I'm not wholly sure why, but I'd kind of gotten the impression that you and Isa were 2 people who probably took the Interguild more seriously than it should have been taken, and I felt that it had a worse impact on you because Isa was that way through the golden years, while you were here and staff during the years of early Yimmy, the clique, and general inactivity.
ive always been the serious face that takes policy...seriously. it is fun for me though! i like adminstrative stuff, i dont like disruptive-for-no-reason stuff. ive moderated every community ive seriously joined and engaged myself in since i became a member of the interguild, with only one exception (mafiascum).
i smiled when you called me anti-fun
apart from my very early years and some bouts with neezles fighting (which i think you took just as seriously as me, quirvy, leading the ban league and all) ive never been harmed negatively by the interguild. ive been disappointed and disillusioned (hence not appearing for 6 months on here), but my attitude is all natural, not a reaction. id be proud to stay in your mind as the anti-fun voice of reason despite not doing anything related to moderating for the past year or so.
There were times when neezles really did bug me, but in a lot of ways I enjoyed it. Partly because I held the title for most neezle bans, partly because a lot of the neezles trolling was pretty amusing to witness. But there were definitely times where it annoyed me
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My list, using Quirvy's as a template. I stopped at Bmwsu but I'll finish the rest someday (with thoughts on the clique)
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Quirvy: Really, what can I say about Quirvy. I'm really surprised that he actually responded with my and neezles' trolling because if I were in his shoes and had to deal with a pair of 12- and 8-year-old trolls on the internet I'd have gotten tired much earlier than he had. On the old interguild he was a very sarcastic dude and I was a bit scared of him but that's changed. He's also one of the only cavemakers who have more than a couple of caves that I can remember from the top of my head. When I was like 8, I PM'd him saying that one of the first caves I played was Legos Gone Bad and I thought I would never get to meet its mythical creator. A prolific cavemaker, I remember Lethal Defense, The Descent (one of my favorite caves from way back when), Route Canal (also a favorite), Early Mourning, and Til Death do us Part. Also a very secretive guy.
Wully: Isa's brother I think. Really good with computers.
Dabigkid: An ancient pre-interguild cavemaker
Snowman: Previously known as evansun. From Singapore, I thought he took things too seriously.
Jazz: Vancouver dude, Asian and really serious about hockey. Weird thing is, when he joined the old interguild I thought he was the same age as me, when he was really about 3 years older and graduated high school a couple of years ago.
Snipereborn: He always seemed vaguely chauvinistic in the redneck American way and that really bothered me about him, so I don't miss him at all really. Honestly, he was the only interguild member whom I've actively disliked.
Cedric: Very young kid on the old interguild, creator of the infamous imbak and ekehasa ("Seb"), and receiver of some very vitriolic comments. He was banned for a period of time.
Teo: Polish kid and one of the best HATPC players of all time, probably better than shos. He made a lot of walkthroughs with European pop songs. There is an obvious influence from Dando/Sefro in his caves, which I really respect. He was obviously not from the same generation as CSD, shos, et. al. because his caves were meant to be playable and fun. His English wasn't great when he first joined, but it's really improved since then and I remember how he thanked the Interguild for helping him learn English, because he got top marks in class at school. A+ dude
Kooler: Don't remember him, but I think he once made a topic about how much he hated his life, in which he lamented the social conventions that everyone expected him to follow and how he could never become a Truly Great Man or whatever. Or maybe that was someone else. Anyway, the topic was promptly deleted and never mentioned again. Also he once said that he thought he had a "human immmunodeficiency disease". Both of these incidents made me feel embarrassed for him. One of the minecraft kids.
Yimmy: Young kid, I thought it was kind of weird how he managed to know literally everything about the interguild within a week of joining. He didn't really know how to conduct himself in the forum at first, and I think that provoked a lot of members to be rude to him. I think he was a bit naive because of his upbringing and maybe the Interguild wasn't the best place for him to introduce himself to the internet, but it still wasn't fair
kinecttking: I don't remember anything about him. Minecraft kid?
Krotomo: Once a very young kid on the old interguild. Sometimes people were harsh to him for his age, but never to the same extent as Cedric.
