[Deucaon]

This by far is the best one.

[AdamM]

Hey, thanks for chipping in Andrew. It kind of validates most of the things people think about CAD when someone from the inside comes out with similar feelings.

[Ghello]

http://www.dead-baby-joke.com/


What's funnier than a dead baby?
A dead baby in a clown costume

What's the difference between a dead baby and a rock?
You can't have sex with the rock!

What's the difference between a truck-load of dead babies and a truck-load of bowling balls?
You can't unload the bowling balls with a pitch fork!

What's the difference between a dead baby and a watermelon?
One is fun to splatter with a big hammer, the other is a watermelon.

What's more disgusting than 10 dead babies hanging from a tree?
One dead baby hanging from 10 trees!

How do you make a dead baby float?
Take your foot off the back of it's head.

How many babies does it take to paint a house?
Depends on how hard you throw them!


Ah. I don't know, I find dead babies immensely humorous.

LOL! None of those are funny.

This post has been edited by Ghello: 06 June 2008 - 04:57 PM

[Deucaon]

Hey, thanks for chipping in Andrew. It kind of validates most of the things people think about CAD when someone from the inside comes out with similar feelings.

We should start an amnesty international for former Caders.

[Game Over]

I haven't read the majority of this thread, but I'm somehow drawn like a magnet to such things regarding my former employer.

I want to clear a couple things up, just in regards to what Yahtzee said, what many people have said, and all the banter thats been slung around about Buckley, who is not a friend of mine, he is a former employer and nothing more. My name is Andrew, I wrote game and film reviews for him circa 2003, and came up with the CADMedia concept at the same time. Between then and 2005 I did various things around the community.

When I first worked with Tim he was a much different person, in my experience, than he is portrayed as, and acts as today. He was very relaxed, he didn't take himself too seriously, he did have a strong business sense, which is why he makes a living selling a mediocre product. So here's what I know.

Yahtzee's criticisms are spot on. Somewhere along the line Tim fell into this place where his success and his ego became indistinguishable. He's pissed off a lot of people in the "webcomic scene" with his prima-donna attitude. He thinks he's fit to stand next to Penny Arcade, but he isn't. The problem is, I honestly believe had he taken a different route, he could have been. His fans, and by fans I mean slavering fans, not average readers, have insulated him to the point where he can't accept criticism as valid, simply because he's been in the ego-polishing chamber for so long.

Now about his past. The "pedophile" incident people are referring to, and I probably know some of you, was mostly overreaction on both sides of the "conflict". As it played out, a forum member decided he'd had enough of the forums, and wanted to go out with a big bang, so he posted that Tim sent lewd photographs of himself to a female forum member, who was at the time, underage. The mods of the forum wouldn't touch it, because they thought it was something Tim should deal with himself.

Instead of dealing with it like he should have, and just quietly deleted the guy, he went nuts over it. One person turned quickly into hundreds of people, even accounts of people who weren't there or didn't post. Ultimately he closed down his forums with the charming message "Taking out the garbage", and when they returned, the entire subforum that the post originated in (Rantings of Madmen) was gone. At this point, myself still an active admin on CAD's now-defunct IRC network, I had to take a side, or I thought I had to, and so I used my own personal site to set up a temporary home for all the displaced people from CAD. Ultimately, the IRC network as a whole broke away from CAD as a result of the fanatical overreaction on Tim's part.

I don't believe for a second he's a pedophile. I do believe he did some dumb things, thought with his dick instead of his brain in the early days, but none of these people were children. Jackie was and is a full-grown adult, Amber was 17 when allegedly she received the lewd pictures. Most of the people who he banned were asking for it, many people weren't particularly mature about it. I disagreed with the way he handled it, and honestly I wanted to spear him a bit for how he'd let my side-project decay after I sorted through hundreds of applicants for news and editorial writers, for what was at the time an audacious and ambitious project.

He's not a bad person, he's a stagnant person, and one who is quick to anger, and erratic in mood at times. He's also more than smart enough to run his own business, which is successful. He's a good artist, and could be a far better writer than he is. I never did know him all that well but I knew him better than most, and I certainly know the most about the more personal allegations against him.

Long story short, Yahtzee is right, there's nothing wrong with reading CAD, Tim isn't the villain he's made out to be all the time, but he and his comic are flawed. Don't believe everything you hear, especially if it comes from Encyclopedia Dramatica, funny though it may be.

Well, now that we have the whole Pedo thing over with (not really, as you said he think with his dick), lets now bash him for being a total ass hole.

And about the ED page; we are not children obviously, we, unlike buckley, think with something called a 'brain'. ED is filled with satire rather than crude humor. Nobody completely understands them.

[Game Over]

How do equal minds communicate?

This is dated 01 April 2008
Scott from VGfurrs hooks up Buckley with a new storyline:


Scott & B^Ukley's secret 4Chan session
Scott: DO IT FAGGOT!!
B^U: everyboodi would lol'd, my best strip EAVR!!

Next day:


But then...

[Patch]

Well, now that we have the whole Pedo thing over with (not really, as you said he think with his dick), lets now bash him for being a total ass hole.

And about the ED page; we are not children obviously, we, unlike buckley, think with something called a 'brain'. ED is filled with satire rather than crude humor. Nobody completely understands them.

I agree. We must most certainly abuse a male over the fact he has a labido because someone says he has one. Also, we must most certainly abuse him over being a total ass hole, because as we all know you don't see many of them on the internet.
PS: Is labido the right word?

[Ghello]

How do equal minds communicate?

This is dated 01 April 2008
Scott from VGfurrs hooks up Buckley with a new storyline:


Scott & B^Ukley's secret 4Chan session
Scott: DO IT FAGGOT!!
B^U: everyboodi would lol'd, my best strip EAVR!!

Next day:

VG cats is just as bad. Instead of someone being bored looking all the time it's cats having big eyes all the time, but that TF2 one is awesome.

This post has been edited by Ghello: 08 June 2008 - 03:17 PM

[Game Over]

I agree. We must most certainly abuse a male over the fact he has a labido because someone says he has one. Also, we must most certainly abuse him over being a total ass hole, because as we all know you don't see many of them on the internet.
PS: Is labido the right word?

Not a pedo, but still a dick.

VG cats is just as bad. Instead of someone being bored looking all the time it's cats having big eyes all the time, but that TF2 one is awesome.

I can't care less for VGC.

This post has been edited by Game Over: 08 June 2008 - 05:55 PM

[Deucaon]

I just lost my appetite... for the next 3 days.

[Patch]

Well, he's not unfit. I thought that picture was funny. He seems a lot like a frat boy that's gotten drunk, gone skinny dipping and his friends have taken his clothes so when he gets out he has to hide behind the xbox.
That's what it looks like.

How can you not care about VG cats?

What is B^U?

[Uszi]

Well, he's not unfit. I thought that picture was funny. He seems a lot like a frat boy that's gotten drunk, gone skinny dipping and his friends have taken his clothes so when he gets out he has to hide behind the xbox.
That's what it looks like.

I would make a seX-Box joke, but Family Guy has already done it... As well as everyone else on the planet.

I guess when one's only contact with girls appears to be sending them pictures of your genitalia, even the cold love of a machine would seem appealing.

This post has been edited by Uszi: 09 June 2008 - 07:14 AM

[Game Over]

How can you not care about VG cats?

What is B^U?

You have much to learn.

[Patch]

Instead of wasting my time and mocking me over the fact that I haven't spent enough time on the internet to know every crappy little 4chan meme you could have just told me.
Now we have two useless posts instead of one.

[Uszi]

Make that three.