This post was written for two purposes. One was to spread information regarding a member of our community. The second was to serve as a warning to people online. Not everything is what it seems.
Last week, Zia aka IcedEarth aka oG)Nis aka many many others posted this thread here. In 24 hours, there were over 300 heartfelt responses wishing Zia good luck and a healthy recovery. Some of the responses were lengthy, highly personal and sensitive. People even offered to donate money. I thought it showed the true heart of this forum. However, some of us at TeamLiquid began speaking behind the scenes about the thread and about “Zia” in general. After some investigation, the following was discovered:
IcedEarth browsed TL ten hours before posting that thread. In the evening, they returned to the site, browsed for another 20 minutes, and then spent 25 minutes writing. After that, IcedEarth spent the next 24 hours browsing TL constantly, outside one seven hour stretch. Obviously, the story in the thread is false.
However, there is more. Every post by IcedEarth has been made from the state of Tennessee. This means that it is impossible for this person to have been in many places previously claimed; Scandanavia and Korea.
Lastly, several people close to the Zia character have had doubts about the identity. After speaking with them, the common consensus was that “Zia” did not exist. It was merely a creation by somebody else. These points are simply the most damning in a long list of lies told by “Zia” over a long time.
When I spoke to “Zia” about this, “Zia” admitted it was a fictitious character, but then proceeded to tell me an equally impossible story to explain it. “Zia” has been lying for so long, it is impossible for them to tell the truth. The truth is simply this. “Zia” is a character created by one person, a boy, who decided to act as a girl online. This is not unheard of. What is unusual about it is the length of time and dedication spent to creating this character, and making it believable for so long.
Why post this? There was considerable debate about whether this should be posted or not. Had IcedEarth been only at TL, it may have been let go. However, “Zia” is a well-known figure in the community. “Zia” has also actively tried to cultivate friendships with other gamers, and people have become emotionally involved. In the end, “Zia” has hurt people.
Much of this community is based upon real friendships, it cannot survive otherwise. It is too old. The mods at TL are not simply staff at a website, but are friends who share real feelings and spend time together. The people in clans like .smi are not together only because of a common game, they game together because they form a bond that could exist outside the game. Even this forum, which has many members no longer interested in the game of BW, still hangs together because people form a bond. When one person actively creates those bonds using lies, people get hurt. Be true to yourself online, and if you meet somebody who seems too good to be true, take it with a grain of salt.
As for IcedEarth, I can only hope that the person behind the computer can examine themselves deeply, and decide what value they have gained with their actions. Perhaps they will respond to this, and perhaps they won’t, but I feel that coming clean 100% is the only path to peace of mind.
This message is endorsed by the Administrators of TL.net /dances in the shower, singing into his hair brush...
Take this pink ribbon off my eyes I'm exposed And it's no big surprise Don't you think I know Exactly where I stand This world is forcing me To hold your hand 'Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me Don't let me out of your sight I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite So don't let me have any rights
Ahh Adam, the permanent TL meme. I do wonder what you are up to today. Anyway brave traveler your next clue is A.
Q. 6) The title of the birthday news has a double meaning. What is it?
thanks for the update mani. thats pretty messed up, its sad that someone would go to such great lengths to coverup a lie that would damage their relationship with people.
never did like zia, and i didnt like how people treated her softly because she was a girl. can't say i'm horribly surprised and i think this should be a lesson to all about sucking a persons ass just cuz they say there a girl.
i remember one thread where people thought 'she' should be a mod. rofl?
edit: oh yeah and considering 'she' toyed with dozens of peoples emotions in that 'i lost my legs' thread (and countless other friendships/situations) the leniency should end now:
well at first i was pissed that everyone jumped on the zia bandwagon the first time i saw one of "Its" post mostly cause she was a "hot" girl, but i was fooled anywho, couple months ago i was in the nch) channel and some dude said he had proof zia wasnt a girl and shit, turns out all the shit he said was what this topic says weird!
i was referring to the picture of the girl with the cut shirt some weird belt and jeans.
On September 16 2006 00:19 Jumperer wrote: hey, think of it in a positive light. If this guy didnt do this, he might've shot some people down at a random high school.
Hah kinda funny to those who didn't know Zia, weird for those who did. All i knew about her was that she listened to metal (whoo thats difficult) and that there were very few or no pictures of her posted, at least i never got to see one. I was wondering if was just one of those fat goth chicks or if she didn't want to hear the mandatory 'i'd hit it' remarks that would naturally be thrown at her. I did also have the idea that Eri and Zia knew each other, either from lots of chat or irl, dunno where that came from.
So the guy behind zia made this whole story up just to get some attention? That's kinda messed up, people do actually worry about things like these...
edit: ah corrected, i did actually see the picture of her in the torn jeans before.
On September 16 2006 00:21 ToT)Testie( wrote: Although I suspect it may be a joke on Mani's part forced by perhaps some people themselves to see if the community would buy it...
But say it's true. So, does this make Eri a terrible, terrible liar? He had after all, "met" and slept with her in Finland.
Hohoho, the plot thickens.
Obviously if it's fake the community is going to buy it, it's Mani for christ's sakes!
On September 16 2006 00:21 ToT)Testie( wrote: Although I suspect it may be a joke on Mani's part forced by perhaps some people themselves to see if the community would buy it...
But say it's true. So, does this make Eri a terrible, terrible liar? He had after all, "met" and slept with her in Finland.
Hohoho, the plot thickens.
Obviously if it's fake the community is going to buy it, it's Mani for christ's sakes!
On September 16 2006 00:21 ToT)Testie( wrote: Although I suspect it may be a joke on Mani's part forced by perhaps some people themselves to see if the community would buy it...
But say it's true. So, does this make Eri a terrible, terrible liar? He had after all, "met" and slept with her in Finland.
Hohoho, the plot thickens.
Obviously if it's fake the community is going to buy it, it's Mani for christ's sakes!
it's pretty obvious the eri and zia "relationship" was a harmless little joke they kept running, now it turns out it was a joke within a joke, and he was only in on one of them
O_O I CYBERED seriously the internet is the creepiest fucking thing. If this is guy, then he is an emotional vampire. sucking the affection out of all these guys cause his daddy didn't give him enough or something. This is fucking creepy guys.
Well written and indeed this person got it way more easy to get into community because of faking a female, even the all time same pics over years and a finish person not able to write/talk fin made ppl wonder rather thinking its cool having a "metal loving female mate".
Well well, the worst thing for me is that it did that with ppl i like a lot ;(
On September 16 2006 00:26 a-game wrote: it's pretty obvious the eri and zia "relationship" was a harmless little joke they kept running, now it turns out it was a joke within a joke, and he was only in on one of them
i wouldnt go too far with that thought i remember when i found out, was truely shocked.
On September 16 2006 00:45 ToT)Testie( wrote: And yeah, it's not a joke. As i've redundantly confirmed. If Austin powers were here he'd punch her square in the face. And say, "That's a man baby."
Erm Zia's so famous at tl.net that I couldn't help but heard about her. LOL now I got a good laugh at all you nerds who fell in love with Zia!!! But poor Eriador, dude's probably real heart broken.
On September 16 2006 00:50 MoltkeWarding wrote: How about a longer explaination for us non-Ziaphiles?
2nd that, can we get an brief summary on Zia's major accomplishments/involvements/notable stories, etc.. of some sort? As far as I have heard, Zia is a Scandinavian chick who's fucked Eriador? What else is there to this amazing Zia?
Love thy smurf, not? We all know my own debate about the intrinsic evils of smurfing but at this stage in the game does it really matter who Zia is? Unicorns don't exist, and yet the myth is beautiful and the myth is dream. My hat of to Zia, and everyone else who made what was and was not, something more.
ToT let her join because 'she' was a 'girl.' Shows you how lame many people are socially. I really like what's shared on this forum, but that fact that people kiss someone's ass simply because they are a girl is just aburd.
I called this from day 1 and I was the first to call it in the Zia thread.
On September 08 2006 08:23 ChoboCop wrote: I'm betting on this being a story...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On September 11 2006 11:59 ChoboCop wrote: I've never become more sick with a thread. I literally want to vomit at the gender bias and utter ass sucking.
On September 16 2006 01:27 Physician wrote: Love thy smurf, not? We all know my own debate about the intrinsic evils of smurfing but at this stage in the game does it really matter who Zia is? Unicorns don't exist, and yet the myth is beautiful and the myth is dream. My hat of to Zia, and everyone else who made what was and was not, something more.
Playing with other ppl´s feeling is no myth, no dream and no fun. I would not cheer for this kind of ppl, its sad that they exist, sad that they have no other goal in community. Make him writing kids tales something good for the reality
On September 16 2006 01:32 ChoboCop wrote: ToT let her join because 'she' was a 'girl.' Shows you how lame many people are socially. I really like what's shared on this forum, but that fact that people kiss someone's ass simply because they are a girl is just aburd.
I called this from day 1 and I was the first to call it in the Zia thread.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On September 11 2006 11:59 ChoboCop wrote: I've never become more sick with a thread. I literally want to vomit at the gender bias and utter ass sucking.
this is really weird, im pretty sure zia is a girl just by feel, from the games ive played with, vs and seen, her low self confidence and overall comments she makes had me convinced she was a girl for sure. If this is true than I don't know what to say, except that the bw community should worry less about gender and just treat everyone the same. Out of the "girls" i know, alexa, whom i was pretty sure was a girl is fake, venus[siege] i don't know, and yonggirl[siege] i know is a girl cuz uh just be feeling i guess. I hope this is not true. Girls lie a lot so I guess just dont get too caught up with that.
Besides offering condolences for her/his fake broken leg never really cared to much. BTW still playing FF like i said i would....
Reminds me of all the Zia sucking going on over the years because people thought she was a girl. Zia would post a common reply in a thread that didnt warrant any quotes or replies like "lol", "Awesome news", "Chuck Norris" and got quoted replies 15 pages later in the thread.
Hope all you ziaphiles lose sleep over the dude wacking it to your posts over the last few years.
On September 16 2006 01:46 Ilvy wrote: Playing with other ppl´s feeling is no myth, no dream and no fun. I would not cheer for this kind of ppl, its sad that they exist, sad that they have no other goal in community. Make him writing kids tales something good for the reality
You have to have feelings in the first place for them to be played with.. it is a gaming forum Ilvy, many have more than one account, many invent who and what they are, many fib or exaggerate about their apm's and abilities etc.. Zia is no more guilty than many others... how goes the saying.. "Let he who is free of sin throw the first stone.."
You know I rather have a smurf free world, but I see online reality too, it is not possible, half of it is fantasy. Is it wrong? For me smurfing always is.. but who am I to judge? Zia is "BW lore" now, i.e. a unicorn, something people wanted to believe in..
On September 16 2006 02:16 bine wrote: I didnt know "her" but i felt super bad when that thread about never walking again was posted
I felt bad because even while reading that thread I still thought how much of a double standard it was for all this support just because "she" was a hot girl. I feel relieved :D
Glad I didnt post in it or almost any other Zia threads. : ]
I don't know, but I find the whole thing a little funny. I always thought if you could make your own entertainment, it is kinda a sign of showing you have some smarts. Maybe this was just his/her way of doing it. Granted, it is a bit sad they would go this far with it. Also, messin with people and their feelings is crossing a line in my opinion.
What make me really sick is how childish online ppl goes when they see a girl in bnet or whatever... Seriously I really don't understand WHY ppl overeact about this... About the joining team, well i find it's a good idea because it may be encouraging girl ppl to play a little more and why not with good ppl that could make "her" "him" good. We all know that meting a real girl in this game seems like as many chance as to win a lottery with Millions involved.
However i'd not give her more credits or whatever because she's a simple person before everything with the same feelings as we men have. Why would we pay more attention to girls than to anyone else, especially when you know the chance about meting her would be like 0,1% ? Even worse. Only way to have proof would be some webcams and getting them asap. But they may act like "no i don't know you, i don't show my face to unknown ppl blablabla". So it's a "vicious ring" (dunno its spelling, correct me if i'm wrong).
My advice : When you see a girl, just play/talk/whatever like if she's nothing but a simple person. Otherwise u'd easily get fooled.
That's why i've almost never talked to Zia as far as i know... Because it was too good to be true. I mean a good looking blonde scandinavian one playing BW ? No way.
btw the reason why 'she' ultimately wasn't allowed to stay in ToT because everyone was suspicious already about the reality of the persona. 'She' claimed to be Finnish and 'she' couldn't talk any Finnish.
but (the alleged) he sounded so feminine when he typed. I wonder if he really was in a car accident or was just starved for attention. I remember hearing him talking about it on b.net long before the topic was made though...
I'm surprised he didn't try to raise the argument that he was on a proxy server. Durrr... Would have been a perfectly decent excuse.
I guess there's some much pressure to get into a fancy pants clan that some guys are willing to masquerade as a chick to compensate for a lack of gaming experience.
On September 08 2006 15:35 FiSheYe wrote: Sweety I already wrote in your myspace.. are you financially save at the moment? Otherwise I would start a small donation thing.. Like everyone gives 5-10$ (or more) into an account (pokerstars or whatever) so the Starcraft community could help you getting over some hard time with at least a little $ boost. I mean we aren't able to give online hugs or something like that, so this might be our way to support you besides the condolences.
Stay strong, life is a bitch but as we've learnt in Final Destination you can cheat the bitch sometimes^^
Err, Strafe I doubt Eri has fucked a guy. I don't know about any lies but I am 99% sure that she is a girl otherwise Eri would have lied to TL for quite a few years and without any reason. The knee thing is going around for a few months so it's stupid to believe it's a fake. Dunno what happened in the past so I might just get an odd view, but I do think you'll definately sit in the wrong seat here. Donating stuff to Victor or Travis was just to make sure that someone neutral would collect the money. I said it's save because they have a lot of money and 1k is not interesting for them + they are mannered people. Anyways let's see how this developes.
I used to play a lot of 2v2's with a guy named Cloud)Regulate, Truckdriver and Weedninja[nip] I think they were all from TN and Cloud)Regulate told me that "Zia" was just some dude from TN. I never though anything about it, b/c I didn't give a shit, and b/c I'd never really even heard of "her" except for reading TeamLiquid.
That was probably over a year ago and had I known that it wasn't known that this clown was a dude I would have said something. LOL.
So pathetic on so many levels. This kind of shit needs to be studied. I mean, I've heard of low lifes posing as girls to get Poker Stars money or PokerRoom vouchers, but to pose as a girl to get clout in the Starcraft community? ROTFL. Wow.
How long had the Zia character been around? I remember seeing it for years. Thats why it's so funny because it's been going on for so long and had everyone fooled. And up until now we had no reason not to believe it.
(rekrul speaking of suncow): ***GOSSIP***To show you how he makes people not like him. We were eating after courage and he was telling me and another korean about how he thinks Tossgirl is a really nice girl and how they talked on b.net some and she was really nice and told him about her hamsters and stuff. Then the korean jokingly said "LoL she talks about her hamsters every day 10x a day with 10 guys," and Suncow got all flustered and wigged out and started yelling with huge eyes...TELL TOSSGIRL IF THIS IS TRUE SHE IS A FUCKING EVIL TERRIBLE PERSON...IF THATS TRUE EVERYTHING SHE SAID TO ME IS A LIE AND FAKE. I was like ...... the korean was like ...... just looking at him like wtf. Then he repeated himself, then we .....'d him again, then he kept saying "OK TELL HER OK TELL HER?" Really fucked up shit.
Suncow's naivity-followed-by-crushing-reality seqeunce is what many of you are going through. I'd have sworn that tools like rpf1234 fell completely head-over-heels in love with this imaginary girl.
IcedEarth certainly attention-whored plenty, lending credibility to the femme-persona. But I became skeptic after all the bragging about guitar-chops. But never an audio clip posted. A real woman would have shown off constantly, especially in the multiple threads like "Post your music here!" I'd like to see drone do some explaining...
I hate showing interest, but this e-phenomenon of excessive vagina-worship has been impossible to ignore. I'm so glad it's finally OVER
I respect Fisheye's reaction to zia's incident whether it was a lie or not and there is nothing funny about what he said. Shows his generosity and warm heart.
On September 16 2006 03:39 Pistasj wrote: How long had the Zia character been around? I remember seeing it for years. Thats why it's so funny because it's been going on for so long and had everyone fooled. And up until now we had no reason not to believe it.
Now can a real Ziaphile tell us how he feels?
I was aware of zia's penis for a long time actually and dropped many hints on this forum. Maybe it is because I am a complete idiot that nobody took it serious. However the last thread Zia made went a little too far so madness had to end. Naive people like f...(HAHA MAGIC PHILL LOLOL) were ready to donate lots of money to a person who is not who he claimed to be.
Anyway like twisted said we had many reasons not to believe it and I just wanna say im too cool to be fooled! Im a bit sad now though, I like them transvestites.
However Ilvy is not a transvestite but the hottest woman in norway. Hmm yummy, if only she wasnt married....
Haha I remember being in a game with rise strafe and tf-prince a year or 2 ago and they were talking about this. About the 'being finnish but not wanting to speak finnish'. And they doubted 'she' was real. 'She' convinced me 'she' was real though, when she started defending RPF
On September 16 2006 03:46 1tym wrote: I respect Fisheye's reaction to zia's incident whether it was a lie or not and there is nothing funny about what he said. Shows his generosity and warm heart.
I didn't say it's funny, I said that he would actually give money to him on a lie.
I would never give money away to people I don't know really close (be it on the internet or in real life).
I don't know any of you in real life, so from now on I guess I can assume this whole forum and its' inhabitants is a huge joke of Stimey and I fell for it.
I just wanna say owned in the face and alittle in the mouth, ofc that knee shit was made up, and i hope you get kicked from your job if u were actually telling the truth about what u wrote in the zia thread about her knee.
Also lets leave Eri out of this since im sure he realised long long long ago that something was wrong ? like guys dont lie about sexual experiences on a daily basis?
