Meat Puppet

'Real name:' Liam S. Donald
'Nick names:' 'Meat Puppet'
'Birth:' December 13, 1986
'Registration:' December 29, 2003

Meat Puppet first gained access to the internet sometime in early 2001. He spent his early days downloading and playing SNES ROMs; the concept of emulation was new to Meat Puppet, and he spent as much time doing it as he could. He would often discuss the games and his emulation problems with the neighborhood nerd. It was through one game that this nerd would lead Meat Puppet to his first online community: RPG Maker Super Dante. Meat Puppet only played the poorly translated ROM once; however, when he brought it up, his friend misheard it as RPG Maker 2000, and referred Meat Puppet to Don Miguel’s website for a fuller translation.
Meat Puppet started off slow with RPG Maker 95+, but it didn’t take long for him to become frustrated with the program, and thirsty for something more powerful. He took the courage to switch to RPG Maker 2000, and quickly became familiar with the program. However, he was more interested in sharing and discussing his games with others, so he took to Google (which Meat Puppet recently discovered) for a website dedicated to RPG Maker 2000. The first page that attracted him was the (now defunct) Ginew Force. It was a booming RPG Maker community (it would eventually have feuds with the Don Miguel forums) run by a French man who went by the alias of ‘Captain Ginew.’ Since he was young, and naïve when it came to internet forums, Meat Puppet fast became an infamous spammer at the Ginew Force Boards. The staff—despite being extremely lenient—eventually became so fed up with Meat Puppet that it came down to Meat Puppet either making a game (therefore proving his existence on the Ginew Force) or be forced to leave. He chose the former, started to clean up his act, and got onto making and sharing his games (though most were merely demos).
Despite the limited graphics (compared to other members) Meat Puppet used in his games, his games soon found a mild popularity through the “Drugs ‘n’ Dreams” influences that Meat Puppet used when making games. With his ego blooming from the onslaught of compliments, Meat Puppet set out to find more forums to distribute his games. Propelling Meat Puppet from a dirty spammer, he would soon be (controversially) given the position of a Forum Moderator.

The Ginew Force lasted a few more years, but as time wore on, its impending demise became harder to tune out. By early 2004, the Forum had dropped from 100s of regular posters to only 3 or 4 people posting a week. It was finally shut down when the Captain Ginew could no longer afford to run it.

It was a member from the Ginew Force who would become Meat Puppet’s first met internet friend. Meat Puppet had given out his mobile number several months before a slimy Thursday in 2004, when he got a call from a strange French man. Now limited to brief MSN exchanges every few months, this French man is the only connection to the Ginew Force, a force which arduously weaned Meat Puppet onto the internet.

Sometime in 2001 (before the release of FFX), Meat Puppet came across a Final Fantasy/RPG Maker dedicated board: Final Fantasy Infinate[sic]. Having enjoyed FFVII, and recently acquiring a copy of FFVIII from his nerd friend, Meat Puppet decided to sign up. Though his original intentions were to join due to the RPG Maker aspects of the forum, his entire relationship with RPG Maker while at FFI was playing BLK Knight’s Final Fantasy spin-off; he completed it, but got very few (if any) of the references.
Meat Puppet was much more interested in the community of FFI, one which was stronger than that of the dying Ginew Force. Meat Puppet became a semi-popular poster at FFI, but due to his frequent absences, could not properly be defined as a regular.
When Meat Puppet started to get more time to post at FFI, he started enjoying the website more. He enjoyed it so much, in fact, that he could not help but share the joy. He recommended the page to the same friend who recommended RPG Maker. That friend originally registered as Cid's Knight (a coincidence; no actual connection between either Meat Puppet or Cid's Knight had been made with EoFF or its Cid's Knights at the time); however, Cid's Knight would soon be recognized by the name of Thee Knight Hood[sic]. It was from this that EoFF was first brought to Meat Puppet’s attention, and he decided to check it out. With too much time at school and already being a regular of several boards, Meat Puppet and Thee Knight Hood both decided to put EoFF off for the time being. Two more friends joined FFI; one being banned after losing control at the forums, and another leaving after making a few penis jokes (the latter being Thee Knight Hood’s girlfriend at the time.)
Collectively, Meat Puppet and Thee Knight Hood caused as much trouble as they did at school (which explains why many a teacher was anxious to pair them up). The duo would usually cool down after a warning from the site’s administrator, Squally Leonharty. The duo would break for a few months, then return more savage than before. Meat Puppet eventually became so twisted that he started to insult members in the Infinate Help for Each Other Forum'^[?]^' (FFI’s equivalent to EoFF’s Eyes on Each Other); solidifying the fact that he was indeed a true swine, especially in threads about dating and abortion.

When FFI suffered a prolonged downtime, the pair fooled the ever-gullible Shoeless Hobo into believing they had hacked FFI. This gave them a few kicks, but were still finding the wet Summer boring, so Meat Puppet and Thee Knight Hood (while sitting around smoking pot) finally decided to join Eyes on Final Fantasy. Thee Knight Hood wanted to join first this time, so Meat Puppet gave his word that he would wait a few days before registering. However, when Meat Puppet registered, Thee Knight Hood was nowhere to be found. Thee Knight Hood’s excuse was that he had already been banned—possibly no more than a lie, as no evidence of Thee Knight Hood’s presence has ever been found. Meat Puppet would try several more times to coax Thee Knight Hood into joining EoFF, but gave up when he decided it would probably be best if they never joined a forum together again.

