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Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Decebal posted:

You think he would like a framed picture of that lady in his casket ? Like some old king taking his wife with him to the afterlife ?

Do they make caskets big enough for him?

# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 22:25

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Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

I don't hate anyone. Except those gull durned black people. #13,857

You know what they don't have here in college? Black people. #18,464

There are absolutely no black people here. #18,465

# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 23:20

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Have a WebDog post:

WebDog posted:

Hah he's updated his LiveJournal.
He uses the angry kid defence and hilariously tries to latch the blame onto Something Awful's brand of humor.

So under the rug it goes. Note he hasn't actually removed anything from the site.

WCnews history bit.
Now checking in again with my friend, turns out Ben really was a horrid person. He brings up this story.

The community once had a member called Eagle-1 (who was African American). Eagle apparently was the one who setup the IRC channels in 1996 and began the WC community well before WC news.
From what I can gather Eagle was a very well respected and kind community member. Being an older member (he was 58) many mentioned that he was a mentor to them dishing out advice to life's problems and encouraging awkward nerds to give it a go. He even rang up Ben to offer kind words before his eye surgery.

So what does Ben do? Gets annoyed that, unlike Eagle, he wasn't being seen as some sort of leader despite his knowledge of WC. Ben also hated that Eagle ran a competing IRC channel where you couldn't swear and things were kept in order and people felt safe. Basically Ben muscled him out and fostered that toxic community we now all love and quote.

But as my friend points out, Ben's distrust was allegedly racially motivated - he could not stand that at the end of the day the guy who everyone loves happens to be black.

Sadly Eagle died in 2007 from a heart attack. Despite the terse obituary on the website over on IRC Ben lapped up his demise, ripping into a beloved community member because of his own selfish reasons.

This isn't some angry kid, but some man who's wrapped himself up in a bubble of ignorance and tried to blame his life situation as a cause.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 23:26

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

hakimashou posted:

a citizen wrote it and CIG felt it prudent to leave it up on their forums for like a month or more

it star citizen fan fic

That's because Ben didn't see anything wrong with it. After all, he wrote these things:

People fear what they do not understand. Thusly, when the Lobster-men started their brutal assault on civilian establishments, people were naturally a bit frightened... Luckily, their desire for a unique hormone produced only in the kidneys of young children was expressed early on, and we were able to work with them to set up breeding/slaughter camps rather than cause a mass hysteria on the part of the populace at large... #7,285

Yes, eat all the semen sally, lick the head of my cock smooth and clean, so I can slip it back into you, pushing it deep in your soft mouth. #16,449

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 00:04

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

dans posted:

It's not like he's a creeper any more than the average FYAD poster is a creeper. I've said tons of stupid poo poo I don't believe in FYAD that I wouldn't say anywhere else, it's like that. It's performance. It's us holding on to dumb poo poo we did twenty years ago, it's not going to be particularly good, we were children.

I ended up going to class last night. Which was okayer than I thought. Because my teacher announced she has cancer and is cancelling every class after next week. Sometimes luck just goes my way. #21,083

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 03:26

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

CrazyLoon posted:

Well clearly, Ben thought it was a wise idea to recently post it on his public company-linked Twitter and on public RSI company forums, over which he is now grand poobah. A fine young lad you raised and I'm sure he's past all that now, what with him giving homophobes, racists and misogynists that send their dick pics to any woman in the community on said forums a free pass!

Don't forget about the guy who posted child porn and only got a 7 day probation!

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 03:56

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

dans posted:

Yeah, I don't think I've thought of that page in fifteen years.

I'm not saying we were well-behaved netizens back in the day, I'm saying Ben isn't a creep, we were children when we made those websites, and all our in-joke bullshit should be taken with a grain of salt.

So did you also join in on all the bashing against Eagle? And how did you feel about Ben's lovely obituary?

http://trelane.hamtwoslices.net/index.php?query=eagle

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 04:09

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Mirificus posted:

Ben's: http://www.wcnews.com/loaf/funstuff/lj/ folder. Note the timestamps and yes, those are Kerri-Lee photos.

EDIT:

Ben seems to like the Confederacy. But I'm sure all those jokes about black people were ironic.

Codependent Poster fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Apr 18, 2016

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 22:55

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 11:50

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Hey guys I was really angry when I made all those racist jokes! And really angry when I said I wanted to bang the 10 year old anime character!

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 01:00

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