What i was thinking is that Zia (the guy whoever profiled himself as this GAL) was actually a quite interesting person, he probably wouldnt have gotten the same attention if he had presented himself as a man, but im sure he himself must have made atleast some friends behind this lie...so he must most likely ask himself in this moment if it was worth it ? :C
everyone just sucked his balls cuz they thought she was a hot girl playing starcraft omgz hots !!!
and im sure eri knew all along, unless he was seriously and deeply brainwashed to this "girl" which he might have been. zia was also 40YROLDSEX or wahtever that is in clan x17.. dunno if u guys kno that. it was pretty obvious this guy was a nerd.. i mean when was he ever not online?
anyway i hope eri is part of this genius and didnt get fooled into building this thing for this guy :[
im pretty high, and i hope mani doesnt go "yo i was kidding" cuz then ill sound like a big fucking idiot
my thoughts exactly, it must be someone close! my guess is the "old friend who i was together with long ago" dude in the background of the other picture of her is the "real zia" :D
rofl at all the people giving "hugglez" hahahahhaa
if that guy in the picture just above my post is actually "zia" .. wow.. creepy mofo. i wonder if we can find any smurf accounts he made as a "guy". did he share ips with any other accounts here? hmm..
and yea he looks really creepy, i wonder if he murdered her and uses her corpse as a sleeping pillow and took on her identity. he looks capable thats for sure.
im kinda sorry about not telling people before (known for 1 1/2 years pretty much) but a combination of not wanting people to know I had lied about something incredibly stupid and well, enjoyment from watching the character keep up the act (as I never told the person behind zia that I knew either) kept me from it
i'll write a longer post about all this someday if people are curious actually first i'll read all the replies here I guess that'll let me know if anyone are
thought i never became deeply involved in the zia character, i did buy it. not because of what "she" said or anything, but purely because i was under the impression that eri knew her in person and i didn't pick him for a fat liar.
ForzenArbiter, you haven't seen disturbing yet.. rofl
The guy is obviously a little sick in the head
1/22/2006 6:53:00 AM Zia I used to work at Kulan 1/22/2006 6:53:08 AM Zia before I got heavily into opera and modeling 1/22/2006 6:53:26 AM Zia i was teaching tae kwon do to 7-8 year olds by day and waiting tables at night 1/22/2006 6:53:29 AM Chris what is kulan? 1/22/2006 6:53:36 AM Zia a restaurant 1/22/2006 6:53:45 AM Zia i thought it was a worldwide chain .. 1/22/2006 6:53:53 AM Zia does america not have any? 1/22/2006 6:53:59 AM Chris ive never heard of it 1/22/2006 6:54:12 AM Zia ok maybe I was wrong ot begin with 1/22/2006 6:54:16 AM Zia but in any case 1/22/2006 6:54:21 AM Zia karate and serving food 1/22/2006 6:54:44 AM Zia this guy named Kim initiated contact with me through kulan 1/22/2006 6:54:47 AM Zia we waited together 1/22/2006 6:54:50 AM Zia he was the new guy 1/22/2006 6:55:03 AM Zia we got to know each other pretty well and started going out and doing stuff 1/22/2006 6:55:06 AM Zia he lived like 1/22/2006 6:55:10 AM Zia 100 km away though 1/22/2006 6:55:13 AM Zia from my house 1/22/2006 6:55:23 AM Zia so it was pretty rare 1/22/2006 6:55:30 AM Zia but when we did, it would be an all day thing 1/22/2006 6:55:43 AM Zia involving everything from goofing off at the park to personal deep talks 1/22/2006 6:55:57 AM Zia eventually one day I invited him to my house 1/22/2006 6:56:07 AM Zia i was making some food 1/22/2006 6:56:13 AM Zia still can't remember what it was 1/22/2006 6:56:21 AM Zia I think crab legs 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia som sort of seafood 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia anyways 1/22/2006 6:56:27 AM Zia he came late 1/22/2006 6:56:28 AM Zia but when he cam 1/22/2006 6:56:40 AM Zia he came with 3 guys I've never seen before, and would not look me in the eye 1/22/2006 6:56:44 AM Zia they raped me 1/22/2006 6:56:48 AM Zia I was 15 1/22/2006 6:57:23 AM Zia I attended a therapist until I was 16 (late 16, nearly a 2 year span) for suicidal thoughts 1/22/2006 6:57:59 AM Zia ok I can barely type I'm shaking so hard right now 1/22/2006 6:58:04 AM Zia forgive me
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1/22/2006 6:59:53 AM Zia i apparantly wouldn't confess anything 1/22/2006 6:59:55 AM Zia or let anyone touch me 1/22/2006 6:59:57 AM Zia for samples 1/22/2006 7:00:08 AM Zia but I can't remember anything that happened 2 weeks after the event 1/22/2006 7:00:28 AM Zia they reeked of alcohol
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1/22/2006 7:14:58 AM Zia my boss called me 1/22/2006 7:15:06 AM Zia wondering why I didn't come in 1/22/2006 7:15:48 AM Zia and when he heard me crying and physically unable to put words together (my swedish was still bad at this point), he went through files, found my address, and came to my house to see me in a corner crying and staring at the floor 1/22/2006 7:16:20 AM Zia he brought the equivelant of the police over once he saw what was happening 1/22/2006 7:16:21 AM Zia except 1/22/2006 7:16:37 AM Zia I can't remember what I said to them 1/22/2006 7:16:43 AM Zia I just know I wouldn't let them touch me for any reason 1/22/2006 7:16:49 AM Zia repeatedly threatening to kill them if they did
/15/2006 7:18:20 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle did #2 fuck #3 9/15/2006 7:18:28 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle thats all that really matters 9/15/2006 7:18:30 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan haha 9/15/2006 7:18:33 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan yes it has happened before 9/15/2006 7:18:39 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle crazy 9/15/2006 7:18:46 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan they aren't together or anything 9/15/2006 7:18:51 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan they just fool around sometimes 9/15/2006 7:18:52 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan whatever 9/15/2006 7:19:05 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle how can an ugly guy fuck a decent looking girl without having been 'together' 9/15/2006 7:19:29 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan i guess it's a matter of perception. she thinks he's cute *shrug*
9/15/2006 7:25:27 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan inspiration 9/15/2006 7:25:47 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan we had things to do. 9/15/2006 7:25:55 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan we just had low low self-esteem at the time of her creation 9/15/2006 7:26:09 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan so we put our backgrounds and best personality traits together 9/15/2006 7:26:10 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan and made her 9/15/2006 7:26:11 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle how could #2 have low self esteem if he fucked #3 9/15/2006 7:26:20 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle a guy like that, fucking a girl like that, pretty ego booster if u ask me, you make no fucking sense
I can understand that you didnt tell it before, but I cant get why you didnt react in this crappy thread about Zia loosing legs, Eri This was crossing a line, damn!
the surprise of this thread is not that zia is fake, but that that other people actually helped him pull this off
i am very disappointed by all who played along and will probably stop contributing to this community in any way, not because i talked to zia (i never did) but because i am surprised of how far a bunch of retards can go with something, even seemingly respectable people who give coherent opinions on many threads, knowing that it might hurt other people's feelings and which they wont even get anything from anyway
its in this type of situations that we realize that although many people will act like fisheye but very very few will be like him and do what he did, and im not sure its worth to give back to the community when it now seems that only one out of a thousand people are worth anything at all, fuck people are even laughing at this now, theres almost no serious posts in this thread and come people are even competing to see who already knew about it before and who was smart enough not to be fooled, thus using the whole fact to try to boost personal ego while other people might actually be crying on their keyboards about this and you dont really seem to give a fuck
so why post game reports, why vote on every poll, why help people out on the strategy forum, why post funny stuff for other people to enjoy and so forth, nearly noone in here would deserve it, might as well just PM the people who do. so yeah, fuck you.
ps. im kinda still hoping this whole thread is a joke that i didnt get
who is crying on their keyboards... Seems like people that talked to "her" knew something was up. And people who didnt interact with this character dont give a shit. If anything, the person behind the zia persona might feel like an idiot about now.... which would be a good thing.
9/15/2006 7:08:38 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle and the fact taht you never once changed ur msn name 9/15/2006 7:08:49 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle fucking people with vaginas have a tendency to change their msn names like crazy
On September 16 2006 04:47 Liquid`Drone wrote: haha
im kinda sorry about not telling people before (known for 1 1/2 years pretty much) but a combination of not wanting people to know I had lied about something incredibly stupid and well, enjoyment from watching the character keep up the act (as I never told the person behind zia that I knew either) kept me from it
i'll write a longer post about all this someday if people are curious actually first i'll read all the replies here I guess that'll let me know if anyone are
haha ok I will write a longer story explaining everything.
about 2 1/2 years ago, I was studying but not studying and spending every day getting high and roughly every third day getting drunk
this is a destructive behaviour and eventually I found myself well, not doing anything productive at all. I just.. were. I didn't feel bad about it at that time, but I guess this was because I was constantly high. then suddenly this icedearth character starts posting on tl.net, and I start talking to "her". (i'll just refer to zia as that from old habit ) we talked for some months and then suddenly after 3 months or so she's suddenly really sad one day explaining how she has to go to korea because her dad was near death in the hospital because of alcohol poisoning. this makes me (and many others) especially sad and sympathetic because we like this person, I'd be sad if any dad of a bnet friend of mine was close to death. ;( so we were of course telling this person how saddened we were and how we thought she was a great person, basically not very different from the busted leg thread she got my phone number and said she was perhaps going to call from korea when she got there if she needed someone to talk to and then 5 minutes before she leaves, after like pretending there was something she had to tell me that she wasn't able to say, she starts going you know, heh, this is incredibly different from anything I have ever told anyone about love but I love you. and im like heh and then she's like lempiä te and logs off
then I go right to google and search for +"i love you" +finnish and waddayaknow it's lempiä te so I end up believing it and eventually feelings and sympathy and self-dislike as I am at this point no longer high, and broke, because I had spent such a long time getting high and drunk that I had spent all the money I was supposed to have that summer, however I am still not doing anything productive (and I failed every course I had that semester) (this was around may. we first started talking around february)
having her email and everything, I write her a mail telling her how I really care about her and really feel for her and hope everything was going to be fine eventually down in the email somewhere adding Exclusively Random Individual Always Delivering Original Rape (which was the line I added to my RANDOMINATOR profile to let clever people figuring out my aka, as it had been started out as a smurf account. ) Lachrymosely Over Vacuity Ensuing Stellar Zestbringers Indefinite Absense (which, to those who don't feel like dictionarying up things, would mean something like tearful over the empty space following the shining bringer of zest's (joy, happiness, zestbringer was a word I had to make up, but calling someone a zebra is not very romantic. ) indefinite absense while also spelling out I love you I thought it was a brilliantly crafted piece of romance anyway shouldve kept all those emails because they were just incredibly great. :D
then one day she manages to go to a internet cafe in korea and we talk a bunch more and well, I end up waiting for her to get back to finland (which she probably did in july or something. ) and we well, show mutual interest in meeting eachother all this time I had like, growing feelings for her (as I had nothing else I wanted to do, I ended up spending a long time thinking and philosophizing, zia ended up being an inspiration, something to aim for, and well, we talked a lot, and basically decided on "let's meet and then figure stuff out" however then one day, she had the funny idea of fucking with fayth, and told him that me and zia had already met, and were together and well I thought this was funny at that time so I followed up. it didn't really seem like I were lying, because in my imagination, a meeting was not that far away.
anyway, after she told fayth, we would often be watching replays together with well, both fayth and other people and then it became important to keep up the act around those people as well, because otherwise fayth would find out and the joke died or something eventually, this made everyone knowm and eventually our state of being in a relationship happened to apply to us as well and honestly, it created some really funny jokes and situations, and well.. we matched like cha zam finishing each others jokes and thoughtlines pretty often, and having really many cool conversations I would be smiling and laughing pretty much constantly during this phase, I had started working now and I was generally really really happy, even though I somehow had a girlfriend I had not met. I actually never told my real life friends about it though. I figured I was going to surprise them one day through suddenly having a hot chick with me. what I said was limited to "so I've met this chick who is the sister of the guitarist in sonata arctica she's pretty cool"
I remember feeling forced to lie about it at worldcybergames "in real life" too because well, I got asked about it, and I didn't mind talking about her, as at that time I was still under the belief that I was going to meet her really soon.
but then eventually as time went by, we never met and stuff wasn't as great anymore. she eventually budged and gave her reasons for not having been able to meet me, saying how even though she deeply trusted and loved me, it was incredibly hard for her both to come visit me, and to give me her address, because the last time she had given someone her address through the internet, she had ended up getting gangraped. (she was always racist towards chinese like even in the first conversation I had with her more than 6 months before this, and blamed this on them being chinese) this made me very sad to hear and it was said in a very.. believable way, and well, I had read quite a bit about the psychology of rape victims and her personality really fit with it. this zia person had incredibly many issues actually, having been suicidal, but she also had incredibly many good qualities. she would also often tell me how I was the by far best thing in her life and how incredibly important I was to her, so I almost never put any real pressure on, because I was afraid how she'd respond to it. and, while of course, there were occasional holes in her stories (and she did admit to having lied several times, but she explained that those lies were only lies she told me to make me like her because she was playing a character stripped of real confidence, in the sense that she did not like herself. (a lot of fake toughness though. ) so I was weighing up real/fake reasons and sort of thought that "no way in hell does someone pretend to be another person 8 hours daily for 6 months." although I also always had the feeling she was american not finnish, largely because of the way she spelt. she'd misspell apparently "apparantly" pretty often, and that is only a spelling mistake made by americans, and definitely not by people who learn to write seperately from learning to talk (which zia claimed was the case. )
but I was afraid that if she were real, me showing distrust would make her kill herself. and even if I leaned towards her being fake, I could not confront her with it because what happened if she was indeed fake? either she was fake and gave me a bullshit story that I would either believe or not believe, (or went out in public and at that point, I was much less interested in that happening than now) or she gave me a real story, or she was real but still gave me a bullshit story, or she was real and killed herself. it seemed like I couldn't really gain anything.
as time went by however (we stayed "together" for about 6 months or so, including 2 "breakups" because she would never meet me but she then pretended to become incredibly upset and crying really hard, and then I told her that I really didnt want to break up but we would really have to meet soon to which she replied that she really was going to)
she also ended up moving to usa, and that was it for me. we still stayed friends though, but had decided to end everything else after it became really clear she wouldn't have time to come to meet me before she went to usa. the thing is, during these last months (from october to january pretty much), zia the character was in a constant state of horrid depression and illness. at this point I had of course also thought of the possibility of her not being real, however, I was afraid that if she were, me pressing on to much could well make her end it.
then eventually, not that long after she had moved, I was messaging her one night going hey hey hey hey on msn and well, apparently zia's brother was there alone at that time, and responded being annoyed by the msn sounds he went "hey dude he's not here right now stop doing that"
and in true eriadorian fashion, I started laughing out loud it was a fucking beautifully executed hoax that's for sure. and it left me emotionally educated like no other. as weird as it might seem, I'm glad it all happened. I enjoyed it more than I disliked it (we had amazing conversations) and I learned amazingly much about both myself and well, people.
and now I was free.
I do regret lying about it later, but it was mostly because I didn't want to have to come out and tell this story to everyone, and I didn't see how not knowing hurt people. but just saying "yeah" when someone asked me if I met her was much less well.. time consuming than telling them no and the entire story, and I didn't want to talk about it before, as well, realizing you fell in love with a guy over the internet is slightly embarassing. just slightly. :D
I have no hard feelings about it all whatsoever tho. I was incredibly stupid and naive in many ways but then again you gotta experience to learn. =]
On September 16 2006 05:28 Rekrul wrote: 9/15/2006 7:08:38 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle and the fact taht you never once changed ur msn name 9/15/2006 7:08:49 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle fucking people with vaginas have a tendency to change their msn names like crazy
definitely should have came out when that leg thread was created though. didn't realize people cared that much, although I guess that's pretty weak as I cared that much myself before.
This is just sad. I have known about this for a looooong time, since Zia-person absolutely wanted to join cF. He/she told me how desperate ppl was to make him/her join their clan, to "advertise" for it. Becos he/she was famous. She also told me how every progamer i knew the name of was eating out of her hand. She had then RIGHT where she wanted them, and they just loved her. Zias words. Never seen anyone willing to do so much just to get their way. Not ever. Even funnier when she asked TreK ( the guy i live with) if he had "a thing for her". We both laughed our asses off. Did not take me long to find out that there was something totally wrong with this person. I talked to one of the finnish guys, and he told me that Zia did not even speak finnish at all. Hmm... weird for a person coming from Finland or what? Then i traced his/her ip on the forum.... It was fra a state in USA... Tennessee. Then i asked Ilvy to do a trace on Wgt, and she came up with the same state in USA. I asked a third friend to do the same.... he came up with the same town and the same state in USA. I used a bot to ping him/her on bnet, us east. He/she had a ping on 16-31. Noone from europe has a ping under 100, no matter how good connection they have. So i knew he/she lied. This person was in USA, and not in Finland. Im not even sure he/she has even been to Finland. But i know that he/she loves Nightwish, and they are from Finland... nice country to pick if u are gonna fake a person on the internet. So i was not very surprised when i heard that the relationship to Eriador was over, apparantly becos Zia was going to USA to study. Guess where? Indeed... same town and the same state we have traced him/her a long time ago. This is a person who absolutely CRAVED for attention. Everything he/she did was to get attention. And he/she got exactly what he/she wanted. No wonder it must have been hard to come clean and tell the truth. Then on top of all... the relationship to Eriador. As long as u dont hurt anyone, you can do whatever you want. BUT... thats not the case with Zia. He/she took the "joke" way too far. I really feel sorry for Eriador. I can only imagine what he feels about this.
for the sake of this guy/girls i hope he did this as a joke or a way to test how long and far he could have u guys thinkin he was a girl...i hope its not one of those deep emotional psychotic situations where the person starts to believe they are the identity they have created, u kno, the wierd shit u see on CSI sometimes or those crime drama's on tv.
ok uhh wtf like here are a few things i didnt really know about
i didnt know that zia was a girl when i read the busted legs thread, i just felt really sad that one of this community was not gona walk anymore.
and now i find out that she is a guy... and this was continued for so long... wtf man like someone is really really disturbed haahaha.
anyway i think its good that its all cleared up now, and well whenever i meet "girls" while playing games im really really sceptical that theyre really girls so yea...
oh and i have no idea who in TL is a girl so plz dont kill me if i reply ur post or smthn refering to u as "dude" or "guy" or w/e
the thing abt fisheye being so warhearted i think was good, you should not blame him for benig fooled, but should blame the person who was fooling him. personally i think fisheye had real heart to do smthn like that.
and well to anyone here on TL trying to earn themselves the title as "greatest pretender of al time" just stop it cuz its just worthless and when you do get busted its just like when ppl find the lowlives that masturbate to the jet stream in jacuzzis.
this got me really depressed, especially after drones story i actually feel sorry for "zia" feeling he has to play a role in order to be someone, and that many hours a day. probably got no friends etc. and feel sorry for drone to, even tho he doesnt admit he feels sorry about it, i know for sure that anyone who fall in love in a person, and then realizes it isnt the person he thought it was, would be really sad. i would also feel emberassed and stupid, not saying drone are, anyone would have gotten fooled by a person with such dedication to his character.
oh I was sad before, like during the period from october to december
but when I found out I was happy. loving a person with immense amount of issues and traumas as the zia personality is much worse than realizing I had been played for so long/that the person is not real.
