lol, you could have got me with russian bots, but your phrasing is more funny.

Thanks! now its all making sense. Thier pictures made me laugh too. Its probably not a bad thing. Mason and David couldnt have done this forever.

Forums like this are so outdated that it is kind of charming how long these stayed as they have been. No idea what the new owners will do, but hard not to get "Mason laughing all the way to the bank" vibes about the sale, so we will see.

If they make this place a more relevant, up to date industry related place I will be happy as the value of this place for business purposes has been near zero for a while (used to be decent). I will not care if they keep useless forums in the mix or not, though I cannot see why they will bother. I assume they will gut this forum structure entirely at some point, but they may be guys that just wanted to spew money to own 2+2 and take down banner ads, in which case - Party on, Dudes!

I'm barely sure I would be allowed to answer this. It's a banned topic after all.

Sounds like you just can’t admit you were wrong.

I'm just trying to not get banned. But it would be hard to admit I was wrong without being able to quote from the locked thread.

LMFAO, dude everyone knows you be in here crowing nonstop if the UFO report hadn’t been a complete dud.

You can never help but lie. I posted immediately when it came out in the moderation thread asking to have the thread unlocked so we could discuss it.
You can go check that thread to verify that yourself.

Discuss UFO reports all you want. If people don't like that, they shouldn't bait.

Excited to hear how Lucky was actually right all along!

I never really said much is the thing. That was the whole issue in that thread is that people wanted to know "what I really thought" or something, when my only argument was completely apparent.

As far as the significance of the report and its findings: I'd say it's about exactly as expected...a little bit of something for everyone, and they're still cranking out articles on it and I do think you'll see more of it in the future and some increased funding thrown in that direction.

But we don't have to hear from me about how I was right-- even if that thread is locked there is a record of everything that was said. And you were there.

To the mods - will you allow Lucky to reply to this, especially given the likelihood that these forums will be gone in the not so distant future with the new owners. It would be fun for those of us who participated to hear Lucky explain why he was right all along even though pretty much everybody forgot this thing ever happened, so if the mods can read this and either give a thumbs up or down that would be appreciated, as Lucky does not want to be banned another time.

Damn, another amazing prediction from Lucky. How does he do it?

Nobody had the first effin clue what garbled cryptic rambling incoherent opaque point you were trying to make.


Everything you said was promptly debunked

By never being specific and then claiming he is correct, even when he is not correct like in this case.

Lucky, couple genuine questions. How come you never participated in the various derp threads in the business forum. Your interaction with some of the head derps would have been entertaining and it seems they can talk in an un-moderated manner there. Also, what are your plans when this place gets removed in the near future? That be a good time to retire from doing this sort of thing on the internet?

What i recall was you suggesting that the types of reports and quantity were something 'new' and in some ways 'credible' as compared to prior instances.

CV easily countered that they were, in fact not by showing ample examples of pretty much every way you cared to measure them.

But i don't want to get into that dispute as you will just declare that to be so. So lets grant that.

But I also recall (and maybe I am wrong) that you were suggesting that was not really what mattered, what mattered was the WHY it was different and WHAT that was leading to.

You were suggesting some secret, yet to be known, 'SOMETHING' to come as a result which was really what was important and not the other CV disputed stuff.


Did that 'SOMETHING' happen in any way for you? I don't ask thinking I know the answer and its a gotcha. I am legit curious if you feel something did culminate in a way that satisfies you that you were 'right all along'??

I've only rarely ever opened BFI or even posted outside of a few subforums here, so those threads there I know about more from reputation than from actually looking at any of them.

And if this forum closes I'm sure I'll be chipping my .02c in somewhere.

Retire? This place is gonna be wide open for Lucky to post conspiracy **** if they really do go YOLO and replace the mods with bots.

If they go full YOLO then it will be hard to find his conspiracyderp stuff amid all the spambot posts and threads, and then the already outdated forums become something that almost nobody bothers to click moving forward. I grant that is a definite possibility reading the thread from the new owners, as it feels like they just bought this site for funsies of owning it, so anything is possible, but does it really matter given how stale and outdated the forums are at this point? As someone who is still in this actual industry this site does basically nothing of value in 2021 (whereas in the past it had decent value).

I just started reading and dabbling in it, and I can see why it would be an awkward fit for you, because the type of cloudscreaming seen there do not use your approach at all, so you would get lost in the shuffle (pun intended). The guy who would be a more natural fit was that flat earther that had the mental breakdown here and poofed.

I would assume that is the case for all those who stand on the crate of an internet corner yelling at the sky. An odd question though, I assume there are entire forum sites dedicated to this type of derp - do those have the same appeal to someone like you as much as a sub forum within an unrleated industry site? Curious if posting conspiracy stuff feels better and/or more "legit" if it is not completely pigeon holed into an entire conspiracyderp website.

2p2 is pretty much the only site I've ever posted on. I was 23 when I signed up for an account here. I pretty much wasn't even a conspiracy theorist then.

I post here because there is a politics section and because I like talking about politics. I realize that you think I'm like a different species than you, but I'm not actually.

So if this site poofs or becomes 95% spam bot posts, what will be the next type of site you look to post your thoughts. A lot of forums now are essentially one long conversation (on whatever the new story) that gets completely impossible to follow in any way. Discord chats are kind of the same (what they are experimenting with now). This type of forum structure is a Gen X / Boomer relic that is just not as common any more.

Guess one more odd question for you. If these forums get nuked or overrun by spam - will you even care? As much as many have posted here a long time, I kind of wonder how many would really care in the end. I know I do not root for it, but I also would not particularly care either.

I'm not compelled to post my thoughts on the internet. If 2p2 were to become a disaster (which I doubt would happen but who knows)-- then I don't imagine I'd be jumping to some new politics internet spot anytime soon.

I post here because I like you guys. I would care if this forum just ended but I do have other hobbies.

Hey, I like you guys also, which is why I asked in the moderation thread if you could post your closing thoughts about the UFO stuff without concern of being banned. Given that moderation thread is now one nutjob yelling about marxists or something there is a reasonable chance for that to be allowed so get ready!

Myself and blade felt the report would be a nothing burger, ultimately and it was pretty much that. Still nobody knows what actual point you were trying to make. The end

Yeah. I've been given approval for that. And it is a media topic even. I'll probably have to actually read the report though instead of just reading people who claim to have read it.

I would say based on my understanding of it, that the report is about as expected. Not a super bombshell, but not nothing either and they definitely left the door wide open for "future study". So I don't think it's something that's going away.

You deserve credit for predicting that it wouldn't be big news though.