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**Apocalypse** · January 12, 2003, 23:02

Originally posted by GP
Stobie?

Stobie wasn't really part of the community. He was off in his own world most of the time. Great guy, knew more about SMAC than most people, even got credit in the strategy...he just didn't have any close friends in the community though.

I have just always assumed he had a real life and didn't need us.

**Shi Huangdi** · January 12, 2003, 23:09

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
There, there, Hugo.

You mean ToFiGi?

**Urban Ranger** · January 12, 2003, 23:14

Ah well, I was not an off-topics person back then.

Edit: My profile

**SnowFire** · January 13, 2003, 00:06

I'm going to have a somewhat similar reaction as Snapcase. Trappist in his infernal sadism has pulled out threads to make us look stupid, or perhaps remind us that we were stupid back then. I definitely was worse at spelling ("brobe" the government? Ah, for an edit function!).

That said, there were some pretty good threads nevertheless. I remember some very early gun-control debates with Wraith, as well as Octopus's posts (one of the better posters there, definitely), as well as some of the stories that had potential.

I fear what will happen when/if I have children. I know what an idiot I was online when I was old enough to be in high school. Considering that by the time I'm old enough kids will be routinely logging on when they're 7...

Stobie wasn't really part of the community. He was off in his own world most of the time. Great guy, knew more about SMAC than most people

That would be because he was a beta tester. But yeah, TAS was an interesting guy. I remember doing "The Club of the Future" as a kind of random cross between the story threads and the Club threads that he started. He also believed in Christian mysticism and believed that he could detect pregnant women by noticing the "purer souls" being that a baby untainted by sin was within her (he used this as a part of an argument for pro-lifeness. I mean, after all, if babies really do get souls at conception and he's checked this out, I guess we should be pro-life!). I'll say this- at least he was brave enough to say that, since I know he was smart enough to realize what others would think of him for such a claim.

Edit: And since people seem to be posting it, my profile.

**Ted Striker** · January 13, 2003, 00:07

Hey, which one is Snapcase?

**SnowFire** · January 13, 2003, 00:13

tOFfGI->Cornelius Somebody (very short time)->Hugo Rune->Mad Lord Snapcase->(something else dumb)->Snapcase->Buck Birdseed.

Hmm, speaking of story threads, want to fill us in on what the heck people are babbling about in

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000509.html

, BD? I certainly wasn't in that one...

**The Mad Monk** · January 13, 2003, 00:14

In response to both Shi and Ted:

Profile for Hugo Rune
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Date Registered: 04-24-99
Status: Member
Total Posts: 586
Current Email: kun@telia.com
Homepage: http://alpha.owo.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi
Occupation: Student
Location: Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: Socialist Politics, Messing about on the SMAC Forums. (NOTE: Previously known as tOFfGI.)

**The Mad Monk** · January 13, 2003, 00:15

Dang it.

**Ted Striker** · January 13, 2003, 00:15

Oh okay, I didn't know Buck was Snapcase.

Now I know who to bother for new music.

**TCO** · January 13, 2003, 00:25

Is Hugo Rune, Enur? And is he on these forums too?

**SnowFire** · January 13, 2003, 01:01

Here are some slightly less HARDMANish threads I dug up.

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000518.html

Can't entirely agree with myself here, but there are some interesting rants.

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000538.html

MtG plays chess too; he thinks that the Sicilian Defense's only advantage is that it can get so weird the Black player can wriggle out of the disadvantage generated by it. I know even less now than I did back then; I was brave enough to post and be wrong 'cause I was actually playing in some high-school level chess tournaments at the time and knew half a thing. Having not really played in 4 years, I wouldn't have even dared post now.

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000542.html

DanS is gone for good. Oh, wait a second...

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000550.html

Okay, so maybe I will dig up some Hardman. Mostly for the prehistoric banana reference.

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000426.html

Nah... he'll never win.

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000743.html

While in exile.

**Imran Siddiqui** · January 13, 2003, 01:06

Profile:

http://alpha.owo.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Imran+Siddiqui

That post count looks miniscule.

Btw, anyone have an I Club threads?

**Shi Huangdi** · January 13, 2003, 01:07

Originally posted by SnowFire
tOFfGI->Cornelius Somebody (very short time)->Hugo Rune->Mad Lord Snapcase->(something else dumb)->Snapcase->Buck Birdseed.

Hmm, speaking of story threads, want to fill us in on what the heck people are babbling about in

http://alpha.owo.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000509.html

, BD? I certainly wasn't in that one...

I don't really remember. Ah well, glad to see an attempt to exclude me crashed and burned.

**Alexander's Horse** · January 13, 2003, 01:31

Isn't it interesting the threads people remember most fondly are those that the d*ckhead mods here now close automatically.

**Ted Striker** · January 13, 2003, 01:43

Did you say D1ckhead115?

As it were on the forth day of the third month, all ****ers shall cease from upskirting!

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