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[Zai]

You might be surprised to find out that fishersalwaysdie was banned in your absence.

WHAT?

All right here.

Oh yeah, now I remember.

[Fenrir]

it looks like I still suck.

Never quite understood what the deal with people having that point of view is.

Immature roleplaying, a flair for the melodramatic, disappearing without explaining why... I can see where I might get on peoples' nerves.

You might be surprised to find out that fishersalwaysdie was banned in your absence.

No, I'm not all that surprised.

FENRIR!!!!

It's good to see you back. I'd share stories of my failed campaign to get you elected Baron, but we try not to talk about VN anymore.

FENRIR!!!!

It's good to see you back. I'd share stories of my failed campaign to get you elected Baron, but we try not to talk about VN anymore.

You did? I'm flattered, but don't we usually kill nobles? Why don't we talk about VN anymore?

Fenrir!  Damn dude, you just don't give up, do you?  Man, this place must really have its hooks in you. Heh heh.

It certainly does. Can't quite explain it.

Whatever happened to that Runelike you were working on?  That was looking pretty cool. 

I abandoned that one, but I've been thinking about picking it up again.

By the way, the current package of Serkib hosted at your place appears to not be independent.  Might want to point out what all else needs to be downloaded/run in order to work it.

Yeah, forgot to mention that you need to download the GTK+ Runtime Environment.

Here's hoping you stick around for a while.  I won't go so far as to say you'll add a touch of class to the place, but you'll certainly add...  'something'.

Thanks, Kagus.

EDIT:  Oh, here's something...  Ever done a Let's Play?  I was just making a comment about how nobody has made the connection between Dwarf Fortress and Diggles yet.

Did my Medi Eggamazes thread count as a Let's Play? I might give Diggles a try.

Wow, FENRIR? Is that really you? My old best bud?

Wow... I can't belive how long it has been... So much as changed. The forums are a completly diferent place memeticaly. Peaple who I could not posibly imagine it without actually arived after you left. Hell, I have changed as well, so much and in so many ways... It really getsone thinking seeing somone from so long ago...

*Armok hugs Fenrir in a cuddly fashion!!* ^_^

I'd hug ya back, old friend, but I don't have arms.

Fenrir grins.

I hope you've been behaving yourself.

Erm, what's with the pink? Um, and cuddliness? You have changed.

[Jreengus]

The story as I understand it is that a while back Fenrir made a topic about leaving (or a few?) and then left but didn't really leave and kept reading the forum threads and occasionally posting. And that went on for a while, until Fenrir actually left and deleted his account, upon which somebody took his account name.

He only made the one post and after every time he posted it would have *appears* at the beginning then *disappears* afterward. Eventually he fully deleted his account to signify he wouldn't be coming back.

But beforehand he was fairly well known, IIRC he made the first ever community fortress just after I joined, although that may have been Kagus. But I'm fairly sure it was one of them.

[Gunner-Chan]

Somehow Armok mutated into the god of hugs. It's... Strange. Everyone is probobally gonna say It's my fault but hey he started it! XD

[Jreengus]

Damn, I was just about to blame you Sofia!

[Rashilul]

And he's also 'into' animals.

[Zai]

Why don't we talk about VN anymore?

...You just don't. At the end of it's lifetime, it became filled with spam and...other crap.

...Where's Dasleah's post on it... Here it is! It's in an unquotable locked topic, so...

Spoiler: Kind of big one-sided VN history written by Dasleah (click to show/hide)

HISTORY

In the beginning, Toady created a whole mess of games, and it was good. He began to attract a community around himself, and for the purposes of communication, he did create a forum, in which he and his audience could mingle and interact, exchanging ideas, jokes, and stories from the lives and loves. It was good.

But then, the gathered mass of people who were so attracted to the interactive games of Toady did proclaim "lolz we need a place for which to make lolz and thingss11!11!!!" and Toady, being but the mere mortal that he was, did create such a refugee, and for a while, it was good, isolating and containing such persons, for much their own protection as ours.

