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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: MissingName on September 23, 2009, 10:32:52 PM

Title: A new "hero" falls
Post by: MissingName on September 23, 2009, 10:32:52 PM: (http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/tombstone.jpg)

I had been trying to convince John Brown to join Charas for quite a while. After all, he is the one who found it first (via Drak's review of "GULPY GULPY!") and showed me. He lost interest. I joined.

On Saturday, he finally joined. Two days later he deleted his account. The reason he told me?

"Your forum is too slow."

John Brown, AKA Johnny Five-Aces, you'll be missed. Maybe.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Felix-0 on September 23, 2009, 10:36:24 PM: some like it slow.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Dragonium on September 23, 2009, 10:39:43 PM: It's just slow enough.

At least it's not a ten-threads-a-second-posts-everywhere-can't-keep-up-with-the-discussion board like Mr Cho's Chinese Palace.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Fisherson on September 23, 2009, 11:27:02 PM: Quote from: Dragonium on September 23, 2009, 10:39:43 PM
At least it's not a ten-threads-a-second-posts-everywhere-can't-keep-up-with-the-discussion board like Mr Cho's Chinese Palace.

What have you against Mr Cho's hmm? Damn fine Kung Pow Chicken it is.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: SaiKar on September 24, 2009, 12:42:50 AM: -.-

This is about as close to you admitting you are John Brown as I'm going to get, isn't it?

And he basically admitted that he was here mostly for trolling purposes anyway, so I'm not losing too much sleep.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: MissingName on September 24, 2009, 12:52:21 AM: I'm not him. We go to the same school, and I was hooked up to his internet when he joined. That's why we had the same IP.

I don't see the point in joking. And to tell the truth, I don't have enough of an imagination to ad lib about a sick kid and Old Tony. I would get bored with it. Instead, I put that effort towards school and my games.

And yes. He was trying to be a troll. It was simply too slow to have an affect. I told that would probably be the case...
He still lives on, elsewhere. (http://pallettribune.com/forums/member.php?u=1312) I think. He might have given up there, too, now that the mods actually wanted him to troll.

Edit: Yup. (http://pallettribune.com/forums/member.php?u=1312) Look through his messages.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Ben on September 24, 2009, 12:57:45 AM: weak
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: _JeT_ on September 24, 2009, 01:48:29 AM: About freakin' time
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on September 24, 2009, 01:58:58 AM: Quote from: MissingName on September 24, 2009, 12:52:21 AM
I'm not him. We go to the same school, and I was hooked up to his internet when he joined. That's why we had the same IP.

Unless you're using the same computer, the IP would at least be a little different.
Plus, how do you know he had the same IP?
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Ben on September 24, 2009, 02:04:37 AM: this topic is better of not existing.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Felix-0 on September 24, 2009, 09:48:31 AM: Cast X-zone on it. That'll make it dissapear.

:Edit:
Lukas was active, me and him used the same computer. Or I used his labtop, so we would have the same IP adresses. But in this case, Me and lukas stayed on together for about a month. Then he gave up on RPG making, he still does spriting though.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: MissingName on September 24, 2009, 10:56:35 AM: Quote from: X_marks_the_ed on September 24, 2009, 01:58:58 AM
Unless you're using the same computer, the IP would at least be a little different.
Plus, how do you know he had the same IP?

Quote from: Felix-0 on September 24, 2009, 09:48:31 AM
Lukas was active, me and him used the same computer. Or I used his laptop, so we would have the same IP adresses. But in this case, Me and lukas stayed on together for about a month. Then he gave up on RPG making, he still does spriting though.

I used a laptop, John Brown used the desktop.

SaiKar pinged and PM'd him. It was something along the lines of
"Hello MissingName.
"No double accounts and stop joking."

