Grimwell.com is back

[Velorath]

What all the diaspora sites need is more people.  Or at least each other, but I guess that'll never happen.     We could be a little more welcoming here.  Perhaps some new blood would actually have something new to say?  OK, that's unlikely, but perhaps they'd at least regurgitate the same crap we've been spewing for five years in a slightly different pattern.

Yeah, you fuckers chased thejeni away when all she wanted to do was give us the gift of a website that gets us in touch with all our old MMO friends.  It would have ushererd in a new age of love and understanding you guys threw it all away.

[RhyssaFireheart]

2.  This Grimwell guy is a moron, did any of you actually read that stationpass review thing?  He said something along the lines of SWG has made great improvements and is an awesome game if only it wasn't called StarWars.  He's like the Satan to f13's Jesus, I for one hate him. 

Grimwell didn't write the station pass review.  At least have the decency to check the author before calling someone a moron.

[Shockeye]

Not counting Shockeye

[Hoax]

2.  This Grimwell guy is a moron, did any of you actually read that stationpass review thing?  He said something along the lines of SWG has made great improvements and is an awesome game if only it wasn't called StarWars.  He's like the Satan to f13's Jesus, I for one hate him. 

Grimwell didn't write the station pass review.  At least have the decency to check the author before calling someone a moron.

He should have the decency not to let a review that is that retarded be associated with his name then, isn't it enough I read half of something that stupid?

[Fabricated]

I don't know if I've seen any new posters shit on for no good reason. The only one there was ever any debate over was the guy who insisted on using an elaborate system of color text and italics to quote people and respond as opposed to the quote functions which were there for a reason.

The rest were mostly the trolls who came to the SWG thread.

As for Grimwell, I know nothing of the pre-F13 drama nor do I know anything about Grimwell. Thus I could not fucking care in the least. You people take this internet shit very seriously.

[Signe]

Besides Mr. Grimwell, I can see almost everyone there over here and it saves me a walk across the interwebs.

[tazelbain]

Walking is good for you; it'll burn off some of the extra sass.

[HaemishM]

Or something, I hate it when I feel like I've missed a good thread.

Then this thread should make you feel just fine.

2.  This Grimwell guy is a moron, did any of you actually read that stationpass review thing?  He said something along the lines of SWG has made great improvements and is an awesome game if only it wasn't called StarWars.  He's like the Satan to f13's Jesus, I for one hate him. 

Grimwell didn't write the station pass review.  At least have the decency to check the author before calling someone a moron.

He should have the decency not to let a review that is that retarded be associated with his name then, isn't it enough I read half of something that stupid?

You've obviously never read anything Geldon has put up then. Avail thyself now, take a shower and come back.

EDIT: Yes I've been pwned by the quote function.

[Furiously]

I don't know - if we all thought the same - the world would be a pretty uninteresting place.

[HaemishM]

I have no problem with different thoughts. I just want to read them without wanting to stab the author in the face for being a stupid assmonkey.

[Hoax]

God damn I'm having a hard time this morning (need coffee or something) but are you saying that I'm right or stupid and should read more crap by the guy who said:

SWG is perhaps the most improved game in MMORPG history. I dug up my old Smuggler/Pistoleer/Explorer and sunk another 20 hours into SWG to give it a fair shake, but in all honestly, I've barely scratched the surface. During my subscription period alone they added a brand new tutorial system and multi-seat ground passenger transports. The real driving part of my reason to subscribe was to try out the new combat system. The verdict: Combat has definitely improved in terms of convenience and ease of use, but it wasn't quite as involving as I would like due to lack of influential moves.

I'm thinking this was right after the CU, but I really couldn't give a fuck when it was exactly on the timeline of ass. Perhaps saying this Grimwell guy is a tool for letting that type of shit get posted on his site is taking it too far.  But I'm fairly certain if you folks ever gave out a bluename for something that stupid and put it on the front page I'd say the same thing about you guys (except Shockeye because he scares me).

