04-20-2005, 08:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-20-2005, 08:49 AM by LiquidDamage.)
Griselda,Apr 17 2005, 12:10 PM Wrote:I tried to look the PETE conspiracy up a while back, and was able to find it. It's one of my favorites. Of course, I didn't save the link. :( I think it was originally written by LiquidDamage or by Count Duckula (as Pirengle, but I may have the spelling wrong). So, using those two names should speed up a search of the old forums (or fora, as the Petes are fond of saying).
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That would be me. It was my 15 minutes of fame in this small corner of the world.
It was after Network54, and I think it was before the XPac, because RUSSBarb and GERBarb inspired it.
I'm sorry, I didn't keep a copy of it, or I would repost it for you guys. :(
For those who don't remember or never saw it, the gist of it was that Pete was actually a forum version of RUSSBarb and GERBarb-- the barbarians that many people played in shifts to reach level 99 in D2C.
The idea was that one person, who I called Jack or something, was the actual poster, because Pete's posts were always the same style. However, no one person could POSSIBLY know everything that Pete seems to know, so Jack kept a database of names of experts on various subjects. When a post would come up on that topic, he would contact those experts, and they would provide him with the necessary information for a post that was guaranteed to be the most authoritative response on the subject.
Jack was also a bit of an ass, and enjoyed ripping into people.
There were various links to posts that were used for proof of his expertise on around 8 different, mostly unrelated subjects.
Speaking of Pete, anybody hear any more news about how he's doing? Last I saw was Occhi saying that Magi said he was doing "better".