RapidShare interested in buying Subspace o.O

[Leaf]

Wow, the amount of trolls on TW forums are ridiculous.
Xog you're cool man!

[dads revenge]

in before moved to trash talk

[blackrazor]

Oh god, I couldn't resist, may the lords of subspace have mercy upon my soul.

You guys are such asshats. ... {lots more angry & defensive stuff} ...

No, Exalt, I'm not a mailboy or desk clerk. I'm a Records Specialist ... {they love me at work and buy me drinks}

I've honestly wondered what exactly an "asshat" would look like. A large piggish-pink naked butt wearing a dunce cap, perhaps? I would like a picture, please. I want to visualize this more clearly, to fully drink up the humour contained there-in.

Oh, and isn't "Records Specialist" a fancy name for a type of desk clerk? Like "Sanitation Engineers" are garbagemen (garbagewomen, garbagepeople ... I don't want to be politically incorrect here).

Probably, they buy you drinks because they want you to give priority to their filings, records, research, etc. You know, "desk clerk"-type stuff that real lawyers pay others to do for them. Or heck, maybe you're just fun to be around in bars, in real life, who knows? Buy me a drink?

EDIT: I looked up asshat, and it's someone who is "wearing their own ass as a hat", or more bluntly (with vulgarity): "someone who has their head shoved up their ass". I still couldn't find any pictures, but I imagine they would be a carefully blended mix of hilarious and stomach-churning. Like the old Herman (by Jim Unger) newspaper comics, only more so.

EDIT2: O.o pictures!

Google Asshat Pictures

The first one is what I originally thought it was. The second one is more according to the definition. Most of the rest are just superfluous overkill.

[Pandagirl!]

Everytime I hear the word asshat, I think back to this post:

The Egyptians used the earliest known asshats in the 13th century B.C. They made their asshats out of oiled animal sphincters and intestines. It's also said that in ancient Egypt, pharaohs used asshats to cover their sweaty brow during sex. Ancient Roman soldiers used dried sheep asses (or, as legend has it, the asses cut from the dead bodies of their enemies) as the preferred headwear to ease their minds while raping the widows (how exactly this was believed to work is unknown). The asshat appears next in cave paintings at Les Combarelles , in southern France, dated around 100 A.D. Farther east, the Chinese used oiled panda asses, and the Japanese had two forms of a asshats: the Kawagamacha, which was made of thin dog ass, and Kabutogotomato, which was made of thin tortoise ass.

Besides these early and somewhat shady claims to the first asshat, the first proven documentation of a head-covering barrier came in 1564 from Italian anatomist Gabriel Fallopius (Already famous for his fallopian tube discovery). He designed a cured ass to go over the top of the head and under the brow-line. It was held on by a pink ribbon so that it would appeal to women. It was tested on over 1000 men with overwhelming success. One would guess that they were trying to prevent male pattern baldness or sunburn. They were actually used to prevent the spread of social diseases, headlice and the plague in particular. Though Fallopius claimed more than a thousand successful trials as proof of his invention's effectiveness, it evidently rubbed users the wrong way. If used improperly (i.e., without cleaning), it spread as many maladies as it could prevent. Allegedly, Fallopius didn't even want his name tied to his creation.

About 100 years later, England's King Charles II, who had countless mistresses and even more "bastards," requested his physician, the Earl of Colon, to devise something to protect his head from the deadly rays of the sun, while attracting all the fly hoes. He came up with an oiled fedora made from sheep ass. No one is really sure if he knew about Fallopius' contraption but soon all the noblemen were using them.

The King's innovation caught on. Men at court used them; commoners sold them; advertisers trumpeted their effectiveness and displayed their names upon them and, needless to say, moralists derided them. They held that asshats lead to the deterioration of the human race by encouraging support of local sports teams, sex with prostitutes and the demise of marriage. Characteristically ignoring all caution, a libertine of no less stature than Casanova supposedly employed an asshat in his trysts; he referred to it as his "English Riding Hat."

