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Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



GreatMrPopo posted:

Was there a goonfleet presence in Dust 514? Am I the only person that remembers that class based online shooter exclusive to the PS3?

I actually enjoyed that game, for what it was, kinda miss my one character.

Dust was such a cool concept, but making it a ps3 exclusive was pretty much asking for it to die.

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downout
Jul 6, 2009

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

also I tried to get the GBS mod that was in goonfleet at the time of the bfm thing to perma bfm here but he ignored it and I didn't bring it up on the forums directly b/c importing drama was still crazy bannable

Later when I saw he was playing archeage I tried to get people who could literally see the goonfleet threads and were playing archeage to get rid of him and they didn't.
So the only reason he got banned from SA at all is because I was bitching about him in the dota IRC channel and zoolooman saw and immediately hit me up asking if I was being serious and for any proof, bfm was permaed like an hour later

What's the "bfm thing"? Sorry I probably missed a few pages.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





downout posted:

What's the "bfm thing"? Sorry I probably missed a few pages.

Former goon "Bob From Marketing". He was one of the goons that would go to iceland for the annual EVE thing, where he was grooming a 15 or 16 year old kid. Got her to send him nude photos. Posted the nude photos on a goonfleet.com sub-forum. While his relationship with the girl may or may not have been illegal in Iceland, posting CSAM to an american message board was super illegal and the webmaster went spare when he found out about it. Which got BFM kicked from goonfleet, and I think got porn (or maybe just home grown?) banned from the forum as well. It was a pretty big deal.

So when a "Bob From Marketing" showed up in another MMO goon guild years later some people thought it was just edgy goon humour to use the name of a known pedo, some people had never heard of the incident, and at least a few people in the guild were old friends from his EVE days who knew it was him but didn't think it was a problem that's he'd posted private photos of a teenager at some point in the past. When people who knew the whole story brought it up it took the new guild leadership a few days to respond (because, again, most non-EVE goons didn't know) and everything blew up.

Turned out no one from EVE had ever bothered to report him here, or possibly it was ignored as "importing off-site drama", so his SA account was in good standing. A mature SA account in good standing was the minimum requirement to get into most goon guilds. When it blew up in the second MMO the story did make it back here and his SA account was permabanned.

CaptainTofu
Jun 1, 2021

I recall the first time a very baby goonfleet of maybe 20 people raided Syndicate, and we (Black Omega) ended up taking them under our wing, helping to turn it into the absolute eve destroying juggernaut it was. I maintain that this is one of the most hilarious things to ever happen in gaming. The old guard alliances, who we were mostly already at war with anyway after the breakdown of 5ive, absolutely hated that poo poo.

Also I'm still irl friends with Suas/Kia Tolon and he's eve free and doing good.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

I got to experience a Suas guitar serenade live and that was the most worthwhile thing I got out of my GF stint.

left very soon after digi attempted to out someone as gay because of stupid internet drama.

downout
Jul 6, 2009

Facebook Aunt posted:

Former goon "Bob From Marketing". He was one of the goons that would go to iceland for the annual EVE thing, where he was grooming a 15 or 16 year old kid. Got her to send him nude photos. Posted the nude photos on a goonfleet.com sub-forum. While his relationship with the girl may or may not have been illegal in Iceland, posting CSAM to an american message board was super illegal and the webmaster went spare when he found out about it. Which got BFM kicked from goonfleet, and I think got porn (or maybe just home grown?) banned from the forum as well. It was a pretty big deal.

So when a "Bob From Marketing" showed up in another MMO goon guild years later some people thought it was just edgy goon humour to use the name of a known pedo, some people had never heard of the incident, and at least a few people in the guild were old friends from his EVE days who knew it was him but didn't think it was a problem that's he'd posted private photos of a teenager at some point in the past. When people who knew the whole story brought it up it took the new guild leadership a few days to respond (because, again, most non-EVE goons didn't know) and everything blew up.

Turned out no one from EVE had ever bothered to report him here, or possibly it was ignored as "importing off-site drama", so his SA account was in good standing. A mature SA account in good standing was the minimum requirement to get into most goon guilds. When it blew up in the second MMO the story did make it back here and his SA account was permabanned.

