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.

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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Now that MARARTHON has officially taken its own life, there are a few things I’d like to get off my chest. I mean, they’ve bothered me for something like a year. That’s a long time if you think about it. (Also, I have the gift of Bourbon, so truth is coming more naturally to me at the moment.)

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After reading chat from the meatserver some days, I find it hard to believe people can be so retarded. But since Arrival was not functioning today, I decided to use MythChat to see if the myth guys were having any trouble. Well, it turns out they are. The server was working just fine, however. I forgot I had MythChat running and checked about an hour later, and this is ALL that had been said in that time.
(Warning: A whole lot of spam follows)
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I’m moving the list of Pfhorums topics I don’t want to forget to JFO by request.

BOOM BEBBY!
I find this creepy
Marathon Game Launcher
CryoS’s little room of art.
Flooding Marathon
Infinity problem
scripting
The pfhorums are my family
Oppression
Lh’owon Swamp Romp
iBaby
Marathon : Apotheosis
Pictures of you
A Note on Mariusnet and attempting to impersonate admins
can someone help
can someone help
Dusk Textures
Just gave Halo a try.. I am shocked
Connection issues
OpenGL + Vista
Zomgodz I found the connection
Proof that JUICE is here
/!\
Meatmanek
Marathon Ladder
I am not Goran… Leave me alone
Netgames now support more than 8 players!
Guests
And what is your Lama number
-Untitled-
Pfhortipfhy’s birthday!
JUICEMAN
Demotional
Post count?
Hey Dudes!
Map Making Tool for A1
Natural Language
You almost kickban people?
What is the Clique?
Viva La Vida
We can’t let this happen
Marathon limericks
Current state of the Marathon community in your opinion
Questions about fileball
Possible Scratchbuilt Marathon 3D Game
Plea against Johnny_Strabler
CLIQUE members only.
Random Help
Something that should be looked into
Crator Creater smells nice
Infinity Marbles
spirit of the age

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