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[UncleBen59]

Can we all talk about how bad this year's Super Bowl half time is gonna be? I mean Coldplay? Why Coldplay? I wanna know what the over/under is for them putting half the crowd to sleep.

Adele would have been a better choice, or Metallica. Actually since its in San-Fran area why not Metallica?

 

[tmg.exe]

Because the halftime show is no longer about the NFL simply asking for top entertainment acts, it is now about the NFL accepting the highest bidder; the record label that pays the top dollar to secure the slot with the act they want to promote gets the best exposure opportunity possible. Coldplay's in because their label outbid Rihanna's label. They were willing to commit a greater amount of post-Super-Bowl tour revenue to the NFL.

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

i haven't watched a halftime show in like 4 years. They're literally getting worse and worse every year.

 

[UncleBen59]

i haven't watched a halftime show in like 4 years. They're literally getting worse and worse every year.

Katy Pery wasnt bad last year. Mostly because Left Shark.

The best half time show (and I can't believe I'm saying its them cause I hate them) was probably U2. Prince was also great a few years back

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

Katy Perry was about as close to a perfect half time show as you get, even though I have no use for the music.

Coldplay will be bullshit. I can't think of any songs that'll play well on that stage and any guest performers will just be weird with Coldplay I think. but I also enjoy Coldplay's music less than Katy Perry's, haha, so what do I know.

 

[UncleBen59]

I mean I hate modern pop music (look at my iPod its an interesting mix of 60s-early 90s and metal) but I didnt think Katy Pery was bad. Her performance was unique

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

katy perry is the bomb

 

[UncleBen59]

I saw the new Star Wars tonight.


It was excellent (i wont spoil it I promise)

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

oh ya i forgot that came out. im gonna wait quite a bit to go see it. you're brave to go wait in line and sit in a crowded theatre haha

 

[UncleBen59]

Wasnt that crowded.

Then again, I went out of the way to Exeter NH to see it. The theater there also had it playing on 5 of the 12 screens

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

ya i heard vader died in the movie. bummer man

 

[UncleBen59]

Nah man Han shot first

 

[ilikemusicmore]

Hello
I started this gangsta shit
(hello)
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?!

 

[bosbulls2005]

Chewbacca and C3PO made out.

 

[UncleBen59]

Festivus was yesterday....


Anyone wanna air some grievances?

 

[Kevin_Nash_nWo]

Woah I wandered into an Adele thread

 

[UncleBen59]

I got my first dekhockey goal Sunday night.... and sparked a comeback in which my team scored 5 times in 4 minutes in the 3rd to win 5-4.

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

is that like ball hockey?

cool man. i actually played on ice for the first time in 8 years yesterday morning as well. played a 2 hour game 3 on 3... i need to get back in shape haha

 

[UncleBen59]

Yes it's ball hockey.

I want to try ice hockey but one I dont own a pair of skates and two I suck at ice skating.

 

[UncleBen59]

Not gonna lie, If i win the Powerball, I'm buying the Carolina Hurricanes with the sole intention of moving them back to Hartford.

 

[chris_30]

Katy Perry was the best half time show of all time.

 

[cutchemist42]

Yeah, I like quite a lot of Coldplay songs, but thats when Im chilling at home by myself on the comp. I dont picture their songs translating to a spectacle you expect from SB. (Unless anyone here has been to a concert of the band and knows otherwise?)

 

[UncleBen59]

Halftime show will officially be a packie* run for me







*Packie means the liquor store in Massachusetts

 

[UncleBen59]

You know what's one thing i've noticed in the nearly 2 years I've been here?

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/ign-hockey-central-hub.50533049/

This has stayed the same. It says to be redone but 2 years later it's the same

 

[tmg.exe]

Hey, DQ, Ineb, come look! The hub thread lure finally sucked in a volunteer!

 

[dquigley]

Go ahead and get me a first draft [URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/uncleben59.4896375/']@UncleBen59[/URL] and I'll send a certified letter to Tal to get it updated

 

[UncleBen59]

Hey, DQ, Ineb, come look! The hub thread lure finally sucked in a volunteer!

Go ahead and get me a first draft [URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/uncleben59.4896375/'][URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/uncleben59.4896375/']@UncleBen59[/URL][/URL] and I'll send a certified letter to Tal to get it updated

You guys were waiting for someone to say it werent you....

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

make sure you put me as a flames FAN and a jets FOLLOWER

 

[UncleBen59]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

lol i forgot about tal. is homer still around and in charge too or nah

 

[tmg.exe]

No Homers.

Homer moved on a while ago (like, before I stepped down as a mod, and that was a while ago). I believe he still has an account here with moderator privs, but he's not a boss anymore.

 

[dquigley]

Homer does still post sometimes and is a mod but it has been years since he's been employed by IGN. I'm not sure there is an official "in charge" person right now. The last guy (Keylimepies on the boards) left about a week ago, and there were others between his reign and Homer's.

