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MadassAlex

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MadassAlex
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  • Vorpy
    I hope you're doing okay.
    2017-01-31 05:57:48
  • MadassAlex changed his profile picture.
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    2015-10-15 04:47:19
    • Naas_Human
      Naas_Human
      That reminds me, I haven't changed mine here in a while.
      2015-10-15 17:01:05
  • Naas_Human
    Have you decided what kind of pizza you should be yet?
    2013-02-26 21:50:03
    • Nova
      Nova
      He seems like a Hawaiian sort of dude.
      2013-02-26 22:17:41
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Actually, I was thinking Mexican. Partially because putting pineapple on pizza is pretty disgusting, but mostly because Mexican pizza is kind of delicious.
      2013-02-26 22:51:39
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      While a Mexican pizza is delicious, the Hawaiian pizza is superior. Good sir I challenge you to a duel!
      2013-02-27 00:24:55
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      ... can you teach me how to duel first? Like I dunno a five year raincheck on this thing. And then a big climactic battle on a cliff by the sea over which pizza is best.
      2013-02-27 00:25:51
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      Not sure if I want to set the Final Countdown or Space Jam as the music for you most likely killing me after years of my apprenticeship.
      2013-02-27 00:26:39
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Is the Final Countdown okay? I don't think there's any other piece of music out there that combines epic pretension with such gracelessness, so it'd suit your fighting style perfectly.
      2013-02-27 02:33:37
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Pretty proud of that burn.
      2013-02-27 02:33:50
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Tssss!
      2013-02-27 02:33:58
    • Legionnaire
      Legionnaire
      "putting pineapple on pizza is pretty disgusting" Sir I'm afraid you're not welcome in society anymore. Please start life as a hermit immediately.
      2013-02-27 05:01:36
    • Saigyouji
      Saigyouji
      Damn pineapple loving weirdos.
      2013-02-27 10:49:13
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      Wait does this mean I'm fighting you while on fire? I can live with this.
      2013-02-27 12:38:06
    • Crimson
      Crimson
      Hawaiian? Mexican? The only good pizza is either brick-oven cooked pizza with real mozzarella (none of that shredded shit), fresh basil, tomato, and red sauce. Either that or Chicago-style with shitloads of Italian sausage. good taste or gtfo numbnuts
      2013-02-28 01:22:38
    • Nova
      Nova
      > good taste > talking about margharita pizzas
      2013-02-28 01:36:11
    • Crimson
      Crimson
      you gtfo too
      2013-02-28 01:58:18
    • Nova
      Nova
      no you gtfo dinosaur man
      2013-02-28 02:09:23
    • Bastion
      Bastion
      Somebody mention pizza and fire?
      2013-02-28 02:39:43
    • Ironweaver
      Ironweaver
      You know who only eats margharita pizzas in Serbia? Homeless people.
      2013-02-28 04:03:28
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      Man so did they lose their house because they had good taste or what
      2013-03-01 00:26:38
    • Ironweaver
      Ironweaver
      no they were expropriated by the taste police
      2013-03-01 11:52:35
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    2013-02-14 16:07:18
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Getting into the spirit of things.
      2013-02-14 16:07:38
    • Kraken
      Kraken
      oh u
      2013-02-14 19:33:28
  • MadassAlex
    Back from holidays. Two week bender. Only one that didn't vomit. Pretty proud of myself.
    2013-01-22 21:33:53
    • Ironweaver
      Ironweaver
      hai alex
      2013-01-23 02:54:24
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      Fear and Loathing in... I forget what city you live in. Lets just say Melbourne.
      2013-01-23 17:21:57
  • MadassAlex
    I'm taking off for a couple of weeks, although I'll be checking in periodically from my phone. Ta-ta.
    2013-01-08 19:37:42
    • Bastion
      Bastion
      Considering how much effort you put into your posts, I never thought you'd just phone it in.
      2013-01-08 21:23:41
    • Schitzo
      Schitzo
      badumpish
      2013-01-09 00:07:52
    • Stormtroper
      Stormtroper
      Be back soon!
      2013-01-09 12:28:39
  • MadassAlex
    Eelektross has been temporarily banned by request until March due to general real life stuff. Good luck and all the best until then (and after).
    2012-12-17 10:31:36
    • Ironweaver
      Ironweaver
      March? I'mma miss the bugger.