Silver: I didn't have internet for most of the time when she was on the old interguild, when she was kittikiyana/alfav/singer_aelita. She was annoying at times, but that's a consequence of being young. She was a pretty creative person and her artwork was good, so I hope she's still involved with that.
Isa: Swedish guy. I consider him a foil to Quirvy, and I remember that I thought it was really funny when he was angry, which gave me a reason to provoke him.
Bang Jan: I can never tell the difference between him and sup_mus, but I remember people being unnecessarily harsh to him for no reason. I thought he was from Singapore, but apparently he's actually British.
Mymop: I can't think of anything to say about him, which is actually a good thing in the context of the Interguild (see: the rest of the post) Cool dude, deserves to be a mod.
atvelonis: Cool dude, pretty smart and enthusiastic about things, deserves to be a mod.
Shos: For some reason I idolized him on the old interguild, which looking back was really really weird, and it probably annoyed him. Despite his questionable spelling and capacity for confusion I am pretty sure he's actually an incredibly smart guy, being in college at age 14 or something. Nowadays I disagree with his cavemaking ethic (see my comments on imperio). Also, he was a fan of taking shirtless pictures of himself which earned him the ridicule of Quirvy
Sefro/Dando: I thought Dando was the kind of metropolitan cool lady with a great sense of humour, who knew about everything and was confident enough in herself to hang out with a bunch of teenage guys on the internet and not feel silly about it. I kind of wanted to be her when I grew up. Like everyone I was disappointed when "she" turned out to be Sefro, but his caves are still some of the best of all time, and I'm sure Sefro is just as cool and knowledgeable, but he doesn't show up that much.
Livio: Something about Livio always seemed incredibly generic and uninteresting. Easily influenced by other people, somehow doesn't feel bad about calling Aeon a semester-long project. Nowadays he tweets about social issues, and I can't tell how much of that is genuine concern or. Maybe that sounds bad. He has not commented on any one of the many sonnets that I have written for him.
Haily: Owner of IceCaves, twin of Livio, now a married dude.
soccerboy13542: When he was on the old interguild (and he was still kirby) he liked to send me PMs and once made a pi-themed cave when I was nine years old and going through a "phase". Then he somehow ended up on neezles' radar and liked the werewolf kid from Twilight, which, thinking about it, he probably doesn't like to be reminded of. For a while he was quite sensitive about swearing on the interguild, but in retrospect he was only 12. Knows Spanish too. I can't say anything about his caves because after 2008 I didn't really play anyone's caves. In general, a cool dude.
Neezles: No opinion, lol.
Bmwsu: Very irresponsible, he might end up as the kind of dude who doesn't pay child support and just drops off the face of the planet.
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I'm glad you approve of my performance as a staff member. What you said about Livio being easily influenced definitely used to apply to me as well, and probably still does.
If I could go back in time by 5 years or so and talk to my younger self, I would tell myself about the Interguild. I always feel a bit sad when people mention users that I've never seen online, or, in some cases, even heard of (I've only been a member since late 2012). I also regret not really contributing to the Interguild very much during my first year or so as a member.
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Wait, you thought my brother was from Singapore? weird, did you also think I was from Singapore?
Can you feel your heart burning?
Can you feel the struggle within?
The fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make, you cannot kill me in a way that matters
he liked to send me PMs and once made a pi-themed cave when I was nine years old and going through a "phase"
Holy crap I totally forgot about that wierd pi phase. I don't even really remember how it was a phase, I just distinctly remember you being somehow obsessed with pi.
Namedropping all of those old caves of mine made me look through some of them, and reminded me of how:
1. I didn't not properly test my caves in the olden days
2. I went through a brief period where I would remake some of my really old levels that were either uploader glitched or just terrible/impossible, into a form that was actually playable. I believe Soul of Death and Til Death do us Part were both examples of such caves.
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Part Deux.
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Jellsprout: My impression of him was that he was urbane and European with an affinity for Pokemon and other video games. Thinking about it, I don't recall any of his caves except Genesis, Stairway to Heaven, and BootCamp, all three of which are ULTIMATE exercises in futility. I thought his original bellsprout avatar was adorable and was really disappointed when I saw the original Pokemon version of the bellsprout. He also managed to convince me that the European educational system is better than the American one, and when I was nine he told me that I was too young to understand The Golden Compass, which really offended me at the time but now I realize he was probably right.
