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Error 666: Topic not found
« on: January 31, 2009, 03:57:43 AM »
One of these days, some of you who've been around long enough will remember the significance of this date. :D

On January 31st, 2003, Kurt Angle was WWE Champion after beating The Big Show. Triple H was World Heavyweight Champion after beating Shawn Michaels. Jeff Jarrett was the third NWA World Heavyweight Champion in TNA history. And on that day, these forums were officially launched.

The only way to mark this anniversary was in our own particular, self defeating style - by making the forums look fucked up beyond repair. "Error 666" was a somewhat cryptic reference to the passing of our sixth year (if you've yet to do the math). It first appeared randomly in place of the logo, then surfaced in an anonymous PM sent to the members who joined this board at the very beginning. The title of that message: Saturday. Today.

These supposedly mysterious errors slipped by without comment at first, maybe reflecting a low expectation from people of this site's stability... :razz: ...but we got your attention when profile data began disappearing from view, with those original members all becoming "666'd" themselves. Admins included.

At last, the cerebral cogs began turning and the connection was spotted between the afflicted posters, but no understanding yet of what was going on or why. Hackers, maybe?

The final touch on this infiltration of errors, hopefully proving beyond any lingering doubt that this was no accident, was replacing the gallery preview images along the top of the board with three big sixes, hard coded into the page to prevent them being bumped by new uploads (not that anyone tried). Incidentally, the source URL of these numbers was a Photobucket account named "saturday666".

Over the last few months, we as a forum have experimented openly with the concept of "Cydentity" - our ability to recognize fellow posters without names, sigs or avatars - and the calculated "victimizing" of members over the course of Halloween. Consider the past few days a combination of the two, just to celebrate the fact that for six years, we've shared the kind of messageboard where stupid shit like this can happen and no one bats an eye.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 05:07:50 AM »
Funny thing is I could see everybody's names and and their sigs and all that.. just no profiles, which I seldom look at anyway...until this morning...

I'm really disappointed though.. I thought sure the nudie pics of me had caused the forums to implode.... :lol:


So....... I guess it's Happy Anniversary to us..... :D
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 05:48:01 AM »
That is so fucking retarded.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 06:35:37 AM »
What Fan said.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 06:53:40 AM »
Haha cool. If you'd started it all a bit sooner I think Illy and Ryan woulda figured it out. They were on to you with the Photobucket account.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2009, 07:50:12 AM »
So I've just sent a load of abuse to an innocent Chinese guy?
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2009, 08:17:45 AM »
Looks like a possibility.. unless Heady's Chinese all of a sudden... :rofl:
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2009, 08:26:00 AM »
Quote from: Illusion on January 31, 2009, 07:50:12 AM
So I've just sent a load of abuse to an innocent Chinese guy?

Since when have you cared about sending abuse to an innocent person?
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2009, 12:14:39 PM »
I had my suspicions,given the whole prank with people turning "evil" thing that happened in the past. But I didn't connect the dots.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2009, 02:04:59 PM »
Happy anniversary to PWH! I have had a lot of fun around these parts over the past few years and I'm looking to continue having fun. I hope everyone enjoyed this and didn't get too bent out of shape about it. Seems like people always say afterwards that we SHOULD do stuff like this, but during a couple always bitch and moan. Oh well, I guess I wouldn't have it any other way.
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2009, 06:07:49 PM »
I thought it was rather enjoyable. I figured it was a prank because Headliner didn't say anything. Though I was curious as to what was going on. To be honest I thought it had to do with the evil that is Orton. BZZT! Wrong.
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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2009, 03:42:51 AM »
I think this went along better than the 'NWO invasion of PWH' thing. Although I've just been caught up with the events by reading the "Queen Scoop Banned" thread. Kudos for the job!

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Re: Error 666: Topic not found
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2009, 05:04:38 AM »
Quote from: The Poison on February 02, 2009, 03:42:51 AM
Except for the Shawn Michaels / Randy Orton pics : :ohdear:

Nothing to do with me, I assure you. :shake:
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