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Melissa

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Forum Split FTL!
« on: November 13, 2006, 05:03:07 PM »
The Hot Dog Bar + Gaming Forum = I don't like it.

I usually check the gaming forum and bail. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, and I'm not looking to change anything - I just liked it better the old way.

demi

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2006, 05:04:19 PM »
I don't like it either. There is not a big enough community to concern with split areas. Even OA has a bigger community and doesnt have a split area.

Merge them back.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2006, 05:04:32 PM »
Its on probation, so we'll see.

All I know is I do a lot more clicking. I do see more gaming topics created and they are staying on topic however. It will be a shame to lose that if we merge again :(
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Cheebs

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2006, 05:04:38 PM »
I photochoped a picture of you for a video game

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2006, 05:04:48 PM »
Yeah, this idea blows chunks.
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Mupepe

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2006, 05:05:18 PM »
It was a decent try, but it works better as one forum.

Melissa

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2006, 05:05:38 PM »
I don't like it either. There is not a big enough community to concern with split areas. Merge them back.
My thoughts exactly.

Cheebs, is it funny?  I wish I could see these things.

Cheebs

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2006, 05:06:19 PM »

Cheebs, is it funny?  I wish I could see these things.
I used MS Paint and it took less than 2 min. Figure it out.  :-*

MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2006, 05:07:09 PM »
I think it needs to be given a chance, fail or not. I mean you guys cried for it, and you got it. Now ya dont like it. However you cant begrudge us for trying.

I for one dont care ALL that much, but again, i think the discussions will lose focus on the general board thanks to all the shenannigans.
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TVC15

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2006, 05:07:21 PM »
No way, this is better.  Even though this forum isn't as active as the other one, I like that game discussions aren't pushed off the first page in five minutes by a barrage of wacky topics.

Who cares if it's a little slower moving?  Stop by this forum once an hour.  At least there's a place for only game discussion.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2006, 05:08:45 PM »
I think it needs to be given a chance, fail or not. I mean you guys cried for it, and you got it. Now ya dont like it. However you cant begrudge us for trying.

Return my hall of fame posting abilities and all will be peaceful once more

MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2006, 05:09:08 PM »
Well majority will rule in this case. There are plans to keep it going till January. At which point we will decide what to do with it.

Unless of course administration feels inspired to jump the gun on the great experiment, which again, I dont care about ;)

Cheebs: you know I can't. Im not a sponsor of in-fighting lol.
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Himu

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2006, 05:09:30 PM »
Hell no. I hate searching for game threads here. Everything is pushed back and it's annoying.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2006, 05:10:38 PM »
Hell no. I hate searching for game threads here. Everything is pushed back and it's annoying.

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Mupepe

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2006, 05:11:10 PM »
I never begged for it.  ???

BlueTsunami

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2006, 05:11:30 PM »
I'm the opposite of Melissa, I don't even bat an eye at the gaming forum

;_;

It truly is bothersome to go out and in of a forum to get to another. Especially since We've only got like 20 or so posters that actually post.
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Saint Cornelius

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2006, 05:12:00 PM »
I like it better this way. I wonder how many people would've claimed to have thought it's the best thing ever had Melissa said "FTW"
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Saint Cornelius

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #17 on: November 13, 2006, 05:12:39 PM »
It truly is bothersome to go out and in of a forum to get to another. Especially since We've only got like 20 or so posters that actually post.


You are truly fucking lazy, come on. Two, three more mouse clicks isn't going to fuck up your wrists any worse than the years of self-abuse you've put your penis through.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2006, 05:12:46 PM »
Well my main problem is knowing where to put a few of my threads. Im a mod and I could do what I want, but it would immediately be spammed with MOVE TO GAMING forum by Dark Shake and his crew of misfits so wtf do I do there.

Honestly I get more RESPONSES to gaming threads in the GAMING FORUM than I did when everything was on one forum. However it is clear the forum traffic is somewhat split between the two forums. Which means a lot of people are posting meaningful replies for SOME reason when gaming threads are on a gaming forum.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2006, 05:13:44 PM »
Well my main problem is knowing where to put a few of my threads. Im a mod and I could do what I want, but it would immediately be spammed with MOVE TO GAMING forum by Dark Shake and his crew of misfits so wtf do I do there.

