And of course, he keeps asking about official avatars as well as trading his download copy for a boxed version:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm...&key=&#1082002

And my head hurts trying to understand what he entered into the Suggestion/Wishlist area:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm...&key=&#1081875

wtf

Ahhh...here's his grand design.

Brilliant!

Looks like he was a football coach...I think we found one of the beta testers!

:D

I wish that I could see his requests to the NCAA to license their teams.

First I thought this guy's posts were just a total mess, perhaps coming from someone whose command of English is a bit shaky.

Then... I started to realize. What's he doing here? All these hyphens... all these periods. Hyphens... dashes. Periods... dots. Dashes and dots... IT'S MORSE CODE!

So, I figure that this is really the next enigma puzzle...






(makes more sense than any other explanation I can fathom)

Wow...

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1082030



It's a great idea to make a thread about how awesome a game is that he hasn't been able to play because he can't get it installed on his comp...

again, quote for posterity, from that thread:

RE: Scouting/Filmroom - 3/8/2006 2:18:42 PM

GWsFBAStartOct292006 Matrix Trooper Posts: 38 Joined: 3/6/2006 Status: online

Sorry, I was just thinking of ESPNNFL '2005's scouting feature; not F.P.S.: F.B.P. '98's feature of saving games and plays or all scoring plays, to be able store them or trade them. Sorry, if it seems that I am constantly bring up F.P.S.: F.B.P. '98 just that to me it was the greatest FootBall Game ever created. I have tryed all major ones, even gave up on playing real FootBall and went to the dark side* and JOINED THE EAS CUSTOMERS* and have every single one in the F.P.S. series. *Only for the stupid, followers and do not truely understand what FootBall really is about, I fit in the first-two but was an grumpy unsatisfied playing EAS FootBall Games, because I am a ex-FootBall player and ex-coach. In my defense, for which there is next to no defense for, I was playing with a few of my younger family members, the ONLY positive from that Dark stage of my playing FootBall Gaming was that it inspired me to create my company.

funniest part to me:

Geez...that thread is hilarious. He basically quotes the features of the game and types "LOVE IT!" after each section. This guy is a nutball or a very creative troll that has purchased the game.

let's be serious for a moment, is he for real? I mean could someone really be that confused or is he making it all up as he goes?

Really, when you think he's posted the weirdest post ever, he comes up with another...

I'm thinking the morse code explanation could very well be the closest on to making any sense of it all...

FM

and I would like to sincerely thank mister GWsFBAStartOct292006 for rekindling this thread that looked like it was dead. Second thanks go to mister Antmeister71 for unveiling this "protégé" so to speak. Thanks Ant!


:D

and to quote myself with the words of the great GWsFBAStartOct292006:


FM

As entertaining as GWBFBAQWERTY2006@#$!!! is, I think this is still my favorite post from the support forum:


From this, I take it that he wanted a game that resembles football, in that it's played on a football field, and where you get to design lots of pretty uniforms, but the rules are something akin to those found in various games in Quik's old Manufactured Competition Thread.

I'll be very disappointed if this GWBFBA... character is actually just one of you in disguise. Or if it's me. That would probably disappoint me even more.

Love the reference...

Two weeks ago I'd have bet money this was a troll, but since then I've been dealing with customer support for a popular online software retailer which sends me emails that are a cross between this guy and jbmagic. The first email was so bad, I thought a friend was playing a joke on me and confronted him about it. I think it's very possible this guy could be on the up and up.

yeah, it's a bit how I feel too. The trollish wave has kind of subsided, the fun was all done and then he comes around. I'd feel a bit like Quiksand if it turned out that it's a manufactured identity but my rational self has a very hard time believing that somebody can be this confused...

FM

Agreed. A long, long time ago, I worked tech support for AOL. There really are people like this out there.

The fakes were fairly easy to pick out, although CFL_FAN has recently rekindled himself as possibly just a nut case with his recent posts. But this character is either a true genius, or a 14 year old English-as-a-fourth-language student with a school business project. Then again, it's possible that an MF-customized player has achieved sentience, and is just a few ratings tweaks away from normality

My personal favourite

I'm considering posting only in blood red courier from now on, it lends a certain gravitas to any post.

you guys are bullies.

and i get a bad rep for posting some harmless stuff at MP leagues.

even better reason: it drives SkyDog up the wall...