Jebby: I feel bad about classifying people by their nationality, but he truly had a uniquely British sense of humour. I had the impression that he was relatively old, but in fact I think he was only 15 or 16 when the forum was created? Oh, and of course he was the original creator of the Interguild itself, can't forget that. I remember he had a condition that caused him to go prematurely grey, and in his photo he tried to hide it by spraying over his hair in MS Paint, but I think he's discovered hair dye since then. He's not too active, but I get the impression that he's relatively successful these days, so good for him
Yaya: The popularizer of purple okapis (seriously... why), and former owner of a white-man afro? I remember his long rambling posts and GET TO DA CHOPPA but not much other than that. He also has a running tally of all of his user titles, and my personal favourite is "I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!" because I thought it went well with his fist-bumping avatar.
FlashMarsh: A very bitter British kid who always seemed fed up with life and other people. I think he might have been the one who invited the entire British cohort of Minecraft-playing kids? At first people were annoyed with him being immature, but as he got older his personality seemed to become less pleasant and he started making comments at the expense of yimmy or something. Really, I think he's much smarter than he lets on and I hope he's happier now.
Jory: If Darvince and Thomas took turns being the Ego and the Superego of the clique, then Jory was the unflinching Id. Apparently weighs something around 230 pounds. The real Jory was a real-life friend of Soccerboy's who kept hanging around the Interguild and eventually got sucked into the clique, which in my personal opinion was hilarious.
Darvince: Darvince is another one of those members who I'm pretty sure are much more intelligent than they appear. Some of his interests are kind of esoteric like conlanging and linguistic analysis and transcendental philosophy and I always thought it would be cool to have a discussion with him on subjects like that, cause he probably knows a lot about them. I've always wondered if Darspeak wasn't a failed linguistic experiment, but I thought that was hilarious too even though it annoyed the staff, and then Thomas and Jorster managed to learn it too, so I'd say Dar is a lot more successful than 97% of conlangers including Dr. Esperanto. I tried to write a dictionary for Darspeak but it got deleted as soon as I posted it but I always wondered how many of my assumptions were true regarding the origins of "kol" and "jkok" or whatever.
Binary guy: I don't know what his deal was, either. I just assumed s/he was either Darvince's side account or one of his friends from universal sandbox (?) with a similar sense of humour, and a similar range of interests.
Thomas: I can think of no way to explain Thomas' behaviour. He was trusted enough by Haily to be a mod on IceCaves but when he came over here it seemed like all he wanted to do was defend the HONOUR of Haily, which was... not really a thing that needed to be defended. For that reason he acted antagonistic against the Interguild, but on the other hand he's also incredibly knowledgable about programming (...and now I remember Jory's stuff about being a "rookie recreational coder", lol). He was the one who figured out the fiddler trick for HATPC I think, but then he joined the Clique and started using his knowledge for other purposes, which included writing a program that created THOUSANDS of threads filled with Darspeak. I think Sefro once accused him of being a clinical sociopath, which I don't buy, not only because Sefro is not a licensed psychologist, but because it seems way too harsh. (and anyway if he were a licensed psych he'd know not to made diagnoses over the internet) I think Thomas was just fuelled by boredom and a general inclination to not take the internet too seriously.
CSD: So the thing about CSD is weird. One of the first caves I played upon discovering HATPC was the Cascades because I'd discovered Metal Madness through the spotlight I wanted ot play it, but he had the Cascades uploaded instead. And I thought it was impossible because really, to a newbie HATPC player it basically is. Then when I joined the interguild I thought this man was *old* because he was 18 and I, being eight, saw him as an incredibly mature adult who paid taxes and probably had an office job, too?! Really, though, I don't think he'd even graduated high school at the time. I think he may or may not have been in love with Dando - I don't know if that was a running joke or what, but it seemed serious at times, and anyway they were both old.
Rocket Guy: Yeah I thought he was Singaporean too.
