Jake

Idle Thumbs 239: Trash Can Sally

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My group in Chromehounds was called PROD for People's Republic of Diabeetus, all because one of the Morskoj presidents you could vote for looked like Wilford Brimley.

 

In Call of Duty our clan tag was bred, because bread I guess.

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My WoW guilds (that I can recall) were:

Attrition. My high school buddy was way into WoW and I piggybacked into his guild. I think I joined right when BT came out, and the guild fell apart soon afterwards. My friend picked up the pieces and turned it into a 10m for our IRL circle.

My first experience in independent guildfinding was in naxxramas WotLK. Easy content, was led by a Hawaiian stoner called JSkrazy. Cool dude. There was another druid in there called Bucknasty. Also a cool dude.

I fell into a guild that was 90% former Call of Asheron players, called Darktide. Solid group that pushed for 10m records, but was held back by a lack of 25m gear. Slappaho, Lockedon, Booyakashock, you guys were cool. We got a world 11th kill.

Super Evil was my 25 man crew through Ulduar and Champions. They were okay, but there were a few good players mixed in with a lot of bad ones. Me and my pal Emirii eventually applied to a super serious guild called...

WHO CARES. Led by Pashah the Insane. Tommystep, I will forever remember you and your Innervate-hogging ways. BZnachoes, Tziltwo, Aastra... Good times. Shame LK was such a class-limited fight. God damn were our hunters incredible.

Man, what a trip down memory lane.

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Seriously Jake? Keygen tunes are amazing! I leave them up during the whole crack and install.

I mean, just look at this fucking kid:

 

 

Even the Karateka guy is dancing at the end there.

 

yeah cracktro music was always real impressive to me as a kid. I remember being super in awe of the shady figures who did cracking in the first place and the neato digital music and art that went along with it only made it more enigmatic and cool to me. In retrospect it's very time and a place shit and makes me very nostalgic for a time when the net seemed like more of an elusive and cool place to inhabit 

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Ah, I have a damn clans.txt file on my hard drive from years ago where I wrote out all the clans I was apart of when I was younger. There are many, but some of my favorites were...

  • TTLB - My first clan that bubbled up on the official Total Annihilation forums. Stood for Tore Troll's Little Box, which was an in-joke about the forum community wanting a chat box to talk to each other on. Eventually we managed to talk Cavedog into standing up an IRC server. I still keep in touch with some of the guys from this group to this day.
  • Dah Troll Patrol - A role-playing guild I was briefly apart of in EverQuest. Almost entirely composed of Trolls and Ogres.
  • Anger Management - My Call of Duty 2 clan I was in with some friends from work. It always seemed like a really good name for an FPS clan.

Lots of others sprinkled in between that were obviously devised by teenagers. :P

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I can't actually remember a lot of the guilds I joined.

 

I remember three old guilds: in Puzzle Pirates, I was one of the founders of Panthalassa, which is a name I like, but didn't really go anywhere because it ended up being a super-guild of notable players more or less on their way out.

In WoW, my best guild, the Stoppable Force. It ruined me for other guilds, and when it fell apart I tried transferring to an Australian server and never found anything nearly as good.

In GW2, I was in Fifty Shades of Bear for a time, and sadly they were not fun-loving or light-hearted, and by the time I realised I had nothing in common, they were basically planning on leaving the server anyway.

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I was once part of a TF2 Xbox clan called the Brute Squad (which I'm fairly certain was a reference to the Princess Bride but I honestly never asked).  For a while we tried to organize ladders and such with other TF2 clans but that fell apart when it became apparent that the Xbox would never get the updates the PC did.  You can only play 6 maps for so long.

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My main guild was Malediction. A significant portion of our population were super bored members of the US military and high school/college students and I enjoyed it very much. There were people in the guild that wanted to be way more hardcore than we were and others (like me) who were content being fairly casual and it p. much ripped the guild apart.

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I was once part of a TF2 Xbox clan called the Brute Squad (which I'm fairly certain was a reference to the Princess Bride but I honestly never asked).  For a while we tried to organize ladders and such with other TF2 clans but that fell apart when it became apparent that the Xbox would never get the updates the PC did.  You can only play 6 maps for so long.

 

I just remembered that after the Brute Squad fell apart a second group formed from the remnants and we called ourselves the Super Ultra Buddy Squad (SUBS).

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I was in a WoW guild called Brute Squad, and it was great because we were all heavy into PvP and man I miss those days. ):

 

(A lot of them were assholes, and hell I was probably also an asshole back then.)

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yeah cracktro music was always real impressive to me as a kid. I remember being super in awe of the shady figures who did cracking in the first place and the neato digital music and art that went along with it only made it more enigmatic and cool to me. In retrospect it's very time and a place shit and makes me very nostalgic for a time when the net seemed like more of an elusive and cool place to inhabit

I love it all. If I said anything to indicate otherwise I regret it.

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Cult of Ythrl, a guild on the first PVPRP servers, where anything and everything could be a gift of inspiration from the all powerful Ythrl. Eventually merged with Famiglia Mariano, who were the rivals of... Famiglia Luigiano of course.

I joined Maelstrom when all that was going on (leaving Goon Squad on Mal'Ganis where I had been since launch, because it had gotten kind of annoying). I think I started out in Mariano (or whichever was the horde one) and ended up in the inevitable Famiglia di Ythrl

 

There was another one between those... like a runoff guild when I was still on Mal'Ganis that was fun because it wasn't so serious. I don't remember what they were called, though. I think the tabard was a lobster bib?

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La Famiglia was (is) a really good guild! It somehow managed to be a very successful RP guild and a very competitive raiding guild, and it's lasted (with merger) since those servers opened in 2006. I've played with them in I think 4 different expansions? It's crazy.

 

 

I had the strange experience of being a SA member, and completely unknowingly starting a character on Mal'Ganis... on the Alliance side. So in the rough and tumble days of free for all world pvp with no alternatives, I was opposite the biggest, gankingest guild in north america. It was pretty fun, most of the time.

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My favourite 'clan' is my current Steam one, ~*Delicate Gamers*~ which isn't so much a clan as it is an addition to my team name calculated to maximally irritate people I killed in TF2.

 

The fact that most of my friends thought it was a hoot, and added it to their own steam names made the whole thing delicious, especially when people would complain about 'clanstacking fairies.'

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I love it all. If I said anything to indicate otherwise I regret it.

I don't remember honestly someone mentioned it and just felt like talking about my own dumb thing. I hope you don't die from tetanus!

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Thoughts, in order of appearance:

 

  • If you actually google search: where is trash can sally now?, the top result is the youtube page for this very podcast.
     
  • On the subject of "keygen music" from the SUPERHOT/Invisible Inc. chat, which Spaff's friend used to write: It wasn't such a dead end for everyone. Axwell (One third of the internationally successful DJ group Swedish House Mafia) used to make keygen music when he was younger under the name Quazar.
     
  • I feel like pretty much everyone at some point ended up restricted to some tiny segment of a game. I know a few people who would just repeatedly do the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater demo over and over as a score attack (2 minutes on the first level, I think)

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