Pointless Post Palace

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Overview

The Pointless Post Palace was the original forum in the Fun Stuff section of the boards. The forum is decicated entirely to spam, off-topic posting, and general thoughtlessness. Barring prunings, it is the largest section of the message board.

Around August of 2005, it became so large that the database of Mario Fan Games Galaxy was on the verge of collapse as a whole, and would sacrifice the entire board. Thankfully, Retriever II painfully reconstructed and patched the database, but the Palace had to be trimmed down to less than 20% of its original size.

The PPP is a controversial forum. Many people believe it should be removed to "decrease the stupidity" usually seen on the boards. However, others argue that the deletion of the PPP may cause an unwanted backwash of spam into other forums. Sometimes the PPP gets its own "spam," usually from the Help and Arts boards. Said "spam" is usually posted in the PPP because it is extremely active.

Name Changes/Events

Ravioli Time.

The PPP has had many name changes throughout it's lifespan, usually due to an admin's boredom, or because of a certain event that was happening at the time. One of the more popular and fairly recent name changes involved the Walrus from the CD-i game "Super Mario's Wacky Worlds". The Walrus was present in the description of the PPP, and was changed so that it resembles a ghost and zombie form before being removed altogether. Many topics were made regarding this Walrus, and it soon started a fad, however, like most fads in the PPP, it didn't last long. The PPP is also frequently renamed Hell, with the banner and background altered to reflect the name change.

Recently the Forum Games forum was combined with the PPP causing a slight uproar among a few of the less-popular members. What's done is done though; now, members who still wish to participate in forum games must mark "[forum game]" as the description of any of their game-related topics so that PPP-frequents don't spam them up.

Here is a list for name changes the PPP went through:

  • Walrus
  • Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN
  • Ravioli Time
  • Mike Jones Post Palace
  • I AM A POINTLESS POST PIRATE
  • U CAN'T POST THIS
  • ZION, THE WAR IS OVER
  • Paintless Post Palace
  • Sub-Forum Really Secret Forum

Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN

Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN was one of the epic PPP name changes made by ShadowMan in honor of having 666 pages in the PPP.

Mike Jones Post Palace

Mike Jones Post Palace was a PPP name change that had an embed music in the background with Mike Jones saying all of the Mike Jones he said.

ZION, THE WAR IS OVER

ZION, THE WAR IS OVER is another name change. The background image was World War II and the background music was Queen's We Are The Champions.

Paintless Post Palace

The Paintless Post Palace was another epic PPP name change. It only had a picture saying "Never forget. 3/28".

Land of the Hoff

On May 29, 2007, ShadowMan replaced RII's "Road Work Ahead" sign at the top of the page with pictures of David Hasslehoff. Soon, he multiplied them, and they began to overlap every thread in the the PPP. Many MFGGers were very annoyed as ShadowMan made it so that you could not see the threads or even reply. A few minutes later it was stopped, but then it came back for another few minutes and after for a while it said Land of the Hoff. Even though the "Road Work Ahead" sign remained a few days after the Hoff change had gone, many believed that the Hoff change was the "road work".

Closure

On December 16, 2006, the Pointless Post Palace was closed "until further notice as a result of general douchebaggery". It has currently been closed for three days, the longest of any closure since its conception. Since it was closed, other areas in the forum, particularly the General Chat, saw an increase in activity.