DracoHandsome
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 Draco as drawn by Salad. | |||
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| Aliases: | Draco Icebane, Baroque | ||
| Interests: | Art, naked ladies, furry | ||
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Draco is a member of the MFGG forums who joined as Draco Icebane on October 8, 2002, on the ezBoard. He was, officially, indefinitely banned on August 2, 2008, an ultimate result of his extremely outspoken nature and controversial morals. He came back as Baroque, and shortened his name to just Draco with the switch to phpBB.
The most immediate impression of Draco is that he is not one to back down from a clash of opinion regardless of the circumstances. Most of his arguments arise from his blunt, inelegant wording that expresses his own strong and often inappropriate opinion; the harshness of his disagreement often provokes others, whether he intends to attack them or not.
In his earlier years at MFGG, Draco maintained a controversial celebrity status, as some members respected his resolve. More recently, he became less appreciated as the subjects of arguments became less acceptable and he was identified by the public as a furry. (Draco's preference for characters no longer biases to or against furries as compared to humans.)
Draco holds the record for the longest avoidance of an indefinite ban while issued a two-page warn log. Some of these warns are so old that the accounts that gave them no longer exist (see Kritter and his five or six accounts.)
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Achievements and Hobbies
Draco starts and rarely finishes several projects primarily in Klik programs.
Ultimate Mario was announced as soon as Draco arrived, right there in his first topic or immediately after. It was noted that his fangame was generating very loud sound effects for no reason -- it was repeatedly playing the Shine Get fanfare from Super Mario Sunshine over itself due to a coding error.
Hexis was going to be submitted to the For the King Minigame Competition in 2005. Draco spent too much time planning amazing things for it, and it never reached a functional stage.
- Mario Awesome - The standard "Let's make an awesome Mario fangame" deal. It is not finished.
- Hexis - A puzzle game that was never finished either.
- Fire Emblem Online - Ryo didn't do it.
- Origin of Mobius - Yeah like Draco can do an indepth RPG in any practical amount of time
- Rockbell - If he finishes that Mega Man engine, maybe he can make this game!
- There are several thousand other projects.
Some members suspect that Draco has a sort of mental disorder preventing him from concentrating on a single task at a time. Draco claims that he is impatient at his own technical inability to do amazing things, and is constantly making up new ideas to be very awesome very fast -- ideas that are too ambitious to reach a productive stage.
Controversy
There are several reasons as to why Draco is a rather problematic member of the boards:
- He is loud and self-projecting, to the point that he may seem invasive and offensive towards others' opinions;
- His interest in furry characters is quickly evident and is in direct contrast to the tastes of most other members;
- He swears and spites others often.
These and other reasons have caused clashes between Draco and other members with depressing regularity, leading to his extensive warn log.
With the advent of the phpBB board system for MFGG, Draco is taking a New Board's Resolution to swear less frequently and be less persistent in arguments.
However, the furry females and their disturbing proportions are going to stay.
Member History
Early Years
Draco joined shortly after the Great Kyle Flamewar on October 22, 2001 on the ezBoard, where he released a demo of Ultimate Mario, the "worst best Mario game ever". It held one test level and a myriad of horrendous programming errors, not the least of which was playing extremely loud noises for no conceivable reason. This project is in its fourth or fifth incarnation, and the name has not been decided upon. At this point, Draco was extremely polite and borderline naive, because he understood and respected the idea of The First Impression.
Unfortunately, this respect for a good impression faded as familiarity bred contempt.
Most of Draco's time was spent having arguments with several regulars, such as Quicky and Kritter. Constant arguments led to Draco receiving warns and bans at an alarming rate, which was only broken with King Piranha Plant's specific attempts to receive as many bans as possible. Draco would later make fun of the KPP problem in many mock plays, which the administrative team did not entirely appreciate, with one of his comments about a standard member resulting in another ban.
After the shuffling of the strike system and the resulting switch to only temporary bans, Draco was often only in posting condition for a week or two out of every month, which is a very depressing reflection.
Defiance of the Trasher
Trasher once banned Josh for fifteen days for accidentally replying to a topic simultaneously with Trasher's specific order not to, and Draco was informed by a frantic Josh through an instant messenger. He contacted FanGuy and asked him to take a look at the situation. The result at FanGuy's own best judgment was the lowering of Josh's ban to five or ten days, while Trasher was suspended for five days along with Delmore (he and Josh were why Trasher ordered the halt of the topic.) This sparked public outrage because everything a moderator does is taken as wrong.
Draco wrote a poem entitled "The Graven", a parody of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, to explain what had happened. Although it satirically villified Delmore and Trasher, it was generally well-accepted and recieved moderate praise, although it broke the rhythm. Draco was never issued any warning, verbal or actual, for its inappropriate timing or theme.
Phishfest
When Mugen chatted with his goons about how best to swipe accounts off of the boards, Draco made the rather large mistake of giving him advice on hiding fake logout redirects, as he did not think Mugen would actually do it. This increased Mugen's efficiency at stealing everybody's accounts and led to Draco being (privately) embarrassed at how ignorant he can be.
Personal bias led to Draco's refusal to inform Parakarry and Trasher of who was responsible, but after Mugen signed off, he contacted ShadowMan or someone to inform them of the culprit. The length of time he withheld this information significantly dulled administrative appreciation.
Mugen signed on the next day, his first words being the melodramatic "You rat! See if I ever trust you again!"
Slaying the Dragon
Various dramatic events led to further problems in Draco's relationship with the administrative team, including an argument with Yoshiman, who was actually trying to lessen one of his sentences. Draco had become incensed because Yoshiman was simultaneously scolding him for whatever the offense was and his overall message was confusing.
Draco was indefinitely banned on August 2, 2008, when he performed a Super Freak-Out and stormed off of the boards.
Resurrection
On August 21, 2009, Draco made a return as Baroque, who spoke with about the same occasionally pompous nature as Draco, but rarely swore and often avoided or conceded arguments. This name was chosen in reference to a PlayStation 2 game where the death of the main character is part of the storyline, and dying repeatedly is required to advance through the game.
It took less than a week for Baroque to have an argument with Joey over something trivial, which immediately alerted Yoshiman's suspicions as to his identity. Somehow, Draco was able to sway his convictions and prevent him from satisfactorily proving the connection, owing much to Draco's dynamic IP address.
After Yoshiman revealed that bans would be rescinded in the phpBB board system, Baroque revealed himself to be Draco after he was quite certain Yoshiman was not a fibby-boy. The community reaction was mixed, depending on each member's relation to people Draco had insulted over the past seven or so years.
New MFGG Resolution
Draco made a promise to swear less often and concede or simply drop arguments more often after New MFGG came around. He is doing a very poor job.
It is never too late to hold to one's word!
See also
- Awesome Police, or one of its other members:
External Links
- Awesome Police page -- Under Construction
- Clean FurAffinity Account (contains clean and suggestive artwork, music)
- Wayback Machine archive of Draco's original ezBoard profile
