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Raven
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Not sure how many here read the site, it\'s never been my favourite online comic; but I still ready it regularly.

A week ago or so, the admin or the site deleted a forum area called RoM (Rants of Madmen). An area that had spun out of his control, with moderators rather than keeping the area clean were actually encouraging and joining in with the crap.

Now those who don\'t know Tim is currently away in Canada, doing .. well hell if I know. But regardless he\'s away right now with limited access.

Yesterday, one of the rival comic creators \'borrowed\' the site and started slagging him off. Actually he not only layed into CAD but also VGCats, and there are a few other references in there to some crazy crap.

Thing is browsing the CAD forums it seems, no one is entirely sure if this is a joke or not. Gotta say, I\'m a little confused too. The news page is one thing, but the comic was even \'updated\' to a dig at Microsoft. Anyone who has followed the comic for a while (or talked to Tim) would know, that he has a slight affinity for the Softie aspect.

So just wondering what others thought of the \'situation\'?

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 17:51
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when I first read those news posts I figured out right away that it was indeed a joke, And as Tim posted as the last news post, he said it was a joke brain and himself had worked on setting up for a while

I thought it was quite funny myself.

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lol

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who is brain? and when i first entered the site today i thought what the then i read the microsoft xbox episode and that was funny because it humiliated xbox and i dont have any problems with that.

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Actually, it's Brian, not Brain, and he's the artist for 8-Bit Theater, http://www.nuklearpower.com.

The thing I find funny though is Raven didn't realise it was a joke, even though he posted this post after it was revealed as a joke on the main page.

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The part with breaking border patrol and recieving open fire, honestly now...who could believe that?

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I get brain confused with brian all the time And my brother's name is brian! go figure . Yeah, i was a tad surprised about Raven's post but I wasn't going to say anything about that

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 20:32 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 20:33
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I saw it on a live news broadcast yesterday. They milked it for all they could. For about an hour they kept saying "It's going to land any minute." About 10 minutes after it landed they switched to news about the newest hurricane... gotta keep the suspense up. :-(

I'm glad it wasn't it didn't end up a horrible fireball... but I bet the news guys were dissapointed it turned out ok.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 20:49
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Is this comic series a ripoff PA or is it the other way around?


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 21:09 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 21:10
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It's a very blatant rip off of PA and the author proudly won't deny it

In fact, this "fight" they had was a blatant rip off of a fight the PA guys had a few months back.

Oh and Grog, wrong thread buddy


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 21:19
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Quote: " It's a very blatant rip off of PA and the author proudly won't deny it "


That's what it looked like. Same characters, same sarcastic friend along with the other wacky guy, random appearances of video-game loving girlfriend, and identical industry jokes.


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 21:39 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 21:39
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after reading down to the bit about the hair, and then the few posts afterwards, i started to think this is just a joke. we'll see when tim get's back.

edit: ok, checking just now i see this was just a joke. ah well.

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Quote: "EVERYTHING AFTER THIS TEXT IS A JOKE. TIM AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT FAKING A RIVALRY FOR MONTHS. WE'RE INTERWEB CELEBRITIES, PLAYING WITH YOUR EMOTIONS IS WHAT WE DO FOR FUN."


hmmm?


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 22:39 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 22:40
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I never seen or heard about this website till today

That is a great laugh, at first I thought they really hated each other...


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Quote: "Oh and Grog, wrong thread buddy "


Oooops. What the heck happened? Oh well.
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 03:47
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Quote: "The thing I find funny though is Raven didn't realise it was a joke, even though he posted this post after it was revealed as a joke on the main page."


That bold text wasn't there when I posted this. Don't have a clue when it was added but certainly as hell wasn't when I posted this cause I was reading it at the time.

Quote: "when I first read those news posts I figured out right away that it was indeed a joke"


well i've seen this happen for real on a few sites in the past... oddly happens quite a bit in the mod scene. the whole EvolvedQ2 vs EGL for example; that whole thing was retarded.

didn't find it very funny tbh, just more confusing really.

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 04:12 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2005 04:13
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Quote: "That bold text wasn't there when I posted this. Don't have a clue when it was added but certainly as hell wasn't when I posted this cause I was reading it at the time."


You do realise that...thats not the only post on the page, right?

If you scroll down, using this little bar on the (usually) right side of your browser, the page moves down! See, isn't that a nice little trick? Now, if you keep going down, you start to see these other boxes with text in them, indicating new posts.

Eventually, you get to this post.

It is a post, posted on "08:21PM Wednesday, September 21, 2005", before you made this post on this forum, which shows IT IS NOTHING BUT A JOKE.

Shows how observant you are, maybe you need to go get your eyes checked or something.

