R.I.P. Futurama Fan Forum

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I just noticed today that the website has vanished from existence, so I thought it'd be alright to pay my respects to it. Rest in peace FFF. Even though you were never as great as Peelified, had long periods of time without any posts, and was the home of several KurtPikachu fanfics, you will always have a place in my heart as that other Futurama forum.

Discuss and mourn the loss of the site here.

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Yep, R.I.P. FFF. I think one day PEEL will concentrate all remaining Futurama activity in itself.

[Reply #2 on:]

Farwell, from the world of tomorrow!

[Reply #3 on:]

We need to new rival Futurama forum to complain about constantly.

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Yep, R.I.P. FFF. I think one day PEEL will concentrate all remaining Futurama activity in itself.

Y'know, one day PEEL will go dark too. As much as FFF was an awful place full of awful people, and deserved to be de-networked, it's an example of what happens to the vast majority of content on the internet. Eventually, it goes away.

One day, it'll happen to PEEL. It'll happen to your favourite online game. It'll happen to Myspace once somebody at Microsoft realises that nobody uses it anymore, it'll happen to tumblr if the proposed internet copyright "protection" laws that people keep lobbying various governments with ever become reality, and it'll probably happen even to giants like google and Facebook (although if they ever get replaced by something, the likelihood is that the internet will have become a completely unrecognisable landscape to the likes of us).

One day, everything ends. Everything gets turned off.

At some point, the sun will go out.

At some point, space will contract to nothing as matter ceases to exist. Even the universe that we live in has a finite lifespan.

With all of that said, the shutdown of a third-rate niche fan website devoted to a cancelled sci-fi cartoon and populated almost exclusively by idiots should be a surprise to nobody. Hopefully, it'll be years yet before PEEL becomes that much of a waste of effort for Marc to maintain.

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We need to new rival Futurama forum to complain about constantly.

Oh, I'm sure we'll think of something.

Hopefully, it'll be years yet before PEEL becomes that much of a waste of effort for Marc to maintain.

Yes, but when it happens, we just need to go make a new Futurama forum. You know, with blackjack and hookers.

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KurtPikachu will be so crushed.

Are all the users gonna come over here, then?

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Computer forgot how to compute, and posted the above comment twice. Please disregard this.

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We need to new rival Futurama forum to complain about constantly.

Oh, I'm sure we'll think of something.

I don't think PEEL has ever had a real rival, to be honest. The FFF was a rival to PEEL in the sense that a pebble has a total gravitational pull rivalling that of the moon.

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We need to new rival Futurama forum to complain about constantly.

Where's all this incessant complaining been going on? I haven't noticed much of that going on.

Maybe I'm just out of touch.

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Are all the users gonna come over here, then?

Maybe the few that didn't already try this forum out and dismiss it as "elitist" and
"snobby".

Also, I'm upset by this because some of the original script to "The Late Phillip J. Fry" was over there. 

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To be fair, Peel can be a bit elitist, but I think that on the whole we're more welcoming and inclusive than typical message boards.

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Peel is very elitist.

But it's made up of nerds, so... meh.

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KurtPikachu will be so crushed.

Are all the users gonna come over here, then?

The floodgates have opened.
To the bunker!

Still I am saddened by the news.

[Reply #14 on:]

A pity to see that forum gone...
It's saddening to see such a piece of work -in which the admins invested time and money, that did build up a community, that gave lots of users entertainment and maybe desperately needed fun- be gone for good.
So, sad to see it is gone, happy to know it was there, and my deepest respect for the productivity and work that was invested for other folks to enjoy.

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I think that PEEL is a rather welcoming community to newcomers - IF they act like decent human beings, and use complete sentences.

I would welcome anyone from the closed forum, so long as they met those criteria.

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The only issue is that everyone on this forum has a different set of rules on what makes a decent human being.

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Obviously, the only correct set of rules is the one I adhere to. I, and no other!

* TMC  giggles like a power-drunk madman

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What exactly was this forum?  Were there really horrible people in it?  Glad I stayed away if this is true.

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I wouldn't call any of them truly horrible or anything, but they were very different from most of the users on here and didn't quite mesh well.  The user you seemed to dislike for caring way too much about the safety of the characters for example, was a big user over there. 

The forum was also a lot more relaxed when compared to this place.  I did actually make an account a while back, but only used it once to ask about a script a user over there owned.  He never did respond.

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Ohhh is that where all these new users are coming from

It was fun reading their board. Their rants against us made me giggle

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I wish I'd been around long enough to see them.

