The Archive - The Platonian (2006) - Nostalgia section

<insert NaMe hEre> SUCKS!

In the beginning Det created the sites and the forums. And the forums were without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Det moved upon the face of the waters. And Det said, Let there be posts: and there were posts. And Det saw the posts, that it was good: and Det divided the gaming posts from the other posts. And Det called the gaming posts The Nintendo Gaming Forum, and the others he called The General Forum. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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And Det said, Let the forums bring forth the living creature after his kind, nerds, and creeping thing, and fools of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And Det made the fools of the earth after his kind, and nerds after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the forums after his kind: and Det saw that it was good.

Then we fucked up.

We descended into a period of anarchy, which even Invincible Agent with his time machine could not escape. Anarchy is the path to the dark side... anarchy leads to anger...  anger leads to hate.. hate leads to suckage. We were so high and mighty... yet, like cannibals we fell upon each other in a frenzy of hatred, destruction and "<insert name here> SUCKS!" banners. Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the weapons of war.

Alas, Invincible Agent was at the centre of the hatred. At least five people had the following image in their signature, in all its technicolour glory.

As I mentioned, some people managed to turn their hatred outwards, at the Perfect Dark Elite and The Goldeneye Depot, rival sites of the time.

Some of the Goldeneye Depot fought back. In particular, their leader, a man named Matt Jackson. He created this banner, aimed at leading figure of hatred, Commander Jinx. The conflict between The Terrorists Forums and The Goldeneye Depot, which had simmered for some time became all the more bloody, which had an effect of almost ending the suckage war as everyone was united in hatred of TGD. We never liked them to begin with, as they stole Det's content and claimed it as their own... However, Commander Jinx was a figure of hatred to many TTF figures anyway, so Matt Jackson was not alone in wearing this badge.

Eventually, we saw the light... but by then it was too late. Our minds will ever be burdened by the souls of those who were not so lucky. Invincible Agent was shown not to be so invincible. All that remains of these troubled times are these images, relics. May we be forgiven our sins.

Further examples of our folly can be seen at The Put-Down Emporium (Original version (adverts and all)).