Well I wasn't expecting that.

Lets Get Patchy
Aug 8, 2006
It died when Hole Squad (Squid, 3rd iteration) was denied a rapier loss, resulting in Garnt, eventually mimi (good morning) being blasted into the void.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.
We're still here. Waffe is even only a semi-retirement home now.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





downout posted:

Well I wasn't expecting that.

Always more, always worse.

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry

Thunder Moose posted:

We're still here. Waffe is even only a semi-retirement home now.

Probate this guy for still being in goonfleet.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.
:negative:

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
I'm probably remembering things incorrectly but as my time with GF was winding down because I couldn't stand the sounds of DBRBs voice anymore, i co lead a highly successful drunken gimmick ship raid with bfm (we all died).

At the tail end bfm started sharing some pictures on jabber of this girl he was seeing. I remember thinking that she looked awfully young and then like 2 days later he was booted and I was absolutely disgusted with being involved.

So I quit and never logged in again.

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
Congrats on having standards.

Fabulousity
Dec 29, 2008

Number One I order you to take a number two.

I was gonna ask who was that fleet commander that was angrily fall-down drunk for every operation he led but then I realized that was most of them. I think Tolon is the specific one I'm thinking of and he's gotta be six feet under by now perfectly preserved to this day by a supernatural blood alcohol concentration that makes embalming fluid look like Gatorade.

CaptainTofu
Jun 1, 2021

As mentioned earlier, I know Tolon/Suas irl and he is both sober and eve free, amazingly.

Definitely who you're thinking of though.

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
I am morbidly curious if any goonfleet types ever read the book that someone wrote about the Eve wars, which apparently has spawned a second volume: https://www.empiresofeve.com/

I wasn't in goonfleet and tried Eve only for a month or so a year ago, but I love reading about SA stuff and culture taking up residence elsewhere online. I would pay good money for more books of war stories or oral history of goonfleet and related side projects.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

MJP posted:

I am morbidly curious if any goonfleet types ever read the book that someone wrote about the Eve wars, which apparently has spawned a second volume: https://www.empiresofeve.com/

I wasn't in goonfleet and tried Eve only for a month or so a year ago, but I love reading about SA stuff and culture taking up residence elsewhere online. I would pay good money for more books of war stories or oral history of goonfleet and related side projects.

unfortunately a lot of that book was sourced from the now cancelled alleged sex creep Mittani who was really into self mythologizing so it'll be hard to do another book. I think the era of big mythic stories is probably over.

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
If anyone has a link to the Ottoman art inspired telling of the Scouring of Delve that would be fantastic.

I ride bikes all day
Sep 10, 2007

I shitposted in the same thread for 2 years and all I got was this red text av. Ask me about my autism!



College Slice
Glad to hear SUAS is alive and kicking. Little Bees still makes me smile.

The Artificial Kid
Feb 22, 2002
Plibble

CaptainTofu posted:

I recall the first time a very baby goonfleet of maybe 20 people raided Syndicate, and we (Black Omega) ended up taking them under our wing, helping to turn it into the absolute eve destroying juggernaut it was. I maintain that this is one of the most hilarious things to ever happen in gaming. The old guard alliances, who we were mostly already at war with anyway after the breakdown of 5ive, absolutely hated that poo poo.

Also I'm still irl friends with Suas/Kia Tolon and he's eve free and doing good.

When you find yourself inside a bubble
Hold your cloooak and wait for me
Always follow orders, little bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m-0RlqMHM

Has there ever been a video game guild with higher production values than Goonswarm?

The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Mar 26, 2025

I ride bikes all day
Sep 10, 2007

I shitposted in the same thread for 2 years and all I got was this red text av. Ask me about my autism!



College Slice

The Artificial Kid posted:

Has there ever been a video game guild with higher production values than Goonswarm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDr182CXeL0

Nope

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Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer
I used to play a glorified spreadsheet based browser game called Astro Empires with goons. Eve without the graphics, all the drama. We had hundreds of goons playing across multiple servers about 20 years ago.

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