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Lark84
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posted 09-20-2004 02:25 PM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

This thread reminded me that a pretty extensive subculture developed here at AH, and other Pokémon related message boards/sites.

While I most likely had no part in shaping it, I really enjoyed the ride. The acronyms, the internal jokes, the plain weirdness, and last but certainly not least the Pokémon games, the hacking, the battling...

But was it unique, or just an adaption of large Internet memes and fads (goatse, All Your Base, file sharing...) by a subgroup, applying their own thoughts and views on these things, adapting and changing it?

What, ultimately, determines the shapes of these subcultures? The members themselves, who choose what to make part of the culture, or something larger, introducing concepts adopted and adapted by the group? I think future historians would find places like AH very interesting, if only the data survived long enough.

Anything to add?

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The Muffin King
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posted 09-20-2004 04:40 PM $Profile for The Muffin King$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

tl;dr

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Rolken
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posted 09-20-2004 05:24 PM $Profile for Rolken$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Rolken$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

The AH subculture frowns on serious topics.

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posted 09-20-2004 06:43 PM $Profile for Fish$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

This may have been an intriguing topic years ago, but at this point it's pretty much in who the fuck cares territory.

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Bullshit.

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MK
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posted 09-20-2004 11:35 PM $Profile for MK$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Fish:
This may have been an intriguing topic years ago, but at this point it's pretty much in who the fuck cares territory.

Dude! Go raise a Tauros...

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Lark84
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posted 09-21-2004 01:10 AM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Fish:
This may have been an intriguing topic years ago, but at this point it's pretty much in who the fuck cares territory.

Yeah, I figured that it might be the case... Strange enough, I do find it pretty intriguing, now, when it's almost over... Like, "wtf really happened?", you know?

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IceHawk78
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posted 09-21-2004 01:54 AM $Profile for IceHawk78$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email IceHawk78$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

haha, he said "me"

The subcultures frowns upon individualism. There is no "me" in Azure Heights. There's not even a capital "I" in it.

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posted 09-21-2004 03:55 AM $Profile for Dweedle$ $Email Dweedle$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Fish:
This may have been an intriguing topic years ago, but at this point it's pretty much in who the fuck cares territory.

sup fish holla back at ya boy

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Cesar
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posted 09-21-2004 04:23 AM $Profile for Cesar$ $Email Cesar$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

It is interesting. I checked, my name is only meantioned once and it wasn't even the punchline, but oh well. Right now, the current fad is 3 lines or less, any more deserves a tl;dr. Hopefully we'll get over it, someday. I'll give it 4 more months before anything changes.

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posted 09-22-2004 07:31 AM $Profile for Boodabonzi$ $Email Boodabonzi$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

I think AH died or at least got cancer as soon as I showed up. I'm not saying it was my fault, just that that was the case.

Second thoughts Jump was bizzanned about three months after I got here so that was probably what killed AH.

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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...

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posted 09-22-2004 11:44 AM $Profile for starCaliber$ $Email starCaliber$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

jump was black and devoid of firearms at the time

all he could have done to azure was steal its VCR

jef do you still have your VCR? if not it's time to point fingers

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Dweedle
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posted 09-22-2004 11:52 AM $Profile for Dweedle$ $Email Dweedle$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

forum needs more drama

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posted 09-22-2004 01:32 PM $Profile for Boodabonzi$ $Email Boodabonzi$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

I'm coming over to fuck your blatantly hot little sister.

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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...

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posted 09-22-2004 02:51 PM $Profile for Dark_Togetic$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Lark84:
What, ultimately, determines the shapes of these subcultures? The members themselves, who choose what to make part of the culture, or something larger, introducing concepts adopted and adapted by the group?

The cookies =o
And yes, at that time I was a total newb and couldn't post here because I didn't have the age to >_>.
*runs away*

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Dweedle
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posted 09-22-2004 04:20 PM $Profile for Dweedle$ $Email Dweedle$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
I'm coming over to fuck your blatantly hot little sister.

she digs australians sorry man

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posted 09-22-2004 07:16 PM $Profile for Mr. K$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Mr. K$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

It's a fact. Black people steal appliances. That's why cfalcon knows it is crucial that we not treat them like humans.