Congratulations on giving me a nice laugh Raven

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 05:49
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Come on, they're not even insulting eachother, how could you think it's real? There are many blatant give aways! Don't tell me you believed his story about losing his passport, Scott getting killed when he was skipping the border and him having to dump the car in a lake? Seriously.

I'll stick to PA, thank you.


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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 08:48
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ALL OF THE BOLD TEXT WAS NOT ADDED WHEN I MADE THIS POST!

I'm not sure how much more plain I can make that for someone to understand. A fantastic thing about CAS, is that you can go back and edit things as you see fit.

For example the strip that is up is about Microsoft, however the original strip was about Blizzard & WoW (which is no longer available.. wonder if they'll put that back up cause I prefer that one)

But sure it's obviously just me... and the rest of the CAD forum that didn't see that text oddly prior to it being added to the site sometime AFTER MY POST!

Quote: "Come on, they're not even insulting eachother, how could you think it's real? There are many blatant give aways! Don't tell me you believed his story about losing his passport, Scott getting killed when he was skipping the border and him having to dump the car in a lake? Seriously."


What? What the hell page were you reading?
The entire bitchfest was about Tim stealing everything that Brian did first. To me that seems plauseable because, well I've seen fights over pettier things. Copycat behaviour is a big one to rile ppl up. God knows what page your were bloody reading.

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Quote: " 08:21PM Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - by Absath

EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS POST IS A JOKE.

My plane landed safely in New Haven a short while ago, and I am now home.

Honestly, I thought Brian's first post gave it away immediately, but apparently a whole lot of you still fell for our little practical joke.

Brian often "remixes" my comics as a little private joke between us. He believes that all gaming comics should automatically consist of nothing but "omgz teh Xbox controller is teh HUGE!", and we get a good laugh out of it. We decided to take it one step further while I was in Canada.

We've been making our newsposts stupider and more obvious as the day went on, but surprisingly a lot of people still thought it was real. I got an email from someone in New York offering to come pick me up and drive me to New Haven. Wow.

If you fell for it, don't feel bad. Just smile, laugh it off. It's no big deal.

If you picked it up right off the bat, congratulations. You have a keen eye for sarcasm, parody and allusion. Not to mention a sense of humor.

Everything that took place here was planned in advance, including the nasty things we said about eachother. We do comics for a living, and if you can't laugh at yourself, you have no right making jokes about other people.

Brian is a very good friend of mine. He wrote the foreword for my second book. There is no bad blood here, so you can relax off the trigger of your 'angry email gun'. We were just having some fun.

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We had done one the first time I went up to Canada, and it was a lot of fun. I only gave about a day's notice, and we had 50-60 people show up. This time I gave a whopping three day's notice and we have over 100 people over the course of the hour and a half.

It was really great. The fans were such wonderful people, and I really enjoyed getting to talk with them and hang out for a bit. I wish I had gotten to spend more time chatting with everyone that showed up.

Especially the three college students that showed up a half an hour late because they had walked ten miles from their campus to come see me. You guys are crazy, but it was really flattering.

If I hadn't had all of those books to sign, I would have hung out longer.

Speaking of which, I signed my name over 4,000 times in the past few days. Terribly boring and mind-numbing, but all of the books that needed to be signed are signed, and they have started shipping en masse.

Some people have already received theirs, and informed me that they were very much worth the wait. So keep an eye on your mailboxes. You should be getting your books soon."


You posted 22nd Sep 2005 08:01 my time... absaths time is 2 hours ahead of mine...

So.... by that math, we have 6:21pm - 8:01am, making about 13 1/2 hours before your post...

That means that it took more then 13 1/2 hours for people on the cad forums and you to read that lower newspost? Seems a bit slow by internet standards...

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Quote: "Seems a bit slow by internet standards..."


True, sometimes IE won't refresh with the neew information for a long time...

Anyway, when readind the article I did fall for it at first, however the more I read the more 'Unbelived' I was getting and eventually found out about it was a joke.


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Quote: "What? What the hell page were you reading?
The entire bitchfest was about Tim stealing everything that Brian did first. To me that seems plauseable because, well I've seen fights over pettier things. Copycat behaviour is a big one to rile ppl up. God knows what page your were bloody reading."


Oh dear, you REALLY don't know how to scroll down a page, do you? You do realise that there were 4 or 5 successive news posts between Brian and Tim after the inital post? What exactly did you take this quote to mean in the 'revelation' post:

Quote: "We've been making our newsposts stupider and more obvious as the day went on, but surprisingly a lot of people still thought it was real."


I refer you to Preston's post: The thing on the right hand side of your screen is a scrollbar, it can be used to move down the page.


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Did'nt the part about the hair give any clues?