[Signe]

Oh, I don't know... if we all thought the same as I do, it would intensely fun, in my opinion.  Well, we might have to have a designated driver. 

[Furiously]

God damn I'm having a hard time this morning (need coffee or something) but are you saying that I'm right or stupid and should read more crap by the guy who said:

SWG is perhaps the most improved game in MMORPG history. I dug up my old Smuggler/Pistoleer/Explorer and sunk another 20 hours into SWG to give it a fair shake, but in all honestly, I've barely scratched the surface. During my subscription period alone they added a brand new tutorial system and multi-seat ground passenger transports. The real driving part of my reason to subscribe was to try out the new combat system. The verdict: Combat has definitely improved in terms of convenience and ease of use, but it wasn't quite as involving as I would like due to lack of influential moves.

I'm thinking this was right after the CU, but I really couldn't give a fuck when it was exactly on the timeline of ass. Perhaps saying this Grimwell guy is a tool for letting that type of shit get posted on his site is taking it too far.  But I'm fairly certain if you folks ever gave out a bluename for something that stupid and put it on the front page I'd say the same thing about you guys (except Shockeye because he scares me).

I guess I'm not seeing where the author is killing babies in this piece. They indicate the game is improved, caveat it with 20 hours, talk about some new systems, then talk about the new combat being better but not that involving.

Perhaps you can show me on this Darth Vader doll where the dev team touched you....

[HaemishM]

It was on his lightsaber, of course.

[Shockeye]

I would like to point out that I'm not that scary. In fact, compared to someone like koboshi I'm downright sweet.

[Simond]

Best opinion piece ever posted to Grimwell.

[schild]

Best opinion piece ever posted to Grimwell.

Hey now, that got mainpage slashdotted if I remember correctly.

[Simond]

Hey now, that got mainpage slashdotted if I remember correctly.

There are a significant number of MMOG players who want(ed) WoW to fail.
Coincidentally, a lot of them can be found on the Vanguard board nowadays.

[Nebu]

There are a significant number of MMOG players who want(ed) WoW to fail.
Coincidentally, a lot of them can be found on the Vanguard board nowadays.

I wanted WoW to fail and you will not find me among the poopsock color guard flocking to Vanguard. 

[Daeven]

Ohh! new topics to discuss! ok. Apparently, John Carmack 'hates' to do multithreading because it is hard. Further, WoW dies a hideous death when presented with the technical challenge of operating in a threadsafe manner on a dual core machine. in fact, a large number of recent releases require the user to undergo hoop-jumping by forcing the game to only execute on one processor in a multi-processor environment.

Discuss.

Or not.

Whatever really.

[Furiously]

You ever get that deja vu feeling something is missing?

[Morfiend]

Speaking of Geld, he did have one of the all time best "Im taking my ball and going home" threads ever. I still chuckle thinking about it. Specially when he came back 10 days later.

[Shockeye]

Whatever happened to Stray?

[EDIT] I guess his New Years Resolution was to never come back: Last Active:  December 31, 2005, 11:11:28 PM

[Cheddar]

Whatever happened to Stray?

[EDIT] I guess his New Years Resolution was to never come back: Last Active:  December 31, 2005, 11:11:28 PM

Or he died.

[Signe]

I miss Stray.     I think he left because of mean people.  (not me)   

[Velorath]

Whatever happened to Stray?

[EDIT] I guess his New Years Resolution was to never come back: Last Active:  December 31, 2005, 11:11:28 PM

I think that thread about the Exorcism of Emily Rose or whatever finally drove him away.  Signe is right.  You guys were mean to him.

[Shockeye]

I think he sold his computer to fund his growing meth addiction.

