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So... about circles and cliques. Do you belong in any? I think we can all safely say that everyone is part of one, or a few, or many. I think the problem with being in so many circles/cliques is keeping up with each one. There is absolutely no way I could keep up with each one at the same time, as if I spend time with one clique, I'm losing attention with another. ARGH
Probably I'm the only one who feels this way. :greenie: So, let's talk about circles of cliques around EoFF.
I just like people. :shrug:
This place is a clique, Proto! Git yer facts straight!
Also, I'm the king of the people who have not won a Ciddie.
I don't really belong in any clique, I think I roam freely around them.
At work I guess I'm with the loud, chatty girls! But then I'm also with other people and groups. I've sort of made my own clique at work with my department girls.
Oooh, you mean on EoFF? Are there cliques on here? I'm not sure
I don't think I'm a part of any circle or clique. There are lots of people on here I can happily chat with but I wouldn't regard myself as part of any particular 'inner circle'.
Unless... does EOFF count as a clique?
I wouldn't say I'm particularly part of a clique. I'm part of the Events Committee, though that's not really a clique. I guess I'm an FFXIII fan, which is a rare fan club, and I'm British.
I'm like Sam - I don't really care either way, I just like everyone.
I guess there's the #eoff clique, but even then I don't talk with EVERYONE on there.
I think my closest peeps are Parker and Shauna, we're all british and occasionally text.
I'm also close with Rantz and Shorty, and I guess like Formy I'm in the EC so I have that. Aaannnd I write for the frontsite so I suppose I'm 'in' with those people? maybe I dunnnoooo.... I just send them stuff xD
I'm talking about the cliques/circles WITHIN EoFF. It's like inception, except not. A clique within a clique, as you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephex
I spread my love around. Basically I'm a whore.
Probably the only clique I can think of are the members who have met each other in EoFF get-togethers.
The first rule of fight club is not to talk about fight club.
GODDANGIT JOWY.
Until there's a defined clique, I'mma say that I am either not cool enough or too cool to be in one. #eoff is like a clique, now that I think about it.
#eoff is definitely a defined enough clique within EoFF, as there are regulars who come into chat.
So there was this time where edczxcvbnm and I spotted a porn parody of that movie called Stap on Club at a video rental place. The cover even had a pink "object of interest" instead of soap. So edczxcvbnm and I, being respectable perverts, decide to download the film on our own instead of facing shame of the employee who checks out the movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
They get to the part where they describe the rules. "The first rule Strap on Club is that you don't talk about Strap on Club. The second rule of Strap on Club is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT STRAP ON CLUB."
Not two scenes later a character says, "There is this new club that I am a part of..." which causes edczxcvbnm to scream, "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!"
And no, there was no plot twist that revealed that the main character was ****ing herself the whole time. Biggest missed opportunity of human history.
1.5/10
Would not fap to again.
Oh, and cliques are nifty.
I hover in the cracks.
I'm whatever clique opposes the #eoff clique and rigs the Ciddies so that you always lose.
Also Xbox Live and football thread cliques represent.
Lately i've been a bit everywhere! Gobo is kinda my current eoff bestie merely cause we're constantly talking about frontsite stuff. But i've been in #eoff lately but I still talk to other people and well, i just love everyone. I'm a bit of a chatty cathy so i'll talk to anyone who will talk to me.
i hang out in the dark souls thread, where the ds people smoke half moon grass and make fun of the mlp people
then we skip class and teach murder gets super pissed at us
but we don't care about history of ff man
history don't teach you nothin
I'm in the cool clique.
I should probably enter #eoff from time to time, but everyone seems to know everyone, so I don't feel I can join in as much. I mean, everyone calls each other by name half the time! I don't know whos' who.
I once killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's bread :(
Everyone starts out as strangers until you talk and get to know them. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
And well, I guess the Skype chat is a clique in itself, although it's not exclusive at all. People just don't want to stick around. :redface:
Can someone make a list of these different groups?
There's a sea of posters saying "Well...I think I belong here. If this counts."
You should definitely come in chat sometime, it's fun. And, yes, I will ask you your name. It's happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
I guess I'm a regular in #eoff, if that counts as a clique.
I have been told by a few members who were on this forum long before me that EoFF used to be very cliquey and that you guys could actually be quite rude. I'm glad you're friendly and welcoming of new members now though. :jess:
All I know is that I'm in the Thug Clique with Flying Mullet and the rest of you are losers.
