Seraphaem wrote:
It's great to have Fran back as his old self.
S.
Fran is a good guy. He's never left himself. What makes you think he has Sera?
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Seraphaem wrote: Fran is a good guy. He's never left himself. What makes you think he has Sera? |
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Nefertiti |
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Come on Snewser... what other gems do you have lurking in your brain? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Seraphaem |
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I did my part promoting it. It's up to him to finish it.
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ThumpusMagnus |
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theeyeofthetiiiger wrote: Howdy EOTT. It is good to see so many of the gang from days of yore in here. I'm not nearly as active as I used to be (at least outside the Friendly Confines), but it's fun to reminisce. I'm looking forward to future installments of The Snewser Chronicles™... alongside Griftd's classic Codex it should provide a pretty definitive narrative of the history of the Spoilerverse and its various backstories. Hey, Snews... how are the kitties? |
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Well, this is an interesting thread.
All those old time spoilers coming out of the woodwork. I don't suppose E will show up. Or Anna? Probably not. We EBTers thought we were such hot shit. Makes ya laugh now, you know? Hi DR, Thumper, EOTT, Savvy, Griftd, Owen, Sara, Snews, Anti, ReRe, Trix, and anyone else I missed. It's nice to see those familiar names. |
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gummiwormz |
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Wow... check out all the old timer spoilers (the ORIGINAL ones may I add!) who got the whole world hooked on spoiling our favorite show, Survivor!
*waves hi to Corvis, AFM, DR, Thumper, TarzanGroupie, Griftd, Snewser, Sarawara, Anti, Guy, Clewless the MoFo, Tanzer, RedundantlyRedunant, Trixxiego, and the rest of the gang who have popped into this thread* and who are you calling moldie oldies, whippersnappah? anyone for some popcorn while we wait for the next installment? the one... the only... the original (and NOT hacked) gummiwormz! |
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hwamf |
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800 yawns
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gummiwormz |
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Hey Slip ~ I heard that old c.y.g. did not take up goat farming... I heard it was sheep f#(%ing *ssts*
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Mister Slippery |
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Corvis7 wrote: Hush Yo Mouth! |
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Mindgame.acmebtsbeachhouse |
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Brushes off the mold. Hello to those I know. Thumper!!! wow, nows there's a name I missed. Sucks, EBT, ABT, ah the memories of those times. Board Wars.
Inside info. Moles!!! I never did learn who the mole was. Or maybe I did and just forgot. Opening Sequence Theory anyone? Paratrooper, my comrade in arms. He
got me in this crap. Photo analysis. Speculation. More photos. I knew I should have saved those emails. Who knew that one day you could get a 41 page thread
going just by bringing up the past? Who knew I would actually read all 41 pages?
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SonOfAbraxas |
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We EBTers thought we were such hot shit. Makes ya laugh now, you know? I guess my only question is - What did you all actually do on the EBT boards? Just shoot the shit and laugh at us dimwits who don't have friends working for CBS or something? Did you swap recipes? Word Association? Hangman? Inquiring minds want to know! |
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Mindgame.acmebtsbeachhouse |
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There were basically two groups or mind thoughts at that time. One group was all "We want to figure this out for ourselves" and spent most of the
time actually analyzing clues, photos etc. The other group was like "Just give us the info". Maybe that's way too simple an explanation. There
was a lot of stuff going on at various levels. Not all members were privy to all that was going on.
But there were plenty of us who were legimately trying to work on our own and did not want insider info. Sadly those get forgotten. History gets written by the victors. |
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SonOfAbraxas |
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Thanks, Mindgame. Good explanation. =) Nice to know there were people diligently trying to figure things out on their own. =)
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Trixiego |
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Corvis, Thumpus, gummi, Mindgame nice to see you :-)
Now how bout making that post count higher around here |
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ThumpusMagnus |
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Trixiego wrote: I try to be more active at Sucks sometimes, Trix, but the flat format gives me a fuckin headache! I may be the last diehard holdout dinosaur for the threaded format. Probably a residual effect from my Usenet origins. Mindgame! Good to see ya! There were some good days sprinkled among all the crap going on in those days. There were also a lot of us who were sort of a blend of the two camps... crunching vidcaps and other clues, stirring in a dollop of logic, and trying to come up with a theory, but also waiting for the eventual DR disclosure late in the week for confirmation or refutation of the independent work. For us it was as much a feedback mechanism to help fine-tune the skills as it was a revelation from the Oracle. These days there's so much source spoiling going on, much of it revealed well in advance, that it's difficult to do independent analysis that isn't at least slightly influenced by the expectations created by knowledge of the spoiler info. Often, it's reduced to looking at all the spoilers, especially when there are conflicting or inconsistent reports, and trying to come up with an explanation that accounts for the different information/perceptions/interpretations. The Ulong/Koror dominance spoiler discrepancies was a classic example of this. It finally dawned on me that the dominance spoiler referred not to the tribe name, but to the island the tribe was on... having a tribe name that matched the island that the opposite tribe was located on was the cause of the discrepancy. An all-too-rare opportunity to use the "old school" skills to resolve a source spoiler that didn't seem to make sense just looking at the raw info. The S3 satellite photos of the location provided some fun times too. Ah, memories! |
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To be honest, I still don't get the whole EBT/ABT/Sucks thing. Like, I don't get how it was set up. Did EBT post at Sucks and fuck with everyone, even
though they had their own board? How were these people identified? And if so, what the hell is the big deal in that? It happens all the time now.
