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I think the time has come to question H.B.M.C's weird trend of posting a "BYE" at the end of each thread. Im wondering if its just arrogance ,humour or perhaps the benefeit gained from posting about 4900 posts.

Well its always had me taken aback, i just hope its his style because each post it hellishly arrogant in its own way.

Just my observation.

BYE

It used to annoy me a little. "Why does he say bye? Is he going somewhere?".

Over time though it's his mark on things. He could change his avatar and I would always still know it's him because he is going to be saying BYE.

I always figured it was a way of rudely ending a conversation, hence the all caps. Basically shouting BYE as you head out the door and away from people you don't want to talk too.

He does seem angry all the time.

I don't know, I've seen many civil and dare I say friendly posts from H.B.M.C.

I've seen someone post End of Line at the end of their posts on another
forum, but I always assumed he was a TRON fanatic.

Yeah, like THAT guy

History.

A great many moons ago, back when the internet was a shell compared to what we have today, and 56k modems were fantasy, there was a website - The Ultimate Games Workshop Website. Now, I can't vouch for whether it really was the 'ultimate' GW website, but all I know is that it had a Guestbook (not a forum - those probably hadn't been invented yet). It was just a humble guestbook.

my first post looked a lot like this. i didn't bother to capatalise anything. i essentially decided that the shift key was a waste of time. so i didn't use it. at all. and i ended my post with:

bye

Now as I said, it was a Guestbook, not a forum, so there were no threads, no specific areas for specific topics, and so on - just one long endless stream of posts. Finding my post was quite difficult. So I did the only thing I could think of to make my posts stand out.

I STARTED POSTING LIKE THIS. WHEN SCROLLING THROUGH THE YELLOW ON BLACK TEXT, SOMETHING WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS WAS VERY EASY TO FIND. MOREOEVER I COULD AVOID USING THAT SHIFT KEY AS WELL. AND, AS YOU'D EXECT, I ENDED MY POST WITH:

BYE

Eventually I stopped using ALL CAPS, but the 'BYE' remained. And I've used it ever since. It's also where 'H.B.M.C.' comes from. I wanted to call myself Marneus Calgar, but someone had already taken that name (as much as you could 'take' a name on a Guesbook), so I called myself 'half brother of marneus calgar'. In my second post that became 'HALF BROTHER OF MARNEUS CALGAR' and it was the same in my third post, and then I got tired of typing HALF BROTHER OF MARNEUS CALGAR for each post (as there was no loggin in on a Guesbook, you typed who you were each time), so it got shortened to H.B.M.C..

There, so now you know.

eyb

oh so that's where you got HBMC It is also an airline manafacturing business you know

Well im glad theres an explination behind it!

Thanks H.B.M.C, its intaresting how things like that evolve.

I wish you would shorten it to HBMC because I am too lazy to type the full stops.

I initially thought the 'BYE' was part of your signature

I'll be honest this is the most intestesting topic on dakka for the last month...

... and so begins the behind the music story of: HBMC.

You gotta tell me your story of how you managed to succeed in becoming SUPER MOD for SB.com someday HBMC.

That's been bothering me for ages. Good to know.

theHod:

I was and now I'm not. I'm just a Mod. They got rid of all but two or three of the super-mods (we had like 13 at one stage, plus mods for every forum - it was kinda nuts).

The reason I haven't changed my sig is because the Loremaster Valdemar part of my sig takes up so many characters (as each letter is a different colour) it goes over the character limit. The sig was written before the character limit was introduced, which is how I did it, but now I can't edit my sig to remove the super-mod thing without also deleting the Valdemar part, so I've left it.

Why do I remember all this stuff...

thehod wrote:... and so begins the behind the music story of: HBMC.

Cocain's a hell of a drug...

BYE

I always thought the BYE thing was kinda like a Commisar... I always Imagined If I actually met H.B.M.C IRL He would be wearing something Commisar"esque"...

I wish I had a hat like that.

BYE

thehod wrote: You gotta tell me your story of how you managed to succeed in becoming SUPER MOD for SB.com someday HBMC.

"SB.com?" Does that mean "Space Battles?"

Don't tell me you post there as well...

The Internet is getting smaller by the second. I just opened up a random thread at CBT.com about ProtoMechs and someone in there was talking about me... really getting worried now.

BYE

"SB.com?" Does that mean "Space Battles?"

Speaking of witch, Why are their forums down? I haven't been able to connect in like 2 days...