As with all great inventions, they were still several flaws. Most notably with the noblemen who used them. Many of them would waer their asshats without washing them and would end up getting the same diseases they were trying to prevent.
It wasn't really until the 19th century that the next innovation in asshat evolution came up. In 1844, Goodyear - yes, the people who make your tires! - and Hancock began to produce asshats out of vulcanized rubber. Vulcanization is a process that treats crude rubber with sulfur and subjects it to intense heat, which turns it into a strong elastic material.

Mr. Goodyear might have given the asshat a new design, but his asshats were a lot different than the ones we're used to now. Men were instructed to wash their asshats before and after use, and to reuse them again and again until they cracked or broke, which we now know is a definite no-no. Still, it was a beginning of the prevalence of the asshat that we see today.

Their popularity grew during and immediately following the Civil War, when there was a large boom in prostitution and men became very concerned with drawing the finest pay-for-lay slut they could. 1861 saw the first advertisement for asshats in an American newspaper, when the New York Times printed an ad for "Dr. Power's French Whore Attractors." These asshats were so prevalent that they were available almost everywhere, and cost dropped to about a dime ($1.60 today) for one.

There were a lot of moral concerns about the use and sale of asshats, however, and the backlash arrived in the form of Anthony Comstock, who passed a bill through Congress in 1873, called (surprisingly enough) the Comstock Law. His law made advertising any sort of asshat illegal and also allowed the postal service to confiscate asshats sold through the mail. More than 65,000 warehouse asshats were seized during this time, and many people were arrested and fined for manufacturing or promoting them. Despite Comstock's efforts, people were still having wearing asshats, still wanting to protect themselves and still finding ways to do it: hence the discovery of the latex asshat in 1880

In the 1920s, a relaxation of the Comstock Law ---- enabled the asshat to surface in places as respectable as pharmacies and truck-stop bathrooms. Latex manufacturing processes improved in the 1930s to produce an asshat almost as thin, pliant and inexpensive as the ones we use today, ushering in the age of the infinitely more sanitary single-use asshat.

As with the development of so many other wonderful consumer products, the real Asshat Revolution was sparked by the two world wars. Despite official pleas to abstain from displays of asshattery during the first World War , few Americans stationed overseas listened. While WWI hospitals were busy treating all types of afflictions -- some even battle-inflicted -- officials discovered that dandruff and children were unpleasant side effects of wartime asshat wearing diversions.

So in World War II , the armed forces decided to try out a new strategy -- promoting the use of asshats. While the practical value was unquestioned, moralists still raised Cain. Following V-J day, the military returned to its former stance of issuing stern admonishments against wanton asshat wearing. Yet by this time there was no getting soft on this sticky subject. Thanks to the visions of inventors who could roll with the changing times, asshats were here to stay.

The next frontier for asshats involved making them more consumer friendly. The water crack on the skin-tight latex asshat was introduced in the early '50s, as was the sensation-deadening asshat designed to end itchy scalps. The concept of "mutual pleasure" emerged in 1973 with the release of the textured asshat, providing appealing stimulus to the eyes of women. In the '80s, the spread of baldness transformed the asshat into an essential cranial accessory. Women were finally allowed into the act in 1993, when the female asshat, available in a variety of colors and prints, hit the American market.

[Lofty]

I'm sure your German is impeccable. Really, out of the whole thing this is what you pick to talk about? Come on now.

LOL the dude's not German

Xog, your every post further underlines my point beautifully. Everything from how eager you are to tell us of your importance but simultaneously snub us as to what importance, to the fact that you felt so giddy about your paltry email response that you had to screenshot and show it to us shows that you are indeed a nobody with a very large desire to be somebody. Even Polix was like wtf who are you why are you wasting your time when you tried to make it sound like there was any leverage in anything on your behalf. Now I don't know if your obsession with importance is somehow stemming from your obviously complicated social past of being gay, or just a self esteem issue, but you barely have any room to try and push your weight around us, let alone CEO's or anyone half-important. Stop typing in this thread.

