The DarkKobold appreciation thread! :D

[CGQuarterly]

Continuing to try to argue with DK is an exercise in futility.  Black Tiger summed up the situation perfectly.  Stop giving a shit about him and he'll no longer be able to get under your skin.

Does this mean your snorkel is clean?

Yeah, I was able to blow my load on some mouthy n00blet on the Neo forums. 

[Gredler]

Yeah, I was able to blow my load on some mouthy n00blet on the Neo forums. 

I'm sorry to keep fueling this fire, but that was seriously the best burn I've read on a forum. I am not sure what it means other than someone got blasted in the face, and I find that hilarious.

[EvilEvoIX]

I thought that this was a Donkey Kong appreciation thread.

[CGQuarterly]

Fuck Donkey Kong.

[780racer]

I thought that this was a Donkey Kong appreciation thread.

DK stands for Drift King Hill billy. Not Dankey Kang.

#MovieQuotesMadeBad

[Gentlegamer]

I thought that this was a Donkey Kong appreciation thread.

[Koop]

[EvilEvoIX]

I thought that this was a Donkey Kong appreciation thread.

Exactly thank you!!!

[DildoKKKobold]

Fuck Donkey Kong.

A lot of people have said shitty things
inside this thread
I've taken my dings
from what I've read

I can take some roast
let the people roar
but this post
goes too far

[Gentlegamer]

I thought that this was a Donkey Kong appreciation thread.

Exactly thank you!!!

[NightWolve]

There are plenty of other forums where I'm active, and not hated. Hell, as much as Nightwolve loves to bring up that the people I banned from TASvideos hate me, plenty of people enjoyed me while I was an admin there. I'm active on other forums as well.

That was just part of messin' with you at the height of the feuding around here. All in good fun, DarkKo. Right ?? ;)

On the subject, I will say you DO gotta be careful with the ban stick, I know this very well myself. I once banned a guy called "Vision-Z" from a retro PCE chatroom #rigg (early 2000's BITD), and he became so mentally unstable about it, he psycho stalked me for years... That was my first experience with a relentless, cyber-bullying, psycho-stalker and you always remember the first time. ;)

He'd take a break for 6 months, then reappear, signing up my email address to porn or other unwanted spamming sites (my email address never recovered), create a troll account on our forums to post a porn link, contact other members or friends around me, talk shit such as telling one of our black members I said something racist about him which actually caused him to leave because he didn't bother to check with me, etc. Anything and everything extortionist that you could get away with hiding behind a computer, you get the idea...

So this continued on for several years (up to ~3), and on the final year, same routine, he'd show up from another IRC channel, demand to be unbanned, but because of each and every extortionist act of harassment, he made it more permanent and I told him to leave me the f--k alone, and that you'll never be unbanned after all that you did! Still obsessed with one last act up his sleeve, he looked up the admin email on the domain of our #rigg site, emailed it with a tattletale complaint about the PCE CD image archives we'd shared, and SuprSoaps, the member who got us the webspace from his job then informed us we'll have to move, in other words, we got booted off that webspace cause of him...

He finally mostly f--ked off after that, having satisfied his relentless, vindictive craving for some form of revenge. But did he disappear for good ? Nope... Your ban "victims" never disappear, do they ? This forum found that out with Nemesis Nintega, one prominent example... Not that long ago, RegalSin even asked me to see about unbanning him actually... But yeah, this "Vision-Z" anomaly is STILL out there cursing my name to this very day, showing up with other squadrons of hate on this 4chan thing. I never knew or understood what this 4chan thing was, but every time I ever checked my referrer browser on my site and saw a link from 4chan, it was always angry hatemongers trashing me.

Anyway, seeing your ban victims curse your name reminded me of my special satisfied customer, Vision-Z, so it was kinda funny seeing somebody else go through this having experience with it. I'm sure you've got your own Vision-Z in one or more of them. Banning is a powerful thing to a fragile, unstable, bigoted mind... This is all why I've made speeches on occasion and suggested the use of timed bans, 1 week, then 2 weeks, etc. instead of a "Be gone, and NEVER return here!" permaban approach which could inspire the next Vision-Z/Nintega psycho, etc. Like it or not, these psychos can be destructive and it's just not worth it...

