View Full Version : For the love of Ghyslain
TomChick
09-07-2003, 07:37 PM
Seriously, sign it (http://www.petitiononline.com/Ghyslain/petition.html). I don't know about the rest of you guys, but this is the only thing that will get me into a theatre to see a Star Wars movie. No joke. I didn't see the last one and I won't see the next one. Unless Lucas Does The Right Thing.
-Tom
Bub, Andrew
09-07-2003, 10:02 PM
"The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity."
Is this sentence telling me that his first name is Ghyslain? Because I sort of thought he was being called Ghyslain to keep his last AND first name secret.
Brad Grenz
09-07-2003, 10:33 PM
From the thread title, I thought Ghyslain was going to be the name of some fruity elf god. What has this whole Star Wars kid thing taught us? That this is what happens when you're French Canadian.
If the kid gets into to Star Wars, does that mean the goobs from that LARP video get to be in Return of the King?
Albert Woo
09-07-2003, 11:12 PM
"The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity."
Is this sentence telling me that his first name is Ghyslain? Because I sort of thought he was being called Ghyslain to keep his last AND first name secret.
His full name was revealed when his family filed a lawsuit regarding the theft of the video.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59757,00.html
Bub, Andrew
09-07-2003, 11:17 PM
"Ghyslian"
Ohhh! So they're protecting his first name by cleverly transposing the "i" and the "a". Tricky! Fooled the petition author, at least.
Albert Woo
09-07-2003, 11:22 PM
"Ghyslian"
Ohhh! So they're protecting his first name by cleverly transposing the "i" and the "a". Tricky! Fooled the petition author, at least.
I guess their spellchecker missed that one. :) They did manage to spell his name correctly in the rest of the article though.
Bub, Andrew
09-07-2003, 11:26 PM
Oh! I retract that then. I don't know why but Ghyslian seemed to make more sense as a first name. Maybe it's because, to me, Ghyslain looks sort of Internet handle-ish.
MattKeil
09-07-2003, 11:55 PM
Apparently Ghyslain is a fairly common name in Quebec or something. Wacky Frogs.
Anyway, this kid can fuck right off, as far as I'm concerned. It was cool at first, but when he started suing people and talking about how he was so traumatized that he dropped out of school and all that, I lost what little sympathy I had for him. This could have been his shot at a brilliant 15 minutes of fame, and he (or perhaps his parents, doesn't really matter which at this point) simply fell back on the old Victim Culture routine.
You know, I think every Star Wars fan has done something goofy with a lightsaber-esque item at one time or another, but what kind of a complete nutbar videotapes themselves doing it? If you're dumb enough to not only do that, but to not destroy and/or guard that tape with your life afterward, you deserve whatever you get.
Sure wish I'd gotten free money, iPods, and roles in historic motion pictures when I did stupid shit in high school.
Pussy.
~MJK
voltaic
09-08-2003, 12:00 AM
I thought he was acting out some sword or pole-fighting sequence from Soul Caliber?
Warlord of Mars
09-08-2003, 12:13 AM
No freakin' way, Tom. I'm not signing that.
The last thing I want to do is encourage George Lucas to put more inane, silly crap in the movies. I want the coolness of the Empire Strikes Back, er, back.
Fuck Jar-Jar.
TomChick
09-08-2003, 12:23 AM
I want the coolness of the Empire Strikes Back, er, back.
Yeah, John Carter, and I want world peace. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. Now go sign the petition.
FWIW, I don't think Ghyslain was necessarily doing a Star Wars routine. I've discussed this before, but he's not making the right mouth noises to be playing lightsaber, plus he's not holding the golf ball retriever correctly to emulate a double-bladed lightsaber staff. I'm in the camp that thinks he's imitating someone like Kilik in Soul Calibur.
But still, his presence is the only thing that will get me into the theatre to see whatever piece of crap Lucas is shooting right now.