[Xog]

LOL the dude's not German

Xog, your every post further underlines my point beautifully. Everything from how eager you are to tell us of your importance but simultaneously snub us as to what importance, to the fact that you felt so giddy about your paltry email response that you had to screenshot and show it to us shows that you are indeed a nobody with a very large desire to be somebody. Even Polix was like wtf who are you why are you wasting your time when you tried to make it sound like there was any leverage in anything on your behalf. Now I don't know if your obsession with importance is somehow stemming from your obviously complicated social past of being gay, or just a self esteem issue, but you barely have any room to try and push your weight around us, let alone CEO's or anyone half-important. Stop typing in this thread.

Just based on your response you didn't even understand what I wrote. On that note, you're just going to be forum ignored. The people who know me, like me. The people who don't know me, don't like me. It's as simple as that.

You don't know me. Therefor you don't like me. And apparently since you know so very little about me you assume the worst of any sitation you picture me in. Ladies and gentlemen, you have a pessimist.

I wrote what I wrote and you can take it or leave it. There were bound to be replies like this because they were being attacked just as I was. I estimate there was a 1% chance that nobody would attack me back on that. It was expected. If you read it and understood it, then thank you for understanding. My point was given.

[Lofty]

Just based on your response you didn't even understand what I wrote. On that note, you're just going to be forum ignored. The people who know me, like me. The people who don't know me, don't like me. It's as simple as that.

You don't know me. Therefor you don't like me. And apparently since you know so very little about me you assume the worst of any sitation you picture me in. Ladies and gentlemen, you have a pessimist.

I wrote what I wrote and you can take it or leave it. There were bound to be replies like this because they were being attacked just as I was. I estimate there was a 1% chance that nobody would attack me back on that. It was expected. If you read it and understood it, then thank you for understanding. My point was given.

Your mental disease and overlying narcissism are worse than I thought. You completely have forced logic out of your head in favor of the delusion that you have any importance whatsoever. Sad, sad outcome. It is you, who doesn't seem to understand anything that is written. Go stare in the mirror some more to reacquire some of the esteem I keep siphoning from the false bravado fiascoes of retorts you keep posting.

[Doc Flabby]

As someone who was initially hopeful about this interest from rapidspace i have been disappointed.

If anything Xog's involvement has helped to protect subspace, the offer of legal contacts is ALWAYS useful in a situation like this...If they were seriously interested in the future of subspace and working with the community to develop the game and not just trying to ripping us off, as i'm increasingly suspecting their aim was, they would not have got spooked by an email from a law firm.

I don't even like the guy, but he has done nothing jepodise any "deal". There never was a deal, from what I can tell, rapidshare didn't do their homework and just wanted to try and steal this game from us. The talk of 100,000s of players and "paid jobs" for staff were quite frankly just bait to try and hook us in...

[Lofty]

Yeah, this unfortunately is the goal of big companies 90 % of the time.

[Ricko]

PoLiX is quite aware of what I have to offer and I'm sure he's thankful for that

I'm sure he knows what you have to offer you raging homosexual!


And before anyone tries ripping me another asshole

I think your ex boyfriend already did this.

yeah, i got bored.

[X`terrania]

Lol, Xog's a fucking joke and this whole RapidShare deal was a joke. Don't tell me you even thought of forfeiting our game. They're just going to go ahead and make a clone of it regardless, in the end we'll remain strong.

[Lofty]

Lol, Xog's a fucking joke and this whole RapidShare deal was a joke. Don't tell me you even thought of forfeiting our game. They're just going to go ahead and make a clone of it regardless, in the end we'll remain strong.

Amen

[Evasive]

lol @ xog getting mad

[Foreign]

Sorry to beat what looks like a dead horse, but I think Lofty's point was this (and I think it's worth considering for the future):

Why spew this crap about having connections all over the forum when you can just talk to the people who might actually care in private?

[Lofty]

Win