[CP5670]

I thought I would educate some of the newer members here on ancient Freespace culture.

A venerable tradition.

Probably THE definitive community classic.

An old bug in MT-07 that was fun because of its rarity more than anything else.

I like this one. In case anyone does not know, Fattony=an0n.

I guess he eventually read this.

The official word on it and a few other interesting responses.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to post something like this when the next thread on it comes up.

Fun times in squadwar.

And more of the same a year later.

This wouldn't have been so funny...

...if it wasn't followed by this a day later.

This only started happening a year or two after FS2's release, but then became common.

Very classy indeed. I have yet to see anything comparable on any other forum.

The original noob basher, although someone beat him to it here.

And once again.

This was apparently happening often enough to warrant a ready-made response.

The HLP guys goofing off.

I need to find that news article on here about this.

The closing days of a once great place.

And to end this off, a look at this place. Check out the frequency of the updates back then.


There are plenty of other good threads or incidents that come to mind (RAMALAMADINGDONG squadron, RAMALAMADINGDONG campaign, RJM's spamming spree, HFB's spamming spree, the Gkar thread, any post by Malbouef, Klee Vahj or Shivan1001, ZB's Vasudan song animation, etc.), but they apparently were not picked up by the crawler.

This is the result of having two hours off at the university with absolutely nothing to do. I'll need to get used to it this semester.

[BlackDove]

Someone managed to find the VBB archive.

Man I still love the ubb layout to this day. Btw, Zylon made the Multiple Violations Flash.

Also "The Closing days of once a great place" is kind of a misnomer. Squad War forums were closed way before the rest, and they were never a great place

Also you need to bring Procyon Insurgency to the god damn university and finish the **** already.

[CP5670]

Also "The Closing days of once a great place" is kind of a misnomer. Squad War forums were closed way before the rest, and they were never a great place

It was great in the sense that it made excellent reading every morning.

Also you need to bring Procyon Insurgency to the god damn university and finish the **** already.

I'm surprised you still remember the name. It's old enough that I found a few references to it over there. However, my laptop is hosed and out for replacement, and even if it was working, it can't handle FRED (or any other 3D app) for more than about 10 minutes before overheating and throttling.

[Turey]

ZB's Vasudan song animation

This?

If so, one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[Cobra]

Man, I missed a lot.

...lots of spammage, lots of craziness...

[EDIT] Sweet jesus, that movie is funny as hell.

[redsniper]

Heh, I remember some of the VBB shenanigans from back in my lurking days. TaS, oh man...

[BlackDove]

I'm surprised you still remember the name. It's old enough that I found a few references to it over there. However, my laptop is hosed and out for replacement, and even if it was working, it can't handle FRED (or any other 3D app) for more than about 10 minutes before overheating and throttling.

Excuses!

By the way, remember Freakspace and Timmy?

Also we can't forget The Oracle. I think Oracle is one of the things I miss the most. It was the only place where you could have Descartes, Asuka Soryu Langley and Kazan come and share their opinions.

[CP5670]

Excuses!

Believe it or not, I still work on it on and off, whenever I have the inclination. I won't say anything about a release date though.

By the way, remember Freakspace and Timmy?

Also we can't forget The Oracle. I think Oracle is one of the things I miss the most. It was the only place where you could have Descartes, Asuka Soryu Langley and Kazan come and share their opinions.

Very nice, looks like you have the whole thing over there. I found one thread on Freakspace in the WM archive but the links were all dead.

This?

If so, one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Yes, that's the one I had in mind. I guess it came out a bit later than I thought.

[WMCoolmon]

Hehe.

[Herra Tohtori]

Haha, these things seem to have been priceless...

Anyway, the Rawhide link and a comment about Vasudans getting too much Bosch Beer led me for some reason to do a google image search with "Bosch Beer". This is what came up...




How fitting that it depicts a man fishing...

[CP5670]

There used to be another drink they made called Bosch Power Mix. I distinctly remember everyone laughing about it back then, but I can't seem to find any images or references of it now.

[Mobius]

There are the Bosch batteries too. They power up ETAK.

[Unknown Target]

ZB's Vasudan song animation

This?

If so, one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Oh my GOD I've been looking for that for ages! Thanks!

[Harbinger of DOOM]

I like this one. In case anyone does not know, Fattony=an0n.

Poor an0n.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Man I remember those days.  The drinking and provking.  Leaving work early to make a Squadwar that would end up posponed anyways.  Eth hanging out in the lobby with the big sippy cup of coffee.  Spending more time BSing in the lobby than playing.  The lovely lobby splats.  The Entities. 


Glad to see you found those archives.   There some stuff in those that I've been looking for.

[Snail]

an0n wasn't a freaking scary monster at that time? Whoa.

[BlackDove]

Well, he had to become one to stay in that environment.

[Snail]

WHO the **** is DaPhatPimp?

Is he the sole reason VBB died?

[CP5670]

I remember this one well. Probably among the best of them:

Man I remember those days.  The drinking and provking.  Leaving work early to make a Squadwar that would end up posponed anyways.  Eth hanging out in the lobby with the big sippy cup of coffee.  Spending more time BSing in the lobby than playing.  The lovely lobby splats.  The Entities.

Glad to see you found those archives.   There some stuff in those that I've been looking for.

Haha, I remember Eth. Great guy, seemed to be on PXO almost all the time.

Most of the threads are lost, unfortunately. Only a handful of the thread links work, and in some cases only the first page of a thread was archived.

Well, he had to become one to stay in that environment.

Actually, I think he was banned there at some point, although I can't remember why.

WHO the **** is DaPhatPimp?

Is he the sole reason VBB died?

Nah, the Squadwar section was already going to be removed due to all the fighting there. I guess everyone in multiplayer was a bit pissed off at Volition at that point (support was nonexistent), but some people went too far with it. The rest of the VBB was taken down six months later.

[BlackDove]

It was a THQ decision, they even got THQ moderators on there to just handle the thing before it shut down.

Squad War forums didn't really degenerate because of the lack of support was more prominent there, they got shut down first because those forums bred a special type of player akin to the general CounterStrike fanbase. Everyone who was smart, and had some practical skills be it modeling, texturing, FREDing etc. was likely to have a brain. Those people habited the Freespace or FREDing forums. The average multiplayer fan however, had no brain whatsoever. So the place degenerated at a higher pace.