I don't think I'm cool enough to join the Refer to Everyone By Their First Name and Confuse Everyone Else Clique yet though.
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Oh my god are we like a gang nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
*fistbumps Parker and Locky*Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockharted
I dunno. I never feel like I'm truly part of any cliques. Always like I'm hovering outside the circle, but not actually involved. *shrug* The #eoff crew is the closest I have to a clique, but I wouldn't describe it as such. Eh. I have who I consider to be friends, and that is enough...?
And Formy: You should totes come on the chat more often. :) 'tis a bunch of fun,
It totally is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna*fistbumps Parker and Locky*Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockharted
I dunno. I never feel like I'm truly part of any cliques. Always like I'm hovering outside the circle, but not actually involved. *shrug* The #eoff crew is the closest I have to a clique, but I wouldn't describe it as such. Eh. I have who I consider to be friends, and that is enough...?
And Formy: You should totes come on the chat more often. :) 'tis a bunch of fun,
Come on Formy, get your buttbutt in the chat! :D
I'm there ;DDDDDQuote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
I am loved by everyone here in equal measure and am routinely invited to all their parties.
I used to game with Psy, DK and Iceglow until I moved away from my Xbox. I had just acquired Freya as well. :(
I know quin, and then I was all super said you left and stuff. :(
This place used to be VERY cliquey but now we're all grown up and friends. Kinda like hippies in that sense.
I've got my fingers in all of you.
Yeah we've mellowed out a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freya
Gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
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Originally Posted by Pike
Gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I use to be part of the user noting clique but then those got disabled. ;___;
Now I'm a Ms. Solo Dolo.
Well, he's certainly had his fingers in a few EoFFers, at least.
I'm in a clique?
Someone, accept me.
Is lonely.
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Originally Posted by Clo
*Takes Clo*
Shhh now, you're okay now....
You and Pitye are both in my Lady Wank Bank, if that helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
Many years ago, Zeldy, Zuzu, Tama2 and Me, were a clique. And Kamiko. Oh, drowning in nostalgia. Only Zeldy and I survived the years. :whimper:
Lady Wank Bank? That is the greatest name for anything, possibly ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa's BoobsYou and Pitye are both in my Lady Wank Bank, if that helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
Cliques are cliques, but I think it was very rare for someone to be actually outright rude, especially to new members. Other than in EoEO (and EotW) I guess but that's hardly changed!Quote:
Originally Posted by shion
There used to be sort-of cliques around EoFF but to be honest a lot of them were great fun to have around. I mean, not that I'm talking about the W-Boats or anything, but yeah. :shifty: Also, I remember when a group of members back in 2000 or 2001 joined together to be the rivals to the Cid's Knights and called themselves the Dawn Warriors or something. It was kind of hilarious for a random newbie like myself at the time. :D
Outside of random comments on member's Facebook pages, I haven't talked to a person from EoFF outside of internal messaging in weeks, possibly months.
Does this mean I'm clique-less?
I wanna be in the clique that has access to Spatvark's exhaustive but never-quite-finished Vagrant Story section
I have an Old Man Clique!
Initial caps obligatory.
Hawt. :kakapo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa's BoobsYou and Pitye are both in my Lady Wank Bank, if that helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
I don't think I'm part of any in all honesty as, for various reasons, I don't really talk to anyone outside of the forums and most of the time I feel like I go unnoticed here until I (sometimes intentionally) stir up the Hornet's nest over hot topics.
Aww! I feel saddened that you feel that! Maybe your WoW Dragon you got off of Shorty in the Secret Santa will cheer you up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aulayna
I value you Aulayna. :)
I proposed to her a while back and she never responded. Now who's unnoticed? :crying:
Jeeze, who the heck is that guy?
Stab. Twist.
:(
The gang!
Eyes on Final Fantasy: groups:the_gang
but uh I used to been a #eoffer but I cba to chat anymore.
there certain people I talk to a little outside of EoFF but not really that much anymore.
The #eoff clique, the jowdenmarkshorty clique, the archer thread clique, the fight club clique and the lovely ladies of fight club clique.
Are there any other EGG members left unbanned besides me?
Cliques? Really? We're too old for this trout.
I'm in the superior-to-everyone clique. We are discriminating compared to most other EoFF cliques in that we actually have standards.
