02-06-2003 12:44									#1
	So, what happened to Porphyrogenitus? Increase the size of your Attachments

Inspired by the latest edition of the "whatever happened" thread, I searched to see where and if Porphy was around somewhere on the internet. For those who didn't get to know him, Porphy was the guy who possibly helped the most to raise standards of discussion here at the forums as well as the one who introduced people to the Diplomacy games. Or as far as I remember, at least.

Now, it seems he's got a site up and running, and I thought I'd encourage y'all to take a look, if not for anything else, then for the fact that he used to be a cool Apolytoner. Hardly surprising, it's located at www.porphyrogenitus.net

	02-06-2003 13:41									#2
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Eh, are you sure this is our Porphy we're talking about here?

	02-06-2003 13:50									#3
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Yes, it is, I recalled he once gave away his name on Apolyton, James R-. Also, on the biography page at porphyrogenitus.net, he tells a story that he told here as well, the one about his gaming material being stolen and how he got some of it back again. It's the same guy for sure.

	02-06-2003 13:53									#4
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There can't be more than a handful of people who remember him though. Was it Spink who came up with the "Porphyrogenitals" joke?

	02-06-2003 14:17									#5
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It's so long ago that he posted here that none of his previous posts are showing in his profile: http://apolyton.net/forums/member.p...info&userid=997

	02-06-2003 14:38									#6
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Hi Morten, not sure if it was me who came up with it but I certainly used it most.

	02-06-2003 16:43									#7
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Porphyria...

Isn't that a disease that causes you to dislike the lower classes?

	02-06-2003 17:58									#9
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Great analysis of the EU Constitution there...

	03-06-2003 07:48									#10
	Re: So, what happened to Porphyrogenitus? Suffering from ads?

quote: Originally posted by Monk For those who didn't get to know him, Porphy was the guy who possibly helped the most to raise standards of discussion here at the forums as well as the one who introduced people to the Diplomacy games. Or as far as I remember, at least.

You mean the standards were lower before?

	03-06-2003 08:15									#11
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That's some pretty dry writing, save that concerning golf/tennis...

	03-06-2003 09:57									#12
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I remember Porphy, but not too much about him.

	03-06-2003 10:05									#13
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I don't know anything about this guy. I assume he has left 'Poly long before I posted.

	03-06-2003 16:08									#14
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Urban Ranger,

	04-06-2003 00:44									#15
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In case anyone is curious Porphy left 'poly after posting in a couple of story threads in which he was an excellent writer and story-teller. However he was very aggressive and competitive, fighting him in any kind of story thread war was like fighting an avelanche. Eventually he decided that people weren't just whining and he really was too aggressive and left story threads and poly in general. He's been missed

	04-06-2003 01:49									#16
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He was great . Very intelligent and an encyclopedic mind.

	04-06-2003 05:50									#17
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I remember chatting with him when we were each getting people from our reserve units recalled for Kosovo. He had to download IRC to chat on the #Apolyton channel on IOL. The one where the horny Irish 14 yearold girls liked to come...and where Night Owl hung. Ummm and me and Makeo. And "Chat Nazi".

	04-06-2003 05:52									#18
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All the old folks on the Poly channel .

	05-06-2003 06:59									#19
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"after posting in a couple of story threads"

Do you remember which ones, perchance? Good lord, those were fun...