Originally an offshoot of the humble yet boisterous video gaming forum found on Bungie.net (or B.net), Sep7agon.net is one of a considerably large number of grassroots communities created by dissatisfied members of B.net.

In January 2013, what was once a unique and intuitively-designed forum, primarily for discussing Bungie's Halo franchise, had become a slow, blinding, and borderline unusable website overnight. The update coincided closely with Bungie's release of Destiny, their latest game, and many once-beloved features of the website were either destroyed or maimed in the process. This, along with Destiny's lukewarm reception, created a large divide in the userbase, with many veteran users deeming the website too drastically different to ever use comfortably again.

In an effort to recreate the experience of "B.old", a user known as Cheatlancer created Sep7agon.net in the summer of 2014, to moderate success. Many veteran users took a liking to Cheat's meticulous replication of the old website's design, and as a result, it became the most popular and thriving of the Bungie.net off-sites.

With a community of about 100-200 active users in any given week, the forum is naturally very tightly-knit, and there is a wide menagerie of colorful personalities who presently frequent the site. Enough to, say, write a TV Tropes article about it!

Help me out.

No, I'm not actually gonna put this on TV Tropes, even though I totally could. This is just for fun.

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Boards of Sep7agon

• The Flood: The off-topic forum. Takes its name from B.old. Most activity takes place here.
• HQ: The staff's headquarters. Forum Ninjas & Architects (moderators & administrators) discuss pertinent matters here.
• Septagon: The "town hall" of the website. Members can propose and discuss changes to the forum here with moderators.
• Gaming: Home of all video game discussion.
• News: Site updates and community polls are posted here.
• Serious: Political and religious discussion go here, among other more "serious" topics.
• Destiny: All spam/garbage threads get dumped here. No, it's not actually about Destiny. Unless... Destiny is garbage...
• Anarchy: A hidden forum that only opens on special occasions. Here, all forum rules are suspended, and users are given the ability to post anonymously.

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This website provides examples of:

• All There in the Manual: This was a Bungie.net offsite once. It has since taken a life of its own, and many users try to dissociate this website from its progenitor as much as possible.
• Author Appeal: The site isn't an exact replica of pre-update Bungie.net, but it's quite close. A number of differences are likely liberties taken by Cheat to improve upon what he viewed as flaws of the older site.
• Back From the Dead: Naturally, given the size of the community. A number of users often make dramatic leaves, only to return shortly thereafter. Also, a couple of permabanned users have had their bans rescinded over time. For better or for worse.
• Berserk Button: Many users have specific topics that really trigger them, and result in either heated arguments or conniption fits. Hilarity ensues for any casual onlookers.
• Crapsack World: Bungie.net. The reason why Sep7agon exists is because this is what B.net is now perceived as to a number of users. Also, Sep7agon itself, depending on your mileage.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In August of 2015, user challengerX faced off against Decimator Omega in a matchmaking of Halo 3. It didn't end well for Deci. The event is often spitefully referred back to as "the Armenian Genocide," due to Deci's heritage.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has its fair share of 'em. Perhaps not to the point of it being a World of Snark, but enough to make it so that the community isn't exactly... welcoming.
• Gallows Humor: Much of the community's sense of humor is based around this.
• Shout Out: Cheat built Sep7agon from the ground up to look and function exactly like Bungie.net did, pre-update. As such, a number of artifacts from the old site are present, along with Cheat's own embellishments:
  
  • The off-topic forum, the Flood, is named after B.net's off-topic forum, which in itself is named after the infamous zombie-like alien species that serve as secondary antagonists in the Halo franchise.
  • The userbase is given a selection of special nameplates to use, some of which contain Shout Outs to a variety of things, including Halo, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Assassin's Creed, Dark Souls, and even 4chan.
  • The hidden Anarchy forum has used a number of video game and TV show themes, including BioShock, Fallout, and The Walking Dead.

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Character sheets:

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Fucking noice.

Ha!

Good work.

Oh wow this is going to be interesting...

Heel-Face Turn: When a character switches sides from bad to good.

Isn't that what Verbatim kind of did with his apology threads?

Quote from: True Turquoise on September 26, 2015, 01:03:32 PM

Good God what have you done

Blind love: A person whose appearance isn't known to anyone else, yet they remain one of the most aftersought user.

Edit: did I do it right?

Not quite. "Blind Love" is not an established trope, as far as I know. And I don't think there are really any notable examples of that on this website.

Heel-Face Turn: When a character switches sides from bad to good.

Isn't that what Verbatim kind of did with his apology threads?

That could work, I guess, but I kinda want to mention myself as little as possible. Considering it's my thread, and all. I don't want to be too self-indulgent.

1O/1O formatted post

"Axe Crazy"


"Dead Horse Trope"
Cam, when he was here.

"Genki Girl"
Kitsune, probably. At least compared to the norm here.

"Too Dumb to Live"

Draco in Leather Pants: The tendency of fandom to fetishize a certain character (usually a villain or Anti-Hero), and play up said character's attractiveness over his or her personality flaws.

True Turquoise

Draco in Leather Pants: The tendency of fandom to fetishize a certain character (usually a villain or Anti-Hero), and play up said character's attractiveness over his or her personality flaws.

Try to come up with specific examples from the site, too, instead of just defining the trope.

Cloudcuckoolander: A character who has a spacey personality and, while not necessarily stupid, usually lapses into odd non-sequitur sayings or actions.

elegiac?

Yeah, that's more like it.

you could say the whole "oh" thing is Dull Surprise in text form

Curb-Stomp Battle: Chally's Armenian genocide.

Darker and Edgier: Anarchy is this, between the no-rules gimmick and option for total anonymity.

Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Existential discussions in Serious range from one end to the other.

Shout Out: To Bungie.net, obviously. "The Flood", the name of the site itself, and member ranks all reference Bnet. Anarchy themes often reference certain franchises, as well.

I'll add more later.

this is neato burrito

noice

I was gonna say--this thread is better suited in Icy's "forum reads" thread, rather than being pinned itself.