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Topic Started: Jul 8 2004, 09:17 PM (21,566 Views)
ninjapenguin
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"Joss Whedon is my master now."
um.....make lots of weird noises??

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Bogans and Boozers
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Tasmania for the 18th AFL License!
This region is dead as . . .
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Northrealm

It is, and that's regrettable. It seems that a lot of the people who made the region fun, interesting, or other such have since departed, and what's left is ... dissatisfying.

I miss the Australia of a year ago, or hell, of two years ago.
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Bogans and Boozers
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First post of the new year . . .

. . . 11 days into the new year . . .

. . . and 13 days since someone last posted here . . .

. . . which is really sad . . .


I completely agree with Northrealm - two years ago this place was a happening place, and that was because the people who creating a buzz (i.e.: Westaway, Reubenlucy, Didjawannahavanotherbeer, Schnapps Drinkers, Anarchuslavia, Retirement Villas and friends, Boonytopia, Meulmania, Iago, Mid Gippsland, Young Buck, Ashmore, ninjapenguin, Sypons, Garbledeenia) were keen and consistently keeping this place lively. Even foreign embassadors and diplomats were jumping on the Australian bandwagon - Diposablepuppetland from England winning many of our forum-based competitions.

Unfortunately, certain people were not content with this and tried to push the boundaries further by pushing their own agendas. True I did re-introduce the notion of parliament into this region, but this would have worked if it wasn't for these people who wanted to push the boundaries further. What should have been a method to involve the entire region in making regional decision quickly descended into mud throwing and taunting by these members, which brought the region to the brink of destruction. People like: paul keating, mordd, and even cremorne, abused their powers to implement their own hidden agendas.

Considering the length of time since this debacle, I feel comfortable in devulging this information, as the information the then Intelligence section of the MoD (Ministry of Defence) had collected was incredibly damning on behalf of these three members that these members (except one) were stripped of all authority. Parliament was dissolved and permanently removed from these forums. Of course the person who escaped punishment (and public notice) from this investigation only avoided because this person is the root admin of these forums. After all, how do you remove authority from someone who has absolute authority on this site?

This has remained secret since the event, and only members of Intelligence had known about this. As time has passed, these members have gradually cease involvement in the region, only leaving myself as the sole survivor. I may as well lay it out in the open, as the damage has already been done. The region has never recovered from this series of events, and never will considering the downward trend in NS activity. Those who were personally attacked by these three (and others) resigned immediately from parliament and left NS all together, stating they were no longer prepared to tolerate the hidden agendas anymore. One of these people was President-elect, Didjawaannanotherbeer. Those still had remained gradually became disheartened, and disappeared from the site. The buzz had gone, the hype was over.

So here we are, almost six years since these forums were first created and there is no-one here from day one active. Suddenly this post has become a eulogy; an epitaph for a region once brimming with activity . . . and one name springs to mind: Cremorne, our so called "founder". Cremorne became founder in his mid teens, yet purported himself as being 10 years older. A manipulator, a liar, this boy tried to impose himself onto this region in every possible way. These are not my words . . . these are the words of former region members who actually met him in real life:

"It's like this. I will never come back to Australia whilst Cremorne is there. He spread lies about me - and IRL as well. Cremorne is a liar and a spoiled brat. Don't trust him as far as you can spit him. Don't get close to him and don't believe a word he says. He pushed me out of the region by telling lies, and basically everyone believed him. When they found out I was telling the truth and he was lying, it was too late." - Chocoholia (former WA delegate).

Cremorne had a habit of trying to oust anyone who held the delegacy for too long for his own liking, and would do anything to get his own way. In the instance of Chocoholia, he did all he could in role playing as well as in real life to get his own way - no matter who was hurt in the process. This was not the only instance, as I have known of several instances similar to this where this has occurred (one particular instance where someone had been driven to contemplating suicide). The final recorded instance was when Cremorne made his attempt to remove Retirement Villas from the delegacy. Yet another slander campaign, this time playing on RV's liking of creating amusing puppet nations to get at him. These nations were created to imitate RV's puppets, but were malicious spreading the message that he and all the other New Wave nations would invade Australia (with the assistance of a raider region). This reached boiling point when cremorne's puppet nations were visiting various raider regions, baiting the regions into attacking Australia by spreading lies in order to gain some from of provocation. Through careful diplomacy, all attacks were avoided but the damage was already done. RV soon disappeared and no longer appeared in NS ever again.

"RV is completely harmless in his puppeteering - he is a good guy. His puppets say funny, sometimes cynical things - but he is a nice bloke. Don't suspect him for a minute if there's dodgy stuff going on. He's a sweetheart and I know he doesn't have it in him. I'd be prepared to swear that on a bible too"

So here it is, the epitaph for NS Australia: the downfall of a once great region . . . all because of one person with a Napoleon complex. The person who was even prepared to destroy the forums because he thought he wasn't going to get his way with parliament (turning people against each, and so on . . .)

Why not visit his myspace page sometime - the Napoleon of Cremorne, Tasmania:
www.myspace.com/cremorne

A heart that's full up like a landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
Silence, silence.

This is my final fit,
my final bellyache

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Such a pretty house
and such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises, please.


I may never return here again . . . I may never be allowed back here again should a certain person read this, so if this is the case - this is my farewell to the region.

B&B signing off.
Edited by Bogans and Boozers, Jan 11 2010, 01:11 AM.
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ninjapenguin
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"Joss Whedon is my master now."
i second and third and fourth that, my friend
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Garbledeenia
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I'm back. And I have a solution. Why not start all over again. It can't be too hard to open a new forum or comleatly remove everything here and start anew. We could have a launch party to drum up members and all the problems and stigma that the past has brought will be gone.

And yes, I am back. Did you miss me?
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Schnapps Drinkers
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Well B&B, as someone who's floated around here for what is now a very long time (and hasn't really participated much either in the past few years to be honest), I can say with some conviction that you've answered questions I've often asked myself, but never asked aloud. Primarily as it was probably none of my business and to inquire would've diverted my attention from mucking around and having fun here (the Member's Lounge was a rockin' place of bohemian thought :split: ).

(as B&B may recall, the Zetaboards that we're on is the third or fourth board we've been on - the first move was because one of the NS members was upset with certain member/s and stopped letting us use his bandwith, which also resulted in a whole chunk of posts by members being obliterated)

I've seen a lot of events "go down" since I started mucking about on NS, and have generally coasted around all the kinds of fireworks that would break out every so often. I suppose I shouldn't have, but after a number of incidences the apathy set in.
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