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| Iron D 1744th Post
 
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|  "This may sound weird, but...."
, posted Fri 17 May 20:53
...do you guys really exist? Okay, maybe it sounds more stupid than weird, but I've been thinking, and it's just that it's kind of hard to acknowledge the fact that everyone I've met on this board is...well...real.
I mean, right now, there's a guy in Spain, who has named himself after a job class in FF Tactics, that is reading what I'm typing. That's a whole half a world away!
There's a guy in Hawaii, who is getting fed up with all the Bao bashing that's going on.
There's an Englishman that named himself after a popular KoF and CvS boss, that, although he lives pretty far away, is still in a way in the same place that I am.
I've spoken with a guy who has a taste for tuna that's made of cat. I've spoken with a Kunio and Art of Fighting expert from Chile. or how about the Cammy fan from Albequerque? the Canadian that loves uber "kawaii" characters? Or the Canadian that loves Shadow the Hedgehog as much as I do (almost...just kidding ^_^).
I've been called a spoony bard from a sword, been in agreement with a Mexican guy who has named himself after an uber powerful comic book villain, and have been in a fictional battle with a guy from San Diego who sicked Ramon on me and had me tiger slammed (that was actually on another board, but still...).
And whose behind it all? A guy that goes by the name of Moriarty, who maintains this place as he sits behind a computer somewhere in Japan.
It'a real trip when you think about it. But I know one thing...I'm really enjoying it.
Oh and on a side note, no, I am not making this post while high or drunk.^_^
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| Professor 1557th Post
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| "Bingo, Everybody is a puppet." , posted Sat 18 May 10:12:
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...do you guys really exist? Okay, maybe it sounds more stupid than weird, but I've been thinking, and it's just that it's kind of hard to acknowledge the fact that everyone I've met on this board is...well...real.
We are all the products of the mind of the Madman... Don't you agree Professor...
Yes. I am actually acting out aaaaaall the people on this BBS, aside from Taa Kun and IronD who just realized it. And for only $24.95, you too can check the rest of the plot in the thrilling BBS sequel, The Secret of Madman's Cafe III- LeProf's Revenge!!
Oui, of curse I'm real! Same with everyone else, I hope.
I'm a lot *less* Mad on the internet than in real life, though.
I stained my hand with your butt!
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| Dr Baghead 914th Post
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| "Re(1):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 11:24
quote:
...do you guys really exist? Okay, maybe it sounds more stupid than weird, but I've been thinking, and it's just that it's kind of hard to acknowledge the fact that everyone I've met on this board is...well...real.
I mean, right now, there's a guy in Spain, who has named himself after a job class in FF Tactics, that is reading what I'm typing. That's a whole half a world away!
There's a guy in Hawaii, who is getting fed up with all the Bao bashing that's going on.
There's an Englishman that named himself after a popular KoF and CvS boss, that, although he lives pretty far away, is still in a way in the same place that I am.
I've spoken with a guy who has a taste for tuna that's made of cat. I've spoken with a Kunio and Art of Fighting expert from Chile. or how about the Cammy fan from Albequerque? the Canadian that loves uber "kawaii" characters? Or the Canadian that loves Shadow the Hedgehog as much as I do (almost...just kidding ^_^).
I've been called a spoony bard from a sword, been in agreement with a Mexican guy who has named himself after an uber powerful comic book villain, and have been in a fictional battle with a guy from San Diego who sicked Ramon on me and had me tiger slammed (that was actually on another board, but still...).
And whose behind it all? A guy that goes by the name of Moriarty, who maintains this place as he sits behind a computer somewhere in Japan.
It'a real trip when you think about it. But I know one thing...I'm really enjoying it.
Oh and on a side note, no, I am not making this post while high or drunk.^_^
You think that's weird? I've got a theory... what if some people have no "souls" they're just comsic puppets used as extras in the great play known as life?
Maybe this hasn't happened to you but... in High School didn't teachers always avoid calling on certain people? For the sake of the example I'll make broad generaliztions... the teacher tended to call on 'populars', 'trouble makers', and 'outcast'(me!)... yet some people in the class NEVER got called on. The teacher would never force them to talk and to the best of my knownledge I never saw them talking outside of class...
