I mean, I'm not gonna argue Garry doesn't have fuck-you money--he does--but I also observed him firsthand enough back on Facepunch to know that he is indeed a dipshit manchild. Facepunch as a forum died as much from him being unable to run a community of that size as it was the community itself becoming untenable. Garry was very much not a good leader, at least not good enough to wrangle that pit of voles.
honestly garry shouldve just banned political discussion there, i remember people lost their minds in 2014 when crimea happened, and then even moreso in 2016 when trump won the elections
honestly garry shouldve just banned political discussion there, i remember people lost their minds in 2014 when crimea happened, and then even moreso in 2016 when trump won the elections
Part of the appeal of FP is that you had ultra-progressives, moderates, conservatives and even the beginning of the gamergate weeb right all in the same place. Its politics section was a true thunder dome.
Apparently many in the Knockout.chat community disagree with Kier Starmer, even though they are Americans from Arizona or New Jersey, if they dislike his government so much maybe they should look into smuggling rifles and drone bombs into Northern Ireland and Scotland.
I was not prepared for this. What happens in this thread is peak knockout.
In the know viewers might remember this thread from long ago. Apparently, it started showing up in the popular threads section. Of course, this deserved a jokey comment or three:
Fair, so far so good. And now, for the FIRST peak knockout exhibit:
Can't have a Sseth thread without the would be shrieking (with definitely male voices) "harpies" of this forum to pop up and vaguepost about how the calls are STILL coming from inside the house, years of cleanups and purity tests later. And oh, it's thread favourite gimme20dollaz, ex-mod who resigned in disgrace after banning even more disgraced ex-mod Joker/Rose. I wonder what he snipped in disgrace. Considering how few people had the gall to actually leave a negative rating...
Thankfully, someone wrote a takedown so large that nobody could NOT leave a positive rating. Ah, right. IH and Sseth write jokes I don't like, so they're nazi chuds.
(I must remind people that IH, on previous threads, was judged for his henious crimes of... *shuffles papers* plagiarism, lifting content and presentation for his scripts - let's ignore that most of his work is pacing and the visual presentation, but I will concede that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if he disclosed where he sourced his scripts.)
Oh well, nazi chud, and how do we even know he's really jewish? It doesn't pass the Gimmy vibe check, which after 30 years as midwestener from the US, had more than enough time to calibrate his goy monitor and can sniff out merchants from across the screen.
anyway someone remembers that's not very cool and that it's obvious where his bias is, and that ironically he might be the nazi chud instead asking for jewish people to identify themselves. Maybe a item of clothing of some kind?
This isn't Gimmy's first struggle session. He knows what is expected of him. He's watched the Logan Paul apology videos and knows exactly the words he needs to say.
And in a moment of sudden clarity, maybe after realizing that "maybe knockout is in fact a toxic place", a post I have NO IDEA how didn't cop a ban, or how people agreed so heavily, considering what happens next. Yes, this thread kept delivering. And still is, as a matter of fact!
But it's fine. Gimmy has seen around from both sides of the janny line. All he has to do is to cry the right crocodile tears.
And it's fine! You've been a mod before! Of COURSE you're still looking out for secret hitler. Just knockout janny things, you know?
Well, it takes just 8 posts for ALSO thread favourite The Pink Panzer/Lonely Knightress, of the HOI the new order nazi mod fame (but just the part up until people started getting jobs off it, which I feel should always be brought up as context), and definitely favourite member of the mod team and friend of the forums, drops this bomb, in the midst of "so wait do we hate sseth now?" discussion:
At this point, dear viewer, you might remember how this thread favourite has been introduced, and that you might be aware of a number of skeletons in maybe self-immolating closets, and maybe that this particular person should steer clear of "building nazi-free communities" discussions, but knockout is a place where people KNOW the pecking order. And Panzer knows it too, he must revel in it. So his arrogance continues with this gem:
Again, let me reiterate. This is Pink Panzer, person of interest to the TNO/HOI4 modding thread, as original creator and former lead developer of "The New Order: Last Days of Europe". You know, the nazi mod. This does not go unnoticed:
Somehow, this defense doesn't really work, and we get a special reference to this very website!