Server issues. I think Keir's collecting donations to fund a new server, but the site's been shaky for months now.

BYE

skavenfreak wrote:

"SB.com?" Does that mean "Space Battles?"

Speaking of witch, Why are their forums down? I haven't been able to connect in like 2 days...

Speaking of "witch?"

BURN THE HERETIC!

*Slaps skavenfreak with a cold squid*

lol you should totally buy a full IG commisar uniform, take pics of yourself and upload.

Would have at least me in hysterics for hours

P.S pull the same facial expression as your avatar

*Slaps skavenfreak with a cold squid*

*proceeds to disarm mattlov and starts to strangle him with HIS OWN COLD SQUID!*

H.B.M.C. wrote:Don't tell me you post there as well...

Nah, I was more of a stardestroyer.net kinda guy, until I got bored of it. They were always talking about Warhammer 40K all the time. Tedious, really.

Next thing we know, there will be a 60 minutes special on this lol

news reporter "coming up next, our 60 minutes exclusive with a legend, Commisar H.B.M.C., also coming up, the squig fight between skavenfreak and Mattlov..."

Pariah Press wrote:Nah, I was more of a stardestroyer.net kinda guy, until I got bored of it. They were always talking about Warhammer 40K all the time. Tedious, really.

Mmm... vs Debates. That was almost another life time ago for me. I remember when SD.net didn't have a forum, and it was just Mike Wong trashing anyone stupid enough to E-mail him. By the time that got a place and they got a forum I had long since left that part of my internet activity behind. Only interaction I ever had with it was stopping the damned invasions...

BYE

Well, you wait 3 years (I'm a SB mid-timer) for one mystery to be solved and you get two (BYE and HMBC).

I always just thought you were autistic and this was a thing you had to do.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Don't tell me you post there as well...

The Internet is getting smaller by the second. I just opened up a random thread at CBT.com about ProtoMechs and someone in there was talking about me... really getting worried now.

BYE

Look at the positive side. Your getting your "15 minutes of fame" in the internet .

H.B.M.C. wrote:History.

A great many moons ago, back when the internet was a shell compared to what we have today, and 56k modems were fantasy, there was a website - The Ultimate Games Workshop Website. Now, I can't vouch for whether it really was the 'ultimate' GW website, but all I know is that it had a Guestbook (not a forum - those probably hadn't been invented yet). It was just a humble guestbook.

my first post looked a lot like this. i didn't bother to capatalise anything. i essentially decided that the shift key was a waste of time. so i didn't use it. at all. and i ended my post with:

bye

Now as I said, it was a Guestbook, not a forum, so there were no threads, no specific areas for specific topics, and so on - just one long endless stream of posts. Finding my post was quite difficult. So I did the only thing I could think of to make my posts stand out.

I STARTED POSTING LIKE THIS. WHEN SCROLLING THROUGH THE YELLOW ON BLACK TEXT, SOMETHING WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS WAS VERY EASY TO FIND. MOREOEVER I COULD AVOID USING THAT SHIFT KEY AS WELL. AND, AS YOU'D EXECT, I ENDED MY POST WITH:

BYE

Eventually I stopped using ALL CAPS, but the 'BYE' remained. And I've used it ever since. It's also where 'H.B.M.C.' comes from. I wanted to call myself Marneus Calgar, but someone had already taken that name (as much as you could 'take' a name on a Guesbook), so I called myself 'half brother of marneus calgar'. In my second post that became 'HALF BROTHER OF MARNEUS CALGAR' and it was the same in my third post, and then I got tired of typing HALF BROTHER OF MARNEUS CALGAR for each post (as there was no loggin in on a Guesbook, you typed who you were each time), so it got shortened to H.B.M.C..

There, so now you know.

eyb

Ahhh.. the UGW guestbook. That's where I got my start as well (along with my "Ozymandias, King of Kings"). Back in those days, HBMC was a much less cynical person. I think his cynicism rose in direct proportion to the number of tanks he owned.

I loved the UGW and its guestbook. Imagine if dakka had no individual threads or forums and everyone just posted in one long, huge thread on a black background and that would be what the UGW guestbook was like. Friends and Enemies were made. Chain fiction was started. Army lists were analyzed (a bit).

When it finally broke, I always wondered what happened to everyone. The only person I see regularly from there is Mr. HBMC. UGW was owned by Jason and Scott Hill who, if I'm not mistaken, now have their own game company.

Ozymandias, King of Kings