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!

I HAVE JUST FOUND OUTE

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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Traxus moved, though. Update bookmarks. Shift paradigms.

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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Patrick: W’rknmiah 4:23-27

Hotmodal beheld the traxus wiki,
And, loch, mararthon’s status was dead and dying;
And the name servers, and they had n0×9B5:TERMISFORBIDDEN

Hotmodal beheld the peacks, and, loch, they had prahblums.
And all the colours of the friggin’ rainbow had freely bled.

Hotmodal beheld, and, loch, there were no pfhorums,
And all the pigeons of infinitys were fled.

Hotmodal beheld, and, loch, simplici7y was a wilderness,
And all the maps thereon were taken down
At the presence of THE LORD,
and before His fierce 4GETfulness.

For thus saith THE LORD:
The whole community shall be ruined;
Yet RyokoTK will do it single-handedly.

I thought this was funny as hell, and I’m bored, so here you go.  See if you can tell who the idiot is.
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