I don't think anyone should ridicule the ppl who were willing to donate and/or taking an interest in the leg story- I remember when MAni was "missing" and ppl were caring the same or even more. And to the ppl who are doing the "haha you naive idiots fell for it" thingy now: there are two edges on the blade of cynicism and both are very, very sharp.
lol jk though, i'm pretty amazed that this character managed to keep it up for so damn long. I wonder how he is IRL if he has to pretend to be a girl like 8-10 hours a day, pretty feminine I suppose. What's really strange is i've observed some games of zia playing 2v2's and such, and like testie said, he really plays like a SHE (no offence to girls though ;O). Perhaps his feminine playstyle came with that he had to act feminine 10 hours a day ;O anyways, a big lol to this. And im glad I never got to know this "character" Cause I figured that most of the people who actually cared a lot for "her" feels pretty stupid now ;O
Actually people will believe anything on internet.... i know about a guy who faked his own death on the internet.... TWICE. And people believed it both times. I'm just waiting for a third try.. i bet some will believe it then too
this thread has developed into being the BEST thread on TL.net EVER! it's even better than the hovz/nextel thread while that was going on. And that was pure gold.
This is really shocking. I have never really spoken to zia or anything but I have known of "her" for a very long time and I have always thought "she" was real..
when people started to doubt zia and what she claimed in her last thread, I thought what a bunch of idiots they must be not believing her (TreK etc..) but now I realize I (and the others who believed her) were the "idiots".
Anyhow the one I feel most sorry for is Zia, or should I say, the person behind the character "Zia". To spend so much time on such a thing... it's just sick. I don't even know what to call it, it's beyond me. The guy probably has no friends and is probably living a tough life.. oh well
I prefer talking on msn over phone honestly that part is really retarded though but also supposedly dealth with the whole rape trauma. but definitely really, really retarded.
A very good ground rule is to never believe anyone you meet on the internet is really a girl until you see her on a webcam or speak to her on the phone. There are just too many pretending to be girls for whatever reason. People thought sol.alexa was really a girl too for the longest time. I've seen it several times on different forums, none as elaborate as this though.
pretend to be a girl 2min on the internet is quite stupid but it's "ok" - but 3 years 24/24 & 7/7 it's a psychosis and require a medical treatment imo.
Haha, i love the drama over the internet. I'm not involved enough in the community to know zia's character well, but when i saw the leg thread i was "wow, (s)he's really someone important and liked" Curious to see how long people who knew let it happen though.
This is quite surprising, actually. I remember meeting her in some random game on East. I totally bought it. Hell, I've even talked to teh leet newb about Zia's threads and we're all like "Yeah we're sorry for her".
It's kind of pathetic. It's even more pathetic that Zia's probably going to make a thread the next day saying something like "lol i fooled u". Can't trust anyone these days.
Personally whenever i talked to zia online(sparingly) i never thought of the person as a boy or a girl(i really never do on bnet because you cant tell/its pointless)
the person actually seemed to have an interesting personality though, but meh thats pretty fucking sad
well just to let you guys know, i'm a guy LOL. not a girl in denial... or am I -.-; (no) i don't think icedearth can ever post here again regardless of its 5000+ posts.
On September 16 2006 04:30 zizou21 wrote: zia wasnt ever interesting = [
everyone just sucked his balls cuz they thought she was a hot girl playing starcraft omgz hots !!!
and im sure eri knew all along, unless he was seriously and deeply brainwashed to this "girl" which he might have been. zia was also 40YROLDSEX or wahtever that is in clan x17.. dunno if u guys kno that. it was pretty obvious this guy was a nerd.. i mean when was he ever not online?
anyway i hope eri is part of this genius and didnt get fooled into building this thing for this guy :[
im pretty high, and i hope mani doesnt go "yo i was kidding" cuz then ill sound like a big fucking idiot
Don't be ridiculous there were many who believed in this, among them many who were close to Zia. Apparantly things weren't as obvious as you make them seem after we actually come out with evidence. Easy talking now.
the surprise of this thread is not that zia is fake, but that that other people actually helped him pull this off
Assuming you are talking about Eri here.. you are wrong. He didn't help her he was just a little.. embarrassed to tell it to people who would judge him easily. Exactly like you are doing now anyway, pretty much.
Anyway the account Zia has on this website is not banned. After talking to the person behind the Zia account we figured he is not suicidal (we were afraid that someone spending 3 years of his life 8 hours per day on this might be devastated by us revealing it) and still lieing about it. Zia can still post if she likes, since everyone knows the truth now it will be fun if the character stays around. Which we doubt she will, and if she does it will be with limited freedom and trigger happy admins watching her.
On September 16 2006 02:54 RaiZ wrote: What make me really sick is how childish online ppl goes when they see a girl in bnet or whatever... Seriously I really don't understand WHY ppl overeact about this... About the joining team, well i find it's a good idea because it may be encouraging girl ppl to play a little more and why not with good ppl that could make "her" "him" good. We all know that meting a real girl in this game seems like as many chance as to win a lottery with Millions involved.
However i'd not give her more credits or whatever because she's a simple person before everything with the same feelings as we men have. Why would we pay more attention to girls than to anyone else, especially when you know the chance about meting her would be like 0,1% ? Even worse. Only way to have proof would be some webcams and getting them asap. But they may act like "no i don't know you, i don't show my face to unknown ppl blablabla". So it's a "vicious ring" (dunno its spelling, correct me if i'm wrong).
My advice : When you see a girl, just play/talk/whatever like if she's nothing but a simple person. Otherwise u'd easily get fooled.
That's why i've almost never talked to Zia as far as i know... Because it was too good to be true. I mean a good looking blonde scandinavian one playing BW ? No way.
I kinda agree, entering op ToT) as a girl (that's known to be one) is like entering.. I don't know.. But I remember one time when like.. Effka? Or someone entered op ToT) and the entire channel started going hi + random people asking her if she liked big cocks.
Yeah.
That + special treatment can be a bit.. annoying. Anyway, I never really talked to 'her' much but, as I said, wtf, WHY would you joke about something as serious as losing your knee..
On September 16 2006 08:32 TreK[cF] wrote: what happened to you'll get banned if u talk about "this" again
I said that when we were investigating the case ourself within a little team (Saro, Manifesto and myself, of course Eri had involvement as well). The thing is that before we spoke to this person about the case it was very possible that he had alot of emotional involvement. Here's the PM Saro sent to me where we discuss this.
Wow... crazy, crazy stuff. Not sure what to make of it all exactly. I read your PM earlier this evening, but then had stuff to do, and now it's almost 3am and I'm half asleep. After reading, I jotted down some points to bring up in our MSN conversation, but haven't seen you logged in yet.
Rather than type them up a big long PM, ima just copy/paste the stuff I put down. Meant to be notes for myself, so parts might not make sense, but hopefully you'll understand most of it. My wedding anniversary is actually tomorrow, we're doing a day-trip to the coast, but maybe Sunday we can hook up on MSN to chat about this stuff.
Basically I don't think we should go public with anything, at least for the near future. I don't think there's any _real_ immediate harm being done, or any definite urgency to the situation. This is something we should think about and mull over for awhile, while keeping a close eye on the current situation ("her" thread). And certainly, we should confront her about the entire thing before even thinking about doing anything public, if we'd even want to do that. I agree this is a very big deal, and we should proceed with caution.
Anyway, the notes: (sorry they're messy =/)
- if zia's accident turns out to be not true... no skin off my back. honestly did feel bad of course, like everyone else... i'm more of an empathetic type person, would've felt the same way about any high profile regular on tl posting the same thing... no personal attachment to zia (never pmed, exchanged posts, etc), but she's a regular here and i've read lots of posts
- here's my take on it... i'd pretty much be quite opposed to "going public" with anything at least for quite awhile - there is that slim chance that many things could be true (with lies mixed in) - this person hasn't caused any harm, this is actually the only thing i've ever seen that calls attention to herself that way (we've had lots of insecure/needy users, murph, ppl commenting on rpf, and this is way different than that) - logically, how "meaningful" is a bunch a sympathy from ppl, for something completely fake? - let's say you want attention, so you posts such a story... even if you're a lunatic, how would that honestly make you feel better about anything? "oh look, they're sad for smthg that didn't even happen"
- someone "this person" has made over 3000 posts, and been around for years... this is certainly not some kind of "hoax" like some person sitting back thinking, haha, look how many ppl i'm fooling thinking i'm a girl... like some enormous elaborate joke... this could very well be a real person, thinking they're living their life out, how they want to - many transvestites out there, men who really think they're girls in mens bodies, or who think they want to be a girl - if this person is indeed a male, pretending to be a female this whole time, they have very real psychological issues, again this isn't some kind of big joke... - could be a form of schizophrenia, this person could have medically diagnosed "multiple personalities" these are real things... (again, i don't think this is someone sitting back laughing to themselves think "look how well i'm fooling all these ppl"... this is someone living out a life)
- i've got a brother-in-law who runs his own psychology/counseling practice, i'm sure he knows a ton about this kind of stuff... maybe I should email him and ask his opinion about the whole thing...
- real or fake, bringing this out in public would completely devastate this person... and with these kind of issues we're talking about, suicidal could be on the list as well... - I would 100% for certain, at the very least, confront this person about the entire issue, before saying anything at all in public... - she's been around ages, this isn't something that is super urgent... i see no need for us to rush into posting news or exposing her in some way... i say we let the current thread be for now... - even if she's a "he" some of these events could really happen to him, but of course it would come out as happening to "zia", could be tragic, like they don't even like living a lie, but don't know how to stop it, that it's gone on for so long... - if this is true, it's that single person who's life is a lie, not the rest of us... they're the only one truly suffering... the rest of us aren't... and i'm sure there are ppl who indeed view themselves as friends with this person... - i've never spoken (on the phone) or met in person anyone from tl.net, but i would still view many as friends, and a meaningful relationship...
- even if it comes out through private discussions that is person is not who she says she is, i'm not sure announcing it to the wider public would be the right thing to do anyway, like i said, i think this "life" this person is living could quite possibly be a very "real" thing for them... losing it would be absolutely devastating regardless... - if we do find out privately, and confront her about it directly, i think we can control any real harm from coming of it (ppl giving her money, her ever making any more elaborate lie threads to gain fake sympathy, etc). if we do find out and confront her, we'd be very clear that she isn't to do any of those things, or we will certainly expose her... not so much as a "threat" but as a way to protect our community from any intentional "scamming"... those of us who run the site and know about her "problem" can have an agreement/undstanding with her, that certain lines aren't to be crossed.... ... anyway, drifting now, that's my initial thinking, at least until i've given the whole thing some more thought and sought out some "professional" advice on how to deal with a person who has these "conditions" - no harm, not trying to steal ppls money (ppl saying stuff in the thread about money certainly wasn't brought about by her) - lets give this some more thought and approach it very carefully
Now you know why I wanted you to stop posting about it. I'm sure you can understand.
After we confronted 'them' on MSN it was pretty obvious Zia wasn't going to kill himself and Manifesto opened this topic. We also waited a bit to inform (Zia told most of them himself after the confrontation) the people closely involved in some kind of relationship with Zia. We were strongly considering the option of having Zia disappear from the community in cooperation with Zia himself. However when it was obvious he was selling yet another lie to us we decided to forget about that plan.
Poll: Psychological disorder or cruel joke? (Vote): He has some serious mental issues (Vote): He's probably laughing his ass off reading this thread
It's a mix of both. But he doesn't seem to be out of control with his mental issues. Very calm and calculating individual.
I'm assuming that those people who gave "Zia" attention weren't entirely doing it because she was a girl, though it was a large part... There are a few other girls here who don't get treated the same.
Lets sing the Honey babe blues: well, I ain't got no honey babe now I guess she didn't love me anyhow oh oh me and its oh lordy mine I ain't got no honey babe now
Lord she left on that early morning train and ill never see my good gal again oohhhoooh me and its ooh lordy mine I aint got no honey babe no
See you when your troubles are like mine When you aint got a nickel or a dime ohoooh me and its lordy mine I'll see you when your troubles are like mine
On September 16 2006 08:45 RowdierBob wrote: So, Zia just kind of laughed it off and said, "Ok, you got me", Naz?
This is so bizzare in a funny way.
Mani confronted him since I haven't ever talked to Zia I wasn't really in the position to do so. But pretty much after the presentation of all the facts we had found he didn't try defending it. It had been useless anyway but we're happy he choose to be semi-open about it. It made things alot easier.
On September 16 2006 08:47 LetMeBeWithYou wrote: Rofl what a fag, to be honest I didn't really felt sorry in that car crash thread ( hence I did not post ). I guess my Instinct is just that good.
That's so strange to me.. I was really under the impression Zia and Eri had seen each other irl in the past and kind of felt the Zia character was confirmed as a real person. YES, Eri left me out of this as well hehehehe. I think there's really no shame in believing the story if you weren't actually close to Zia and only knew what you read through TL it would only make sense to believe in it.
On September 16 2006 08:49 Hot_Bid wrote: Today, I'd like to admit that I, Hot_Bid, am actually a girl. I am sorry for deceiving all of you for so long.
Well eri you experienced something unique, i'm pretty sure it was for you an amazing psychological experience ^^ I guess you have learned a lot of things from that even though you must have suffered sometimes, things like this make you grow up
On September 16 2006 08:49 Hot_Bid wrote: Today, I'd like to admit that I, Hot_Bid, am actually a girl. I am sorry for deceiving all of you for so long.
On September 16 2006 05:09 BlackJack wrote: ForzenArbiter, you haven't seen disturbing yet.. rofl
The guy is obviously a little sick in the head
1/22/2006 6:53:00 AM Zia I used to work at Kulan 1/22/2006 6:53:08 AM Zia before I got heavily into opera and modeling 1/22/2006 6:53:26 AM Zia i was teaching tae kwon do to 7-8 year olds by day and waiting tables at night 1/22/2006 6:53:29 AM Chris what is kulan? 1/22/2006 6:53:36 AM Zia a restaurant 1/22/2006 6:53:45 AM Zia i thought it was a worldwide chain .. 1/22/2006 6:53:53 AM Zia does america not have any? 1/22/2006 6:53:59 AM Chris ive never heard of it 1/22/2006 6:54:12 AM Zia ok maybe I was wrong ot begin with 1/22/2006 6:54:16 AM Zia but in any case 1/22/2006 6:54:21 AM Zia karate and serving food 1/22/2006 6:54:44 AM Zia this guy named Kim initiated contact with me through kulan 1/22/2006 6:54:47 AM Zia we waited together 1/22/2006 6:54:50 AM Zia he was the new guy 1/22/2006 6:55:03 AM Zia we got to know each other pretty well and started going out and doing stuff 1/22/2006 6:55:06 AM Zia he lived like 1/22/2006 6:55:10 AM Zia 100 km away though 1/22/2006 6:55:13 AM Zia from my house 1/22/2006 6:55:23 AM Zia so it was pretty rare 1/22/2006 6:55:30 AM Zia but when we did, it would be an all day thing 1/22/2006 6:55:43 AM Zia involving everything from goofing off at the park to personal deep talks 1/22/2006 6:55:57 AM Zia eventually one day I invited him to my house 1/22/2006 6:56:07 AM Zia i was making some food 1/22/2006 6:56:13 AM Zia still can't remember what it was 1/22/2006 6:56:21 AM Zia I think crab legs 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia som sort of seafood 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia anyways 1/22/2006 6:56:27 AM Zia he came late 1/22/2006 6:56:28 AM Zia but when he cam 1/22/2006 6:56:40 AM Zia he came with 3 guys I've never seen before, and would not look me in the eye 1/22/2006 6:56:44 AM Zia they raped me 1/22/2006 6:56:48 AM Zia I was 15 1/22/2006 6:57:23 AM Zia I attended a therapist until I was 16 (late 16, nearly a 2 year span) for suicidal thoughts 1/22/2006 6:57:59 AM Zia ok I can barely type I'm shaking so hard right now 1/22/2006 6:58:04 AM Zia forgive me
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1/22/2006 6:59:53 AM Zia i apparantly wouldn't confess anything 1/22/2006 6:59:55 AM Zia or let anyone touch me 1/22/2006 6:59:57 AM Zia for samples 1/22/2006 7:00:08 AM Zia but I can't remember anything that happened 2 weeks after the event 1/22/2006 7:00:28 AM Zia they reeked of alcohol
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1/22/2006 7:14:58 AM Zia my boss called me 1/22/2006 7:15:06 AM Zia wondering why I didn't come in 1/22/2006 7:15:48 AM Zia and when he heard me crying and physically unable to put words together (my swedish was still bad at this point), he went through files, found my address, and came to my house to see me in a corner crying and staring at the floor 1/22/2006 7:16:20 AM Zia he brought the equivelant of the police over once he saw what was happening 1/22/2006 7:16:21 AM Zia except 1/22/2006 7:16:37 AM Zia I can't remember what I said to them 1/22/2006 7:16:43 AM Zia I just know I wouldn't let them touch me for any reason 1/22/2006 7:16:49 AM Zia repeatedly threatening to kill them if they did
Ok, I think this just reminds me so, so so soso much of another pathological liar who used to hang around here.. Although they don't live in the same country.. or least didn't use to.
This is like... the best internet drama I've ever seen. I don't even know Zia or Eri, but reading Eri's posts kinda blew my mind...seriously you probably have enough material to write a pretty awesome book.
That's so strange to me.. I was really under the impression Zia and Eri had seen each other irl in the past and kind of felt the Zia character was confirmed as a real person. YES, Eri left me out of this as well hehehehe. I think there's really no shame in believing the story if you weren't actually close to Zia and only knew what you read through TL it would only make sense to believe in it.
Maybe you're just a nice person, and I'm an dickhole
On September 16 2006 08:55 _Bandit_ wrote: This is like... the best internet drama I've ever seen. I don't even know Zia or Eri, but reading Eri's posts kinda blew my mind...seriously you probably have enough material to write a pretty awesome book.
*Applause to all involved in this conspiracy!*
Again; noone but Zia was involved. Zia saying he consisted of 3 persons. Us saying he's just one (we have pretty good reasons for this).
