[Polpolion]

Although I'm known to consider GenDisc isn't part of HLP anyway.

Goodness Gracious, quiet about this already. General Discussion has well over three times the number of posts as any other board here. They could be nothing but "lul derp dorp" and I'd still get mad at you for saying this every fifteen minutes.

[MatthTheGeek]

General Discussion has well over three times the number of posts as any other board here.

GenDisc is too mainstream.

[Scotty]

Hmmm, could I nominate Battuta's Uberbomber Bug thread for classics then?  It was amusing, painted a very good picture of what was going on with HLP at the time (War in Heaven was/is arguably the biggest project on HLP; also SCP stuff), and it's been mentioned quite a few times since.

[NGTM-1R]

I'd still say we need to dig out the Pure Battleship/Pure Carrier threadnaughts, if anybody can find them, since they run to the heart of a lot FS design decisions and what people argue about for tactics.

Or at least part of them. The fifty pages of extraneous TrashMan I remember too might not be necessary.

[karajorma]

Hmmm, could I nominate Battuta's Uberbomber Bug thread for classics then?  It was amusing, painted a very good picture of what was going on with HLP at the time (War in Heaven was/is arguably the biggest project on HLP; also SCP stuff), and it's been mentioned quite a few times since.

Link.

[The_Force]

Hmmm, could I nominate Battuta's Uberbomber Bug thread for classics then?  It was amusing, painted a very good picture of what was going on with HLP at the time (War in Heaven was/is arguably the biggest project on HLP; also SCP stuff), and it's been mentioned quite a few times since.

Link.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70050.0

[headdie]

I knew that thread was good, but i forgot just how good lol, can we please have that one in the classics, especially with it having a cautionary tale in there from some of the most experienced community members.

[Goober5000]

That one I would agree qualifies as a Classic thread.

EDIT: Hang on.  That appears to be a parody of the original bug hunting thread.  Where's the original?

[Scotty]

Battuta posted two bug-hunting threads.  That one was by far the most amusing.

If there was another, years older one that he was parodying, I've never heard of it.

[MatthTheGeek]

There's the one about the AoA mission in the nebula, where some tester was shooting at friendlies all the time and hence completely blew up the whole timing of the mission. And made ttuta bleed out on his keyboard.

[LordPomposity]

There's the one about the AoA mission in the nebula, where some tester was shooting at friendlies all the time and hence completely blew up the whole timing of the mission. And made ttuta bleed out on his keyboard.

Are you thinking of this one: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69103.0

Or is there another?

[MatthTheGeek]

Yes, that's the one I was thinking about.

[Scotty]

Merge the two threads and title it "Blue Planet Bughunting Shenanigans"?  They both probably honestly deserve it.

[NGTM-1R]

Battleship Threadnaught That I Found First

This stuff is making me nostalgic for the days when people participated in GenFS.

Carrier Threadnaught That I Found First

[Polpolion]

really tempted to look through that battleship thread but i'm afraid I might find one of my posts...

[NGTM-1R]

Alternate Carrier Threadnaught

[NGTM-1R]

really tempted to look through that battleship thread but i'm afraid I might find one of my posts...

I doubt it. These threads appear to predate your joining the forums.

The most concise while covering all relevant points and least oh-god-look-at-these-assholes-****-up-the-place one is probably the Alternate Carrier Threadnaught, but it opens with several pages that aren't on point. The other two are heavily TrashMan-infested and as such drag for pages and pages of obstinate misbehavior, but they're thorough.

I believe there's a fourth Carrier/Battleship Threadnaught out there because I distinctly recall an unholy teamup against TrashMan that involved Aldo, Karaj, StratComm, and myself (with guest appearances by Flipside and others), and that group isn't actually present as one in any of these threads. But even if this Fourth Thread exists it's probably an unholy mess.

[Mongoose]

I'd vote for Battman bleeding over losing hair.  The former was an absolutely-ridiculous bug with an arcane root cause, and the subsequent posts by the other coders do a great job of revealing how insane the codebase can get.

[BlueFlames]

I believe there's a fourth Carrier/Battleship Threadnaught out there...

If you're crazy enough to keep looking for it, you might try digging through threads about the Colossus.  They often turned into speculation about how the GTVA's ship building philosophy would develop, post-Capella, and they'd be inevitably primed for a carrier versus battleship debate by discussion of the Colossus' turret layout.

[achtung]

I sadly just realized I was featured in that first X-COM thread.