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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: chronovore on April 10, 2017, 12:13:23 AM

Title: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: chronovore on April 10, 2017, 12:13:23 AM: I think Vestal or Cormacaroni invited me here after Tokyopia.com DNS was sold to the marketers of a product which never launched.

How about you?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 12:45:59 AM: My uncle is a moderator for The Bore.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 10, 2017, 12:47:02 AM: Not sure but somehow found out about it when I was a regular on GAF. I occasionally posted here but mostly was still over there until I got banned and switched full time thank god.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Rufus on April 10, 2017, 12:52:31 AM: I knew of the place back when it was called EvilBore. Don't quite remember how, someone must have mentioned it on GAF. Years later I thought to check it out again, but saw that it had re-incarnated as The Bore. Lurked for a bit, then eventually registered. The rest is shitposting history.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 10, 2017, 01:08:17 AM: Ultimately because I wanted a gameshark for gamecube.

Joined a gameshark forum when I was like 13 or something basically to pester them to make one for gamecube before there was one -- got way into that forum to where I went to their irc channel, which was hosted on the same server as GAF's so eventually joined GAF, from GAF to here.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on April 10, 2017, 01:09:24 AM: I found out about "EvilBore" through Twitter and Mewthree (remember them?) posting about it on there when they got banned on GAF.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 10, 2017, 03:29:41 AM: I joined after a ban from GAF in 2007 but I'd known about the site earlier, can't remember when though.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valkyrie on April 10, 2017, 03:56:39 AM: Something something Gaf Google Vo*t something fuck da mods. :-*
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Bebpo on April 10, 2017, 04:09:18 AM: I think I got invited here by duckroll, who later quit along with half the posters here. Might've been Vestal though. God, that feels ages ago.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 10, 2017, 05:04:08 AM: shake
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: T-Short on April 10, 2017, 05:19:46 AM: Quote
Date Registered: July 31, 2006, 09:40:15 AM

Hoo boy. Cannae remember.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 10, 2017, 07:03:02 AM: First saw this place a few weeks after it started. I left after I saw it was full of the same OA chaff I was used to seeing on every GAF spinoff board (Saint Cornelius, mondain, futami, and enjoy bell woods).

I came back late 2007 I think when there was some cross forum drama with Shark Johnson. I saw that by that time the OA trash was gone so I registered. Also at this time GAF was quickly turning into shit so I was looking for a new place to shitpost anyway.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: nudemacusers on April 10, 2017, 07:26:33 AM: Came for the gay PMs, stayed for the mods :-* :-[
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 07:32:00 AM: I can't remember. I think it was just wondering what happened to certain posters on GAF and then being told about this place. Hard to believe that was almost 11 years ago already.

Quote from: Bebpo on April 10, 2017, 04:09:18 AM
I think I got invited here by duckroll, who later quit along with half the posters here. Might've been Vestal though. God, that feels ages ago.

Quitting forums altogether I can understand. Quitting this forum and staying on GAF...?
:huh
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 07:35:36 AM: When I asked where this forum came from in 2006:
Quote from: BlueTsunami on August 21, 2006, 09:18:55 PM
Apparently a user named cloudwalking punched another mod from another forum in the face and suplexed the other moderators and then another user named MAF lit them on fire and laughed at them. This was all while a user named Willco hacked into their servers and deleted all the code and did the same for the mirror server.

This is the real story of Evilbore, no lie

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on August 21, 2006, 09:58:13 PM
This site was born through barebacking with GAF. After the pregnancy EvilLore wanted an abortion, but MAF wanted to keep the child. EvilLore decided to kill the child himself. In order to save his only begotten son, MAF sent him in a small boat down the river. The boat was found by Willco and his mistress Cloudwalking, who proceded to raise the boy.

That boy was EvilBore.

:lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Momo on April 10, 2017, 07:43:10 AM: I was looking for pornography and ended up here :japancry
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 10, 2017, 08:34:46 AM: I got sexed in before we stopped doing that.
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Post by: Brehvolution on April 10, 2017, 09:23:56 AM: I stumbled upon this site on gaf before it was a banned site.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 10, 2017, 09:46:03 AM: Cheebs, Shake, and Mupepe brought me here :doge
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 10, 2017, 11:32:27 AM: I saw some people on GAF talking about "that other forum" so I googled Neogaf to find other forums where people were talking about GAF. I think I found OA first, but EvilBore seemed less threatening.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2017, 11:39:34 AM: I was recruited by another poster who doesn't post here anymore.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 12:03:31 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on April 10, 2017, 11:32:27 AM
I saw some people on GAF talking about "that other forum" so I googled Neogaf to find other forums where people were talking about GAF. I think I found OA first, but EvilBore seemed less threatening.

What happened to OA, anyway? Nobody ever talks about them anymore. Last time I checked, I found more than one forum using the name.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 10, 2017, 12:44:09 PM: There is only one active OA left but it is locked down tighter than the previous iterations.

I remember there once being three simultaneously active versions of OA before but that was ages ago.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 12:47:42 PM: Opa himself has been long gone, it seems?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: team filler on April 10, 2017, 12:51:04 PM: my mom made me come here
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mupepe on April 10, 2017, 12:51:53 PM: your mom made me come too
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Positive Touch on April 10, 2017, 12:53:11 PM: gaf banned demi and I knew that places was too boring for me to keep reading

this place sucked for like the first year or two tho
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: eleuin on April 10, 2017, 01:21:47 PM: I joined that nba gaf spinoff

They name-dropped thebore when they said they weren't going to be like other sites

Either that or Esch posted the name there
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 10, 2017, 01:50:01 PM: Willco emailed me when he opened the site. It was pretty dead, but there were a few gaffers I liked on here.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valkyrie on April 10, 2017, 01:54:15 PM: Someone please give me a timeline/summary of Gaming-Age, Oppai-Age or whatever you call them. I'm a filthy noob, but I wanna know what it was like in the old times. Tell me, grandpa. :uguu
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 02:34:42 PM: Quote from: butt on April 10, 2017, 01:54:15 PM
Someone please give me a timeline/summary of Gaming-Age, Oppai-Age or whatever you call them. I'm a filthy noob, but I wanna know what it was like in the old times. Tell me, grandpa. :uguu

Someone expand on this or correct me, please:

Not sure when Gaming-Age started, but the forums were early 2000s in not the late 90s.

