Since activity on WCT is pretty much dead, I thought it would be a little fun to have a "reunion" for those of us who are still here.
Here are some examples of questions/topics to discuss:
What is your original username?
How long have you been on MTGS?
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.?
I guess I'll start
Original username: sentimentGX4
Time on MTGS: 8+ years
My fondest memory of MTGS was my thread about Kim Kardashian's butt. I found the thread hilarious; though, I'm sure a lot of this board never understood my sense of humor.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
To be honest, I miss some of the old gang. I fondly remember TFE's shenanigans.
I love all the legendary personas MTGS had.
The mods were always suspicious that so-and-so was KingCobWeb/Mike-something-Flores. TheInfamousBearAssassin was well respected in debate. And who could forget the big Sakura scandal? It feels like all the interesting people were banned.
Never been a WCT regular or anything; I've kinda just posted whenever something interested me. But I've been here almost since the beginning (and certainly since this forum was renamed into WCT, heh).
Username: Sene
Time on MTGS: 10 years
Fondest memory on MTGS? I guess I'll list a few.
Various fun exchanges in the GRRRR thread (the staff community thread, essentially). I would, for example, bring up one particular one from three years ago. Fellow staffers from that time will know what I'm talking about if I say that keywords include "Megiddo" and "Kim Jong-Un". But yeah, a bunch of stuff from GRRRR.
Live blogging the event as I finished in the top 2 of Worlds 2011 (teams). Same thing one year later at GP Lisbon (3rd place).
I remember being pretty excited when my old clan (499) got rebooted after having been defunct for a year or two. The whole thing was pretty nonsensical, but I suppose it was fun!
Lots of IRL meetups with members from this site.
Forum drama from before I got on staff It was always very amusing to read all that utter nonsense as an outsider.
Articles from back in the day. These were often pretty good. At least, that's how I remember them.
Members that have now mostly left the site but were great fun, such as Clock King and Frox. And many more.
Here are some examples of questions/topics to discuss:
1. What is your original username? Galspanic
How long have you been on MTGS? 7 years, 7 months, and 8 days
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.? While an Admin, there was a lot of derogatory use of the words "gay" and "retarded." I figured that if I could set the site's autocensors to make "****" into "****" it would be cool to turn "gay" into a picture of a tennis ball. It worked, but there were a few problems. First, I made the tennis ball way too large so it took up 3 lines of text and wrecked the formatting of the posts. Second, it made no sense so people didn't know what happened. Third, there were enough legitimate uses of the word that it turned very serious conversations into hilariously rude jokes. So, I killed that.
For the most part I hated dealing with Watercooler. This is a Magic site about Magic cards, so when people would post about how they wanted to kill themselves I wanted to have nothing to do with that. Luckily there were people who did that I could defer to.
Here are some examples of questions/topics to discuss:
What is your original username? TheEndIsNear
How long have you been on MTGS? I think like 6-7 years?
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.? The stuff that stands out the most isn't the happiest, but there have been a few threads here that were entertaining. I've always lurked way more than posted either way. I briefly posted in here, but I didn't get along with some mods so I gtfo'd.
Gals I must have missed your tennis ball gag as it doesn't sound familiar.
ISBPathfinder
Sally Time: Just shy of 5 years
I tend to only swing through here when something catches my eye. I did a short 6 month stint as Admin recently but WCT has slowed down since its times of crazy activity and the times of heavy gimmicks generally speaking. The most fun I ever had on this site was probably a year ago when I had an admin change my name to TK-412 and impersonated being TK-421 for the entire day on April Fools day. I kid you not when I say that when he logged in he thought someone had hacked his account. I copied his avatar and signature and ran about the forums posting all over the place confusing everyone. At the same time, bobthefunny (another commander mod) changed his own info to impersonate me for the day while I impersonated TK and he ran around wearing an ISBPathfinder suit with my sig and avy and even claimed my name in my absence. It was a ton of fun and probably the most amusing thing I have done here on sally.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
Here are some examples of questions/topics to discuss:
What is your original username?
How long have you been on MTGS?
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.?
I guess I'll start
Original username: sentimentGX4
Time on MTGS: 8+ years
My fondest memory of MTGS was my thread about Kim Kardashian's butt. I found the thread hilarious; though, I'm sure a lot of this board never understood my sense of humor.
4 years
I don't really recall. There have been some fun topics to post in and some ones that just made me go " ".
And that's about it.
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Jay13x
6 years(ish)
WCT has always been entertaining, but not always for the right reasons
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9.5 years
To be honest, I miss some of the old gang. I fondly remember TFE's shenanigans.
5 Years
So many fond memories of this place years ago.
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The mods were always suspicious that so-and-so was KingCobWeb/Mike-something-Flores. TheInfamousBearAssassin was well respected in debate. And who could forget the big Sakura scandal? It feels like all the interesting people were banned.
Username: Sene
Time on MTGS: 10 years
Fondest memory on MTGS? I guess I'll list a few.
1. What is your original username? Galspanic
How long have you been on MTGS? 7 years, 7 months, and 8 days
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.? While an Admin, there was a lot of derogatory use of the words "gay" and "retarded." I figured that if I could set the site's autocensors to make "****" into "****" it would be cool to turn "gay" into a picture of a tennis ball. It worked, but there were a few problems. First, I made the tennis ball way too large so it took up 3 lines of text and wrecked the formatting of the posts. Second, it made no sense so people didn't know what happened. Third, there were enough legitimate uses of the word that it turned very serious conversations into hilariously rude jokes. So, I killed that.
For the most part I hated dealing with Watercooler. This is a Magic site about Magic cards, so when people would post about how they wanted to kill themselves I wanted to have nothing to do with that. Luckily there were people who did that I could defer to.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
What is your original username? TheEndIsNear
How long have you been on MTGS? I think like 6-7 years?
What is your fondest memory of Water Cooler Talk/MTGS/etc.? The stuff that stands out the most isn't the happiest, but there have been a few threads here that were entertaining. I've always lurked way more than posted either way. I briefly posted in here, but I didn't get along with some mods so I gtfo'd.
ISBPathfinder
Sally Time: Just shy of 5 years
I tend to only swing through here when something catches my eye. I did a short 6 month stint as Admin recently but WCT has slowed down since its times of crazy activity and the times of heavy gimmicks generally speaking. The most fun I ever had on this site was probably a year ago when I had an admin change my name to TK-412 and impersonated being TK-421 for the entire day on April Fools day. I kid you not when I say that when he logged in he thought someone had hacked his account. I copied his avatar and signature and ran about the forums posting all over the place confusing everyone. At the same time, bobthefunny (another commander mod) changed his own info to impersonate me for the day while I impersonated TK and he ran around wearing an ISBPathfinder suit with my sig and avy and even claimed my name in my absence. It was a ton of fun and probably the most amusing thing I have done here on sally.
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