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He claimed to have a wife, though no independent confirmation of that. He also claimed to live in a beach front house in the Bahamas. And to be a software development contractor who worked on game NPC AI. And that he was Irish Traveller. Among many things.

Something always seemed a bit Off about him and it felt like bullshit to me, at least to some degree, but I have a healthy skepticism about people embellishing their stories .
 
MindyMin said:
He claimed to have a wife, though no independent confirmation of that. He also claimed to live in a beach front house in the Bahamas. And to be a software development contractor who worked on game NPC AI. And that he was Irish Traveller. Among many things.
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Was Gus actually a fisherman or was just a joke about how he looked? And didn't he allegedly work on some PC game which Zero Punctuation trashed that kept him perpetually salty at Yahtzee afterwards (much to the chagrin of the internet reviewer-loving troper base)?
 
Save the Loli said:
Was Gus actually a fisherman or was just a joke about how he looked? And didn't he allegedly work on some PC game which Zero Punctuation trashed that kept him perpetually salty at Yahtzee afterwards (much to the chagrin of the internet reviewer-loving troper base)?
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I thought Gus was the third founder who died? If he existed, anyway. Eddie, Gus and Janitor were the three alleged founders.

I remember that saltiness, it was funny as all hell.
 
Save the Loli said:
Was Gus actually a fisherman or was just a joke about how he looked?
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Have you ever heard of a fisherman who lives in a trailer park?

Save the Loli said:
And didn't he allegedly work on some PC game which Zero Punctuation trashed that kept him perpetually salty at Yahtzee afterwards (much to the chagrin of the internet reviewer-loving troper base)?
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People actually checked the credits of the game. The answer is no.

MindyMin said:
I thought Gus was the third founder who died?
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Gus is Fast Eddie's real name. Fast Eddie lies a lot, at one point he even claimed to be from MIT (while the non-existent co-founder Janitor is a PhD student in Cambridge University, UK.)
 
Uncanny Valley said:
They're all sockpuppets.
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I suspect that's why he disappeared not too long after he got doxed.

All the lies he had told over the years came unraveled, and since everyone knew who he really was, something he worked hard to conceal, he didn't have the stomach to face the world since it know knew who he was down to his trailer park address.

I do remember he viciously denied trying to bury evidence of whitewashing of his own bullshit on Wikipedia and was pretty mad when I reported him for it.
 
GethN7 said:
I suspect that's why he disappeared not too long after he got doxed.

All the lies he had told over the years came unraveled, and since everyone knew who he really was, something he worked hard to conceal, he didn't have the stomach to face the world since it know knew who he was down to his trailer park address.

I do remember he viciously denied trying to bury evidence of whitewashing of his own bullshit on Wikipedia and was pretty mad when I reported him for it.
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Like I said, this is someone old enough to be the average user's fucking grandfather.
 
GethN7 said:
I suspect that's why he disappeared not too long after he got doxed.

All the lies he had told over the years came unraveled, and since everyone knew who he really was, something he worked hard to conceal, he didn't have the stomach to face the world since it know knew who he was down to his trailer park address.

I do remember he viciously denied trying to bury evidence of whitewashing of his own bullshit on Wikipedia and was pretty mad when I reported him for it.
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Pretty much. IMHO save your creativity for your fucking fiction, not your life story.
 
Aww man that's kinda sad. TV tropes seemed like it started out as a fun and nerdy hobby, I guess once your finances depend on your hobby it takes some fun out of it. Being a compulsive liar always catches up to you eventually though.
 
GethN7 said:
All the lies he had told over the years came unraveled, and since everyone knew who he really was, something he worked hard to conceal, he didn't have the stomach to face the world since it know knew who he was down to his trailer park address.
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Didn't everyone already know he was full of bullshit well before that, though?
 
AnOminous said:
Didn't everyone already know he was full of bullshit well before that, though?
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I'm not sure about everybody, but many did think some things about it sounded suspicious. That it was ALL bullshit rather than part bullshit was surprising to many though.

Guy also had the weirdest ideas of how to run a site and handle users. It took forever for ANYONE to have mod powers who wasn't him, and even then they weren't handed the bigger tools like banning. He preferred instead of banning things to try to create new spaces for the bad stuff to get it off the main pages to ghettoize the worst sperging, but it would generally have just been easier to never have Troper Tales or Fetish Fuel namespaces.

Also he was the world's most terrible coder when it came to stuff for the site. Like for a long time the login cookie stored your password as plaintext and transmitted it as plaintext across regular, unencrypted HTTP ...
 
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsFiskCrimeRing

Are you kidding me? Wilson fisk, a murderous sociopath and the main villain of Netflix's Daredevil is based off Donald Trump because they both live in a penthouse?
 
darkhorse816 said:
In this one about Drawn Together, the person ranting doesn't really get that the characters are actually supposed to be parodies of reality TV show cliches along with being parodies of cartoons. Hell, Clara actually does stuff that a Disney Princess does do, like her singing magically summoning animals.

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I know, late reply again, but they seem to have a HUGE hate boner for Drawn Together
 
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