[schild]

Here's my opinion on Stray. He had 4500+ posts. Meanness should not have driven him away. Also, he was very good at taking positions in discussion he knew would get argued about. He didn't troll, per se, and I liked him more than most. But when the arguing happened, he got discouraged. The Emily Rose thread drove him nuts. He doesn't have the thick skin Paelos has about his religion. He was the "my religion found me" type and not the other way around. His leaving was inevitable as many here will laugh when you say you believe in the unbelievable.

In other words, where Paelos shows strength, Stray showed weakness.

[Hoax]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=5450.msg144184#msg144184

I went back and looked, now I sort of feel bad I liked Stray, I just thought he came completely out of right field with that whole swine comment.

Was his sig always in Latin?  Also do we want to know what it translates to?

[Paelos]

Here's my opinion on Stray. He had 4500+ posts. Meanness should not have driven him away. Also, he was very good at taking positions in discussion he knew would get argued about. He didn't troll, per se, and I liked him more than most. But when the arguing happened, he got discouraged. The Emily Rose thread drove him nuts. He doesn't have the thick skin Paelos has about his religion. He was the "my religion found me" type and not the other way around. His leaving was inevitable as many here will laugh when you say you believe in the unbelievable.

In other words, where Paelos shows strength, Stray showed weakness.

Some things bother me. Then I remember this is the internet. You argue something until you see it's become a namecalling/symantics/trolling show, THEN YOU WALK AWAY.

Also, what is the "my religion found me" type? Is that like a Road To Damascus kind of convert?

[schild]

People who get out of horrible times often use "I found religion" as their reason for outgrowing their shitty past. Instituionalized prisoners, near-death drug addled miscreants, etc.. They'd like to use something less rational to rationalize their irrationalities. Using religion as a reason for maturing into a proper citizen always seemed like a step towards madness. In other words, religion found him. Not the other way around.

Wow, that's a lot of psychobabble. In short, people don't find religion. Religion finds them. Lost/Confused souls and whatnot.

[Llava]

Looked at that thread again-

Wow, did he ever snap.  It didn't even get heated, relatively speaking.

Here's a piece of fiction with a spirit communicating online and being sucked back into the void mid-post... The similarities are uncanny.

"Very nice, Ichmail.  Play the martyr, the poor tortured soul who's just doing what he has to do.  You may be able to pull it off for a while, but you don't fool me.  I know, you see.  I know.  Every soul that's everbeen lost to the Void screams inside my head, and I know.  I've heard the whispers about what's coming next and your part in it, how you'll set the fires to burn  the world away and wear coats made of human skin.  I know where the thousand embers are dispersed, and the name of the path tha tyou walk.  I even know your name, Hideo Masaka, and your mother's ghost tells me what you did to her.  I'll take your secrets and shout them to the winds, and if that's not enough, I'll write them on the sleeping minds of children. I'll DAMN DAMN DAMN THE BITCH IS DEAD THE BITCH IS DEAD IT'S PULLING ME BACK TO THE OTHER SIDE NO NO NO I WILL NOT GO EGO NON IBO HORA IGNIS VENIET ET IMPERATOR REGIONES INFERNI IPSUM OSTENDET.  AS CRIANCAS GEMEAS-SOULEDO DOJADELEVANTARAM-SEDE SUAS SEPULTURAS... Later, this place is impossible. A guy can't even talk about a movie without getting jumped on. Have your fun, I guess."






(Okay, the last part wasn't really there, but I got tired of typing in Latin.)

[Samwise]

Oblivioni traditus sum quasi mortuus a corde factus sum quasi vas perditum.

My Latin is shitty, but I read it as:  I am lost to oblivion, as though I am become dead of spirit.  A broken vessel, as it were.

Never mind, Google for the win:
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oblivioni traditus sum quasi mortuus a corde factus sum quasi vas perditum.

My Latin is shitty, but I read it as:  I am lost to oblivion, as though I am become dead of spirit.  A broken vessel, as it were.

Never mind, Google for the win:
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

I like your version better though.

[Roac]

Meanness should not have driven him away

Doesn't make much of a selling point to stay.