I'm just surprised no one suspected anything before, if there was this much sketchiness about. Like I said, I've recently had to deal with this kind of thing, and people were suspicious of the poster for a while. But it also turned out that quite a few people were suspicious and just never said anything. And then people got together and commiserated and Googled like mad and discovered all sorts of inconsistencies and yeah.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2007 7:07:50 pm PST #7535 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cass - Jan 01, 2007 7:11:21 pm PST #7536 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I mean, I could feel okay if Gus were a pseud.Personally - and whoa is this hitting too many people I like in too many different ways - Gus was a poster here. Pseud or not. That is kinda fact. I mean, many of you will be entirely shocked to know that my name is not actually "Cass." But I still kinda exist.
Did he actually die? God I hope so because as sad as that seems, the alternative is just cruel. But this world we live in is the world we live in and people don't just lie, they try to cause as much pain as possible.
kimi was a new poster. I hope that she did just want to let us know and that there is nothing else at work. Can I be sure of that? Sadly, no.
Lee - Jan 01, 2007 7:12:02 pm PST #7537 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
err... Some of us were suspicious, and did say things to other people. This is just the first time something less than benign came up.
tommyrot - Jan 01, 2007 7:13:07 pm PST #7538 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm just surprised no one suspected anything before
Oh, some of us "suspected." OK, that's too strong a word. But some of us (at one of the Midwest f2fs) commented that he seemed "too good to be true" and we noted that no one had actually met him so it was possible it was all a fake identity thing. Speaking for me personally, it was just a tiny little doubt that sat at the back of my mind - until the whole car thing, when the doubt moved more to the center of my mind.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2007 7:14:32 pm PST #7539 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The schmoker theory sounds strange to me, as we suspected pretty quickly that mieskie had returned and no one suspected the same about Gus. I think the timeline is probably a coincidence.
Could be so. I don't really know.
I'm just surprised no one suspected anything before
Some people did. But there was no reason to call him on it. He wasn't scamming people out of money. When the whole Weremonkeyfest of '05 fell apart, that definitely pinged me. If you've read anything about long running pseuds in fandom, there were many red flags around Gus. His whole story is almost an archetypal pseud.
Mary-sueish backstory. Incurable illness that upsets face-to-face meetings. A separate, previously unknown entity announcing the death. Inability to corroborate anything online.
His synopsis bouncing back? He forgot about the Midwestern summer BBQ he was supposed to host? He's building a fucking aspirin replicator and he can't get his scanner to work? Phone numbers left which don't go anywhere? The entire pattern is all about evasion. Again and again and again.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 01, 2007 7:21:19 pm PST #7540 of 10001
What is even happening?
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Topic!Cindy - Jan 01, 2007 7:26:02 pm PST #7541 of 10001
What is even happening?
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tommyrot - Jan 01, 2007 7:30:32 pm PST #7542 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommy, I don't think you look like an idiot. Also? I remember that picture. I've been keeping an eye on Gus, since that picture. It never sat right with me. It looked like he got it off a website.
Ok, to counter my "look like an idiot" statement... I really started having major doubts after Weremonkeyfest fell though. (Plus I was angry at Gus for a while after that.) Even when Gus first offered me the car, I was thinking "He's giving me a car? I'll believe it when I see it." And when I asked my boss (who's a car whiz) if he knew anyone who could work on a 20-year-old Mercedes, I was thinking, "I'm going to look like such an idiot to my boss if this car thing is fake."
Topic!Cindy - Jan 01, 2007 7:34:33 pm PST #7543 of 10001
What is even happening?
tommy, do you have any old emails from him. Can you look at the header, and get his IP address?
tommyrot - Jan 01, 2007 7:38:04 pm PST #7544 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommy, do you have any old emails from him. Can you look at the header, and get his IP address?
I think all my emails from him are to my gmail accout, from his gmail account. Is there a way of seeing the source, routing info, etc. for gmail email? I couldn't find it.
I think all my old Gus emails are on my iBook that died. OK, it's probably all backed up but I don't feel like looking through the backups right now.