After we confronted 'them' on MSN it was pretty obvious Zia wasn't going to kill himself and Manifesto opened this topic. We also waited a bit to inform (Zia told most of them himself after the confrontation) the people closely involved in some kind of relationship with Zia. We were strongly considering the option of having Zia disappear from the community in cooperation with Zia himself. However when it was obvious he was selling yet another lie to us we decided to forget about that plan.
On September 16 2006 08:58 {ToT}Strafe wrote: Zia im sure you are reading this, can we have webcam sex now? you dont have to hide ur penis for me anymore
kisses me
Haha be careful or he will really send sex photos to you xD
I've always thought IcedEarth was a guy, wasn't aware of that "Zia" was supposed to be a girl.
And as for the leg busted thread, I didn't really feel sorry and did not bother to post. It's just not me, kissing up to people posting stuff like "Good luck in the future" or something like that when I don't even know who the guy is, really.
I know who 'she' is...it's Stimey getting his revenge on TL.net!!!
Actually, I'm just wondering what happened to him after his mitsy account was banned. Has he reappeared? He was one of my favorite posters (although I do understand why most found him annoying )
On September 16 2006 08:55 _Bandit_ wrote: This is like... the best internet drama I've ever seen. I don't even know Zia or Eri, but reading Eri's posts kinda blew my mind...seriously you probably have enough material to write a pretty awesome book.
*Applause to all involved in this conspiracy!*
Again; noone but Zia was involved. Zia saying he consisted of 3 persons. Us saying he's just one (we have pretty good reasons for this).
Yeah, I know Zia was the only conspirator, but I meant all the people close to Zia and all the people who got played way harder than I did (like Eri) get my applause for contributing in some way to this incredible story (by being big suckers of course).
If Eri didn't "fall in love" with Zia, or if he didn't have such a close relationship, this story would be nowhere near as good as it is, so I applaud him even for being relatively innocent.
That's what I meant by "being involved in the conspiracy".
On September 16 2006 09:01 Noun wrote: I've always thought IcedEarth was a guy, wasn't aware of that "Zia" was supposed to be a girl.
And as for the leg busted thread, I didn't really feel sorry and did not bother to post. It's just not me, kissing up to people posting stuff like "Good luck in the future" or something like that when I don't even know who the guy is, really.
Wasn't Eri or someone romantically involved in RL, or claimed to be?
I remember a long time ago I made a post about my adventures in anal sex, and I recall quite vividly Zia saying something along the lines of how anal sex is the only thing that gives her physical pleasure and is so much better than vaginal. I thought that was a pretty peculiar thing for any girl to say, but i thought because of the RL involvement of some mod here that it was definitely a girl, and just thought her fucking weird.
Also that claim from her provoked someone else to say something along the lines of "didn't Eri once post something like 'I've done you in the ass, stop talking' type playful comment with regards to zia?"
It really sheds a whole new light on him/her/it proclaiming her love for anal now.
there was once a thread related to hovz beating up nextel and zia wrote in it "I beat up eri" and then I thought posting "I fucked you in the ass" was a really funny retort
On September 16 2006 09:10 racebannon wrote: Wasn't Eri or someone romantically involved in RL, or claimed to be?
I remember a long time ago I made a post about my adventures in anal sex, and I recall quite vividly Zia saying something along the lines of how anal sex is the only thing that gives her physical pleasure and is so much better than vaginal. I thought that was a pretty peculiar thing for any girl to say, but i thought because of the RL involvement of some mod here that it was definitely a girl, and just thought her fucking weird.
Also that claim from her provoked someone else to say something along the lines of "didn't Eri once post something like 'I've done you in the ass, stop talking' type playful comment with regards to zia?"
It really sheds a whole new light on him/her/it proclaiming her love for anal now.
This whole thing is fucked up
My memory is somewhat hazy, but there was a thread long ago where Eri wrote something about Zia not liking guys give her head. Hint hint #1.
And there was also something where Zia claimed she beats Eri up to which he responded "I fucked you in the ass".
And yet somehow I have a very bad short term memory.
i feel so bad for the guy zia... always on msn, acting like a chick... holy SHIT? how mentally ill does a person need to be to pretend to be a girl to cover up how badly they suck after 8 years of playing bw?
This is really fascinating. Wow. The dedication one would need...
Eri: Do you think it's possible that it wasn't a relative of Zia who wrote you that message, but Zia himself in an attempt to break out of the web of lies without confronting you?
On September 16 2006 09:16 Veg wrote: this is pathetic on so many levels
i feel so bad for the guy zia... always on msn, acting like a chick... holy SHIT? how mentally ill does a person need to be to pretend to be a girl to cover up how badly they suck after 8 years of playing bw?
possible. he's certainly smart enough to do it like that =]
but when I talked to him a couple days ago he made it seem like it as a fuckup, saying he was hoping I didnt catch up on it I didn't let him know I had caught up on it until a couple days ago either so it was really funny like talking to him after I knew and he still acted like I didnt and he'd write the most insane stories that I cannot comprehend ever regarding as possibly true. hindsight is 20 20 but present sight was wow.. dumbfoundingly stupid back then.
someone fucking call his parents. that will teach him a lesson. make him suffer on a personal level, or at least give him an incentive for some treatment if he needs it.
On September 16 2006 09:26 tKd_ wrote: someone fucking call his parents. that will teach him a lesson. make him suffer on a personal level, or at least give him an incentive for some treatment if he needs it.
what a motherfucking huge trans-sexual geek how can you play with feelings of thousands of people with such a sad and FAKE story .. (the legs one) god damn.. cant believe it this kid gotta suicide
the surprise of this thread is not that zia is fake, but that that other people actually helped him pull this off
Assuming you are talking about Eri here.. you are wrong. He didn't help her he was just a little.. embarrassed to tell it to people who would judge him easily. Exactly like you are doing now anyway, pretty much.
i just want to clear up that i wasnt talking about Eri specifically, there were many people who admitted to already knowing about it here (trek? strafe? i dont remember exactly who), and i think that these people seeing others get involved emotionally and not warning them was just wrong
Wow... read this whole thread. Fascinated by the whole concept but especially by the responses of those who actually had some degree of friendship with him.
Eri, I mean this, I've always respected you, you've always seemed like a great person, and I both feel for you and respect you. And even though it was a while ago, coming out with this story is I'm sure... umm tough. But honestly kudos to you, I would just be too embarassed and sad to even be honest about the whole situation. If you say you're glad you had the experience then hats off to you, I would try to bury it I suspect.
Of course, the attitude we should have towards Zia is really hard to gauge. On one hand I feel like he's contributed a lot here, and even though he's a phony I think we should show some "mercy" in our attitudes about him (under the assumption that he's probably not just a joker laughing in his chair, that doesn't really make sense); then again, the whole thing is seriously weird and the leg thread was just so messed up (which is not nearly as messed up as what he did to Eri...)
the surprise of this thread is not that zia is fake, but that that other people actually helped him pull this off
Assuming you are talking about Eri here.. you are wrong. He didn't help her he was just a little.. embarrassed to tell it to people who would judge him easily. Exactly like you are doing now anyway, pretty much.
i just want to clear up that i wasnt talking about Eri specifically, there were many people who admitted to already knowing about it here (trek? strafe? i dont remember exactly who), and i think that these people seeing others get involved emotionally and not warning them was just wrong
So how do you warn ppl? By saying "hey i am pretty sure that the person you really like and everyone think is a cool person is a fake" ?? "Hmm know what Eriador... your gf does not live in Finland as she says... he/she is actually in USA". Would you believe me? I didnt know that Eriador already knew that she was a fake, thats why i never said anything. People around me knew what i knew, i told them. It was not important enough until Zia started the thread about the broken leg, and some people here wanted to send her money. One thing is to fool alot of people for a long time, another is to make money on it. Even tho Zia didnt make the thread for that purpose. This is just a sad story no matter what. I really really hope the person behind Zia has guts enough to stand up and tell the truth. I doubt it will happen.
Impressive to have pulled this off for such a long time. Started to think something was up when I saw its myspace. Like "all this stuff just cant be true"... But still didnt really have doubts about it being a girl, just a attention whore or something. Hats off.
I can say I was fooled 100%... mostly because I figured Eri had met 'her', and Eri is like, the most trustworthy person on this site so I never questioned it (and I still consider Eri to be completely trustworthy, I definitely understand the rationale behind what he did).
All-in-all, I'm actually impressed with how long Zia kept it up... I mean, jesus... how many years are we talking about? I mean, I'll admit, years ago when I was like 17 or so for about a week or two I'd used a chick's name on B.net just to see what kind've reactions I'd get, but it got stupid pretty quick. As Saro said in what Naz quoted, this is more than just 'a simple joke'; pretending to be somebody you're not for several years indicates something else.
Anyways, I really see no harm done by it (save for the Leg thread, you shouldn't fuck with people on serious issues like that... does anyone know if Zia really broke his leg, or was that just for attention?), so as far as I'm concerned, it was a well-played ruse.
Which of course makes me think of how guys in general act towards females - which is understandable, except we tend to act the same way online as we would in real life; ie, giving them much more attention. Like the whole broken leg thing, honestly, with the exception of perhaps the mods, who else would have gotten THAT much attention/replies? I would like to think that anyone here would, but in the back of my head, I know that's not true, simply because Zia was a girl, and even though it makes no difference to us because this is someone we'll meet, this is just our natural protective male emotions playing through. Fortunately, the Zia character was just out for attention, as I believe honestly, money would have been donated... that's how serious it can get.
Something like this just makes me more happy that I'm 100% secure in who I am to be completely honest, even to anonymous strangers on the internet who I'll probably never meet.
Oh and, for some reason when I read this thread, I thought about this picture (look at Drone in the lower left). ^_^
Zia Robyn Holopainen Jutzi Hentasi Liimiatainen was born on July 24, 1985, (the same day as porn star Teagan Presley) to a crackhead mother and a father that was a drunk. Zia was born in Northern Seoul Korea and moved to Kyoto, Japan when she was 5 years old. During Zia's infancy, she was babysat by the sister of [NC]..Yellow. When Zia was young her mother passed away from a drug overdose. Zia moved out of her father's house to Sweden when she was 14 to experience the world. Being a 5th degree black belt in Tae kwon do, she worked as a Tae kwon do instructor, while she waited tables at the restaurant Kulan. In Sweden, Zia was gang raped by a Chinese acquintance, and three of his friends. Because of this, Zia hates the Chinese. Then she moved to Norway, whereat she chose not to make up any details about her life. Having graduated highschool at the age of 16, she moved to Helsinki, Finland for 3 years to take singing lessons from Nightwish lead singer Tarja Turen. She also used her stay in Finland to meet up with her long lost half-brother Jani Liimiatainen, guitarist for Sonata Arctica. Her two best friends in Finland were Alice and Bjorn. Alice was also multi-talented, being a foot model and an Opera singer. Zia became an Opera singer and toured the continents with her troupe. She sang "eeeeeeeeeverywhere." She took time out to enjoy life, go to a bunch of shows, learn how to surf, tone her body with exercise, etc. Zia worked as a foot model, and took pride in the exceptional care she gave to her feet. Zia was an avid body builder, working out at the gym for 3 hour sessions, 3+ times a week. It was at a gym in Finland that she met porn star Sylvia Saint. Zia is in medical history for dying for 2 seconds from an unknown illness that stopped her heart and shut down her nervous system. Sometime during her 3 year stay in Finland, she had to travel to Korea to be at her father's side. He passed away from alcohol poisoning. Zia moved to the United States in July 2005 to continue her education at UTC (University of Tennessee in Chattanooga). She purchased a 3,000 sq. ft. home in Ooltewah with her own money. Zia had an $11 million fortune. In the Fall of 2005, Zia entered the adult film industry, working for a side-project of Jilly Kelly Productions. She went by the stage name Euronymi, but later changed it to "Lii" She has a dvd released in Germany titled "5th ammendment." She quit the adult industry in early January of 2006. Zia created many friends and fans among fellow starlets. In springbreak '06 she even travelled to California where she played Mario Party with Jenna Haze & co. On January 22nd '06 Zia was hit in the driver's side of her car by a drunk driver, shattering her kneecap and leaving her in a wheelchair. Having almost no friends in the US, and without being able to walk, she became extremely depressed and spent a lot of her days crying on her friend's shoulder. On Valentine's day of 2006, Zia attempted suicide by stabbing herself in the chest with a boy scout knife. During Sonata Arctica's tour of the United States, the band stayed at Zia's house for one night before their show in Atlanta. Zia defeated lead singer Tony Kakko in arm wrestling multiple times. Zia took Jani into her bedroom and cried on his shoulder for a considerable amount of time. There, Jani told her that during the tour "he has ignored every single female offer and never invited anyone backstage the entire tour because ... he was waiting for me" Zia elaborates, "apparantly, he didn't touch a single girl throughout the tour just so he could get me in bed when he came over" On May 1, Zia traded in her wheel chair for crutches, and returned to normalcy. During the Summer, Zia worked at The Rush gym. Zia was a triple major in Psychology, Sociology, and Journalism, with a minor in Music Zia has maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout her entire academic career, never acheiving less than an A in a course. Zia was born with an unusually low white blood cell count that causes her to spend 6 months out of the year in and out of sickness. Zia's favorite color was Ceraline. Zia owned three cars. Zia rarely slept more than 4 hours in one night. Zia does not smoke or drink. Zia is an extremely proficient guitarist. Zia owned a 130kg dog named Cerberus. And a siberian husky named Athena that showed up on her doorstep in Finland. Zia receives free comcast because her neighbor is a comcast executive whose son is attracted to her. Zia once travelled to Greece where she gave mYm.Raven a blowjob. (Sorry Eri, she cheated on you )
On September 16 2006 10:10 Eatme wrote: Started to think something was up when I saw its myspace. Like "all this stuff just cant be true"... But still didnt really have doubts about it being a girl, just a attention whore or something. Hats off.
Hahahahahahahaha
You want to know what's fucked up? I thought the EXACT same thing. Hell, I had Zia in like my top 8, and I read all the stuff she's done, and I'm like "Holy fuck she's done a lot more than I probably ever will! Is that even possible, how has she funded all these endeavors, etc.", but it never crossed my mind that it was untrue. I bought it 100%.
note that anything happening after 2005 is after I stopped talking to her and holy rofl I pray I would not have been stupid to buy any of THAT in hindsight I bought some stupid stuff and ignored a lot of obvious lies but jesus :D
1/22/2006 6:54:47 AM Zia we waited together 1/22/2006 6:54:50 AM Zia he was the new guy 1/22/2006 6:55:03 AM Zia we got to know each other pretty well and started going out and doing stuff 1/22/2006 6:55:06 AM Zia he lived like 1/22/2006 6:55:10 AM Zia 100 km away though 1/22/2006 6:55:13 AM Zia from my house 1/22/2006 6:55:23 AM Zia so it was pretty rare 1/22/2006 6:55:30 AM Zia but when we did, it would be an all day thing 1/22/2006 6:55:43 AM Zia involving everything from goofing off at the park to personal deep talks 1/22/2006 6:55:57 AM Zia eventually one day I invited him to my house 1/22/2006 6:56:07 AM Zia i was making some food 1/22/2006 6:56:13 AM Zia still can't remember what it was 1/22/2006 6:56:21 AM Zia I think crab legs 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia som sort of seafood 1/22/2006 6:56:24 AM Zia anyways 1/22/2006 6:56:27 AM Zia he came late 1/22/2006 6:56:28 AM Zia but when he cam 1/22/2006 6:56:40 AM Zia he came with 3 guys I've never seen before, and would not look me in the eye 1/22/2006 6:56:44 AM Zia they raped me 1/22/2006 6:56:48 AM Zia I was 15 1/22/2006 6:57:23 AM Zia I attended a the rapist until I was 16 (late 16, nearly a 2 year span) for suicidal thoughts 1/22/2006 6:57:59 AM Zia ok I can barely type I'm shaking so hard right now 1/22/2006 6:58:04 AM Zia forgive me
i dont understand why people keep using the word "impressive" .... use them for doctors and police and firemen and others who actually perform impressive things
what zia did is sad i wish i could email his parents to tell them how much of a dyke they raised
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: Lol,? wtf ;D Tl.net true? O_O!
More metal than your mama's kettle says: yep
More metal than your mama's kettle says: well
More metal than your mama's kettle says: mostly
More metal than your mama's kettle says: they left out very important details
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: hahah ;D i knew it t.t since you never posted new pictures and such lol
More metal than your mama's kettle says: yeah dude
More metal than your mama's kettle says: no biggie though
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: w.e everyone has fucked with people before ;p
More metal than your mama's kettle says: yep.
More metal than your mama's kettle says: it was fun times sometimes
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: you just did it in the biggest way possible tho
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: ;d
More metal than your mama's kettle says: yeah dude. we kept her going for a long long long time
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: yea O.o
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: so how do you feel about it? ;D lol
More metal than your mama's kettle says: *shrug(*
More metal than your mama's kettle says: we tried to kill zia off
More metal than your mama's kettle says: for a very long time
More metal than your mama's kettle says: and we never could
More metal than your mama's kettle says: but this time
More metal than your mama's kettle says: we finally did
More metal than your mama's kettle says: i'm actually sort of glad people found this out
More metal than your mama's kettle says: because now, people will FINALLY stop thinking alexa is female
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: Lol
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: Alexa is w/e to ;d
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: still who ever was in those pictures of her
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: or him
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: was freaking hott
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: and whos pictures did you use?
More metal than your mama's kettle says: well
More metal than your mama's kettle says: the thing mani left out
More metal than your mama's kettle says: is that zia wasn't a guy
More metal than your mama's kettle says: she was 2 guys and 1 girl
More metal than your mama's kettle says: 3 of us created her
More metal than your mama's kettle says: and the picture of the girl is the girl who helped create/maintain her
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: who was the girl? o.o
More metal than your mama's kettle says: uh
More metal than your mama's kettle says: what do you mean?
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: who was teh girl helping you maintain her
More metal than your mama's kettle says: what do you mean
More metal than your mama's kettle says: she's a real life friend
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: oh lol
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: ok
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: O.o
Blame it on the Weather, but im a Mess, and this darkness has me hating everyone. says: well dude this was a crazy act
On September 16 2006 10:26 pooper-scooper wrote: Gotta say that I'm disapointed in Eri. But then again, Eri doesn't know me or anything, so he didn't owe me or anyone shit.
