Wilhelm Fever is scientific fact!

[JLBats]

I never thought the day would come.
Buuuut as far as I've been told, he faded away prior to burning out.

Just in case anybody wants to take up his mantle:

The formula is pretty simple!

BEING WILHELM

-Spaced out posts so that it guides the eye in a very pleasing way. It's almost a screenwriter's trick
-Punctuation, capitalization and use of italics that gives an almost arrogant, but aesthetically pleasing, rhythm to the post. You can HEAR a Wilhelm post when you read it
-Liberal sarcastic use of the shocked, confused, dry and embarrassed smileys as punctuation, along with occasional use of it in the middle of a sentence to create a liberating break in the flow of the thought
-Playing with font size to create emphasis, but also using smaller font sizes to make it seem like it's a personal aside, just to you
-Very leading metaphors
-Weird use of words. Once used "luscious" to describe delusions.

Why, it's almost like he... *gasp*... figured out a posting style that worked. for. him! And stuck with it! What a bastard

(see what I did there? lol)

 

[PWN3R]

Christians everywhere are safe now.

 

[tzarinna]

Bizarre.

 

[JLBats]

Christians everywhere are safe now.

Along with Buddhists, Muslims, Wiccans, Atheists and any other (stated with total, absurd certainty) religious believer.

I come to bury Wilhelm, not to praise him, but, you know, I also don't want people to forget that he was pretty much an equal opportunity lech/philosopher/indicter.

 

[The Lizard]

Was this bumped to compensate for the fact that no one started a Wilhelm birthday thread a few weeks ago?

I think that particular slight from his formerly adoring public might be what drove poor Wil over the edge and led to his subsequent banhammering.

 

[jaguarr]

What did Wil do to get banned? When did he get banned? R.I.P, Wil. I will miss you and the Scarecrow most of all!

jag

 

[Logan's Runt]

Jag's up past his bedtime!

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

What did Wil do to get banned? When did he get banned? R.I.P, Wil. I will miss you and the Scarecrow most of all!

jag

He was banned? Seriously?

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

I never thought the day would come.
Buuuut as far as I've been told, he faded away prior to burning out.

Just in case anybody wants to take up his mantle:

The formula is pretty simple!

BEING WILHELM

-Spaced out posts so that it guides the eye in a very pleasing way. It's almost a screenwriter's trick
-Punctuation, capitalization and use of italics that gives an almost arrogant, but aesthetically pleasing, rhythm to the post. You can HEAR a Wilhelm post when you read it
-Liberal sarcastic use of the shocked, confused, dry and embarrassed smileys as punctuation, along with occasional use of it in the middle of a sentence to create a liberating break in the flow of the thought
-Playing with font size to create emphasis, but also using smaller font sizes to make it seem like it's a personal aside, just to you
-Very leading metaphors
-Weird use of words. Once used "luscious" to describe delusions.

Why, it's almost like he... *gasp*... figured out a posting style that worked. for. him! And stuck with it! What a bastard

(see what I did there? lol)

You could have just stated the obvious: he was an older, angry man who imbued you with his ideas, or spewed venom. Funny venom.

One of the few posters around here with a pair of cajones to say what he believed and not what was popular opinion.

 

[JLBats]

You could have just stated the obvious: he was an older, angry man who imbued you with his ideas, or spewed venom. Funny venom.

One of the few posters around here with a pair of cajones to say what he believed and not what was popular opinion.

I was doing an analysis of style, not content.
****. Can't even do a simple close reading
of Wilhelm's text without people getting all anti-intellectual

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

I was doing an analysis of style, not content.
****. Can't even do a simple close reading
of Wilhelm's text without people getting all anti-intellectual

An impressive vocabulary designates you an intellectual? I didn't know that.

*raises hands*

I digress. Call it a Freudian post.

 

[JLBats]

An impressive vocabulary designates you an intellectual? I didn't know that.

*raises hands*

I digress. Call it a Freudian post.

Dude.
I'm joking.

I think I'd probably call white coated men if I thought a half-joking analysis of Wilhelm's posting style was remotely intellectual.
Or even funny.
Or even slightly contributed to the conversation.

But I do think it's kind of cool to look into the way Wilhelm spoke, and why he made himself notable by expressing things tons of other people have expressed.

But then I guess I find weird concepts most other people find boring or inconsequential interesting.

(I'm sorry. The Internet: A chilly land where sadly, subtext is often too sub.)

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

(I'm sorry. The Internet: A chilly land where sadly, subtext is often too sub.)

