Gamingforce and Mugen. There is no love.
 

So a friend of mine searches Gamingforce, and after that urban dictionary entry he finds this:

WELCOME TO THE MUGEN DEPOT



So apparently GFF lives in infamy within the Mugen universe. Styphon is our Darth Vader, and the world of imaginary fighting game thinks we're jerks.

Gentlemen. Success.

If anyone is interested, this is the PM that my response was made to.

And the two that followed the reply.

I think our idea how to get rid of those types of people worked wonderfully.

Denicalis is a GFF frequent, obviously he has absolutely no life. Let me put on my smug face.

What makes it an underground Mugen warehouse? I wasn't aware that there was a distinction between mainstream Mugen losers and a more hardcore, underground group.

Join Gamingforce! Pretend to be outgoing and friendly so people won't realise you're just another fucking leech!

Why and when the hell did we wind up being the internet's Mugen hub, anyway?

Wouldn't you rather they were underground where they're not bothering anyone?

PUT THEM ALL IN A GIANT HOLE UNDERGROUND

But if they're out in the open we can laugh at them for being a level of internet loser barely above furries.

It's a little... obscure. The MUGEN community (such as it is) hinges upon people taking spritecaps from fighting games and then scripting them together. Once they've done this for a certain character, Guile for example, it ceases in the scripting individual's mind to be simply "Guile". It is now their Guile and god help anyone who uploads it anywhere without his permission!

Of course, their actual legal and ethical rights to this "creative work" are approximately nil but this is not the majority view among MUGENites. Thus, people trying to actually distribute mods for a game are the target of a great deal of hostility. In this sense they're "underground", nobody actually admits to perusing their goods or approving of them at all.

So, sad as it is, MUGEN DEPOT is probably one of the least retarded MUGEN sites in existence. This doesn't say much of course.

(and now, having admitted to knowing about a video game, I will be roundly mocked)

For the first couple of months of the Mugen thread's life I was rather confused actually as I assumed they were talking about Honda's tuning company Mugen, not some pick-your-own Street Fighter game. I do find it constantly amusing though when people online steal someone else's IP, make a couple of miniscule adjustments and then leave a long and rambling "copyright notice" to say you can't steal it. You mainly see it at GameFAQS where someone's copied out the official guide to a game, added a word for word copy of the ingame menus and then put a three page disclaimer at the top about how you can't copy their stuff. I have on occasionally copied the whole thing and submitted it to another site including my name and address and an invitation to sue me. To date I have heard nothing...

The HTML & layout on that wharehouse site is simply stunning.

Also, it appears any MUGEN threads at all are banned, which was how it was at least a year ago.

I just found that to be a bit sad.

And Styphon...please tell me when he said "I've run boards before" you replied with "Into the ground" LawL (I wouldn't expect you to, but it still made me laugh at that thought).

Also...I never understood the big whoop about this Mugen thing.

the little kids like mugen mash ups but all the really do is put the cpu vs cpu and wet their pants at watching ryu and goku go at it.
Banning Mugen was the best choice overall but it was funny to see a few people stroll here afterwards trying to make a request when there was clearly a "no more mugen thread" thread, then have it closed, then have that same person make a thread asking why it was closed XD