Harumbai: He made a lot of quality caves, I'm pretty sure he was quite inspired by Dando/Sefro too which I also respect. But mainly I remember him for his knytt stories levels because I really liked that game, but there was a dearth of enjoyable levels on the Interguild and EVEN OUTSIDE OF IT so I spent a lot of time replaying that yellow "Jumps" level on hard mode. Knytt Stories is a great game by the way, it deserved more attention but I don't think gamers these days are really into the small pixel graphics schtick when DotA is a thing that exists. Very atmospheric, A++ game
GF4: He made the Interguild comics to which I contributed some sprites, and I thought it was hilarious. Aaaand I think he wasn't that bad of a caver either. Cool.
imtimi: I wasn't in on the whole Florida thing so I have no idea what this guy's point was. I did, however, remember when he revealed that he wasn't actually "Timi Mitchell" (lol) but "Evan Gruntz", whatever the point of that was. And I didn't even remember who egruntz was other than having a vague idea that he was on the old interguild at one point but disappointed. Timi was quite articulate and even managed to insinuate himself into staff for his uh contributions, but I think some of the staff members were surprised as to the amount of sheer effort he took to create the new Timi identity? Like, he said he switched his ISP and even changed his legal name??? Timi also acted creepy towards Neezles, my actual little sister. I don't know if he was joking but he said he wanted to marry her and wake up in the same bed as her??? As I recall she was 8 at the time. Ew.
CKJR: I think he knew evansun in real life, or is that a consequence of them both being Singaporean. He was an innovator of the DDA, but I still find it weird that ForSeasons was considered a DDA because it really isn't, even though it is one of the COOLEST caves of all time and I gotta give credit where it's due, man.
The popularizer of purple okapis (seriously... why), and former owner of a white-man afro? I remember his long rambling posts
It's not like I planned for purple okapis to become an thing. I literally just came up with it as an example on the spot when writing this post. If I recall, then someone DID actually make it the title of the chatbox page for a bit, it stuck around as a running joke for a while, I convinced my IO team to name ourselves The Purple Okapis, and the rest is history.
Yes, sadly my afro is basically a thing of the past. Ironically, the end of my afro days seemed to be after I posted a picture of myself on the Interguild (no longer present). I always said I'd post another picture when the fro grew back, but it never returned quite the same. My hair is still fluffy, but takes longer to grow now, and after a certain extent just seems to grow denser in the volume it already occupies rather than expanding outward. 2007-2010 were peak afro years for me. Slightly off topic, but deleting the picture of myself that I posted on the IG is definitely one of the better decisions I've made on this site, all things considered.
I concede to my rambly posts. They were normal sized when I joined, but I even started to be bothered by it in 2014/2015. It felt like my posts were to large and I was posting too often compared to everyone else. In retrospect that may have played a role in me leaving the site. Attempting to post less might've turned to logging on the site less, which turned to not coming on period. Post-return though, I'm trying to embrace brevity.
COMING SOON: A giant meteor. Please.
Give me +karma. Give me +karma.
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"Yaya" said:
Slightly off topic, but deleting the picture of myself that I posted on the IG is definitely one of the better decisions I've made on this site, all things considered.
Yeah I agree with you on that. Nobody will ever forget Jebby's past as a prematurely graying 16-year-old. Side note, I wonder if the same thing is going on with Julian Assange
This is probably too long. I apologize in advance. My thoughts are probably not as interesting as Quirvy's or HB's, but I guess I offer a different perspective as someone who's only been on the new IG. I just used Quirvy's template, removed a few people, and added a couple.
Spoiler:
Jazz: Really strange and sometimes difficult to get a read on member. He made quality posts, could sometimes be funny, and he’s a good Minecraft conversationalist, but he is predominantly strange, and that may occasionally get in the way of the above attributes. I have zero memories regarding the quality of his HATPC levels. I liked the Cashmere Caverns walkthrough?
Snipereborn: No major opinions on him. I’d be a bit scared to hear his thoughts on current US politics. It was pretty weird when he took a roleplay-heavy approach to that one mafia game.