-Tom
ElRavager
09-08-2003, 12:54 AM
My favorite part of his kata is when he steps up and fronts the camera like a badass...
Warlord of Mars
09-08-2003, 01:32 AM
Yeah, John Carter, and I want world peace. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. Now go sign the petition.
-Tom
Only if a young Han Solo runs over his ass in the opening credits of the movie, then I'll sign up. Write up the script, let me have final say on it and we have a deal. World peace be damned!
Guido Jones
09-08-2003, 04:07 AM
I want the coolness of the Empire Strikes Back, er, back.
Yeah, John Carter, and I want world peace. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. Now go sign the petition.
-Tom
Who's John Carter? Jimmy Carter you mean?
And, I agree with Keil.
Pussy.
ydejin
09-08-2003, 04:16 AM
I want the coolness of the Empire Strikes Back, er, back.
Yeah, John Carter, and I want world peace. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. Now go sign the petition.
-Tom
Who's John Carter? Jimmy Carter you mean?
Sigh. What are they teaching you kids in school today? :wink:
John Carter was a character from one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' series. The John Carter series was about an Earth man who ended up on Mars and discovered a civilization there. He becomes a Warlord of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs was most famous for writing Tarzan.
Bub, Andrew
09-08-2003, 06:07 AM
He becomes a Warlord of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs was most famous for writing Tarzan.
Which is probably why he didn't get the joke you four-armed green man!
Joe O'Malley
09-08-2003, 07:05 AM
Seriously, sign it (http://www.petitiononline.com/Ghyslain/petition.html). I don't know about the rest of you guys, but this is the only thing that will get me into a theatre to see a Star Wars movie. No joke. I didn't see the last one and I won't see the next one. Unless Lucas Does The Right Thing.
-Tom
Almost 90,000 signatories? Wow. How many did n'Sync get ?
Seriously, I've heard of this thing but not seen it. Anyone have a link to a non-game-internet-filter-friendly site so I can see it?
Brian Koontz
09-08-2003, 08:42 AM
Anyway, this kid can fuck right off, as far as I'm concerned. It was cool at first, but when he started suing people and talking about how he was so traumatized that he dropped out of school and all that, I lost what little sympathy I had for him. This could have been his shot at a brilliant 15 minutes of fame, and he (or perhaps his parents, doesn't really matter which at this point) simply fell back on the old Victim Culture routine.
He had 160,000 reasons to play the Victim card.
Most people will lose respect for him because of it, but is that considered important by the humans of today?
Maybe his next lawsuit can be for reason of emotional trauma resulting from the disparaging remarks he receives after winning his first lawsuit...
Ghyslain: Show me the Money!
Oh by the way, do you mind posting these humiliating pictures of me on the internet? I'm a bit behind on the house payments and am a fragile man who cannot stand people laughing at me.
Their talent is their fragility. Gotta milk that cash cow for all its worth.
awdougherty
09-08-2003, 09:15 AM
Personally, I'm not going to sign this one (I rarely do). I think the response to this poor kid is as humiliating to him as the tape itself. I think the petition should actually read, "We the undersigned humbly request that Star Wars stops blowing ass."
He becomes a Warlord of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs was most famous for writing Tarzan.
Which is probably why he didn't get the joke you four-armed green man!
Did anyone catch the hilarious bits in the second year of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics, where John Carter is responsible for defeating the aliens, who then leave Mars for Earth, to start the War of the Worlds?
Bub, Andrew
09-08-2003, 09:32 AM
Did anyone catch the hilarious bits in the second year of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics, where John Carter is responsible for defeating the aliens, who then leave Mars for Earth, to start the War of the Worlds?
You mean Issue #1? Yes. :wink:
voltaic
09-08-2003, 11:04 AM
Who's John Carter?
Duh. He's like the awesomest internal medicine dude at County Hospital in Chicago. Now that Mark Green is dead someone has to be the bad-ass.