Telling the truth is always easier and better, even if it is tough.
after reading eriador's several post in this thread, i can honestly say, i don't feel anger toward him.
don't know if that's because he's a great manipulater, but i've always gotten the feeling of trust and down-to-earthness. that might be just a lie too
On September 16 2006 09:26 tKd_ wrote: someone fucking call his parents. that will teach him a lesson. make him suffer on a personal level, or at least give him an incentive for some treatment if he needs it.
why?
the sound of revenge ok forget it. but honestly this shuld be a crime! like faking your death.
that's another part, probably bigger than the whole embarassment (nowadays anyway as it's been so long, I haven't thought much about this since I found out she was a he), about why I was reluctant to share this before I had to I basically do believe I am normally a very trustable guy and I didnt want people to know that ive been full of bullshit in one area for a very long time as it might make you, understandably, second guess other things I say as well that shouldn't be second guessed.
the only thing more shocking than the fake identity (always treat girls as equals kiddies, wherever you are, that's a hard lesson learnt by most of you here), is how candidly and honestly drone is speaking of his succumbing to this depressed person. good luck to you drone i'm sure you'll find someone you can really love. that's not a joke, i'm sure you will.
I am truly disapointed, amazed as well, i shud had that i hate liars, eri can't be thrutworthy, no matter what now. I actually helped this without knowing at all. Just because i trusted eri.
The part about all of the posts being made from Tennessee isn't really damnable evidence of lies.
From what Zia always told me, s/he was born in Finland, but lived in Korea for a while, and then a few months ago, told me s/he was coming to Tennessee. I live in Knoxville, which isn't too far from Ootelwah, which is where s/he claims to currently live, which would explain why all the posts come from Tennessee.
I've had my doubts about Zia being a girl before, but I never really cared enough to pursue it.
Guy, girl, whatever. Yes there was deception, but its whatever.
On September 16 2006 10:57 IcedEarth wrote: Technically, 5.5. We started in January.
Jesus -_-
How the hell did you keep it up for that long?
You have absolutely no idea how much crazy fucking work it took. I tried explaining to a few people already without much success. Just know that it was a disgusting amount of work, and in the end, we couldn't keep her going due to real life circumstances (school, work, responsibilities, etc).
On September 16 2006 10:57 IcedEarth wrote: Technically, 5.5. We started in January.
Jesus -_-
How the hell did you keep it up for that long?
You have absolutely no idea how much crazy fucking work it took. I tried explaining to a few people already without much success. Just know that it was a disgusting amount of work, and in the end, we couldn't keep her going due to real life circumstances (school, work, responsibilities, etc).
and that was another part that made it all the more believable talking to people who knew her 2-3 years before I met her and whom had heard the same stories 2 years ago as I was told now..
On September 16 2006 10:57 IcedEarth wrote: Technically, 5.5. We started in January.
Jesus -_-
How the hell did you keep it up for that long?
You have absolutely no idea how much crazy fucking work it took. I tried explaining to a few people already without much success. Just know that it was a disgusting amount of work, and in the end, we couldn't keep her going due to real life circumstances (school, work, responsibilities, etc).
hmm and a few weeks ago i deleted the 'more mettle than your mummas kettle' off my msn list.. everytime i saw that nick i was like.. "hmm now who is that again? if i have to ask them, they're just gonna get deleted".
and wow, so many posts in such a short time o_O
is this feeding some kind of narcissistic histrionic freak's fantasy? stop and think what you all are doing >_<
I always hated "Zia." Glad to see we won't have to put up with "her" bullshit anymore.
and yeah i always had a bad impression of said person. i pity the fools who were sucked in by this. the weak preying on the weak. sure is a desolate world sometimes.
edit: i'm submitting this thread to my philosophy lecturer who has been looking for some internet material with such animalistic behaviour. anyone mind?
On September 16 2006 11:06 IcedEarth wrote: Oh yes, and effka is real. Don't drag her into this.
Haha, like anyone is going to believe _you_
I know. That's why I'm not going to post much on the topic. No one is going to believe a word I say. So I figure, after a week or so, people will get bored of the Zia topic then some might actually want to know from me directly. So I won't post a thing in this thread or to anyone else until everyone is bored of it.
On September 16 2006 11:06 IcedEarth wrote: Oh yes, and effka is real. Don't drag her into this.
Haha, like anyone is going to believe _you_
I know. That's why I'm not going to post much on the topic. No one is going to believe a word I say. So I figure, after a week or so, people will get bored of the Zia topic then some might actually want to know from me directly. So I won't post a thing in this thread or to anyone else until everyone is bored of it.
how is anyone suppose to get to know you when you say u are 3 persons?
IE: question: do you realise most people exhibiting such behaviour need some help of some kind to change for the better? i suppose you've justified this all in your own mind so much that it'd be impossible for you to accept/ask for any help on the issue(s).
On September 16 2006 11:17 IcedEarth wrote: Honestly trek, who even believes we're 3 people?
I see it as a pretty obvious attempt to diffuse responsibility so you don't have to admit to yourself how completely fucked up you are. You're a pathological liar. You can't be anything else when you make up fake personas that you carry out for over 5 years.
You need to stop trying to mitigate this by pretending it was some school project you cooked up with friends, you aren't healthy and you need help. You have no friends. Your fantasy online persona might have had some, but that's not you now is it.
Stop trying to justify your completely fucked up mental state and seek help
No Octo, I doubt there will be many "females" after this. You're welcome.
And Dream, believe it or not, i have a very normal and boring life. This is all imagination at work. My real life is genuine and rather mundane. I'm just a regular person on the outside.
On September 16 2006 11:21 msadc wrote: Are you eventually going to say why you did this? Did it just start as a stupid joke that snowballed into something much bigger or what?
That's kind've all I really wanted to know. I'm kind've hoping for his sake that's all it was... otherwise there are severe mental issues going on.
no, sorry, not believable. the psychology i've studied clearly points you towards some kind of histrionic disorder. i'm no expert on mental illness though, and i never talked to you online just saw posts/profiles a few times, but from what's being said here by yourself and pasted from others... you're an extreme case. what you do on the internet isn't completely cut off from real life. it just doesn't work like that.
Zia, no matter what this was in your mind it was entirely inhumane. You honestly had BETTER explain yourself or hopefully the public outcry will be that you are banned. I for one am sick of hearing you explain nothing but just post as if it's no big deal. There's no way that you can make threads like "I'm never walking again" and expect us to just say "GOOD ONE! YOU GOT US!"...
Fayth - Cell: dit : did u start this character as a joke Fayth - Cell: dit : did u plan this all along ? More metal than your mama's kettle dit : yeah More metal than your mama's kettle dit : no More metal than your mama's kettle dit : nono More metal than your mama's kettle dit : the character was planned yes More metal than your mama's kettle dit : but her popularity More metal than your mama's kettle dit : was definitely not More metal than your mama's kettle dit : this was unexpected as it could be More metal than your mama's kettle dit : we just took it too far
I read about half way through this thread....it's just so fucking long.
I'm in Zia's east clan (CapN.). There were always incosistencies in "her" story, but I never really thought about it or cared. I didn't think about it mainly because of all the things Eri said, but I never really cared either because I've always felt that there should be no reason for treating guys and girls differently online. It's not like you are going to meet these people in real life.
I will almost certainly continue wearing that CapN. tag because to me it never amttered if Zia was a guy or a girl. I hope this serves as a reality check to all of you who became overly involved, actually caring if Zia was male or female and develop deep feelings of love and/or sympathy for Zia. I remember when Zia told me about her knee being "shattered" (which was before anything was posted on this forum in so far as I know), and while I kind of felt bad for Zia, I didn't act on it. Losing a game for the wrong reasons right before I fall asleep will cause me to sleep poorly, but Zia's story didn't.
All of you who feel betrayed were betraying yourselves more than Zia was betraying you. You tried to take the human element of real life onto the internet. You made your social life and feelings revolve around the internet. But while the internet may bring people closer together in terms of knowledge and connectivity, it also pushes people farther apart because the human element is almost entirely non-existent.
On September 16 2006 00:50 MoltkeWarding wrote: How about a longer explaination for us non-Ziaphiles?
2nd that, can we get an brief summary on Zia's major accomplishments/involvements/notable stories, etc.. of some sort? As far as I have heard, Zia is a Scandinavian chick who's fucked Eriador? What else is there to this amazing Zia?
* voice lessons with Tarja Turunen (of Nightwish) * brother is guitarist of Sonata Artica * supposedly fucked Eri
and a list of other things.
Hrmph. IF Zia is fake, they sure convinced me otherwise.
All of you who care are people who really need to sort their lives out. LOL @ the lot of you. This is the internet and you are presumably on it to play a videogame. A fucking videogame! Are you playing or not?
Get off the internet, go to a party, grab a beer and talk to real chicks. K thx~
On September 16 2006 11:40 Zeller wrote: I dont understand how zia takes this so lightly, acting like a girl for 5 and 1/2 years is not normal, he has some psychological problems
cause he's just another fuck up in an internet full of them
On September 16 2006 11:41 Mortality wrote: All of you who care are people who really need to sort their lives out. LOL @ the lot of you. This is the internet and you are presumably on it to play a videogame. A fucking videogame! Are you playing or not?
Get off the internet, go to a party, grab a beer and talk to real chicks. K thx~
I suspect you are not intelligent enough to see the irony in your own post.
On September 16 2006 11:41 Mortality wrote: All of you who care are people who really need to sort their lives out. LOL @ the lot of you. This is the internet and you are presumably on it to play a videogame. A fucking videogame! Are you playing or not?
Get off the internet, go to a party, grab a beer and talk to real chicks. K thx~
On September 16 2006 10:34 RainingYayo wrote: when are you silly nerds going to learn .... GIRLS DONT SPEND HOURS AND HOURS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES WITH GEEKS, ESPICALLY IF THERE HOT.
YOU DESERED TO GET TRICKED AND PLAYED BY HER ROFLLLLLLLLLLL
Actually, have you ever heard of G0D or PMS? CS based female only clans.
LOL @ this whole situation; I never knew who zia was and I've been around for a while (sorry I don't post 10 times a day) but you are one sad, sad dude if you're pretending to be a girl for the better half of a decade.
To make myself clear, I do NOT condone what Zia did, but I couldn't care less about Zia's gender, and I don't care all that much about Zia's personal experiences and none of you really should either unless you know Zia in real life.
Nah I haven't cchs. I'll continue using this if I continue at all. And if I get banned, I get banned. I deserve it anyways, despite having kindly asked admins not to ban me.
On September 16 2006 11:53 travis wrote: i think its slightly amusing
I also don't understand everyone's reactions
sure its kinda mean for this guy/these guys to do but if you haven't met someone in person.. you have not MET them
the only thing i find weird is why someone would want to spend so much of their time to do this
I really do not understand anyone with this attitude to be honest. You can learn to know people online to a very extreme extent. In fact for you specifically if I shared your way of thinking together with everyone else that knows you you would have still been broke in poker. I hope you are glad that other people do think they can trust people by merely have spoken to them online.
As for everyone else who is saying things about not trusting people online or finding it sad/pathetic people are trying to maintain some sort of relationship on the internet; I can only tell you that you are missing out on a great deal by holding yourself back. For every twisted person you meet there's a 100 honest ones. I am living with Meat and Raszi and have been rl friends with them for the past 4 years. Both of them I met through the internet and I could probably give you a list of dozens of things in which ways people I met online have made my life better. If I hadn't trusted Meat and/or Raszi in the first place we would never even have met. Online you are guaranteed to be able to interact with way more people than irl and if you manage to stay away from the psychos this can only increase your lifes worth. I can't even begin to explain what the internet has meant to me in my life. Probably enough to open its separate topic about it.
And to say it is 'kinda' mean to do these things really puzzles me. Simply because you haven't actually seen someones face means it doesn't really matter if you hurt their feelings? That is some really scary thought. People have gotten hurt, people will get hurt. To say it's 'kinda mean' is downright insulting.
To give some reference to your own situation you are saying that simply because you and I have not met irl that would have somehow made it okay if you hadn't pay me back? Not okay but I think whether we meet or not has got nothing to do with the moral values behind doing something to one another.
On September 16 2006 12:07 mYm.Alpine wrote: See what happens when BoxeR begins dropping out of leagues...mass chaos throughout the sc scene this week.
ROFLMFAO. theres like 50 posts a minute in this thread. At least tell us this "Zia" are you a guy or a girl and do you have other people use your account to spam post counts.
Micro, don't comment in this thread WHILE you're casting. You have my msn.
CCHS I'm a guy and post count has never meant anything to me. The only thing that sucks about that is the fact that I'm a devourer. What the hell, man. A devourer.
rofl curly hair is disgusting. People might tell you otherwise, but it really is grotesque. I've had it straightened before and it lasted a number of hours. I blame my dad (he had an afro at his wedding).
On September 16 2006 12:21 IcedEarth wrote: rofl curly hair is disgusting. People might tell you otherwise, but it really is grotesque. I've had it straightened before and it lasted a number of hours. I blame my dad (he had an afro at his wedding).
didn't you say you weren't going to post in this thread you fucking failure
How can you justify wasting so much time pretending? I'm not insulting you, but sometimes I post here for advice about my life. You couldn't do that. You could only ask for advice about a life that wasn't yours. Sometimes I post because it's a relaxing way to express myself. You couldn't relax because you constantly had to remember five hundred things about a made up character. Honestly, and I'm not trying to make fun of you, are you a homosexual? I couldn't imagine spending hours talking to a guy who's interested in you without you being interested in him. What did you get out of this?
The waste of time seems... criminal. You just can't justify it. It's RIDICULOUS. When you're 40 are you going to look fondly on the years you spent pretending to be a girl? Where were your parents? You must've had to spend 5 hours online being zia and chatting before you could spend anytime doing stuff you wanted to do online...
I just can't believe someone would be so wasteful with their life....
I admit I was totally fooled. I never really had any reason to think otherwise because well, any time I had any doubts, I'd remember hearing about how "she" and Eri had met up, done things, etc., etc.
Ah well.
Rob - rpf289 says: okay so what's your real name? More metal than your mama's kettle says: Adam More metal than your mama's kettle says:
Rob - rpf289 says: ugh Rob - rpf289 says: so you're really the ugly kid in all those pictures with the afro? More metal than your mama's kettle says: ugly kid? More metal than your mama's kettle says: the fuck? More metal than your mama's kettle says: that was 5 years ago you mongrel More metal than your mama's kettle says:
Rob - rpf289 says: so who's the girl? More metal than your mama's kettle says: she's one of my cohorts More metal than your mama's kettle says: and rather delicious at that Rob - rpf289 says: ah well Rob - rpf289 says: so does she know you've been displaying her like this all over the fucking internet? More metal than your mama's kettle says: yep More metal than your mama's kettle says: she was in on it Rob - rpf289 says: man I can't believe I actually liked you Rob - rpf289 says: the funny thing is that I'm better looking than you Rob - rpf289 says: and don't have to lie to get attention More metal than your mama's kettle says: you didn't like me More metal than your mama's kettle says: you liked zia More metal than your mama's kettle says: everyone did More metal than your mama's kettle says: i loved her More metal than your mama's kettle says: she was awesome Rob - rpf289 says: you're right Rob - rpf289 says: Zia is cool Rob - rpf289 says: you're just a douchebag
(rekrul speaking of suncow): ***GOSSIP***To show you how he makes people not like him. We were eating after courage and he was telling me and another korean about how he thinks Tossgirl is a really nice girl and how they talked on b.net some and she was really nice and told him about her hamsters and stuff. Then the korean jokingly said "LoL she talks about her hamsters every day 10x a day with 10 guys," and Suncow got all flustered and wigged out and started yelling with huge eyes...TELL TOSSGIRL IF THIS IS TRUE SHE IS A FUCKING EVIL TERRIBLE PERSON...IF THATS TRUE EVERYTHING SHE SAID TO ME IS A LIE AND FAKE. I was like ...... the korean was like ...... just looking at him like wtf. Then he repeated himself, then we .....'d him again, then he kept saying "OK TELL HER OK TELL HER?" Really fucked up shit.
Suncow's naivity-followed-by-crushing-reality seqeunce is what many of you are going through. I'd have sworn that tools like rpf1234 fell completely head-over-heels in love with this imaginary girl.
IcedEarth certainly attention-whored plenty, lending credibility to the femme-persona. But I became skeptic after all the bragging about guitar-chops. But never an audio clip posted. A real woman would have shown off constantly, especially in the multiple threads like "Post your music here!" I'd like to see drone do some explaining...
I hate showing interest, but this e-phenomenon of excessive vagina-worship has been impossible to ignore. I'm so glad it's finally OVER
Yes, because I talked to "her" on MSN I was in love with her. That's some air-tight logic you have there.
On September 16 2006 04:00 RaGe wrote: Haha I remember being in a game with rise strafe and tf-prince a year or 2 ago and they were talking about this. About the 'being finnish but not wanting to speak finnish'. And they doubted 'she' was real. 'She' convinced me 'she' was real though, when she started defending RPF
wait.. maybe zia=rpf
loller
haha, nope. Mani can confirm I post from MA, and Adam, as he says his name is, posts from TN.
I was fooled, just because I thought Eri met "her", but I never believed 90% of the bullshit. Voice training from a singer of Nightwish (Not really the kind of person who would do something like that), footwear model, pro Halo player (supposedly taught Proxa how to play... even though Proxa was never anything special), awesome guitarist, supposedly met Dave Mustaine and Mustaine was soooo impressed by their playing, blah blah blah. No one could lead a life like that. I always wondered to myself why someone would lie about so many things on the internet to make themselves feel special, and now I know... the whole thing was a lie.
That's crazy to go on for 5.5 years, though. I'm not upset, or anything, because I never really talked to this person, but that's insane to go on for that long. (Insane like, 'wow, did you see that?!')
On September 16 2006 12:24 -_- wrote: SERIOUS QUESTION FOR ZIA
How can you justify wasting so much time pretending? I'm not insulting you, but sometimes I post here for advice about my life. You couldn't do that. You could only ask for advice about a life that wasn't yours. Sometimes I post because it's a relaxing way to express myself. You couldn't relax because you constantly had to remember five hundred things about a made up character. Honestly, and I'm not trying to make fun of you, are you a homosexual? I couldn't imagine spending hours talking to a guy who's interested in you without you being interested in him. What did you get out of this?
The waste of time seems... criminal. You just can't justify it. It's RIDICULOUS. When you're 40 are you going to look fondly on the years you spent pretending to be a girl? Where were your parents? You must've had to spend 5 hours online being zia and chatting before you could spend anytime doing stuff you wanted to do online...
I just can't believe someone would be so wasteful with their life....
hmm I don't really see how I could answer this without you and everyone else saying "BULLSHIT! IT'S NOT JUICY ENOUGH, SO IT CAN'T BE TRUE!" So for the moment, I'm just not going to reply. Once all this dies down and everyone gets bored with it (maybe july will quit bw, guys), then you pm me this again.