 

[UncleBen59]

I thought LiT was in charge half the time....


But seriously, are you guys serious about me making a draft for the hub?

 

[dquigley]

Yes there is a group of supermods, LiT a part of them, that handle most everything, but there's always been a point of contact at IGN even under this system.

 

[chris_30]

I didn't know you weren't a mod anymore, tmg.

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

LiT?

You mean that lost_in_translation kid? He's part of a super mod team? I remember that guy from when he just spammed on the vesti 24/7. isn't he like 16?

 

[dquigley]

LiT = Lost_in_Translation, yes. I can't speak to his age, though he is certainly much older than 16, or why anybody would post on the vesti.

This is outdated (none of the listed IGN Community Staff are actually with IGN anymore) but is mostly right as far as a moderators list goes
http://www.ign.com/wikis/ign-community-central/IGN_Moderators

 

[tmg.exe]

To the best of my knowledge, LiT is 31.

 

[vornoff]

homer posts on my home board on occasion (gcb)


lit was a regular there as well, and is a college professor and was made fun of relentlessly

 

[UncleBen59]

homer posts on my home board on occasion (gcb)


lit was a regular there as well, and is a college professor and was made fun of relentlessly

Is "Ban LiT" still going on?

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

31 holy jesus. Maybe i'm mixing him up with someone else.

Although i guess to be fair, ive been here for over 10 years so someone who was 16 would now be 26.

jesus christ. Now it actually worries me that i still recognize names on the vesti from people are "popular". I can't believe i have like 35k posts on there haha.

 

[UncleBen59]

I dont think I've posted on the vesti once.

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

you're not missing anything. The vesti actually changed my life.. I would not be where i am today if i had never posted on the vesti rofl

essentially i started posting on the vesti a lot in Jan 06.

> became addicted and spent like 8 hours a day on the vesti
> start talking to a vesti girl
> start online dating vesti girl
> spend more time on vesti and on msn with girl and other users
> fail out of college because i stopped going to class because i skipped to spend time talking to girl and vesti
> parents find out and hell ensues. banned from internet and from talking to girl
> move to winnipeg to attend university since i cant go back to original college
> talk to vesti girl again and fly to her to meet up. we've now met and are dating officially IRL
> become a completely different person in UNI. go from being "loser with no friends" to "complete party animal with lots of confidence and tons of friends"
> still keep relationship with vesti girl going
> decide to move to calgary to attend same university as vesti girl
> now dating girl and still a party animal
> move in with vesti gf
> get into drugs
> make out with gf's best friend and break up with gf
> move out and begin a 2 year period of changing girlfriend's every 2 months and getting more into drugs
> lose all money, quit school, work 2 jobs to pay for partying
> move back to hometown with a new-found confidence and set my life straight and start over properly

Kinda crazy to think back to when i was just a 17 year old kid sitting in front of the computer staring at the vesti and msn convos from 6pm to 4am non stop..

Now i check the vesti maybe like once every 2 months and it's just like... jesus.. there's users who STILL post there from back in the day and act like they're the shit and have younger people idolize them.. i can't believe i was PART of that group back then..

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

so how was Winnipeg. right answer: amaze

 

[BigRandal_ps3]

i was drunk the entire time. we only left the campus a few times haha. and most of those times we ended up at the cambridge or the pemby

 

[tmg.exe]

I dont think I've posted on the vesti once.

I know I haven't. Been at IGN since before the Vesti's inception, but have deliberately avoided engaging there.

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

i was drunk the entire time. we only left the campus a few times haha. and most of those times we ended up at the cambridge or the pemby

haha, the Pemby!! that's all ya gotta see right tharrr

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

I dont think I've posted on the vesti once.

I know I haven't. Been at IGN since before the Vesti's inception, but have deliberately avoided engaging there.

I think I saw you post on ICB once. same diff

 

[tmg.exe]

ICB? The Insider Community Board? Huge difference. The ICB (at the time, at least) was only open to paying subscribers (insiders) and mods. There was a barrier to entry, which led to a generally less-unpleasant userbase. The Vesti never had a barrier to entry - anyone could post and anyone could make new accounts at will, meaning there was no accountability for misbehaviour (either you're misbehaving under a mup and if you lose the account you just make another one, or if you misbehave under your main you just abandon it and make a new main and continue misbehaving).

When there was a monetary attachment to an account (as in the ICB), fewer asshats get in and those that do have something to lose if they get caught misbehaving.


Now, waaaaay back in the day there was the IGNCB, which had no genuine barrier to entry itself, but seemed to exist in a time before asshattiness became so prevalent on internet forums.

Hell, this board doesn't have a barrier to entry anymore, but it seems to have avoided the "everyone simultaneously trying to be the alpha or the jester" problem that has made the Vesti what it is.

 

[Baby_King_Bob]

ha, sorry bud. was just a joke as the ICB used to be viewed as an inferior, or wanna-be, IGNCB