You're new around here, you'll learn :D

FM

You make me laugh...I even giggled like SkyDog!

like i said, the humor is being forced here. it was more authentic about 20/30 pages ago. now the continued beating of the horse is getting malicious. if people dislike the game so much they should give it the worst kind of punishment.

moving on.

unless you think all the internet's weirdest people are restricted to the MF forums. there's tons of sites out there with equal, if not more, humorours content. yes, yes, why do i keep checking if i don't care. i keep assuming (wrongly) that if people are still posting here that there's actually something worthwhile to view.

i'm wrong everytime.

quoted for posterity

C'mon guys, we're not entertaining H.A. any more. Try Harder!!!

that was a classic I'm cooler than you post. could be true but that guy over there is fascinating.

Guys, I think HA has a point here. As the founder of DeanHouston.org, HA is one of the world's leading experts on "forced humor".

that's the problem, buck, you guys are trying too hard.

BLANK!

Are they using a Winter impersonator over there now?

it's just silly to see everyone eagerly trying to declare the "new era of the MF thread" everytime someone finds something to make fun of.

i've heard of grapsing for straws, but this is over the top. yeesh, its like David Winter is the only guy in history to try to accomplish something (no matter how lofty the goal) and fall flat on his face. like everything goes perfectly for all you other guys.

MF might suck, but i'd love to have the ability to create something that looked like MF. i wouldn't charge $40 for the final product, mind you, but i still respect the time that went into making something like that. FOF is a beast of a game but it doesn't even have the 2D dots of FM. so, the guy failed. how is this worthy of 60 pages of poking fun of?

Do you read your own posts? You're an asshat of the highest order.

Thanks HA, keep shoveling in some more of this funny stuff. I like it when you play other characters. This concerned character is absolutely hilarious.

Ok, Chevy. We get it. Weekend Update should have been cancelled once you left the cast of Saturday Night Live. It could never again reach the comic proportions you brought to it.

GWsFBAStartOct292006

Hmmmm, Oct 29th, 2006 will be my 30th birthday. coincidence? God, I hope so.

I hope GWsFBAStartOct292006 has a secretary/translator when his company/organization issues a memo/announcement. (Ack. I can't type like that.)

:D If he had been around in the early 1990's, I wonder what it would have been like to play in a MUD ran by him?

Guys, argue in limerick or don't argue at all.

i added more to my post above, to flesh out my thought.

i like how everyone here is authentically a good person, and this thread is just an exception to the rule, where you all have a common target to take shots at.

meanwhile, when i say "hey, don't you think you should move on, don't you think he's had enough" i'm not authentic/sincere.

everyone here is perfect. everyone always completes projects to their highest calibre and no one ever fails. no one can just take a shot and leave it at that. no, everyone jsut want to continually pile on the guy so they can manufacture their own fun.

i feel sorry for the guy. i sometimes have lots of ideas in my head that i'd love to have the ability to make a reality - you think i wouldn't want to be able to create my own text sim? so the game sucks. you guys are on the edges of your seats waiting for the next slip up, screw up or fuck up so you have more content.

HA, that GW guy is funny to me in his own right. He could have been posting about BBCF and I would still have had fun trying to decipher his "companies" and stuff. I'm not so much blasting Maximum Football, other than posting in the Maximum Football since it's kinda linked to it.

Nobody forces you to read this thread here you know...

FM

nobody forces anyone to read my posts (you all have the ignore function) but people read them anyway and then get their nipples all pointy when they read something they don't like. and i'm the bad guy.

what I meant is you made your point known, you too could move on and let people have their fun here, heh...

FM

I don't like your analogy at all. A woman's nipples don't get pointy when they are angry. They get pointy when they are aroused or cold. So you already confused me.

You sure about that? Damn, I was all ready to get my wife all angry the minute I'd walk in the house, kind of in hope of seeing the pointy nipple thing... Back to square one...

FM

I agree with HA.

Except for the nipples analogy... which I don't quite get...

I just thought it was a cold breeze blowing through the thread...

Stop! The last thing I want to imagine SkyDog say is, "Hey look guys, my nipples are getting pointy!" and then get all giggly.

LOL!

So wait, I'm not sure if I've deciphered it properly. This guy wants to start a company where he has a bunch of computers, and people are paying him to play FB Pro '98 (or M-F if he can install it) on them against each other? Can't people already do this for free from the comfort of their own homes?