Re: Your first post

[Zaia]

As for my first post, I was never a n00b. The denizens of ASVS were the first settlers here, and I posted on Mike's first bare-bones discussion board prior to this one (I think it was written entirely in Perl). However, here is my first post to the boad.

Well, I just thought I'd christen this board with its first blatantly trollish post, so here goes. Bear in mind that I'm not quite the expert at slandering Mike Wong that the SB.com Versus inhabitants are, but I'll do my damnedest.

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OMFG!!11 wong thnx he cna setal evry1 from sbc.om adn get thm 2cum2 his web bored thsi is so fooooooking rediclous mike wogn is a ginat poohead his site is so biasd its not even funy hes such a lira he dosnt haev a dgree in eng...whatver i cant spell that neway yah mike wong liks goat testicals nad evlushun is suhc a plie of crap u cant add gntic stuff into smethig cuz it vliotaes the law of entropy or sumthng mike wong SuXoRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I trust this was adequate.

ROTFL! Awesome. All that horrendous spelling just gave me a massive headache, but damn it was funny.

My favourite part is where you call Wong a 'lira.' Did he respond by calling you a peso?

[Larz]

Forum: Other Sci-Fi Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 3:08 pm
Subject: Cockknocker vs. Luke Skywalker

I must agree with Dalton on this one, the only thing to worry about is when getting close in Cockknocker doesn't hit Luke in the groin, then its all over.

I'm not quite sure how to classify this...

[2000AD]

From the "Other sci-fi planet killers thread"

Yay. Some1 else on these boards plays Games Workshop games.

Here's my list:

That Dodgy Bloke With Loads of Arm Drones from Lexx:

Not a single craft per se, but a bit more like the borg. One guy controlling billions of little arm drones whose only function is to take apart matter to create more drones. There are several cannon episodes which show planets being destroyed in this method.

Exterminatus from Warhammer 40K (expanded):
There is no official description of the Exterminatus ohter than "the summary execution of all life on a planet". There have been plenty of official ways of planet termination in the 40K universe described for example, mass virus bombing, conventional weapons (BDZ), asteroid bombardment and the use of the Planet Killer ( a massive ship with a Death Star-like big gun).

Tyranid Invasion from Warhammer 40K universe:

The tyranids, a race of hive mind controoled, hyper evolving aliens, invade the planet. After, or during, conquest swarms of creatures called Rippers digest all organic matter on the planet, depositing it in "pools". "Chimney stacks" are then built up to the Tyranid hive ships which are in low orbit so the organic matter can be transported up. During this process the hive ships will also be stripping the planet of it's atmosphere. After a time period of a few days to a couple of weeks, depending on the size of the planet, all that will be left will be a barren husk of a planet devoid of atmosphere and totally uninhabitable.

Yuuhzan Vong moon tactic from SW: New Jedi Order:

Slap a big gravity source on a planet, point it at it's moon and watch as the moon crashes into the planet. Boom! This obviously only works if the planet has a moon(s).

Yuuhzan Vong Bio-agent from SW:NJO

A deadly biological agent that turns all surface matter on the planet into runny goo. Nasty.

Unicron (from Tranformers):

A large transformer that take either the shape of a huge planet, or an equally huge robot. In planet form it pulls the target planet towards it using immensly strong tractor beams , which also snare any fleeing ships. These tractor beams pull the target into wide gaping maw that acts like a mouth. The planet is "eaten" and the parts "digested" to provide energy. Only moon sized planets are digested in this way, for large planets Unicron turns into his large robot form, and eats the planet in the conventional eating method, ie using your hands to pick up bits and stuff it into your mouth.

Thats all I can think of right now, and i'm tired.( It's past midnight for me.)

This was followed by a post explaining that my name was not derived from the "greatest comic in the galaxy" as was suggested by a ceratin Rob Wilson who i believe has an avatar from that very comic.

[Cal Wright]

I can't remember this board, but the first one that was all like disorganized looking, I had this post about the Falcon vs Defiant. It was pretty much a BBQ pit, much like the one I started in the SWvST forum. I can't help it if the Defiant sucks.

[SpacedTeddyBear]

My first post was about the worse music in Star Wars.

To all you people who think that the celebration theme at the end of TPM was bad, all I have to say was this; AT LEAST YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SING IT IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE!!!. Not only did I not like that one song, but we ( When i say we, i mean the orchestra I was in) were forced to sing it as part of our performance. We pleaded with our teacher to make the choir sing it, but it was no go. To the average Highschool instrumentalist, being forced to sing is an insult. I swear I thought I heard the choir laughing at us.

I can hear the laughing in my head even now..... urge to kill rising......rising.....

[Robert Treder]

What school did you go to, STB?

[Iceberg]

Since Cartoon Network's been playing this movie, based on the novel The Iron Man, since about 7 or so last night, what do you all think of it?

The most notable mistake I can think of is that the movie shows USS Nautilus (SSN 571) launching a nuclear missile (which looks remarkably like a modern Trident missile), when she was an attack sub, not a boomer. Other than this admittedly rather gross error, it was an enjoyable movie with some interesting philosophy to ponder (although one of the "anti-gun" scenes was rather grating - why would an American boy in the 1950s, who himself had a toy gun, be upset about hunting deer?). Definitely heavier fare than one might expect from a "kids movie."