Cedric: I wonder if Lumscat will get revived next. I remember his nooby days on the new site, but from what I gather, it was worse on the old IG? Also I have my doubts that he beat Inhuman Instinct on his 29th try…
Buboy: Nice guy, good caves. I recall him faring relatively well for a younger member when he joined. I look forward to seeing what he makes next.
Teo: Nice guy, very good cavemaker, most improved English speaker. I wish I had more to say, but of all the HATPC-focused members, he seems like the most “married to the game†type (a fitting expression in this case). I still want to know what The Star Allergy was like.
Yimmy: While I missed out on most of Cedric, Silver, and Kro’s early years, I got to experience ALL of Yimmy’s nooby days. Yay? I’ve said it before, but I’m pretty sure he would had a lot less hard of a time on the IG if he had joined when there were several younger members on the old site. But ages just didn’t work out like that. As a noob he still made me laugh occasionally though. Like I said, he’s improved. I guess delivering papers builds character.
Kinecttking: Friend of Atvelonis’s? I know he plays Minecraft. I think I’ve had some casual conversations with him, but none important enough to relay here. I am friends with him on Steam, and it is pretty annoying how he changes his name multiple times a month.
Krotomo: Despite being a regularly active member of the IG who joined before me, I don’t know much about him. He seems fine. Maybe it helps that I didn’t know him as he was making the Future Levels series. Has made some strange videos—on one hand, he made the ?? series, but on the other hand, he uploaded some of his caves at 64x speed.
Silver: I missed a lot of members’ nooby days by not being on the old site. That is not the case with her. I still missed a majority of her shenanigans, but I have vivid memories of Catplanet and Celebi (sorry if this triggers anyone). Thankfully, she seems to have matured. Also has good taste in anime. I wish she was still active, but I can’t really blame her since she’s one of the only female members.
Isa: I always found his seriousness kinda charming. In my early days as a noobish member, it was good to know there was one active and dependable staff member. He responded to my first post on the Interguild. He also tested some caves for me via PM and let me complain about members to him occasionally. I do not know if he still hates Wendy’s. In my time on the Interguild, it seems like his levels were kinda neglected by the community, myself included. Which is a shame, because most are really cool. I guess at least in his case, he made several acclaimed levels before I joined the IG, so at least he has that.
Quirvy: Amusing person. I feel like I’ve unreasonably trashed multiple caves of his over the years. Responsible for most if not all the Interguild’s novelty accounts. Which by proxy means he’s responsible for You Have One Post To, aka the best forum game by a gigantic margin. I think it was either him or Isa who basically told me I was cool even though I was a younger member. I think in the past I’ve thought he has an unreasonable obsession with karma, but I don’t remember enough about the thought to elaborate. I commend his efforts help try and keep the site active. Apparently terrible at HATPC.
Bang Jan: Annoying in his early days, he’s improved in recent years. Not only has his posting style improved, but he’s also became the Interguild’s residential walkthrough supplier.
Sup_Mus: Filled a similar niche to Bang Jan in his early days. I know his posts were pretty bad back in the day, but I don’t what they’ve been like in recent years, so maybe that’s a good thing? For him, I find his progression of HATPC levels much more fascinating. He joined the site roughly a year after I did, and in that time made more than twice the amount of levels that I have. Most of them were absolute chaff, he showed a decent amount of improvement after a certain point. Unfortunately, I think the rate at which he made levels combined with his previous reputation turned off a lot of people from playing his levels once they got better, myself included. Also I don’t think he had regular access to HATPC or a cavemaker, so even his good levels were often accidently impossible or cheatable.
Atvelonis: It’s weird to think how annoying I thought he was when he first joined given how well I get along with him nowadays. I even complained about him to Isa via PM! Thankfully, he seemed to catch on to the ways of the Interguild fairly quickly. Total bro, knows his stuff about Minecraft too. Also went out of his way to contact me during my absence, which I greatly appreciate.
Mymop: Atvelonis’s brother. I don’t *think* I ever had trouble telling the two apart. Also very Minecraft proficient. I think he was more tied to Minecraft than Atvelonis during the time I did not own it, so I think I know him less generally. I find his whole “I only listen to classical music†shtick a bit silly, but I guess he has plenty of time to change.
