Sol Invictus strikes back

[Naked_Lunch]

Heh, I remember that. Good times in #Hellgatelondon eh?

 

[Elwro]

We have a vision you see; an RPG site with news, in-depth articles, reviews, previews, and an active community. The Codex, without the imbecility that so putrefies it. The Codex - redefined. Are you prepared to make a difference? Are you prepared to become part of something great, something ultimate?

"Can you afford to take that risk? Can... your children?"

 

[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, I'm sure that it's not chakl. Some of you guys need to stop acting like idiots.

It's bad enough that you make some post here under his name but whoever it was also did it on NMA. Give it a rest.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Why would we do it, Sol? If it wasn't that chakl character, then it was someone else from your team. Anyway, I wish you luck with your site, and hope you can turn it into something good.

 

[serch]

We have a vision you see; an RPG site with news, in-depth articles, reviews, previews, and an active community. The Codex, without the imbecility that so putrefies it. The Codex - redefined. Are you prepared to make a difference? Are you prepared to become part of something gay, something intimate?

Done!

 

[Andyman Messiah]

We have a vision you see; an RPG site with news, in-depth articles, reviews, previews, and an active community. The Codex, without the imbecility that so putrefies it. The Codex - redefined. Are you prepared to make a difference? Are you prepared to become part of something gay, something intimate?

Done!

Don't help him sell it.

 

[LlamaGod]

now that I look at the IP check and apply my brainz I think Nicolai wrote this post D:

 

[Jason]

You are the super sleuth of the century.

 

[Nicolai]

I don't think I would have been able to resist the temptation of squeezing a "Such are the horrors of war, my child" in there somewhere. Anyway, the post itself was pretty okay, if not somewhat poorly written. I suspect I would have put some more effort into it if I had been the mastermind behind it all.

 

[Jason]

Since we're getting all anal and technical about it, note that the original mailto link was edited to a normal link without an edit statement ("edited by so and so on June 24th etc") showing up in the post. That means that the individual in question has Codex mod/admin powers which narrows the list of suspects quite a bit.

Also, Connie Chung lives in my sock drawer.

edit: I checked, Connie's still there.

 

[Calis]

Since we're getting all anal and technical about it, note that the original mailto link was edited to a normal link without an edit statement ("edited by so and so on June 24th etc") showing up in the post. That means that the individual in question has Codex mod/admin powers which narrows the list of suspects quite a bit.

That edit occurred after the first reply?

 

[Nicolai]

I think you can edit your post within a few minutes of publication without having the "edited by" message appear.

Edit: testing testing.
Edit deux: Mein gott.

 

[Jason]

It was edited much later, after the initial replies.

edit: edit your post again, Nico.

 

[Nicolai]

Yep, looks like your theory is sound.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

VD changed the title, I fixed the link and Nico wrote the post D:

 

[Calis]

Well, I checked on the "edits happened" stuff. My Evil Edit Logger shows that VD changed the thread title while Naked_Lunch fixed the mailto link. That's all. Still no clue as to who the person making the original post was. The person in question did register with an e-mail addy, but since we don't have e-mail activation enabled that could easily be fake. (it's gunslingahgurrrl@hotmail.com, by the way. Yeah, faking annoys me.)

 

[Nicolai]

Gunslingahgurrrl ? That's one big "what?" right there.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Since the original post is an advertisement, and since there was a similar post made by "chakl" or whoever at NMA, I think it's safe to assume that the new Exit's crew is busy advertsing his new site. A fake advertisement by someone here would have been more entertaining, wouldn't it?

 

[Calis]

Yeah. It's still kinda wonky that the anonymizer used was the same one used in a previous supposedly fake SolInvictus versus TacticularCancer thread (before TC and Codex were merged).
Bottom line, though, is that we still have no idea who it is, but I agree - if this were a case of "someone at the Codex discredits SolRex's new work" I would expect the post to be a lot more outrageous.

 

[Nicolai]

[20:50:23] <Ausir> http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2216276 - the chakl impersonator strikes back

The plot thickens.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Obviously, with this new found evidence, we can assume that it was ausir all along. Who else would know of the pseudo-chakl's exploits so fast and so soon?

 

[Nicolai]

Yeah, Ausir is obviously the mastermind behind it all.

 

[Calis]

I've never trusted him, with his wiki's and his subtitles.

 

[LlamaGod]

nicolai loves proxies and has fucked up and posted as a guest on accident before and he's also in love with Rex

 

[Sol Invictus]

Why would we do it, Sol? If it wasn't that chakl character, then it was someone else from your team. Anyway, I wish you luck with your site, and hope you can turn it into something good.

chakl's IP isn't 66.98.168.78. It's someone on this forum. I'm not accusing anyone on the Codex staff of doing it so there's no need to be defensive about it, because I don't think any of you guys would do anything stupid like that. The site isn't even launched yet, so we wouldn't be advertising it this early in any case, and certainly not like that.

It wasn't anyone else on our team, either... considering that the team consists of me and chakl and a number of content contributors who have no involvement in the management or advertising of the website.

Anyway, thanks. Just know that we don't plan to compete with the Codex. The Codex has its own niche (independent RPGs, roguelikes, hardcore RPGs mainly) while we plan to cover more mainstream stuff, as well as a number of JRPGs, 360 and PS3 RPGs, and select MMORPGs.