Trip's new avatar

Ben Kenobi · July 19, 2003, 04:52

For those of you unfamiliar with the saga of Trip, aka the second coming of Mao, we made a bet several months ago as to the identity of the next deity. Trip bet that he would be able to outpace the moderator of the Spanish Apolyton forum, Jaybee, to 10,000 posts.

Since then, trip has earned a spot in the Apolyton Hall of Fame and a PCR in that order.

Today I came across a thread in the spanish forum, celebrating JB's deity status, to which I now call in the bet.

Under the terms of the bet, Trip has to sport an avatar of my choosing for the next week after he acknowledges the outcome in this thread.

The evidence of JB's deity status:

http://www.apolyton.com/forums/showt...threadid=92234

The original bet with Trip

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=82357

So please post in this thread, so that I can supply you with your new avatar!

DrSpike · July 19, 2003, 05:47

@ Obiwan............I had forgotten about that bet.

We wouldn't want this thread to degenerate into avatar suggestions for Trip.

Eli · July 19, 2003, 10:50

Alex · July 19, 2003, 11:15

The funniest thing is that no one will be able to see his new avatar.

DrSpike · July 19, 2003, 11:27

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Originally posted by Alex
The funniest thing is that no one will be able to see his new avatar.

The irony is indeed delicious.

badams52 · July 19, 2003, 14:35

obi, I looked all through the linked thread to the bet and could not find the exact bet.

Is it really in there? I remember a bet being placed...

Maybe you can link to the exact post instead of the thread which is over 300 posts long.

A quick look at the top 20 makes it obvious that Trip was going to lose said bet.

Niessuh · July 19, 2003, 14:52

JB

DrSpike · July 19, 2003, 15:48

Quote:

Originally posted by badams52
obi, I looked all through the linked thread to the bet and could not find the exact bet.

Is it really in there? I remember a bet being placed...

Maybe you can link to the exact post instead of the thread which is over 300 posts long.

A quick look at the top 20 makes it obvious that Trip was going to lose said bet.

It's not in that thread I think.........probably Obiwan misremembered it. There was a bet somewhere though.

Ming · July 19, 2003, 16:06

Quote:

Originally posted by obiwan18
Trip bet that he would be able to outpace the moderator of the Spanish Apolyton forum, Jaybee, to 10,000 posts.

And this came from a person who claimed that post count wasn't important to him...

trickey · July 19, 2003, 17:00

Ha! I betcha he was counting on anyone remembering this

DrSpike · July 19, 2003, 18:09

Does he still post?

trickey · July 19, 2003, 18:11

I'm not sure, maybe not. He isn't even close to diety. I just checked his profile and he's only got 54xx posts. Maybe he just forgot about it. *shrugs*

badams52 · July 19, 2003, 18:21

He still posts. I see him around in the CIII areas once in a while.

badams52 · July 19, 2003, 18:24

Speaking of reaching milestones, just noticed Ming is only 29 away from Double Diety!

Rhothaerill · July 19, 2003, 19:23

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
Does he still post?

Primarily in the ISDG and PTWDG Democracy game forums. He's still a very active poster there, just not active enough I guess.

DrSpike · July 19, 2003, 19:32

So he isn't doing ~25 a day now I would guess.

Nubclear · July 19, 2003, 19:50

Perfect avatar.

Frozzy · July 19, 2003, 20:18

Oerdin · July 19, 2003, 21:32

I think I'm going to make this into my Avatar.

GhengisFarb™ · July 19, 2003, 21:43

Trip was racking up postcount pretty quick there for awhile. I don't know what he got a pcr for, but at that point it was like his post count momentum came to a screeching halt.

mrmitchell · July 19, 2003, 23:02

Yeah, Ming, you killed his momentum.

badams52 · July 19, 2003, 23:50

I like the idea Frozzy, but we need to come up with something better than that. That one is just too simple. Something that would include Ras...er Asuka would be better. The way those two fight...

Rhothaerill · July 19, 2003, 23:54

Maybe something similar to what I have at the bottom of my sig right now...different wording related to his bet obviously, but the intent is the same.

Skanky Burns · July 20, 2003, 01:17

It is a sad thing to witness someone's post-count momentum being lost.

Ben Kenobi · July 20, 2003, 06:37

Quote:

We wouldn't want this thread to degenerate into avatar suggestions for Trip.

Actually, I'm going to use a picture posted by trip himself, that I found in the OT archives. I won't post the avatar until Trip posts in the thread.

Quote:

I don't know what he got a pcr for, but at that point it was like his post count momentum came to a screeching halt.

Even if Trip maintained his former rate at the time of the bet of 15 ppd, he would only have about 7500 posts, far short of deity status. Therein the rub of the bet.

Quote:

It is a sad thing to witness someone's post-count momentum being lost.

Trip likely found RL more compelling than Apolyton, so I see this as a positive turn.

Ben Kenobi · July 20, 2003, 07:16

Apologies to all, I can't seem to find the thread with the bet. I keep getting database errors when searching for all of my posts.

I don't want to have to start saving important threads.

Edit:

Here's the error message:

Database error in vBulletin: Invalid SQL: SELECT searchid FROM search WHERE query='1=1 AND NOT (thread.forumid=\'179\' OR thread.forumid=\'207\' OR thread.forumid=\'178\' OR thread.forumid=\'165\' OR thread.forumid=\'166\' OR thread.forumid=\'167\' OR thread.forumid=\'168\' OR thread.forumid=\'169\' OR thread.forumid=\'170\' OR thread.forumid=\'200\' OR thread.forumid=\'201\' OR thread.forumid=\'202\' OR thread.forumid=\'203\' OR thread.forumid=\'204\' OR thread.forumid=\'205\' OR thread.forumid=\'206\' OR thread.forumid=\'155\' OR thread.forumid=\'156\' OR thread.forumid=\'15\' OR thread.forumid=\'190\' OR thread.forumid=\'191\' OR thread.forumid=\'192\' OR thread.forumid=\'193\' OR thread.forumid=\'194\' OR thread.forumid=\'112\' OR thread.forumid=\'159\' OR thread.forumid=\'152\' OR thread.forumid=\'128\' OR thread.forumid=\'123\' OR thread.forumid=\'125\' OR thread.forumid=\'116\') AND post.userid=\'24017\''
mysql error: Can't open file: 'search.MYI'. (errno: 145)
mysql error number: 1016
Date: Sunday 20th of July 2003 07:19:57 AM
Script: /forums/search.php?s=&action=finduser&userid=24017
Referer: http://apolyton.net/forums/member.ph...o&userid=24017

notyoueither · July 20, 2003, 07:32

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
Does he still post?

Oh yes, he does. I can't think of a lot of other people doing more for the honour of Poly.

Method · July 20, 2003, 11:38

i like frozzy's the best. if Trip doesn't use it, i just might steal it myself

Jon Shafer · July 20, 2003, 13:37

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
The irony is indeed delicious.

Irony on all sides of the equation.

Get your image ready obi, because if you don't give me something to put up before the end of the day (since I've acknowledged and you have yet failed to deliver

) then you're out of luck.

With Poly allowing someone might actually see it too.

Jon Shafer · July 20, 2003, 13:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
And this came from a person who claimed that post count wasn't important to him...

Ming, my greatest delight is in you knowing that I was dedicating a little piece of Poly to you all 7700 times I pressed the "post" button.