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I'm uncomfortable with all the F7ers in this thread. I feel out of the loop.

Hammurab.

Been trying to remember that name for ages....

Cekoviu wrote:I'm uncomfortable with all the F7ers in this thread. I feel out of the loop.

I feel out-of-the-loop for non-F7ers

Greater Victora wrote:

Cekoviu wrote:I'm uncomfortable with all the F7ers in this thread. I feel out of the loop.

I feel out-of-the-loop for non-F7ers

I barely even use forums lmao. I feel out of loop.

Cekoviu wrote:I'm uncomfortable with all the F7ers in this thread. I feel out of the loop.

Who else is memorable outside of F7? I'm out of the loop in the GP side.

Dabbled a bit in the White List thread and it appears the guy known as Block (alongside many aliases) is almost universally loathed (and blacklisted).

Speaking of GP, the most famous individual raider I know is Halcones, who was DOS'd for using the Predator script.

The other one that I can recall is Vandoosa.

Edit: How about showing some love to the P2TM people? I don't remember seeing lists of them.

Diarcesia wrote:

Cekoviu wrote:I'm uncomfortable with all the F7ers in this thread. I feel out of the loop.

Who else is memorable outside of F7? I'm out of the loop in the GP side.

Dabbled a bit in the White List thread and it appears the guy known as Block (alongside many aliases) is almost universally loathed (and blacklisted).

Speaking of GP, the most famous individual raider I know is Halcones, who was DOS'd for using the Predator script.

The other one that I can recall is Vandoosa.

Edit: How about showing some love to the P2TM people? I don't remember seeing lists of them.

GP is also nothing. General is where the real action is at.

Cekoviu wrote:I never actually said the users that I find memorable, whoops. Note that while most of these are positive memories, they don't inherently mean that I find everyone here memorable for a good reason. Also, current mod team excluded.

Aillyria (the incarnation of Alaje that I actually got to see)
Bombadil
The Blaatschapen
Dawetid
Dumb Ideologies
El-Amin Caliphate
Eternal Lotharia
Galloism
Gauthier (Petrasylvania and Gormwood in the versions that I got to see)
Grapasia, mainly for the quote "if this ever happens to me, I swear on my mothers [sic] life that I'll telegram you with the QR code of a plane ticket from Sweden to my house so I can snort coke off your tits"
Heloin
Jolthig
Kowani
Liriena
Merizoc
Nanatsu no Tsuki
New California Republic
Ostroeuropa
Parkus
Reikoku/Hanafuridake
Scomagia
Torrocca
United Muscovite/Marxist Nations
Washington Resistance Army
Xenopolis Confederation

I'm probably missing a few.

Great Jenovah wrote:I barely even use forums lmao. I feel out of loop.

Hi Great Jenovah! Fancy seeing you here, outside The North Pacific Regional Message Board.

Diarcesia wrote:

Sundiata wrote:I hope to one day be a memorable NS'er. If anyone wants me to pray for them, feel free to send a telegram.

As long as you interact with someone here in a regular basis, you being memorable to at least one person becomes almost a certainty. Whether in a good or bad way is up to you.

Hopefully good, I do what I can to remain civil.

As far as I can see, there are 2 big groups of people right now. Those here from F7, and those from NSG. I can understand both sides, really.

One is simply because that's where (including me) gets to develop his own country and his own writings based on the community that are also worldbuilders. There're also sub-forums like F&NI and stuff like that.

On the other hand, you have NSGers who I also understand that are probably past the point of worldbuilding, or just not interested in that, and love the community here for political chatter.

I have also ventured into P2TM, NS Sports, NSGP, so on and so forth, so... I can certainly say that CCD has been memorable (but not in the way you think!)

I suppose that regardless of when you came in, or which sub-forums you frequent... We should learn to love each other a little. ^^ Beyond political talk or heated flaming that got one into trouble, we are still a rather small community, one that I'm actually very glad to be around in. Of course my time spent here is more or less short compared to a lot of other players, but I still like and love you folks for who you are. :3 Politics might not align all the time, but hey.

Valentine Z wrote:As far as I can see, there are 2 big groups of people right now. Those here from F7, and those from NSG. I can understand both sides, really.

One is simply because that's where (including me) gets to develop his own country and his own writings based on the community that are also worldbuilders. There're also sub-forums like F&NI and stuff like that.

On the other hand, you have NSGers who I also understand that are probably past the point of worldbuilding, or just not interested in that, and love the community here for political chatter.

I have also ventured into P2TM, NS Sports, NSGP, so on and so forth, so... I can certainly say that CCD has been memorable (but not in the way you think!)

I suppose that regardless of when you came in, or which sub-forums you frequent... We should learn to love each other a little. ^^ Beyond political talk or heated flaming that got one into trouble, we are still a rather small community, one that I'm actually very glad to be around in. Of course my time spent here is more or less short compared to a lot of other players, but I still like and love you folks for who you are. :3 Politics might not align all the time, but hey.

When did you start becoming really active here? I don't recall you in F7 when this nation was new.

Diarcesia wrote:When did you start becoming really active here? I don't recall you in F7 when this nation was new.

