StifledSilence

StifledSilence is somewhat new to Board 8, as he just joined in 2006. Chances are, little is actually known about him.

At the beginning of his run on Board 8, many users misspelled his name. He was called "Strifled" by many, as if he were a Cloud Strife fanboy. Final Fantasy 7 is in fact his favorite game, but he would never name his user name after Cloud. He actually got the name from the TV show All in the Family. Archie Bunker would tell his wife Edith to "Stifle herself." Stifled decided to make a contradictory user name, so out came StifledSilence because you cannot stifle what is already silent.

So far, he has run a successful hurt and heal contest featuring Nintendo 64 classics that took place over the course of about a week and a half. Super Smash Brothers won the actual contest over Paper Mario, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time won the Battle Royale that immediately followed. The Battle Royale took place between four games: Super Smash Brothers, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Paper Mario due to the controversy surrounding the "Score Swapper" twist that was initiated towards the end of the contest. Other twists were initiated throughout the contest such as a "Mystery Game" being added into the mix about halfway through that was revealed once eliminated (it turned out to be Wave Race 64), the Weakest Link (the game with the lowest score was eliminated after a certain point - it ended up being a tie and two games were given the boot, namely Kirby 64 and F-Zero X), and a game voted into the contest by other users (Majora's Mask).

Despite the fact that other hurt and heal contests had predated it, StifledSilence's N64 hurt and heal spawned a fad in which several other contests were created alongside it. Most notably was a Game Boy Advance hurt and heal run by linkhatesganon in which Final Fantasy IV Advance won. Stifled cast the deciding vote that gave FFIVA the win over Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green. Many would say the whole contest was a battle between Stifled and Andymancan1 over the Kirby games in the contest. Kirby and the Amazing Mirror made it to 14th place and Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland made it to 8th thanks to Stifled's efforts. Andy was able to avenge The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald by taking down the Kirby games, but he fell short of getting the other Pokemon games the win.

Stifled participates in practically every contest available whether it be a hurt and heal, a "save my whatever the hell" contest, or a league contest such as the UUL or the User of the Year 2007. Stifled is currently entered in the Hurt and Heal the user contest and the User of the Year 2007 and could possibly show up in Season 2 of the UUL.

Stifled is also currently bumping the "Who is the Ken Jennings of Board 8?" topics for all he's worth. He doesn't actually run the contest. He just enjoys it and seeks more participation.

Otherwise, Stifled posts in just about whatever topic he can find. He says what's on his mind and doesn't hold anything back. Sometimes he posts some rather nutty things, particularly when he is bored and bumping a failing topic. No one seems to notice those odd quips though.

1. StifledSilence isn't very quiet. 2. I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. 3. StifledSilence is going to be the only one to guess on this one.

The above was posted in the "Find the Lie!" topic by Andymancan1. Take a guess at which one is the lie.

As for personal stuff, Stifled enjoys video games, bowling, playing poker and other card games, watching TV, wasting time on the computer, and writing. He has a Myspace page too (even though nobody cares about Myspace anymore). www.myspace.com/finalcutter41 is the place to go.

As for anything else, just ask him!