Garr
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One fateful day back in February 2003, a person under the Yahoo Messenger name Garr_BOF was chatting with some friends when one of them started linking hentai pictures from a message board called Gamingforce Forums in the hopes that it would help build Garr_BOF's hentai collection. After clicking on the tenth link that told him that he was required to be a member of the boards to see the pictures, Garr_BOF finally bit the bullet and joined the forums.
While the rules state that no more porn threads are allowed in the forums anymore, Garr still visits the forums to this day.
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Biography
- Join date: February 2003
- Aliases: Garrzone, Garrbarian, Gaar, Garrmondo Alkatraz, Garrmondo of the Pounded Prostate
- Birthdate: August 9, 1984
- Hometown: Bakersfield, CA
- Occupation: Production Worker
- Contact Info
- Yahoo Messenger: Garr_BOF
- AIM: Garr Zero
Personality
Garr is somewhat on the quiet side and still incredibly shy around strangers, in spite of the fact that he feels much too old to still react that way around people. As well as having developed a very reclusive nature over recent years, Garr has also learned to hate much of today's society.
Most of these personality traits go away when he is online, since he feels it's easier to communicate when one has had time to think about what to say next. The fact that it's all in text instead of speech seems to help as well.
He's been told that he has a great sense of humor and is generally a fun guy to be around once he warms up to people.
Community Involvement
Forum Activity
The brunt of Garr's posts lie strewn throughout the Sewers (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/The_Sewers), but every now and then, he'll come up to the surface and post in various other parts of the boards. Lately, he has been posting quite frequently in the Multiplayer Arena.
While he has been on the boards for some time, Garr hasn't reached the popularity levels of the older members or even some of the newer members like Pom, but he is still generally well known to a good portion of the GFF populace.
Affiliations
- Lt. "Home Cookin" Garr - Officer 042 of the Grammar Police (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/Grammar_Police)
- Dinoteam (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/Dinoteam)
- Megalith Team (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/Megalith_Team)
- Apparently, he's a furry (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/Furries).
- He is also a member of the Urban Dead zombie group, the Gaminghorde (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/Gaminghorde).
Chat Activity
Garr switches off between idling and chatting in the IRC channel, #gfchat (http://gfw.condign.org/wiki/IRC_Channel:gfchat). While not legendary by any means yet, he is pretty well known there amongst the regulars.
Chocojournal
Every now and then, Garr will write about things that are going on in his life in his Chocojournal. Most board members have these, and some are a great place to find drama. While Garr does complain sometimes, there isn't too much drama to be found in his. Nevertheless, his Chocojournal can be found here (http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/journal.php?action=view&userid=871).
Multiplayer
Back when it was still hip to do so, Garr joined several GFF members in an MMORPG called MapleStory, but grew tired of the game when, after reaching level 20, he could not hit monsters that were equal to his level. After he gave up on that, he moved on to Unreal Tournament, where he made the brutal realization that his skills had become incredibly rusty since playing Quake 2 online, which was quite a few years ago. And then, there was a short run through Ogame, a space conquest game, but it stopped being fun when Garr's colonies were relentlessly raided by several random parties, all much stronger than his defenses could handle. Recently, however, he has taken up playing a browser-based MMORPG-type game called Urban Dead (http://www.urbandead.com). After bringing it to the attention of chat members and those who frequent the Multiplayer Arena, several more people began playing the game, even more so when Bradylama decided to bring some of the community together by creating a GFF horde of zombies to attack survivors that have locked themselves in strong safehouses.
Drama
For the most part, he has tried to avoid conflict with his fellow board members, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's always done so. The details of the few dramafests from the not-so-distant-but-still-somewhat-distant past he's been involved in have mostly been lost due to nobody really remembering any of them, but some details still stand out.
The Owner of a Gaming Company
A few years ago, Garr, who was in a rather sour mood at the time, relentlessly flamed a newcomer to the forums in chat, who had mentioned that he owned a small company involving the sale of video games, much to the chagrin of many of the chat regulars. When Garr finally managed to regain his composure, he was able to apologize to the aformentioned newcomer, but he has yet to return to anything involving Gamingforce.
Supernova
Garr also needlessly started some drama with Supernova when he mentioned something about hockey arenas in the desert, mainly for the same reason stated above.
Help Desk
More recently, Garr created a thread in The Help Desk asking why his newly purchased RAM (two 1 GB sticks on top of already having 2 GB installed) wasn't showing up in Windows XP Home, but instead of any help, he was ridiculed and so he closed the thread. In an emo trip, Garr wrote about the incident in his Chocojournal, where he received even more ridicule.
Chat Intoxication
On the night of October 16, 2005, a very inebriated Garr, sad that his brother would be leaving for the Air Force the next day, went to #gfchat to try and do his normal routine of chatting with people to take his mind off that, only this time he had consumed seven shots of whiskey, a White Russian, and a raspberry flavored beer. The next three hours would see him attempting to type out cohesive sentences, only to fail utterly. Of those that paid any attention to Garr's ramblings, half of them got laughs at his expense while the other half seemed to be geniunely concerned for Garr or they reprimanded the half that made fun of Garr.
The next day, a hungover Garr logged in to assess the damage he had caused while drunk. Not only had he made a scene in #gfchat, he also tried to chat in four other chat channels, one of which wasn't even on the Xelium network. He had also made a thread in the Sewers asking for help on the subject, and was met with the predictable Sewers response, and understandably so.
As for Garr's thoughts on his brother, if anything, the alcohol made him dwell on the subject even more, because about half of Garr's sentences in the recent chat log mention him being incredibly sad that he had to leave.
Nowadays, he's back to trying his best to avoid negative conflict with his fellow board members, though he would like to be mentioned in the next diss track Night Phoenix drops in the hopes that it will validate his existence.
Projects/Achievements
Kawaii Week '04
While he never won an official award, AcerBandit composed a webpage stating why Garr and his teammates, samari and Arc Impulse (known as Laharl at the time) should have won the Team Kawaii Award for the Kawaii Week event held boardwide back in 2004. It should be noted that OmagnusPrime created the signatures and avatars for these three to use during the event. AcerBandit's page on the subject can be found here (http://mason.gmu.edu/~ccoxe/Team/).
Related Media
Audio/Video
Quotes
- "Hey you guys! =D"
- Standard IRC greeting to #gfchat.
- =รถ
- This particular smilie is one Arilakon used to greet Garr. The two of them decided that it would become the herpes smilie. However, since Arilakon has yet to return to anything GFF related, Qwarky has been using it in his absence.
- <Garr> O pm't lkmpw abopit spimd. bit O a, forck'
- Quote from when Garr tried to chat drunk October 16, 2005. This quote made the least amount of sense and was picked for that reason.
Images
Way back in June 3, 2005, Mo0 posted a Chocojournal entry of the birthday cake that his sister, bag0k, had made for him a few months before that, which was of the famous Trillian Porn Guy smilie. Upon reading this entry, Garr greatly considered using that idea for his own birthday cake, and eventually decided to follow through with it. Well, Garr didn't make the cake, but his mom did.
Garr had hoped to get a trend going that would have several other people post their TPG cakes in honor and tribute to the original smiley and Mo0's cake, but there has yet to be another TPG cake picture posted on the forums.
Avatar History
Note: Actual dates cannot be confirmed on these avatars since Garr has used quite a lot during his stay in GFF. With that in mind, not every avatar he has ever used will be here, but there will at least be a few sample avatars to see.
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Links
Dschinghis Khan's Moskau video (http://opendir.mine.nu/stuff/week_26/Dschinghis%20Khan%20-%20Moskau.mpg)
