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'''BMW''' (now known as '''Wrongthink Tank''') is the central group on which the wiki is based. Initially formed as a Rust group from SomethingAwful, BMW grew out of its origins from the digital equivalence of someones basement to being the spire of autism its known as today.

[[File:Origin1.png|upright|thumb|alt=BMW logo in Trump style|[[Capitaler]] and [[Cal Worthington]] discussing the the merger of several clans to create BMW in May 2015.]]

BMW began at the end of the life span of the Goon run Rust server era. [[Bishyaler]] and [[Shadowgate]] merged their servers in April 2015 to create [[Goon Playground]]. The two largest clans on the server at the time were [[GM]] and [[FORD]] who had been at odds for months, trading raids and feuding in the SA Rust thread. The tipping point came after [[GAY]] and [[WU-TANG]] joined the server and GM launched its biggest raid on the FORD northern base. Many of FORDs members expressed disinterest in continuing to play since GM had become a monopoly on the server. After GM launched a massive raid on the WU-TANG base, the situation reached a peak. A mass of people, including GM, agreed that the server with its current population of just Goons and no pubbies was unsustainable. The decision was made to leave the server for several wipes to allow a pubbie userbase to grow. At this time, many new players were expressing interest in Rust, but had no desire to play with Goons against other Goons. [[Capitaler]] began floating the idea to create a massive Goon rush clan on a public modded server. Ideas were tossed around on what to name this new clan, with some idiot suggesting CARS, but the idea that since the group was going into a foreign land, it should be named after a foreign car company. Also, the joke from GM about [[Rejdukian]] and his German engineering. [[Cal Worthington]] landed on the name BMW, and the next wipe, BMW was created. GM, FORD, WU-TANG, and GAY all merged into one group using [[Woofingtons Mumble]] as a meeting spot.

The leaders of GM and FORD with Capitaler became the immediate leaders of BMW. They decided to move to the modded Rust server ran by YouTuber, [[PsiSyndicate]]. BMW immediatly adopted many of the strategies from all the aforementioned clans, such as GMs [[DREADFORT]] and FORDs sprawling base design which was itself influenced by Legacy Rusts [[DETROIT]]. The result was an impressive display of autism that only Goons can accomplish.

The second wipe cycle was largely uneventful. BMW stuck to the established playbook of basing in the snow. A few battles with [[KRAKEN]] who took over some outlying structures during hit and run raids and the infamous [[Turtle Raid]].

On the third wipe cycle, Capitaler shifted BMW from desolate fringe basing to dominating the airfield at the center of the map. The move was highly debated and argued that it was unsustainable and BMW would fare better by sticking to the edge of the map and remaining obscure. The move however turned out to be hugely successful because of the implications of placing a giant base in the center of the map next to one of the biggest monuments on the map. BMW immediately began cultivating a reputation of having an iron fist because of its ability to constantly be raiding, its impermeability from being raided, and the infamous sniping duo of Rejdukien and Taylor Swift.

The final controversy came in the last wipe. Incidents were occurring on the server that resembled the earlier no clip hacks, with many groups finding their loot had been taken without any parts of their base being demolished or removed. Taylor convinced Moegex to install a mod that tracked usage of cabinets and chests to try and find the culprit. The incidents almost immediately stopped, until the day before the update, a majority of BMWs explosives were stolen. Taylor began the investigation but found that the mod to track such thievery had been disabled, because of complaints of "lag". These complaints never seemed to have been voiced to anyone but BTK and nobody in BMW or others had experienced it. Regardless, TSBS launched a full scale raid on the DREADFORT as Taylor was doing the weekly tear down of the DREADFORT. Taylor and Capitaler continued to admin the server for several weeks after the majority of BMW had quit. Ashy however begun playing with [[Method Man]], the former leader of WU-TANG, under the BMW name. Eventually however everyone stopped playing for the remainder of the fall of 2015. Complaints about Rusty Bottoms and its sketchy admins[http://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/0/613956964590411847/#c520519112496887487] boomed after BMW left

Bishyaler offered to rehost the Goon server under the new name of [[THUNDERDOME (server)]]. Capitaler gave up his leadership position because of multiple reasons, including he was in no way interested in playing on a Goon server. The project floundered but kept interest in Rust to a certain level.

