Goodbye Oppositelock

"E90M3" (e90m3)
11/12/2020 at 12:07 • Filed to: unnecessary car shopping with E90M3

Let me start by saying, I have no intention of leaving oppo as I did when Kinja was unveiled in early 2013. I intended to make it to one of the lifeboats, which one hasn’t been decided yet. I was quite perturbed by the fact that oppo was dying, but, fortunately , those fears have been mollified by the several replacement options; I will see you there.

I wanted to walk through my experience with oppo over the years as a fitting way to say goodbye.

I was introduced to Jalopnik in early 2009 by a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It took me a few months but on April 9, 2009 I made my first comment on Jalopnik:

At the time, I was called E30M3. I mean, I didn’t have a car, let alone a BMW. It was aspirational .

Now, I don’t remember when I came across oppo, but I do remember it was mentioned on the front page at some point, think it was after an update or something along those line. I had a look and I couldn’t stop coming back. W hen I first came across oppoistelock, I was a chemical engineering student at Georgia Tech. Fairly certain I was a second year, which would make this 2009 or 2010, probably late 2009.

I was active thorough the remainder of my college years. I remember in summer of 2011 I was living at home and would wake up very early, drive to MARTA, and take the train to Tech. I usually got there plenty of time before my first class, so I would go to the ChemE computer lab and hop on oppo. So if you’re a ChBE student at Georgia Tech, know that I spent many hours on oppo in basement of the Ford Building.

I feel like one of my crowning achievements was earing a star on oppo; stars were part of the commenting hierarchy before Kinja.

If you don’t understand the reference:

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Now, they changed up a bunch of things in 2012. They took away stars and we lost all our oppositelock history. This is my oldest post in existence:

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R emember, when all of our profile pictures were Willy Wonka, for some reason.

That’s March 12, 2012, by the way.

2012 was the also the year I graduated college, and I made a post to commemorate.

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After this, I was around until early February 2013 when Kinja was introduced. I could not stand that early iteration . Retrospectively, I should have stuck around as I had nothing going on until September when my real job started. I was on hiatus from February 2013 to April 2016.

Here are those two posts:

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My world had been upended then and I figured I needed something new to my life, so I came back. I want to thank everyone who didn’t abandon Kinja and kept this place awesome for me to return to.

Since then it’s been real. You all were there for me when I was unemployed and utterly miserable. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and other than the flight I didn’t have to pay for anything.

Got to go to two oppo meet ups in Nashville.

2017:

2018:

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I’ve very much enjoyed this weird corner of the internet .

Thanks for everything Oppo. Until next time, goodbye.

DISCUSSION (26)

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:11

By far, the best weird corner of the internet.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:12

See you on Hyphen!

EL_ULY > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:16

lol yes.

The Hyphen and/or Drive Tribe doe, yo!

vondon302 > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:17

Btw unnecessary car shopping is now a permanent part of my vocabulary.

Cheers E90M3 cya on the other side.

Just Jeepin' > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:19

Thank you for inspiring my own unnecessary Jeep shopping tag! See you wherever.

Nibby > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:25

MANY OF US DISCOVERED OPPO IN COLLEGE

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:46

I totally forgot about us lo sing our pre Kinja posts, I hate getting old. Earning a COTD was by far one of my crowning achievements in my Jalop life. I think I have a screen cap of my profile with a star somewhere on one of my backups. I need to try find it.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 12:55

OMG:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110806051044/http://jalopnik.com/oppositelock/forum?page=2&priority=1#

SO MUCH NOSTALGIA.

E90M3 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/12/2020 at 12:59

See you there!

E90M3 > Just Jeepin'
11/12/2020 at 12:59

This is what I’m here for.

E90M3 > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
11/12/2020 at 13:00

I have a bunch of screenshots from back in the day, I occasionally post them here.

E90M3 > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
11/12/2020 at 13:01

Holy shit! I’m on there!

Kinja'd!!!

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 13:04

Heh, I was never that forward thinking lol.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 13:15

somebody parked a fatass ford crookedly in one of your pictures. what a maroon.

E90M3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/12/2020 at 13:16

The bold faced audacity!

Chariotoflove > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 13:29

Nice thing about archiving your own history is that you can get people to remember you as you want to be remembered.

Stef Schrader > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 14:08

Oh wow! I think I remember E30M3, but never made the connection until just now. I lurked for ages and ages before commenting. I was ninjacoco before I added my real name here.

E90M3 > Stef Schrader
11/12/2020 at 14:10

Made the name change back in 2016 when I came back, seeing as I had an E90 M3.

MM54 > Chariotoflove
11/12/2020 at 14:59

I may rehost highlights of my history (if I can find any, not likely) on my personal server mainly for my own reference of time/pictures/etc.

BrokenMostWeeks > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 15:15

Although I only recently started posting, you’ve reminded me how long I’ve actually been lurking on Oppo...

The days of stars, nibbles, Wonka profiles, and SR20 actually being real things at the time... wow. I didn’t realize that was THAT long ago.

Like Stef, I remember E30M3, but also didn’t make the connection.
Best of luck to you, and maybe I’ll catch you on a lifeboat site.
(And if you ever see a shitty E36 M3 track car on the street in the NC/SC area, good chance that’s me)

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 15:18

I am currently at Gatech but yeah it’ll be a long time before I graduate as I’m an impetuous imp like all freshman.

I appreciate the deep cuts as I followed those links back through the years but I still don’t understand #parmgate.

At least now I know what the SR20 rule is.

E90M3 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/12/2020 at 15:47

It took me 4.5 years to get out, even with a fail out.

# parm gate is when Party-vi posted about having chicken parm for lunch then Monkey invoked the SR20 rule. He couldn’t provide it as he’d already eaten it. Was a joke from the beginning , but you know how those things go.

E90M3 > BrokenMostWeeks
11/12/2020 at 15:49

Yeah I plan on making it to one of the lifeboats. I’ll keep a look out! If you’re in GVL SC and see an E9X with an oppo sticker, it’s probably me.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 15:51

Haha, okay, so that’s what that means. Most days I can’t even reliably tell you what I had for dinner the night before so I’m not sure I can trust that.

BS Arch + master’s is 6 yeas minimum so I’m in for a long ride. Assuming I stick with it, which I think I will.

E90M3 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/12/2020 at 15:56

Here’s the link to parmgate.

Azrek > E90M3
11/12/2020 at 16:05

See ya at the new sites...Cheers!