Honestly I get more RESPONSES to gaming threads in the GAMING FORUM than I did when everything was on one forum. However it is clear the forum traffic is somewhat split between the two forums. Which means a lot of people are posting meaningful replies for SOME reason when gaming threads are on a gaming forum.

 :lol
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BlueTsunami

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2006, 05:19:41 PM »
It truly is bothersome to go out and in of a forum to get to another. Especially since We've only got like 20 or so posters that actually post.

You are truly fucking lazy, come on. Two, three more mouse clicks isn't going to fuck up your wrists any worse than the years of self-abuse you've put your penis through.

:(

Its so far away ;_;. I liked seeing games and off topic shit in the same forum too
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Mupepe

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2006, 05:20:35 PM »
I like it better this way. I wonder how many people would've claimed to have thought it's the best thing ever had Melissa said "FTW"
lolz

Nah, I think a lot of people are lazy like BlueTsunami

Himu

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2006, 05:21:28 PM »
Yeah well Blue Tsunami is gay
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2006, 05:22:33 PM »
Yeah well Blue Tsunami is gay

 :o SLANDER!!!
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BlueTsunami

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2006, 05:27:44 PM »
:-*
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Himu

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2006, 05:29:02 PM »
See?  :-[
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2006, 05:38:39 PM »
I'm not enamored with it so far and I don't know if I have the discipline to keep it going for as long as originally planned, but I will give it a fair shake.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2006, 05:40:17 PM »
a fair SHAKE get it lol
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #28 on: November 13, 2006, 05:42:29 PM »
yeah Shake sux lol
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TVC15

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2006, 05:43:59 PM »
I dunno, I like Evilbore with actual game discussion.  I stop into gaming about once and hour and there will be a dozen or so  topics with new posts.  I think that's pretty good.  Those topics wouldn't last 5 minutes in The Hot Dog Bar.
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Shuri

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #30 on: November 13, 2006, 05:55:43 PM »
I suggest another sub forum, 'inside jokes wankery'   :-*

MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #31 on: November 13, 2006, 05:57:11 PM »
I see the merit in a gaming forum, and I do see its purpose. Gaming threads stay ON TRACK in the gaming forum. Honestly I dont see Melissa post that much in the Gaming Forum anyway. I think it would be a better idea to ask the Gaming Forum posters what they think.

I know it doesnt make the users browsing this forum list as impressive as it has been in the past, but I am honestly tired of watching my gaming threads sink like a god damned rock.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2006, 05:59:34 PM »
It sucks. the name 'Hot dog bar' sucks too.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2006, 06:00:23 PM »
Yeah the Hot Dog Bar thing was outta left field lol
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2006, 06:00:46 PM »
The Hot Dog Bar is fucking brilliant.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #35 on: November 13, 2006, 06:01:12 PM »
Well I 'get it' but thats only cause I know what it means lol.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2006, 06:03:14 PM »
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Wobedraggled

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2006, 06:24:31 PM »
The split is fine, if you want more traffic invite people to post.

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #38 on: November 13, 2006, 06:25:36 PM »
SOMEBODY SEARCH HIM!!!! SEARCH HIM!!!!
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Vizzys

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #39 on: November 13, 2006, 06:34:00 PM »
I like it. FUCK THE HATERS
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TVC15

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #40 on: November 13, 2006, 07:02:21 PM »
I would've never made my Viva Pinata thread if it weren't for the gaming forum.  Why bother to put effort into something if it's going to be on the front page for just a few minutes.  Even MAF's weekly gaming threads, pre-gaming forum, would end up just being an extension of the silly nature of the then-unnamed Hot Dog Bar.

I don't get the rush to kill it off.  Some people like it, some people are using it.
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #41 on: November 13, 2006, 07:03:49 PM »
There's no rush to kill it off.  You just have a persecution complex.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #42 on: November 13, 2006, 07:04:28 PM »
WE MUST SPILL THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT!!!!
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TVC15

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #43 on: November 13, 2006, 07:07:12 PM »
There's no rush to kill it off.  You just have a persecution complex.

Quote from: Willco
I'm not enamored with it so far and I don't know if I have the discipline to keep it going for as long as originally planned, but I will give it a fair shake.