Shos: The Interguild’s residential wild card in every way possible. Unpredictable, strange, and oft an absolute madman. Plays caves with his mind and can smell cheatability a mile away. I also recall him posting shirtless pics back in the day? Strange guy, but that makes him a lot of fun.
Sefro/Dando: Cool guy. Not gonna lie, I thought the fake picture of random girl he used on the member globe when he was still Dando was pretty hot. Also when he was still Dando, I could think “obsessing over HATPC is a completely normal hobby! Several males and females do it!â€, but once he revealed the truth it clicked “oh wait the Interguild is a total sausagefestâ€. I dunno why going from 2 active female members, a few inactive female members, and one female troll to 1 active female and the rest caused me to suddenly see the light. Super nice, great cavemaker. I’m sure however much I was annoyed by Thomas/Jorster/Darvince, he probably suffered triple. I hope he’s the next member to return.
Livio: He’s Livio, there’s not much to say. I’ve had mixed thoughts on him in the past. Even in the new site’s early days, he took a fairly passive role in running the site, and sometimes I wonder if the site would’ve taken a different direction in this decade had he been a more active admin. I was never on the old IG, so I don’t know if that was just his style of doing things. I guess out of all IG members, he’s the one who’s “made it†though. Someone has to be the grownup.
Soccerboy13542: For some reason, I have basically no memories of him from the early days of the new site. He joined before me, and has always been an active member, but I feel like I have this weird gap in my memory regarding him. Anyways, he’s a cool dude and one of the members I best get along with. Also perhaps the most idealistic member? Also I feel like I’ve regularly neglected playing his levels throughout the years, which makes me feel pretty bad.
Neezles: Since I was not on the old site, and the staff kept most of your new site antics under control, I’ve always had a secondary knowledge of Neezles/HB’s trolling efforts. It’s fine and dandy that she’s appeared to become a legitimate member, but I never put much stock in that, because I half expect her to reveal it’s all been part of an elaborate prank at any given moment. I do appreciate your ability to be blunt though
Bmwsu: Kinda flew under the radar for a while, but I really started to get along with him in 2013/2014, we were good pals (him being the member closest to me in age probably helped). Maybe our terrible collab cave served as a bonding experience. Lots of PM exchanges and talking on Minecraft. Of course, that all went out the window when he went AWOL. He seemed like switch-hitter in regards to the Thomas Jorster Darvince debacle as it was going on, but once it ended, it was clear he was not satisfied with the aftermath, which I have no doubt lead to him virtually going out for cigarettes and never returning. If I wanted to be mean, I could say I guess he thought his friendship with Thomas was more important than the rest of the IG, but that is a little over the top. Instead, I’ll say he behaved like Abraham Lincoln towards the confederacy in the aftermath of the US civil war. Yeah.
Jellsprout: Dignified European liquor connoisseur. Jk… somewhat. He and Isa are responsible for teenage me realizing “oh hey, the internet is used by people all over the worldâ€. I’m sure I interacted with people from other countries on Neopets or Runescape, but the IG was really where it dawned upon me. He could be odd, but also smart and hilarious—I’m pretty sure I’ve given him a ton of +karma. As a staff member, he always seemed to take the neutral position on things? He is the first IG member I directly interacted with. He critiqued on a very crappy cave of mine I posted on the Neoboards in 2007 or 2008. Like CSD, he seemed to be essentially done with HATPC by the time I joined. I’m pretty sure I straight up asked him once why he still went on the site, lol. Maybe he himself had trouble answering that question after a certain point?
Jebby: British and nice. I have interacted with him some, but not much. He seems like an intelligent and pleasant person. Once posted a picture dressed up as a cowboy? Although I owned Dark Souls before he started praising it, I’m not sure if I ever would’ve gotten around to it if he hadn’t loved it so much. I wonder if he ever read my post about my Dark Souls experience…
FlashMarsh: Britsh and salty. Far more caustic back in the day, but has still maintained some sense of brashness. I would like to leave it at that, but I am still mad about Interguild Island. *shakes fist angrily*
Jorster: It’s weird to think how early he joined in the new site’s history. I guess he didn’t really gain prevalence until he started making Minecraft levels. I have some difficulty separating him from his trollish antics, but during times he’s behaved reasonably, he’s seemed fine. I feel like a lot of his history is also tied to Minecraft, so I might not know much about him. He is responsible for me joining Steam, which I guess is a good thing and a bad thing, and I recall him being very bad at mafia (but I guess that’s not an uncommon trait amongst members)
Darvince: Similar to Jorster, I have some trouble viewing him separate of his trollish phase. I only recently remembered that I used to joke about him being a robot. But those 13 hour autorefresher sessions were suspicious. I know deep down, he’s a real human being though.