Opa-Opa (Teh Kao Yang!) was a poster who lost his shit when Armada 2 got canceled for the Dreamcast, IIRC, which led to him getting banned. He then founded the first GAF spin-off, Opa-Age. Opa-Age has had multiple spin-offs/incarnations and has been called Opa-Ages for a while now. Last time I checked, I didn't see many of the (in)famous posters there from the old days.

A few years later, GAF forum admin Evilore bought the forum from Gaming-Age founder Jim and re-named it NeoGAF. Although not associated with Gaming-Age anymore, there's still a NeoGAF link on the website. I have no idea why Jim sold the forum to Evilore, since I remember him saying that the forum got way more traffic than the website did. There used to be a running joke saying "there's a website?" back then.

Then you have spin-offs like Evilbore/The Bore, Wasting Your Life (is that even still around?), and SLAENT, the latter of which was formed when NBA-GAF members including mod BlackAce all up and left after their threads were shut down.

Honorable mention goes to what has got to be the tiniest forum still in existence, now in its 1023832804320423904390th incarnation, which was founded by long-banned forum poster, my buddy, Leguna, who made some legendary threads back in the day. Amazingly, he has had forums with just a couple of people for almost as long as Opa-Age has been around. :lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 10, 2017, 02:38:16 PM: I believe Gaborn (peace be upon him) PMed me to come here. I signed up by it was early and traffic was slow. After GAF fell off a cliff I came back and gave it another try. Much better here.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2017, 02:44:41 PM: Football Thread happened before NBA GAF.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: demi on April 10, 2017, 03:00:04 PM: Quote from: Dosukebe on April 10, 2017, 02:34:42 PM
Quote from: butt on April 10, 2017, 01:54:15 PM
Someone please give me a timeline/summary of Gaming-Age, Oppai-Age or whatever you call them. I'm a filthy noob, but I wanna know what it was like in the old times. Tell me, grandpa. :uguu

Someone expand on this or correct me, please:

Not sure when Gaming-Age started, but the forums were early 2000s in not the late 90s.

Opa-Opa (Teh Kao Yang!) was a poster who lost his shit when Armada 2 got canceled for the Dreamcast, IIRC, which led to him getting banned. He then founded the first GAF spin-off, Opa-Age. Opa-Age has had multiple spin-offs/incarnations and has been called Opa-Ages for a while now. Last time I checked, I didn't see many of the (in)famous posters there from the old days.

A few years later, GAF forum admin Evilore bought the forum from Gaming-Age founder Jim and re-named it NeoGAF. Although not associated with Gaming-Age anymore, there's still a NeoGAF link on the website. I have no idea why Jim sold the forum to Evilore, since I remember him saying that the forum got way more traffic than the website did. There used to be a running joke saying "there's a website?" back then.

Then you have spin-offs like Evilbore/The Bore, Wasting Your Life (is that even still around?), and SLAENT, the latter of which was formed when NBA-GAF members including mod BlackAce all up and left after their threads were shut down.

Honorable mention goes to what has got to be the tiniest forum still in existence, now in its 1023832804320423904390th incarnation, which was founded by long-banned forum poster, my buddy, Leguna, who made some legendary threads back in the day. Amazingly, he has had forums with just a couple of people for almost as long as Opa-Age has been around. :lol

Nobody gives a shit

Corrected
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bork on April 10, 2017, 03:02:58 PM: :lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valkyrie on April 10, 2017, 03:56:07 PM: I'm a nobodyyyyy (also thanks dosukebe)!
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 10, 2017, 04:50:37 PM: I think Drinky or Willco told me about it a couple months after the forum started.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 10, 2017, 06:14:02 PM: Quote from: Dosukebe on April 10, 2017, 12:47:42 PM
Opa himself has been long gone, it seems?

iirc Opa left for a few years and then came back. He's had some pretty decent tech jobs, which is hilarious considering what comes up when you search for Teh Kao Yang.

Quote from: butt on April 10, 2017, 01:54:15 PM
Someone please give me a timeline/summary of Gaming-Age, Oppai-Age or whatever you call them. I'm a filthy noob, but I wanna know what it was like in the old times. Tell me, grandpa. :uguu

- GAF has been around in various iterations since the late 90s, including a time when malware would get installed thanks to ad banners (the more things change...)

- Opa Opa had a meltdown on GAF when Sega discontinued the Dreamcast. He was banned. So this was 2001.

- Opa Opa created Opa Ages. This place was pretty anti-GAF but Amir0x and EviLore were members and regular posters.

- EviLore bought the forums off of Gaming Age in 2004 and turned into NeoGAF. Many former GA staffers (Mandark, Drinky Crow, etc.) remained as mods or admins. I think Drinky Crow wrote his infamous "vociferous laudations" review on GAF or Gamespot (I could be wrong).

- This was around the time (2005-2006) where Amir0x jizzed on a printout of Olimario's fiancee's nudes, took a picture of it, and then posted it on OA. Amir0x is a classy guy. Olimario traded the nudes originally for a PSP to m0rphix. Somehow the nudes leaked even though m0rphix insisted up and down that he didn't do it. Speculation was that Olimario traded the nudes for other favors on OA and the leak happened there. He wound up marrying her and I think they are still married to this day.

