A blast from the past

[Cletus]

probably

[Gamma]

I dunno, that last post was suspiciously XMANesque if you ask me.

[Madmya]

so true

[unfnknblvbl]

I was going to comment, but I couldn't remember how much in assets XMAN had...

[Twiztid Elf]

$60,000?

[Peppermint Lounge]

$20,000.

[t0mby]

I vaguely remember him.

[Hercy]

His infamous post is in here: http://poolroom.4bitterguys.com/resources/ODWF.txt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[t0mby]

Originally posted by X MAN:
Go with a PIIII dude, 64 bit arc compared to 32, think about it.
But think about this, you want to play games right?
Save your money and get XBOX, it will make ALL PC gaming look like a Dreamcast game.

He was right!

[Symbiote]

Truly a reminder that we owe all we are to the ODWF forum.

In many respects the rise of WoW was in direct response to the decline of the Dreamcast, with consoles since being shit in comparison. A great historical drama may one day trace this narrative arc, from the release of Sonic Adventures to the demise of the Games-Ranch forums, the stagnant pool of dead posts they have become today.

[unfnknblvbl]

I blame the rise of Facebook and Twitter for the stagnation of forums like this one. But it sure as shit wasn't helped with GameHED's incessant ramblings.

[Symbiote]

He was highly incestuous, and that is a gay comment

[Madmya]

We're just old. Seen it all before, care less about other views.

[Symbiote]

Sup guys just checking in.

Over the past few years I have mostly focused on the laboratory origins of sars-cov-2 and getting fucking rich. Make like $500k a year now.

In case you didn't know, Yusen Zhou, chinese general, leaked the sars virus out of his lab, which he was developing for both vaccines and as a potential bioweapon. Hope you enjoyed it the past few years.

Anyway if anyone knows if Ilce is around I am still keen to rejoin his guild.

[MiNiStRy]

WTF haha guilds do they still exist??

[Froggy]

Never got into WoW. Mate at work took a whole week off when they re-released it a couple of years back to just play the re-release 24/7, I was like wtf.

[Rorschach]

I have never played WoW, not even as a trial. I think that was maybe a good thing. I just remember ilce acting like a caping cunt at the end of PlayNOW and later on the Gamenation forums.

[Madmya]

Sup guys just checking in.

Over the past few years I have mostly focused on the laboratory origins of sars-cov-2 and getting fucking rich. Make like $500k a year now.

In case you didn't know, Yusen Zhou, chinese general, leaked the sars virus out of his lab, which he was developing for both vaccines and as a potential bioweapon. Hope you enjoyed it the past few years.

Anyway if anyone knows if Ilce is around I am still keen to rejoin his guild.

Haha what the hell is this? Is this for real? Half a mill to investigate the origins of covid?

I have no idea if this is for real but of course it was a lab leak, it had to be a lab leak. I understand governments need to run their due diligence before accusing a world superpower, but Occam's razor. We discussed this in the Rona thread back in 2020. The bigger issue are the people who passionately dismissed the idea. What was their agenda?

[Symbiote]

Nah no money in the covid investigations, I just do that on the side.

The exact agenda of those covering it up is a bit murky, the proximate issue was that the CREID network for global virus surveillance had just been established, and we were relying on the Chinese CDC to do their part and contribute viral samples from asia. We needed them then more than ever, since we needed the on the ground intel about the virus, how it was mutating and what treatments were effective.

Fauci & team were concerned that an unfounded rumour that a Chinese lab leaked it would do harm to science funding in general and our collaboration with China and the Chinese CDC in particular, so decided to try their best to disprove it.

Had they known back then that it would kill 20 million people, they probably wouldn't have done what they did, but they thought it would blow over like sars 1, and the bigger impact would be damage to research.

Kristian Anderson who really helped lead the coverup from a science publishing perspective, along with Peter Dazak were two of the leaders of the 11 lab CREID network.