Biggest NeoGAF Legit Shook/Meltdown/Crow Eating?

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During the manhunt after the boston marathon bombing a few gaffers lied about having insider information iirc
 
Dany M said:
During the manhunt after the boston marathon bombing a few gaffers lied about having insider information iirc
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That whole thread was fucking nuts. Especially when word got out that they'd finally captured the surviving brother alive after the stand-off in Watertown (starts at post #15935). In the six years I've been on GAF, few threads have been as heart-pounding as that one. After following the events of that night as they unfolded, it was a huge relief that they'd gotten him.
 
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I'm not sure if it's been mention yet (I haven't read the full thread yet, okay!) but one of the biggest NeoGAF legit shook moments I witnessed during my lurking days was the announcement of 8GB of GDDR5 RAM at Sony's PS4 Unveiling conference. I still go back and read the multitude of pages of gaffers' reactions when Cerny dropped that bit of news.

Edit: okay it's been mentioned. But it's still such a great moment.
 
Hyperborean said:
Could someone summarise the JBaird thread? Its a 100 pages and I might read it fully some time but not now.
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Its been years since I last read it, but here's what I remember:

-Jbaird makes a thread about losing contact with his GF and her sister for a few days after they went out to the midwest to visit their parents, he's worried that something might have happened to them
-A few members wish the best for him, A few others wonder why he's on GAF and if he called the police yet
-Some members try to offer him help, posting links to some useful sites and whatever, Jbaird doesn't answer about calling the cops
-He then makes a post claiming that his GF's car was found in the woods, his GF was nowhere to be found, but her sister was found dead inside of it, he freaks out, and makes the "go ly down" post
-People start checking news sites from around the area where he claim the car and the body was found, and after hours, nobody could find any updates about this discovery
-This is where a lot of members started getting really skeptical about his story, Jbaird is asked to contact his local Police department and talk to any family for support
-He danced around the issue of talking to the police to the point where members demanded him to post proof that he was either calling or visiting his local police department
-He doesn't post for a while
-A mod gives Detective GAF the okay to do some research due to the drama this was all causing
-His girlfriend's myspace page was found, it turns out she was online too recently to have gone missing
-She actually gets back online and people contact her and tell what the hell was going on, it turns out that she wasn't really his GF anymore because she broke up with him like a month prior
-The guy apparently had mental health issues and the whole thread was basically him writing revenge fanfiction about his Ex.
-Mods ask him to explain himself under a time limit, or he gets banned. Obviously, after all this dirt was dug up about him, he wouldn't be able to comfortably post on GAF again, so he just let the ban happen

Remember I haven't actually read this thread since it first broke out years ago, so I probably have some details wrong or out of order. You should really try reading the first 50 or so pages and then skipping to the last few, the whole thread offers some interesting insight into the mentalities at play whenever a member is in distress.
 
Brawly Likes to Brawl said:
Its been years since I last read it, but here's what I remember:

-Jbaird makes a thread about losing contact with his GF and her sister for a few days after they went out to the midwest to visit their parents, he's worried that something might have happened to them
-A few members wish the best for him, A few others wonder why he's on GAF and if he called the police yet
-Some members try to offer him help, posting links to some useful sites and whatever, Jbaird doesn't answer about calling the cops
-He then makes a post claiming that his GF's car was found in the woods, his GF was nowhere to be found, but her sister was found dead inside of it, he freaks out, and makes the "go ly down" post
-People start checking news sites from around the area where he claim the car and the body was found, and after hours, nobody could find any updates about this discovery
-This is where a lot of members started getting really skeptical about his story, Jbaird is asked to contact his local Police department and talk to any family for support
-He danced around the issue of talking to the police to the point where members demanded him to post proof that he was either calling or visiting his local police department
-He doesn't post for a while
-A mod gives Detective GAF the okay to do some research due to the drama this was all causing
-His girlfriend's myspace page was found, it turns out she was online too recently to have gone missing
-She actually gets back online and people contact her and tell what the hell was going on, it turns out that she wasn't really his GF anymore because she broke up with him like a month prior
-The guy apparently had mental health issues and the whole thread was basically him writing revenge fanfiction about his Ex.
-Mods ask him to explain himself under a time limit, or he gets banned. Obviously, after all this dirt was dug up about him, he wouldn't be able to comfortably post on GAF again, so he just let the ban happen

Remember I haven't actually read this thread since it first broke out years ago, so I probably have some details wrong or out of order. You should really try reading the first 50 or so pages and then skipping to the last few, the whole thread offers some interesting insight into the mentalities at play whenever a member is in distress.
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Holy shit at the twist near the end. This has to be made into a movie or something. Damn!
 
sphinx said:
you remainded me of an episode long ago..... when mods were different and behaved differently.

Sporks had a huuuuge meltdown and bashed and trashed Amirox all in the open, I can't remember anymore what was the deal but Sporks really lost it. Amirox was like "dude, what the f*** is wrong with you?! calm down!"

It was the only time I saw a mod (Sporks) behave like that. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that that was the reason he was de-modded.
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I don't even remember this happening.

Amir0x said:
I don't even remember the full story behind the sp0rsk thing anymore. I think it was something to do with him openly criticizing the new forum layout/changes in the thread, and then repeatedly doing so in many of the topics, and Evilore being like "dude, we have a mod forum to discuss these disagreements, we have to maintain a unified front in public" and then he kept doing it and Evilore was like "that's it."
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Yeah, basically Evilore wanted to make the website look like a sega fansite from the 90s and it wasn't very popular amongst the mods. Tthen he took it public and so I went public with my feelings. He didn't like that and since I was at work I never got the message (on irc) to stop and then all of a sudden demodded.

Probably one of the best things to ever happen to me?
 
My favorite since I started lurking was "$399" US/ no DRM.

Neogaf was explode.

Oh and:

"The PS4 would probably melt trying to do this"
 
Damn, no mention of "Kate"'s partner and him on the forum coming out?

Edit: Hah, even I forgot the name, poster below me got it.
 
Basically all the marvel movies since according to the prophets of doom they are all B-C tier heroes and to succeed you need to be A tier..maybe theres an S for superman i dunno. Either way i think the tier bullshit can get retired forever two things are clear. These properties had decades and legions of fans posters underestimated, that much is crystal clear. Secondly people didnt mind seeing something new even without knowing every single thing about a property before seeing it....kinda strange , similar to how i didnt know anything about robocop as a kid and still went to see it.
 
The condescension, anger, and pure viciousness coming from the "Avengers will be worse than a cheap TV movie, will be the biggest bomb in history, and Batman will shit into its gaping mouth at the box office" contingent before both released certainly deserves at least a place in the top five.
 
Calamari41 said:
The condescension, anger, and pure viciousness coming from the "Avengers will be worse than a cheap TV movie, will be the biggest bomb in history, and Batman will shit into its gaping mouth at the box office" contingent before both released certainly deserves at least a place in the top five.
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I go back and reread that thread from time to time and laugh.
 
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