Forums · GGFan has apologized to Smogon
I don't know what to believe any more.
[quote]Hello fellow members of Smogon. I am sure that some of the regulars among you know who I am as I have made quite a presence by trolling throughout the years, and I above all others have become one of the symbolic representations of the small minoraty of people that are against Smogon.
I started out my internet 'career' on Gamefaqs. I was an avid fan of Pokemon and I quickly got into the competitive scene. For those of you who weren't there back then the game was heavily reliant on evasion boosters and things of that nature. Eventually, as many do, I became a great RBY player and was able to beat some of the best players on Gamefaqs.
The problems started at around this time. I started trolling on Gamefaqs because I was twelve and was looking for attention and excitement. I wanted status and I was not getting any attention even though I deserved it, and not being a patient person I started flaming anyone and everyone who disagreed with me. People didn't side with me however, and people quickly started to dislike me on the boards, and that was not my intent.
I could ramble on and on about my stupidity back then, but repeating old stories like the Fish log is somewhat useless as we have all heard that one before. I created a board called THE Alternative. I created it because I wanted attention, and I was able to lie to people and get them to like me because they like I didn't like the people at Smogon. I manipulated them to do what I wanted to do, and this isn't very hard considering people are more likely to believe a person's lies if it feeds their hate for something.
THE Alternative became a place where I could attack the people I hated and feel better about myself because I had the last word. While there are a lot of articles on the website I only created them to get people to believe that I was the best RBY player in the world, and I started to believe it myself too. You know when you get so far into lies you start to believe it? It was like that. RBY is a game that is almost completely solved, and it is not hard to play decently at the game.
Anyway, back on track. Alternative died at around the time where two of my best members left at the same time, and it never really started back up again. After this the dream I had built of having the greatest forum and beating Smogon came crashing down on me, and I started to realise how stupid I had been.
I am posting this here because I want to say that I am sorry. I faked logs, tournaments and the like. I flamed people and acted like an idiot. I could go on and on, but I am sure you got the picture already. I am not asking for you to accept this appology, but I have to make it to feel a little better. It takes a lot to do this when it would be easier to just make another pointless flaming thread, but I have said it. I may get banned again, but at least I have said all I wanted to say.
-GGFan[/quote]
I didn't believe it either. This is the post from a thread on Smogon.
Few believed it.
Some embraced him.
I was skeptical, as were others.
GGFan then went on to admit that he is being treated for schizophrenia and is doing well, apparently.
then, to prove it was him, he posted this on THE Alternative:
http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=966
So yeah.
GGFan is no more, apparently.
I started out my internet 'career' on Gamefaqs. I was an avid fan of Pokemon and I quickly got into the competitive scene. For those of you who weren't there back then the game was heavily reliant on evasion boosters and things of that nature. Eventually, as many do, I became a great RBY player and was able to beat some of the best players on Gamefaqs.
The problems started at around this time. I started trolling on Gamefaqs because I was twelve and was looking for attention and excitement. I wanted status and I was not getting any attention even though I deserved it, and not being a patient person I started flaming anyone and everyone who disagreed with me. People didn't side with me however, and people quickly started to dislike me on the boards, and that was not my intent.
I could ramble on and on about my stupidity back then, but repeating old stories like the Fish log is somewhat useless as we have all heard that one before. I created a board called THE Alternative. I created it because I wanted attention, and I was able to lie to people and get them to like me because they like I didn't like the people at Smogon. I manipulated them to do what I wanted to do, and this isn't very hard considering people are more likely to believe a person's lies if it feeds their hate for something.
THE Alternative became a place where I could attack the people I hated and feel better about myself because I had the last word. While there are a lot of articles on the website I only created them to get people to believe that I was the best RBY player in the world, and I started to believe it myself too. You know when you get so far into lies you start to believe it? It was like that. RBY is a game that is almost completely solved, and it is not hard to play decently at the game.
