quote:Originally posted by Rock: Was one of them the time Bane and I staged a huge fake fight that fooled the entire board?
I must've missed that. Did the two of you paint a white line down the middle of the board? Because that would've been classic! Posts: 8506 | From: Omaha, NE | Registered: Jun 1999
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Since this is the "Nightly Net History" thread. I have a question. Who was Thunderdroid, what happened to him, and why is he so damn special.
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quote:Originally posted by troyjan: Since this is the "Nightly Net History" thread. I have a question. Who was Thunderdroid, what happened to him, and why is he so damn special.
I once tried to find the answer to this in the Arvhives but couldn't. All I got was that someone wrote a story with TD as one fo the characters and by NN majority this was thought as ubercool.
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well here is what I found from a G o o g l e's cache crawl...
quote:Oh boy! This site is a collection of some of my personal contributions to the vast expanse of stupidity known as the Internet. Everything here was originally posted/presented under the username "ThunderDroid", which I first registered at the Nightly.Net message boards in September of 1999, and continued using for a variety of on-line projects, and other such nonsense.
Transience is the one true constant of the on-line world; free webhosts become pay sites, messageboards get "pruned" or deleted completely, and all accounts eventually expire. For reasons such as these, any particular bit of data on the web has a fairly short life expectancy (someone should do a study to determine this value... OK fine, I'll do it!). It sometimes takes real effort, and real money, to preserve on-line material, and laugh in the face of inevitable digital death. LOL!
So, this site is "ThunderDroid's" stubborn and way righteous battle with the grim spectre of 404 error pages and red-x broken image links. I've salvaged as much of my favorite "stuff" as possible, and organized it here anew. Much of the content, as a result, is now far removed from its original context, and, very likely, not nearly as funny or interesting as it may have once been (who knows?). But, it's here anyway, fighting the good fight.
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But why isn't he here anymore. Even I like this place. So he couldn't have just said "**** this place, Seacrest..OUT."
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Once upon a time there was a Nightly member who registered under the username "ThunderDroid". He was blessed with very witty writing skills. Nightly was blessed with ThunderDroid's continuing contributions for a lengthy period of time.
During the rampant everyone-create-your-own-messageboard fad of 2001-2002, ThunderDroid's Nightly presence diminished when he cocreated (along with another Nightly member named Darth Pepper, who was also funny but was considerably more Australian than ThunderDroid) a new board away from Nightly called "Dark Side of the Monkey". Unlike almost every other non-Nightly messageboard formed by Nightly members, it managed to be entertaining. I lurked there occasionally and even posted a few times, but was unanimously ignored.
When ThunderDroid publicly and willingly stepped down from an active role in DSOTM some time later, it became less unlike almost every other non-Nightly messageboard formed by Nightly members in that it eventually ceased to exist.
At some point after he stepped down from DSOTM, he registered the alias "Old Toby" and began posting anew on Nightly, in hopes that he could continue as a member of the community but without the onus of expectations that the ThunderDroid name now carried. Fortunately for us but unfortunately for him, he was too funny for his own good and it didn't take Inspector Gadget to put two and two together and blow his cover. He later relented and resumed use of the ThunderDroid name. Nightly learned how to laugh...again.
Still later, though, he vanished once again without fanfare or even so much as a hackneyed and emotional "I'm leaving Nightly!" thread. His current Internet whereabouts, presuming he still makes time for the Internet in his life, remain unknown to those of us who've never had the pleasure of communicating with him outside Nightly.
Those who were or are closer to him might know more of his story, but this is all I know, and all I need know.
(Y'know, I'd originally hit the "Add Reply" button with the intention of writing simply, "ThunderDroid was just this funny guy, y'know?" and leaving it at that. Sorry for my spontaneous logorrhea, but he's worth it.)
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Lady Palpatine was married to Thunderdroid and banging me on the side.
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Funny is like fingerprints. You can rub all the peanut butter you want on your fingers, but your fingerprints are still under that mess. I'm not surprised he eventually got busted.
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