Do you remember when Pr3dator broke FP back in 2008? Here's a backup.
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[QUOTE=butre;53020097]holy shit i didnt know anyone ever actually fell for last measure[/QUOTE]
I was about 15 at the time this all went down I think. Let's just say I became a bit more wary of running exe files :v:
I wonder how much disk space the forum actually takes up
Oh hey i remember this..
[QUOTE=SHOH;53020245]I wonder how much disk space the forum actually takes up[/QUOTE]
pretty much all that matters is just text,
but that's not just posts, but also pretty much every event log, whatever's being audited
user accounts too, avatars I guess
An average post is probably only a handful of bytes, even sometimes one or two KB
I would expect everything to be under 25GB based on theory alone, and that's somewhat generous
if each post (by the counter in the footer) was 1KB it would still only be 4GB, for posts alone.
But you can't really expect it to be the norm. Adding urls for images can expand a post if you use a lot of them
and in the oify shitposting is king.
Does anyone remember that old thread with HD Skyrim mod screenshots? I just remember all the screenshots got replaced with (anime?) porn, and it's quite funny to read people complimenting the images or talking about how awe-inspiring they are.
I forgot Facepunch ever looked like that, though I don’t remember this destruction.
I [I]do[/I] remember Hoffpunch though.
Seeing old school Facepunch is always fascinating to me, especially since I only discovered the forum in late 2011. It's always a shame to hear how it's been nuked, considering the plethora of content that was made at that time, whether it be on the vanilla or custom forums. Just goes to show how easily things can be lost.
At the very least, this backup will be useful in more than just [URL="https://www.wikipunch.com/Pr3dator"]one way[/URL]!
[QUOTE=Dr. Doughnut;53020342]Does anyone remember that old thread with HD Skyrim mod screenshots? I just remember all the screenshots got replaced with (anime?) porn, and it's quite funny to read people complimenting the images or talking about how awe-inspiring they are.[/QUOTE]
Ooops. :dogcited:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/6klrYda.png[/img]
Aww, this little guy tried
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;53020762][img]https://i.imgur.com/6klrYda.png[/img]
Aww, this little guy tried[/QUOTE]
Here's hoping that garry will add that feature in the new forums.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;53018944]holy shit there used to be a subforum for Spore, I don't remember that at all[/QUOTE]
We locked Will Wright up in there and he only gets to draw with crayons now.
I remember getting banned. Hah! Wow.
I wish there was an archive of the Drugs Discussion forum because I once wrote a list of all the things I'd ever taken and it was so massively long that it goes from being terrible to ohmygodwhat. It dwarfed everybody's (not something to be proud of.) Most only once though. Only really added four over the last 3 years though, two of which legal things that I quit.
My first ban ever was auto from Garry for saying wtf or something.
[editline]2nd January 2018[/editline]
[QUOTE=3com111;53021200]Here's hoping that garry will add that feature in the new forums.[/QUOTE]
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Aw, saw some photoshop contest threads I participated in, but they weren't backed up. I gotta start doing that shit again, it's great fun, albeit tedious to prepare templates.
[editline]2nd January 2018[/editline]
Hey there's a picture there that still works:
[IMG]http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg35/Shoop27/godzilla-destruction.jpg[/IMG]
No matter how we look at it, it was pretty incredible to read about afterwards, especially now with more information seeming to be posted. Pretty informative.
[QUOTE=Dan The Man;53022448]
My first ban ever was auto from Garry for saying wtf or something.
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If only they'd bring smartness back. It was pretty unforgiving though.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;53022477]Aw, saw some photoshop contest threads I participated in, but they weren't backed up. I gotta start doing that shit again, it's great fun, albeit tedious to prepare templates.
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Those threads helped me learn photoshop growing up. I've still got a bunch of my submissions on my dropbox from back in the day. It's embarrassing..
[QUOTE=mastersrp;53022483]No matter how we look at it, it was pretty incredible to read about afterwards, especially now with more information seeming to be posted. Pretty informative.
If only they'd bring smartness back. It was pretty unforgiving though.[/QUOTE]
Smartness was the reason why I always did so great throughout school English courses.
I remember watching this happen and was glad that I barely posted at all back then.
Pr3dator looks like the type of guy to spend hours building something and then fucking destroying it for pleasure
IIRC I completely missed the "event," and then copped an autoban for innocuously using "to the bunker" like a week later.
I was very confused.
