Weird Links [possibly nsfw]

Dream of Omnimaga · July 30, 2015, 04:06:39 PM

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on July 30, 2015, 04:31:39 AM
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 28, 2015, 02:44:38 AM
Not sure, it could either be a troll, former community member or maybe a fake user like the Hays Games, NPO or PsychoCorp groups.

There were some rather odd events and posts in the community a decade ago , the most notable one being on page 6 or 7 of http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/115/115018.html (in all-caps). @Art_of_camelot , @Juju and @aeTIos probably also remembers that Verdant guy (who had like 9 different forum accounts with -69 downvotes each)

Was Verdant Bwang's brother? I seem to remember him making multiple accounts and ban evading to troll.Thought I think after the first they might've been name differently? I remember the name Verdant, but I can't seem to remember multiple accounts named Verdant. Though you have a much better memory with these things than I do @DJ Omnimaga .

Also just read:

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 22, 2015, 10:11:42 PM
THat's by far the weirdest wiki page on TI-Story: http://tistory.wikidot.com/joseph-edwards

The way it's written almost reminds me of Hays Games.

That was an amazing entry. Whoever wrote it deserves the pulitzer prize. It had me LMAO.

Yeah he ban-evaded quite a lot too. His last account was 42vs1337 although it only got discovered a year later after he suddenly sent me hate mail. If I remember correctly, his accounts were Verdant, Parsimony, Thegame, BOB!, i_am_a_troll, 42vs1337 and one or more account that impersonated my nickname. All of them had posts that looked similar in styles, he always discussed in math-related threads and his spelling was pretty bad.

If the community had more people, I sometimes wonder if there shouldn't be another site with TI community satire sometimes? Perhaps not with a forum, though, but at least news. It might result into unnecessarily building up trolls, though.

Yuki · July 31, 2015, 02:46:23 AM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 30, 2015, 04:06:39 PM
If the community had more people, I sometimes wonder if there shouldn't be another site with TI community satire sometimes? Perhaps not with a forum, though, but at least news. It might result into unnecessarily building up trolls, though.

If a sizeable part of the community were from 4chan, then yes there would be one. Do you mean something like Horse News?

Dream of Omnimaga · July 31, 2015, 04:35:38 AM

I don't know that site, but it could be like The Onion. And yeah back when PsychoCorp existed, 4chan didn't and the community seemed to have even more flaming than now (although Cemetech was pretty much a war zone from 2006 to 2009 and the rest of the community in 2008) so I guess the typical 4chan user did not have another place to go back in the days. Ironically, most years when Hays Games existed also pre-dated 4chan era.

Yuki · July 31, 2015, 06:27:02 AM

Horse-News.net is a MLP news site pretty much ran by 4chan. So lots of satire, useless drama and your usual 4chan shenanigans, but they also manage to be a trusted source for some reason.

If the TI community had the same type of website, then yeah it would be pretty interesting.

Dream of Omnimaga · August 01, 2015, 05:57:51 PM

I didn't know about that one. I should check it out at some point. THat said, if a site both has satire and real news then it gets hard to figure out what is real or not, though.

novenary · August 11, 2015, 12:40:41 PM

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/how-hackers-steal-data-websites-51043

100% true.

Dream of Omnimaga · August 11, 2015, 05:34:26 PM

ROFL, that article says it pretty well.

Unicorn · August 11, 2015, 10:27:41 PM

lol, that is finny. I thought that there would be something Onion related in there

princetonlion.tibd · August 12, 2015, 12:29:35 AM

Lol, China blamed

Dream of Omnimaga · August 31, 2015, 04:53:43 AM

Does anyone here remember Geocities, that free hosting service that Yahoo! offered for free from 1995 to 2009? Well, after 2009 all sites redirected to https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/geocities , which said that Geocities had shut down and to consider their paid hosting alternatives.

However, if you check any Geocities links or that site over half a decade later, you're now in for a little surprise

CKH4 · August 31, 2015, 12:03:15 PM

I didn't bother to let the video load but I think I was about to get Rick rolled.

novenary · August 31, 2015, 12:15:19 PM

I get a region restriction on the video.

TheMachine02 · August 31, 2015, 12:17:01 PM

Lol . Also, such video should have a young users warning

* TheMachine02 runs

Dream of Omnimaga · September 29, 2015, 12:33:53 AM

http://tabcloseddidntread.com/

So true >.<

Yuki · September 29, 2015, 12:39:17 AM

We should do that for next April's Fools. Add a ton of ads and popups that annoys the c of your user.