Turns out Panzer was interviewed by kiwifarms, which of course broke A LOT OF PEOPLE mentally. The sheer power this panzer dude has over his inferiors projects makes the chuddiest of chuds bow in shame.
Of course, this is IMMEDIATELY followed by janny intervention, where Janeway and Panzer get immediately banned for 2 days, followed by an "unsubstantiated claims" warning with the worst possible example ever, as it doesn't take much (probably a county investigation) to figure out where Scorpious has buried the bodies.
Discussion continues on wether banning people without providing proof isn't, you know, guilty before proven innocent (he should've linked the evidence they say, "We can't let users say incredibly outrageous things" when THIS specific user does nothing but post incredibly outrageous things, but shhh, there's no such thing as mod favourites). But it's fine. Hours later, the mods have this to say:
"relatedly but NOT SOLELY". I thought you're supposed to say the quiet part quiet, or not at all. Jannies used to be competent at hiding what's going on. Anyway, we have head troon here to remind everyone how very serious kiwifarms is and that many people got hurt and that everyone needs to touch grass, and more importantly, LET THIS GO.
That and a long 1 month ban really sends the message, but here guys&gals, let's forget this horrible incident by sopranos posting! THE FUN IS MANDATORY. DO NOT PONDER WHAT HAPPENED HERE. JUST A LIL' SILLYINESS.
Anyway, I think this last post sums it up very well, and I'm hoping that the mods pay good attention to whoever rates this positively and keeps them under tight watch.
Between these constant struggle sessions, the constant suicide baiters in the fluff threads, the petty mod team that ganged up on an incredibly successful Walsall video game developer and job creator, the trans cycles of "joy and validation!" where everyone happily larps, followed by inevitable "my life has fucking crumbled and I am on the street im going to fucking kill myself" posts, which get you a "protective" mute (it causes the mods harm to deal with suicidal ideation - it triggers their own, you know?), I can't help but agree.
God bless you, knockout. May the rat king grow infinite, and its members lost forever. (and bless you, random internet anon, for somehow inflating the "reading now" count of a sseth thread - that's really ALL it takes)
The first post is by PinkPanzer, who founded the The New Order Last Days of Europe Hoi4 mod.
It's directly responsible for the surge of memes about esotericism and Dirlewanger to name a few. It basically revived the popularity of national socialism arguable.
Hence it's very ironic for him to say this and it might have been why he was hit with a ban.
Fun fact, he used to be a neo-nazi. Then he became a vaushite, and then he became a transvestite. Nietzsche wept.
ThePinkPanzer is truly an incredible case. I used to mod HOI4 a lot more often than I do now and I looked up to him back before he dropped TNO and now I see that he's pretty much in the exact same space where he was when he started out with TNO: Being a facepunch/knockout ancientfag. Panzer, if you see this, DM me so we can go hiking in the wilderness and we can discover a new path in life for us.
ThePinkPanzer is truly an incredible case. I used to mod HOI4 a lot more often than I do now and I looked up to him back before he dropped TNO and now I see that he's pretty much in the exact same space where he was when he started out with TNO: Being a facepunch/knockout ancientfag. Panzer, if you see this, DM me so we can go hiking in the wilderness and we can discover a new path in life for us.
The sheer shitting desperation to cover up their own histories and pretend they never were who they were, lest they be judged by the other Fair Folk and cast back down into the chud pits. I've said this before and I'll say it again: try as they might to wash the proverbial blood from their hands, it's unwashable. But you can just smell the sheer stench of fear whenever their underlying true selves are in danger of being unearthed. Though that could just be from their lack of showering or Ringtail's disgusting fetish.
It's pretty fascinating ngl. They fight over the pettiest shit ever to a point where it makes me physically fatigued at the thought of how miserable that community is.
This should be a case study on deranged far leftists... they can't even properly moderate a "gaming and lifestyle" community.