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« Reply #75 on: January 30, 2015, 09:42:21 AM »

Going through my PMs, a lot of nice words from Napolean.  Maybe Napolean is the real Kyle Mercado and Hamilton is how he takes out his aggression?   It's all very bizarre.  It's not like, say, if opebo and Bushie turned out to be the same person... But it's up there in crazy Atlas lore.

Who's Napolean?
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« Reply #76 on: January 30, 2015, 09:45:11 AM »

Why are those of you who were catfished by Hammy, sad again?
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« Reply #77 on: January 30, 2015, 10:22:33 AM »

Going through my PMs, a lot of nice words from Napolean.  Maybe Napolean is the real Kyle Mercado and Hamilton is how he takes out his aggression?   It's all very bizarre.  It's not like, say, if opebo and Bushie turned out to be the same person... But it's up there in crazy Atlas lore.

Who's Napolean?

Who's Opebo?
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« Reply #78 on: January 30, 2015, 10:38:45 AM »

Going through my PMs, a lot of nice words from Napolean.  Maybe Napolean is the real Kyle Mercado and Hamilton is how he takes out his aggression?   It's all very bizarre.  It's not like, say, if opebo and Bushie turned out to be the same person... But it's up there in crazy Atlas lore.

Who's Napolean?

Who's Opebo?

I don't know.  Doesn't ring a bell.
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« Reply #79 on: January 30, 2015, 10:53:23 AM »

One thing we should all have learned from this forum, both due to our Oklahoman comrade and our experiences with the disastrous unbannings of Libertas and Einzige, is that people never, ever change.

Another lesson that we have learned is that sizable minority of posters will overlook any transgression, as long as the wrongdoer was friendly toward them personally.

Is it that, or is it that our wacky sockmasters can be a lot of fun?  I mean, Napoleon is Kyle Mercado?  Who doesn't love that twist?  Besides, other sockmasters don't even try to hide who they are.  Like the jamfist.
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« Reply #80 on: January 30, 2015, 11:28:07 AM »

this is, certainly, an internet forum about politics. that's the most I can get from this thread.

It is, but it is also so much more.  Where else does this Hamilton saga go down?  Seriously.  We should also be grateful that this is the biggest problem we actually have to deal with.  Sockmasters.

I guess my deeper meaning of the post was lost. Allow me to explain.

It's not just about politics, it is politics. People putting on personas and gaining mass appeal. Napoleon/Hamilton shoke hands and kissed babies like a politician, and people fell for it. I shouldn't have been as frustrated as I had been with him had I known of the Hamilton issue (I wasn't around during hamiltons time.) The best thing we can do as a community is to look beyond the friendly behavior.
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« Reply #81 on: January 30, 2015, 11:31:12 AM »

"Keep the monkey around because it amuses us" is a more sympathetic argument, but understandably it's not one that holds much appeal for anyone responsible for shoveling the monkey's feces.



Yes yes yes, i'm no ignorant, AN.  I understand that the socks create headaches for our mods, and that they have very thankless jobs.  But the murder of opebo had long-lasting repercussions where a lot of us want to be big rabble-rousers in FC, for lack of a better term. 
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« Reply #82 on: January 30, 2015, 01:07:15 PM »

"Keep the monkey around because it amuses us" is a more sympathetic argument, but understandably it's not one that holds much appeal for anyone responsible for shoveling the monkey's feces.



Yes yes yes, i'm no ignorant, AN.  I understand that the socks create headaches for our mods, and that they have very thankless jobs.  But the murder of opebo had long-lasting repercussions where a lot of us want to be big rabble-rousers in FC, for lack of a better term. 

That's not quite what I meant, HD. My reaction is less a matter of glee over the banning of another Kyle Mercado sock than it is of relief that "Napoleon" never existed, except as a performance put on at our expense.

I just wish more people would understand. When you say "I didn't like Hamilton but Napoleon was my friend," it just sounds that person isn't all there.

Napoleon as the person most people "knew" never existed, so I can't believe there are people who keep saying we should keep this persona around because he was nice to them. For those of us who Kyle's Napoleon did not like, we know he hasn't changed.
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« Reply #83 on: January 30, 2015, 01:17:17 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2015, 05:52:46 PM by Stranger in a strange land »

I'm sure most of you have seen the Geek Social Fallacies list that's been circulating on the Internet for about a decade. This is an excellent list, but it has one crucial omission, one that I see in geek/nerd social circles just as much of the ones on his list, and sometimes even more: just because someone is nice to you doesn't automatically mean they're a good person.
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« Reply #84 on: January 30, 2015, 03:26:44 PM »

"Keep the monkey around because it amuses us" is a more sympathetic argument, but understandably it's not one that holds much appeal for anyone responsible for shoveling the monkey's feces.