CSD: He has always been elusive to me. Our paths have rarely intersected. Outside of his mafia game and cavemaker, I could probably count the number of times we’ve directly interacted on one hand. I imagine our age difference plays a big role in that, and he seemed pretty much done with HATPC by the time I joined. Though he’s earned his retirement if anyone has. He is the first Interguild member I became aware of; I played Metal Madness shortly after I discovered HATPC, and his name was distinctive enough that I recognized it by the time I joined the IG.
Thomas: Some men just want to watch the world burn
Rocketguy: Brother of Bang Jan. In the early years, he was like Bang Jan, but worse. I don’t have many thoughts on him in recent years, sorry sorry sorry. He plays Minecraft sometimes?
Harumbai: Great cavemaker, nice person, makes good walkthroughs. He’s made some quite difficult levels, and sometimes I just find his level style to be really overwhelming, but they always are impressive. No complaints!
Imtimi: No significant thoughts, but the whole “comes on asking for $25000 after disappearing for a couple years†is absolutely hilarious in retrospect.
Ckjr: HATPC genius? How does someone even go about making a level like For Seasons? I may have only beaten one of his non-DDA levels, but he was clearly talented. I hope he can apply that skill to real life and end up going places
GF4: Really consistent level maker. Never got to know him personally. Interguild Comic was humorous
Orcasaur: Seriously, what happened to him? He showed up, seemed to understand the Interguild etiquette fairly quickly, made some good levels, and disappeared. He hasn’t come back ONCE since then. Maybe Art inspired him.
HopefullyIDon'tRegretThis
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma.
Like, he said he switched his ISP and even changed his legal name??? Timi also acted creepy towards Neezles, my actual little sister. I don't know if he was joking but he said he wanted to marry her and wake up in the same bed as her??? As I recall she was 8 at the time. Ew.
For the first part, I believe it was that he called his ISP to have them change his IP address. Definitely did not change his legal name.
As for what you say about what he said to neezles, I think I remember that (if it was on the new interguild), he was definitely joking/trolling. You knew neezles as a little kid, but:
1. She was a super troll/spammer on here
2. Her status as a super troll/spammer brought into question how old she actually was
c. She herself said some pretty crude stuff while spamming the forums
I would have +1'd Yaya's post had I actually seen it in time.
'Yaya on shos' said:
Plays caves with his mind and can smell cheatability a mile away.
This is such a perfect way to describe him.
'Yaya on Neezles' said:
Since I was not on the old site, and the staff kept most of your new site antics under control, I’ve always had a secondary knowledge of Neezles/HB’s trolling efforts.
There wasn't really much on the old side with regards to Neezles. All I remember was that she one time spammed the random chat forum with a ton of stupid topics, including one that was particularly hilariously stupid/ironic. Something about how neezles hated babies or something? Maybe aych bee or someone else remembers it? I guess it is true that we kinda kept neezles' trolling efforts from being seen very much by the public, so I guess that's kinda sad.
BTW, we did actually appreciate the effort that went into trolling enough that at some point, we actually made a neezles quarantine forum, where we'd stick neezles' spam (as well as other general spam and topics that needed to be hidden from the public)
'Yaya on jellsprout' said:
Like CSD, he seemed to be essentially done with HATPC by the time I joined. I’m pretty sure I straight up asked him once why he still went on the site, lol. Maybe he himself had trouble answering that question after a certain point?