- OA is full of losers so it was inevitable that drama broke out. There are probably at least a dozen different iterations of OA from then to now. Most of them only lasted a few months.

- Somewhere around 2008, Saint Cornelius tried to mack on whiteACID and it blew up in his face. One of my most favorite moments on the internet.

- OA IMO started dropping off in terms of interesting shit a little after the Saint Cornelius debacle. OA still exists to this day but it is a lot slower now than it used to be 10-15 years ago.

- A bunch of dipshits who were responsible for turning GAF into shit made a GAF spinoff, Wasting Your Life. WYL fell apart in six weeks. This was 2009 or 2010.

- Funnily enough, a WYL spinoff was created called Cyniculture that failed to launch. costanza pretty much disappeared. His butt buddy, snesfreak, disappeared as well but will show up if you post about him enough. I bet that loser still has a Google Alert set up to alert him when someone talks about him.

There's a bunch of stuff left out here that can get filled in but those are the highlights.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 06:26:25 PM: Who was it that made the Dan Harmon Sucks forum?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 10, 2017, 06:35:51 PM: before you, there was me. i am ur-bore, a dweller in the muck of the primordial federooze. i was there when g declared his desire to eat crystalgemini, and the dream of moll-e water was still an effervescent twinkle in theblackstallion's eye.

i have dreamt the eternal dream of father mike's virginity.

i have beheld a thousand, thousand willcos lepered.

i have sojourned into the depths where only tvc15 slumbers, with words and gifs to wring your soul inside out.

i have heard the wail of the futami; bore witness to the coarse grunts of hans and cornelius in a hateful embrace.

in truth, the bore only descends.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 10, 2017, 06:38:54 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 06:26:25 PM
Who was it that made the Dan Harmon Sucks forum?

costanza
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 10, 2017, 06:44:12 PM: Quote from: Van Cruncheon on April 10, 2017, 06:35:51 PM
before you, there was me. i am ur-bore, a dweller in the muck of the primordial federooze. i was there when g declared his desire to eat crystalgemini, and the dream of moll-e water was still an effervescent twinkle in theblackstallion's eye.

i have dreamt the eternal dream of father mike's virginity.

i have beheld a thousand, thousand willcos lepered.

i have sojourned into the depths where only tvc15 slumbers, with words and gifs to wring your soul inside out.

i have heard the wail of the futami; bore witness to the coarse grunts of hans and cornelius in a hateful embrace.

in truth, the bore only descends.

who are you?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 10, 2017, 06:45:02 PM: i am all of you. but i stay for the memes.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mupepe on April 10, 2017, 07:21:13 PM: Morphix...

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: etiolate on April 10, 2017, 07:24:31 PM: was invited by willco around the start of the forum
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2017, 07:39:54 PM: I searched for something about GAF one day and this came up, then I saw a bunch of posters I liked were over here so I signed up and forgot about it and I think demi cleaned out the account with various spam ones because he knew deep down I wasn't ready.

Then a couple years later I was bored of NBA-GAF and PoliGAF rehashing the same stuff over and over again at the same time there was one of those "whatever happened to" threads that would get locked within ten minutes and I remembered here when people were mentioned and I signed up again and demi did a thorough background and health check and then approved me.

I got lucky because like a month later was when Oscar quit GAF after KevinCow annihilated him in public over Donkey Kong Country and he was only posting here after that.

Then a bunch of other people I liked or didn't mind came over and some others like Andrex became cool cuz of The Bore. Even people like Devo seemed to imbibe too much Bore and got laid back bout GAF. (Then there's that monster Steve Youngblood who only uses the place to lure in more victims for his reign of carnage.) And then Oscar quit here too. :fbm

When people give any history of the place they should use The Bore Revolutionary Calendar which would be based on Himu's mood and participation/complaint/worship/rage swings about the place I think.

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I was hired by Yum! Brands Vice President of Synthesis Bob Avakian to keep on an eye on the place and ensure that nobody steps outside the party doctrine.
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Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2017, 07:43:54 PM: Then I was gonna leave too but Jack Remington sent me a PM begging me to stay and keep posting political stuff.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on April 10, 2017, 08:03:03 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 06:26:25 PM
Who was it that made the Dan Harmon Sucks forum?

What's his face that also did Wasting Your Life.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: tiesto on April 10, 2017, 08:21:45 PM: I think I saw a namedrop of "Evilbore" somewhere in GAF OT around 2007, I decided to google it and noticed it was where a lot of my favorite GAF posters demi/Himu/Triumph/Drinky/TVC/Cloudwalking were now hanging out so I decided to join.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2017, 08:44:45 PM: mods, pls change my name to Yum! Brands Vice President of Synthesis Bob Avakian

tia
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Huff on April 10, 2017, 09:53:41 PM: I was better off before discovering internet forums
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Bebpo on April 10, 2017, 10:01:11 PM: Maybe we are, but that boat sailed long ago.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 10:55:22 PM: Quote from: Huff on April 10, 2017, 09:53:41 PM
I was better off before discovering internet forums

I've been posting on internet forums since 2000. :goty
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Positive Touch on April 10, 2017, 11:49:42 PM: i was shitposting in aol chatrooms back in the 90s

get on my level
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2017, 01:15:53 AM: ok grandpa
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Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2017, 01:27:23 AM: i was shitposting AND moderating a video game related forum at least as far back as 98 :smug
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: chronovore on April 11, 2017, 01:33:15 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2017, 01:15:53 AM
ok grandpa

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Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2017, 01:40:08 AM: remember the good ol days when you'd pick a larger FAQ on gamefaqs assuming it's the most complete for a game just to see it's a bunch of ASCII logos for every header and "TBA" under most of them
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: FatalT on April 11, 2017, 02:26:24 AM: Phoenix Dark PMed me about this place in 2007. Good times. Ole' EvilBore shenaniganry.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valkyrie on April 11, 2017, 03:48:03 AM: This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on April 11, 2017, 04:38:20 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2017, 10:55:22 PM
Quote from: Huff on April 10, 2017, 09:53:41 PM
I was better off before discovering internet forums

I've been posting on internet forums since 2000. :goty

Look at this figgurt thinking that's old.

