Scummers You Miss (Ahh, the memories)

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Or that time he ruined a meet by faking alcohol poisoning so we called 911 then he was like "oh lol i was jk" and got kicked out and sent home

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That... sounds like a hell of a story. Link please? can't seem to find it... anyway, who are some people you miss?

I don't know how to link something that happened in real life.

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as far as constant activity goes it honestly might be me? 8 years with zero breaks iirc, been on here basically every day for 8 years
there was a time when i took a hiatus for like 3-4 months from the site but i was still active in the offsite mishmash games

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huh i felt like there was a long period of time you weren't around poro

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idk coron flipped out and threw a chair at one of my gatherings once because some girl wasn't paying him any attention so

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the meta shifted, CAPS LOCK happened

im still borderline sorry about that

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Meh, SDC heralded a huge meta shift that turned the game down the path it is on now where I can't stand playing.

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Screaming Death Clan

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Basically.

I think SDC was the first real time on the site that there was a shift away from purely methodical/analytical gameplay and a shift towards the aggressive spamming and all caps rage. Which then gave way to the current meta which is basically spamming shitposts with maybe one word of content per page.

It's not that nobody had played in that way before, it's that at the time (2010-2011ish), for those two years, all of the SDC were like... pretty ubiquitous on the site. It was a good bet at least one of us would be in any given game. And then the culture started spreading and more and more people started playing in that way. And it wasn't just memes, like, the playstyle actually worked. I think the best example is Psychic Mafia, where spam rage posting resulted in a perfect game: mafia lynched D1, mafia vigged N1, mafia lynched D2. And it was a grand total of 17 pages and I think like 12 hours of time spent total with the game open.

I think that's what made the meta stick... people were using that gameplay style and it was

actually working

. Then I won Paragon that year and by 2012 the SDC style of gameplay was fucking everywhere. And then people got lazier and lazier and it just became memes.

I still have such high respect for those old school players from the 2005-2009ish era who can still post thoughtful, long posts with great content.

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I just think that the current playstyle has lead to fatigue because nobody wants to read that many pages. Even if it's all just one word posts, the sheer amount of pages makes it feel overwhelming.

I'd support a "no back to back posting" rule.

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yeah post limit is bad imo

i think like even just installing a flood timer on mafia subforums so people can't spam post? might help

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Cyberbob, crypto, and Vifam were the golden age of shitposting, if you mean in that sense

Otherwise: SpyreX (pops in every once in a while), Starbuck, Kise