Oh, and to whoever mentioned that I said I wasn't going to post in this thread, I changed my mind. Have you ever changed your mind before? It happened to me.
If there's one thing WoW has taught me, it's that voice communication answers a lot of questions. Someone claiming to be a chick? Get them on vent and talking. Unless they go all out with the voice synthesizer (never seen it pulled off), it's pretty impossible to hide your identity. The BW community is living in the ice age as far as communication is concerned. After playing WoW for almost two years, I can't even fathom how I played War2, BW, Diablo2, etc without using a microphone. It makes things so much simpler and straight forward.
On an unreleated note, guys make way too big of a deal about girls playing video games. Who cares? You should be giving people attention because you enjoy playing with them and think they're cool, not because you think they might give you some epussy. Regarding the whole zia issue, I assumed she was a female. Do I care about the joke? Not in the slightest. I never played or spoke with him. Hell, I don't even know if I've ever even responded to a zia post. To me, zia was just another person posting on a community board. While the broken legs thread was taking things a bit far, impersonating a female is quite funny imo. I think it was pulled off very well considering it has lasted for how long? 4-5 years? I'm impressed.
its not really funny, eri may be laughing at it now, but if it happened to me i would be pissed/hurt. its kind of sad that you devoted so much time into this.
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
zia is a guy? oh..ok..guess I'll just have to start jerking off to the picture and not the person. Reminds me of alexa, and I still jerk off to those pictures !
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
On September 16 2006 12:44 IcedEarth wrote: Geez you guys will never leave him alone.
Its not right what you did, many people here felt remorse for what happened to "Zia", I did. You think this is a little joke, but you hurt some people.
you sound really fucked up - no doubt about it. and the whole approach you take now is just as fucked up. like it doesn't matter to you, like it was some sort of scientific project. but i cant help laughing at all the guys who sucked up to you all the time :D
but really, give us the whole story. dont hold back now. your credibility = 0 anyway (and no, this wont change if you just give it a couple of weeks), so it doesnt make any change if you post something that not everyone believes.
On September 16 2006 12:44 IcedEarth wrote: Geez you guys will never leave him alone.
Its not right what you did, many people here felt remorse for what happened to "Zia", I did. You think this is a little joke, but you hurt some people.
I know, and I've relentlessly apologized to them. When we told eri and apologized, he just said something along the lines of "hey don't worry about it. I"m actually impressed. This is brilliant and genius!" then offered to buy me a drink and gave me his phone number. *shrug*
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Yeah meybe post a pic and let the people on the forum judge who is better looking ;p
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
when you spend 5 hours a day nourishing a lie on the internet, you are obviously not normal.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
On September 16 2006 12:44 IcedEarth wrote: Geez you guys will never leave him alone.
Its not right what you did, many people here felt remorse for what happened to "Zia", I did. You think this is a little joke, but you hurt some people.
I know, and I've relentlessly apologized to them. When we told eri and apologized, he just said something along the lines of "hey don't worry about it. I"m actually impressed. This is brilliant and genius!" then offered to buy me a drink and gave me his phone number. *shrug*
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Are you guys just joking around or what? Like five other people have made fun of that picture of him and no insecure comments came up about them.
BTW Zia, if you don't like your curly hair why don't you just cut it short? Or have you?
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
You clearly care way too much.
Again, to answer the same question, I was insulting him.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
Attention was the reason before and still is.
Hey I WANTED Zia to just disappear. The admins decided otherwise.
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Are you guys just joking around or what? Like five other people have made fun of that picture of him and no insecure comments came up about them.
BTW Zia, if you don't like your curly hair why don't you just cut it short? Or have you?
No, it weighs a lot now and it's down to my chest. It's a little easier to manage. Not to mention, I need something to throw around when playing shows.
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Are you guys just joking around or what? Like five other people have made fun of that picture of him and no insecure comments came up about them.
BTW Zia, if you don't like your curly hair why don't you just cut it short? Or have you?
none of them compared their own physical appearance by saying something like I'm better looking than you
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Are you guys just joking around or what? Like five other people have made fun of that picture of him and no insecure comments came up about them.
BTW Zia, if you don't like your curly hair why don't you just cut it short? Or have you?
I don't think he's kidding. If he's kidding he's just not funny. I just get made fun of regardless of what I do. Nine times out of ten it's someone pretending to be a psychiatrist diagnosing me with social disorders.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Dude, unless you did this for some kind of twisted sociology class, or experiment, it's not what someone would use their time for. (Someone normal at least, with all the screws in their head.) What is this? Think about it, outside the box.
You posed as a woman for 5 years over the internet. Everytime you sat down on your computer chair, you left reality and transformed into a figment of your fucking imagination. You completely disregarded who you are and almost "left" your body behind.
It might have started off by some sort of joke but i guess escalated into more, but dude, wouldn't you kind of get nervous after a while. (the whole eriador thing, telling him you love him. what the fuck is that?) not to mention, your recent "Zia = no legs" thread. Do you get get off seeing a person's reaction to real life phenomenon?
i'm not judging you. (maybe a little) but i'm solely being fueled by curiosity, what the fuck dude...fucking weird ass shit, lol
Yeah I know it's weird. And I wasn't zia EVERYTIME I sat at the computer. Just around certain people in the community. A select few people in the bw community have known since day 1.
oG)Avi just made me come to a realization. Zia has sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much dirt on SO many members of the bw community, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to just throw a few fun-filled facts out here.
This is why I tell people to get off their computers. Anyone who I "meet" online (key word ... you never actually "met" them) could never be "close" to me, simply because I've never MET them.
Its such an easy concept, anyone who has even average social skills knows that online is online, real life is the only place you can really trust anyone, because you can actually get to know them.
Even more simply, the context of conversation is how relationships and friendships are made in life, any sort of connection with another human being involves communication. Communication is possible online, through languages - what you don't have is Voice Tonality ... Body Language ... Energy Levels ... Facial Expressions - and these things are perhaps even more critical in the process of judging a person's character/personality than what they're actually saying. Because we all know, people lie, but unless they've been trained by the CIA - we can probably figure out that somethings fishy with someone meeting them in real life.
Just a good example for me to encourage people to step away from their computers, because in actuality a "relationship" you have online with someone can effectively change to jack shit in a matter of seconds. More often than not it wasn't even there in the first place.
P.S.. whoever this "Zia/Iced Earth" Person is has been used belonging in the "top levels" of the "team liquid / starcraft social status" ladder per say.
So if you expect him/her to drop his/her act and say they were wrong, lying, admit the truth, etc then you might as well give up, because they're going to keep lying as to maintain their ego/social status on the internet. I would guess it stems from a lack of attention from other people in real life ... (only plausible explanation for telling someone else online that you "loved" them ... [people with relationships are "accepted" and "cool in our society] thus boosting his social status on teamliquid).
I think the best thing to do is stop giving guy/girl attention as its just what they want ... if you track the I.P. or whatever I'm sure you'll find all kinds of drama in their thread history, they feed off this probably due to a lack of it in real life.
P.P.S.
I'm just having fun here making theories though using my psychology knowledge, I'm not trying to argue with anyone or start shit.
On September 16 2006 13:05 rhcp12312 wrote: This is why I tell people to get off their computers. Anyone who I "meet" online (key word ... you never actually "met" them) could never be "close" to me, simply because I've never MET them.
Its such an easy concept, anyone who has even average social skills knows that online is online, real life is the only place you can really trust anyone, because you can actually get to know them.
Even more simply, the context of conversation is how relationships and friendships are made in life, any sort of connection with another human being involves communication. Communication is possible online, through languages - what you don't have is Voice Tonality ... Body Language ... Energy Levels ... Facial Expressions - and these things are perhaps even more critical in the process of judging a person's character/personality than what they're actually saying. Because we all know, people lie, but unless they've been trained by the CIA - we can probably figure out that somethings fishy with someone meeting them in real life.
Just a good example for me to encourage people to step away from their computers, because in actuality a "relationship" you have online with someone can effectively change to jack shit in a matter of seconds. More often than not it wasn't even there in the first place.
that's a load of shit and Nazgul has said and explained it more than once.
we can use Zia as our perfect example even in this case. we all know "Zia" the character, perfectly damn well. spend five years talking to someone, you can judge them, you can know who they are what they do what they're lifes plans are. you can know everything you want to know about them, even just through online. you can trust them, you can make a meaningful relationship out of it.
Several people have their juicy bullshit opinions (no offense intended to anyone, but it's just true), so whenever they get bored of that, maybe we'll move on.
On September 16 2006 13:04 IcedEarth wrote: Yeah I know it's weird. And I wasn't zia EVERYTIME I sat at the computer. Just around certain people in the community. A select few people in the bw community have known since day 1.
oG)Avi just made me come to a realization. Zia has sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much dirt on SO many members of the bw community, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to just throw a few fun-filled facts out here.
ok so now he s gonna convince all of us he's three guys, suddenly 2 new accounts appear and introduce themselves as the other two, they have these amazing adventures until one day we find out its actually a... monkey! he lives in some lab which location he cant specify, just like its purpose. somehow the monkey manages to escape, but keeps visiting tl and damn, this monkey has a live! one thing after the other happens and before we know it, its 10 years from now and we learn to know that he's not a monkey! the monkey aka three people aka zia will confess us that it's actually a alien who was abandonned from its home planet. it's new home was earth... it hid in a basement for years, feeding on some weird stuff or cereals or something. it also discovered that the only way it could reproduce was by talking to people on msn and this makes a lot of tl users the happy father/mother of a healthy... well something. it then blackmails all of them into paying her a certain amount of money (by threatening them to else sue their asses or tell their mothers), a proces taking another 5 years or so. then naz decides to close tl.net, this being the only way to be save of... whatever it turns out to be.
I still trust people online this is the only time it's fucked me over and on average trusting people makes you able to form way better relationships and make way more and better friends I mean I went down to holland alone like 3 years ago to visit naz raszi oaral and meat for 2 weeks without having met or talked on phone with any of them before it was absolutely great I've met lots of people through the net actually and well apart from this one incident it has always been really cool.. in some cases really really cool and it has definitely given me really, really good friends that I care shitloads about
On September 16 2006 11:36 Mortality wrote: I read about half way through this thread....it's just so fucking long.
I'm in Zia's east clan (CapN.). There were always incosistencies in "her" story, but I never really thought about it or cared. I didn't think about it mainly because of all the things Eri said, but I never really cared either because I've always felt that there should be no reason for treating guys and girls differently online. It's not like you are going to meet these people in real life.
I will almost certainly continue wearing that CapN. tag because to me it never amttered if Zia was a guy or a girl. I hope this serves as a reality check to all of you who became overly involved, actually caring if Zia was male or female and develop deep feelings of love and/or sympathy for Zia. I remember when Zia told me about her knee being "shattered" (which was before anything was posted on this forum in so far as I know), and while I kind of felt bad for Zia, I didn't act on it. Losing a game for the wrong reasons right before I fall asleep will cause me to sleep poorly, but Zia's story didn't.
All of you who feel betrayed were betraying yourselves more than Zia was betraying you. You tried to take the human element of real life onto the internet. You made your social life and feelings revolve around the internet. But while the internet may bring people closer together in terms of knowledge and connectivity, it also pushes people farther apart because the human element is almost entirely non-existent.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
Attention was the reason before and still is.
jealous?
Why? i at least have boops i don´t have to fake them
On September 16 2006 13:04 IcedEarth wrote: Yeah I know it's weird. And I wasn't zia EVERYTIME I sat at the computer. Just around certain people in the community. A select few people in the bw community have known since day 1.
oG)Avi just made me come to a realization. Zia has sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much dirt on SO many members of the bw community, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to just throw a few fun-filled facts out here.
ipban + nuke ftw.
oh shut up, IcedEarth still has a lot to contribute to this site.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
Attention was the reason before and still is.
jealous?
Why? i at least have boops i don´t have to fake them
Ok ya maybe, but who the fuck wants to see them? Come on.
On September 16 2006 13:05 rhcp12312 wrote: This is why I tell people to get off their computers. Anyone who I "meet" online (key word ... you never actually "met" them) could never be "close" to me, simply because I've never MET them.
Its such an easy concept, anyone who has even average social skills knows that online is online, real life is the only place you can really trust anyone, because you can actually get to know them.
Even more simply, the context of conversation is how relationships and friendships are made in life, any sort of connection with another human being involves communication. Communication is possible online, through languages - what you don't have is Voice Tonality ... Body Language ... Energy Levels ... Facial Expressions - and these things are perhaps even more critical in the process of judging a person's character/personality than what they're actually saying. Because we all know, people lie, but unless they've been trained by the CIA - we can probably figure out that somethings fishy with someone meeting them in real life.
Just a good example for me to encourage people to step away from their computers, because in actuality a "relationship" you have online with someone can effectively change to jack shit in a matter of seconds. More often than not it wasn't even there in the first place.
that's a load of shit and Nazgul has said and explained it more than once.
we can use Zia as our perfect example even in this case. we all know "Zia" the character, perfectly damn well. spend five years talking to someone, you can judge them, you can know who they are what they do what they're lifes plans are. you can know everything you want to know about them, even just through online. you can trust them, you can make a meaningful relationship out of it.
That's your opinion ... I'm just going to guess that you spend a lot of time over the internet ... I do too, I used to have friends on starcraft, I have friends on certain forums.
If I like talking to them I'll even add them to my AOL buddy list and talk to them frequently, by no means though would I ever ... say fly out to meet this person on a whim, let them borrow large amounts of money, etc... because you just can't tell over the internet.
If I start talking to someone on the phone, sharing pictures, talking on AIM, and then meet them in real life, this person can become an "actual" friend of mine, I'm just saying its very easy to lie on the internet and in my opinion this whole Zia character is a "perfect example" of why I am right.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
Attention was the reason before and still is.
Hey I WANTED Zia to just disappear. The admins decided otherwise.
Just a question to you, why do you delude yourself into thinkig this 'zia' character is a kid with no friends? Does it make you feel at ease and secure?
On September 16 2006 13:19 Gene wrote: so the one time out of the THOUSANDS of people you've met online actually turns out to be lying and you think you're right?
i think the issue lies in trusting people.
some people believing trusting people until given a reason not to is a handicap my i do not, however.
No .. I trust A LOT of people, I decide whether or not I will trust someone using the skills I've aquired in the 19 years I've been alive. This is in real life though, when you can get an idea of who they really are instead of just words on a screen. I have a few friends on starcraft who I thought were cool (I ended up chilling with exalted once), but besides that they're not really any more to me than a "starcraft friend."
I don't know, I guess its just that I don't spend that much time playing computer games anymore so I separate "online" friends I haven't met yet from "real life" friends that I hang out with consistently. If I think a friend from online is really cool based on the conversations we have then I might make an effort to meet up in real life, THEN he can become an actual friend. I guess you could say I'm selective, maybe a bit self-cenetered but that's the way I am.
On September 16 2006 13:20 bdams19 wrote: just a question to all of you... why do you even care so much after you've found out you've been had by some kid with no friends?
I don't see why some people are treating it as if it's pure nerdery to care about finding out? It's not like I'm in tears here or something, but I am curious about what Adam has to say about it...
how is it any different, your online friends, as opposed to say Eri's online friends, aka Zia? i too in my mind seperate the two but trust them and they are equals anyway.
but yeah, bad judgement on the exalted thing lmao
i would say without question, if i met someone IRL and spent two days with them, or talked to one of my online friends for say.. a year or two that i have, i would venture to say i know my online friend much better. and uh, we're talking about 5 to 6 years here.
On September 16 2006 11:41 Mortality wrote: All of you who care are people who really need to sort their lives out. LOL @ the lot of you. This is the internet and you are presumably on it to play a videogame. A fucking videogame! Are you playing or not?
Get off the internet, go to a party, grab a beer and talk to real chicks. K thx~
you're talking nonsense sick, your friend pulled a dumbass, pointless prank. you really have no legs to stand on.
On September 16 2006 13:12 Liquid`Drone wrote: I still trust people online this is the only time it's fucked me over and on average trusting people makes you able to form way better relationships and make way more and better friends I mean I went down to holland alone like 3 years ago to visit naz raszi oaral and meat for 2 weeks without having met or talked on phone with any of them before it was absolutely great I've met lots of people through the net actually and well apart from this one incident it has always been really cool.. in some cases really really cool and it has definitely given me really, really good friends that I care shitloads about
Yeah dude ... I do the same thing. I just prefer meeting people in real life because there's less dilly-dallying and guessing games.
On September 16 2006 13:32 Gene wrote: how is it any different, your online friends, as opposed to say Eri's online friends, aka Zia? i too in my mind seperate the two but trust them and they are equals anyway.
but yeah, bad judgement on the exalted thing lmao
i would say without question, if i met someone IRL and spent two days with them, or talked to one of my online friends for say.. a year or two that i have, i would venture to say i know my online friend much better. and uh, we're talking about 5 to 6 years here.
Yeah the more time I've known them online the more I would trust them just because consistency = trust in this world.
Haha and no, exalted it a cool dude, he's got a sick house too. Played a lil s/c ... ventured out into his city. He only lives like 40 mins from my house in NH.
I don't care for this Zia character, it just irks me how anyone can be so unstable -mentally, emotionally- to do such a thing, and carry on as though it was nothing. No matter what you say, it doesn't take away from the sad, sad fact that you WASTED hours on end throughout the past 5 years to maintain an internet alter-ego. And it is not as though your MADE-UP actions and words had no effect on anyone, it had a tremendous effect -just look at your story about your broken leg, how sick are you? To be fed sympathy from people, by claiming to have been raped... bloody hell, get a fucking therapist.
On September 16 2006 13:12 IcedEarth wrote: Several people have their juicy bullshit opinions (no offense intended to anyone, but it's just true), so whenever they get bored of that, maybe we'll move on.
Juicy, is that a term used to descbribe someone trying to "pick your brain" persay, to try and find out why you would do something like create multiple personalities over the internet ... intiatiate a relationship with another male under the identity of a female .. things like that? Because in that case your probably correct.
Although I think your priveleges of using the word "bullshit" are revoked, you might want to consider changing your middle name to it though.
I dont care for this May character, he goes on to assume someone is mentally unstable, and then under said assumption calls them sick and blames them for their actions. you cant blame things on the mentally unstable, that's what we have the insanity defense for
aside from the fact that IcedEarth seems pretty stable to me so far, despite how twisted this is.
dronebabo can we stop quoting a million other posts and drop the fact that RPF is insecure?