I don't think that one has to be firmly invested in HatPC to still go here. For quite a while, it was the actual forum that interested me more so than actually making and playing levels. Also RIP jellsprout, last seen Tuesday, August 9, 2016 12:56 pm. Although I feel like it's been even longer since he's said anything. He very well may have been interested by the whole HatPC reborn thing
'Yaya on imtimi' said:
the whole “comes on asking for $25000 after disappearing for a couple years†is absolutely hilarious in retrospect.
hahahah. I remember seeing that topic, started reading it, but then stopped because I felt like reading into it was just going to cause me to cringe too much.
For the record guys I am the original HB from 2006 and have been for a while. neezles, who is my real life little sister, got addicted to dota and nobody hears from her anymore
Huh, I guess I should stop calling you neezles. You guys blurred together for me after all that.
'various people' said:
[stuff about Dando]
I enjoyed most of the Dando thing. I won't go into great detail but I had an unbearably toxic relationship with my stepdad growing up and a much better one with my mom, so I always felt there was a stronger-than-average "mom" component to my personality, which I channeled here as Dando. I guess I found it sort of therapeutic. My stepdad was a very imposing person, like he was in the military and had been shot a few times, and he did his best to crush what might be considered more feminine qualities in me. So there was something liberating about my act here. Eventually I outgrew it and came clean. I no longer feel like I need excuses to act certain ways.
'aych bee' said:
I think Sefro once accused [Thomas] of being a clinical sociopath, which I don't buy, not only because Sefro is not a licensed psychologist, but because it seems way too harsh. (and anyway if he were a licensed psych he'd know not to made diagnoses over the internet) I think Thomas was just fuelled by boredom and a general inclination to not take the internet too seriously
I accused him of having a narcissistic personality disorder, not of being a clinical sociopath. I agree that was a bit much though, and after I said that I wished I'd said he was being narcissistic rather than telling him he had a disorder. But he was really starting to get on my nerves. I strongly disagree that Thomas wasn't taking the internet seriously. I thought he was taking the site more seriously than anybody.
For example I feel most people would look at that poll where the staff has 196% approval or whatever and recognize that it's a silly joke, not earnestly point out the blatant corruption of the staff. I wasn't sure he was being serious about that stuff until I saw the dedication. He spent hours and hours spamming the forum and sending me obnoxious "**** you" PMs and scheming and talking about how upset he was making us, all while accusing us of taking the site too seriously. That whole thing was so stupid.
But I don't hate or even dislike Thomas really. I thought he was a mostly cool person for most of the time he was on the Interguild. I know what it's like to be a bit more intense than you know what to do with, and I also know he moved to some town he hates around the time that was happening, which was on top of standard angsty teen stuff, so I figured his little breakdown here was a sort of outlet for other frustrating things in his life. That doesn't make it okay but it makes it more understandable to me. I don't hold a grudge against him.
Anyway, I might make one of these impressions posts if I ever desperately need to procrastinate, which I might now that my coursework is picking up.
I definitely encourage it. Funny to think that Yimmy did this, and got berated, and then a few years later we came back and were like, "actually that's kind of a cool idea"
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Wow, Sefro, I think I can speak for everyone that we had no idea you were going through all that. I'm glad you're in a better place now and you feel like you can be yourself. Tbh your opinion of Thomas is probably more accurate than mine, since we were kind of ~cohorts~ in that, even though I was never a part of the clique, we had a kind of common goal in causing HAVOC and MAYHEM on the interguild back then, and also with the geographical proximity, lol. So he never felt a need to act TOO antagonistic towards me.
Quirvy, that's basically how every social trend develops. Like, you know, with jeans. Since they were first worn by blue-collar workers who were obviously on the lowest rung of the social ladder, and then they were adopted by cool people like Fonzie and John Travolta, after which they became a status symbol.
Yes, I am the real HB, and I get that I was often conflated with Neezles. That was the intention.
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'I' said:
Kooler: Don't remember him, but I think he once made a topic about how much he hated his life, in which he lamented the social conventions that everyone expected him to follow and how he could never become a Truly Great Man or whatever.
I would like to issue a formal apology to Kooler, because I have just found the topic to which I was referring, which was actually created by Darvince. The HIV part still stands, though, and apologies to Darvince, but the subject ... does not make me cringe any less than it did five years ago. I hope you don't think that way anymore? Honestly, I could've sworn that it had been deleted.