I made an account on FFF, actually, the same day I joined PEEL. But I never posted. This was my first choice, and you guys didn't chew me up and spit me out like most forums do, so I guess this is my Futurama forum now.

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Yeah, we were having an off day, that day, and felling slightly less evil than usual...

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In the wise words of Richard M. Stallman, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone". FFF was full of slack-jawed morons (as opposed to our Slack Jawed Moron) and PEEL bashers. Adios, contaminos.

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FFF is gone?
Such a terribly dark day indeed. ;_;

[Reply #25 on:]

Good riddance.

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There is still FMMB.

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There is still FMMB.

I've no idea what that might stand for. Futurama's Manly Message Board? Fuck My Massive Badger? From My Massive Balls? Freako's Monstrously Mucus-y Bottom?

Wait, wait, wait. That last one's probably it. Forget I asked.

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Good riddance.

You're not a very nice person, are you?

There is still FMMB.

I've no idea what that might stand for. Futurama's Manly Message Board? Fuck My Massive Badger? From My Massive Balls? Freako's Monstrously Mucus-y Bottom?

Wait, wait, wait. That last one's probably it. Forget I asked.

FMMB means Feel Mister Moderator's Banstick. Duh.

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Finally Making Memorial Bukkake.

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Good riddance.

You're not a very nice person, are you?

Hey now, it's just a website. It's not like anyone died or anything...  

To clarify, though, FFF was a forum which, on top of being an eyesore in general, consisted largely of inane discussion that was vacuous at best. More importantly, the people in charge of this website engaged in behaviours such as "banning new members purely because they also have a PEEL account." I don't exactly consider the site's closure to be a tragedy. Not to mention there have been far more negative statements made about FFF on this board before. As for my comment - "good riddance" was in regards to the fact that the moderators/administrators that were abusing their power there are no longer able to do so.

I am more than happy to welcome any former FFF members seeking refuge, if - as you yourself said - they act like decent human beings, and use complete sentences. But from what I saw of the site, it seems as though people like this were in the minority there. I'm still hopeful we might get a few good people coming over, but I'm dubious, for the reasons mentioned above.

Finally Making Memorial Bukkake.

... Freako?

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I am just saying, without FFF, Kurt will remain at FMMB.  And FMMB is more Kurt's true calling than FFF ever was.

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Kurt's true calling

Kurt's true calling is to slip through the cracks in reality and rescue Leela from the abusive clutches of the universe in which she lives, presumably at the same time as Onuki zaps fry with some kind of gay love beam and claims the poor goofbag as his husband.

The effects of this will ripple through to our universe, where it will be manifested as nobody ever being able to draw Leela without also drawing Kurt saving her from peril, and nobody being able to draw Fry without also drawing Onuki saving him from a lack of being sodomised at that particular time.

This will finally kill the Futurama Madhouse Message Board.

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Good riddance.

You're not a very nice person, are you?

Hey now, it's just a website. It's not like anyone died or anything... 

To clarify, though, FFF was a forum which, on top of being an eyesore in general, consisted largely of inane discussion that was vacuous at best. More importantly, the people in charge of this website engaged in behaviours such as "banning new members purely because they also have a PEEL account." I don't exactly consider the site's closure to be a tragedy. Not to mention there have been far more negative statements made about FFF on this board before. As for my comment - "good riddance" was in regards to the fact that the moderators/administrators that were abusing their power there are no longer able to do so.

I am more than happy to welcome any former FFF members seeking refuge, if - as you yourself said - they act like decent human beings, and use complete sentences. But from what I saw of the site, it seems as though people like this were in the minority there. I'm still hopeful we might get a few good people coming over, but I'm dubious, for the reasons mentioned above.

Finally Making Memorial Bukkake.

... Freako?

I found it a challenging maze to to navigate through.  It was almost as if the conversations themselves (if they could so be called) were some sort of super complex informational system arranged by some sort of higher intelligence sentient being disguised in the form of a large group of random, dribbling idiocy and ignorance for its own sake. Boy were those people fun to have fun with though!  Seriously, you could spam there all day long, get congratulated for it, get reprimanded for it, apology, get acceptance, be reviled, get some more praise, and finally be banned because they realized your account name started with peel... all in the same day!  Oh, and also, one of the members would threaten to kill you with their brother's moderator account... if only they had access to it.  Also, apparently all the members there were internet married to one another, and virtually all of the conversations were incomprehensible because there were a thousand signatures and images hid any of the message contents for thousands of miles at a time.  Just pure, insane, chaotic bliss.  How we shall miss thee!

