Did Deagle Nation give you feels? -

[ChuckSlaughter]

So I will be the first to admit that I was pranked by our Commander. I believed in everything. There were a few times were I would raise a eyebrow and become skeptical, but I would just be sucked back in with every new stream and strap back in for the ride . There were many times when I thought to myself "Holy shit, Jace is fucking crazy!" and then laugh about it. Recently, after Jace was in a car wreck in a attempt to street race Brianna Wu, I really thought he had gone off the deep end. Then after the Reuben interview and Christ Zone stream I was absolutely horrified. I actually thought Gail was a crazy Jesus nut who would go as far as cover up her son's dangerous behavior. I actually thought she was serious about foreign food making people gay. I had to stop and think "Holy shit, Jace's mom is fucking crazy!" It kind of seemed similar to the Chris and Barbara Chandler mother/son relationship, but the difference was Jace seemed far more credible as a danger, and Gail far more susceptible to enabling her sons outbursts. Even in parallel with Chris's GameStop Pepper Spray incident I kept thinking that it was only a matter of time until Jace was arrested, hurt or killed in similar fashion. I was honestly concerned about the Jace/Gail dynamic. I was relieved to find out it was all a in the end. Now I wonder if I am a terrible person because I decided not to do anything about it but watch Jace & Co. possibly destroy themselves for my viewing pleasure. I was wondering what the other true believers of Deagle Nation thought and felt for the past two and a half years.

tl;dr
I was trolled by Deagle Nation and I am wondering if anyone else got trolled too.

Dude I was always concerned for jace pretty much right after he was supposed to be wandering around in the woods homeless asking trolls if he should eat random mushrooms, I signed up just for the purpose of whiteknighting jace. I felt like he could probably at least get to have a happy life if he'd gotten away from a lot of nasty influences in time, his mom, some of his friends, and internet trolls helping to make his craziness real.
Several times I tried to get deagledad to hide some wiki content when it seemed like jace was going to attract the wrong kind of attention and I yelled at a bunch of people for pretending to be terrorists and other jaceland characters. After I talked to deagledad a few times I had a hard time understanding why he seemed to condone trolling jace sometimes.

Well I guess now we know. While I'm whiteknighting jace warning people that what they're doing could ruin him forever, jan is sitting in front of his computer getting pissed that we're chasing away his laughs

I felt guilty laughing at jace and sometimes saying mean things... but it's ok to laugh at retards, most adults who take care of the mentally handicapped genuinely care for them but won't even bother denying that the best part of the whole deal is laughing at their crazy antics.

 

[Gorogoroth]

Yeah, I believed everything. Anything that didn't add up I just dismissed as unimportant. I can't believe I spent a year of my life on the edge of my seat, checking in daily to see what happened. I literally dreamed about Stryker saying goodbye to me. I woke up and I was thinking, you fucking little prick, you made me feel feels lol. I'm not salty; This shit is next level entertainment. I won't forget Jace Connors in a hurry.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

I was legitimately furious with Reuben C. Barron for trying to get Jace to self-incriminate.
I felt so embarrassed for Jace after he pissed himself during the Saints Row livestream.
I had major feels during his autobiographical stream when he was reminiscing about the better days and how all of his friends don't hang out with him anymore.
I would get angry over ween trolls who would make him ragequit on livestreams.

The only time where I doubted Jace being realistic was when he was "analyzing" charts completely wrong during a couple of "Fact Zones". I know a couple schizos and Jace had ther mannerisms down pat.

 

[Amo Bishop Roden]

I thought the story of Tyce's comatose brother and the explanation behind the Matchbox cars was pretty damn depressing

 

[BOLDYSPICY!]

I know a couple schizos and Jace had ther mannerisms down pat.

To me, this was his most impressive feat. I've lived with people with varying degrees of schizophrenia, & it blows my mind how flawlessly he could mimic that behavior.

 

[Kilted Gentleman]

I was sad when he cried about Soap the parkour wolf being tortured by Islamic ghosts , but I like animals, even fake ones.