I mean he started the whole thing by accusing the other dude of copying his hairstyle FFS!.


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Not the first time Raven neglected to properly view a site/forum.


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Quote: "Oh dear, you REALLY don't know how to scroll down a page, do you? You do realise that there were 4 or 5 successive news posts between Brian and Tim after the inital post? What exactly did you take this quote to mean in the 'revelation' post:"


What are you talking about. There were 4 Posts in Total on Sept 21st, that made up the ENTIRE joke.
I don't know what the hell your talking about with some revelation post...

Quote: "You posted 22nd Sep 2005 08:01 my time... absaths time is 2 hours ahead of mine...

So.... by that math, we have 6:21pm - 8:01am, making about 13 1/2 hours before your post...

That means that it took more then 13 1/2 hours for people on the cad forums and you to read that lower newspost? Seems a bit slow by internet standards..."


Again.. IT WAS ****ING THERE WHEN I WAS POSTING!
I seriously don't know how the hell to explain this anymore plainly for retards to understand that.

THE BOLD TEXT IN ALL OF THE NEW POSTS FROM SEPT 21 WHEN THE JOKE WAS BEING DONE WAS NOT THERE. IT WOULD DEFEAT THE POINT OF THE ****ING JOKE TO HAVE IN BOLD TEXT AT THE TOP OF EACH POST THAT IT WASN'T REAL!

But I'm sure your all right, I mean that would be just soooooooo funny to sit there saying.

"Just a joke but I just slept with Nicole Kidman. Haha"

Freaking retards.

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Damn. Every forum member here just got pwned with one swift slap.


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Yeah, but Raven's the only one who's developed a nervous twitch because of this . For some reason I'm picturing Mo from that episode of the Simpsons where he opens a restaraunt.


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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 17:06 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2005 17:09
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Quote: "What are you talking about. There were 4 Posts in Total on Sept 21st, that made up the ENTIRE joke.
I don't know what the hell your talking about with some revelation post..."


http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:6JQr2hh5T4oJ:www.ctrlaltdel-online.com

I count 7, I'm seriously starting to doubt your ability to read a website. 'Revelation' being the post where he 'revealed' that it was a joke, boy, I didn't think I had to explain what the word revelation means as well.


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Just as a slight note Raven, Before you had created this thread about those posts, I had read every single one of them Including the one about Tim saying it was all a joke. So when exactly did you read those posts? Did you read them a day before you decided making this post? Or did you write this post right after you read the first few posts?

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You would think he would be used to being made a fool of by now

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 17:42 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2005 17:48
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Oh another thing I realized, You said that the WoW Comic he had made was changed to have xbox controllers, and the old one is no longer there. If you would simple hit the 'Back' link you would see that the First version still exists, and very viewable.

Actually Here,

First Version:
http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-09-19

Secound Version:
http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-09-21

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funny how everything raven says gets turned against him.
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It was funny two years ago. Now it's just ridiculous.


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Quote: " You would think he would be used to being made a fool of by now"


A fool can be a fool for only 5 minutes. One who denys it, is a fool for the rest of his life.

(I stole that quote from another forum. Haha. )


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Eh. Am I the only one who's not hell-bent on insulting raven every inprotunine moment I get?


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Yes, and you're scum for it.


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Posted: 24th Sep 2005 01:08 Edited at: 24th Sep 2005 01:12
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Quote: "Again.. IT WAS ****ING THERE WHEN I WAS POSTING!
I seriously don't know how the hell to explain this anymore plainly for retards to understand that.

THE BOLD TEXT IN ALL OF THE NEW POSTS FROM SEPT 21 WHEN THE JOKE WAS BEING DONE WAS NOT THERE. IT WOULD DEFEAT THE POINT OF THE ****ING JOKE TO HAVE IN BOLD TEXT AT THE TOP OF EACH POST THAT IT WASN'T REAL!
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Well... the ****** news post was ****** there on the 21st, I read it that ****** night. As did every ****** one else I know that follows CAD and was online that ******* night.

The ******** Bold text was edited in after he made the ******* post on the 21st... so your obviously ******* blind, ******* dumb, or ******* slow, its your ******* pick.

See, I can say ******* too...

BTW mods, that was intended as a joke, if you think the asertisks are too much go ahead and delete them

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Quote: "BTW mods, that was intended as a joke, if you think the asertisks are too much go ahead and delete them "


**************** wuss

Not reading the last post that revealed the joke (and not in bold text) is an honest mistake. But I think you had to have been frickin retarded to fall for it in the first place.


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I feel sorry for Raven now He's seeing, well actually not seeing things that everyone else see's. So So Sad

I'll donate 400 Bucks for therapy.

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