What if those people are just 'puppets'? You know like in Daria how in the background of the class rooms there's that girl with Charlie's haircut [looks like this (/_^ ] she never said anything, she never did anything she was just there to make the class look full... what if a greater cosmic force has created people to have the same role in real life? Those people on the Bus, the kids in the playground you walk past, the old homeless man... all are just puppets there to make your world seem less grey!!!
I'm not saying "the whole world is fake, only I exist" type deal... the people you talk to, the people you know and love, the ones you co-exist with daily... I have no doubt they have souls... it's just the random people walking around, how can I be sure they really exist and aren't just filler?
I'd wager the same is true on the board... has anyone else a lot of new names show up but the first time you notice the name it has like 30-40 post? How does it happen? Was I not paying attention for 30-40 post?... Or was Professor Henry "the Madman" Moriarty playing God!!! creating vile creatures out of week old cat tuna and mashed potatoes to make his grand message board seem even more alive! Alive with the vile stench of false humanities and abminations of the cosmic plan!!!!!!!!....
I probably wasn't paying attention though, I'm pretty sure every here is real...
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| justicekyo
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| "Re(1):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 11:39
quote:
...do you guys really exist? Okay, maybe it sounds more stupid than weird, but I've been thinking, and it's just that it's kind of hard to acknowledge the fact that everyone I've met on this board is...well...real.
I mean, right now, there's a guy in Spain, who has named himself after a job class in FF Tactics, that is reading what I'm typing. That's a whole half a world away!
There's a guy in Hawaii, who is getting fed up with all the Bao bashing that's going on.
There's an Englishman that named himself after a popular KoF and CvS boss, that, although he lives pretty far away, is still in a way in the same place that I am.
I've spoken with a guy who has a taste for tuna that's made of cat. I've spoken with a Kunio and Art of Fighting expert from Chile. or how about the Cammy fan from Albequerque? the Canadian that loves uber "kawaii" characters? Or the Canadian that loves Shadow the Hedgehog as much as I do (almost...just kidding ^_^).
I've been called a spoony bard from a sword, been in agreement with a Mexican guy who has named himself after an uber powerful comic book villain, and have been in a fictional battle with a guy from San Diego who sicked Ramon on me and had me tiger slammed (that was actually on another board, but still...).
And whose behind it all? A guy that goes by the name of Moriarty, who maintains this place as he sits behind a computer somewhere in Japan.
It'a real trip when you think about it. But I know one thing...I'm really enjoying it.
Oh and on a side note, no, I am not making this post while high or drunk.^_^
i'm as real as....... anyone else here..
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| Dr Baghead 915th Post
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| "Re(3):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 11:56
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I think that everyone has a back story. I sometimes stop and talk to people I see around. I often walk through town when the sun is just leaking over the top of the buildings and everything's quiet and talk to some Big Issue sellers. I sit next to people on the bus and talk to them. In fact, I reckon that the peripheral characters are the most interesting lot of all.
and what about those you don't talk to? You can't talk to everyone! Like I said, those you talk to have souls...when you sit to talk to someone, how do you know the 5 people who dash past you have a story? a soul?
example: In a movie Bruce Willis blows up 5 thugs and ask one "Were's your boss!I've a bone to pick with him!" and the thug says "I'll tell you! Just dont kill me!!! I have a wife and kids!!! Don't kill me!".... see, out of those 6, only one has a 'backstory', did the 5 dead ones have one? we may never know... the dead ones were needless, empty shells in the greater plot of the movie...
while you're talking to some hearing their interesting stoy about how they went fishing and saw a whale, you can't be talking to the people walking about behind you, the ones who make a city look alive... unless you systematically talk to eveyone in you ever see in your life you cant be sure they're "real"
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| Tashoku Kisune 761th Post
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| "Don't for get me!" , posted Sat 18 May 12:02
quote:
...do you guys really exist? Okay, maybe it sounds more stupid than weird, but I've been thinking, and it's just that it's kind of hard to acknowledge the fact that everyone I've met on this board is...well...real.
