QDB II: #452

#452 - March 18 2007 04:25:00. <Hwin> I've been dumped more than once. <Locke> not I <Hwin> I don't do dumping. <Locke> My only dumping is the stuff of legends <Locke> LEGENDS, man <Hwin> uhuh. <Locke> It happened on IRC, in front of eighty people, in a very active chatroom <Hwin> Oh my. <Locke> It was epic <Hwin> do tell <Locke> Hell, Andross was there <khmer> wait, you had a breakup on irc? <khmer> that's worse than getting married in a MUD <khmer> or losing your virginity to a night elf <Locke> The year was 2003, I was under the employ of Tim Buckley, the guy who draws the comic Ctrl+Alt+Del. I wrote reviews, news posts, and other such things for him, as well as helping out as an op in his IRC chat. <Locke> Oh it gets worse <Hwin> uhuh? <Locke> In my meat life, I had been romantically interested in a girl named Reggie for some time. There were two inherent problems though, one, she was ostensibly a lesbian, and two, she was not single. <Locke> I developed a plan, known as Operation: Tooth Fairy (Her boyfriend was missing a tooth) to remove the interloper and insert myself in his place <Locke> Notice I said "ostensibly" because thats what she told everyone <Hwin> uhuh. <Locke> however at this time she had a boyfriend which pissed me off to no end because If all it took was some shlub to ask her out, why the fuck didn't I think of that. <Locke> Anyway, months go on, I detail my progress in blogs on the CAD website and on the IRC chat <Locke> people thought it was pretty funny <Locke> Eventually, I succeed in breaking them up, and invite her to see a movie with me <Locke> I forget the movie we saw in the theaters, though there was one. <Locke> We ended up renting the movie Adaptation afterwards, however, and going back to my place to watch it, where no more than thirty minutes went by before vicious makeouts were underway <Locke> Skip three months, Its August, and I've been away on vacation in North Carolina, away from the internets. <Hwin> ooo. <Hwin> aaah. <Locke> Since this time, Reggie, being something of a geek herself, had made her way onto my chatroom <Locke> she had a legion of fanboys who were slavering over her, which made me feel pretty hot shit <Hwin> uhuh. <Locke> Anyway, I get back and she's not online, but people ARE talking about her <Locke> And how they think her girlfriend is hot. <Locke> I double take <Locke> "Wait, girlfriend?" <Locke> The denizens of the chat apparently did not know that I had not been informed of her decision to dump me and go slut it up with a girl from her photography class. The dreaded Ruth. <Hwin> oh boy. <Locke> I get niiiice and pissed off because I've been away for a week and my throne has been USURPED <Locke> not only that, but everyone in MY CHATROOM knew about it <Hwin> oh boy. <Locke> So I wait for her to show up, and I'm cordial for a couple of minutes until I ban her, and we start arguing in the linux support channel instead <Locke> I get overruled, she gets unbanned, I get angrier <Locke> The chatroom is divided into two factions <Hwin> heh <Locke> the old-guard, minus three ops, they want her to get the fuck out <Locke> Then the fanboys, they want ME to get the fuck out <Locke> What followed was the most vicious, cruel, and scathing three-way flamewar that has ever happened <Hwin> oh fun fun. <Locke> Me, Reggie, and an Oper who was pissed off at me. <Locke> The fallout was tremendous, I was so battle-scarred from the whole ordeal that I legitimately left IRC for one year <Locke> She left IRC presumably forever, even after our differences had been settled some 18 months later <Locke> many ops were lost in the resulting chaos as both sides continued to fight without us <khmer> this is like the goddamn irc iliad <Locke> an entire network crumbled and splintered largely as a result of it, first giving birth to AfterX, then CADNet, which I ultimately returned to and destroyed it during the RoMocaust <Hwin> hmm <khmer> Sing, oh ChanServ, of the netsplits <Locke> It exists now as a shell of what it once was and there is no longer any official CAD IRC <Locke> the RoMocaust was the second, and some would say bigger dramabomb of that world <Locke> in which Tim Buckley seriously loses his shit and I egg him on to settle several scores at once <Locke> as I could crush the fanboys who stood against me, destroy the network that fucked everything up, and humiliate Tim all at once Comment: #qc

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