...sigh. I guess because of John Brown, I've lost any credibility I might have had.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Ben on September 24, 2009, 11:30:15 AM: dont make a mountain out of a molehill. This topic is not needed. a new member that decides to leave after getting a less then stellar response to a general air of arrogance is not a ' "hero" falling '. Nobody here has any credibility. Nor does this topic, as its going to turn into something ugly.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on September 24, 2009, 01:15:50 PM: Yes, why make a thread if he's literally in the same room as you?
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Felix-0 on September 24, 2009, 04:34:37 PM: Quote from: X_marks_the_ed on September 24, 2009, 01:15:50 PM
Yes, why make a thread if he's literally in the same room as you?
Lazyness?
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Hell Angel on September 24, 2009, 07:27:34 PM: Quote from: X_marks_the_ed on September 24, 2009, 01:15:50 PM
Yes, why make a thread if he's literally in the same room as you?
Schizophrenia?
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: MissingName on September 24, 2009, 07:34:27 PM: Nope, just general paranoia. I think the meds have that covered, though.

I guess this can just die. I was trying to make people think we are different, but it seems no one really believes it anyway. So I'll give up.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: SaiKar on September 24, 2009, 08:24:05 PM: Quote from: MissingName on September 24, 2009, 10:56:35 AM
...sigh. I guess because of John Brown, I've lost any credibility I might have had.

First off, I did everything via PM because I didn't want to make public accusations or blame anyone for things even if I felt they were true. I was more than willing to keep everything a secret, even from the other mods if need be, as long as everyone played nice. You can blame your Mr. Brown for going public when he said that some mods thought you two were the same person. I would have never done it myself. Not my style. But, as a member of the staff, I am obligated to defend myself against accusations, so the game was up. So if you're sad about your reputation, you might want to have a talk with your little friend about him dragging you into his problems publicly. If this person even exists.

'sides, even now, it's not like there is any talk of bans or even warnings. It was a weird little misadventure in a long history of Charas strange events. I've seen a lot worse. The fact that most people are walking away from this one grinning, or at least confused and not annoyed, means it's fine by me.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Osmose on September 28, 2009, 01:02:49 AM: For the record, IPs don't work that way. I really can't stand it when people talk about technology they don't understand, so time to learn!

IP addresses are assigned to an machine by an ISP via a protocol called DHCP. Nowadays, most broadband connections are given a single IP per connection, which basically means each house with internet gets 1 IP address. This address is saved, but only ASSIGNED when you connect.

This one's important: IPs are not saved by a machine, the are assigned when you connect to the internet.

If your computer is the only machine hooked up to the modem, then the IP address is assigned to your computer. Most people use routers to connect multiple computers. In these setups, the router is the machine assigned an IP. The router handles the various machines working under one IP, and everyone's happy.

So going to a friend's house and using their computer, or using a laptop on their network, means you will both have the same IP at that time.

Funny thing though. SMF is not a stupid forum system and logs all IPs ever used to connect. If you used a friend's computer once, but then went home and used your own again, you would have two IPs on file. In fact, some of our members have hundreds of IPs on file, either because of anonymizing proxies that switch IPs every page request, or just using a service like AOL that assigns a new IP on every connection.

More can be found out about networking and how the internet works by reading up on the OSI Model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model).
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: fruckert on September 28, 2009, 05:03:23 AM: I hate setting up static IPs.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: zuhane on September 28, 2009, 09:20:17 AM: Quote from: MissingName on September 23, 2009, 10:32:52 PM
(http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/tombstone.jpg)

I had been trying to convince John Brown to join Charas for quite a while. After all, he is the one who found it first (via Drak's review of "GULPY GULPY!") and showed me. He lost interest. I joined.

On Saturday, he finally joined. Two days later he deleted his account. The reason he told me?

"Your forum is too slow."

John Brown, AKA Johnny Five-Aces, you'll be missed. Maybe.

I really feel quite complimented. A lot of people are joining charas and asking me to send them my games :D

Gulpy Gulpy is quite the masterpiece :D
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: ZidaneExiaCrisis on September 28, 2009, 09:26:48 AM: The Forums Isnt That Slow.
Title: Re: A new "hero" falls
Post by: Archem on September 29, 2009, 04:46:31 AM: Neither is your mother.

Oh snap.