I mean, right now, there's a guy in Spain, who has named himself after a job class in FF Tactics, that is reading what I'm typing. That's a whole half a world away!
There's a guy in Hawaii, who is getting fed up with all the Bao bashing that's going on.
There's an Englishman that named himself after a popular KoF and CvS boss, that, although he lives pretty far away, is still in a way in the same place that I am.
I've spoken with a guy who has a taste for tuna that's made of cat. I've spoken with a Kunio and Art of Fighting expert from Chile. or how about the Cammy fan from Albequerque? the Canadian that loves uber "kawaii" characters? Or the Canadian that loves Shadow the Hedgehog as much as I do (almost...just kidding ^_^).
I've been called a spoony bard from a sword, been in agreement with a Mexican guy who has named himself after an uber powerful comic book villain, and have been in a fictional battle with a guy from San Diego who sicked Ramon on me and had me tiger slammed (that was actually on another board, but still...).
And whose behind it all? A guy that goes by the name of Moriarty, who maintains this place as he sits behind a computer somewhere in Japan.
It'a real trip when you think about it. But I know one thing...I'm really enjoying it.
Oh and on a side note, no, I am not making this post while high or drunk.^_^
Hey! I exsist.. the strange artist chick! ^_^ Don't for get me yet!!!
It really is a trip being on this board. Everyone here is amazingly nice.. ^_~ Especially to the Mistress. Whoo! Tally, Rid, Freet, and Justice! ^_~ And let's not forget Naruto and the others... It's truely a bizzare place that would make it a running gag to call someone Mistress or lady. ^_~ But boy oh boy is it hilarious... ^_^
So this place is great.
As for exsisting... I'd hope that everyone does. I'd hate to think that computers are just talking on their own. I mean.. that'd be cool... but it would only confirm my own suspiscion that my computer is posessed by Satan. o_O
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| Nifty Lifty
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| "Re(4):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 12:58
It's an intersting theory, but when I look around at everyone in a busy station or town centre, I can see the humanity behind them, what makes them tick. In homoeopathy, you look at people in different categories, named after types of flowers, and everyone fits in to one of them. Who knows, it could always be a totally fake sense of humanity but unless you wake up one day and find yourself lying on a lab table with a cable stuck in the back of your head and two scientists telling you that all your memories have been programmed, how are we ever going to be able to say?
Y'know what I mean?
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| ChunliFan
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| "Re(5):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 13:13
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It's an intersting theory, but when I look around at everyone in a busy station or town centre, I can see the humanity behind them, what makes them tick. In homoeopathy, you look at people in different categories, named after types of flowers, and everyone fits in to one of them. Who knows, it could always be a totally fake sense of humanity but unless you wake up one day and find yourself lying on a lab table with a cable stuck in the back of your head and two scientists telling you that all your memories have been programmed, how are we ever going to be able to say?
Wait let me make sure I exsist (looking down at himself). Yeap I exsist, and Im a ChunLi fanatic (fan for short).
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| Dr Baghead 920th Post
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| "Re(5):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sat 18 May 17:09:
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It's an intersting theory, but when I look around at everyone in a busy station or town centre, I can see the humanity behind them, what makes them tick. In homoeopathy, you look at people in different categories, named after types of flowers, and everyone fits in to one of them. Who knows, it could always be a totally fake sense of humanity but unless you wake up one day and find yourself lying on a lab table with a cable stuck in the back of your head and two scientists telling you that all your memories have been programmed, how are we ever going to be able to say?
When I walk through the city I do not sense the humanity... it's dark in the city, the buildings block the sun, it's all shadey and cold... There are occational blips of 'humanity', a man sings one of the few sunny street corners because he enjoys it, a nice Jamacian couple stopped to talk to me to see if they were right in assuming I was half-Chinese... but these are far and few when compared to the hundreds if not thousands who march through the city daily, no one talks no one makes eye contacted...
Maybe you live in the real world, were people exist and the sun shines. And maybe soon I will wake and be told my whole world was just a dream created in a computer by those two scientist... or maybe not, we'll never know....