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posted 09-23-2004 04:24 AM $Profile for White Cat$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Dude, seriously, stop the cflirting and just jump him.

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Lark84
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posted 09-23-2004 02:16 PM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

seems like the azure of intellectual discussion i knew is long gone

[That Guy]

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posted 09-23-2004 04:49 PM $Profile for Dark_Herakurosu$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Dark_Herakurosu$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Lark84:
seems like the azure of intellectual discussion i knew is long gone

ey, fuck you too buddy.

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Bulbasaur3000
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posted 09-23-2004 06:47 PM $Profile for Bulbasaur3000$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Intellectual discussion?

Basically it was a place for confused, angsty, and mostly nerdy teenagers to bitch and discuss about their lives. Most of us aren't teenagers anymore. We've sorted out our places in life, so we don't need Azure anymore. It served its' purpose. Not that I'd ever include it in an autobiography because of the sheer shame of admitting it, but the online Pokemon community played a big role in helping me grow up.

But it's over now.

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Boodabonzi
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posted 09-24-2004 12:05 PM $Profile for Boodabonzi$ $Email Boodabonzi$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Dweedle:

quote:
Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
I'm coming over to fuck your blatantly hot little sister.
she digs australians sorry man

if she's anywhere near as fucking retarded as you are then she won't be able to tell the fucking difference between Brit and Australian anyway

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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...

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posted 09-24-2004 04:10 PM $Profile for ~Steel Arcanine~$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email ~Steel Arcanine~$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

To all you guys that are still here: Thanks. Even though I never really posted much and tried to stay in the background, I had some great times...partially because I had no life and I still don't.

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posted 09-24-2004 09:26 PM $Profile for Anthrax$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Anthrax$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

i'm still here guys its just been really slow and i have lots of dumb classes

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Dweedle
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posted 09-25-2004 01:00 AM $Profile for Dweedle$ $Email Dweedle$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Boodabonzi:

quote:
Originally posted by Dweedle:

quote:
Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
I'm coming over to fuck your blatantly hot little sister.
she digs australians sorry man
if she's anywhere near as fucking retarded as you are then she won't be able to tell the fucking difference between Brit and Australian anyway

i lolled

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Lark84
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posted 09-25-2004 05:25 AM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

quote:
Originally posted by Bulbasaur3000:
Not that I'd ever include it in an autobiography because of the sheer shame of admitting it, but the online Pokemon community played a big role in helping me grow up.

Yeah, me too. I guess "intellectual discussion" was stretching it a bit though...

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IceHawk78
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posted 09-28-2004 04:42 PM $Profile for IceHawk78$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email IceHawk78$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Some of the discussion topics that ranged 10 pages long could be construed as intelligent discussion. Well, okay, it containedd intelligence on one side of the topic, and the other was just prompts for more evidence. Very helpful for finding resources to support me in real debates on those subjects. We didn't really have any intelligent conservatives here who were willing to stand up and actually believe what they were saying. The closest we had were the debates amongst White Cat, Wintermute, Mr. KKK, cflakkin, et al. Then the mods got bored with cflakkin and banned him from saying anything over three lines, which essentially put the kebosh on any other intelligent topics cause hardly anyone else wanted to post at length or were afraid to.

I also think the lack of use of AH as a place for the angsty teens to vent and shit anymore has degenerated the place a bit.

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posted 09-29-2004 12:01 AM $Profile for Ancient Egyptian Cat-Gonk$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

posting in a thread my sig inspired

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posted 10-05-2004 01:38 PM $Profile for Knight$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Pokemon nostalgia is awesome.

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posted 10-16-2004 08:20 AM $Profile for dr.steelix$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

No no, i think that the problem is the excessive homosexualization of the members. :---(
Everyone used to be :cool: like 2 years ago but what has become of them now ? Disgrace.

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posted 10-17-2004 09:34 AM $Profile for Zerot$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Zerot$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

I made the best flamewars evar.

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