      2012-12-17 17:54:02
    • Stormtroper
      Stormtroper
      Good luck, man!
      2012-12-17 21:50:08
  • MadassAlex
    Gigantala banned for continuously making poorly-considered, poorly-argued threads comprising largely of sweeping generalisations; insulting other users; abusing the report function; and being awful at history while trying to pass themselves off as well-informed.
    2012-12-04 21:01:49
    • ClockworkUniverse
      ClockworkUniverse
      I honestly didn't think we'd ever have a user worse than Chagen.
      2012-12-04 21:02:45
    • vandro
      vandro
      Never say never, they say.
      2012-12-04 21:05:16
    • Noimporta
      Noimporta
      Even his ban reports are verbose!
      2012-12-04 21:08:59
    • All Nines
      All Nines
      Meh, keep in mind that "I sincerely hope you get raped and die" is still A Thing That Chagen Said At Some Point. Gigantufly was annoying, but he was no Chagen.
      2012-12-04 21:10:02
    • Stormtroper
      Stormtroper
      Man, that last .gif didn't turn out right...
      2012-12-04 21:11:06
    • ClockworkUniverse
      ClockworkUniverse
      Yeah, I was mostly going by density. Maybe "more consistently bad."
      2012-12-04 21:12:57
    • Noimporta
      Noimporta
      Gigantula was here two weeks, Chagen months. And while my memory is fuzzy, I'm pretty sure falconfly (if it's really him) posted some pretty nasty stuff back in the day.
      2012-12-04 21:17:38
    • Crimson
      Crimson
      Yeah, seriously. Gigantala was nowhere near as bad a Chagen. Incidentally, is it me or do we have a track record of new people coming, saying awful stuff, and getting banned a little later? When was the last time we had someone join and stay?
      2012-12-04 21:24:08
    • Stormtroper
      Stormtroper
      We've had a few people coming back, if that counts... Maybe we could have one of those old-timey "how do we get people here" threads again?
      2012-12-04 21:29:17
    • InsanityAddict
      InsanityAddict
      Meh, standards of what is acceptable behaviour have gone up. Silly newcomers who can be run out on a rail every two months or so are fine by me: forum seems about the right size to me.
      2012-12-04 23:07:56
    • Schitzo
      Schitzo
      This guy was the definition of "Talks so much, says so little."
      2012-12-05 00:26:01
    • Eelektross
      Eelektross
      Just when I forgot that falconfly was a thing.
      2012-12-05 11:27:37
    • Eelektross
      Eelektross
      I am still of the opinion that Chagen was just a really good troll. No-one can be that horrible, right? Right?
      2012-12-10 10:26:53
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      You've never had to work a service job have you Eelektross? Because yes, people can be that horrible. And the management will let them keep coming back as long as they keep paying.
      2012-12-11 12:07:36
    • Ironweaver
      Ironweaver
      Now I have to hear more. Tell us the tales of your adventures, oh great Alkthash.
      2012-12-12 11:08:23
    • Alkthash
      Alkthash
      Just fire up the retail robin blog. Most of the stupid things that happened there happened to me and my coworkers at some point or another.
      2012-12-12 12:30:09
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    • All Nines
      All Nines
      Dat blush. More like Moeass Alex.
      2012-11-08 15:21:21
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Slander! I demand satisfaction, uguu~!
      2012-11-09 16:00:08
  • MadassAlex approved Gaijin0's membership application.
    Welcome Aboard!
    2012-10-07 06:11:19
  • MadassAlex approved mixalispar's membership application.
    Welcome Aboard!
    2012-10-01 21:05:58
  • MadassAlex
    I never thought the term "too many lesbians" would ever cross my mind. IJBM is an amazing, magical place.
    2012-07-06 08:46:53
  • Malkavian
    Hey Alex have you heard of Ironclad? I haven't seen it but from what I've heard it's basically 7 Samurai with templars.
    2012-06-29 12:05:55
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      I wonder how many movies can you describe as "Seven Samurai with/on X"
      2012-06-29 17:11:39
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      I had not heard of it. Thank you, Malk, for fixing this.
      2012-06-29 20:35:54
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      shut up alex you don't even like kurosawa or you do and i missed this memo
      2012-06-29 20:48:56
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      you missed one fuckton of a memo But seriously, Seven Samurai is one of my favourite films. I think it hits that perfect place in terms of its depiction of a warrior class like the samurai, where it smiles upon them for what they could be at their best, but also notes their failings and complicity in the conditions of those less fortunate than themselves.