I can't really say a lot on this topic. I never knew "Zia" except for the odd post on this forum. I posted in the car crash thread with the token "get well soon" post like everyone else, and since "Zia" had been an established BW identity many years before I even played my first game of BW (Yes, I'm new you chumps, been around for 3ish years) so I never thought to question it.
But since I wasn't involved at all with "Zia" I guess it never really mattered/occured to me.
I will say this one thing though, and I'm not looking to be confrontational here. "Zia", stop pretending that there was more than one person involved. I know that saying there was group involvement makes this all seem like more of a joke and in a way makes you less pathetic, but it's a stupid lie to try and repair another. There is no way multiple people could keep this up in such a casual way without blowing it, or quite frankly, getting bored.
Now I feel many people are being over dramatic in this thread. Demonizing you and whatnot in an attempt to save face because you made them look like fools, but you're being no better.
It was you, and you alone. If you aren't willing to be open with everyone and tell the whole truth, don't bother posting.
I have a suspicion that you'll reply to me post with a quip remark like "right, you'll see when we come out" or ignore it entirely, but I would ask that you just come clean and say it.
"I'm just a dude that enjoyed playing a character. It wasn't my whole life, just a part of it. I didn't realize how long it went on as it became part of my routine, so stop attacking me personally. It was a cool experience."
That's closer to the truth than anything you've ever posted on this forum isn't it? The truth might be suprisingly liberating for you at this point.
On September 16 2006 12:31 Zooey wrote: rpf, you're right that you don't have to lie to get attention but seriously, why are you saying he is 'ugly' and that you are better looking than him? ...insecure much?
what's with the fucking psychoanalyzation...all I did was insult the guy. OH MY GOD I MUST BE INSECURE LOL
yeah, you pretty much are buddy
Yes, you clearly can tell how I am based on something I typed.
You're like one of those handwriting specialists, except with typing. "Okay, so he talked about himself, okay let's see here, OH MY FUCKING GOD INSECURITY X 10^100"
rofl this is funny
i mean why else would a person just start saying shit like 'im better looking than u are'? why even mention appearance? clearly you are insecure
Are you guys just joking around or what? Like five other people have made fun of that picture of him and no insecure comments came up about them.
BTW Zia, if you don't like your curly hair why don't you just cut it short? Or have you?
I don't think he's kidding. If he's kidding he's just not funny. I just get made fun of regardless of what I do. Nine times out of ten it's someone pretending to be a psychiatrist diagnosing me with social disorders.
maybe you're just sour that zia wasnt the girl you were going for or you're insecure
I'm not sour. I'm enjoying this, actually. Thanks for the attention. I'm honored to know you care so much about whether or not I'm insecure (which I'm actually not).
On September 16 2006 13:45 Gene wrote: I dont care for this May character, he goes on to assume someone is mentally unstable, and then under said assumption calls them sick and blames them for their actions. you cant blame things on the mentally unstable, that's what we have the insanity defense for
aside from the fact that IcedEarth seems pretty stable to me so far, despite how twisted this is.
dronebabo can we stop quoting a million other posts and drop the fact that RPF is insecure?
I don't care for this Gene character. blah blah blah
I'm not insecure.
and well, hate to say it, but this Adam kid is surprisingly stable, despite the fact that he lied to us all for so long and played some rather cruel jokes (knee injury, rape, etc.)./
this is just too weird, really zia has no defense , you just dont pretend to be a different sex online and tell other men you love them and make up crazy stories about bein raped and tell people your crying and you will never walk again, thats just not right , its not brilliant, its creepy, no one is surprised you came up with that idea, its the fact that you did it, you fucked with some peoples emotions pretty bad(myself not included), w/e zia has to say can easily be countered with the fact its just too creepy to do what he did , seek a doctor or your parents for some help
Well I think it's time I added my 2 cents....I didn't know Zia nearly as well as everybody here (never exchanged msn, never pm, only gamed twice) , but I'm pretty sure I knew her the EARLIEST, before she got on tl.net or became popular or anything.. A friend of mine had started a clan called P)x- and the next thing i know she's like co-leader or something. I never really joined P)x, but I hung out and played with them a lot. I remember "Zia" telling me about how she grew up in Korea and knew [NC]...Yellow, how she was living in Finland, but had lived in the U.S. as well, etc. and all this time she was on her own. Now right here, everything sounded absurd because for someone to grow up in an Asian culture, adopt their language, and then be able to learn Finnish and still be able to type in perfect American all while providing for yourself takes genius, but I never challenged her on any of these things really. I only made a sarcastic remark about her growing up with Yellow to which she quickly replied, "Excuse me, are you telling me how I grew up?" and after that I never really talked about it again. I mean, it was possible for "Zia" to be what she said she was, but I didn't care about suspicion because we were never close at all. Then I stopped playing bw for like a year and when i came back, she's in pG. But the interesting thing about everything was her attitude. She was trying to be, in all aspects, like Tifa from FF7. But someone who actually IS like Tifa (I know someone who actually is like her in real life) would never admit this fact. Like for instance, girls who are like Tifa don't say things like "me=Tifa" and yet, I saw her say stuff like this on posts here and online. They're strong-minded, independent; but they're not trying to BE like anybody. And then, in her recent accident thread, she said something like "I have a reputation to keep." But if she had a reputation of total bad-ass to keep would she have made a thread that longed for the sympathy of everyone in TL.net? So I decided not to respond to the accident post. Of course, I had not idea she was actually a he--what I thought was that Zia was a she, but just faking her personality on the internet.
So what do I think of all this? I think it's hilarious.....because the guy behind it has such a "boring and mundane" life that he has to pretend he's a girl to make his life more interesting.
P.S. ROFL remember that story about how some guy threw a brick at her car and then she ran up to him while he was stopped at the light and beat his ass? Did anybody seriously believe this? I mean, who throws a brick at a car, and then stops at the next light?
Has anyone of you seen the movies Mulholland Drive and Vanilla Sky ? These are movies, quite similar to this situation, where a person escapes reality and goes into the idealistic world for that person. That might explain all the stuff about having a major in psychology, journalism, and sociology, having personal contact with musical and pornographic rolemodels and all the other personal experiences "Zia" has had. As most of you might have surmised these experiences are far from being randomly picked out IE being babysitted by Yellows sister. In addition to this feed from all the responses/attention from a small community consisting people not being close to similar experiences.
You achieve the dreamlike status and get addicted to it. Think of it as a fantasy world. Like a drug. 5 years is a long time, but not if you are commited, and enjoy the situation to the fullest, which seems to be the case here.
I remember seeing that picture a couple of years ago on wgt and I remember thinking wow what a fucking bizzare looking guy. I rarely talked to her except for a couple of occurances and always assumed she was a girl since the whole ordeal with eri and such. Honestly I dont see the excitement in pretending to be a girl for 5 years, I can see it being fun for a while but seriously 5 fucking years? The only possible thing I can see is that this person is a serious loser irl and has no friends most likely and vitalizes the internet and uses it to get attention and make friends. Any guy I know wouldn't fake date a guy on the internet for a year or however long it was just to keep up a fucking act. I see this as having a serious mental problem or just maybe being homosexual.
On September 16 2006 13:45 Gene wrote: I dont care for this May character, he goes on to assume someone is mentally unstable, and then under said assumption calls them sick and blames them for their actions. you cant blame things on the mentally unstable, that's what we have the insanity defense for
aside from the fact that IcedEarth seems pretty stable to me so far, despite how twisted this is.
dronebabo can we stop quoting a million other posts and drop the fact that RPF is insecure?
Why try to sound clever, but instead make an idiot of yourself. There is a clear difference between being mentally retarded and mentally unstable.
On September 16 2006 05:16 Rekrul wrote: /15/2006 7:18:20 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle did #2 fuck #3 9/15/2006 7:18:28 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle thats all that really matters 9/15/2006 7:18:30 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan haha 9/15/2006 7:18:33 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan yes it has happened before 9/15/2006 7:18:39 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle crazy 9/15/2006 7:18:46 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan they aren't together or anything 9/15/2006 7:18:51 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan they just fool around sometimes 9/15/2006 7:18:52 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan whatever 9/15/2006 7:19:05 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle how can an ugly guy fuck a decent looking girl without having been 'together' 9/15/2006 7:19:29 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan i guess it's a matter of perception. she thinks he's cute *shrug*
9/15/2006 7:25:27 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan inspiration 9/15/2006 7:25:47 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan we had things to do. 9/15/2006 7:25:55 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan we just had low low self-esteem at the time of her creation 9/15/2006 7:26:09 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan so we put our backgrounds and best personality traits together 9/15/2006 7:26:10 AM More metal than your mama's kettle Dan and made her 9/15/2006 7:26:11 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle how could #2 have low self esteem if he fucked #3 9/15/2006 7:26:20 AM Dan More metal than your mama's kettle a guy like that, fucking a girl like that, pretty ego booster if u ask me, you make no fucking sense
S o . . Since, allegedly, the date of birth used for Zia was taken from Teagan Presley, and 'it' says 'they' (yeah right) took stuff from 'their' background, does that mean they are claiming Teagan Presley was #3?
Heh, pathological liar I guess, even when exposed, can't stop.
I've talked to Zia twice on msn and maybe a few times on forums concerning final fantasy shit.
I believed she was a real person, a female. Why? Everyone at TLnet pretty much talked about Drone and Zia being together and stuff and even her TLname was Drone's IcedEarth. I mean if you people met why would anyone lie about something that dumb? That was my train of thought.
There were two times where I thought Zia couldn't be a girl. The first time was when he claimed that he knew more about ff7 than I did, and I'm sorry but no girl will ever know more about ff7 than me. He challenged me to a retarded ' quiz ' or whatever and I knew he was already lying about his obessession with final fantasy. Also knew that his brother being in Sonata Artica was bullshit.
The second time I questioned Zia's gender is when he said he came to the US and didn't want to go to the Nobuo Uematsu concert that was nearby. That was just plain bullshit because Zia would always talk about how he wanted to meet Nobuo.
Drone.. wow dude... lol.. I always thought of you as a shitty mod but man cmon. This is just unreal.
umm... I'm not going to lie, but I never actually knew icedearth was a "girl" until yesterday when I saw the Baal pic just browsing the closed threads just for fun. I feel stupid -_-
On September 16 2006 11:41 Mortality wrote: All of you who care are people who really need to sort their lives out. LOL @ the lot of you. This is the internet and you are presumably on it to play a videogame. A fucking videogame! Are you playing or not?
Get off the internet, go to a party, grab a beer and talk to real chicks. K thx~
you're talking nonsense sick, your friend pulled a dumbass, pointless prank. you really have no legs to stand on.
Maybe, but I think people are overly emotionally involved in this. If anyone has a right to be angry it's Eri. What's Eri doing? He's laughing.
As I said, I don't condone what Zia did, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I wasn't even surprised really.
On September 16 2006 14:13 Gene wrote: uh, yeah. and the mentally unstable are the ones that go killing people and getting off on the insanity defense.
the mentally retarded sit at home playing with blocks because they have downs syndrome.
what was your point?
You say that as though its a medical condition, the former is not.
Mentally unstable people, such as Zia bloke here, have conscious control over their actions, but think that their actions are 'normal' in the sense that it is 'Ok' for them to carry it out.
On the other hand, mentally retarded people are BORN with the CONDITION, and often do things that is out of their control, because their brain is designed in such.
Deal with the fact that you are wrong, and that 'Zia'... it is mentally and emotionally unstable. No sensible person, who do what it has done.
On September 16 2006 14:13 Gene wrote: uh, yeah. and the mentally unstable are the ones that go killing people and getting off on the insanity defense.
the mentally retarded sit at home playing with blocks because they have downs syndrome.
what was your point?
You say that as though its a medical condition, the former is not.
Mentally unstable people, such as Zia bloke here, have conscious control over their actions, but think that their actions are 'normal' in the sense that it is 'Ok' for them to carry it out.
On the other hand, mentally retarded people are BORN with the CONDITION, and often do things that is out of their control, because their brain is designed in such.
Deal with the fact that you are wrong, and that 'Zia'... it is mentally and emotionally unstable. No sensible person, who do what it has done.
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Second off, if its not a condition, why do we have places/hospitals that treat the mentally unstable?
you're a fucking idiot and really have NO idea what you are talking about, do you? the mentally unstable do NOT have the concious ability to control their actions, AGAIN, why we have the "insanity defense" could you fucking enlighten yourself before you talk again
if people who were mentally unstable had the concious ability to control themselves, we would NOT have the insanity defense, and they would all go to prison instead of go to a hospital and get out a few years after declared normal by doctors. i shouldnt have to tell you this.
it's so sad a person has to lie through the internet to get some attention, cause honestly who would even "reconize" "her" if she didn't do it?
It's also sad to use peoples feelings to your advantage, because if manifesto7 didn't "blow" your cover, i bet a lot of people were willing to donate to whatever cause you had
Sorry but your was ruined and it's gone, why are you even still posting here anyways? Didn't you lose enough face?
another proof was about 10thread's down, you said "until "zia" dies down im not posting again" yet you replied how many times to this thread? shows how much attention means to you, and how low your self esteem is..
Your trying to act like it doesn't bother you, it doesn't matter and it was all for "fun", seriously your probably saddened by it, and how your "imaginary" character was now gone
I seriously dont believe Drone was laughing when he found out. Maybe he was but inside I think he must have felt hurt and deceived. You just dont invest that much time into a person for 2 years only to find out the fundamental base of your relationship/friendship was a lie, and then laugh about it. Its easy to pick the "meh I didnt really care" option afterwards though, but I find it hard to believe.
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Right, now I have to question your own mental stability.
You base this 'obvious' claim on 12 forum posts by this man, who was formerly known as a woman. A woman, who it pretended to be for the past 5 years. Yes, those 5 years of making up stories about being raped, and being run over by a car, virtually living another life, makes this man absolutely fine, especially, after it admits that it is a man, and writes 12 forum posts in a seemingly normal style.
Your conclusion is grande, your credability as a thinker is grande.
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Right, now I have to question your own mental stability.
You base this 'obvious' claim on 12 forum posts by this man, who was formerly known as a woman. A woman, who it pretended to be for the past 5 years. Yes, those 5 years of making up stories about being raped, and being run over by a car, virtually living another life, makes this man absolutely fine, especially, after it admits that it is a man, and writes 12 forum posts in a seemingly normal style.
Your conclusion is grande, your credability as a thinker is grande.
Reading some of the stuff in here, and Eri's story, my shock is only growing.... now what if this was flipped again? I'd probably die of shock this time.
On September 16 2006 14:36 Guybrush wrote: I seriously dont believe Drone was laughing when he found out. Maybe he was but inside I think he must have felt hurt and deceived. You just dont invest that much time into a person for 2 years only to find out the fundamental base of your relationship/friendship was a lie, and then laugh about it. Its easy to pick the "meh I didnt really care" option afterwards though, but I find it hard to believe.
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Right, now I have to question your own mental stability.
You base this 'obvious' claim on 12 forum posts by this man, who was formerly known as a woman. A woman, who it pretended to be for the past 5 years. Yes, those 5 years of making up stories about being raped, and being run over by a car, virtually living another life, makes this man absolutely fine, especially, after it admits that it is a man, and writes 12 forum posts in a seemingly normal style.
Your conclusion is grande, your credability as a thinker is grande.
that just goes back to my previous argument with rhcp about trust. good of you to not refute a single point in my argument and instead attack my personal judgement.
he says he had a valid reason for it, and he said he does in fact have a normal healthy life. i mean i guess it's easy to assume he lied once he's lying again, but that makes things much less interesting.
lol so much drama this thanks for the laughter (the pics was hilarious) i will now go to bed
yes there is no doubt this was done by someone with issues, no matter what anyone says, it requires a very 'special' person to keep this up for 5 years.
i bet you started to wear lipstick and make-up too
On September 16 2006 14:57 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: I'm not actually a single person, I'm run by a room full of shadowy figures who make executive decisions about what "I" should post next.
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Right, now I have to question your own mental stability.
You base this 'obvious' claim on 12 forum posts by this man, who was formerly known as a woman. A woman, who it pretended to be for the past 5 years. Yes, those 5 years of making up stories about being raped, and being run over by a car, virtually living another life, makes this man absolutely fine, especially, after it admits that it is a man, and writes 12 forum posts in a seemingly normal style.
Your conclusion is grande, your credability as a thinker is grande.
he says he had a valid reason for it, and he said he does in fact have a normal healthy life. i mean i guess it's easy to assume he lied once he's lying again, but that makes things much less interesting.
No, to me, there is a pretending to be someone on-line, in front of perhaps a few people or a small group people, and acting in a sensible way. But then there is living out a life of another person for 5 years, in front of a community of hundreds of people. 5 years, having to remember the details of another person's life, which included such twisted events as having been raped. And do you honestly think that at this point in 'Zia's life, this '23 year old man' just thought it would be 'funny' for him to make up a story about 'Zia' being seriously injured? No, it is more than likely that since a while ago he has shared emotions from the life of 'Zia', and now he simply wanted to feel the sympathy of 'Zia's many friends. You can't tell me that, after spending countless hours every day, for 5 years, that doing something like this is just a 'joke'. It is absolutely not, and it is clear that it knew the consequences of his actions, such as making-up the injury. Such things make it clear for anyone to see that there is something wrong with this person's way of thinking.
im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
yeah, im at college and could be getting drunk and high right now but im still right here waiting for more. this is the most interesting thing @ TLNet in a long time.
On September 16 2006 15:12 Gene wrote: im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
You don't know him either. So you can stop pretending like you can diagnose him as well.
On September 16 2006 14:36 Guybrush wrote: I seriously dont believe Drone was laughing when he found out. Maybe he was but inside I think he must have felt hurt and deceived. You just dont invest that much time into a person for 2 years only to find out the fundamental base of your relationship/friendship was a lie, and then laugh about it. Its easy to pick the "meh I didnt really care" option afterwards though, but I find it hard to believe.
Poll: Ban "her"? (Vote): YES that guy is fucking sick (Vote): NO he could be used for entertainment (Vote): Let's see what his initial responses add up to
On September 16 2006 15:12 Gene wrote: im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
Actually, if you do study psychology, you don't study case studies like this, because something like this is CLEAR for ANYONE to see what problems this person has. Yes, I did study psychology, but again, it has nothing to do with this issue. You don't need a fucking psychology background to make any conclusions other than the fact that this person has serious issues, which you obviously are too thick to admit.
Now, I just find it hilariously outrageous that you can ovelook 5 years of 'Zia', and claim he is perfectly normal, because you read a dozen posts of his.
