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Wanted to be a simple man of the Earth, enjoying art and literature, the bounty of the Earth. Instead, I have to fend against governments and principalities, global conspiracies and bad social engineering, ree, my autism

Age 52, Male/Penis

dillgent tryhard

Jeffersonian

homeless/NE USA

Joined on 2/15/01

Level:: 50
Exp Points:: 27,256 / 27,750
Exp Rank:: 477
Vote Power:: 9.09 votes
Audio Scouts: 6

Rank:: Lieutenant
Global Rank:: 686
Blams:: 1,713
Saves:: 11,992
B/P Bonus:: 36%

Whistle:: Bronze

Trophies:: 3
Medals:: 12,899
Supporter:: 8y 10m 17d
Gear:: 6

Cyberdevil 2013-09-03 05:38:00

I've never changed my username, unless you count CyberDevil > Cyberdevil. :P Back when it was easy to change an alias... also it's more of a wavy wilderness than a mountain range.

Is that an official business card? What amazing merch have I been missing out on?!

VicariousE 2013-09-03 05:38:00 (Updated 2013-09-03 05:50:48)

Eh, I thought that was a substantial enough of a change.. though I thought it was CyberD, but that's your site.

Ha, nah, Renaenae made it up, when I suggested Tom make up business cards for the site, for supporters to hand out to people.... for some reason Tom thought I meant personalized cards! Still think it 's a good idea, every time they send mail out, add a few hand-out cards!

Cyberdevil 2013-09-03 06:07:03

Ah, my site has gone through plenty of changes, from CyberDyze > CyberDB > CyberD, with new domains along the way yet always the same slogan: "The Cyberdevil's Domain".

For you specifically? Nice! I thought you meant personalized cards too, it seemed like a great idea. I'd have liked a generator where you could select specific NG related stats/account info, move them around, add some NG insignia (or just use a standard layout) and have it automatically printed and sent out in beautiful batches (at a cost, of course).

VicariousE 2013-09-03 06:07:03

Nah, I just wanted a cheap and cheerful solution to advertising... but because of the mix up, probably won't happen. Those glossy stickers cost money, and putting them in public places is a technical no-no.

SileNt-Sam 2013-09-03 10:51:48

newgrounds hero :D

VicariousE 2013-09-03 10:51:48

More like an addict lol, but thanks! I really should've started another account when I couldn't log on... but I had a pretty good level, and really wanted to show my old sign-up date.

Happy-Little-Trees 2013-09-03 13:30:09

nice fingers there

VicariousE 2013-09-03 13:30:09

Man, I should add a caption, "My hands are hairy and scarred" I doubt they even belong to Renaenae, who made this mock-up for the BBS discussion, on how to promote the site....

renaenae.newgrounds.com fantastic artist

Viper 2013-09-03 18:21:37

Ya know....don't ask why but I feel I'd like the cards more if the colors were inverted.
Like its predominately black and the tank and all the text is white. I mean...we for the most part all the font that we have here is white font.

VicariousE 2013-09-03 18:21:37

Probably be a little more expensive that way, but I feel ya. When I brought the subject up, there were some ideas about how the card looked... shit, could just be thick bond paper, with a stamp on it :p

I could try and go it alone, printing them up and mailing them to supporters or folks who ask... but I'd rather have Tom mail them out :\ Wonder how many cards would be necessary for a 2 year advertising push....

Viper 2013-09-03 18:22:51

we? Where did that come from?
It should say
*I mean...for the most part all the font that we have here is white.

VicariousE 2013-09-03 18:22:51

Nah, it's a we

Tom's been rather inclusive when it comes to the site, and all us contributors/fans act the same....

Viper 2013-09-03 18:52:48

I'd imagine the stamping thing would cost a hell of a lot less than getting all that stuff printed out. Though if they go with a personalized thing it would more than likely cost more in the long run if they did the stamping stuff.

VicariousE 2013-09-03 18:52:48

So: either cheap n shitty, or over the top
hmmm

Viper 2013-09-03 19:21:35

Yep. Seems that way.

VicariousE 2013-09-03 19:21:35

...and if they take that datadog to the authorities, we'll really be sunk.

Yep. Seems that way.