But alas, we being mortals and thus imperfect, our vision was clouded. For we did not create a distant isle, but a seething pit. For within the walls of Various Nonsense did unrest and unintelligence begin to ferment and boil. Each new post beat the war drums, whipping the raw masses into a frenzy of idiocy, each bold new leap into darker and darker corner of inanity and foolishness merely inspiring their peers, it all building to one horrible crescendo of pornography and egotism. Their self-inflated views of superiority and self-worth did burst the walls of Various Nonsense, and it did spill into the world, bringing sadness and fear to all those who did behold it.

But then, in our darkest hour, when the congealed ooze and filth of their nonsense did pile around our necks and threatened to drown us all in that sticky, rancid mess, did one ray of hope emerge. The Toad, accompanied by the Lord Threetoe, did strike their piercing gaze into that black mass, and with it the sound of ten thousand screaming babies did strike back at them. But, unfazed, they continued their glare of reason and authority, and though it did take a while, soon the hordes did fade, retreat to their dark caves on the underside of the world, and whisper quietly to themselves that no, it was not their fault, no, it was that other guy.

Toady saw what he had created, and he wept. Thus he did proclaim across the land that Various Nonsense was forever to be banished from the forum, exiled into the dark corners of man's memory where it would forever dwell in shame.

And, for a while, it was good.

For Toady, although possessed by some mad and divine spark, was still a mere mortal. Whilst the banishing of VN did save the land for now, the remnants still eat away like cancerous growths, hidden in plain sight. You can still see them today, and one should do well to heed the seer's warning and turn not away from the grim tales struck by bards on those cold and lonely nights. For they are all around you - the talkers of nonsense, the offerers of inane advice, those who ask for said inane advice, the fool, the madman, those who allude to the pornographic arts, those who cling to some sort of feudal system, 11 year olds, the egoist, and more.

The end.

tl;dr VN is dead. It was not special. It was not great. It was a pit of retarded, mewling babies, and stroking your egos as if it was some past glory and fond period in the history of the forums is simply wrong. Get over it. It is gone. Do not try and drag us down to your level. Please attempt to drag yourselves up to ours. This history will simply lead to endless debate and flaming the fuels of feuds and times best forgotten.

[Kagus]

Various Nonsense is no more, it died quite some time ago.  In its place arose VN, a corruption of its former glory. 

It went from bad to worse.  Flaming, rampant memes, hentai, everything the Bay12 forum members used to pride themselves on not having.  Basically, we had an internet infection.

So, VN (again, not to be confused with Various Nonsense, which was a happy, shiny place that looked like radioactive mold) entered into forum history as the first board that got first locked and then deleted. 

In response, a few of the heavy contributors to VN created a sister-site that they referred to as "New VN".  It's basically just VN, without the moderators or the activity.  Personally, I can't recommend it, but some people seem to enjoy it.

[Jackrabbit]

It' had maybe three new posts in a month and one of those was Armok trying to turn a retarded statement by me into a meme.

Him and three other people. They failed, by the way.

Anyway, Armok is now the butt of many jokes. I'm not sure if he was like that before, but I'm sure you'll find he's changed slightly.

[Fenrir]

Armok was never the butt of any jokes, except maybe that Armok vs. the Eye-Rollers thing. That was one of my unfortunate lapses of good taste.

Anyways, I'm now running a community adventurer on my forum. It's been a long while since I last wrote anything, so please excuse the rough start.

http://fenrirsden.x10hosting.com/forum/index.php?topic=7.0

[Mr Tk]

Greetings and salutations Fenrir. Your reputation precedes you, much the way Aqizzar is preceded by his chin, and even though I have never met you before (because I started posting just as you were leaving), I for one welcome the return of our evil overseers, friendly ex-pat.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I thought new VN was dead. Anyway, old VN is retconned. Never happened.