      2012-06-29 20:56:25
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      I remember Ebert commenting on 7 Samurai being a cultural shift for Japan since class distinctions still played a huge role and Kurosawa took the conceptions of class vs. individual morality to task.
      2012-06-30 01:30:19
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      I also recall that Kurosawa comes from a samurai family, and that Seven Samurai was something of an apology towards the lower classes of historical and present Japanese society. That angle comes out very clearly with that knowledge in mind, I think.
      2012-07-01 01:37:02
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      And without. I mean, Kikuchiyo alone is basically the emotional weight of the movie, and he's basically a farmer-turned-samurai looking for revenge on the people who took his family and people. And he's bitter about samurai for rather obvious reasons.
      2012-07-02 22:13:05
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  • MadassAlex
    how do i into linear footwork how
    2012-03-06 01:23:04
  • MadassAlex
    "He is a brave man who fights his own weaknesses." -- Johannes Liechtenauer, grand swordmaster of the 14th century.
    2012-03-03 18:53:31
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    2012-02-20 06:21:30
    • Nova
      Nova
      Can't decide if flipping the bird or singing choir
      2012-02-20 06:42:01
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Flippin' bird.
      2012-02-21 04:21:29
  • Crimson
    Hey Alex, can you give me a typical name of a Crusade-era knight?
    2012-01-14 20:13:06
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      There really isn't one, between all the different Orders, factions and nationalities of knights. Any particular Crusading Order? The Templars, for instance, had a lot of French knights. The Teutonic Order was made entirely of Germans, and the Hospitallers had a decent spread but erred towards Italian.
      2012-01-15 00:24:56
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Also, keep in mind that the medieval period never "died" as such; the Western cultural sphere is a continuation and progression of that time period. With that in mind, I lot of common names today would be used by knights back in the day. Names associated with the Christian Gospel would be common (John, Paul, Mark, Luke, ect.), so you might want to think about where your knight comes from and try to find a regional variant, or even just use the name in its vanilla state. Apart from that, there's the names that belong to particular regions. "Siegfried" is a pretty awesome German name, and I expect a few historical knights would've worn that one proudly. Then you've got Sigmund, Heinrich, Otto, Hans, Johannes and so on and so forth from the same culture. If you can find translations of some medieval combat manuals (try www.wiktenauer.com), then you could use elements of the names of the historical authors. "Paulus" is a Roman variation on Paul used by a German fightmaster, for instance. One popular fightmaster for modern study is Peter von Danzig. My knowledge is thinner outside of the Germanic sphere of culture, though. You'd have to do more of your own research on those grounds.
      2012-01-15 02:49:48
    • Nova
      Nova
      holy gooooood
      2012-01-15 03:03:53
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Disclaimer: I prefer to teach systematic methods rather than facts. In case no-one picked that up.
      2012-01-15 03:44:38
    • Nova
      Nova
      /brick'd
      2012-01-15 04:16:16
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Black Templars, fuck yeah.
      2012-01-15 09:05:51
    • Crimson
      Crimson
      I was looking for something that would be associated with the Templars, but also something very Germanic sounding. I suppose that would be rather difficult based on what you've put forth. Siegfried and Sigmund are pretty good, but they're too close to Sigismund. Can you think of anything similar to that?
      2012-01-15 09:06:56
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      No-one would fault you for Siegfried, since he's pretty much the consummate early medieval Germanic hero, be it under that name or the earlier Scandinavian "Sigurd". Here's a few others, though: - Gottfried (Germanic form for "Godfrey") - Ignatius (Roman names were not uncommon for Germanic knights) - Isidor - Dietrich - Wolfgang - Alaric (belonged to a king of the Visigoth tribe; pretty badass)
      2012-01-15 09:40:11
    • Crimson
      Crimson
      I'm really liking Gottfried. Yeah, Sword Brother Gottfried of the Black Templars has an awesome ring to it. Thanks, Alex. :)
      2012-01-15 09:45:56
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      As always, I'm very happy to nerdsperge about anything medieval.
      2012-01-15 10:57:21
  • MadassAlex
    Merry Christmas, IJBM. I hope all your wishes come true.
    2011-12-24 07:27:28
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      Even the part where i wish for you to die?