More thorough explanation (and yes, I've read the Codex) plz. |
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GodIsAnAtheist |
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TC wrote: I'm sorry you don't have the mental capacity and/or intelligence to enjoy such things, Grandma.
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Mindgame.acmebtsbeachhouse |
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Way back in the first season of Survivor Planet Sucks had a forum called Survivor Sucks. You could join up and post things, funny stuff, sarcasm, Spoilers.
Some of us were trying to be serious about spoiling, some of us, myself included were not, at least back then. Somehow I got in with the more serious natured crowd. Paratrooper started posting vidcaps of the show, this was in the second season. I liked analyzing the vidcaps to spoil the show. So did others. Somehow, Paratrooper and E got together and decided to start a private forum where the serious could spoil with out problems from trolls and spammers. They emailed a bunch of us to join the EBT. Later on the EBT had a civil war over the "little birdie" - DarkRivers - and some other things that E was doing. By then we were pretty well split over all the drama and board wars and so on. The Rebel faction of EBT split company and formed the ABT. Things went downhill after that. Many of us old timers got bored with it all, bored with the show, bored with spoiling, bored with the drama. Except Thumper. He didn't get bored. He had a mission. To post on every thread that was ever created. He's still doing that I see. Howdy Thumper!!!
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Mindgame wrote: That's very interesting. No one has ever really come forward and explained the history of that stuff to my knowledge. My question continues with how does EBT/ABT and all that interweave with Survivor Sucks after they had split off? Like, once Sucks had gone to the ezboards
or whatever.
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GodIsAnAtheist wrote:
My question continues with how does EBT/ABT and all that interweave with Survivor Sucks after they had split off? Like, once Sucks had gone to the ezboards or whatever. Forgive me. I'm not familar with this yuku format much. I believe that Grifted's codex explains a good deal of the history of the Board Wars - When EBT splintered off from Survivor Sucks many members continued to post on the Sucks Forum. They also went off and posted on other public forums. Here's where part of the problem came from. Originally EBT was meant to be a place where you could spoil/speculate/submit your ideas about spoiling the show, without getting blasted by flamers and such. Somewhere in there it turned ugly within EBT. I think about the time or shortly after DarkRivers showed up, but not to blame it all on DR. Many were jealous because the EBT had been formed. Jealous that they didn't get in. The admins of EBT and members decided it would be best to admit only those proven to be spoiling seriously. Anyway, the other boards - seems like a bunch of them now, honestly I don't remember all of them, probably only three or four at the time, were all public, except EBT. Feuding broke out. EBT had a source(s). As Snewser has posted about. Anyway the different boards were feuding. Sucks came up with the Outback Fantasy Game. Things got all crazy after that. I think around that time, Sucks switched over to the EZ board. Mr. Slip will know more about that stuff. I wasn't, nor have been, involved in the admin duties of the boards. I was just a lowly foot soldier. With the Fantasy game came more drama then anyone ever expected. One day someone, inside EBT that had membership with Sucks, and probably all the other boards too, can't recall whom at this moment in time, decided it would be funny to post on the EZ board, about the game, spoiler, heck, I don't even remember what it was now. But that stirred the feeding frenzy even more and gave us at EBT/ABT an even worst reputation. If that could be possible. See because of DarkRivers we had a what is said here - meaning EBT - stays here rule. We were trying to protect DR at that time. Why, I'm not completely sure. Something about his job, affliations, I don't remember, but I do remember it was a big deal. But outsiders saw that as us covering up that we were really getting all our info about the show from DR and that we weren't doing anything inside EBT in the way of spoiling. Here's where the EBT'ers began to divide into factions. At the same time members were jumping ship to other boards and some were not sticking to the WSHSH rule. There was a lot of hateful things said back and forth. It didn't help that EBT got in USA Today and on the news media either. So from Planet Sucks to Survivor Sucks to the EBT/ABT and Voted Off and TDT and other boards - the ones I failed to name directly please forgive my failing memory- all are related. Each and all had members from Planet Sucks and those members crossed posted back and forth, if they were allowed - many members got voted off/banned being members on some boards. Others chose not to be members on the other boards. It was a real chaotic time. There are some here that can do a better break down of which boards sprung up from the original survivor sucks board. I almost forgot. It all became a game of one upmanship. EBT would post their "predictions" of the boot each week. These 'predictions' would show up on the Sucks board along with predictions from the public boards. Again, I blame the Fantasy Outback Game on most of this feuding that erupted. There were actual prizes that could be won at the end of the game, so that made it more competive. It also contributed to the nastiness between the boards. So when someone blasted into the EBT about where and how we were getting our 'predictions' - the Nova Scotia feed, etc. Members within the EBT would blast back on Sucks. Soon it got to be that nothing a member of the EBT said was believed. It developed the reputation that the EBT members were just snarking on the other boards. Board Wars. It was sorta hard to stay out of the line of fire. If you were one of the EBT members that was trying to spoil on your own, natually you got your feelings hurt. Like any group or team or organization we had a certain loyalty and pride. At least some did. We also had the back stabbers and the muck rackers too. The trouble makers. They kept things stirred up between the various boards.
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