Doomroar 2013-09-04 03:46:27

Well im lvl 25 i think i can get you!

VicariousE 2013-09-04 03:46:27

Hmm, good luck with that! As long as there's an internet and power on the the lines, I'm gonna keep loggin' exp like the whore I am. I figure I'm just making up for lost log-in time, and time without an internet connection at home. Level 25 is quite a respectable rank yo.

S3C 2013-09-04 04:16:24

so why did you take a half-decadish long leave from NG? What brought you back?

VicariousE 2013-09-04 04:16:24 (Updated 2013-09-04 04:36:01)

O_o Never left! In 2002, they changed the password length from 8 characters, to a larger number. My password's pretty long, but I never needed to type the whole thing in for well over a year! When they made the change during a redesign, I had started using the internet at my cousin's house, a few weeks after I lost the internet.

So my old, longer password was forgotten, and my recently dropped ISP's email address was inaccessible! A few years ago, I moved and found a very old list of passwords (many of which didn't require email accounts).

It's funny, back then, if you didn't get an email from your ISP (you did, but only one, unless you wanted to spend big for more), you had to pay for one. Website hacking and email list sales were big back then. Now you can get one easy for free, but whoever has the server, pretty much OWNS your email content! Many people didn't even notice the change, because, hey, free email! So, it's kinda easy to see where the internet's going.... you absolutely can not be anonymous online, to the powers that be. The revolution will not be webcast, that's for sure.

S3C 2013-09-04 05:40:34

that's not true, my password is 6 characters lol and this account is registered in 2008.

well that sucks, you never bothered to register a yahoo or hotmail account? I'm pretty sure those were both free emails in the early 2000s, the latter was necessary for using MSN messenger. it's hard to believe the perks of ISP issued emails back then was that you got an extra MB or 2 of storage and a spam filter....Now everyone practically uses gmail, even most school email addresses use google as their mail client.

I couldn't really care less if google 'owns' my email, they can have a blast using my subscriptions to gay porn sites (kidding). facebook 'owns' all your social comments, and NG 'owns' all the stuff you submit here, too. And the internet really has always been that way- what's changed is that it's become exponentially easier to cram GBs of information into increasingly smaller (but more dispersed) networks and store data. RL would be the same in terms of anonymity but no one has found an equivocally efficient way to store billions of people's atomic footprints. you burn a handwritten physical letter it's gone- but once you upload something to the internet-regardless of how private it is- there isn't just a single harddrive somewhere that the data is stored, where you can target it for destruction in order to eliminate the digital information.

VicariousE 2013-09-04 05:40:34

My original password was over 12 characters long. After a while, I found I only needed to enter however many characters (no-peeking-dots) the field took, which was 7 characters. However, Newgrounds had a record of the longer password, and it was needed to get online :| So from 2002-2009/2010, I couldn't log on, and didn't really read much of the BBS or Tom's posts... I just hit the FP for movies and games, occasionally looking at my dead profile page :( I'd either burn it to a CD, or Flash drive, to watch or play at home.

Nah, the internet was more humane in it's business dealings in the late 20th century. Private email accounts outside of your ISP was rare and did cost. Then, when there was free email, the list of freedoms you had to renounce, was enough to put you off. And it's not like HD space was getting more expensive, they (still do) have limits on how much space you can have per account.

Ah, it all just reeks of a dictatorship, the Stasi would've envied. You know those cryptic lines at the bottom of mailed envelopes (sometimes stickered on)? That means it was electronically photographed, possibly x-rayed.

Happy-Little-Trees 2013-09-04 17:29:19

hmmm neater version of a chicken scratch handwriting?

VicariousE 2013-09-04 17:29:19

Messier version of typeset/perfect handwriting?

They gave up penmanship in the late 70's, and that's when they said "Do whatever." My handwriting sucks.

Innudation 2013-09-04 19:59:21

Legit.

VicariousE 2013-09-04 19:59:21

Stats should be a lot higher, but thanks!

My whole Newgrounds 'career' has been sketchy, but at least it did start off quite legit. Took over a year of lurking to figure out Tom wasn't gonna sell my email off, especially after the Troma sponsorship.