 

[Spectator]

Can not even begin to describe the rollercoaster of emotions this ruse had me feeling IRL. Anger at the beginning, but quickly, and for months it turned to utter concern...as many of you felt. Yes, Jace was funny, but when it boiled down to it I think most realized the situation, if real, was pretty serious, and had the potiential for disaster.

The truth is, I posted here because after an unspecified amount of lurked I realised that my concerns were not isolated.

I have never been so relieved to find out Jan was playing the ultimate long con. That is why I could forgive him, and smile on as I move forward with my life, but suspect that I will hear of his exploits once again...hopefully in a real entertainment position in a few years.

*Group hug for all the feels we have shared.*

 

[I'm With Chris]

I've had a weird experience with the whole Deagle Nation thing. I never really bought into it (it was a LITTLE over the top) . I never really expressed it publicly except for casually in non-Deagle threads. That said, I played along because everyone else was playing along and thought there was some higher level trolling purpose to it (Wu, SJWs, GG etc) and didn't want to rock the boat. I honestly thought everyone was in on the joke., like a playful Milgram experiment.

Now with the reveal, it seems like I'm going to have to go back into the same state of mind wrt to Jan and his recent activities. If he can simultaneously stir the GG and Ghazi hornet nests by playing the "victim of 8 chan cyberbullying" routine (which is what he's doing, right?), I'll play along and offer him my sympathy or disgust depending on what the situation demands., giggling like a moron with every negative reaction he gets. I'm really hoping for some "credible", skeleton mask related GG death threats that need to be signal boosted by the SJ community.

 

[Le Bateleur]

It was really interesting to hear Jan talk about how he set out to create Jace as kind of an amalgam of everything wrong with gamer/internet culture. In this respect, he didn't really succeed. Jace was racist, homophobic, misogynist, reckless, tactless...and loveable. He was strangely innocent - guileless, more accurately - and he tried to fight for what was right in his own addled fashion.

The "You Won't 9/11" stream was a great example - Jace heard about some terrorists stealing airliners, and he wanted to get the word out and make sure everyone was alright. Also, the "racial unity" stream he ran following Tyce's "Ferguzone".

He was a flawed but very sympathetic protagonist. There was an obvious underlying intelligence and mental dexterity which we now know was bleeding through from his creator, but during the ruse it simply came across as untapped potential.

The reveal that it was all fake was such a relief, because it meant that Jace was not really going to spiral ever downward toward a bleak end, cheered on at every step by the actual worst people on the internet - that crowd of insincere fans and hangers-on who tried to feed a psychotic man's delusions, who flooded the chatbox with suggestions that he kill his mother or burn his house down whenever he appeared to be having a breakdown.

Deagle Nation showed us a cold, sociopathic side of the internet far worse than Jace, or even Tyce. A side that isn't an act, and that isn't going to go away.

But there was light among all the darkness. One of the truly great things about what Jan and friends created was that it was accessible and open. There was no real elitism to Deagle Nation. Anyone could join in and have fun - you didn't have to come from a certain background, or know the right people, or hand over any money. You just needed to press . There's been some great fan art and videos made by followers of Deagle Nation, and people have found friendship and encouragement to pursue their dreams.

There's a line from Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge which I think is a good summation of how I'll remember the character of Jace:

"Something perversely pure calls to me from his memory - not purely good, but himself purely, for he allowed himself to be wholly known."

 

[I'm With Chris]

It's all weird. For sure there was a dicksquad element that really enjoyed witnessing a person mentally collapse on camera but how large was this group and how much of their enjoyment was pure pure, hateful sociopathic behavior? Every cow thread on Jace Stryker was "go, ruseman, go". Gamerfood too was way overboard in it's defense of reality - almost like it was written by Deagledad420 himself???

The Kiwis actually showed the most amount of charity and tolerance to the piece of shit character Jan offered up. He was never supposed to be liked by us. We were just too nice (or aware) people to ever call him out on his BS. Yes, we openly mocked him but we let him have his say and many took his side. Not as a thing to be destroyed, but as a thing to be witnessed and celebrated. We made avatars and names to salute him. Did we ever tell Jace Stryker to kill himself or wanted him arrested for simply stating his idiot opinions? NO. But other groups did - supposedly more tolerant groups, and they were (are-lol) sincere in their endeavors (though I suspect that Wu is the ultimate troll) . Lenny Bruce said it, George Carlin said it, Stanhope, Stern and a ton of others said it: You DO NOT have the right to NOT be offended.

