[Corporal Eschebone]

Welcome to the OCR forums, Alex. It seems you're enjoying this place well enough. If you need some quality entertainment, be sure to give UnMod a visit. Once you go there, you never go back [to GenDisc, that is].

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by Mahaboo

Hello orual, and welcome to OCR. If you venture into UnMod it may be wise to leave the whole female thing out for now, we’ve been having a little drama over there the past few days and people are starting to get a little cranky.

Very true. Even I've been snarling, which is very uncommon for me to do. Mind you, it was unmod and I can do that - outside I have never flamed a noob whatsoever. It wouldn't feel right.

[Navi]

Originally Posted by Xelebes

Very true. Even I've been snarling, which is very uncommon for me to do. Mind you, it was unmod and I can do that - outside I have never flamed a noob whatsoever. It wouldn't feel right.

Yeah, Xel. Aside from the strange fetishes, of which there are many, and the time you ran over that guy with your car, you are a generally nice guy.

[Xelebes]

When did I run over that guy? I recall no such time. I've never been drunk enough to not recall periods. If I ran over a guy, I would know. So please tell me when. Cuz I don't know when.

[Corporal Eschebone]

I think Mythril mistakenly referred to me... Y'see, when I was 6, I was over my little brother in this plastic car I was riding, because I felt like being a jackass.

I gave him a bruise.

[Like this specific story, people will make up things that are completely fake sometimes, particularly in UnMod. Sarcasm is generally very convincing down there.]

[neminem]

Hello, I'm neminem, and everything I always say to n00bs in welcome threads already got covered while I was sleeping . But welcome all, and don't be scared of UnMod like I was when I was a n00b here. Then again, I've heard grumblings that it's tamer now than it used to be, but as far as I'm aware, the only difference is you get banned for blatant thread-breaking, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

Originally Posted by Mahaboo

Hello orual, and welcome to OCR. If you venture into UnMod it may be wise to leave the whole female thing out for now, we’ve been having a little drama over there the past few days and people are starting to get a little cranky.

Haha, yeah. That was great. If you say you are a girl in UnMod right now, you will likely not be believed. On the other hand, if you look around at all the threads related to the current running gag and its origins, and make a thread parodying it that also implies you're being serious, and pull it off well... that could give you a big advantage on losing your n00b status . We're big on sarcasm generally.

By the way, you should really look into getting this thread stickied.

[DarthStar]

That would be a big help.

[orual]

...okay, i think i'll avoid unmod. stupid newbie question: what is the current 'running gag' (um..and what is unmod?)

[neminem]

Originally Posted by orual

...okay, i think i'll avoid unmod. stupid newbie question: what is the current 'running gag' (um..and what is unmod?)

UnMod is short for the UnModerated forum (and GenDisc is of course short for General Discussion). The current gag revolved around a semin00b (one of the actually intelligent ones) talking about how she was a girl while talking about porn, and another, less intelligent n00b said [s]he was too, and started talking about how she liked some kind of stupid pseudo-fetish that's apparently popular to talk about in perman00b culture... then a couple regulars "let loose" that they were actually girls as well. Random in-jokes like that happen periodically - I remember with fondness the day where about 3 dozen threads got started of the form *is <something you are/are doing>*, and the time everyone was accusing each other of being alternate accounts of this one person (who was that, by the way? I'm forgetting) and all the jokes made about the possible nonexistence of Eccles' girlfriend, and... great times.

[xamgis]

Originally Posted by orual

...okay, i think i'll avoid unmod.

You don't have to avoid it, but it's probably a good idea to lurk around there and see how things operate in that forum before posting too much in there. I say this because many of the people that pretty much frequent only that forum section are like dogs, in that they tend to be territorial and become threatened when someone they have never seen before enters what they claim to be their space.

I'm xamgis, by the way, for all the newbies. I have come to the conclusion that most people skip over the posts that I make, (except for when I was one of two primary posters in a thread that has long since been deleted) only because someone usually says what I had said, two posts after I said it. No matter. I occasionally have something to contribute in the sig makers thread, but other than that I don't think I really do much else.