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1995-ish or so, probably earlier. Forgetting the year. I've spent 20 years or so of my life posting on internet forums. :goty :fbm
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Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: chronovore on April 11, 2017, 04:57:27 AM: Quote from: butt on April 11, 2017, 03:48:03 AM
This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Trurl on April 11, 2017, 08:38:47 AM: Quote from: chronovore on April 11, 2017, 04:57:27 AM
Quote from: butt on April 11, 2017, 03:48:03 AM
This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.
Should this place raise its profile by leaving trails of breadcrumbs at GAF or is it better to stay secret?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 11, 2017, 08:45:49 AM: Quote from: Trurl on April 11, 2017, 08:38:47 AM
Quote from: chronovore on April 11, 2017, 04:57:27 AM
Quote from: butt on April 11, 2017, 03:48:03 AM
This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.
Should this place raise its profile by leaving trails of breadcrumbs at GAF or is it better to stay secret?

If you don't give a shit about your GAF account, sure.

I'd say no regardless, though, as who wants your average GAFFER shitposting all over the place.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Rufus on April 11, 2017, 08:47:24 AM: Message boards are only readable when they're small, but they also teeter at the edge of the void. :idont
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Post by: Momo on April 11, 2017, 09:35:11 AM: I'd love a couple of more Europeans here that posts during my at-work-and-bored time.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on April 11, 2017, 10:02:31 AM: Quote from: Jack Remington on April 11, 2017, 01:49:02 AM
When I was a 15 year old (pretending to be a 21 year old) dude I cybered a lot with a 30 year old woman on AOL who in retrospect was probably a 50 year old guy.

Hey it's me, your cyberpartner.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2017, 11:01:18 AM: A front is GAF (shitty Sony consoles, pedophiles). The Bore is a Taco Bell enthusiast site.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 11, 2017, 11:10:23 AM: Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

(http://i.imgur.com/s50yprd.gif)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: chronovore on April 11, 2017, 11:15:25 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 11, 2017, 11:10:23 AM
Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

(http://i.imgur.com/s50yprd.gif)

There's more than that: Bebpo has a real job, Andrex has made multiple movies, we managed get Atra out from FemAtra phase and walk him through his first awkward sexual encounter, and Vestal has left Earth to rejoin the Moon People that sent him to save us.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 11, 2017, 11:33:47 AM: wasnt willco trying to make it in hollywood?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Let's Cyber on April 11, 2017, 11:35:16 AM: GAF originally, looked it up after posters were talking about "that other board". So maybe 8 or 9 years ago? Been lurking for a long time on and off but was too chickenshit to sign up for an account. Came for the GAF meta commentary, stayed for the community.

I find it hilarious "thebore" is still censored on GAF. :lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on April 11, 2017, 03:47:26 PM: Esch and I were talking about PD's taste in porn and he told me to check out the nsfw thread here

And the rest is history.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 11, 2017, 03:51:59 PM: Quote from: benjipwns on April 10, 2017, 07:43:54 PM
Then I was gonna leave too but Jack Remington sent me a PM begging me to stay and keep posting political stuff.

leper Jack Remington
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 11, 2017, 06:20:42 PM: Quote from: benjipwns on April 11, 2017, 01:27:23 AM
i was shitposting AND moderating a video game related forum at least as far back as 98 :smug

Same here. I've been shitposting since I was 12 back in 1998 and was a moderator when I was 14. I quit being a moderator because I no longer cared about the e-cred. It's why I laugh at how :stahp the GAF moderators act about their unpaid entirely voluntary "job" as a moderator.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Shuri on April 11, 2017, 09:32:23 PM: I'm pretty sure that Jim dude gave the forum to Evilore, it was getting too expensive/complicated/big to run. Lore ran into all sorts of problems that nearly killed the forum, i remember when they ended up hosted by IGN for a while, who was like OMG WE WILL NEVER ABANDON GAF and then after a while, super shitty popups started and it was a wild time and one day they moved to their own server.

i started posting on GAF in 2000 or so, during the dreamcast heydays. I started posting on message boards in 1993 or 1994, on local bbs systems, this shit was like crack to me, I would get into huge arguments with people.

I think willco msged me on irc/#ga or maybe on the forums, or was it demi? ??? I remember when we would all hang out on irc and play uno on the 360, and I would chat with demi and cloudwalking on msn from times to times. Demi was cool, cloudwalking was very refreshing.

This was before she met Jarosh online. I remember trying to taunt demi to go meet her, I think they eventually met but stayed friends. I think. Didn't Willco try to get into show business?

This feels like a lifetime ago. You guys all changed nicknames and I don't know who is who.

I'm just not very active anymore on forums, life gets in the way, but I can be found on irc, at the same place. I miss the old forum culture and the knowledgeable people that used to post. The bore got me thru some rough times in my life.

I hope everyone is doing well!
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: D3RANG3D on April 11, 2017, 09:58:21 PM: I didn't even know this site existed until it was brought up on the borecast.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: demi on April 12, 2017, 12:01:37 PM: i still have all the games morphix gave me for my birthday. what a nice guy.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: a slime appears on April 13, 2017, 09:21:41 AM: When I turn on the internet explorer browser it used to go to yahoo.com but now it goes here?