Yes yes yes, i'm no ignorant, AN.  I understand that the socks create headaches for our mods, and that they have very thankless jobs.  But the murder of opebo had long-lasting repercussions where a lot of us want to be big rabble-rousers in FC, for lack of a better term. 

That's not quite what I meant, HD. My reaction is less a matter of glee over the banning of another Kyle Mercado sock than it is of relief that "Napoleon" never existed, except as a performance put on at our expense.

I just wish more people would understand. When you say "I didn't like Hamilton but Napoleon was my friend," it just sounds that person isn't all there.

Napoleon as the person most people "knew" never existed, so I can't believe there are people who keep saying we should keep this persona around because he was nice to them. For those of us who Kyle's Napoleon did not like, we know he hasn't changed.

     It's a little odd seeing people in this thread talking about Hamilton like he's some sort of carefree teenager who went joyriding and spent time in juvie. What he did went far beyond youthful indiscretion and it is very unlikely that he is capable of changing.
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« Reply #85 on: January 30, 2015, 03:44:34 PM »

"Keep the monkey around because it amuses us" is a more sympathetic argument, but understandably it's not one that holds much appeal for anyone responsible for shoveling the monkey's feces.



Yes yes yes, i'm no ignorant, AN.  I understand that the socks create headaches for our mods, and that they have very thankless jobs.  But the murder of opebo had long-lasting repercussions where a lot of us want to be big rabble-rousers in FC, for lack of a better term. 

That's not quite what I meant, HD. My reaction is less a matter of glee over the banning of another Kyle Mercado sock than it is of relief that "Napoleon" never existed, except as a performance put on at our expense.

I just wish more people would understand. When you say "I didn't like Hamilton but Napoleon was my friend," it just sounds that person isn't all there.

Napoleon as the person most people "knew" never existed, so I can't believe there are people who keep saying we should keep this persona around because he was nice to them. For those of us who Kyle's Napoleon did not like, we know he hasn't changed.

I'm not going to put separate situational personalities emerging past Kyle Mercado.  He's a little whacked out at the very best.
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« Reply #86 on: January 30, 2015, 03:55:32 PM »

I'm sure most of you have seen the Geek Social Fallacies list that's been circulating on the Internet for about a decade. This is an excellent list, but it has one crucial omission, one that I see in geek/nerd social circles just as much of the ones on his list, and sometimes even more: just because someone is nice to you doesn't automatically mean they're a good person.

As someone who tends to value niceness a lot... this is very true.
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« Reply #87 on: January 31, 2015, 01:02:32 PM »

I'm sure most of you have seen the Geek Social Fallacies list that's been circulating on the Internet for about a decade. This is an excellent list, but it has one crucial omission, one that I see in geek/nerd social circles just as much of the ones on his list, and sometimes even more: just because someone is nice to you doesn't automatically mean they're a good person.

I'mnot sure that's a purely 'geeky' phenomenon
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« Reply #88 on: February 01, 2015, 07:58:28 PM »

I'm sure most of you have seen the Geek Social Fallacies list that's been circulating on the Internet for about a decade. This is an excellent list, but it has one crucial omission, one that I see in geek/nerd social circles just as much of the ones on his list, and sometimes even more: just because someone is nice to you doesn't automatically mean they're a good person.

I'mnot sure that's a purely 'geeky' phenomenon

Yeah, that's just being human. Tongue

In fact, people who are artificially nice to you are probably more likely to be weird or up to something bad.

Which also somewhat explains why we actually do need to regulate this kind of stuff severely. If we are to have 14-year olds posting here we can't allow psychos to prey on them.
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« Reply #89 on: February 01, 2015, 10:37:50 PM »

My sentiments exactly.....
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« Reply #90 on: February 02, 2015, 10:57:59 AM »

Found a post which both: 1-makes the revelation not all that surprising and 2-proves that he was terrible:

Both are above average posters. I don't know what's wrong with some of you.

(Referring to freepcrusher and krazen)
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