Notable quote:

"I am not Atommo. I am Superman." - the titular Iron Giant

[Coaan]

My first post was in the versus forum, on the topic of "minimum strength boarding party" I mentioned the idea of a small team of ewok commandoes and how easily they could destroy a federation vessel by clogging it's delicate treknobable with teddy bear fur.

Set my tone with my first post didnt I?

I'll have you know ewok fur is considered a wmd in twelve binary systems!


On an un-related note...my first was commenting on the non development of Supremacy 2...or rebellion as the yanks know it as

[Cyborg Stan]

As for my first post, I was never a n00b. The denizens of ASVS were the first settlers here, and I posted on Mike's first bare-bones discussion board prior to this one (I think it was written entirely in Perl). However, here is my first post to the boad.

If we're going by that standard, here's my first post on ASVS as well. While I knew of ASVS for quite some time before that, I didn't get on until I eventually learned about newsgroups and contacted my ISP to include it in their list.
Bleah humbug

For some years before that, I was posting on Brian Young's Debate slate (now gone, although I still have a few bits stored here), which couldn't handle large amounts of discussion and traffic, being a guestbook script with an auto-trim feature. (Hence why archives of it would be hard to find.) For that board, I cannot remember my first post. A few people from ASVS and other places would probably recognize me.

Even before that, the first Vs/tech related forum I went to was located on a now-non-existing (although not nessarially completely dead) TrekWars site, on which there was a discussion forum, which is also non-existing (primarially my fault, as eventually I took on the responibility of hosting it, then my old webspace with CGI support died when we switch ISPs.) While I have no archives from that period (which I believe was around '95 or '96, or perhaps even eariler), I believe my first post there was how Star Control ships could easily beat both Imperial and Federation designs. (Quite obviously using subjective interpretations of the Melee combat screen.) From that era, the only person I can probably say that might be able to remember me from that time and still hangs around here would probably be Brian Young.

I also note that the previously mentioned board is the first place I started using Cyborg Stan as my primary name, or rather Cyborg Stan of CyKoLaJx, Inc. - given that it was a simple guestbook script with little restrictions on length, coupled with my own reservations/annoyances at easily duplicatable names, my hestiation at the time to use my real name, and finally perhaps my odd periodic verbosity most likely led to my adopting the ending part of my alias. Interestingly enough, the restrictions of the script here along with odd e-mail troubles delayed my entry here.

As for the old bare-bones discussion board, I believe it was a WWWBoard from Matt's Script Archive.

[Dalton]

Hm, before ASVS I used to argue STVSW on the "I Hate Star Trek" site's guestbook. Spaced Teddybear will know what I'm talking about.

Ahh, still have it bookmarked.

EDIT: Hey wow, guess Sothis found it too just recently.

[Companion Cube]

You missed:Un Caring: This arch-type does not get itself involved with anyone else, and could personally care less about everybody else, unless they happen to get annoying.

The Eldar (WH40K) would fit under this category quite well. Maybe the Vorlons too?

This was followed shortly by....

Newbie!
POKE

[jegs2]

My first post was from this thread:

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject: New Star Trek show...

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I've tried to stomach the new Star Trek series, but it does appear as though a communist-style of government is being rather strongly put forth. In my opinion, the one thing that will always make a system like communism fail is the presence of human greed. Those in power want only more power, and their corruption is rivaled only by their speed in crushing opposition to their abuse of that power.

Additionally, that doctor of theirs just somehow rubs me wrong (reminds me of that annoying cook thing on Voyager).

[ArmorPierce]

I cannot find my first post because the first few days I was posting on guest and that lasted for about 2 weeks because my cookies was sucking. I was having problems staying logged in and back then guests could have post so my first posts were as guest.

[Rob Wilson]

From the "Other sci-fi planet killers thread"


This was followed by a post explaining that my name was not derived from the "greatest comic in the galaxy" as was suggested by a ceratin Rob Wilson who i believe has an avatar from that very comic.

Yep, and is still commemorated in your sig to this day.

My first post is too old to be found oin the Search function, but it was either about Jedi knights as Policemen, ST vs the Rebellion, or just a general hello post.

[Sriad]

It's called tabbed browsing. Download Mozilla or Firebird and cast away the tyranny of Internet Explorer!

Seriously, do it. You'll never look back.

Oh, and my first post was when I wrote

Actually, a black hole with an event horizon the size of a baseball would have a mass roughly equal to 3 Earth.(to get Schwartzchild radius use this equation: Radius=2[Gravitational Constant*Mass/C^2]) In fact, an Earth mass BH would be about one cm across, assuming I didn't drop any zeroes. I don't know how close to their ship they had it, but at a distance of 50km the acceleration (for an Earth mass BH) would be about 256,000 m/s^2. Tidal force would be a still piddly one meter per second per meter closer to the black hole though, so it could happen.

OTOH, a black hole the size of a golf ball wouldn't offer much shielding at a distance of 50km, and I don't know how close they actually were to the BH. If they were much nearer than that, tidal forces would start getting nasty. If they have the tech to make the BHs, then it isn't a very big leap of faith to say they have inertial dampeners.

I'm taking a course on black holes right now as it happens, here's the professor's homepage on the subject if you want to read up: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml

and my second post, made three minutes later was complaining about the lack of an edit function.

In the first thread I started I proposed what is still, AFAIK, the best way for Star Trek ships to destroy those of Star Wars. run into them. Very very fast.