https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1834/c5d9a697-f4d7-4c67-bbf5-55698273af84/tropsical.png
god bless
tropsical was probably one of the friendliest and most genuinely nice people on the site tbh
What was that account that would appear every now and then, shitpost prolifically, then be banned for another few months/years? Firerain or something?
Idiot culls.
Anyone who posted in a certain thread got a permaban.
Red text as far as the eye can see....
Idiot culls wouldn't work here anymore because it would pretty much kill Newpunch even faster.
Also people asking for help with certain SFM models....
In ancient days, it was just called the GMod Forums.
There was also the legendary Drunken tale of regrets and murder in TES:Oblivion
Speaking of someone getting hammered...
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110585/9aeb3ce0-b4a4-48e1-9d13-71d68e54d055/image.png
Does anyone have the old default avatar before the dog butt and Bieber?
It was a gasping blonde lady. Never found it again.
I got runner up for post of the year two years ago for posting in a thread that went like this
[monkey video]
reply: Man if there was a word for hilarity and tragedy that would be this
Me: Hillary
El dorito online will rise again
Also if you posted loss in any way you got banned
:hoff: remembers
Until just now I thought he was too...
god speed this beautiful homepage
https://i.imgur.com/4SHhafP.jpg
hello lades gentlmen discord
i dont not understand why im banned??
https://www.wikipunch.com/index.php/Theoofp
god i miss that guy's thread
there are no screenshots of it
Surprised nobody mentioned Iago's nips yet
how do i get rid of my freak-ish nipplz
Reddit hadn't completely taken over internet discussion yet.
also the crysis 2(?) leak made us super popular
PHW was better.
That thread was posted on my birthday and it was like a gift from god. Shame it got deleted, so many funny responses.
I'm still convinced it was garry's alt
We used to have a whole subforum called "Mass Debate" and you could get banned for using bad arguments or not citing.
https://i.imgur.com/Rv0PHJA.png
"Why the fuck are you blaming the father? The kid caused her own death by being behind the father, something that's a big no-no ESPECIALLY when she more than likely saw the fucking gun."
subway porn edits
Some trivia from my blurry ass memory:
The GMF used to be a pretty awful place. They would harass other users and had this huge clique mentality. I remember them being kind of smug about having mod friends. Eventually there was a big drama over it and it landed on the side of 'fuck the gmf'. So some shit that was terrible about it got banned and now it's mostly mundane. Also, it used to be bannable to leak GMF content. Non-GMF users had this air of mystery about it, and then when you did become a gold member, you'd quickly realize that most of what went on there was shitposting and shit-talking other users (things like posting bad pictures of other users and making fun of them).
Popular webcomic artist Owlturd posted here long before his comic even started, and instead of posting normally, every post would be comics about breaking in to garry's house and stuff. He went by Shenanigansen.
We had a moderator get de-modded for creating a minecraft subforum without garry's permission or something like that. I think we kept the subforum anyway. He got his modship back later.
We used to have a large brony membership (myself begrudgingly included). There was a huge hatred both ways for them. We've also had large irrational hatreds for anime fans and furries.
We've had multiple controversies over how pornographic your avatar should be allowed to be.
Popular youtuber reportoftheweek was first posted here years ago when his channel was new. He was made fun of pretty hard (for being a little kid who wears suits literally always, usually oversized ones, and reviews fast food). Over time, FP gained a huge amount of respect for how he just doesn't give a fuck what people think.
I'd say there's a generation of FPers who have grown up together, myself included, in different site communities like WAYT and STGYM. I guess Facepunch is my equivalent to having that gaming clan that meant the world to you when you were a kid.
Transphobia used to be fairly widespread on facepunch. I've never been clear on the rules are but we used to have it be split down the middle on amount of users who would post transphobic rants on any applicable threads and have a large group of transgendered and allied users arguing right back. There weren't often bans handed out.
We used to have a weird porn thread which would just get weirder and weirder and weirder. Eventually we had people posting guro and loli and then eventually some teenager posted their dick or something and the whole thing got shut down. Now, even if porn threads are allowed, you're not allowed to make a 'weird porn' thread.
At one point there was an attempt to set up a wiki which catalogued notable facepunch users and what they're notable for. It didn't go very far and I think less than 50 people had articles about them. I was not one of them ;(
Polidicks used to not exist and political news was just part of sensationalist headlines. The 2016 election changed that when SH got so fucking clogged with articles with 'Trump' in the name that it was either create a new section or give up on getting news about anything else here. I find it interesting that no other election was intense enough to cause this, even the first black president, kinda reflects how political the world is now to me.
We used to have a roving door in which different 'that guys' would play the role of resident Facepunch conservative/alt righter. The most famous of which is Tudd, but we also had at one point had a bunch of them that would all show up in threads together who got labelled something like the "Sanius Squad" or something like that. They were guaranteed to extend any thread they popped in to by at least 7 pages full of arguing. The mods were hesitant to ban them due to not wanting to suppress political opinions opposite to what the majority thinks, but eventually they would all cross some kind of line and get banned anyway.
I think the largest amount of viewers this forum ever got was from the Fappening. That event where some dude leaked like 500 pictures of nude celebrities and the entire internet lost their shit over finally being able to see Scarlett Johannson's titties. I forget what the numbers were but it blew past any other milestone.
We used to have idiot culls where a thread would be posted that literally said if you posted in it you would be permabanned. You would not believe how many people got permabanned.
We had a huge toxx (Toxx being when you're so sure of something that you gamble your status here on it, basically saying "if I'm not right, permaban me") list of who people thought would win the 2016 election.
Many bitch ass users like myself toxxed the safe option, that Hillary Clinton would win. When she didn't, we were banned in droves unless we had made an escape clause (doing something hard or unpleasant to do where you had to prove you did it.)
My escape clause was to post a speedrun of myself beating hotline miami in under an hour with reversed controls. I did it.
The most notable thing that I ever did was smugly celebrate reaching 20,000 posts. This immediately caused a moderator (I think Postal) to delete thousands of my posts, which also erased thousands of other people's posts. Which made everyone super fucking salty. I got a lot of shit. If I remember correctly this was shortly before they stopped counting fast threads posts.
That's all I can think of for right now, and it makes me sad. Like many others, I grew up using this forum, and while that means I have a metric fuckton of cringy, embarrassing moments on here. I've never willingly stopped using When it dies, I'll be here to see it go.
Its so insane to think I originally joined almost eleven years ago, in fact tomorrow will be the exact day in fact. So much nostalgia remembering all the good times, hilarious antics, and sometimes even toxic events that happened. I remember playing Minecraft with a bunch of users who I unfortunately can't remember the names of. I remember when the text-based game HellMoo was pretty popular around here, and I think a FacePunch guild was created and destroyed a billion times. I got banned about a hundred times when the smartness system was in effect because I still used shitty internet lingo.
Eleven years later I still visit pretty much every day, and while I will say the community is much bigger, I still come for quite a few quality posts. Yeah, its not as small and interconnected as it was back then, it still has a pretty good community for the most part.
I'll definitely miss it when/if it goes, I don't mind reddit for general stuff, but its just not the same at all. This site has been great for the most part, of course there were controversies and some shitty behavior, but overall I've had a lot of great times.
If these are then end of days for the site, then I'll see you shitlords later, its been a trip.
It was better
This sounds like something that could be catalogued somewhere. If the FP wiki is defunct (is it now? I see errors all over the landing page) we should throw writeups like these on there.
The STALKER thread community on facepunch is honestly my favorite of them all, shame it's been fizzling away for some time now
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