MattKeil
09-08-2003, 01:40 PM
Most people will lose respect for him because of it, but is that considered important by the humans of today?
Most people don't even seem to know what respect is anymore. I can't count the number of times I've disagreed or flat-out disproven what someone has said and been rebuked with "that's his opinion, and you should respect it/him/everyone!"
Last I checked, you only got civility automatically. I was under the impression that respect was something you had to earn. Hence the reason respect is, you know, valued and all that.
~MJK
Warlord of Mars
09-08-2003, 03:01 PM
He becomes a Warlord of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs was most famous for writing Tarzan.
Which is probably why he didn't get the joke you four-armed green man!
Ha ha... glad you fellas get it. And I'm sorry for unleasing the Martians on our world... wasn't that good of a movie in the end, unfortunately.
I don't mind being referred to as John Carter. "Carter" will do in a pinch.
Voltaic, I sorta look like a shorter & more stocky version of Noah Wylie, so you got me there, too.
Guido Jones
09-09-2003, 04:06 AM
I want the coolness of the Empire Strikes Back, er, back.
Yeah, John Carter, and I want world peace. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. Now go sign the petition.
-Tom
Who's John Carter? Jimmy Carter you mean?
Sigh. What are they teaching you kids in school today? :wink:
John Carter was a character from one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' series. The John Carter series was about an Earth man who ended up on Mars and discovered a civilization there. He becomes a Warlord of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs was most famous for writing Tarzan.
Ah learn something new every day. oh well :)
Mark Asher
09-09-2003, 09:33 AM
Most people will lose respect for him because of it, but is that considered important by the humans of today?
Most people don't even seem to know what respect is anymore. I can't count the number of times I've disagreed or flat-out disproven what someone has said and been rebuked with "that's his opinion, and you should respect it/him/everyone!"
Last I checked, you only got civility automatically. I was under the impression that respect was something you had to earn. Hence the reason respect is, you know, valued and all that.
~MJK
Careful, when Brian gets called on his misuse of words, he writes treatises to explain how he was really correct. It seems to be an idiotic necessity on his part.
Brian Koontz
09-09-2003, 10:36 AM
Careful, when Brian gets called on his misuse of words, he writes treatises to explain how he was really correct.
You'd hardly know, since anything that takes longer than 10 seconds to read you ignore. How's your ADD treatment working out? By the way, you're right. Those first two doctors were a little fishy. Its not your fault the medicine had no effect. Hopefully the stronger stuff will work. The dosage can always be upped further, you know. In fact, I'd recomm
Careful, when Brian gets called on his misuse of words, he writes treatises to explain how he was really correct.
You'd hardly know, since anything that takes longer than 10 seconds to read you ignore. How's your ADD treatment working out? By the way, you're right. Those first two doctors were a little fishy. Its not your fault the medicine had no effect. Hopefully the stronger stuff will work. The dosage can always be upped further, you know. In fact, I'd recomm
Good job sticking it to the Tom/Mark entity there.
Brian Koontz
09-09-2003, 11:19 AM
Good job sticking it to the Tom/Mark entity there.
Nah... Asher and I have a history. Our views often are diametrically opposed (on game philosophy and posting values, as well as general taste). Our enemy status stretches back well before the Tom/Mark entity was first seen.
Mark's place in the Tom/Mark entity does add fuel to the fire, however.
Good job sticking it to the Tom/Mark entity there.
Nah... Asher and I have a history. Our views often are diametrically opposed (on game philosophy and posting values, as well as general taste). Our enemy status stretches back well before the Tom/Mark entity was first seen.
Mark's place in the Tom/Mark entity does add fuel to the fire, however.
You sure have a lofty opinion of your effect on others, don't you?
Rywill
09-09-2003, 12:08 PM
Mark's place in the Tom/Mark entity does add fuel to the fire, however.
You sure have a lofty opinion of your effect on others, don't you?
Also: Pacific Ocean at least a little damp.
