guys what is with this place?

[Black Flag]

what the hell?

really?

[Mockery]

I know! You leave for a few weeks and it's like a completely different site, right? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

[comhcinc]

um..........................a ladies' shoe?

[corpexec44]

this arbys roast beef i just ate is watering my ass :(

[Mockery]

I haven't had Arby's in years. We used to have some weird giant Super Arby's near our place and then had canoes hanging from the ceiling for no reason whatsoever.

CANOES!

[Qwarx]

I DONT WANT TO IMAGINE THAT, corpexec44!!!

[Black Flag]

see man really?

is that how you want to be representing yourself?

[Qwarx]

me?

[Black Flag]

all of you

[Black Flag]

every last damn one

[Chojin]

is this the same thread as that other thread

[Chojin]

and if so when can we look forward to seeing dilbert's man rod

[Black Flag]

hey chojin how you doing what's up man hows life

[Chojin]

it's okay but sorry if i'm preoccupied i'm busy in internet warfare with the webmaster over whether or not a thread gets moved on an internet forum this could easily take my attention all week but the results will be worth it i'm sure

[Nick]

I haven't had Arby's in years. We used to have some weird giant Super Arby's near our place and then had canoes hanging from the ceiling for no reason whatsoever.

CANOES!
I know Arby's just loves its cowboy theme, but once you nail canoes to the wall, don't you think you've taken it a bit too far?


post script: I mean come on, a canoe? They could definitely come up with better cowboy imagery.

[Black Flag]

hey nick! shut up jerk!

[Nick]

hey nick! shut up jerk!

Why, I never!

[Moobs]

it's like those halo levels with the flood in here

[Guitar Woman]

The Library is the best level ever :<

[comhcinc]

I know Arby's just loves its cowboy theme, but once you nail canoes to the wall, don't you think you've taken it a bit too far?


post script: I mean come on, a canoe? They could definitely come up with better cowboy imagery.

i never connected that hat of arby thing and cowboys.........time to go sit in the corner

[Black Flag]

guys shut up about arbys really

i post here like never and i don't want my one post until like 2010 to be about arbys

[Black Flag]

oh well

this place lacks character these days!

i give up

[Assuredly NOT ArrowX]

theres currently some sort of internal power struggle between RoG and Chojin over the Life of the Chatroom thread. Imagine it like the Terry Shiavo drama but with Serpentor and Cobra Commander fighting instead.

[Guitar Woman]

What I don't get is why these people come here and are completely persistant in not leaving for somewhere where they'd be more accepted (i.e. GameFAQs or some shit)

admittedly I should be asking myself that question because I was one of those faggots who didn't leave no matter what got thrown at him, but still

[comhcinc]

theres currently some sort of internal power struggle between RoG and Chojin over the Life of the Chatroom thread. Imagine it like the Terry Shiavo drama but with Serpentor and Cobra Commander fighting instead.
now that sounds awesome

[Nick]

What I don't get is why these people come here and are completely persistant in not leaving for somewhere where they'd be more accepted (i.e. GameFAQs or some shit)

admittedly I should be asking myself that question because I was one of those faggots who didn't leave no matter what got thrown at him, but stillI can't say that I've ever actually read the GameFAQs forum, but I'm fairly sure that I-Mockery probably has a far more intelligent userbase. Though, I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not.

[MLE]

well, a far more intelligent userbase in terms of longevity of posters, with a few exceptions, but that doesn't mean it makes you into the same thing.

[Assuredly NOT ArrowX]

now that sounds awesome

did I ask for your agreement? I was directing that post to BlackFlag not you you little putrid hunk of afterbirth.

[Emu]

The bad thing about this forum is that almost every time someone genuinely entertaining and fun comes along it ends up being an old person who we thought left with a new screen name. We do rarely get cool people like J. T. Pednaud (i'm not going to even try spelling the whole name out, jerk) who I'm sure is going to disappoint me next week when one of our internet sleuths determines that he's actually Helm.

[Black Flag]

I realize that i might have the worst post count-to-how much people care about me posting ratio in i-mockery history so what i say probably matters to no one, but the problem isn't new people

there's always new people and they're almost always exactly the same

the problem is now all the people who AREN'T new are like exactly the same. it seems like people remember when they were new and no one liked them and now that they get it they don't wanna stop acting a certain way and risk getting kicked out of the cool kids club

i don't think it's a conscious thing but ida know

[MLE]

I like Tadao and ZAKO as well. I'm pretty sure they're actually new.