Anyway, back on track. Alternative died at around the time where two of my best members left at the same time, and it never really started back up again. After this the dream I had built of having the greatest forum and beating Smogon came crashing down on me, and I started to realise how stupid I had been.
I am posting this here because I want to say that I am sorry. I faked logs, tournaments and the like. I flamed people and acted like an idiot. I could go on and on, but I am sure you got the picture already. I am not asking for you to accept this appology, but I have to make it to feel a little better. It takes a lot to do this when it would be easier to just make another pointless flaming thread, but I have said it. I may get banned again, but at least I have said all I wanted to say.
-GGFan[/quote]
I didn't believe it either. This is the post from a thread on Smogon.
Few believed it.
Some embraced him.
I was skeptical, as were others.
GGFan then went on to admit that he is being treated for schizophrenia and is doing well, apparently.
then, to prove it was him, he posted this on THE Alternative:
http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=966
So yeah.
GGFan is no more, apparently.
Yeah, I thought for sure it was a joke for the first two posts, then the third post linked to it.
Although the wording was weird, it said like clad found out all of his passwords, and now he's trying to get this out of the way before something happens. Meh, I don't know. It's goofy.
Although the wording was weird, it said like clad found out all of his passwords, and now he's trying to get this out of the way before something happens. Meh, I don't know. It's goofy.
i did (and still do but not as often) say stupid things i look at later and say what the hell. you should see my psypoke account, i once made a post with all text in the max letter size in capitals about how frosslas had awesome atk, horrible special atk, and decent spd. wasnt as bad as flaming but still horrible.
[QUOTE USER="CrossDragon" TIME="1216185574"]What...the...hell...
Well, that was an interesting read. So Truthi, Clad found out GGFan's Passwords? And now he's trying to get away from all that before being found out?[/QUOTE]
"[u]<span color="#800080">http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.co...ral&thread=966</u> : Do not take this advice as proof though. Clad recently got my universal password and was able to hack into many of my accounts. He is going to try to play along with this then he will say that you are all a bunch of idiots and that he has fooled you all. Do not fall for this trap. I am the real GGFan like I said. He is not."
I'm confused.
Well, that was an interesting read. So Truthi, Clad found out GGFan's Passwords? And now he's trying to get away from all that before being found out?[/QUOTE]
"[u]<span color="#800080">http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.co...ral&thread=966</u> : Do not take this advice as proof though. Clad recently got my universal password and was able to hack into many of my accounts. He is going to try to play along with this then he will say that you are all a bunch of idiots and that he has fooled you all. Do not fall for this trap. I am the real GGFan like I said. He is not."
I'm confused.
[QUOTE USER="Truthiness" TIME="1216188347"][QUOTE USER="CrossDragon" TIME="1216185574"]What...the...hell...
Well, that was an interesting read. So Truthi, Clad found out GGFan's Passwords? And now he's trying to get away from all that before being found out?[/QUOTE]
"[u][span color="#800080"]http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.co...ral&thread=966[/span /]</u> : Do not take this advice as proof though. Clad recently got my universal password and was able to hack into many of my accounts. He is going to try to play along with this then he will say that you are all a bunch of idiots and that he has fooled you all. Do not fall for this trap. I am the real GGFan like I said. He is not."
I'm confused.
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He's saying clad has his password to almost everything, and he's posting this before clad changes it and/or calls it a hoax or something.
Well, that was an interesting read. So Truthi, Clad found out GGFan's Passwords? And now he's trying to get away from all that before being found out?[/QUOTE]
"[u][span color="#800080"]http://lionheartggfan.proboards52.co...ral&thread=966[/span /]</u> : Do not take this advice as proof though. Clad recently got my universal password and was able to hack into many of my accounts. He is going to try to play along with this then he will say that you are all a bunch of idiots and that he has fooled you all. Do not fall for this trap. I am the real GGFan like I said. He is not."
I'm confused.
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He's saying clad has his password to almost everything, and he's posting this before clad changes it and/or calls it a hoax or something.