If I remember correctly, I joined a few weeks or so after this event, at that time people were still talking about it and I was amused that something like that actually happened
[editline]3rd January 2018[/editline]
[QUOTE=postal;53019052]i just realized this is a perfect snapshot of who the entire moderation team was back then.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/BBsFsJ0.png[/img]
gunfox and I are the only ones left lmao. well, and hezzy who he wasn't able to ban but was asleep anyways same as garry. this is why it's a bad idea to have all your forum admins in the same timezone lol....[/QUOTE]
strangely enough, I remember pretty much all of these mods
I think this was also around the time when those long Kermit the Frog avatars were popular
[img]https://i.imgur.com/TzBLvsq.png[/img]
That was a fun time.
[QUOTE=NotMeh;53024873]strangely enough, I remember pretty much all of these mods
I think this was also around the time when those long Kermit the Frog avatars were popular[/QUOTE]
yea that was me that started that avatar fad lol. I still have all the edits saved somewhere. oddly enough, just after that fad started someone from Something Awful started using my kermit avatar on there as their own (which granted was just an edit of a kermit picture someone ripped from 4chan. all I added was the eyebrows), and then it somehow went on to become an emoticon over there.
[url]https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilies[/url]
[img]https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-jiggled.gif[/img]
[url]https://www.facepunch.com/member.php?username=postal123[/url]
[img]https://facepunch.com/image.php?u=549&dateline=1212519231[/img]
still weird seeing it listed there lol. granted we got a lot of flack back then for stealing all their emoticons, and even now we're still using two of theirs :quagmire::zoid:, so I guess it's only fair they have an emoticon that actually originated from here (even tho nobody will know that and that it was really only the eyebrows that were original lol)
god that backup makes me wistful and nostalgic as fuck
it's been good
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
who was the mod who used to be really into steampunk and then someone posted pics of him crossdressing?
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
i really dont want this forum to be transferred over to the new forums. the new forums look so awful and the layout is all wrong and so not what facepunch is about
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
i really dont want this forum to be transferred over to the new forums. the new forums look so awful and the layout is all wrong and so not what facepunch is about
[QUOTE=loopoo;53025265]
i really dont want this forum to be transferred over to the new forums. the new forums look so awful and the layout is all wrong and so not what facepunch is about
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
i really dont want this forum to be transferred over to the new forums. the new forums look so awful and the layout is all wrong and so not what facepunch is about[/QUOTE]
well ur in luck [url]https://forum.facepunch.com/f/meta/gvro/Facepunch-Awfully-White/1/[/url]
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
well ur in luck [url]https://forum.facepunch.com/f/meta/gvro/Facepunch-Awfully-White/1/[/url]
What the fuck lol
[QUOTE=postal;53025377]well ur in luck [url]https://forum.facepunch.com/f/meta/gvro/Facepunch-Awfully-White/1/[/url]
[editline]4th January 2018[/editline]
well ur in luck [url]https://forum.facepunch.com/f/meta/gvro/Facepunch-Awfully-White/1/[/url][/QUOTE]
Ah, just like the old days.
[QUOTE=I_love_garrysmod;53019906]There's 16 year old me silently watching it all. I barely even remember any of this
[img]https://i.imgur.com/lzSIfUV.png[/img]
This is great, thanks for posting. How big is the backup and is there a way we can download it?
I might as well post these oldpunch screenshots I found in my documents
[t]https://i.imgur.com/RPUEW9W.png[/t][t]https://i.imgur.com/DzN3Y8C.png[/t][t]https://i.imgur.com/99Za1BP.png[/t]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/FpGVIyO.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I wonder if anyone saved the thread where I posted my ID
oh boy this brings me back
Man I thought that time with the gold member only images was fucking hilarious; I remember I couldn’t help but think join date elitism was so funny to watch. Especially how angry people could get at each other for it. On New Years so there were just so many people talking about the next years members and how much they’d suck.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;53019933]I miss th89
Edit: like I'd rather see th89s black ass than yours postal and that's saying something[/QUOTE]
th89 was my intro to the forums as a fresh member. I still remember his avatar was from that weird pencil-face short film.
He teased me because I was an awful poster at first (I was 11). I deserved it.
Can anyone explain to me what this is all about? I don't understand what happened back there.
[QUOTE=Fridolin;53086449]Can anyone explain to me what this is all about? I don't understand what happened back there.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]On the 26th of June, 2008, after garry went to bed, Pr3dator initiated his plan - he permabanned the entire moderation team at the time and declared himself Super Moderator. Without Garry to stop him, he had utter control over the forum. He'd ban over 50 users before having to go to sleep himself after some 30 or so minutes, having stayed up late himself to achieve his goal, and so passed control of his account to Pawnstick who continued through the night, banning over 60 users himself (though it is possible that the two may have had another mod assisting them, though whether or not that's the case no one will truly know), before garry woke up and permanently banned him with the reason “Game Over”.[/QUOTE]
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