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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:22 am
by dzjepp
And I think q3w should require new registers to post porn or get banned like rogans board does.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:41 am
by mjrpes
I think q3w should give new registers a complementary iPod like rogans board does.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:42 am
by Dave
Yeah right... We can't even get some douche bag to give us the free t-shirts he promised

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:47 am
by Captain
riddla wrote:...and YGP can't spell :olo:
You missed my typo though :icon32:

"moral"

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:34 pm
by diego
Foo wrote:Eh so anyway, VE's a clown and at least some people appear to have been burned by him. Shame.

I think he's just one of those guys that's got so wrapped up in his own delusions of grandeur that aside from convincing other people he's convinced himself.

Whatever, I wish him luck. Just as long as whatever he's messing up isn't anywhere near me. :shrug:
Ahh... those were the days... *fondly remembers, opens can of beer...*

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:03 pm
by SplishSplash
I don't know anything about VE, but there's an awful lot of people in this thread who "always thought he was a bit shady", "have always known it" and "suspected it from the beginning".

Cheers

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:12 pm
by raw
VE was always cool with me and I do know he has had issues with people. He donated free hosting to my brother for his http://www.cobrakid.com site and it worked fine with a few minor hiccuups. One day it disappeared and I couldn't get in touch with him so I started hosting elsewhere. I lost my databases but it was not really a big issue. Thank god I always did an FTP backup of all of my content.

I recently got my brother's site back up and running with 4d's help.

I'm not judging VE on what was said, he was always cool to me; we had a few head to head arguments but everything was always settled.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:29 pm
by YourGrandpa
Dave wrote:I tend to believe Rogan about VE being a decent guy who got into some bad shit. Like VE or not, that guy gave us a lot of free server resources that probably cost him hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

I also think Dekard got dicked and I hope he gets his domain back or some form of settlement. It's something I would definitely sue over.
He was probably ripping off one of his other customers to provide that "free server", just like he did to Joe Rogan.

I'm sure some people here would still call him a Robin Hood of the internet for doing so. When all he really is, is a liar and a thief.

Hey VE, how's business. :olo:

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:30 pm
by diego
VE was also nice enough to host a surrogate-forum to quakeworld a while ago and he was always cool with me.

So: I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:36 pm
by Massive Quasars
Massive Quasars wrote:Twas', but I've never known right wing nutters to lie.
Maybe this guy isn't a nutter.

http://www.right-thoughts.us/index.php/ ... te_uphill/

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:15 pm
by Dave
YourGrandpa wrote:
Dave wrote:I tend to believe Rogan about VE being a decent guy who got into some bad shit. Like VE or not, that guy gave us a lot of free server resources that probably cost him hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

I also think Dekard got dicked and I hope he gets his domain back or some form of settlement. It's something I would definitely sue over.
He was probably ripping off one of his other customers to provide that "free server", just like he did to Joe Rogan.

I'm sure some people here would still call him a Robin Hood of the internet for doing so. When all he really is, is a liar and a thief.

Hey VE, how's business. :olo:
If what all or some of what he did is true, he should make amends for it, but I know it's hard to forgive or understand his problems when he constantly upset you on an internet forum.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:19 pm
by raw
The Internet is alive and real. I can hear it breathing in my sleep.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:35 pm
by Massive Quasars

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:48 pm
by YourGrandpa
Dave wrote:If what all or some of what he did is true, he should make amends for it, but I know it's hard to forgive or understand his problems when he constantly upset you on an internet forum.

Upset me? :olo:

You're kidding, right?

This place has never and will never "upset" me. I just think it's funny to see such an arrogant braggart exposed as such.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:09 pm
by Wabbit
Oh the irony.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:42 pm
by raw
YourGrandpa wrote:
Dave wrote:If what all or some of what he did is true, he should make amends for it, but I know it's hard to forgive or understand his problems when he constantly upset you on an internet forum.

Upset me? :olo:

You're kidding, right?

This place has never and will never "upset" me. I just think it's funny to see such an arrogant braggart exposed as such.
On a side note, I'm looking at ocean access property in PSL for myself.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:51 pm
by R00k
I'm thinking along the same lines as Dave and Joe Rogan here -- I don't think he was some kind of sinister con man. I think he probably just got in over his head on a regular basis and tried to use some shifty moves to get out of situations that he'd created.

The drinks and pills and wanted-for-felonies parts of the story are not really substantiated as far as I've seen, so I'm not going to be making any judgement calls about those - not really my business anyway, unless I'm thinking about hiring him for something.


As far as this place goes.... VE was probably a dick as often as he wasn't one, but people are entitled to be dicks if they want to. When he was hosting our Q3 server, I remember always having some drama swirling around whether it was up, or still existed, or what, and sometimes this would be for a day, and sometimes for a week or two.

Now I'm not saying this to knock him - he gave us free server usage for a long time, and I think that was awesome. All I'm saying is that it kinda fits with the story being told, in my mind -- I remember wondering what was going on with the server a few times, and nobody could reach him or knew where he was.

If I remember correctly, that's pretty much the reason there was so much demand for AxBaby's server to begin with - because it was always up, and if it wasn't we always had somebody we could reach to check it out.

But again, what he gave us was free, so it's hard to expect full time customer service for that kind of price.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:52 pm
by EnterNameHere
You have no idea how bad he is in real life, I know this for a fact. He fooled a lot of people. But hey, this is just a forum, enjoy him.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:54 pm
by R00k
And just who might you be?

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:16 pm
by YourGrandpa
Torment, maybe?

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:18 pm
by YourGrandpa
raw wrote:
YourGrandpa wrote:
Dave wrote:If what all or some of what he did is true, he should make amends for it, but I know it's hard to forgive or understand his problems when he constantly upset you on an internet forum.

Upset me? :olo:

You're kidding, right?

This place has never and will never "upset" me. I just think it's funny to see such an arrogant braggart exposed as such.
On a side note, I'm looking at ocean access property in PSL for myself.
Sweet...

Which canal you thinking about living on?

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:18 pm
by SplishSplash
YourGrandpa wrote:upset?? ME?!?!?
olo

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:20 pm
by raw
YourGrandpa wrote:
raw wrote:
YourGrandpa wrote:
Upset me? :olo:

You're kidding, right?

This place has never and will never "upset" me. I just think it's funny to see such an arrogant braggart exposed as such.
On a side note, I'm looking at ocean access property in PSL for myself.
Sweet...

Which canal you thinking about living on?

Not sure yet, still looking around but it will be about a year before I move.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:33 pm
by YourGrandpa
Buy in the Torino area and we'll be neighbors. :olo:

No canals though....

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:34 pm
by raw
Ocean access is a MUST. The lady and I are fisherpeople.