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I can't say I'm going to miss that forum. Most of the people on there were just, ugh, I can't even find words to describe how despicable they were. I joined FFF and occasionally checked to see if there were any new discussions for about 2 months. Then I discovered PEEL and ditched that other forum entirely, so this has come as a complete shock to me. Oh well. Just another site that I probably wouldn't have ever revisited again.

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So, has anybody confirmed that FFF is no more?  I think it's particularly unfortunate.  Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee my friend.

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Yep, R.I.P. FFF. I think one day PEEL will concentrate all remaining Futurama activity in itself.

Y'know, one day PEEL will go dark too. As much as FFF was an awful place full of awful people, and deserved to be de-networked, it's an example of what happens to the vast majority of content on the internet. Eventually, it goes away.

One day, it'll happen to PEEL. It'll happen to your favourite online game. It'll happen to Myspace once somebody at Microsoft realises that nobody uses it anymore, it'll happen to tumblr if the proposed internet copyright "protection" laws that people keep lobbying various governments with ever become reality, and it'll probably happen even to giants like google and Facebook (although if they ever get replaced by something, the likelihood is that the internet will have become a completely unrecognisable landscape to the likes of us).

One day, everything ends. Everything gets turned off.

At some point, the sun will go out.

At some point, space will contract to nothing as matter ceases to exist. Even the universe that we live in has a finite lifespan.

With all of that said, the shutdown of a third-rate niche fan website devoted to a cancelled sci-fi cartoon and populated almost exclusively by idiots should be a surprise to nobody. Hopefully, it'll be years yet before PEEL becomes that much of a waste of effort for Marc to maintain.

Ooo, can you do my eulogy?

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Ooo, can you do my eulogy?

Okay. If you're Scrappylive, don't click on the spoiler tag until you've died. If you're anybody else, don't click on the spoiler tag until you've had proof of Scrappylive's death.

Seriously. No cheating. It's pretty disrespectful to the deceased to read their eulogy before they've actually died.

Show spoiler

RIP Scrappylive. He was a carbon-based, ape-descended lifeform. He lived his entire life within the atmosphere of Earth, and died once his body had reached an unsustainable state of entropy.

His actions had consequences that will persist after his death, and as such his major legacy is the carbon footprint of his actions in life. Genetically, he will within fifty thousand years be a distant ancestor of everyone alive, assuming that his offspring continue to produce offspring of their own.

Scrappylive has completed the processes of living and of dying, and in doing so has joined all of his own ancestors, and many billions of other organisms. The dead outnumber the living several times over, and he has now become a part of that vast and restless army; just as one cannot locate a single molecule of water in the ocean, Scrappy is now impossible to separate from the sea of vanished souls into which he has sunk.

Though he is gone, lost to us forever, we will all one day undergo the same process, and die. We will complete our own journeys through life, as Scrappy did. Our bodies will die. Our lives will be forgotten. Our descendents will live on, carrying our genes through time until our species becomes extinct. This will in all likelihood happen before our biosphere collapses in six hundred million years, and so the bodies of the last humans will decay here on Earth before the dying sun expands and swallows the planet*.

When that happens, the atoms which made up the bodies of the every human being (with a handful of remarkable exceptions) will be superheated, compressed together, and will form a part of the plasma which makes up the last phase of the lifetime of our parent star. At that point, Scrappylive will truly be reunited with both his ancestors and descendents as all join together in becoming both fusion fuel and a deadly poison to the sun.

As the fuel of the sun is depleted and the poison at its heart increases, our sun will eventually join us in death. We will all be together somewhere inside the cooling body of the ultimate driving force behind life on Earth, and the formation of the planet itself.

This is our ultimate end, and Scrappy has completed his active part in marching toward this end. The rest of us will march onward until we also complete our lives. Whilst he has reached this milestone before us, we shall all reach it sooner than we would like.
*Assuming Cthulhu doesn't arise and devour the planet first.

Until Scrappylive actually kicks the bucket, you'll just have to trust that I did actually write a eulogy for him in the same style as the paragraph he quoted. I've written it, and it's there, and I am trusting all of you not to cheat.

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Thank you for your services, tnuk.

If I ever deem myself prominent enough to write a will, I shall reference that the eulogy has already been scribed.

Now to play the waiting game...

[Reply #39 on:]

If I die I'm hoping someone will construct my eulogy out of posts from my time on PEEL. There better be at least one word from EVERY post in order or I'll come back and haunt all your penises! Even the girls.

That said, I still couldn't give a FUCK about FFF being dead.