I have never spoken a word to this 'Zia' bloke, so I was never 'played', butt from simply knowing a few facts here, I can safely conclude that he has issues. And, after reading your comments, I can conclude that you need to fix the way you think, you come across as a complete and utter moron.
Don't waste your energy, I'm not going to bother responding again, its a waste of my energy by doing so. It is there for everyone to see, so keep your own stupidity to yourself.
On September 16 2006 15:12 Gene wrote: im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
You don't know him either. So you can stop pretending like you can diagnose him as well.
i never pretended to, i was making a point. my defense to what i think is that i can trust a person on what he says, not my amateur diagnosis
Poll: Ban "her"? (Vote): YES that guy is fucking sick (Vote): NO he could be used for entertainment (Vote): Let's see what his initial responses add up to
On September 16 2006 15:12 Gene wrote: im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
You don't know him either. So you can stop pretending like you can diagnose him as well.
i never pretended to, i was making a point. my defense to what i think is that i can trust a person on what he says, not my amateur diagnosis
Trust if flimsy, I am basing what I say on facts.
You tell me, why do you claim this person is perfectly normal? I've explained, why myself, and most everyone else think he has some issues, which I am actually surprised that you can even overlook.
On September 16 2006 15:12 Gene wrote: im through debating with you if you're going to pick and choose rather than read my entire post. are you a psychologist? have ANY experience what so ever in that field? i highly fucking doubt it since you've shown your thorough ignorance on the topic. so stop pretending you can diagnose his problems and read his mind. i could just as easily say "No, he did it just to push the limits, see what he can get away with, it had nothing to do with emotions. dont be angry because you got played like everyone else." you seem to have memorized much of "zia's" childhood having spent very little time devoted to it. how hard could it be? this went from an attack on his mental stability to completely making shit up out of thin air. congratulations you're a moron.
You don't know him either. So you can stop pretending like you can diagnose him as well.
i never pretended to, i was making a point. my defense to what i think is that i can trust a person on what he says, not my amateur diagnosis
You just wrote this 2 pages ago...
first off, IcedEarth is obviously rather mentally and emotionally stable. there's really no arguing this point.
Second off, if its not a condition, why do we have places/hospitals that treat the mentally unstable?
you're a fucking idiot and really have NO idea what you are talking about, do you? the mentally unstable do NOT have the concious ability to control their actions, AGAIN, why we have the "insanity defense" could you fucking enlighten yourself before you talk again
I just await your answer as to why you are convinced there is nothing wrong with this man. Thats all I want to see, I don't even bother to respond to you.
hahaha this is so funny, ive just heard about some zia in some clan but not knowing anything about "her". "lempiä te" is very very akward finnish, it means like nothing (online dictionaries ftw! :D). I just feel sorry for that some dude in tennesee, who has made a character for himself. Who the heck and pretend as a women that long :D
On September 16 2006 15:40 IcedEarth wrote: I didn't expect her to be such a big deal in the community to begin with but I definitely didn't expect this to be even bigger. This is crazy ~
On September 16 2006 15:43 racebannon wrote: pretending like your made up fantasy persona is a seperate entity from yourself doesn't make you any less of a fag
Unless that seperate entity has super powers and kicks ass. Then you're a badass.
edit : No you're not. You're someone who watched Superman one too many times.
On September 16 2006 15:40 IcedEarth wrote: I didn't expect her to be such a big deal in the community to begin with but I definitely didn't expect this to be even bigger. This is crazy ~
Meh, I'd forgive and forget personally because I never knew you, but I'm surprised you won't even admit that you did hurt alot of people with this...
Fisheye wants to open a charity fund for poor Zia cuz girl with dick is never walking again. I call him silly!
The person behind Zia must be quite confused. Even though you think that you know yourself, I highly doubt you do. A person capable of such blatant lying stretching a period of time this huge can't be mentally sane or at least not fully sane. I strongly advise you to see a psychologist who might be able to help you with your issues which you clearly have.
I can only guess for the reasons you losing a dick each time when logging on to battle.net, but I can tell you that there must be some sick twisted motivation driving you to do it. Maybe you like boys and are afraid to admit it, which wouldn't be suprising since you live in redneck tennessee. Perhaps you are bored with your own life where nothing at all is happening that you need to create fictive characters getting you through the day. Most likely you were just after eri's ass and when finding out he wasn't gonna give it to you having those curls you gave up and pretend to lose a leg.
I hope you find some friends in your life and an environment that helps you live. So that you will not have to lie all the time to feel happy. I guess this will all be really hard for you since you are quite used to being a liar now. Lying will not make you happy in the long run, it will totally ruin you eventually especially if you keep those curls that long. Maybe you can start working out those chicken arms to feel better about yourself, so that you dont have to lie to blackjack on msn that you can lift 500kg with 1 pinky.
On a sidenote if you are really gay and willing to be in the female roll you should pm me.
or baal
good luck, I suggest you leave this forum. You are making a fool of yourself. After you explained urself fully never return again until you are healed my sexy hillbilly.
On September 16 2006 15:40 IcedEarth wrote: I didn't expect her to be such a big deal in the community to begin with but I definitely didn't expect this to be even bigger. This is crazy ~
Meh, I'd forgive and forget personally because I never knew you, but I'm surprised you won't even admit that you did hurt alot of people with this...
Okay come on who actually gets HURT by this?
Even the most hopeful, wistful, lustful fucking dork can't do much but shake his head at himself
Oh I did. I've already had very long conversations with about 15-20 people on msn. No one really cares at all for the apology. Some of them hate me and want me dead, some of them praise me and want to keep in touch. It's whatever they want. I've already called 3 tl.net people anyways because they didn't even believe in Adam.
On September 16 2006 15:50 IcedEarth wrote: Oh I did. I've already had very long conversations with about 15-20 people on msn. No one really cares at all for the apology. Some of them hate me and want me dead, some of them praise me and want to keep in touch. It's whatever they want. I've already called 3 tl.net people anyways because they didn't even believe in Adam.
On September 16 2006 15:54 racebannon wrote: finkle is einhorn einhorn is finkle
ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
ACE VENTURA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, Zia, it's your turn to open a gossip thread. You said you have dirt on people? Is it the funny kind of dirt or the sick kind of dirt? If it's sick, then I think we heard enough for today. If it's even half as classic as Rekrul's stuff, then spill the beans~
It's funny because I'll bet that more than half of the gossip is stuff you only know because people thought you had a vagina.
This was a surprise, but not a very significant one to me personally since I had nothing invested in the persona. The only comments I have regarding Zia/Adam are that no one who would do such a thing is anywhere near "normal", and that there's obviously something wrong with them and/or their life if they put in the time and effort to pull off such a hoax. It's one thing to maintain it for a few months or even a year, but for 5+ years... at the least you should be questioning how you spend your time. What was said and done to Eri in particular, however well he reacted, was a very irresponsible and cruel thing to do to a person. Zia/Adam was just fortunate that Eri is the unique individual that he is and was able to shrug off the incident the way he did.
Otherwise, I don't think it matters who or how many people who responsible for creating and maintainng the persona, nor any reasons that may be given by them. Zia/Adam is obviously a not-so-normal person who loves attention, let's just leave it at that and not continue this show for his/her pleasure. It's actually getting boring at this point.
On September 16 2006 15:54 racebannon wrote: finkle is einhorn einhorn is finkle
ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
ACE VENTURA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, Zia, it's your turn to open a gossip thread. You said you have dirt on people? Is it the funny kind of dirt or the sick kind of dirt? If it's sick, then I think we heard enough for today. If it's even half as classic as Rekrul's stuff, then spill the beans~
It's funny because I'll bet that more than half of the gossip is stuff you only know because people thought you had a vagina.
If I opened up a gossip thread, I would be immediately banned. I have an unbelievable amount of dirt (funny and repulsive) on so many people in this community, including tl.netters (and some admins), and some rather highly-regarded players. And as I said before, if admins wish to ban me, they can and I won't fight it (despite having asked them not to), but I'm not going to push it.
This is pretty funny. If anyone looked hard enough I'm sure they would be able to tell, but people just wanted to believe zia was a girl.
Zia, you are a fag. A Complete deuchebag. But major, major props to you for being able to keep this up. Must have taken dedication. That makes you no less of a dumbass though. What are you going to do now? Are you going to go undercover and try to resurface as a new character? That might be cool.
On September 16 2006 15:54 racebannon wrote: finkle is einhorn einhorn is finkle
ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
ACE VENTURA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, Zia, it's your turn to open a gossip thread. You said you have dirt on people? Is it the funny kind of dirt or the sick kind of dirt? If it's sick, then I think we heard enough for today. If it's even half as classic as Rekrul's stuff, then spill the beans~
It's funny because I'll bet that more than half of the gossip is stuff you only know because people thought you had a vagina.
If I opened up a gossip thread, I would be immediately banned. I have an unbelievable amount of dirt (funny and repulsive) on so many people in this community, including tl.netters (and some admins), and some rather highly-regarded players. And as I said before, if admins wish to ban me, they can and I won't fight it (despite having asked them not to), but I'm not going to push it.
On September 16 2006 16:08 AcrossFiveJulys wrote: This is pretty funny. If anyone looked hard enough I'm sure they would be able to tell, but people just wanted to believe zia was a girl.
Zia, you are a fag. A Complete deuchebag. But major, major props to you for being able to keep this up. Must have taken dedication. That makes you no less of a dumbass though. What are you going to do now? Are you going to go undercover and try to resurface as a new character? That might be cool.
Yeah, "the return of zia!" :D That is if he is banned in the first place.
yeah having an imagination and habitually lying about every single part of your life for over 5 years are pretty much the same thing, stop splitting hairs guys
I don't actually think you need 'mental help' like all these guys are saying. In fact, I blame this whole thing on the gender bias of the average internet male. Way to fuck with people and get in big clans and know big players just by pretending to be a metal-loving chick who's into bw.
I always thought it was too good to be true, but I'm not gonna come in and say 'I knew you were a dude' because I actually never suspected it at all.
Anyways, good luck with whatever useless endeavor you commit to next for however many years.
On September 16 2006 16:12 IcedEarth wrote: Probably. But it is just an imagination.
Btw, totally off topic (and not as interesting I guess), but who actually bought FA in the sandlot?
no no no, no off topic
spill beans GO
I can't. Too many people would tell admins, which would result in my banning. That seems to be the popular verdict as well, so I think I'll just keep them to myself.
On September 16 2006 15:50 IcedEarth wrote: Oh I did. I've already had very long conversations with about 15-20 people on msn. No one really cares at all for the apology. Some of them hate me and want me dead, some of them praise me and want to keep in touch. It's whatever they want. I've already called 3 tl.net people anyways because they didn't even believe in Adam.
In other news, how did X17 beat NeO) T_T
whats wrong with x17 beating neo ? like with ur sexuality its obvious u dont know shit about bw too o..o
On September 16 2006 16:12 IcedEarth wrote: Probably. But it is just an imagination.
Btw, totally off topic (and not as interesting I guess), but who actually bought FA in the sandlot?
no no no, no off topic
spill beans GO
I can't. Too many people would tell admins, which would result in my banning. That seems to be the popular verdict as well, so I think I'll just keep them to myself.
On September 16 2006 16:12 IcedEarth wrote: Probably. But it is just an imagination.
Btw, totally off topic (and not as interesting I guess), but who actually bought FA in the sandlot?
no no no, no off topic
spill beans GO
I can't. Too many people would tell admins, which would result in my banning. That seems to be the popular verdict as well, so I think I'll just keep them to myself.
For now.
the admins would immediately notice it anyway, some of them are probably still checking this thread every once in a while
but look you're gonna get banned sooner or later anyway so might as well go out in a BLAZE OF GLORY y'dig
Interesting development. I never really believed in female gamers on the internet actually, of course they exist but certainly there are also males who pretend to be females. One of my friends used to pretend to be a female and "verified" it because he had a high voice (for a male) until he was 17. It was great fun. My attitude was not of denial of course, as far as Zia is concerned I passively believed that "she" was in fact a she.
I'd agree with ChoboCop, gender is being stressed too much. That people got hurt is as much their own fault as Zia's. You shouldn't have made significant exceptions for Zia simply because she was reportedly female. The only one that made sense was the admission into the clan (female gamers do kinda suck), sharing intimate details of your life with "her" was just plain foolishness even if she was female. But as far as I'm concerned Zia is as real as Rekrul and damn near everyone else on the internet. Most people on the internet act rather differently from how they do in real life. The assertive, foul-mouthed, ban-happy (please don't ban me for this) Rekrul could be as different from the real one as this Zia is from the pathetic male loser who created her.
This isn't that bad anyway, on another site this one man pretended to be a woman. Got the act as far going as to get marriage proposals from others on the internet, and they actually had a meeting and marriage planned until "she" got murdered. Why? Because it was too big of a mess and it needed to be ended. You often see these pretenders just eventually want to end it, they didn't know it would get that big. They underestimate just how pathetic people online really are.
Hahaha. Good thing I never cared to speak with "Zia". Now I can just sit back and laugh at this whole situation. I think everybody else should too. It really does show what stupid things people will do when a "female" is put in front of them.
On September 16 2006 16:31 Hippopotamus wrote: Interesting development. I never really believed in female gamers on the internet actually, of course they exist but certainly there are also males who pretend to be females. One of my friends used to pretend to be a female and "verified" it because he had a high voice (for a male) until he was 17. It was great fun. My attitude was not of denial of course, as far as Zia is concerned I passively believed that "she" was in fact a she.
I'd agree with ChoboCop, gender is being stressed too much. That people got hurt is as much their own fault as Zia's. You shouldn't have made significant exceptions for Zia simply because she was reportedly female. The only one that made sense was the admission into the clan (female gamers do kinda suck), sharing intimate details of your life with "her" was just plain foolishness even if she was female. But as far as I'm concerned Zia is as real as Rekrul and damn near everyone else on the internet. Most people on the internet act rather differently from how they do in real life. The assertive, foul-mouthed, ban-happy (please don't ban me for this) Rekrul could be as different from the real one as this Zia is from the pathetic male loser who created her.
This isn't that bad anyway, on another site this one man pretended to be a woman. Got the act as far going as to get marriage proposals from others on the internet, and they actually had a meeting and marriage planned until "she" got murdered. Why? Because it was too big of a mess and it needed to be ended. You often see these pretenders just eventually want to end it, they didn't know it would get that big. They underestimate just how pathetic people online really are.
People online are not pathetic, they just like the idea that they can trust people they've known for a long time... I see nothing wrong with that, the people taking advantage of this are the the pathetic ones t.t
If I posted a thread on TL.net about MMORPG "online marriages" I'd get dozens of replies correctly reasoning that the phenomenon is ridiculous and pathetic. On the other hand, few if any would find pathetic simple online friendship. Your friendships with Zia were based in large part on her being "female". This is different from a regular friendship and closer to the "online marriages" previously mentioned. I'm sure that a large part of the dirt that Zia has on TL.netters had been confided to "her" exclusively. This was just a different way to frame the same basic thing that happens with those MMO marriages.
I don't understand why everyone says his imagination was twisted... I actually thought it was fantastic, though he sort of channelled it in the wrong direction.
I mean, you really don't have to have a lot of imagination to come up with this shit, its just making up another person's life... I could probably do it. Not for five years maybe because I have a short attention span, but do it nonetheless.
Furthermore, all the "faggot" shit is just messed up, because it was a GUY pretending to be a GIRL, like that's some kind of novelty scam on the internet. Would it be different if it was a really hot girl pretending to be a guy for 5 years? With proof i.e. webcam/voice on the phone/meet in real life? You guys would probably be disturbed but won't throw crap from your ass.
On September 16 2006 12:46 IcedEarth wrote: AngryLlama, just so you know, all you're aware of involving me is an internet persona. If you think you can totally sum up a person that way, you're underestimating me. =/
Ppl believing you all the years is one thing, but still talking to you like they do now and giving you still the attention the other.
Actually i thought ppl would be smarter and not still using their time with a attentionwhore. Starting with shocked and ending with beeing amused.
Attention was the reason before and still is.
jealous?
Why? i at least have boops i don´t have to fake them
Ok ya maybe, but who the fuck wants to see them? Come on.
On September 16 2006 01:27 Physician wrote: Love thy smurf, not? We all know my own debate about the intrinsic evils of smurfing but at this stage in the game does it really matter who Zia is? Unicorns don't exist, and yet the myth is beautiful and the myth is dream. My hat of to Zia, and everyone else who made what was and was not, something more.
Agreed with Physician here.
The only people who will feel really angry are those who tried to flirt with her or something. But maybe they got what they deserve.
On September 16 2006 01:27 Physician wrote: Love thy smurf, not? We all know my own debate about the intrinsic evils of smurfing but at this stage in the game does it really matter who Zia is? Unicorns don't exist, and yet the myth is beautiful and the myth is dream. My hat of to Zia, and everyone else who made what was and was not, something more.
Agreed with Physician here.
The only people who will feel really angry are those who tried to flirt with her or something. But maybe they got what they deserve.
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The only reason it changes anything in my views is: 1) She's a liar; how do we know anything she's said is true? What we know of "Zia" is completely false. Does that not bother you at all, having found out that one of our own admins is a complete liar? and, 2) She acts like a little kid sometimes, which is often considered "cute" for a girl, but definitely not for a male adult.
I just spent the good part of an hour reading through nearly this entire thread. It's actually kind of disappointing that new comers won't get to experience the whole "coming out" of Zia! Makes me proud that I've stuck around this website for almost 4 years.
And on a side note, this makes HonestTea's little "game" look like NOTHING. I would throw this in there with the whole ret thing.
On September 16 2006 17:36 SoLaR[i.C] wrote: I just spent the good part of an hour reading through nearly this entire thread. It's actually kind of disappointing that new comers won't get to experience the whole "coming out" of Zia! Makes me proud that I've stuck around this website for almost 4 years.
And on a side note, this makes HonestTea's little "game" look like NOTHING. I would throw this in there with the whole ret thing.
On September 16 2006 18:10 Cambium wrote: Minus the car accident thing, I wouldn't mind at all.
Even with it.... I'm still very indifferent. Guess we don't know each other well at all eh?
What annoys me isn't as much the lying etc, clearly this guy is fucked up - but the fact that this wanker keeps on posting as if nothing had happened..
That, THAT is annoying.
So yeah, I think someone should ban 'it', despite how entertaining 'it' can be.
And yeah, fuck you, you don't lie about not being able to walk again.
I'm pretty new here so i didn't know anything about "Zia" except that he/she was a regular around here and alot people knew the heshe that zia was. Watch there be a mysterious new female tl.netter in the next few days.
"i'm not zia....i'm kia, really, different person, i swear"