Operation Lulz Gallery
This is an image I put together to act as the cover for my fictional book, My Triumphs, My Mistakes. It supposed to be an obvious and crappy forgery based on the musings of Dr. Gaius Baltar from the new Battlestar Galactica, but there were still those who took it seriously. Renfield obviously thought it was serious enough to ban a bunch of people over. It was a joke! The whole thing was supposed to be a really obvious joke, and then some people went and took it seriously and I had to keep going. For the lulz. * * * * *
This is just one of the many, many screenshots I could have taken demonstrating that I regarded the Peak Oil debates with Renfield as an entertaining diversion and not a serious affront to his e-authority. But even in this exchange, you can see Renfield taking what is obviously something supposed to be light-hearted tomfoolery and OUT OF THE FUCKING BLUE fagging it up with his Peak Oil bullshit. Also, apart from Renfield's contributions, this is actually very funny. * * * * *
This was the second time I was "permanently" banned. Or the third time if you cound the Admin panel hack of the 28th December 2009. The first time was because I kept disagreeing with his opinions on Peak Oil (although it's probably more likely due to a mistaken belief about his e-girlfriend andetwistedwhispers). The second time was because he thought I was calling him a liar. I wasn't, of course, and a number of other posters pointed that out, but the reality (that he just couldn't have me disproving his opinions on his own board) was probably too much to bear. * * * * *
That's not a shop, that's an actual screen grab. Yeah, it's a cheap joke, and it's obviously not even remotely true, but I thought it was funny. * * * * *
The first of the anonymous images I received in late December 2009. If it's true, it shows a bunch of people who supported me (and even in some cases, who didn't support me at all, but refused to attack me) being unbanned by some civic-minded hacker. In particular, Rojo Slice and EyesLikeTwenty have taken a particular not-shine to me since opi started attacking me on her board, which you can see is also open in the image. * * * * *
Again, if it's true, this probably shows some admins getting permabanned. * * * * *
Someone didn't think something through here. Since I've been banned, the site keeps sending me these emails. I don't know why. The only way to turn off the subscription is to go into your user settings and turn them off. However, as I've been banned, I can't get at my user settings, so... * * * * *
An extract from my fictional book "My Triumphs, My Mistakes". I can't say this strongly enough: The book is not real! I thought it was obvious, but apparently not obvious enough. This was the first "extract" I posted, which was taken directly from the opening lines of Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas. * * * * *
An extract from my fictional book "My Triumphs, My Mistakes". I just made this shit up based on something I read in a Richard Bach piece. * * * * *
An extract from my fictional book "My Triumphs, My Mistakes". The "better armed" bit comes from a Sin City comic (I think), and the entire "Village" bit was lifted from a piece by Patrick McGoohan trying to explain his wonderful 1960s spy mindtwist The Prisoner. * * * * *
An extract from my fictional book "My Triumphs, My Mistakes". This bit was entirely off the top of my head, but inspired by Gaius Baltar's equally fictional book, My Triumphs, My Mistakes. That bit about the note I was sent was absolutely true, by the way. Renfield actually sent me that message. Not personally, of course. He sent it through another poster. And the text in italics was exactly what it said. After many attempts to mock it, I gave up and just posted it verbatim. * * * * *
There was a suggestion by Renfield that my "followers" should "drink the Kool-Aid", the implication being that I was the ringleader of an organised revolt. The truth was that I was just one poster who got banned for being irritating to the Admin. Other posters then came to me expecting some sort of war. I had no interest in that, but I'll do anything for the lulz. Ironically, the more Renfield attacked me in his threads, the more people sent me messages asking how they could "help". I told everyone to calm down and just post as normal, and ignore me. This screengrab was a post which was supposed to ridicule the idea that I have any "followers" or that anyone would do what I say. I have so little authority that even my own dog laughs at me. The last two lines are from an Arthur Brown song and a Dr. Dre rap track respectively. How anyone could take that seriously... * * * * *
Jesus Christ. I don't want to say the site is completely dead, but when I was posting, if I posted on a thread, within a few hours the thread would slide off into page 2 of that forum. Right now (2:24AM March 24, 2011), I posted in that forum yesterday and my post is still that most recent post. ON THAT ENTIRE BOARD! As one better than I said, "Gee, who'd have thought banning most of the most intelligent/colourful/funny/regular and most frequently posting members would send a site down the shitter?" |