[my post in this thread are like EVA only without the robots!]
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| DKW
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| "Re(2):This may sound weird, but...." , posted Sun 19 May 19:21
Yes, I exist.
Yes, that is my actual picture in the Bio section on my website. (And of course, it's my actual website.) It's a little old, but it's the real deal.
Yes, all that material on my website is my own.
Yes, I do find the endless Bao bashing annoying. Same deal with Raiden (n.b.: avatar), who's actually one of my favorites in CvS2. I don't give a crap about "appropriateness". I want someone I can win with.
And yes, not only do I honestly believe that KOF '98 was an actual tournament, I fail to see how anyone could not. (All the signs are there. See for yourself.)
In the end, we are all minority opinions. The only question is how willing we are to speak out on them.
homepage - http://home.hawaii.rr.com/dkwff
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 374th Post
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|  "ARGH BAGHEAD"
, posted Sun 19 May 21:51
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[my post in this thread are like EVA only without the robots!]
man baghead, your posts are freaking me out
SNAP OUT OF IT REI!!
--i mean, uh, baghead
hehe seriously, you're thinking way too much, man. no one's really an "empty shell" or a "puppet." i'm sure there's enough souls out there to fill all the "shells" (eh, bodies) on earth. if you stopped a random person on the street, someone you'd normally think of as a "puppet," just talk to them. you'll find out that they all have stories behind them. they're not just there so you have something to look at as you walk by
of course, i don't recommend this. a lot of people out there are annoying o_O very annoying. i especially learned this from college. when i first attended college, random people would come up to me just to talk. at first i didn't mind .. but when a creepy girl that you just met starts hitting you for writing the wrong answer on your paper, it makes you wonder (it also makes you wanna change seats)
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| Dr Baghead 921th Post
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| "Re(1):ARGH BAGHEAD" , posted Mon 20 May 09:59
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man baghead, your posts are freaking me out
SNAP OUT OF IT REI!!
--i mean, uh, baghead
Rei? -_- and here I was aiming so hard to be Shinji (fun fact: my Senior quote was "I must not run away, I must not run away, I must not run away"... it scaried so many people and those who got it thought I was insane)
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hehe seriously, you're thinking way too much, man. no one's really an "empty shell" or a "puppet." i'm sure there's enough souls out there to fill all the "shells" (eh, bodies) on earth. if you stopped a random person on the street, someone you'd normally think of as a "puppet," just talk to them. you'll find out that they all have stories behind them. they're not just there so you have something to look at as you walk by
of course, i don't recommend this. a lot of people out there are annoying o_O very annoying. i especially learned this from college. when i first attended college, random people would come up to me just to talk. at first i didn't mind .. but when a creepy girl that you just met starts hitting you for writing the wrong answer on your paper, it makes you wonder (it also makes you wanna change seats)
You know in magic shows... how sometimes the magician pulls up a "totally random audience member" put really they're a shill carefully placed to make it seem as if the magician is using a real person?
How can we be sure this is not true with real life? My college is located in several buliding all near major tourist/business hubs (fianical district, Pier 39, China Town, the theater district, ect.) on average when I wait at a stop light there are 10 people there with me, not counting the 5 who dash across on red to "save time".... now let's say I stop and talk to one of these people... 14 others could very well have no soul and I'd never know... fun story...
A random guy I thought was a "shell" approached me... he was high, drunk, or stupid or something... he ran a red light then came up to me and said "hey you know why I crossed like that? because it makes drivers drive better because I just got my license and you know most people they just take a test and fill out a form and get there's but I have to drive a what do you call it a stickshift I like it because it's more lile a race care and I had to learn that and most people just drive automatics so they don't really know how to drive or drive carefully so I like to keep them on their toes got any change? no? well I didn't mean to ask you for money sorry" [and yes he spoke with that kind of grammar]
as I stood there afraid this crazy was going to murder me to wear my face as a "keep drivers on their toes" mask, at least 25 people walked by, people I've never seen or heard of before, so for one confirmed "non-shell" there were 25 I'll never know for sure.
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