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**LeftEyeNine** · 10-04-2005, 16:25

Serious progress, huh ?

**Templar Knight** · 10-04-2005, 16:55

Where’s clayton? Who cares

Although his threats made me laugh, especially when I confronted him over copyrighted material.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-04-2005, 18:33

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

"GAH!"s, "..Yes Right Now!"s and one piece of Clayton..

This forum is really growing into an effective subculture...

All forums have their little cultures, unique to them. Look at the .Org, as well as GAH and all that, the culture is different in the fact that if you ignore the backroom, this place is quite laid back and nice, compared to most other places where everyone screams at each other and can barely spell.

OMGZ!! tht iz so nt tru!! u lozer!! LOL!! Batle Mage r bttr!!

**Mongoose** · 10-04-2005, 19:22

omgz u n00b da otr forem r n0t ovelee agreesiive u n00!!!1!!!11!!!

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-04-2005, 19:30

Originally Posted by mongoose

omgz u n00b da otr forem r n0t ovelee agreesiive u n00!!!1!!!11!!!

ZOMFG!1!!!1! u didnt jst sy tht, u n00b!!1! u hax0rz!! i kll u!! im so totlly beter thn u, n00b!!!111oneone!!

**Geoffrey S** · 10-04-2005, 19:49

Excuse me? *cough* I mean, GAH!!!

**AntiochusIII** · 10-04-2005, 22:35

Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar

All forums have their little cultures, unique to them. Look at the .Org, as well as GAH and all that, the culture is different in the fact that if you ignore the backroom, this place is quite laid back and nice, compared to most other places where everyone screams at each other and can barely spell.

Exactly. Even the Backroom is actually much less violent than many others, simply because all the arguing (erm...battling...or...warring?) sides are just, in the end, internet "friends" with each other. The .org also profits from its "potential" membership simply on the fact that this is the fansite (a prime one, nonetheless) for Total War series. That means strategy game lovers are potential members, and, at least, if you know and like strategy you should be able to type something more coherent than that cursed "leet" (right?) language, which I presume is the ancient one used before the Tower of Babel was built.

Some other fandoms, either they are more diverse or whatever, had many potential "forum members" with, all due respect, whiny fanboys/girls who couldn't put together a coherent post. And fansite forums of such fandoms suffered as a result. One of that I'd say (from experience) is the anime fandom. Too many absolutely baka people, kids or adults, seriously, and probably even worse than Clayton in behavior. Not everyone of course, but of larger proportional than the .org's members.

**Byzantine Prince** · 10-05-2005, 01:08

Great post AntiochusIII!

I think you have good insight, I often find myself fully agreeing with you. I also understand what you mean by baka people on anime forums and l77t people in Counter Strike. They cannot make a decent post if their life depended on it.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 10-05-2005, 01:32

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Today I was out for some business to sort out and had to cross a crowded road at some point. I walked towards where I knew was a traffic lamp just to see that they removed it to some three hundred metres away. I had to walk backwards to the next one fifty metres to the opposite direction. Suddenly I heard someone screaming "GAH!", who was indeed noone but me.

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**Kaiser of Arabia** · 10-05-2005, 02:19

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

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Today I was out for some business to sort out and had to cross a crowded road at some point. I walked towards where I knew was a traffic lamp just to see that they removed it to some three hundred metres away. I had to walk backwards to the next one fifty metres to the opposite direction. Suddenly I heard someone screaming "GAH!", who was indeed noone but me.

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I've used gah as part of a speech in school on several occasions, to the usual "what in the name of all things [censored for good of humanity] is GAH?"

I also signed yearbooks when I was in 8th Grade as, "GAH! CUT OFF HEADS! MAKE HEAD SOUP! GAH!" [part of a much longer, more compassionate note].

**AntiochusIII** · 10-06-2005, 00:40

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

Great post AntiochusIII!

I think you have good insight, I often find myself fully agreeing with you. I also understand what you mean by baka people on anime forums and l77t people in Counter Strike. They cannot make a decent post if their life depended on it.

Thank you.

Hmm, seeing your name and I think about Nietzshe. (Unintentional connection :?) May be I should start reading him? Yes, I should, actually. His name, his many quotes, and the "mystic" that comes with these, if used skillfully by a skilled speaker, could be useful in the debate tournaments I'm starting to have now. And whatever real understanding I get from his writings only boost the benefit.

My observations of the anime fandom seems to make it look like there are several types of anime fans, such as:
1) "133t /\/3\/\/b135" (direct translation: leet newbies--see the connection?), in other words, the ones I don't hate, but disdain. The "whiny fan[boys/girls]" and "ignorant noobs" are created specifically for them.
2) Passionate, even downright trolling, jaded fans. Many of them are, of course, knowledgable, but, oh for the love of GAH, I hate them and their attitudes.
3) Casual fans, diverse in behavior and level of interests, but share one thing in common: being uncommon.

However, I do find my use in the leet language. The "lol" "ROFL" "OMFG" (F is the key

) and "BTW" are useful abbreviations in my humble opinion. Oh yes, and IMO, too. Though excessive use is painful, the "lol" comment I find most useful in certain situations, when I have a desire to express my urge to laugh in text form. It seems a natural process for me, though any other "degradation" and I'll be doomed.

GAH also fits in this category. I find it a very useful expression in replacement of "God!", since I hate using "Gosh!" as most others use.

For what little I know, this rampant internet corruption was first created by the necessity to use abbreviations in text messages, most likely on cellphones, when, not really too long ago, there was a low limit on the amount of text in each message.

Anyway, I'm going too far OT (Off Topic) here.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 10-06-2005, 03:28

Leet has been around pretty much as long as there have been internet games iirc. At least simple ones like gl hf, were around when I played Starcraft online (good luck have fun, before text cellphones from around when it came out until sometime in 2002-2003). I think it just came about because of the necessity (at times, though not always...) to say something quickly in a fast paced game.