FFI soon came back online, and Meat Puppet and Thee Knight Hood both received a final warning. They also both got told off for inappropriate behavior at EoFF (no doubt for fooling Shoeless Hobo into thinking they had hacked the forum). The rules now were one more slip up by either member and they would both be banned. This frustrated Thee Knight Hood, who was trying to clean up his act, and could not trust Meat Puppet with his future at the forum. In a last minute act of desperation, Thee Knight Hood went into a quasi-leave, and pleaded with Meat Puppet to do the same. However, Meat Puppet would get bored from this, and eventually did slip up at FFI one last time. After being banned, Thee Knight Hood became so furious that he aborted FFI as his favorite place on the internet. Meat Puppet had hit up FFI after his initial ban (therefore having his IP banned); however, Thee Knight Hood’s IP was still good for one more round. So, Meat Puppet headed to Thee Knight Hood’s place, and the duo blasted FFI with pornography and other such filth. Fortunately, a moderator was able to thwart their assault before any of the younger members could be damaged. Subsequently, to keep the twisted two away, it became near impossible to access FFI from a New Zealand IP. The pair would still get around it every now and again with IP scramblers and proxies: Thee Knight Hood’s last member was a Captain (forgotten word), who Squally Leonharty banned and accidentally called ‘Liam Donald’; most likely a confusion on his part, but it threw Thee Knight Hood into a paranoid frenzy of thinking that the entire FFI thought that they were the same person. Liam Donald’s true last account, however, was mr potato head—who did not ever receive a ban.

Neither Meat Puppet or Thee Knight Hood are welcome at FFI or any of its incarnations.

Meat Puppet finally joined Eyes on Final Fantasy in the New Zealand summer of 2003. Feeling that he now had delved deep enough into the gut of online forums, it seemed that he should have either a fresh start or a chance to put some good to his name. He had minor recognition (from members such as Levian and ranti84), though was not able to break into EoFF straight away. Despite FFI being a spin off to EoFF, EoFF was still of a much different feel than FFI, and Meat Puppet found the place hard to get used to.
He did enjoy a small success; going on to win Best Regular at his first Ciddies, and going quite far in the EoFF ScreenName Competitions. However, it was not until the release of user notes that Meat Puppet started to feel like he was fitting into EoFF. It was through the bizarre act of leaving and receiving user notes that Meat Puppet started to make friends at EoFF.

Despite the friends that he made, Meat Puppet still decided to give #eoff a try. Soon becoming addicted to the channel, Meat Puppet spent the majority of his online time in the chat room. However, having a minor drug problem at the time, Meat Puppet had little empathy and did not care about what he wrote. His foul language and constant breaking of rules saw Meat Puppet getting a month long ban from the chat server. Though painful at first, it may have been one of the best things to ever happen to Meat Puppet. When Meat Puppet returned to the chat room, he was no longer addicted, and only felt he was visiting out of principle. Loony BoB warned Meat Puppet (in the chat room) that Meat Puppet was dangerously close to a permanent ban from both #eoff and EoFF. These words were all too familiar to Meat Puppet; he decided that he would have to make some changes if he wanted to stay at the place he enjoyed so much. Changing a few things that he blamed for an impaired posting ability, Meat Puppet tried one more time to make a better name for himself. Though still without slip ups, he now feels that he had risen to the level of a regular member, and now deserves the Ciddie he won in the past.

As of 2006, Meat Puppet has participated in the EoFF Elections once during his time at EoFF. He was a proud member of the Hot Air Balloons Are Actually Pretty Neat Party, Co lead by themagicroundabout and RSL. Unfortunately, the February 2006 EoFF Elections were canceled; Meat Puppet’s time in the elections short lived.

Meat Puppet first started using this avatar when his avatar was heinously changed to an Unne avatar, by a power less himself. Feeling raped, he changed his avatar to RSL’s pirate. When RSL announced his disgusted at someone using his avatar, Meat Puppet changed it to a different FF1 avatar, this time picking at random. The avatar was first intended to be temporary; however, when Misfit pointed out a rather peculiar trait of the avatar’s, Meat Puppet decided to keep it.

Meat Puppet’s avatar currently wears RSL’s hat; possibly until RSL returns to reclaim it.

I just want to add this in, because I will forget it if I don't. It is “canon” about how Meat Puppet came to be. It is about how I, Psychotic, or Doctor Von Handsomestein if you're into full titles, created Meat Puppet as a part of my Easter celebrations. And I quote:

I find a random hippie, nail him to a cross and leave him to die. I then conduct all sorts of jolly experiments on him with my main man Igor, the purpose of which is to make him come back to life the next Sunday. Only one has ever come back from the dead, and he seems none the worse for wear. You may know him as “Meat Puppet”.

A certain member wishes to tell him that she misses the old usernotes day and hope to be able to do it again if there is ever a chance in the future.

Until next time.

• Most likely to be a Cid's Knight - Mid-Year 2007 Ciddies
• Most Likely To Become a Cid's Knight - End of Year 2006 Ciddies
• Best Avatar - End of year 2005 Ciddies
• Best Regular - Mid-year 2004 Ciddies

• UnOfficial EoFF Screen Name Competition — 2005