Planet Namek (website)

Planet Namek (formerly at planetnamek.com) is the name of an extremely popular (now defunct) , and daily news updates.

In mid-2000, due to the popularity of Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin on the Planet Namek forums, two spinoff websites based on the site s format, Gundam Lounge and Kenshin Web were founded. By early 2001, however, hosting, cost, and content issues plagued the sites, resulting in the shutdown of both by June of that year.

The Internet forum of Planet Namek, known as PNMB, had its own culture, like many forums with large memberships are apt to have. Notably, it spawned a series of short flash movies made by a member named Gutcruncher, including important events such as when a member named Bebi became a moderator (communications) and had a power trip, or the shutdown of the website itself. This culture lives on in two new message boards founded by Planet Namek Message Board members advertised upon Namek s closure, including [http://www.shadowsofnamek.com/forum] Shadows of Namek, now Shadows of Nothing and [http://www.guiltyparties.com/forums] Otaku Haven, now Guilty Parties. The two sites share many members, such as Lobok, Bebi, Dingbat, Dragonett and [http://www.mattcruea.com/ Matt Cruea].

PNMB also had a role playing and sparring community who in turn started their own semi-successful community called [http://www.neonamek.com NeoNamek], or n2, in early 2002. N2 is run by Lucas Wolf, known as NeoWolf on the forums, and is joined by many other ex-members of PNMB in the running and maintinence of the forums, as well as many others. The forum culture is very relaxed and in-jokes include the worship of pie, dancing, and silly sparring , a form of roleplay involving pretending to beat people up in a humorous or ludicrous manner.

=External links=

*[http://www.neonamek.com NeoNamek]a spin off on the role playing community in PNMB. *[http://www.shadowsofnothing.com/forum Shadows of Nothing] Another somewhat related forum; formerly Shadows of Namek. *[http://www.angelfire.com/dragon2/dwilson/Yue.htm Yue s Article fer j00] An article on the history and nature of online roleplay resulting from the PNMB roleplay community.