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| Aliases: | Draco Icebane Baroque | ||
| Interests: | Music Furry Certain animu | ||
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Draco, formerly Draco Icebane, is a standard member of the MFGG forums who joined the ezBoard on October 8, 2002. He was indefinitely banned six years later, on August 2, 2008, due to a long history of a short temper. After a short interlude disguised as Baroque, Draco officially returned with the switch to phpBB and the so-named clean slate.
Although Draco may consider all viewpoints of a debate, he is not particularly likely to agree with or respect any such viewpoints, leading to blunt, inelegant wording of strong and occasionally inappropriate opinions; the harshness of his disagreement, as well as the general distaste of his presence due his reputation, often provokes others and aggravates delicate situations.
Draco holds second-place for longest warn log (after a Sasuke or another) and the record for the longest time with a two-page warn log without a permaban. Some of these warns are so old that the accounts that gave them no longer exist (see Kritter.)
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Achievements and Hobbies
Draco has an incredible potential to create things, such as art pieces and video games that use them.
The problem is that he never finishes any.
- Ultimate Mario, made in like Klik n' Play, 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 that was never fixed, and he never developed it past the first level.
- Hexis, the name for which Draco gave an extremely convoluted reason when all he had to say was "hexagon Tetris", 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; the image is a mockup.
- Fire Emblem Online was going to be developed with Rhyo. Neither of them bothered past the mockups they made to troll everyone.
- Origin of Mobius has been in "production" for about ten years.
- There are several thousand other projects, original or not.
Some members suspect that Draco has a mental disorder preventing him from concentrating on a single task at a time, while Draco claims that he is impatient with 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 realistically reach a productive stage if developed by a single person.
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", with his first post. 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; it remains a fitting analogy for his posting style. At this point, Draco was extremely polite and borderline naive, because he understood and respected the idea of The First Impression.
It took less than a year for familiarity to breed contempt, and as such, most of Draco's board time was spent in arguments with the more prissy regulars, such as Quicky and Kritter. Constant arguments led to Draco receiving warns and bans at an alarming rate only rivaled by 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 (possibly Parakarry) resulting in another ban.
After the chaotic shuffling of the strike system, and the eventual switch to using 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
Draco had never been on good terms with Trasher on a business level; Trasher was infamous for giving very long ban times for relatively minor infractions, and then filling the member's signature with huge red text calling them an idiot.
At some point, after an extensive argument between Delmore and Josh, Trasher banned Josh for fifteen days for accidentally replying to a topic simultaneously with Trasher's order not to. Draco was informed by a frantic Josh through an instant messenger, requiring him to help as Josh would otherwise not stop talking about it for hours. Draco contacted FanGuy and asked him to take a look at the situation.
At FanGuy's best judgment, Josh's ban was lowered to somewhere around five or ten days, while Trasher was suspended for five days along with Delmore. This sparked public outrage, because everything a moderator does is wrong, and FanGuy was branded as some sort of traitor for banning another moderator.
Draco wrote a poem entitled "The Graven", a parody of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, to explain what had happened. Although it satirically vilified Delmore and Trasher, it was generally well-accepted and recieved moderate praise, although it broke the rhythm. Contrary to popular rumor, Draco was never issued any warning, verbal or actual, for its timing or theme.
Phishfest
For some reason, Mugen decided he wanted to take over the boards.
Mugen chatted with his goons about how best to swipe accounts, and Draco made the rather large mistake of giving him advice on disguising fake log-out redirects, as he did not think Mugen would actually do it, and underestimated the idiocy of MFGG members. This dramatically increased Mugen's initial efficiency at stealing everybody's accounts, at least until Shadoku contributed, 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 somebody like that to inform them of the culprit. The length of time he withheld this information significantly dulled administrative appreciation.
Mugen signed on the next day and immediately sent the message, "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 naturally also 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 Whoa-Damn Freak-Out on an innocent bystander 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 of the same name 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. Yoshiman is apparently a total doozer, as 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. It took him probably a year to start doing this in any noticeable fashion, but it is never too late to hold to one's word!
Controversy
After a year or so of MFGG, Draco's character developed from the typical New-11-year-old MFGGer to a sarcastic and occasionally offensive personality. The members of the board, either agreeing or disagreeing with Draco's viewpoints, would receive dramatically different effects from this behavior; those on his side tended to think of him as an 3p1c pwn3r, while those he argued with generally did not appreciate his dramatic arguments.
Close to the release of phpBB, MFGG fell into another schism, between furry members and furry haters. Most of the furry haters were, coincidentally or otherwise, already unfriendly with Draco; and his perceived identity as a furry only caused further tensions.
In recent years, Draco has drastically lowered the amount of swearing and direct insults, changing from a flaming post style to a trolling post style. Although this is an improvement in many areas, he remains a volatile addition to already flammable topics.
Also, he still posts buxom furry girls in irrelevant topics.
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