Is this a new search engine? I need some banana recipes. Thank you, internet people.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: nudemacusers on April 13, 2017, 09:30:23 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 11, 2017, 11:10:23 AM
Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

(http://i.imgur.com/s50yprd.gif)
TBS doing porn now? mollywater must have gone bust. :'(
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Atramental on April 13, 2017, 09:37:40 AM: If I recall correctly, TBS got beat out by another guy selling water with a very similar name but slightly different spelling. :doge
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Monochromatic on October 21, 2017, 10:35:22 PM: I came across this place from just googling GAF because I'm a loser with nothing better to do in my life besides read about internet forum drama on a Saturday night.

I'd be embarrassed I was dumb enough to not notice I was posting in an incredibly old thread but ehh
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: hampster on October 21, 2017, 11:13:36 PM: I found GAF because of 1up Yours and found The Bore because of the Borecast / Cruncheons.

Now that GAF is dying the Cruncheons is no more, it's time to follow another gaming podcast into the ether
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Positive Touch on October 21, 2017, 11:17:27 PM: retronauts mang
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cryo on October 21, 2017, 11:19:47 PM: I've been lurking this thread for so long that I don't even remember how I came across this site after being permed on GAF, but I'm glad y'all still exist while the many iterations of OA got chewed up and swallowed into progressively worse websites.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: jacob.armitage on October 21, 2017, 11:36:11 PM: Quote from: Spoiled Milk on October 21, 2017, 10:30:06 PM
bumped an old thread by accident because I'm a special fellow

Seems somehow topical again.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cryo on October 21, 2017, 11:37:13 PM: Did Copernicus ever make it over here? And can someone remind me of Squiddy's fate?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Baiano19 on October 22, 2017, 12:30:27 AM: I don't even remember when I got here, but I was surprised by the amount of ex users and all ran by Demi.

Joe Molotov becoming a mod (who had a great point and click thread in the other forum) sealed the deal that this was a good place.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on October 22, 2017, 12:35:15 AM: Quote from: Cryo on October 21, 2017, 11:37:13 PM
Did Copernicus ever make it over here? And can someone remind me of Squiddy's fate?

Squiddy got ran out (and made EvilDemi which didn't go anywhere).

Eggman posted for a short-while, I pestered him for dick. He posted said dick (which I didn't get to see) and fucked off because demi or whoever (rightly so) banned him.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: demi on October 22, 2017, 12:39:32 AM: It wasnt that impressive
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Diunx on October 22, 2017, 01:40:13 AM: Don't even remember I think I joined after Dragona banned me for something and have been here for ten years now which is fucking unbelievable.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2017, 02:10:14 AM: I was one of the first people here. I was chatting with Willco and he told me his idea for the name of the forum, and he thought “evilbore” was ingenius and would drive Evilore crazy. I think I politely told him it was a good idea.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: agrajag on October 22, 2017, 06:35:42 AM: I guess I'm a little LTTP here, but here's how I got on the bore

I used to lurk the old version of the site Evilbore for years. Not sure how I found it originally, but it amused me, and some of the posters were funny shits. Although it seems a lot of the people from Evilbore have left over the years. Kept lurking when it became the Bore and I think I lurked Bore for two or three years before I registered for an account, especially when they I saw they had a thread dedicated to GAF bitching. Started posting when I got my perma. :larry
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: MMaRsu on October 22, 2017, 07:32:22 AM: It was fate
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Arsene Lupin III on October 22, 2017, 07:39:54 AM: Is demi free yet??
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2017, 08:01:46 AM: I don't remember. I remember being on gaf when it was ga-forum.com or whatever, before neogaf. I remember thinking the demi ban was bullshit and joining here fairly early? I was on OA too so that might be how I knew. I feel like I'm one of the few who was here before they were banned lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 22, 2017, 08:04:59 AM: you told me a out it admiralviscen :-*

in like 07 or 08
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: sinxtanx on October 22, 2017, 08:12:18 AM: what bugs me is I'll never find out how I would get banned from NeoGAF

I guess it's fate
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mochilador on October 22, 2017, 10:36:57 AM: Is this our new home?

Quote from: sinxtanx on October 22, 2017, 08:12:18 AM
what bugs me is I'll never find out how I would get banned from NeoGAF

I guess it's fate

A little bit off-topic but I guess I remember when you got your tag on GAF. It was on a Sunset Overdrive thread, wasn't it?
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2017, 10:52:22 AM: Quote from: Mochilador on October 22, 2017, 10:36:57 AM
Is this our new home?

Depends on your thoughts on gentrification
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Rman on October 22, 2017, 10:56:13 AM: Someone name dropped it. I remember the Billy Rygar/Patel days. I also remember the other Japanese/English teacher who used to post here. He was really cool with Distantmantra. I forget his name. Kinda a drama queen or maybe it was a troll act.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: T-Short on October 22, 2017, 10:56:21 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 22, 2017, 02:10:14 AM
I was one of the first people here. I was chatting with Willco and he told me his idea for the name of the forum, and he thought “evilbore” was ingenius and would drive Evilore crazy. I think I politely told him it was a good idea.

:heartbeat
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 22, 2017, 10:57:33 AM: Quote from: Arsene Lupin III on October 22, 2017, 07:39:54 AM
Is demi free yet??

He was never truly caged.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: TEEEPO on October 22, 2017, 11:07:56 AM: forgive me my friends for having lost faith
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mochilador on October 22, 2017, 12:17:40 PM: You can't fight your genes. It's fate.
All living things are born for the sole purpose of passing on their parents' genes.
That's why I'll follow what my genes tell me.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: bachikarn on October 22, 2017, 01:02:45 PM: I don't remember at all how I found this place. Maybe Phoenix Dark? But apparently I have been here since 2006, which is kind of blowing my mind.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mochilador on October 22, 2017, 01:10:48 PM: Quote from: bachikarn on October 22, 2017, 01:02:45 PM
I don't remember at all how I found this place. Maybe Phoenix Dark? But apparently I have been here since 2006, which is kind of blowing my mind.

