I want to know too!
Consider this thread a supplementary world-building book to support the main novel of the site.

New Gods.

Now elaborate. PLEEEZE!

Deus Ex Machina forums.

And I dunno about drama, I showed up right as II started.

But that’s cheating!

But that’s cheating!

True, and in going so far as to cheat, she’s just added more fuel to the shipping wars.

It’s all a diabolical plot Moldorm.

Who said it was YOUR diabolical plot Steph?

Oops, I said too much.

As for IMDB, i’d wager a guess that their discussion boards probably had something to do with it. (see moldorm’s theory)

Hey, Nate has a diabolical plot?

Well, I’ll show him. I’ll go and get my own plot, and mine will be much better! It’ll have blackjack, and hookers…actually forget the plot.

EDIT: Pffft. Facts. Who needs ‘em?

Moldorm – It’ll have blackjack, and hookers…
Steph – Hey, I want into Moldorm’s plot!

Nate – [snicker] Sometimes it’s just too easy…

Well, if there’ll be girlguests there, I don’t want them seeing the hookers.
In fact, why not forget the hookers as well? I wouldn’t want the female plotters feeling uncomfortable.

EGTSG?
Again, too lazy to google.

I had no idea. I recycled that book ages ago, useless rubbish as it was. It didn’t even work for him in his own book!

Alternatively – yes, I do still use that book, and so there is no way that I can be held responsible for anything that I say, haha.

Nate, it makes no difference. You both still tied in at zero, if I remember rightly.
Somebody go and check.

It’s the gender thread. The one that needs to be resurrected koff because it is so full of win koff

Spanman’s Exhaustive History of This Particular Group of Antis:

Anyway, it started out when it was announced that someone was going to make a movie of Eragon. And so all the fans flocked to IMDb to rave about Eragon. Few stood against them. Two of those few happened to be Shinwolf and Hackslayer (someone tell me if I got this wrong, it’s a bit fuzzy), who went about refuting everyone’s arguments and generally being pretty cool. Soon they got tired of repeating themselves and went off to make a site, which they called Anti Shur’tugal. It was a pretty good site, with quite a few articles and epistles (very well done). Then there was a forum, which was quite large at one time if my memory serves me right. And then, to many people’s great annoyance, Hackslayer and others (Lindpen?) decided that they didn’t have the time/energy to keep it up, so they split it in two, keeping Dog-Eared and throwing Uru’Baen Forums at whoever would take it. It was sort of a falling-out, I guess. =/ So Uru’Baen lasted happily for quite a while (Dog-Eared is still around), and then for reasons I’m not completely sure of, Tanaka deleted UB. It was a devastation known for the Giant Dead Hog banner and neon pink. So we built Magic Sword Forums (renaming it Deus Ex Machina soon after). It’s the smallest forum so far, I think, since we don’t/didn’t have a site attached. And then SlyShy, who was called Esillisar on DEM, started ImpishIdea. I became the New Kewl Thing, and still is. I can’t get on DEM these days because of silly technological things, so I don’t know how it’s faring, really. We have trouble with our resident trolls. ;)

tl;dr version: A few of us made it through several forums dedicated to literary critique – mostly Inheritance – and we’re still alive today (slightly worse for wear).

DARN IT. I knew I got some things wrong. I forgot who all the administration was, for one. =( All I remember is that someone (*points at DrAlligator*) said Tanaka and Stakey and others who never were around UB anymore were all online at once when it happened to be deleted. Hmm. Anyway. Thanks for clearing things up. I forgot about carrotstick (because I'm not there, durr). I'm using alternate resources to keep up with everyone I can. D:

others who never were around UB anymore were all online at once when it happened to be deleted.

Hahah, yeah, I missed that. (Fortunately?)

But, yer, apparently (according to Dr. A. XD), when that guy started asking questions and then people started bitching and complaining about Hacky and her crew, someone called them all over to the board (according to Tanaka? mebbe?) to Come And Look At This. They did. And that’s when the arguing started.

I forgot about carrotstick

Eh, it’s recent, and it would be nice to forget about it, but HEY, II. WHOOP! WHOOP!

I’m-a gonna try and bug Tanaka to come here. I think he’d like it.

Yeah, that’s him, but I think it would have happened anyway. People so resented AS buggering off and leaving them. And the regulars did leave, like Tanaka, 1844, Azrael, CrypticPassword, Justin, Charles, ScratchTroy and many others I can’t remember.

Heh, yeah, and Lenny! aw, he’s still on DE, but I love Lenny. And Brienne. Hres, Anna, Jabberwocky, Mike, Nienna, Nim, Quoth, roof, OH! and Sharky, our resident fan. :D

The first day… sniff…

Same here. I got involved in the Anti-Shurtugal movement in Autumn of 2008, far later than most of y’all. And I migrated over here soon after. =D

I found my old Empire magazine with the Eragon movie feature! :D

I bought it for the snark, oh those early days had so much decent, funny snark.

