From what I remember...
Voss decided to start his own MMPOG flight sim. He recruited a few people to help out and someone donated some hardware to help him develop the game. He announced it as a game that would do everything. The most realistic FM, the most realistic strategy and the most realistic everything he forgot to mention.
The threads started to get a bit fun at that time. People started with "WB sucks... TAS is going to have this in it..." threads and things got ugly quickly. Side note: this is why nobody with experience with on-line sims should weigh promises against existing product - lesson learned.
People got a little tired of promises and wanted to see some results. Voss posted a "screenshot" from the game that was quickly identified as a drawing. This opened a can of worms as voss had given us a brief look at his true nature. People began to question everything.
He'd also claimed to be a PhD and to have graduated from the Air Force Academy. Someone who had attended the academny wanted to know when. Voss answered vaguely, but it was about the same time he'd graduated from there so he checked to see if he was in a class ahead of or behind him. It turns out Voss had never attended.
Voss also claimed to have flown an F-16 in Desert storm (for the CIA) and to have had a couple of kills. This "lie" I find particularly funny. Voss has an RC model of an F-16. He still maintains that flying it is just like flying the real thing and still calls himself an F-16 pilot. The "I'm an f-16 pilot" thing grew into a totally uncontrollable lie.
As all of his lies were being unravelled... the really wierd stories started up. First, he was out because he was bitten by a scorpion in the desert. Then, the brain tumor (shich would definately explain everything else). Both of those turned out to be lies too.
That's about when everything TAS pretty much died out.
Of course, this community has a long memory, so when voss came back to AH and started getting preachy about morals and ethics, it wasn't too warmly received. Thus "the biggest egos in the game" thread grew to about 350 posts, most of which were bashing voss.
That's a great thread to read. Voss still manages to get a few gems in such as "You've all violated your NDA from the TAS beta. Be expecting a call from the FBI shortly.".
Damn... he's a constant reminder that even the worst people in the game pale in comparison.
MiniD
I knew MiniD would be good for something since his PNG.
Or, as SOB said, "Gay, gay, gay, stupid gay, gay, gay, gay, gay." or words to that affect.