[Nick]

well, a far more intelligent userbase in terms of longevity of posters, with a few exceptions, but that doesn't mean it makes you into the same thing.

Looking through the lenses of rose-colored glasses helps.

[Guitar Woman]

Didn't Tadao say he posted on ezboard a long time ago or something?

[MLE]

and I see what black flag is saying, and I RESPECT HIM FOR SAYING THAT. I agree that people should just stop caring so much about what people think of them. Also, there's been a recent influx of changes and little controlling things from up above, and I think it's made people very nervous. At least some.

[comhcinc]

did I ask for your agreement? I was directing that post to BlackFlag not you you little putrid hunk of afterbirth.

it's not a agreement, it's a declaration. word to your mother.

[MLE]

Tadao said he's posted on forums in general for a long time.

[Tadao]

I used to post here a very very long time ago under the name... Tadao. I was intrudeced to this place by Fark and I came here and started Flaming away in the Flame forums. I don't think they where called the Mock wars back then. It was all hell boke loose. And everyone was an evil clown. Well... I got my ass handed to me and I left for a long time knowing that I needed to battle trolls on easier forums before I ever came back. And I never came back. But the last forum I was one went all fluffy (or wants to be) ao I came here hoping to just have fun. But yeah, I'm new to this place basicly, not to forums though. Unlike some of these attention whores.

[Tadao]

god, I remeber when everyone used EZboard.

[Guitar Woman]

truthfully this was the first forum I ever posted on :<

[Tadao]

3 1/2 years exp = 17.5 platinum bars

[Emu]

my first forum was on starmen.net back in 2000 :[

[executioneer]

i only posted on the primussucks.com bulletin board before this and that shit doesnt count b/c posts got autodeleted after 15 days

[comhcinc]

i've been around forums for years, course i are so old that i remember the days pre broadband. most forums have "cleaned up" and have lost a lot of fun. this still seems to be wide open. happiness is a warm gun

[Tadao]

I inventeded the internet!

Srsly... I was doing bbs on pirate boards with (i forget the baudrate) modems dailing my friends local number sharing floppy disk hacks on my 8086 dx2. There wasn't dailup internet that I knew of. I remeber trying to get AOL and there was no local # when they first came out.

I may be older than Burbank...

[executioneer]

i remember those days too

though i think i was usin a 386 instead of a 8086 but w/e

[executioneer]

plus i remember my uncle had a ti 99/4a with a modem that he used to downlaod cracked versions of pac-man on

[Guitar Woman]

hahaha ;<

[comhcinc]

http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVhhjocMb3U/RkvNng_W3TI/AAAAAAAAAIY/J8cSqQ53hac/s400/rotarydialmodem.jpg
my father owned a computer store back in the 80s i was one of those annoying little kids back in the day, now i am just annoying. and fat. and hairy.

[ZAKO the GREAT]

my first forum posting, too. 0_o
i just tend to play it safe by not trying to act like a total dickhead/smart-ass in which, i could, like anyone could be, but i don't.

[executioneer]

hahaha ;<

totally serious

[Guitar Woman]

I totally remember playing the Mac version of oregon trail in my elementary school's computer lab

Macs were the SHIT

[comhcinc]

you mean the old Apple eII? http://www.allaboutapple.com/museo/pictures/donazioni/apple_iie.jpg

or is that before your time?

[Zomboid]

My first forum was gamewinners.com :lol . It was pretty terrible. Then I came here in like 2002 and it's the only one I post at regularly.

[23_]

I totally remember playing the Mac version of oregon trail in my elementary school's computer lab

Macs were the SHIT

I remember playing it in elementary school too. The computer rooms had the last iMacs that didn't have flat screen monitors, they were huge and crazylooking.

[Guitar Woman]

uh, I'm talking about these things
http://www.applefritter.com/pictures/images/mac2si.jpg

[Chojin]

Man, you had imacs in elementary school? ;<

We had some IIes in the math department in high school, though they only used them to teach us LOGO or some bullshit where you used a tick to draw shapes with coordinates. I have no idea what we were supposed to learn from that.

However, my elementary school was more sophisticated and I think they had Mac Performas or some equivalent. My favorite game was My Own Stories, which was basically an electronic stickerbook. My second favorite game was the Mac version of Oregon Trail because it was very pretty :<

And then my elementary school burned down and all the pets died.

[Guitar Woman]

We had some IIes in the math department in high school, though they only used them to teach us LOGO or some bullshit where you used a tick to draw shapes with coordinates. I have no idea what we were supposed to learn from that.

