Sure, the CLIQUE likes to ruin Mararthon, but have any of us managed to do this?

Stats collected so far this month:

$ grep -i survival misc.log | wc
229 4496 25219
$ grep -i emfh misc.log | wc
228 4198 21697

I know we have an OSH award for maps, but to me, this seems like an even greater accomplishment. Congratulations to Megabyte for ruining the metaserver!

Bavlok got the better of me. Here is a PM conversation between him and myself transposed into wonderful black-on-ORANGE. Note that I get trolled real bad. I feel terrible. Really the only reason I would post this at all is because I know some of the fuckwits that read JFO are the sort that relish in my repeated failures.

The conversation is entitled “For Carnage, Apply Within.”

Bavlok: I am enjoying your reactions to my presence. There is no doubt that you should indeed delete any posts which are abusive or harassing, but why have you overlooked your own?

TK: I’m not an admin, therefore how the site is managed isn’t my concern.

Bavlok: The Pfhorums wreak [sic] of favoritism. Are you so thick in it you have not noticed?

TK: You are truly the worst troll ever. If you think I’m manipulating $lave into being my puppet admin then you’re also woefully inattentive and ignorant of Pfhorums history.

Bavlok: Name calling is one of your best aspects. Your assumption of my thinking that you are manipulating $lave just goes to show your ignorance of the matter. No thinking is involved when it comes to the obvious favoritism. I am stating a fact. You take everything personal; you handle every matter as though it were a direct attack on you. This blinds you. You could respond by calling me some other creative name. Perhaps you would try and insult my intelligence. You are very good at dancing around the issue at hand.

TK: So what is the issue at hand? That I’ve made “abusive and harassing” posts? Congratulations. That there is a CLIQUE on the Pfhorums? Once again, your insightfulness [sic] astounds me.

Bavlok: It is my fault to state your ignorance of the matter. I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt. You do see the problems. You admit to making abusive and harassing posts. You admit there is a CLIQUE on the Pfhorums. I posted my welcoming message to grab your attention. You’ve done well at responding.

It’s not really fair to let me announce a post of the month, as I always immediately reduce to picking a patrick of the month. With that bias aired, this patrick post deserves the November title for being extremely intricate (unlike the usual ham-handed parody that gets picked for PotM). That kind of detailed image work isn’t something any of the rest of us bother with anymore, and that’s what makes it so impressive.

Congratulations.

{he chose the right guy to copy from on his final}

Stop coding.

Previous installments: part one, part two, part three. Now, prepare for the conclusion. It’s been great fun writing so much crap and having Bleating Lhowon disapprove of it so deeply. Let me know if you want me to keep the Essentials series going, and feel free to give me suggestions, or (if you happen to have an account here), run wild with the concept on your own.

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Parts One and Two are required reading before diving in here.

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If you haven’t already taken a look at the first part of this grand analysis, please do so. Now that you’re caught up…

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Welcome to The Essentials, a new concept here on JFO. Our goal today is to take a look at an essential facet of the Marathon community, some well-preserved record of perseverance, conflict, creativity, brotherhood, and so on. In this case, I’ll be taking apart the infamous Pfhorums thread 2.5D Game Discussion post by post, analyzing everything that occurred in this great war of CLIQUE vs. Sweatervest (a.k.a. Mr. Cardigan). Although I don’t have the time or energy right now to go over the entire thread, I’ll take you on a journey through the first page. Won’t you please join me?

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Welcome to the very first installment of CLIQUE NOTES. In this periodical, I take a page or so of notes while watching an episode of The Prisoner and show those notes to you. Enjoy.

You probably saw this coming from a mile away, so I might as well get started with zero preamble.

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