Quote from: Paul Andersen on August 13, 2017, 11:17:26 PM

your thread topics are seldom worth discussing, or taking seriously, so i like to hijack them into something slightly more interesting

I ;post about what I care about

fuck off if you dont like it honestly

and if you think about it, "fuck off" doesn't make a whole lot of sense either

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 11:08:26 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on August 13, 2017, 11:06:28 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 11:03:37 PM

you know, i never really understood the insult "i wouldn't even piss on you if you were on fire"

i get the idea behind it, but it's not like the piss alone is gonna be enough to put out the flames

so you might as well do it, because who wants to be on fire AND have someone piss on them

nobody

cool

maybe post something relevant

i don't really get a lot of insults that are supposed to be insulting

like when people say "i've forgotten more than you know about this subject"

again, i get the meaning behind it—but it just seems like something that could easily backfire

like why would you ever say that you've forgotten more things than somebody knows

just seems stupid if the target doesn't understand the implications

ok

"you must be a lot of fun at parties" is pretty dumb too

because you're giving the person credit, and it's an easy set up for things like "at least i get invited to parties," etc.

not my place bud, and i'm not gonna suck any admin dick just to make that happen

somebody has unreasonably high standards

Quote from: eggsalad on August 13, 2017, 10:59:46 PM

Who's going to punish me.

don't worry guys, i got this

yo, it's the 14th

you should unban me early

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 10:54:53 PM

Quote from: eggsalad on August 13, 2017, 10:52:17 PM

i was never one you dolt

im a nihilist

https://bungle.cafe/t/controversial-views-thread/292/28605

he's just stupid

http://sep7agon.net/serious/praise-britannica-circumcision-ruling/msg1212133/#msg1212133

Can Verbatim kill himself so you can get data on how people react?

so i heard you weren't an anti-natalist anymore

why

My wife's been hinting that she got me one for my birthday. Only a few weeks to find out.

nice

happy birthday in a few weeks

How can I ever trust anyone online again?

Perhaps that was your mistake.

Wait so you drink? What are your real views on pot?

I drink on the occasion, but only with the team. I don't smoke anything and I don't really have an interest in cannabis. Nothing against it, just not my bag.

How and why would a ~19 year old even assemble a whole team for an eight year project anyway?

I'm very enthusiastic about my work, and I'm fortunate in that I have a lot of like-minded individuals in my circle.

>All of you fuckwits not believing him

I'm willing to give Paul a chance here. Verb was that annoying cousin you kind of hated but were forced to love also because he's family but Paul seems like a breath of fresh air.

Paul, can I pay you to probe my thoughts for an hour every other week?

I'd probably talk to a real psychologist; I'm only a student.

One last question. Your favorite color?

Though Verbatim's favorite color was stated to be green, I've always been more partial to blue.

First of all, I'm sorry to hear that your actor died. Second thing is while I didn`t know about the research, I couldn`t notice that your hate to anime was a little bit off, since a) anime audience is usually scoring anime between 6 and 8, rarely scoring goes below 6 and b) why do you continue watch anime if you hated most of the shows. Also I guess question/topic about Street Fighter vs Blazblue was staged as well, was a little bit weird to see you in a discussion. Also I assume Aria (or how you want me to call you) leaves as well. Oh well. Kinda sad to hear that you don`t play videogames, maybe after this research you'll find some spare time to play them.

Trust me, there's probably a truckload of inconsistencies yet to be found. It's amazing how we were able to keep it going for as long as we did.

My leave from the site is a personal one; my colleagues can do as they wish. I personally can't bear to be here anymore, and rather than dwell on what's been lost, I wish to pursue other things, after writing my final research paper on this subject. Matt would've wanted me to keep pushing forward, so that's what I'm going to do.

Cheers.

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 01:35:52 AM

Quote from: Iberian Husky on August 13, 2017, 01:24:38 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 01:19:28 AM

Quote from: Iberian Husky on August 13, 2017, 01:17:57 AM

Come on, Cheat: Were there any major fluctuations with Verb's IP? Because that could make of break this whole thing.

I'd contest this, but it's not like you'll take my word for it.

I wouldn't waste Cheat's time with such a (relatively) trivial matter anyway.

Did you have some sort of special networking setup for the purpose of immersion? If so how did you pull it off?

Yes. We weren't even sure if we'd be able to pull it off as well as we did, but we thought if we kept Verbatim's personality complex and his speech patterns relatively simple, we'd have a greater overall time maintaining a consistent persona. Occasionally, this was met with bemused reactions from subjects. Reports of hypocrisy and contradictory opinion were common during early portions of the project (mostly during the bungie.net era), so we all gathered around and agreed upon select principles that Verbatim would live and die by—this is where his black-and-white sense of ethics came in. It made it a lot easier for us to maintain without getting caught in contradictions.

Hiring Matt was a huge risk, but I put my trust in him anyway and we were able to cooperate with him to great effect. By far the riskiest move on our part was having him record a video answering questions from you all—his first and only video appearance, to my knowledge. The reactions scared us. A lot of you gave reports of Matt seeming "too normal" to be Verbatim, and we thought the project was destroyed, but in the end, it actually led to one of our biggest breakthroughs during our research.

In short, it was a journey. In some ways, I'm not sure how we were able to do it. But I know that we couldn't have done it without Matt. Now that he's gone, I'm not sure how could ever continue (we had plans to keep this going indefinitely).

Yes, but how did you physically accomplish this? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you posted from a consistent IP. Did you have multiple people remotely access a single machine for the purpose of posting? Did you do this with multiple machines within a single network, where "Verb's IP" was just the network IP?

Little of column A, little of column B.

The thing is, Verbatim was a college student and a frequent mover (we tried to establish this through his post-lore).

He would take his laptop to several places where his IP would change frequently. His home, the park, the bus stop, the mall, his college—the list goes on. So it made sense to us that his IP would change from time to time, because that sort of thing only seemed normal.

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2017, 01:19:28 AM

Quote from: Iberian Husky on August 13, 2017, 01:17:57 AM

Come on, Cheat: Were there any major fluctuations with Verb's IP? Because that could make of break this whole thing.

I'd contest this, but it's not like you'll take my word for it.

I wouldn't waste Cheat's time with such a (relatively) trivial matter anyway.

Did you have some sort of special networking setup for the purpose of immersion? If so how did you pull it off?

Yes. We weren't even sure if we'd be able to pull it off as well as we did, but we thought if we kept Verbatim's personality complex and his speech patterns relatively simple, we'd have a greater overall time maintaining a consistent persona. Occasionally, this was met with bemused reactions from subjects. Reports of hypocrisy and contradictory opinion were common during early portions of the project (mostly during the bungie.net era), so we all gathered around and agreed upon select principles that Verbatim would live and die by—this is where his black-and-white sense of ethics came in. It made it a lot easier for us to maintain without getting caught in contradictions.

Hiring Matt was a huge risk, but I put my trust in him anyway and we were able to cooperate with him to great effect. By far the riskiest move on our part was having him record a video answering questions from you all—his first and only video appearance, to my knowledge. The reactions scared us. A lot of you gave reports of Matt seeming "too normal" to be Verbatim, and we thought the project was destroyed, but in the end, it actually led to one of our biggest breakthroughs during our research.

In short, it was a journey. In some ways, I'm not sure how we were able to do it. But I know that we couldn't have done it without Matt. Now that he's gone, I'm not sure how could ever continue (we had plans to keep this going indefinitely).