I ascribe most of Eddie's poor administration to incompetence rather than malice
Though I suppose the whole "pretending to be three people" thing would go against that
*shrug*
I think there is a rational explanation for the Janitor situation somewhere—she may well have simply been his neighbour and left the site for greener pastures at some point—but who knows or even cares any more? There is stranger in this world, especially on the Web.
I ascribe most of Eddie's poor administration to incompetence rather than malice
Though I suppose the whole "pretending to be three people" thing would go against that
*shrug*
I think there is a rational explanation for the Janitor situation somewhere—she may well have simply been his neighbour and left the site for greener pastures at some point—but who knows or even cares any more? There is stranger in this world, especially on the Web.
incidentally, regarding the word "bitch", from my experience it seems like the term "bitchy" is applied far more often to (non-canine) females than to males
incidentally, regarding the word "bitch", from my experience it seems like the term "bitchy" is applied far more often to (non-canine) females than to males
And when it's applied to males there's the implicit sense that it's disparaging their masculinity by comparing them to females!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The only evidence that Janitor and Fast Eddie were the same person was that they shared an IP address, which I'll admit is pretty weak because there are other possible explanations for that.
More damning, though, is that the person calling himself "Fast Eddie" on TVT has gone by the name "Gus Raley" elsewhere online, while claiming that the TVT user named Gus died years ago.
i'll openly admit it, some of the things i talk about, i do so because they're things people like to hear
what "like to hear" means is not necessarily compliments. usually, it just means things that people are interested in. common interests. which is perfectly normal behavior.
because there's fifty million things i could talk about, but most of them are things you wouldn't give a shit about.
I ascribe most of Eddie's poor administration to incompetence rather than malice
Though I suppose the whole "pretending to be three people" thing would go against that
*shrug*
I think there is a rational explanation for the Janitor situation somewhere—she may well have simply been his neighbour and left the site for greener pastures at some point—but who knows or even cares any more? There is stranger in this world, especially on the Web.
p. sure she worked at CERN or something
People seem to be under the impression that this was a front, but in retrospect, her moving to Europe and leaving the site is completely plausible.
More damning, though, is that the person calling himself "Fast Eddie" on TVT has gone by the name "Gus Raley" elsewhere online, while claiming that the TVT user named Gus died years ago.
The Gus thing is definitely weirder, but again, there might be another explanation lurking there that has ultimately been lost to the ether.
^ Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wasn't a sockpuppet. Her whole attitude was different.
Also I spoke to Janitor several times and she was a very different person in terms of like, posting tone than Eddie.
That does not prove anything, but it's worth mentioning.
ooh. interesting. though it's possible that people can change. and it's hard to gauge personality accurately over the internet.
but yeah, i'm going to stick with my original hypothesis that they're probably real people and were probably involved in the creation of TVT but Eddie is the one who does most of the work managing TVT these days.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I mean, it's possible there's some Ace Attorney-style long contrived explanation for the Gus thing, and nobody's proven anything one way or the other yet
But it's worth keeping in mind that we HAVE known Eddie to be intentionally deceptive at least once before: he's posted photos of two different men claiming they were him
what is the right term for a thing that one thinks is true but isn't sure about?
"theory" means something one thinks is true and which has been thoroughly tested and has held up in those tests and is thus widely accepted as true
"hypothesis" seems to be the right term, but does it carry with it the requirement that it be something that is testable? or, even more strictly, be something that is currently being tested?
i wonder if i should have invested the time to climb that social ladder and become a mod there, seeing as now that it's sorta up to some mods to run the place
then again, it's a lot of work for not particularly much perks -- i presume even the mods have limited influence in how the wiki organizes information...
unless, like, one mod were to go on a last-ditch mission and unilaterally change site policy at the risk of getting herself/himself permabanned
I mean, it's possible there's some Ace Attorney-style long contrived explanation for the Gus thing, and nobody's proven anything one way or the other yet
But it's worth keeping in mind that we HAVE known Eddie to be intentionally deceptive at least once before: he's posted photos of two different men claiming they were him
There's also the fact that he claimed to live in the Bahamas, when in reality, he lived in a trailer park in Wisconsin.
One of the best pieces of marketing I saw was when a video game magazine doing a piece on the then-upcoming Resident Evil 4 revealed that the new enemies in the game wouldn't be the zombies of the previous three games, but said that the developers weren't saying what they were instead. They only gave the clue that the enemies were called Los Ganados, which means Cattle in Spanish.
I've always found that an effective way to peak curiosity.
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like longer than any other website i can think of
I actually think that it's most likely that Janitor and Gus are/were real people but they've long since left running TVT to Eddie.
probably a good reason to avoid it anyway
what "like to hear" means is not necessarily compliments. usually, it just means things that people are interested in. common interests. which is perfectly normal behavior.
because there's fifty million things i could talk about, but most of them are things you wouldn't give a shit about.
^ Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wasn't a sockpuppet. Her whole attitude was different.
but yeah, i'm going to stick with my original hypothesis that they're probably real people and were probably involved in the creation of TVT but Eddie is the one who does most of the work managing TVT these days.
"theory" means something one thinks is true and which has been thoroughly tested and has held up in those tests and is thus widely accepted as true
"hypothesis" seems to be the right term, but does it carry with it the requirement that it be something that is testable? or, even more strictly, be something that is currently being tested?
then again, it's a lot of work for not particularly much perks -- i presume even the mods have limited influence in how the wiki organizes information...
unless, like, one mod were to go on a last-ditch mission and unilaterally change site policy at the risk of getting herself/himself permabanned
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I've always found that an effective way to peak curiosity.
And then, for the one game that would have made sense with an European Spanish dub, it was dubbed to American Spanish
edit: oh are you talking about resident evil 4?
i just remembered that the forum said there were 2 new posts but i only see 1