Happy-Little-Trees 2013-09-04 20:11:09

cant be suckier than mine lol

VicariousE 2013-09-04 20:11:09

Could be..... I know my signature's unreadable, except by check cashing machines. Amazing how many years they've had that technology. Spooky, even.

Doomroar 2013-09-04 21:43:57

True, true, but only if we count the Exp points, but if we count it by level i will definitively catch you, math has got my back, since each level requires more exp, and is the same amount of exp for everyone each day, is easier for me to pass the pimp the lower levels and get you, than to you to whore yourself out away from me!!! hahaha!

VicariousE 2013-09-04 21:43:57

Everybody's got it in for me :(

S3C 2013-09-04 22:25:14

Hotmail/Yahoo wasn't rare, I had plenty of friends on MSN using free hotmail accounts. And all you had to give them was a (fake) real name and decide on an email address and password, needless to say. the free email services you were introduced to were probably sketchy, truly any service that asks for you to give up any type of other personal data or "renounce freedoms" should be avoided. although you do say late 19th century, I'm think of 2000-2001, but was a few years earlier that much different?

The limitations on HD are VERY different in the present though, an email account from 10 years ago would allow for say 4 MB of space, a modern gmail account allows for 15 GB of space (that's 3840 times larger). the limits are really only there to somewhat slow the rate of piracy, i'd guess. You are allowed to make multiple accounts, and even use them at the same time! More examples: the first ipod (in 2001) was 5 GB and cost 400$, the latest version has 160 GB and costs less than half that price. I have a computer from the late 80s that had a 64 MB HD, and is the size of a third grader, probably was real expensive too- now i have a flash drive that's less than 2 inches, cost 10$ and stores 8 GB....i could go on, but I'm not sure what exactly I'm trying to debate :P

VicariousE 2013-09-04 22:25:14

Oh yeah, up to about 2002, the internet was practically wide open to any and all things, but the police and FBI followed up leads. Once Napster hit the scene, the FBI began cracking down on tons of servers, willy-nilly. You could tell as time went on, the Feds were getting into more and more things. They assume fake names and get into chat rooms, looking for anything the other users could be charged with, and not just for pedos, but protest organizers, attendees...

Ah, text itself is pretty small, it's the pictures that drove up needed cloud storage, as email undoubtedly is... unless you use an email program and store it yourself on a mail program.

Doomroar 2013-09-04 22:48:13

We will always be right there stalking your back! and some times... just right there stalking your sides!!

VicariousE 2013-09-04 22:48:13

Even creepier, since I'm trying to play Road of the Dead 2 on a computer with less than 1/2 a GB of memory. Not as creepy as early Resident Evils or F.E.A.R....

Doomroar 2013-09-05 00:16:26

Oh is that so, but think about this, if some days some how, you are unable to connect...

we...

will...

be stalking your front too!!!!!

VicariousE 2013-09-05 00:16:26

That's why I never got into the BBS here (stalking lurkers trolling meh)! All those threads/posts that never made it to the new server (1999-2001), were quite insane. Especially what some of the Mods said |: It was like having a football game: freshmen versus seniors, in a Mad Max world.

AilieTheWolf 2013-09-05 15:15:31

what is that???

VicariousE 2013-09-05 15:15:31

Oh, all that gooble-de-gook up there? Those are the 'stats' I've accrued since joining Newgrounds, in the way back when. The billing at the time was, "It's like an RPG, where you level up, depending on how often and how much you vote on." It would take the better part of a decade to max out at Level 60, but the voting rank (which is in pseudo-military ranks) can be achieved within a few years of diligent voting on Under Judgement movies and games.... The whistle rank is upgraded, on how correctly you rat out abusive reviews - messing up even a little bit can sink tons of correct tags O_o

It's my e-penis, pride... you know how guys are with stupid things like numbers and toys :)

S3C 2013-09-05 16:03:45

so what freedoms would you have to renounce anyway?

VicariousE 2013-09-05 16:03:45

They shouldn't even call it email...At least in regular mail, there's laws that protect it's contents. I'm pretty damn sure, any business worth their weight in salt, won't use free email, because the owners of the site/mail server, can freely read everything written... and sell that info, and not be held liable.

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