Heapers' Hangout circa 1981, The heapers.hangout Usenet group
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At one time Usenet was the nicest neighborhood on the entire internet where people discussed everything under the sun and it was just a nicer time
now it's the internet's equivalent to Crack Alley and no amount of gentrification will ever save it
Never wanna go there again
Well, hellooooo Heapers.
HIM being Richard Bullis, quite possibly the stupidest person who ever stepped onto usenet. A truck driver/pedophile who one day went nuts and threatened to sue the entire internet because a bot was tracking his posting statistics. Also, he was a computer genius who would tell you your computer bluescreened because it was literally thinking too hard.
My favorite part was him trying to scare everyone with his Army career in the NSA where upon enlisting as an E-1 (private) and due to his brilliance he was granted immediate access and deference that only a field grade officer or higher would enjoy; then someone online finally got sick of his shit and got ahold of his actual service record and the loudmouth never made it past basic training.
A disbarred attorney named Grubor sounds like a villain from a children's action show. [/abrupt change of subject]
Perhaps.
Still, I find the complaints about newbs and furries amusing.
I feel grateful I never checked this one out
"the tendency of fandoms to be like charismatic religions and attract people with actual, serious mental problems, it was furry that codified most of it, and that's why it got so much shit." <--- a million times this
One of the most broken moments that I remember of that fandom was some idiot who got married at a furry con and his bride was dressed up as that minerva mink character from Animaniacs. He pretty much made it clear -- with the "blessing" of every idiot at the con and many in the fandom -- that from there on out, Minerva Mink was his. Let that sink in for a minute. A few animators from WB showed up and saw the horror, and drew a wonderfully spiteful picture of Minerva holding up a sign saying she belonged to nobody, especially that guy. The backlash and tears were, from what I understand, delicious
Nowadays folks in the furry fandom have almost dropped all those dramatic and embarrassing elements, so at least for me they're just normal fans.
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Much of this can be avoided by simply never going to any fan-specific sites.
More general things tend to attract less extremism, you're more likely to find a nut on a board dedicated to a single book than one dedicated to the entire genre that book's in, if that makes any sense.
It's not the media that causes problems, it's that people with problems tend to form obsessions, to the tune of blocking out anything else. So they're more likely to go to a place where they don't have to deal with anything else.
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Disclaimer: I am not a furry
Hence "much", not "all".
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis