The Van Nevis Chat Thread

[Furious D 18]

Warning: Your posts may be deleted in this thread if they don't meet the thread standards.

As some of you know, the 1000 Post Countdown Party Thread recently hit 1000 posts (woot!), and I marked the occasion by creating a History of the Party. While I was browsing the 67 pages of posts, I realized that there were basically two types of posts in that thread. There were spam posts for people who just wanted to post or wanted to help get 1000, and then there were actual chat posts where people posted things that happened to them or commented on something.

I also realized that I learned a great deal about several of the people who frequented that thread based on those posts. I created this new thread where we can chat about whatever we want, but I will delete any random spam. Right now, this thread is in the General Chat forum for two reasons. One, because posts here count toward your post total, so that acts as a small reward for the people who want to be friendly and chat. And two, putting a thread in Off Topic (the rampant spam board) and then asking people not to spam probably wouldn't work as intended. But be warned, if your post does not meet my personal standards, it will be deleted.

Furious's Standards: To not get deleted, a post must contribute to the thread in some way. We're here to learn about each other and have a good discussion, so do your part to contribute. Post complete sentences. Please use capitalization and punctuation. You don't have to have perfect grammar, but you have to try. And don't use "leet speak" too much. Sometimes it's fun to mock 'teh noobz' but your posts have to be understandable too. And you actually have to read the posts in the thread. If you've only read this first post and you're reaching for the "reply" button, you may be about to post spam (second poster excluded, of course).

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So here we go. To get us started, let's discuss where the thread got its name. Grif told me that he once started a 1000 post countdown thread on another site, and some of the posters really got to know each other. Two posters, in fact, ended up getting married, and it all got started in the countdown thread. Their names were 'Van' and 'Nevis'. The name is a tribute to them. I wonder if they're still together.
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Van Nevis movie/book list
Compiled by Predicide

movie / mentioned by / post #

Good Will Hunting / squidhands / 41
Waking Life / Furious D 18 / 126
Vanilla Sky / Furious D 18 / 126
What Dreams May Come / NeverlessWonder / 131
MirrorMask / squidhands / 134
Contact / Furious D 18 / 161
2001: A Space Odyssey / Draw the Line / 162
Juno / Klink258 / 186
Appleseed / Iv0rY Snak3 / 231
What the Bleep do we Know? / opothehippo / 237
A Scanner Darkly / Predicide / 238
Donnie Darko / Draw the Line / 252
Back to the Future / Furious D 18 / 263
God Grew Tired of Us / squidhands / 360
Dead Alive (Brain Dead) / Draw the Line / 389
28 Days Later / Cosmic Rick / 390
I Am Legend / Cosmic Rick / 390
28 Weeks Later / Draw the Line / 392
Planet Terror / Draw the Line / 392
Shawn of the Dead / Draw the Line / 392
Silent Hill / GoodWhaleSushi / 389
Silence of the Lambs / TurboGerbil / 401
Hot Fuzz / Iv0rY Snak3 / 404
Run Fat Boy Run / Iv0rY Snak3 / 404
Night of the Living Dead / Klink258 / 405
Minority Report / NeverlessWonder / 411
The Mist / NeverlessWonder / 411
Equilibrium / Predicide / 413


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book / mentioned by / post #

[H.P. Lovecraft] / NeverlessWonder / 141
Contact / Draw the Line / 162
The God Delusion / Cosmic Rick / 192
Footprints of God / Furious D 18 / 219
Angels and Demons / Furious D 18 / 221
How To Build a Time Machine / Klink258 / 241
Timeline / Furious D 18 / 263
Utilitarianism / LIGHTSOUT225 / 362
The Omnivore's Dilemma / LIGHTSOUT225 / 362
Fastfood Nation / squidhands / 364
To Kill a Mockingbird / MealonX / 383
The Catcher in the Rye / bnasty574 / 387
A Civil Action / bnasty574 / 387
The Denial of Death / Cosmic Rick / 388
Catch-22 / Cosmic Rick / 388
The Complete Zombie Survival Guide / Cosmic Rick / 388
I Am Legend / squidhands / 403

Up do date as of 11:20 CST April 10 2008, page 42, post 417.

[Orangeremi]

[color=orange]Thats an interesting way to find a date, or in this case, a 'mate'

Probably still together if they're desperate enough to get married over an online forum.

[Cosmic Rick]

I'm not marrying anybody in this thread... let's get that out from the get go. In any case, I'm interested in seeing where this thread goes. Way to start up something new again, Fur.

I am interested too, this thing was exactly what I was looking for in the 1000 post party; but I found too much spam which is why I did not post a lot in the thread.

But this is definetaly going to be exciting.

So how did the Humpday go FH Staff? I heard you guys won which is great.

[Furious D 18]

Well Rick, since you said that, I'm sure you'll have no problems letting me take the next Forging supermodel that shows up on Forge Hub. I mean, you already said you won't marry anyone from here. I hope some awesome babe starts frequenting this thread and me and her totally get married just so karma can teach you not to be so close minded.

Other possible names for this thread include The Topicless Thread and Furious Chat. But I decided not to be so vain for once. But then again, I may be deleting posts, so I'm not exactly being humble.

Originally Posted by Mike N ACE 92

So how did the Humpday go FH Staff? I heard you guys won which is great.

I watched part of it on the live feed. That reminds me. I'm gonna go read about it at Bungie if they posted it yet.

[Cosmic Rick]

That's totally fine. I learned my lesson about internet supermodels long ago. I'm sure you'll have a little more competition than just me, though.

Originally Posted by Furious D 18

I watched part of it on the live feed. That reminds me. I'm gonna go read about it at Bungie if they posted it yet.

Is it just me, or was that the least passionately written-up Humpday recap ever? Guess they don't like losing. The live feed was nice, though. I felt so in. Lol.

Originally Posted by Furious D 18

I hope some awesome babe starts frequenting this thread and me and her totally get married just so karma can teach you not to be so close minded.

P.S. Oh snap! You always catch me on minutiae like this in my posts. It's closed-minded, not close minded. Phew, that's brisk retribution.

I watched part of it on the live feed. That reminds me. I'm gonna go read about it at Bungie if they posted it yet.

They have, Furious; here is a link...

Humpday Recap

[squidhands]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Rick

Is it just me, or was that the least passionately written-up Humpday recap ever? Guess they don't like losing. The live feed was nice, though. I felt so in. Lol.

Glad I wasn't the only one who felt that way. I was completely let down by the lame-ass writeup and the lack of reaction in the replies. Sore losers, I guess. And they even had defectors to help them! I did like the 'official request' of renaming 7th Avenue to Blitzkrieg. I watched that game when I got home, it was pretty crazy. Couple of pretty sweet snipes there at the end of the game...

[Cosmic Rick]

This is just my opinion, but I think it's because of the map selection. I have no idea how they were chosen, and the three they played are undoubtedly good maps. But there was a chance to do some really weird (and fun) stuff. It could have been a Humpday that really stood out. Instead they played pretty standard gametypes. Where was a conquest match? Where was Stickball? To me, that's what forgehub is about. There're great maps out here, but those gametypes that are way out there and are supported by the maps are what really allow forge (and forgehub) to keep things fresh. My two cents on the whole thing.

[Furious D 18]

As for stickball, I think Bungie supports the Nades 'N Spades gametype, which is sticks and melees.

And I would have loved to see a Conquest map played.