I might not make it out.

 

[Danalys]

I never thought the day would come.
Buuuut as far as I've been told, he faded away prior to burning out.

Just in case anybody wants to take up his mantle:

The formula is pretty simple!

BEING WILHELM

-Spaced out posts so that it guides the eye in a very pleasing way. It's almost a screenwriter's trick
-Punctuation, capitalization and use of italics that gives an almost arrogant, but aesthetically pleasing, rhythm to the post. You can HEAR a Wilhelm post when you read it
-Liberal sarcastic use of the shocked, confused, dry and embarrassed smileys as punctuation, along with occasional use of it in the middle of a sentence to create a liberating break in the flow of the thought
-Playing with font size to create emphasis, but also using smaller font sizes to make it seem like it's a personal aside, just to you
-Very leading metaphors
-Weird use of words. Once used "luscious" to describe delusions.

Why, it's almost like he... *gasp*... figured out a posting style that worked. for. him! And stuck with it! What a bastard

(see what I did there? lol)

seriously it hurt my eyes. but then the way i post probably does some peoples head in. anyway more time at a certain forum that shall not be named, for him.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

meh, he called out Moviefan on his mind blowing Hypocrisy and he got banned for
and I quote "intolerance" which is funny, because there's this quasi-racist thread
Moviefan made around December based upon the comedy stylings of "Ahmed the dead Terrorist" you know, tasteful stuff like "all I have left is this RAG upon my head"


you know, the kind of thing you just associate with tolerance.
plus, Moviefan is a poster that routinely says that Gays/anyone who is not a Christian is a filthy sinner and thus doomed.

not tolerant mind you.

eh, yes, I know I will be told "he had a record" but still killing off interesting insightful posters while letting Bland/ignorant/borderline offensive ones roam free seems to be a legit practice.

hey at least Frizzo's not here.

 

[Danalys]

i bet if there was anything he'd want to be banned for it would be something hypocritical and about intolerance. hell he made enough posts about hypocritical behaviour of mods in his eyes.

 

[jaguarr]

meh, he called out Moviefan on his mind blowing Hypocrisy and he got banned for
and I quote "intolerance" which is funny, because there's this quasi-racist thread
Moviefan made around December based upon the comedy stylings of "Ahmed the dead Terrorist" you know, tasteful stuff like "all I have left is this RAG upon my head"


you know, the kind of thing you just associate with tolerance.
plus, Moviefan is a poster that routinely says that Gays/anyone who is not a Christian is a filthy sinner and thus doomed.

not tolerant mind you.

eh, yes, I know I will be told "he had a record" but still killing off interesting insightful posters while letting Bland/ignorant/borderline offensive ones roam free seems to be a legit practice.

hey at least Frizzo's not here.

He got banned for being intolerant of the single most intolerant, racist, homophobic, push-his-religion-on-everyone-and-tell-them-they're-going-to-hell-and-he's-not poster on these boards? Wow. That's the definition of irony. I know the mods had Wil on their "get rid of him" list, but that's a pretty stupid reason to ban him forever.

i bet if there was anything he'd want to be banned for it would be something hypocritical and about intolerance. hell he made enough posts about hypocritical behaviour of mods in his eyes.

That's probably true.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

Jag's up past his bedtime!

I was not!



jag

 

[chaseter]

Wil's gone...oh well. Although we didn't see eye to eye and he was quite pompous...at least he was smart and logical.

 

[Nirvana]

Reading Wil's antics in the religion thread was quite entertaining. He'll certainly be missed. I guess PWN3R was right when he said "Christians everywhere are safe now"...or at least feel that way for now.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Goodbye Wilhelm. I wish I was as evil as you thought I was.

 

[jaguarr]

Goodbye Wilhelm. I wish I was as evil as you thought I was.

That sounds like something someone who was diabolically and unapologetically evil would say in order to make people think they weren't. Very crafty, Kane, but I'm on to you!

jag

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I had Wilhelm Fever all sunday, I had to stay home and watch episodes of Robotech all day plus I had fever dreams and those suck.

I like Robotech because it's one of the few shows where the narrator lies to me about what's obviously happening onscreen.

"The Southern Cross met at the cite of the SDF-1"
(My thoughts)"...okay that's three f***in hills"

 

[Spider-Fan]

He was banned

 

[Erzengel]

Goodbye Wilhelm. I wish I was as evil as you thought I was.

He told me via IM that he will miss your rosey cheeks the most.