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56fbf991d210b88a1494d28a/t/579ea6fd9de4bb7ff31bf4b6/1470015320679/)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: injurai on October 22, 2017, 02:02:05 PM: Esch told me about this place around the time gaf-hop was going to shit (2015), but this place moved to0 slow to stick around.

Then I caught wind of gaf's implosion and knew this was to place to return to for the deets. Probably will frequent less but this was always the better user culture compared to gaf.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: demi on October 22, 2017, 02:08:34 PM: That's perfectly fine with me. Enjoy your stay in the meantime, thanks!
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Mandark on October 22, 2017, 02:27:49 PM: Quote from: JayDubya on October 22, 2017, 01:43:21 AM
IIRC, Mandark recommended this place after a particularly bullshit Dragona ban, which he had reversed with apologies.

Mandark and I will probably not agree on much else ever, but his support for free speech is self-evident and commendable.

Aw, thanks.

As for my origin story, my account here exists because it does.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:45:30 PM: Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: agrajag on October 22, 2017, 02:49:23 PM: Quote from: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:45:30 PM
Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

Member statuses are based on the quality of your posts here

:snob
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:54:31 PM: Quote from: agrajag on October 22, 2017, 02:49:23 PM
Quote from: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:45:30 PM
Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

Member statuses are based on the quality of your posts here

:snob

But i am the same quality as mcdonalds and zelda
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 22, 2017, 02:55:43 PM: I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 03:00:30 PM: Quote from: Rahxephon91 on October 22, 2017, 02:55:43 PM
I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.

I am sure you had alts
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 22, 2017, 03:03:23 PM: Quote from: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 03:00:30 PM
Quote from: Rahxephon91 on October 22, 2017, 02:55:43 PM
I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.

I am sure you had alts
I haven't had an alt on GAF for years. 5 years actually.

I mean if you look at my posting here. I don't actually post in the GAF thread much. It's mostly in the video game section and regrettably shitting up the relationship thread. I actually made the transition to the bore as my only forum years ago. It was rocky, but now that we have these infusion of posters I kind of hope they don't all stay(I would'nt mind the game section being more active) because I like that this is'nt neogaf.

I would still visit Neogaf to read some news threads and opinion threads, but I mostly found it it annoying to read and would'nt go past the first page.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Huff on October 22, 2017, 03:09:51 PM: If even rahx made the transition to regular contributor theres hope for all

Besides Dennis. Dudes a loser
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2017, 03:15:57 PM: Mupepe post some porn
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: demi on October 22, 2017, 03:25:11 PM: I didnt actually start this forum. I took it when Jewco ran off to post clickbait articles on facebook banging his BBW girlfriend (now wife?)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 22, 2017, 03:52:53 PM: Came here because of pd’s reputation in the nsfw thread. Stayed because of the gay subtext.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 22, 2017, 04:31:04 PM: Quote from: demi on October 22, 2017, 03:25:11 PM
I didnt actually start this forum. I took it when Jewco ran off to post clickbait articles on facebook banging his BBW girlfriend (now wife?)

now wife. don't be hatin' on that sweet shikse fupa.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Kolgar on October 22, 2017, 05:18:44 PM: In a roundabout way, it was NeoGAF.

They banned me. Or rather, I went out in a blaze of glory after a million too many political posts and threads on the gaming side. Finally, after the 2016 presidential election, one of the provocateurs over there posted a thread blaming Trump for some new egregious problem in the gaming industry - and that was it.

I knew full well I was committing account suicide, and it felt liberating.

Months later, I wanted to revisit that thread and see what more reaction (other than the initial pile-on and banning) my posts had generated. The Google search led me to The Bore - someone here had quoted me and linked to the post and I had a good laugh.

I signed up a few weeks after that. And I believe this is my first post here.

Glorious day! I see NeoGAF self-immolated yesterday, and I am breathing deep to savor the scent of its ashes.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: BlackMage on October 22, 2017, 05:22:53 PM: I have no idea how I ended up in this shithole. Maybe god was punishing me.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 22, 2017, 05:29:33 PM: A Google search after my first GAF ban in '08. I saw Hyoushi posting here and I thought "I'll become a member, become close to him, and ask him to unban me. Genius!"
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2017, 05:41:42 PM: Quote from: Kolgar on October 22, 2017, 05:18:44 PM
In a roundabout way, it was NeoGAF.

They banned me. Or rather, I went out in a blaze of glory after a million too many political posts and threads on the gaming side. Finally, after the 2016 presidential election, one of the provocateurs over there posted a thread blaming Trump for some new egregious problem in the gaming industry - and that was it.

I knew full well I was committing account suicide, and it felt liberating.

Months later, I wanted to revisit that thread and see what more reaction (other than the initial pile-on and banning) my posts had generated. The Google search led me to The Bore - someone here had quoted me and linked to the post and I had a good laugh.

I signed up a few weeks after that. And I believe this is my first post here.

Glorious day! I see NeoGAF self-immolated yesterday, and I am breathing deep to savor the scent of its ashes.

Tl;dr
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 22, 2017, 05:47:40 PM: I found the bore either googling references I read lurking gaf before my account got approved (which took over two years) and or when NBA gaf got locked and I tried to figure out what happened.

Sidenote, but I'm a little surprised that as few people on gaf knew lore's history. By the time my gaf account got approved, I had almost forgot I registered, and in the interim I found this place, slaent etc just looking up references to shit i didn't get that was posted on gaf. I ended up here and after I could finally post there I had seen the screencaps and stories from years passed referenced here, and I kinda assumed others would have done the same
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: T-Short on October 22, 2017, 05:47:51 PM: Quote from: Shaka Khan on October 22, 2017, 05:29:33 PM
A Google search after my first GAF ban in '08. I saw Hyoushi posting here and I thought "I'll become a member, become close to him, and ask him to unban me. Genius!"