Mark Asher
09-09-2003, 01:55 PM
Do we have a history? I don't remember a Brian Koontz before seeing this incarnation on these boards. Did you post under a different name?
TomChick
09-09-2003, 01:59 PM
Brian Koontz is Mark Asher's Tyler Durden.
-Tom
MikeOberly
09-09-2003, 02:05 PM
Sounds like you've made a dangerous enemy,Mark.
quatoria
09-09-2003, 02:06 PM
Literally.
Stroker Ace
09-09-2003, 02:42 PM
Do we have a history? I don't remember a Brian Koontz before seeing this incarnation on these boards. Did you post under a different name?
You make a point of posting "I like having a resident kook, even if his posts are too wordy for me to bother reading more than the first paragraph" in nearly EVERY anti-Brian thread. I'm assuming he's inferred that as anti-Koontzism - that's the way I'd read you.
On the whole, there doesn't seem to have been much actual dialogue between you and Brian, just unrelated observations (mostly negative on both sides).
I suppose to him that comes off as "bad blood" and to you it comes off as "an average day at the forums". I'd be more inclined to agree with the latter, but I at least see where Koontz is coming from.
I signed it...
What do I win?
Mark Asher
09-09-2003, 03:55 PM
Do we have a history? I don't remember a Brian Koontz before seeing this incarnation on these boards. Did you post under a different name?
You make a point of posting "I like having a resident kook, even if his posts are too wordy for me to bother reading more than the first paragraph" in nearly EVERY anti-Brian thread. I'm assuming he's inferred that as anti-Koontzism - that's the way I'd read you.
On the whole, there doesn't seem to have been much actual dialogue between you and Brian, just unrelated observations (mostly negative on both sides).
I suppose to him that comes off as "bad blood" and to you it comes off as "an average day at the forums". I'd be more inclined to agree with the latter, but I at least see where Koontz is coming from.
I thought Brian was referring to some pre-Qt3 exchanges.
Brian Koontz
09-09-2003, 05:15 PM
Do we have a history? I don't remember a Brian Koontz before seeing this incarnation on these boards. Did you post under a different name?
Historical in comparison to June 2003 with the emergence of the Tom/Mark entity. Months like October 2002, November 2002, April 2003, and May 2003 are historical in relation to June 2003. The point was that we had a pre-Tom/Mark entity history.
The first time I heard of you was when I came to this website, which was maybe 6 months before I registered, on July 2, 2002.
Mark Asher
09-09-2003, 06:43 PM
Ok, so you know me as Mark, but you also know me as the Tom/Mark entity, and these are separate people in your mind. Okie-dokie.
One question -- will you address me by name so I know which of me you're talking to? Thanks.
Brian Koontz
09-09-2003, 09:34 PM
Ok, so you know me as Mark, but you also know me as the Tom/Mark entity, and these are separate people in your mind. Okie-dokie.
Its analogous to knowing a person as a friend and knowing him as a member of Mega-Corp... two different contexts. At Mega-Corp he is building a strip mall next to your house and annoying you greatly while as a friend he is going to the ballgame with you.
One question -- will you address me by name so I know which of me you're talking to? Thanks.
You'll know from the context... also often from my tone. If I sound disappointed, melancholy, and/or angry its probably the Tom/Mark entity while if I sound attacking or playful its probably Mark Asher.
Ben Sones
09-09-2003, 09:54 PM
Wow... Qt3 is a "Mega-Corp!" How do I get a piece of that pie? Seems like an easy biz: kick back, read some posts, ban a few people and keep the reasons secret from Brian. It's the life of Riley!
And just think how high the profits will soar once the Jack-in-the-Box promo kicks in...
Brandon Clements
09-09-2003, 10:24 PM
Just stay the hell away from my stapler! :)
Brad Grenz
09-09-2003, 10:39 PM
Yeah, when do we get our Jack in the Box checks?
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