sorry about that I didn't know you needed an account to see that stuff
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Posted by Navaash on February 12, 2004
Canadian owner of a video games store. Runs a website, Acts of Gord, where which he describes the idiocy of retail customers and how he deals with them.
Registered at the Something Awful forums in early November of 2001 and proved to be a massive jackass. Was especially fond of trolling Nintendo threads in the Games forum. Got a bad reputation quickly and caused many people to call for his head.
Eventually FYAD poster Corbalt called Gord out December 2002 in FYAD and challenged him to a Starcraft match. The bet: If Corbalt could beat Gord ten times in a row, Gord would be permabanned. If Gord won even once, Corbalt would be permabanned. Corbalt proceeded to hand Gord's ass to him; Gord claimed only nine games were played even though witnesses clearly witnessed ten.
Flamed out by posting a long, inaccurate rant directed at Lowtax in FYAD shortly before he was permabanned. Afterwards, it was discovered that his web hosting was run by furries.
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Posted by FilthyImp on February 13, 2004
Also, one of the driving forces behind getting Gord on the forums was the Games goons.
From what they'd seen on his website, they thought he would be a funny guy and a good addition to the forums. They were wrong, of course, because he was a rabid, trolling fanboy.
Because of this, the term "We should buy that guy an account" is now taken with a grain of salt.
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Posted by Internet 2.0 on February 15, 2004
Also, a detail on his site (actsofgord.com): It's a big compilation of his stories about dealing with inept customers at his game store. Although funny, most of the stories are likely fabricated. Some of them are obviously fake. Like the ones where he beats up teenagers.
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Posted by Damion on June 5, 2005
Although I joined after this whole Gord mess, I live in the same small Canadian town wherin Gord ran his gaming store. He was the kind of guy you couldn't complain about but wasn't really fantastic either. Kind of like the Comic Book Guy from Simpsons in a less-abrasive format.
He eventually showed his fantastic human nature by running the store into debt, selling half of it to a friend, and then skipping out on the country to go make big bucks teaching in Korea while his friend dealt with the store.
The location where the store used to be has since been converted to a sports store for everything but hockey, as hockey tends to be dominant in our town. Good place to get NFL, NBA, or EPL jerseys.
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Posted by KOMI on October 1, 2005
Many people who are haters/fans of The Gord have often asked if anyone had a picture of Gord, to which no one seems to have.
I happen to have two, which I gladley share with you all.
Behold, The GORD!
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/KOMI18/gord2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/KOMI18/gord1.jpg
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Posted by Hydrogen Oxide on January 22, 2006
Gord has now returned to Canada and is planning on opening up a LAN center. Updates on it's progress can be found http://aog.2y.net/forums/index.php?showforum=22"]here[/url].
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Posted by Sigma X on June 24, 2006
Skyssx and I visited Gord in the sKorean city of Seoul for kicks.
Note: Some of the last posts from him on the forums told that he decided to close down "his" store and go to sKorea to teach English, as he was going to make very good money.
He lived in a small, one-room apartment, common to the sKorean and Japanese basic-wage-earner, full of anime posters and dirty clothes. We spent the evening in his apartment listening to him rant on the fact that "Richard" perma-banned him because he was so envious of his success and popularity on the forums. He also mentioned his monetary success (this was a reoccuring theme about every venture he spoke of that night) from teaching, and showed us some other ways he made money - which included selling anime posters and wall hangings to obsessed fans in the US.
He also brought up his plan to return to the US and open a virtual-reality game center, somewhat similar to Dave & Busters or Jillians. HE also brought up his plan to create a brand-new virtual-reality robot fighting game similar to Steel Battalion.
We speny something like 4 hours there and said maybe three sentences apiece.
A very sad man.