(http://www.capitaltrachea.se/misc/shaka.jpg)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 06:12:39 PM: Quote from: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:54:31 PM
Quote from: agrajag on October 22, 2017, 02:49:23 PM
Quote from: SantaC on October 22, 2017, 02:45:30 PM
Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

Member statuses are based on the quality of your posts here

:snob

But i am the same quality as mcdonalds and zelda

Sorry, but we're looking for Taco Bell quality.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: BlackMage on October 22, 2017, 06:30:54 PM: I always thought we were the del taco to neogaf's taco bell. Still shit and will give you exosive diahrea but at least the employees are better looking
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 06:35:43 PM: Low key, I prefer Del Taco. I just wanna burrito, fries and a chocolate shake at 4 am.
:mouf
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 06:44:53 PM: Missed you broseph!
:uguu
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: BlackMage on October 22, 2017, 06:48:30 PM: Quote from: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 06:35:43 PM
Low key, I prefer Del Taco. I just wanna burrito, fries and a chocolate shake at 4 am.
:mouf

All these years and I'm still not convinced you are a woman.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 07:00:54 PM: You and me both, brotha. :doge
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Robo on October 22, 2017, 11:32:16 PM: This reminds me of one of those times when an old acquaintance happens to pass away young and you make the trip back home and see a long lost friend at the funeral and as he solemnly stands in the morning mist during the eulogy, you recall how thicc that sweet dick looks as the outline of the shaft is revealed by the dampness collecting on his slacks.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 22, 2017, 11:37:01 PM: Totally like that
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 11:39:09 PM: :whew
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Tasty on October 23, 2017, 12:13:56 AM: I think one of Wrath's particularly blatant alts was banned or something early in 2011, then a few months passed and someone on GAF mentioned Evilbore so I checked it out and saw my lover Wrath had moved here. Joined up and was immediately paranoid about what this place had shittalked against me while I was on GAF. :lol Was also constantly on the defensive as a Nintendrone but Segata, Wrath, Esch and dcharlie made it worth it to stick around, and I'm glad I did. 👍🏻

Actually I still posted on GAF until I think June 2014 or something. Came back for the Toonami live watch thread a bit ago when the block started airing the Yorknew City arc of Hunter x Hunter. Not really going to cry over GAF despite joining 10 and a half years ago (Jesus Christ) and having never eaten a permaban in all that time (unlike most of the losers here. :smug)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: lennedsay on October 23, 2017, 12:20:39 AM: Quote from: BlackMage on October 22, 2017, 06:48:30 PM
Quote from: lennedsay on October 22, 2017, 06:35:43 PM
Low key, I prefer Del Taco. I just wanna burrito, fries and a chocolate shake at 4 am.
:mouf

All these years and I'm still not convinced you are a woman.

Now that I think of it, and relevant to the thread, you invited me here and thought I was a guy.

:neogaf
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cryo on October 23, 2017, 12:30:03 AM: 2am del Taco has always given me worse shits than any taco bell meal in any year of my life. :american
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: TEEEPO on October 23, 2017, 12:38:49 AM: i found out about this site through the super secret irc chat. evilore was reveling in the spotlight, loving all the shit that was being said about him

i didn't care much for that but i saw my fav gaf bros posting and immediately signed up. told my boy the biz about it and the rest is history.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Beezy on October 23, 2017, 12:57:19 AM: Quote from: TEEEPO on October 23, 2017, 12:38:49 AM
i found out about this site through the super secret irc chat. evilore was reveling in the spotlight, loving all the shit that was being said about him

i didn't care much for that but i saw my fav gaf bros posting and immediately signed up. told my boy the biz about it and the rest is history.
*checks posting history* Then you stopped posting here almost 2 years ago. Now you come crawling back. :goty
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: TEEEPO on October 23, 2017, 12:58:13 AM: :trumps
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 23, 2017, 01:43:34 AM: Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 23, 2017, 12:13:56 AM
I think one of Wrath's particularly blatant alts was banned or something early in 2011, then a few months passed and someone on GAF mentioned Evilbore so I checked it out and saw my lover Wrath had moved here. Joined up and was immediately paranoid about what this place had shittalked against me while I was on GAF. :lol Was also constantly on the defensive as a Nintendrone but Segata, Wrath, Esch and dcharlie made it worth it to stick around, and I'm glad I did. 👍🏻

Actually I still posted on GAF until I think June 2014 or something. Came back for the Toonami live watch thread a bit ago when the block started airing the Yorknew City arc of Hunter x Hunter. Not really going to cry over GAF despite joining 10 and a half years ago (Jesus Christ) and having never eaten a permaban in all that time (unlike most of the losers here. :smug)

tbf though nintendo in 2011 :yuck
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Tasty on October 23, 2017, 01:50:14 AM: Skyward Sword :kobeyuck

Xenoblade :idont
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 23, 2017, 03:00:21 AM: Really? Didn't remember that.