All of this is sometimes why I wish I never had anything to do with gamer culture, fan translation projects, etc. psychos like this, vindictive bigots like Jeff Nussbaum, Tom-chan WyrdWad Lipschultz (of XXXSEED Games), omgfloofy AKA Kirsten Miller (this relentless cyber-bullying witch who became another obsessed Vision-Z cursing my name all over the Internet), etc. So many raging bigots or "social justice warriors" looking to "teach somebody a lesson" as it were... I was better off without all of it, but oh well... I was too far in it to ever just delete and quit by the time I understood it, but the thought crossed my mind on several occasions.

Anyway, I have far more people that hate me, DarkKo, and I can relate to vengeful ban "victims" (the precious little darlings that they are) looking for payback - I know all about it! So, don't feel too bad. Actually, their hatred of me may not be all that dissimilar to you here: I exposed Ys/Falcom fans of my English patches freeloading at 99%, and in 2007, I tried an early access program, donate for a BETA patch, but this caused them to throw one of the greatest hissy fits ever known in fan translation history (@4chan, @GameFAQs, @romhacking hacks.net, @HongFire, etc.) claiming they're always supposed to get such patches for free cause that's how things are "supposed to work..." I was cursed as an evil, greedy profiteer ever since, the patch was leaked, fallout drama ensued ever since, hence somewhat similar to the bad blood for you in the defense of profiteering resellers - I had an unpopular opinion while they were the 99% MAJORITY, so I lost...

/end soapbox

[Gredler]

/soapbox

It sucks you had to deal with that shit. The damn internet, sometimes so great, sometimes so creepy, always such an experience.

[Koop]

I am coming for you. You will never escape.

[DildoKKKobold]

There are plenty of other forums where I'm active, and not hated. Hell, as much as Nightwolve loves to bring up that the people I banned from TASvideos hate me, plenty of people enjoyed me while I was an admin there. I'm active on other forums as well.

That was just part of messin' with you at the height of the feuding around here. All in good fun, DarkKo. Right ?? ;)

Yeah, little did you realize, you'd actually found the best dirt, of anyone. 

On the subject, I will say you DO gotta be careful with the ban stick, ... story time...

Yeah, I agree. Although I'd be lying if I hadn't delighted in my ferreting out of Nineko. Interestingly, I wasn't the original admin that banned Nineko. I had just become friends with the admin, and helped him find Nineko's alternate accounts (which actually was part of the reason for my promotions through the ranks).

Nineko was quite the character. He's infamous for leaking the Sonic Megamix hack, which lead to the near destruction of the Megamix team. (http://info.sonicretro.org/Nineko) This is something you should appreciate. Hell, he's so notorious, a wiki page about a website has his repeated banning as part of their site's history. (http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/OverLooked_ReMix) These two pages should tell you enough. He's a guy that is used to getting banned.

Anyway, his tenure at TASvideos was funny. Here's what I'd written in our admin forum about his time there-

So, three things to take away from this:
#1. nineko loves to cause massive damage for revenge.
#2. Never give nineko a second chance.
#3. Sonicretro never, ever learns its lesson.

So, we knew not to give nineko ANY power at the site... however, he still managed to cause disruption.
list of nineko's submissions
Lets look at this list:
Snow Brothers: Suboptimal, crappy play.
Daedalian Opus: Long cut scenes, bad game choice.
Burger Time Deluxe: Suboptimal, crappy play, possibly bad game choice.
Sonic Competition: Suboptimal, crappy play.
Chuck Rock: Suboptimal, and horrible game choice AND incompatible with the site.*
OverTop: INTENTIONALLY chose a suboptimal vehicle. (also, probably a bad game choice)
Tetris (B mode): Suboptimal, crappy play, copped an attitude until it was proven, beaten by 30%!
*Note that he tried to hold the site hostage until his demands were met.

And then, finally:
Puzzle de Pon: Good game choice, well played...

