Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Once I smoked so much weed I thought Barty was an undercover reporter from Vice sent to infiltrate this bizarre relic of a bygone Internet age, basically to laugh at us and our made up Internet names

I love the idea that this is actually true but the mole ended up getting sucked in and became one of us.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Crowleyhead's Wu Tang Clan stories were great. His breakdown of the 1995 Source Awards was one of my favorite Dissensus posts ever. I used to make it my job to lure him into posting gossip about 90s New York rappers and he often came up with the goods.
 

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
It's mad when you dig into the archives and see how deep threads used to go. Got a little taste in the last resurgence tho. Could it ever be steered back towards the golden age?
 

luka

Well-known member
I can't remember anyone that was so good I want them back. I prefer it now to any time in the past. It's more cohesive and compact. Fewer tedious bores and crackpots.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
That his collected blog book would have me as a villain (I also thought I'd killed Simon Reynolds) but then it came out and they'd merely pushed the Point it starts at forward a year or so so I don't appear at all!

There's actually a point there, though. There was an early era of K-Punk, mostly on the early Blogger version before he upgraded to a plusher platform, which some of us engaged with more and coincided with the energy peak of the blogs, Summer-Autumn-Winter of 2003-4 basically. It was a more exploratory phase, using the format for creativity and communication. Then he converted his blog into a philosophical and political project and attempted to co-opt this board into that scheme too, which is when he found some resistance. To an extent he was trying to get the forum to achieve its intellectual potential, but another side of it was puritanical, even tyrannical: the Dope Smoking Dads needed to get with the programme or be eliminated. K-Punk enjoyed a good purge.
 

luka

Well-known member
Craner got purged from the kpunk history by that arbitrary 2004 start point too i should mention!
 

luka

Well-known member
There's actually a point there, though. There was an early era of K-Punk, mostly on the early Blogger version before he upgraded to a plusher platform, which some of us engaged with more and coincided with the energy peak of the blogs, Summer-Autumn-Winter of 2003-4 basically. It was a more exploratory phase, using the format for creativity and communication. Then he converted his blog into a philosophical and political project and attempted to co-opt this board into that scheme too, which is when he found some resistance. To an extent he was trying to get the forum to achieve its intellectual potential, but another side of it was puritanical, even tyrannical: the Dope Smoking Dads needed to get with the programme or be eliminated. K-Punk enjoyed a good purge.

The Kollective!
 

luka

Well-known member
It's mad when you dig into the archives and see how deep threads used to go. Got a little taste in the last resurgence tho. Could it ever be steered back towards the golden age?

This is a different group of players embodying a different set of potentials. We don't have the post-grads, we don't have that academic background, and similarly we don't have that core contingent of old school record collectors. Those are the two serious knowledge bases that came along with Matt and Mark at the beginning. We don't know fuck all. We're blaggers. So what they did we can't do. But I think this is a good team, more human, more flexible, less inclined to ride their hobby horses up and down to borrow poetix phrase from earlier in the thread. Stupider certainly, less knowledgeable without a doubt, but with more emotional intelligence, more wit, better natured, humbler, more cooperative, wiser.

Also, dematerialisation, started by me, by myself, is the greatest thread of all time, and that was achieved with this current set of players so actually, we are the best I would say.
 
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pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
Also, dematerialisation, started by me, by myself, is the greatest thread of all time, and that was achieved with this current set of players so actually, we are the best I would say.

That was easily one of my favourite experiences on the web ever. Literally thinking about the thread throughout the day, looking forward to seeing where it had gone when I got back. A bunch of other threads around that time too. But dematerialisation will always be a high point.
 
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luka

Well-known member
It was magic. Dunno how it happened. Best thing in the history of the Internet and the major intellectual achievement of our era. A collective feather for our collective cap
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
There was a guy called himself Slim Jenkins, he was cool but now on faceback he's had a kind of lurch to the right and he shares these tired alt-right pictures and calls people snowflakes.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
There was a guy called himself Slim Jenkins, he was cool but now on faceback he's had a kind of lurch to the right and he shares these tired alt-right pictures and calls people snowflakes.

Yeah, I used to like him when he posted on here but he's gone seriously mental, politics-wise. Seems like every day he's posting some new anti-Greta tirade, complaining about millennials being triggered snowflakes, posting links to Spiked, the whole lot.
 
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