned shame.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: the slammer on July 06, 2002, 05:13:32 pm
I agree with most of the sentiment here--although I came across the VBB near the end of its lifespan, I saw the place gradually go to hell under the constant barrage of flamers, trolls, and whiny newbies.  Too bad, it was fun while it lasted.

Erase the hate, people!  Can't we all just get along!?  ;)

Also, I'm from the U.S. and public school educated, and i can read and write just good.
Title: God I miss the VBB
Post by: Blue Lion on July 06, 2002, 08:22:30 pm
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Originally posted by Warlock
*sigh*

Yea the old days ruled. Sadly the closing ofthe SW Forum was kind of the first stone that tore it all down. EVERYthing went downhill from there.

Even sadder is the fact that with a very very LITTLE support from V,...FS2 and SW could have gone one to outlive many other games and make one hell of a name for itself.

I'm kinna suprised it ever lasted this long without any support.

But now ...SW itself is on barrowed time,...I mean all it takes is a few teams to lock up matches and it's done with. Hell right now a new player can't play fs2 online AT ALL because PXO never emails new accounts. No new teams are able to sign up for SW at all.

It's all just a big damned shame.



 Do you know how much fun we could have if we had the power to run SW? Dammit.....Be like old times

*goes nostalgic*