      2011-12-24 09:26:29
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      > recalls thinking of saying "Except for Juan, what a fag." > better go with intuition next time
      2011-12-24 09:30:46
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      YOU'RE A WEAK MAN, EASILY SWAYED BY FEELINGS AND WHO DOESN'T TRUST HIS GUT AND THUS DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE
      2011-12-24 18:45:36
    • Legionnaire
      Legionnaire
      Juan's even more of a Tsundere than usual today, it seems.
      2011-12-24 22:03:03
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      The avatar says it all, aye?
      2011-12-25 00:09:31
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      I'm a tsundere without the dere.
      2011-12-25 00:26:20
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  • Malkavian
    So I've heard Gay Marriage is in the process of being made legal in your country. I have an important question for you, Alex.
    2011-12-04 01:34:01
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      Someone was drunk typing last night...
      2011-12-04 07:15:05
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      ... I-I didn't know you felt that way, Malk!
      2011-12-04 10:40:41
    • Waltzy
      Waltzy
      popcorn popcorn where's the damn POPPED. CORNNNN!
      2011-12-05 20:39:32
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      I dunno, but Malk just ran off without explaining his feelings? He's so tsun tsun~
      2011-12-05 23:49:29
  • MadassAlex
    This is a pretty entertaining thread: http://boards.4chan.org/tg/res/17065812 Juan, you'd want to look at this.
    2011-11-30 15:19:18
  • MadassAlex
    Started a swordfighting thread on /tg/. It inspired another one. Tonight goes well.
    2011-11-25 12:52:49
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      I saw Muppets. Someone needs to make swordfighting muppets.
      2011-11-25 13:54:20
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Muppet Treasure Island, duh!
      2011-11-25 14:24:10
    • Forzare
      Forzare
      That movie was the shit.
      2011-11-25 15:29:26
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      Oh yes. Professional pirate.
      2011-11-25 20:03:27
  • MadassAlex
    3 bans 1 unban a day of bloodshed and misery
    2011-11-25 11:03:56
    • All Nines
      All Nines
      Well, I think it's about over now.
      2011-11-25 11:06:28
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Thus the summary.
      2011-11-25 11:10:03
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      We have fought off the dragon llamadragon away. It shall come back. Stronger and angrier than ever. But our hammers will be strongerer and swifter. Except Glenn's, cuz he's too busy PARTYING the FUCK out to come and fight the drama off.
      2011-11-25 11:50:24
    • Schitzo
      Schitzo
      FUCK YEAH, GLENN!
      2011-11-25 13:22:02
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      It was Thanksgiving. Didn't these people have families to harass?
      2011-11-25 13:56:23
    • snowbull
      snowbull
      Wait, who got unbanned?
      2011-11-25 14:39:43
    • All Nines
      All Nines
      ^ AnneBeeche. She was banned at first for yesterday's events, but then the mods reevaluated the thread where she was supposedly an offender and noticed she didn't do enough to warrant a ban. ^^ You would think so. Then again, I didn't.
      2011-11-25 14:57:17
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    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      homu homu! What can I say, I love those words
      2011-11-21 17:25:23
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      Homura was so much gar. ;_;
      2011-11-22 00:03:51
  • MadassAlex
    And the drama llama has reared its grotesque, scaly head once again, scorching the land as it soars overhead. All the heroes of ages past are gone, and we can do but naught against such a mighty beast.
    2011-11-13 14:59:41
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      Do what I do. Enter a hibernation cycle until the next golden age.
      2011-11-13 15:06:11
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      I tried, but I was scorched by my flames while I was in the cave.
      2011-11-13 16:07:50
    • Bastion
      Bastion
      Put on the red tunic before you play the song of time.
      2011-11-13 16:10:47
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      but the song of time doesn't make me sleepy!
      2011-11-13 17:28:42
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    2011-11-04 09:25:47
    • Malkavian
      Malkavian
      Kind of looks like Neil Patrick Harris.
      2011-11-04 15:43:42
    • MillerCross
      MillerCross
      He looks like that rare thing I've never seen Alex use as an avatar An actual person.
      2011-11-04 17:24:56
    • MadassAlex
      MadassAlex
      It's Christian Tobler, an excellent modern swordsman and writer on the medieval German style. He also has something of a sense of humour about it all, it would seem.
      2011-11-04 19:49:19