That said - there are real schizophrenics and autistics among us who have the Kiwi sense of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself via the antics of others. Trust me - I come from a twisted, country music / white pride/ Aryan nations background and find the Dailystormer blog to be hilarious - it's a parody, right? Oh god I hope it is. Otherwise I'll have to admit defeat to the internet Vox Populi, shave my head and declare myself an internet feminist or whatever.

 

[Boundman]

I got into Deagle Nation a few months ago and initially, Jace seemed a little ignorant and like he was everything wrong with the world.

After watching a few streams and lurking, I realised Jace was indeed everything wrong with the world, but only because of his (supposed) mental disorders. He's what would happen if you took an impressionable and autistic child and let them run free, never exposed to anything but the 'BUY DORITOS TO UP YOUR GAME' advertising companies project.

But I tuned into his TF2 live stream and played with Jace. When it started and I heard him yell "HELLO FAAAANNNNSSS!!" I realised that Jace, for all his insanity, loved his fans. He was a crazy gamer who wanted to play games and say dumb shit, and he deserved to be obliged in that. I saw him as a victim of circumstance who at least deserved to chill and play games. I ended up playing medic and ubering him as Crawling In My Skin played and getting him ~5 kills, his childlike reaction was actually kind of warming.

So yes, Deagle Nation gave me many feels. Jace manages to be insane enough to be funny, but sane enough to be lovable.

 

[Null]

I just fucking realized that Five Frights at Denny's was done intentionally and I am filled with rage.

 

[Dr. Meme]

I just fucking realized that Five Frights at Denny's was done intentionally and I am filled with rage.

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

 

[Cute Anime Girl]

I just fucking realized that Five Frights at Denny's was done intentionally and I am filled with rage.

Every time I think of some Deagle Nation-ism or some event that happened that was funny, I then remember that it didn't really happen and I get a little sad.

 

[Volksperg]

I was skeptical at first, but eventually I just wanted to believe. Jace's earnest all-american sped routine just starts to win you over in a way the the cringier lolcows never do. After the Reuben Baron incident I was just straight up rooting for him. Skepticism gone, didn't want the ride to end.

I got rused and it was glorious.

 

[hats]

I showed an actor my dick multiple times.

Seriously though it was a wild ride. I've already told Jan this privately but Deagle Nation was definitely the funnest thing I've ever been a part of online. From the livestreams to the Skype calls, it was all fucking amazing. Knowing that I was in a Skype call with DeagleDad while we called Jace still boggles my mind because he had to mute Skype, answer the phone as Jace and rejoin the call out of character after he hung up. Brilliant. Lots of feels.

 

[Spectator]

I ordered some things from Gayle's etsy account that I thought would legitimately be of use to my organization (she makes handmade journals).

Enclosed with my order was this. I am not going to front... I was smiling ear to ear and had one gigantic tear roll off my face. Those familiar with the history will understand the intense feels this gave me. @THE WRITER, thanks for making my day! Jan, I really am starting to LUV you. This is going on my desk in my office.

 

[HypeBeast]

I was pretty worried about Jace after the car crash when he said he was skipping his concussion medicine and smoking weed to help it. I was afraid the ruse was gonna have a very dark end.

 

[KatsuKitty]

I ordered some things from Gayle's etsy account that I thought would legitimately be of use to my organization (she makes handmade journals).

Enclosed with my order was this. I am not going to front... I was smiling ear to ear and had one gigantic tear roll off my face. Those familiar with the history will understand the intense feels this gave me. @THE WRITER, thanks for making my day! Jan, I really am starting to LUV you. This is going on my desk in my office.


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[Handsome Pete]

I ordered some things from Gayle's etsy account that I thought would legitimately be of use to my organization (she makes handmade journals).

Enclosed with my order was this. I am not going to front... I was smiling ear to ear and had one gigantic tear roll off my face. Those familiar with the history will understand the intense feels this gave me. @THE WRITER, thanks for making my day! Jan, I really am starting to LUV you. This is going on my desk in my office.


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