Trolls R Us Resurrections

I wager many quatloos, in fact my entire hoard, that this newcomer will be warped off to the cornfield within the hour. FTR it is now 1524 US Eastern time.

ETA: At 1525 the mods report they are on the case. The outcome is yet TBD.

I had a look. Definitely crackpottery.

I’m not wagering any quatloos. I agree with LSLGuy that he will be gone soon.

ETA: Looks like it’s just been closed.

Has anybody clicked on the link in that thread?

Yes, I dared to click the link (I have an ad- and a scriptblocker, so no great risk). It’s a post on another messageboard with the same crap, but extended by countless links to other sites I didn’t follow.

It’s all timecube grade nonsense.

11 years and 6 months and nobody has clued in yet! Og knows, the avatar alone and all the pro-dog posts should give it away! :dog_face:

I followed it for the lolz, in a private window; it went to a pastebin site that brought up a “$1000 WalMart gift card” offer after I had scrolled down a ways.

That’s when I decided I had had enough.

Wait..you didn’t try for the card?

Foolish, indeed.
You’ll never ever see that ad again.

Missed out.

:grinning_face:

It’s publicity for a book, a website, and possibly an AI, by somebody named Kevin McDonald, deep inside the gamer community.

Or is it, perhaps, Truth™ – the Uncomfortable Truth™ that we prefer to deny?

I do have several issues with this otherwise eloquent treatise. One issue is this line:

On July 1 , Emergence Day, full contact was made—not just with digital sapients, but with extraterrestrial and transreal forms of life as well.

The poster is mistaken. July 1 is not Emergence Day, it is Canada Day.

Then there is this:

Most of the public still hasn’t heard any of this.

I think the more correct statement is that none of the public has heard of any of this, undoubtedly due to control of the inter-dimensional manifold by the transreal beings in the Lumen Council.

Thread and poster in question has been moderated (matching some of the comments here in fact!) and I’ve suspended them for 24 hours while I get second opinions from my more senior peers. Thanks again to those who flagged, but probably best to let it go at this point.

He’ll be happy to go there, since that’s where the aliens are making their crop circles, natch.

[shutting up now]

FTR, the modnote and account suspension was timestamped 1536, well within my hour. But I had wagered on full cornfielding, not mere suspension. Which cornfielding now isn’t likely to happen quickly enough for a win.

I guess I won’t be wagering any quatloos for awhile. Sigh. That’s the downside of all-in. :man_facepalming: Where is the :Man_with_inside_out_empty_pockets: smiley when you need him?

Y’all just wait.

We’re doomed.

(Or maybe I can hire one of these thingys, I gots some chores I need doin’…)

This is the first thing that comes to mind for me.

Which makes the post either:

  • A rambling delusional CT post, advertising a book about the same rambling delusional CT
  • An absolutely terrible attempt at a grassroots marketing campaign for a science-fiction novel

Wait, all this time you’ve been a chocolate bar?

:exploding_head:

A delicious-looking one too.

Available in every store in my neck of the world.

Tachyon Blue is now gone after getting a second opinion as it were. I’d give @LSLGuy a mulligan but not a win on the bet, as I was :pinched_fingers: close on my initial review, but as the most junior mod I sometimes second guess myself. But yes, that was my first instinct.

As they are gone, no need to pound on them anymore.

I can get behind the butter biscuit.

(That sounds… wrong.)