Since F7 things get purged, I err... My guess is on 2016, Jan or Feb... Or maybe even April. It was on the first half of 2016, as far as I remember. Or August, if going by your nation's founding date.

Back when Valentine Z was found in Nov of 2015, all I could think about is answering issues, I didn't even care about the stats. I just care about the decisions themselves, which actually made VZ a dictatorship at first.

Then came my first and foremost puppet - Alanis Star. That time when I actually have to ask "Is it legal to have more than one nation?" And the answer was "Sure, just that you can only have one in WA," so I abide by that, and now I have 91 nations - most of them when card farming was a craze.

United Muscovite Nations wrote:People who weren't here before 2016 shouldn't get to answer.

That's a long time.

Look at Frisivisia. I doubt that they were around for three years. No, wait, they were.

Um... something Knife. Breadknife. Barely managed a year.

Sure, it'd be better if I could remember someone who emerged and disappeared in that 2016-2020 period but I don't post as much as I used to... even on holiday. And by used to I mean "before 2016".

The New California Republic wrote:

United Muscovite Nations wrote:People who weren't here before 2016 shouldn't get to answer.

2012 sounds better. 8 year cutoff.

Is that just because you joined in 2011??

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Divair and Stattr.

I knew it started with S. Thanks.

I wanted to guess Stars or Stairs but they both sounded wrong.

Nuroblav wrote:Ah, yes. Unhealthytruthseeker was the guy I was trying to remember.

CVT Temp was best Unhealthytruthseeker/FST.

And who did you use to be? 2019 nations remembering the account that was DoS before I joined...

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Nah, Stattr was ok. But her ex, Divair, isn’t remembered by some people around here very fondly.

What I find interesting is Divair and Elon Musk had basically the same career. Popular for a while. Then they start doing stuff that makes most people want nothing to do with them.

Major-Tom wrote:

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Nah, Stattr was ok. But her ex, Divair, isn’t remembered by some people around here very fondly.

I always had pleasant convos with Divair ages ago (on a different account, of course). I don't recall why he was so widely disliked by the end.

Spam. Annoying spam.

I think he also had a meanstreak too, but for me it was the spam. So much spam. And he didn't use to be a spam account either.

I think he was DoS'd for promoting another game though.

USS Monitor wrote:

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
There’s a mention in Moderation about him using Steam to doxx certain posters. But I don’t know if that was part of the reason why he’s no longer welcome here.

I missed that bit, though I do remember him being big into Steam.

I didn't know that either.

Also, this why they kicked DLN out of mod club or was this after that happened?

The Liberated Territories wrote:Anyone remember Arkolon?

According to Merizoc (who I don't trust ever) he's a Marxist now.

Go figure.

That I find hard to believe because I do, in fact, remember Arkolon.

Dumb Ideologies wrote:

USS Monitor wrote:
I think he was spamming links to competing sites, trying to get everyone to leave NS and go there instead.

> NSG having enough users for recruiting to splinter forums to be viable.

Only noughties kids will remember this.

What happened to The Bat Cave? Does that still work? Because in that case NSG had enough members in 2013 too.

I blame megathreads.

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Oh my, I just saw posts by Thafoo and also of his forum demise. Anyone remember Thafoo?

TET, right? Thaffy or something as a nickname?

Another popular and then definitely unpopular story?

Moi.

Definitely Not Trumptonium wrote:Moi.

No, you're definitely not Trumptonium

Forsher wrote:Another popular and then definitely unpopular story?

For sure.

United Muscovite Nations wrote:People who weren't here before 2016 shouldn't get to answer.

There was a time when I used to think the same way. Not any longer though. If people who weren't here before 2016 are happy to be listed as memorable, that's good. I also don't mind seeing a forum user from 2018 answering questions, saying A and B from Forum 7 etc. are memorable players etc. If they're having fun, that's good!

USS Monitor wrote:

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
I think so and I also think it was over the feminist thread. Could be wrong though.

That thread is a dumpster fire that ought to be closed down and have people make separate threads for different gender-related topics.

It was closed down and then people who don't use and who refuse to use and who told the mods they didn't use it and wouldn't use it... got it unlocked for completely spurious reasons.

Hydesland wrote:Reading this thread makes me feel like a boomer.

It's a state of mind.

In any case, millennials are notoriously nostalgic.

Sundiata wrote:I hope to one day be a memorable NS'er. If anyone wants me to pray for them, feel free to send a telegram.

Become a notorious DoS. Easiest way.

It's harder to be memorable than it used to be. Take Hippo for example. I doubt anyone would know him if he joined in the post-RWDT era because I imagine he'd have stayed in the RWDT and thus fewer people would be exposed to him and what made him memorable would appear ordinary.

Yohannes wrote:or I'm an angst-ridden Pacific boy from New Zealand

I think that was the scandal I remembered.

Fartsniffage wrote:Hammurab.

Been trying to remember that name for ages....

So difficult to remember you forgot you already posted that you remembered it, amirite?

Diarcesia wrote:

Forsher wrote:Another popular and then definitely unpopular story?

For sure.