I swear to fucking god I remember this

except it was a turtle

[Zomboid]

I remember playing on macs in elementary school, but by junior high all the computers had windows. I used to love going to my mom's office at the hospital and playing those discs with a ton of shareware games like bad toys 3d.

[Guitar Woman]

Man, I should get a MacII again just for old times sake

[Chojin]

I once punched a kid in the jaw in kindergarten because I was playing 'Mother Goose and Grimm' on the Texas Instruments computer and he wanted me to share.

Also I was the only kid in kindergarten that could fill out a multiplication table on that computer, but I didn't really know how to multiply, I'd just memorized all the answers.

[23_]

Also I was the only kid in kindergarten that could fill out a multiplication table on that computer, but I didn't really know how to multiply, I'd just memorized all the answers.
In my second grade class I was the first one to figure out that 28 times two is 56, about five minutes after the teacher asked.

[Chojin]

I eventually learned multiplication for real a bit before 2nd grade I think, when my family bought me 'Number Maze' for Mac and I needed to know that shit to get the horse to the carrot.

I find that throughout my life I'm motivated by all the wrong things.

[Guitar Woman]

Since 2+2 and 2x2 were the same I was convinced there was no difference between the two actions and was sent to an all-day time-out because I got into a shouting match with the teacher over it

[Chojin]

do you see the error of your ways now

[Guitar Woman]

yes!

A similar incident happened next year in first grade because I refused to write with lower-case letters.

Also, all the fifth graders seemed like godly obelisks of maturity back then ;<

[Chojin]

I knew plenty of kids in high school that never used lowercase letters ;< I think they stop caring after the 5th grade ;<

I also once got in BIG TROUBLE in the 3rd grade because we were doing this shit where we'd write a cursive letter over and over on this weirdly-lined paper and I was getting bored so I just made one REALLY WIDE lowercase 's'

The teacher came by and was all 'WHAT IS THIS' and I said 'THE WORLD'S LARGEST "S"' and she grabbed my paper, crumpled it up, threw it away, and made me do it all over again.

I think 3rd grade was the last time I wrote in cursive.

[Guitar Woman]

That's funny, because 3rd grade was the last time I wrote in print :<

[23_]

I eventually learned multiplication for real a bit before 2nd grade I think, when my family bought me 'Number Maze' for Mac and I needed to know that shit to get the horse to the carrot.

I find that throughout my life I'm motivated by all the wrong things.
Oh I learned some multiplication so I could get points in some breakout / pinball type game, every time the ball ran into a ? on the map. I can't remember the name of the game but I can remember this mad-scientist-looking dude saying "YOU BROKE MY ROBOMATIC MACHINE."

[Chojin]

We had some game on the mac with a mad scientist but I can't remember the name, and I really think I would have remembered arkanoid/breakout being on there :< The story was that you got turned into some hellacious doll and had to get through a bunch of puzzles to get back out. I think tangrams were involved.

[Et tu]

BBS rules, I Had a C64 tho instead of an apple II. I had no knowledge of blue boxing so i could only phone local. Cool times.

[23_]

We had some game on the mac with a mad scientist but I can't remember the name, and I really think I would have remembered arkanoid/breakout being on there :< The story was that you got turned into some hellacious doll and had to get through a bunch of puzzles to get back out. I think tangrams were involved.
Dr. Quandary.

[Chojin]

YES.

FUCK THAT GUY.

[Tadao]

AH, this has turned into a memory thread. My first computer was an Apple IIC Not the c+.
My dad had mad cash back then I guess because they were not cheap when they first came out. Fuckers didn't even have a fan. You had to buy one externally after they found out that people left them on for long periods of time.

[Guitar Woman]

Remember the old Super Solvers games

I was always horrified of the one that took place in the radio station, because of the sound effects

[Guitar Woman]

I think it was OutNumbered! or something

[Et tu]

Castle of Dr. Brain?

[Emu]

I learned to type on an Apple ][ :(

[joshklok]

I'm on a Mac right now. Does that make me a bad person?

[Chojin]

it just makes you a rich and misguided person

[joshklok]

But the commercials say that I'm an artist...

and since when do commercials lie?

[Et tu]

I'm on a Mac right now. Does that make me a bad person?

No, a fag. Get a real computer. You can't even play games on a fecking Imac, or are you some fancy graphic designer poofter? ;)

[Guitar Woman]

well, you can play Marathon

[joshklok]

No, a fag. Get a real computer. You can't even play games on a fecking Imac, Or are you some fancy graphic designer poofter? ;)

Nuh-uh. I got it as a christmas present a few years back.

besides, computers are just computers.