So, it is on its way to getting accepted and published. nineko couldn't continue his parade of pretending that TASvideos was out to get him, if he had a published movie. Thus, he created drama over a user voting yes on his movie, canceled his submission and pretended to lock himself out of his account. Now, he clearly didn't lock himself out, because he had only been forum banned by adelikat at that point (this was during the transition period, and site bans hadn't yet been figured out.). Thus, he used that power to uncancel his submission. He was finally site banned, and people from sonicretro came to the IRC channel at his behest to argue that the movie was unfairly judged. See adelikat's final post in that thread as to why the movie remains canceled. (as a side note, his Chuck Rock, OverTop, and PDP submission threads are all interesting reads.)


(Additionally, since Noob Irdoh is his account, and voted 'Yes' on OverTop, I think he was angry that no one had taken the initiative to determine that he had been cheating on his submissions, creating multiple accounts, etc.)

He was a fun one to swat down. Granted, we'd let him keep the Noob Irdoh account on the boards, but were doing more and more fun things to keep him having to work harder and harder to get on the site. After we IP banned nineko, he started to use proxies. We'd found software that filtered out known proxies, so he'd start having to use more obscure ones. Once he did that, we wrote a script that banned each IP he used as he used it once. It was fun messing with him.

Ironically, in that thread, nineko said he had a friendship with his alt, Noob Irdoh. This was pretty ironic, as Noob Irdoh and nineko barely overlapped on the site, i.e. nineko gets banned, Noob Irdoh starts posting. We had tons of other evidence over time that the two accounts were both him, but I won't bother with that here. Needless to say, the post by nineko in that thread is one of my favorites.

Anyway, this was a fun trip down memory lane.

I was cursed as an evil, greedy profiteer ever since, the patch was leaked, fallout drama ensued ever since, hence somewhat similar to the bad blood for you in the defense of profiteering resellers - I had an unpopular opinion while they were the 99% MAJORITY, so I lost...

/end soapbox

Yeah, during our feuds, I took the opposing viewpoint. However, as I think about it, its your work, your blood, sweat and tears, so you should decide if and how you profit off of it. While, you COULD make the argument that you'd be profiting off someone else's IP, and that was unethical... However, are unofficial strategy guides for games unethical? Nope. Seems like the same thing. Companies weren't releasing their software here, choosing to make that profit. It was on the end user whether or not they patched a legitimate copy or a pirated one.

[Sarumaru]

Many words.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Wanny Merds.

[Bernie]

Time for my morning poo


Sent from my iPhone using your mama

[Gredler]

Time for my morning poo


Sent from my iPhone using your mama

Too far, this is disgusting. How can we live with ourselves knowing each others poo schedules.

-Sent from the Toilet with Plunk-N-Talk by KOHLER, by DoxPhile

[NightWolve]

After we IP banned nineko, he started to use proxies.

Yeah, Vision-Z was tech-savvy enough to know that after I caught him in a lie. He trolled the #rigg forum with either an attack on me or a porn link, and on IRC he showed up, demanded to be unbanned while denying he had anything to do with it. I had to paste the /whois output of his IRC account and the IP from the forum account which matched to get the bastard to stop lying... After that, he always used proxies and could always deny he was responsible for sock puppets/trolling.

Literally, you're talking long-term Nintega psycho looking to sabotage/harass relentlessly, thinking with the next act, be it posting tub girl, the ass cheeks spread guy, or other porn, he could extort his way back into the chatroom...

PruvMeRong, the guy that leaked my Felghana patch, another creepy psycho, had sock puppets talking to himself about me, in addition to all the lying denials in emails where he even demanded an apology for wrongly accusing him of being the leaker when it was him all along. In 2012, he looked up my info and crank called my home, leaving a quasi death or assault threat on my answering machine - he simply said, "NightWolve...I'm coming to get you..." and hung up.

Both of these guys came from 4chan and GameFAQs, you can still find posts by them on 4chan... Something about that shithole that attracts all the creepy raging monsters, no doubt about that...

So from what I read, your guy was also in it for the long haul using sabotage and also possible sock puppeting or maintaining multiple accounts to evade bans. It's something to keep in mind, they can be destructive little raging bastards, so best to be careful with the ban stick is all I can advise somebody else. It may have been fun to keep booting him (which is where he will have derived justification for his relentlessness), but it will also have gotten taxing/tiring at some point...