There's a lot of these. Parkus is another example. Soldati I guess is going this way based on what I was reading in this thread yesterday.

*spooky voice* Who will be next?

Yohannes wrote:

Valentine Z wrote:They also took a hiatus rather recently, I believe. Something about a conflict in a RP.

Oh no! I'm busy with work. I love NationStates too much to abandon Max Barry's website! And I don't mind people predicting wrongly. I am a lovable Rainbow man from Indonesia, or I'm a transgender person from Thailand, or I'm an angst-ridden Pacific boy from New Zealand, or I'm a government insider with archived information sent by the NSA--I think I've heard them all by now.

I love reading all of the wild speculation forum posts on NationStates.

Edit: Keiner ist so blind wie der, welcher nicht sehen will

I thought the issue with you was for posting photos that weren’t of yourself or something on a best looking competition.

Forsher wrote:It's harder to be memorable than it used to be. Take Hippo for example. I doubt anyone would know him if he joined in the post-RWDT era because I imagine he'd have stayed in the RWDT and thus fewer people would be exposed to him and what made him memorable would appear ordinary.

Hippostania? One of the veterans during my 2012 stay.

Yohannes wrote:or I'm an angst-ridden Pacific boy from New Zealand

I think that was the scandal I remembered.

I thought he was a woman the entire time before. It's partly true though, because there are several people behind Yohannes.

Diarcesia wrote:
For sure.

There's a lot of these. Parkus is another example. Soldati I guess is going this way based on what I was reading in this thread yesterday.

*spooky voice* Who will be next?

Parkus is a character.

Forsher wrote:

Yohannes wrote:or I'm an angst-ridden Pacific boy from New Zealand

I think that was the scandal I remembered.

Hiii Forsher,

My favourite one was actually the lovable Rainbow man from Indonesia. (Or was it Thailand?) In terms of sounding bizarre, nothing can beat that--not even the three paragraphs' worth of accusations, telling me that I'm a sexually-confused individual, going around "breaking the rules" to "ruin the community" behind the scenes

The Liberated Territories wrote:Anyone remember Arkolon?

According to Merizoc (who I don't trust ever) he's a Marxist now.

Go figure.

Nah, I think Merizoc was right, he had a second account here or something where he did claim some sort of Marxian economic stances.

Major-Tom wrote:

The Liberated Territories wrote:Anyone remember Arkolon?

According to Merizoc (who I don't trust ever) he's a Marxist now.

Go figure.

Nah, I think Merizoc was right, he had a second account here or something where he did claim some sort of Marxian economic stances.

Fascinating.

Well, it's not that surprising. AFAIK Consumer Surplus, which is one of the most fundamental ideas in economics today, was developed by Marxian economists and Arkolon was very into economics. There's no particular reason why staring at the subject for long enough shouldn't lead to perhaps unexpected outcomes.

Not that I would agree that mainstream economics is remotely consistent with Marxism because it's just not. Nor, for anyone wondering, does it really agree with rightwing commentators either. Its standard principles are most consistent with the centre-left, really. It's hard to speculate without knowing exactly what the people involved understand "Marxism" to mean, of course.

Forsher wrote:

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
> NSG having enough users for recruiting to splinter forums to be viable.

Only noughties kids will remember this.

What happened to The Bat Cave? Does that still work? Because in that case NSG had enough members in 2013 too.

I blame megathreads.

The BatCavern (later sort-of rebranded as The Cavern due to a desire to remove associations with Neo Art when it turned out that almost nothing in his online and rl persona was true) still technically exists, albeit with very few users for a number of years now, but it stopped being what it was set up to be almost as soon as it was created.

It was a spin-off primarily created in protest at what people said was NSG's unfair moderation and bad forum culture, and it described itself thusly:

"This is a forum for grown-ups and people who are capable of acting like grown-ups. That doesn't mean you can't be silly (we encourage silly!) but it does mean we won't look kindly upon immature behavior."

This 'acting like grown ups', 'maturity', and avoiding 'unfair moderation' surprisingly very soon involved moderators retrospectively and maliciously putting in "word filters" to deliberately alter posts that they disagreed with in an effort to make said users look stupid. It also involved moderators sending personal threats by PM, only accepting new members with the unanimous acceptance of all of the existing members, and the most popular thread by far being one about NSG where people smugly quote-mined this forum and patted themselves on the back for being better than it.

Dumb Ideologies wrote:

Farnhamia wrote:Something like that.

There was Bottle, too.

Didn't get on with either of those, they were big influences in turning me away from feminism.

Think we're due another shout out to Slembanana. Every half year or so the Kleshton's noselike appendage comes to my mind and I have a giggle fit.

Natapoc could be too hardline sometimes.

USS Monitor wrote:

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
Didn't get on with either of those, they were big influences in turning me away from feminism.

Think we're due another shout out to Slembanana. Every half year or so the Kleshton's noselike appendage comes to my mind and I have a giggle fit.

Natapoc could be too hardline sometimes.

I regret that I trolled her a few times but after she argued that 90% of all women had been raped and tried to back it up with a bunch of dubious statistics that weren't even tangentially related to rape I sort of lost patience.