So basically you've already written it off after 3 days and plan on killing it before the originally planned probation time of January?
serge

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #44 on: November 13, 2006, 07:07:44 PM »
TVC WITH THE SMACKDOWN
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #45 on: November 13, 2006, 07:11:44 PM »
So basically you've already written it off after 3 days and plan on killing it before the originally planned probation time of January?

Again with the persecution complex, you forum diva.  Nowhere in there did I say I had written it off, nor do I plan on killing it off before January.

I said I'm not enamored with it, and I don't know if I have the discipline to give it such a lengthy probation period, but that I will give it a fair shake.

So shut the fuck up and make more Viva Pinate threads  :-*
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #46 on: November 13, 2006, 07:13:33 PM »

So shut the fuck up and make more Viva Pinate threads  :-*

Yeah, you're clearly not cut out for the Gaming Forum. :hehe
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brawndolicious

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #47 on: November 13, 2006, 07:14:35 PM »
Just remember, we need an outlet for gaming discussion.  That was not possible in the old set-up of the forums.

The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #48 on: November 13, 2006, 07:15:10 PM »
Oh my god, a typo! Go hit take your Allegra, Shake.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #49 on: November 13, 2006, 07:16:02 PM »
Oh my god, a typo! Go hit take your Allegra, Shake.

 :-*
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Van Cruncheon

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #50 on: November 13, 2006, 07:57:56 PM »
Gaming Forum RULES. I support it 100%.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #51 on: November 13, 2006, 08:03:17 PM »
I'm not enamored with it so far and I don't know if I have the discipline to keep it going for as long as originally planned, but I will give it a fair shake.


I dunno but if you're not sure you're - ahem - disciplined enough to keep it going as long as originally planned, you probably shouldn't say you're , uh.... *doing air quotes like I was fuckin' Lucille Bluth* "[going to]give it a fair shake".

I know White Man already mentioned that, but I just wanted to call your attention to it once again.

My birthday is January, among other things - try to give it that fair shake until then, k?
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #52 on: November 13, 2006, 08:07:47 PM »
My birthday is in January too.  Let's have a double date birthday party.

And - yes - the plan is to keep the forum until then. My thought process on it is that if it's completely dead by next month, it might be hard to keep it going another month.

I'm not going to kill it this week.
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Human Snorenado

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #53 on: November 13, 2006, 08:09:21 PM »
I TOTALLY support the gaming forum.  Hell, I've posted more in the past couple days at the 'bore's gaming forum than I have in the previous year at neocrap.  It definitely helps that the people there are better posters than the rank and file at the other place, but the point is that if we eliminate that outlet, the gaming threads in the Hot Dog Bar/general discussion will just sink without a home of their own.

Also, put me in the column of "the Hot Dog Bar is a dumb name" camp.  Call it the "Sausage Fest" or "Random Randomness".
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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #54 on: November 13, 2006, 08:10:06 PM »
Since it seems to be overwhelmingly hated - maybe we'll do a contest to rename it.
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TVC15

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #55 on: November 13, 2006, 08:12:28 PM »
Since it seems to be overwhelmingly hated - maybe we'll do a contest to rename it.

Yeah, but you're a filthy Republican.  You may do a contest to rename The Hot Dog Bar, but you will attach a rider to shut down the gaming forum and lower minimum wage.

Also, my birthday is in January, too.
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Saint Cornelius

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #56 on: November 13, 2006, 08:12:41 PM »
I like Hot Dog Bar; there's so many dodes here arguing about who is going to fuck one another that the moniker just seems so appropriate.

And in case you missed it:

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Mondain

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #57 on: November 14, 2006, 01:30:19 AM »
keep the gaming forum, this forum has far too many pointless replies already

im not a fan of GAF OT's humor, and in the hot dog bar this is nearly all there is, so im posting almost exclusively in gaming

give it a few months and the gaming forum could be pretty fucking sweet, it's a great asset to keep for the reasons many have said previously... itll add a lot of credibility to this board

and since most posters here seem to post almost exclusively for OT content, well for them it should be a good thing that they aren't encumbered by gaming threads

Vizzys

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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #58 on: November 14, 2006, 01:53:26 AM »
I wish you would post less everywhere.
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Re: Forum Split FTL!
« Reply #59 on: November 14, 2006, 07:05:37 AM »
When the fuck did Jotaro come back? ???
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