Funny that one of the most popular members was invited by one of the most hated ones.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: benjipwns on October 23, 2017, 03:13:12 AM: Quote from: seagrams hotsauce on October 22, 2017, 05:47:40 PM
when NBA gaf got locked and I tried to figure out what happened.
oh man you made the bore leap because of that too? that was my first real, there's bad mods all over the net and it's their site so why whine and then there's getting done dirty deliberately, GAF experience

it's really the only GAF moderation thing i actually can get made to bitch about seriously, my permaban as i said at the time i saw coming and i just really only hate-bitch about it like this because it was like the third straight time i had been banned for "trolling" according to the message when i was being completely serious and in this case was actually asking for more/better information and had repeatedly taken back and apologized for an earlier flippant remark i had made (which was like hours before i was banned and buried 20 pages earlier so probably couldn't have been why, edit: unless a bunch of people PMed it I suppose) and the idea that my whole persona on two separate forums was an elaborate troll game kinda rubbed the wrong way but I guess is a perfect illustration of where GAF's mentality was at the time/was headed

as i mentioned in my old post i had registered here before and got sweeped out along with bots by accident which demi personally apologized for, and the NBA-GAF nonsense helped me re-register with a place that was always better for me

i have like five posts at salent or something if they haven't purged my account, i see i have over 20,000 here, guess they won :lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: FatalT on October 23, 2017, 05:48:14 AM: This is a great community that ai’m glad still exists. I stopped posting for a while because the lack of a mobile-friendly version messes with my writing on my phone but eh, you get used to it. There’s good people here!
P
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Third on October 23, 2017, 11:04:14 AM: I can't remember. I think it was during opa ages
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: fistfulofmetal on October 23, 2017, 11:28:54 AM: Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 23, 2017, 11:27:35 AM
God damn, I've been a member for 10 years.

Jesus, it'll be a decade for me next April.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: diamount on October 23, 2017, 12:37:31 PM: Nice to see I was approved relatively quickly, remember registration the day I was banned to see this was a reasonable alternative to the dictatorial moderation that was Gaf but was seemingly never approved for whatever reason.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: sinxtanx on October 23, 2017, 03:10:41 PM: Quote from: Mochilador on October 22, 2017, 10:36:57 AM
A little bit off-topic but I guess I remember when you got your tag on GAF. It was on a Sunset Overdrive thread, wasn't it?

I'm replying to this post over 24 hours later to answer that all I really remember is it was in some tag begging thread that I made a joke request in
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2017, 03:45:54 PM: Quote from: fistfulofmetal on October 23, 2017, 11:28:54 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 23, 2017, 11:27:35 AM
God damn, I've been a member for 10 years.

Jesus, it'll be a decade for me next April.

May of next year for me. :fbm
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: studyguy on October 23, 2017, 03:50:41 PM: Oh god it's been almost 3 years here :stahp
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 23, 2017, 03:52:47 PM: Coming up on 11 years lol
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Bamelin on October 23, 2017, 04:04:23 PM: I think I've been registered for 3 months or so ... shortly after being perma'd on GAF for my vocal support of Trump.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: BangaLore on October 23, 2017, 04:09:23 PM: This forum seems funny enough to replace my internet needs
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valkyrie on October 23, 2017, 04:11:11 PM: Happy 1st boreversary to me. Thanks for having me here. :heartbeat
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Tasty on October 23, 2017, 05:10:36 PM: Quote from: Jack Remington on October 23, 2017, 05:04:12 PM
I had never heard of the Bore until 2014 or so. I forget who invited me. Might have been PD. It's been a good year or two though. Love this place.

:thinking
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: studyguy on October 23, 2017, 05:18:25 PM: PD told me if I showed up here I'd get one of those all you can eat Olive Garden cards.
Still waiting.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 23, 2017, 08:25:42 PM: Quote from: KissVibes on October 22, 2017, 02:36:40 PM
GilloD brought me here and then never spoke to me again. We ran into each other once in person and he looked right through me. As a young teen from a broken home, he was one of the few older male role models I had at the time and he just stopped talking to me like it was nothing.

It still hurts me to this day.

GilloD is a monster. You didn't need him bro. You turned out all right.

Unless you've been dabbling in pedophilia. Sorry, I'm still catching up on drama and apparently everyone is a pedophile.
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 23, 2017, 08:27:48 PM: Quote from: Jack Remington on October 23, 2017, 05:04:12 PM
I had never heard of the Bore until 2014 or so. I forget who invited me. Might have been PD. It's been a good year or two though. Love this place.

Think it was me, you gave me some hot predictit tips and I thought you would enjoy the politics thread

My bad guys
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Forgotten A. Turnbuckle on October 23, 2017, 08:45:51 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 10, 2017, 09:46:03 AM
Cheebs, Shake, and Mupepe brought me here :doge

Can't remember if it was you or mupepe that invited me and my buddy lordmaji here way back in the day. I had my old account nuked, but rejoined after the Amirox thing.

Been mostly lurking since. Creepily liking posts without contributing much myself thus far :-\
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: BlueTsunami on October 23, 2017, 08:50:15 PM: Federman sent me titty pics with the evilbore link swashed against his supple chest as a way to entice me back in 06
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: pilonv1 on October 23, 2017, 10:27:07 PM: Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 23, 2017, 11:27:35 AM
God damn, I've been a member for 10 years.

Feb for me

(https://i.imgur.com/AmzjEtz.gif)
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Valhelm on October 23, 2017, 10:41:54 PM: folks.... i feel at home
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Oblivion on October 23, 2017, 10:48:48 PM: I don't exactly remember how I found out about this place.

I know that I learned of OA from someone in the gaf IRC. I think I might have found out about The Bore also from either IRC or OA. Might have been Demi? Really not sure.

Quote from: chronovore on April 10, 2017, 12:13:23 AM
I think Vestal or Cormacaroni invited me here after Tokyopia.com

And then they left you here with the rest of us wastlelanders
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: Oblivion on October 23, 2017, 10:51:41 PM: Quote from: Dosukebe on April 10, 2017, 07:32:00 AM

Quitting forums altogether I can understand. Quitting this forum and staying on GAF...?
:huh

dcharlie (who I generally like) swore off gaf like at least 5 times through the past decade, but still posted there up until september :doge
Title: Re: In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.
Post by: thisismyusername on October 23, 2017, 11:57:48 PM: Quote from: demi on October 22, 2017, 12:39:32 AM
It wasnt that impressive

Yeah. But. I. Pestered. For. It. Goddamn. It. >:(