[Et tu]

besides, computers are just computers.

O rlly, So you would settle with a 8086? No hard disk, start up floppy?

[Pentegarn]

I haven't had Arby's in years. We used to have some weird giant Super Arby's near our place and then had canoes hanging from the ceiling for no reason whatsoever.

CANOES!

Where I live we have a place called Quaker Steak and Lube and it has cars hanging from the ceiling. Imagine how scary eating under a car you know is held up only by wall brackets is.

I knew plenty of kids in high school that never used lowercase letters ;< I think they stop caring after the 5th grade ;<

I also once got in BIG TROUBLE in the 3rd grade because we were doing this shit where we'd write a cursive letter over and over on this weirdly-lined paper and I was getting bored so I just made one REALLY WIDE lowercase 's'

The teacher came by and was all 'WHAT IS THIS' and I said 'THE WORLD'S LARGEST "S"' and she grabbed my paper, crumpled it up, threw it away, and made me do it all over again.

I think 3rd grade was the last time I wrote in cursive.

I gotta wonder if anyone even uses cursive anymore. It would look funny if my paperwork I turn in every day was in cursive. I can read it still, but it almost looks foreign to me when I first see it these days.



On a related note to old school computers, I really miss my old C64.

[23_]

I had my '98 Compaq Presario until nearly the end of '05. Sure I had to buy a new hard drive for it two or three times because of how slow it would get, and its lack of a good video card didn't let me play much more than RuneScape, but I still liked it.

[Guitar Woman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0

[Et tu]

Linux? no thanks. I rather have M$ crap, at least i understand that BS. BSOD is like a friend to me.

[Zomboid]

Yeah fuck micro$uck!!!!!!!!!

[Et tu]

I'll send it to dev/null

[ZAKO the GREAT]

man, this thread is WAY off topic.:bestthread

[comhcinc]

i never knew what the topic was

[Chojin]

this is what used to happen to every thread

[Mockery]

Seriously :O

[ZAKO the GREAT]

No, a fag. Get a real computer. You can't even play games on a fecking Imac, or are you some fancy graphic designer poofter? ;)

shit. i'm a fag, and a fucking poofter.:x

[Mockery]

MAC vs PC wars = :domosleep

[executioneer]

yeah its like dems vs republicans i miss the old days when there were like eight different systems you could be a fan of

[23_]

yeah its like dems vs republicans i miss the old days when there were like eight different systems you could be a fan of

But you have the Independence party, the Reform party, the Green party, the Workers' party, the Socialist party...

Oh you meant the computers. Yeah, those days are history.

[Tadao]

Remember when computers all of a sudden had a TURBO button. Heh.

[comhcinc]

yeah. did it ever work?

[Tadao]

I think Turbo turned on MX technology. Some games didn't work with MX I think.

So... Pub's Avatar has been bugging me since I joined. Like I remember it from somewhere. And last night I got to thinking about it.

I remember when the boards had seperate Forums for each Music mock.

sXs (<-- i forget the proper way to do that)
Ska and food
Whiney Goth Kids... and I think Pub was always posting in Whiney GK's
Maybe not, but his Avatar is hard to forget.


I used to post here a very very long time ago under the name... Tadao. I was intrudeced to this place by Fark and I came here and started Flaming away in the Flame forums. I don't think they where called the Mock wars back then. It was all hell boke loose. And everyone was an evil clown. Well... I got my ass handed to me and I left for a long time knowing that I needed to battle trolls on easier forums before I ever came back. And I never came back. But the last forum I was one went all fluffy (or wants to be) ao I came here hoping to just have fun. But yeah, I'm new to this place basicly, not to forums though. Unlike some of these attention whores.

[MetalMilitia]

I think Turbo turned on MX technology. Some games didn't work with MX I think.


I seem to remember it just down-clocked the CPU so games designed for, like 486s, wouldn't go ape shit.

[Pub Lover]

I had a creepy clown avatar or Rog's face back then. It was only the last couple of years that I've used the Sad Lying Chiana.

I think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/PubicPubLover/I-Mock/creepy_clown.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/PubicPubLover/I-Mock/rog.jpg

[mew barios]

i had a packard bell with one of them booster deals on the cpu thats sposed to make a 386 perform like a 486sx. there was a button on the front to turn it on or off that said turbo or somesuch