1. #41081
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vakir View Post
    This. I'm not sure how people still haven't figured this out.
    Not if you use a VPN.

    I don't know if saying this will get me banned, but when I was trying to get my Tides of Vengeance leak going, I shared it here on an alt account using a VPN and the mods never banned it.

  2. #41082
    Quote Originally Posted by Vakir View Post
    This. I'm not sure how people still haven't figured this out.

    Whenever we get a "leak" thread and the person is banned, some twit always goes "whoa, they're banned! That may mean it's real! Blizzard did it!!!1" while they also ignore prominent leaks disseminated by Wowhead et al. in the past.

    22mage and Algarstorms also have two completely different styles of typing, albeit, yeah, you can easily fake that.

    I don't really think either is true or not true, but people, as usual, do not brain gud.
    Mods are acting based on presumably IP or IP and location. Any VPN, proxy browser, a cell phone using mobile data, posting from a coffee shop or a neighbor's wifi, would get you around this and let you make an undeleted burner.

  3. #41083
    Quote Originally Posted by Algarstorms View Post
    Let's dispense with the ruse, me.
    Actual p0rn acting, 22mage22. You tried and failed. Goodbye! (or i guess: see you on friday)

    lol

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    algarstorm person is not me and is trolling for some reason. trying to make confusion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ercarp View Post
    So everyone knows, @Algarstorms is the user who posted the Storms of Avaloren leak from October 18th.

    I actually had it rated fairly high since it seemed to share a lot of details with the zone screenshot leak (which I also believe to be fake now, but that's besides the point).

    Anyway, @22mage22 and @Algarstorms just randomly happening to browse the forums at the same time makes me think it's probably the same terminally online hoaxer having fun muddying the waters of what is and isn't real.
    God that's so fun and exciting. Now idk what to believe and its all in the air, im so hyped!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ercarp View Post
    So everyone knows, @Algarstorms is the user who posted the Storms of Avaloren leak from October 18th.

    I actually had it rated fairly high since it seemed to share a lot of details with the zone screenshot leak (which I also believe to be fake now, but that's besides the point).

    Anyway, @22mage22 and @Algarstorms just randomly happening to browse the forums at the same time makes me think it's probably the same terminally online hoaxer having fun muddying the waters of what is and isn't real.
    The screenshots lining up with a lot of what I wrote was a pretty funny coincidence, to be honest. There were a few other "leaks" since then using my leak ideas, like a revamped silvermooon/ gilnaes and boat mounts, so you can chalk those up to be bullshit as well,

  7. #41087
    Quote Originally Posted by Algarstorms View Post
    The screenshots lining up with a lot of what I wrote was a pretty funny coincidence, to be honest. There were a few other "leaks" since then using my leak ideas, like a revamped silvermooon/ gilnaes and boat mounts, so you can chalk those up to be bullshit as well,
    I thought your idea of the Algaren race was super cool

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    Time to quit my job and live on these forums. It's getting hot in here!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferlion View Post
    I think Algarstorms and 22mage22 are the same person, or at the least in on it, and responsible for the avaloren leaks.

    Once one shows up, the other does.
    Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Their antics just now killed the credibility of two leaks with one stone. I'm honestly impressed.

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    algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.

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    it gets so spicy! What are the screenshots? Are they fake? its getting real intriguing

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    Quote Originally Posted by 22mage22 View Post
    algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.
    its mythic 10 man coming?

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    WTF is going on.
    Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.

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    If that is the case, I can't fathom why someone would post two concurrent fan-fictions when it doesn't even produce good trolling. Nobody was angry, upset, genuinely bamboozled, or frustrated, just...blandly discussing two variations of similar premises for a week or so.

    Leak season sucks. I get I'm in the minority on that, and I do not care. Improvements in AI and further talent with machinima can only be hoped to kill it forever.

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    Jack Nicholson meme "Yes, Yes!"

  16. #41096
    Quote Originally Posted by Makabreska View Post
    WTF is going on.
    leakers fight it is

  17. #41097
    Quote Originally Posted by ercarp View Post
    Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Their antics just now killed the credibility of two leaks with one stone. I'm honestly impressed.
    This is like, the single best way this troll could have ended short of another set of screen shots of the same places, just from a different angle.

  18. #41098
    Quote Originally Posted by kavikor View Post
    I thought your idea of the Algaren race was super cool
    Thank you, I pictures a dwarf mixed with a gronn, based on that website image of the ogre dwarf.
    Also Bellular said my leak looks legit. Sorry bro.

  19. #41099
    Quote Originally Posted by Makabreska View Post
    WTF is going on.
    Drama, mama

  20. #41100
    Quote Originally Posted by 22mage22 View Post
    algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.
    you can tell something more you know but nobody asked , to help you get credibility

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