“For the time being, the cast — including newcomer Edward Speleers (as dashing Eragon), Sienna Guillory (as elf maiden Arya), demented King John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons (as Obi-Wan Kenobi, sorry, Brom The Giver Of Exposition) — are busy emoting to the requisite Spalding on a stick.”

Yeah, but, Sly actually did something. He rolled up his sleeves, had a plan, bought a domain, wrote articles, and worked hard to get it up and to what it is today. Props.

Ehh, at one point I was contemplating discussing with Sly about using AS.com as the site for dem, but then that accursed domain squatter got there.

SUMWUN HALP MEH EXCAPE

NEVAAAAR. 8D

Because GoDaddy.com = Epic Fail _^TM

On the anti-shurtugal.com situation (TL;DR version): Because godaddy = epic failsauce the domain name never transferred to Sly and now someone else owns it. Yea, wtf rite.

-Legion May 05, 2009

Here

You were gone for a while, did you miss the April Fool’s joke?

bq. Yeah, but, Sly actually did something. He rolled up his sleeves, had a plan, bought a domain, wrote articles, and worked hard to get it up and to what it is today.

Hey. HEY. I worked with GC. I wrote articles. I applied time.

hahahah

To ask that question is to answer it.

It has alliteration. It involves imps. It is pure awesome.

Who was GC?

Okay, that was an extremely dumb question, but its very late. For some reason I keep thinking he’s still around.

Yeah basically.

Gifted Cherub, he once went by.

Ah yeah, I’ve seen him around DEM / Carrotstick. Okay then.

Well at least I don’t go around spoiling your stories of love, hate and sorrow.

Wow this is so fascinating.

And something amazing: I actually know who swankivy is. Discovered her rants about ten minutes before stumbling upon ImpishIdea for the first time… <3

So, who was the Epistler?
Is there anywhere I can still find a copy of his articles?

I’ve seen the PDFs, but I can’t remember where I got them from.

I only came after they were deleted.

Arr, she did. Sure, keep a personal copy if you want, but stop posting them online. >>

But it didn’t get done.

No, but it’s how Sly ended up working on II.

/relevance

Huh. I knew part of the history of AS, UB, and DEF (I’m not going to get into it, because I’d rather forget those days, but I was actually once a hard-core anti-fan. Then I realized that radical hatred of Eragon was retarded and realized I didn’t actually dislike the books, I was just jumping on the bandwagon. So I decided to change to mild dislike due to actual reasons other than “BCUZ TEHY“R BADD”.). I was around (by “around”, I mean I was mostly a lurker that hopefully everyone has forgotten, and no, I’m not giving out my username) when AS split UB off, and… yeah. There was a lot of hatred against AS for that one. As I recall, it just felt like being completely abandoned, and I wish(ed) they’d simply deleted it and started over, rather than let it drift off to rot like it did.

Then I sort of quit the whole anti-fan thing, anyway, and only very very recently ended up here through a comment made by someone else on a different site/StumbleUpon. And I liked the crowd (you’re all much nicer than everyone on UB, you have legitimate reasons for liking/disliking books, you can debate without getting angry, and you like the same things I do) so I stuck around.

/my story

I remember Tanaka. And Brienne. And those are literally the only two names I remember. Wasn’t there someone named… Warthorde? Good grief, I don’t remember anything! Then again, I blocked most of it from my memory, so I suppose it’s understandable.

bq. I wish(ed) they’d simply deleted it and started over

They did. The IMDB rants begat the LiveJournal escapade, which eventually begat the famous site Anti-Shurtugal. Contemporaneously, Anti-Shurtugal Forums was established, eventually renamed Uru'baen Forums. Dog-Eared was created as an exclusive forum, causing confusion and strife until the plug was pulled on Uru'Baen.

Another forum was established as a replacement for UBF, which has seen its fair share of drama and similar existence woes.

I'm the opposite. I think it would've been better had DE never been created. That's where the strife actually originated; the original administrators left UBF to run DE, and members thought they were being abandoned. Anti-Shurtugal was a co-anchored site for both DE and UBF until the latter was sunk. The replacement, DEM, left ties to AS, while DE maintained them, which I think is where this notion of DE being more significant is coming from.

while DE maintained them, which I think is where this notion of DE being more significant is coming from.

DE was the official forum for AS, they were fed up with the type of people the movement was attracting and tried to lump us off with a forum, with DE intending to be a respectable forum for new people to come and post and to not let in the lower elements of ASF. Call that exclusive if you want, I see it as common sense. You’re as professional as your followers.

and members thought they were being abandoned.

They were being abandoned, and for good reason, as Swenson said.

@ Diamonte and/or Dan Locke: You don’t happen to have the ninth epistle, do you?

Few people were even allowed to _try_.

Yeah, that’s a great strategy. Next time I see a roach inside, I’ll just burn the whole house down.

Nononono. You still can’t be sure. Firebomb the whole town.

You don’t need a fire suit. Fire is the purifier. It cleanses and purges us of sin and heresy.
EMBRACE the holy flame of the IMMORTAL GOD-EMPEROR OF MANKIND, and be REBORN!!

Rocky seems a bit… touchy.