EoFF was fairly cliquey a loooong time ago. I never saw actual rudeness or willful exclusion of newbies (though some thoughtless exclusion in hindsight), but I was told by some contemporary newbies that they felt it was difficult to fit in at times with the more established members. EoFF has long since grown out of that, probably because the average age of posters has jumped something like 5-6 years or more. Hell, despite having a reputation as one of the more oldbie-favoring, elitist members, I can't even think of an EoFF clique that I'm a part of.
Interestingly, despite the relative lack of newbies in recent years, it seems far easier nowadays for newbies to become established.
That's depressingly plausible, so I choose to disregard it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shlup
Screw you, you're in the old man clique.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raistlin
If "too old for this trout" is a clique then, okay, I can deal with that.
lurk for 2 months until Jason starts quoting song lyrics at you, then you'll be in the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
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Originally Posted by rubahlurk for 2 months until Jason starts quoting song lyrics at you, then you'll be in the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
2 hours*
I'm in the anti-Loony BoB clique that consists of myself and Psychotic.
And I'm also in the anti-Psychotic clique that consists of myself and Loony BoB.
I'm my own best friend.
I can't believe you left me out :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
I learned who people were in #eoff pretty quickly. It's not that hard. You just have to spend a fair amount of time in there for a few weeks and you'll catch on.
I don't know if I really qualify as being a member of any cliques, but a lot of people seem to regard me as some sort of legend, so there is that.
You and half the forum probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILFI can't believe you left me out :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
proud representative of the dying skype crew
I've been using it more recently... I think another voice call is needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parker
Ah man, I wanna Skype people. My friends are useless at not being trout. xD
The Thunderdome Retirement Match would be Triple Threat but for the fact that we all know that man will never retire. Also, let's not forget the united hatred the three of us have for Shlup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
I don't run in any circles anymore. Now I run in straight lines and sometimes zigzag patterns.
Join the EoFF 360 Minecraft crew you awful man. Perks include: Steve's tears, Spleef, Liberal TNT.Quote:
Originally Posted by G13
I'm waiting for the day you pop into my game and fall victim to the obsidian labyrinth I'vewasted my life onpainstakingly created with you in mind.
Well that's ironic given that we made a giant bedrock one for Steve. He was very displeased with it. As was I, really, I was hoping he'd die more than the 35 times that he did.
You are part of fight club and Archer :colbert:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Man
You're part of the Metal Militia with Mike, Julian, and myself. :monster:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Man
Rules of joining metal militia:
1) Enjoy metal music.
2) Commiserate with other members of MM about how great it is.
3) Complain about recording/mixing quality.
4) Attempt to indoctrinate new members by forcing our music on them. (Phil is slowly being turned.)
Good times then. I'm cool being part of those cliques. :monster:
The #eoff clique, maybe. Not that I am very deep into it. There might also be an "old person who is known on several old and now dead messageboards" clique that I'm part of, but who knows.
Not so much anymore.
Fixed. hahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
Have I been active long enough again to consider myself part of any clique? I'm one of the few regular posters in the FFXIV section, if that counts for anything.
Your a dab hand at EoEo as well Ouch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouch!
I'm with Eric.Quote:
Originally Posted by G13
We run a clique together.
It's called the I Sell Drugs Out Of My Basement Clique
Eric's a nice boy, he would never do such a dastardly thing!
Well, if he won't be in it, I need someone to play accountant and do PR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Quin is your man.
I demand a kilo per month in payment of my services.
We're together. :smug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
The only place I visit kinda regularly enough in these boards is the football thread. You guys are my bros! :cry:
Other than that I am not active enough to say I am part of any cliques, but I still claim to be.
You're way older than me, grandpa.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
Yeah, Raistlin can't be in the old man clique. He's only 12.
There was a returning members from Fool's Gold clique.
I think Fool's Gold has an EoFF Clique.
I belong to the inner circle of highly advanced bot programmed by a bunch of like minded individuals to make this place a happy place. :bigsmile:
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Originally Posted by Night FuryQuote:
Originally Posted by Pike
Gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Also, I stayed in FF9 only for, like, a year before expanding into General Chat because I was intimated by all you cool people.
So basically everyone who has registered here in the last 5 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas
I disagree! They did not make this place a happy place! I did by planting flowers fertilized by my own feces!Quote:
Originally Posted by Del MurderSo basically everyone who has registered here in the last 5 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas