origins

[19:56] <rip_artic> since we recently got over some drama
[19:56] <rip_artic> ill tell you guys some shit that happened to me in the past
[19:57] <rip_artic> my debut on the social side of internet began with sonic you all know this
[19:57] <rip_artic> i didnt speak almost fluent english back then
[19:57] <rip_artic> so i would often lurk around italian forums
[19:58] <rip_artic> there was some little corner called world of sonic
[19:58] <rip_artic> yknow the usual 13yo scrub who only goes around just to ask
[19:58] <rip_artic> "hey man where i can find a good dreamcast emulator and a SA2 iso thx"
[19:58] <@Hologram_SK> pfft
[19:59] <rip_artic> cause before forums the first thing i ever did upon discovering emulators
[19:59] <rip_artic> was putting in snes9x and a translated rom of chrono trigger
[19:59] <Choja> if you don't own the game, delete it after 24 hours
[19:59] <rip_artic> exactly
[19:59] <Choja> wwww who listened to those rules
[19:59] <Rennac_> w
[19:59] <Choja> hipsters
[19:59] <rip_artic> oh man
[19:59] <rip_artic> remember those websites that would gather videogame covers
[20:00] <rip_artic> like cdcover.cc
[20:00] <rip_artic> my hdd was so clogged up with them that my dad's only excuse to remove them was "they will arrest you if you keep at it"
[20:00] <rip_artic> back on track
[20:01] <@Hologram_SK> lol
[20:01] <rip_artic> eventually i just start hanging around these people
[20:01] <rip_artic> and they're pretty cool and all that
[20:01] <rip_artic> and eventually i find that they're only a smaller part of a way bigger community
[20:01] <rip_artic> basically the italian sonic's community mainframe was at that time
[20:01] <rip_artic> the sonic channel
[20:02] <rip_artic> later renamed in sonic italia
[20:02] <rip_artic> there were like a fuckton of people metting irl every year (at least 60+ people)
[20:02] <rip_artic> eventually the big guys split over
[20:02] <rip_artic> and one of them created sonic dream
[20:03] <rip_artic> i ended up there, and the people were really cool too
[20:03] <rip_artic> it was hard approaching them to a personal level
[20:03] <rip_artic> mostly because
[20:03] <rip_artic> just like me
[20:03] <rip_artic> they seem to take stuff on a really really personal level
[20:03] <rip_artic> if like one person leaves hell breaks loose
[20:03] <rip_artic> so at that time
[20:04] <rip_artic> i was surfing the internet with no router
[20:04] <rip_artic> no phone cables
[20:04] <rip_artic> it basically was a dial-up to a cellphone pin card
[20:04] <rip_artic> with a certain value of money on it
[20:04] <rip_artic> once it ran out the internet would stop working
[20:05] <@Hologram_SK> lol
[20:05] <rip_artic> basically i would connect the cellphone via USB
[20:05] <rip_artic> and then use its own programs on the pc to hook the net up
[20:05] <rip_artic> and it was like impossible to navigate
[20:05] <rip_artic> basically if you didnt transmit data
[20:06] <rip_artic> you could make that thing last for a month
[20:06] <rip_artic> but i would go wild on torrents
[20:06] <rip_artic> and it lasts like a week tops
[20:06] <rip_artic> so as you know im from south italy
[20:06] <rip_artic> at that time i noticed one guy talking in the forums
[20:07] <rip_artic> who was constantly getting insulted by everyone
[20:07] <rip_artic> first thing i do is i add this guy to msn and ask him why do they do that
[20:07] <rip_artic> he makes his little story up and i was like
[20:07] <rip_artic> well ok this dude did nothing wrong i dont want to see him getting picked on
[20:08] <rip_artic> so i start defending him without even knowing the full story
[20:08] <rip_artic> little did i know about what i got myself into
[20:08] <rip_artic> the very first thing that happens is
[20:08] <rip_artic> my ip and this dude's ip (his name was DARK THE HEDGEHOG btw)
[20:08] <rip_artic> are the exact same
[20:09] <@Hologram_SK> lol
[20:09] <rip_artic> so everyone figures out im the same guy on another acct
[20:09] <@Hologram_SK> lol what
[20:09] <rip_artic> and ofc everyone starts to pick on me too
[20:09] <Rennac_> gj
[20:09] <@Hologram_SK> rip
[20:09] <rip_artic> some people didnt want to believe that
[20:09] <Zeipher> stupid FUCK
[20:09] <rip_artic> i would usually avoid other people around that forum
[20:09] <rip_artic> cause by that time
[20:09] <rip_artic> i had everyone in msn
[20:09] <Zeipher> you should just drop the act
[20:09] <Zeipher> and revert into your other persona
[20:09] <Zeipher> DARK THE HEDGEHOG
[20:10] <rip_artic> yeah this myth started
[20:10] <rip_artic> another thing
[20:10] <rip_artic> it later comes out that
[20:10] <rip_artic> this DARK
[20:10] <rip_artic> did other clones of himself already
[20:10] <rip_artic> and he was already exposed multiple times
[20:10] <Zeipher> before you knew that anyone with a sonic name probably has brain issues
[20:10] <Rennac_> Pft
[20:10] <rip_artic> for pretending to being other people and fighting each other in the forums
[20:11] <rip_artic> hey zeipher my first nickname was blaze :V
[20:11] <@Hologram_SK> wtf
[20:11] <rip_artic> yes sk
[20:11] <Zeipher> and you've got brain issues
[20:11] <rip_artic> he pretended to be a girl (and that she was his girlfriend too)
[20:11] <Zeipher> sonic hedgehog is like brain destroyer
[20:11] <rip_artic> turns out again that he lives near me (like 2 hours of driving)
[20:12] <rip_artic> so ofc the IPs would be the same
[20:12] <rip_artic> and he uses the SAME EXACT METHOD to get on internet
[20:12] <rip_artic> with a damn phone
[20:12] <rip_artic> connected to usb
[20:12] <@Hologram_SK> dark van
[20:12] <Rennac_> Good
[20:12] <rip_artic> lemme remember
[20:12] <rip_artic> the names of all his clones
[20:12] <Zeipher> please
[20:12] <rip_artic> like Dark was the true identity
[20:12] <Zeipher> please...
[20:13] <Gobolt> dark blaze and etc
[20:13] <rip_artic> then there was Thunder Prower or something
[20:13] <rip_artic> then Dr.Neo Cortex
[20:13] <Zeipher> pls!!!!!
[20:13] <rip_artic> then Silver the Hedgehog
[20:13] <rip_artic> i forgot the name of the fake girlfriend
[20:13] <Zeipher> crash AND sonic
[20:13] <Zeipher> the mascot autism is out in force
[20:13] <Gobolt> The perfect combo
[20:13] <@Hologram_SK> no pls don't
[20:13] <rip_artic> so basically he double crosses a lot with me and other people
[20:14] <rip_artic> meanwhile people start to realize that im not a clone after like 6 months
[20:14] <rip_artic> cause the dude gets exposed again and im safe
[20:14] <@Hologram_SK> lol
[20:14] <rip_artic> and thats where i started hearing from these people a lot everyday
[20:14] <rip_artic> its been 8 years now
[20:15] <rip_artic> in the middle
[20:15] <rip_artic> DARK THE HEDGEHOG returned
[20:15] <rip_artic> with new identities and fake rape accidents
[20:15] <rip_artic> this time i was playing RO
[20:15] <rip_artic> with my friends
[20:15] <rip_artic> and some dude named Lawrence joins us
[20:16] <rip_artic> we're cool and play the game for a long time on some private server
[20:16] <rip_artic> we notice this dude has a sister that plays too
[20:16] <rip_artic> but they're never on together
[20:17] <@Hologram_SK> ...
[20:17] <Rennac_> "sister" yeah
[20:17] <Rennac_> I've heard that before.
[20:17] <rip_artic> on a whim
[20:17] <rip_artic> like
[20:17] <rip_artic> the dude acts differently than all of the other dark clones
[20:17] <rip_artic> but then he starts posting his deviantart stuff
[20:18] <rip_artic> (which its just photoshopped artwork and shit)
[20:18] <KF> ./moya deviantart
[20:19] <rip_artic> we talked a lot with this guy
[20:19] <rip_artic> one day we go like
[20:19] <rip_artic> oh you shoulda known this DARK THE HEDGEHOG GUY
[20:19] <rip_artic> he was an idiot and blablabla
[20:19] <rip_artic> he turns quiet and goes like
[20:20] <rip_artic> "i gotta change ISP soon, i dunno when ill be back.."
[20:20] <@Hologram_SK> rippppppp
[20:20] <nentan> but rippppppp
[20:21] <rip_artic> next thing he does in 10 minutes is spreading news that his fake sister was raped and killed by his boyfriend in a car
[20:21] <rip_artic> and then the next day he spreads news about losing an eye and a leg in a car accident
[20:21] <@Hologram_SK> jesus
[20:21] <rip_artic> just to get attention yknow
[20:21] <rip_artic> then some weeks later he disappears
[20:22] <rip_artic> then comes back with another deviantart as a girl named Haruhi
[20:22] <@Hologram_SK> ...
[20:22] <rip_artic> saying stuff like "oh im an orphan i was raised by my grandmother"
[20:22] <Zeipher> please stiop
[20:22] <@Hologram_SK> I'm hating that I can trace the timeline of this
[20:22] <rip_artic> (disappears after one day)
[20:22] <Saber> Lol
[20:23] <rip_artic> like when "she" introduces himself we straight away go like
[20:23] <rip_artic> hi dark!
[20:23] <rip_artic> for a long period of time he always tried to lick the admin's ass A LOT
[20:23] <rip_artic> by copying most of his way of talking
[20:23] <rip_artic> and other stuff
[20:23] <Gobolt> Also how'd nobody make a van's dark past joke yet
[20:24] <Gobolt> I'm disappointed
[20:24] <Zeipher> because im not awful
[20:24] <@Hologram_SK> ^
[20:24] <rip_artic> and thats how i had to deal with this person
[20:24] <rip_artic> for 3+ years
[20:24] <rip_artic> i wonder where is he now
[20:25] <Rennac_> why did you deal with them.
[20:25] <rip_artic> cause i made lots of friends there
[20:26] <rip_artic> people i got to meet irl too
[20:26] <Gobolt> Doubt he had an actual reason to fuck off from that community
[20:26] <rip_artic> we fight a lot with each other tho
[20:26] <Rennac_> Yeah, I realized that after I said that.
[20:26] <rip_artic> the dude who created this whole place
[20:26] <rip_artic> goes into depression mode
[20:26] <rip_artic> and he's like im gonna close everything fuck everyone
[20:26] <Gobolt> It's not like you can stop people from butting in if the person knows the place exists
[20:26] <rip_artic> and then we convince him to come back
[20:26] <rip_artic> after fighting a lot
[20:29] <Zeipher> sonic people own
[20:29] <Zeipher> forever trapped in a 12-year olds mind