Bimmers spent the next few weeks screwing around once again on Bishyalers server, in what would become known as the GMFORD-GAY War.

January 2016 was the first time BMW played on Rusticity. It at the time was a fairly active server with an owner who was bipolar to say the least. He frequently changed rules and mods and even gather rates, but the server was stable and at that point in Rust, that's all BMW could ask for. It was a rough start because of an influx of new people after the 2015 Winter Sale, but a DREADFORT was eventually built. Rusticity however was not short on other clans looking to take shots at BMW. The most notable being [[ECHO]] who came closer to online raiding the DREADFORT than anyone since SPEED, but was eventually driven back by a coordinated push from [[Peaches]] with an Eoka and Waterpipe and Cal Worthington coming behind cleaning up with automatic machine fire. However, they were able to get back later in the wipe via use of home commands and tower up to the roof of the DREADFORT and break in. Lev decided to go on a bender and announced he was shutting the server down the next week.

In September of 2016, Lev, now named Lions, brought Rusticity back from the grave, again. BMW quickly became the powerhouse clan and was wiping entire sides of the map. In typical Lev fashion though, this lasted for all of 3 weeks before he decided to shut it down again. This time however, BMW had a plan. Taylor and Bishyaler got together and made a clone of the Rusticity server a few days before it went down, so on wipe day they brought the server up and immediately had 80~ people online. For some reason that has yet to be uncovered by modern psychology, Lev was enraged at this, and spent 100s of dollars on a botnet to DDOS the server, forcing Taylor and Bishyaler and move the server several times. The damage was already done, and the next wipe, no more than 30 people logged in on wipe day. This proved to be a massive blow to BMW, eventually resulting in several members and admins quitting. Rust again, for BMW, was dead.

During the summer of 2016 during a Rust lull, Rejdukien and Jack began hosting and running an ARMA 3 server using the Exile mod after BMW had spent some time on pubbie servers harassing people and almost getting banned. The server was a huge success for several months, attracting many pubbies.

After the failure of Rusticity, BMW turned into essentially a shit posting mecca for the remainder of 2016, especially after the 2016 US Elections. No real pushes were made into games outside of a few meme and party games.

January of 2017 was the release of the Early Access of Conan Exiles. Several hundred people flocked into BMW to play, excited at the prospect of being part of a good old fashioned Bimmer Rush. The developers of Conan Exiles had different ideas however, when on release night it was realized that not only servers have hard caps of 75 people, but clans were limited to 10 or 15. Considering BMW alone was fielding 40-50 people at rush hour, it was impossible for all of BMW to get on one server. Those issues coupled with the fact that the game was an optimized laggy piece of shit quickly killed any momentum the game had. Try as they might, the leaders of BMW couldnt find a way to get everyone playing the game together. Within a week, the game was essentially dead except for a few hold out groups lead by Cynthia Dutch and Snatch Duster.

For several months, BMW was once again in a slump. The major project they had built towards had failed. Many ideas were pitched, games were bought, but they all eventually failed.

Around the end of summer, Prude began reaching out to forlorn GBS Goons, starting what was later called the SA Rapefugee Program.

BMW, being a copyrighted international brand, was a name that obviously couldn't be used forever. Given the new nature of the group and its aims, Prude floated the idea of renaming to Wrongthink Tank on September 15th. The idea was very warmly received (outside of a few smoothbrains) and the old branding was mostly dumped, outside of keeping the BMW color scheme and still referring to members as Bimmers.

Destiny 2 showed promise as a new BMW group game, as many existing Bimmers had poopsocked Destiny 1 and were well versed in the mechanics and playstyle. The start was rocky from the very start, as TT of the SA Discord pulled a 180 and started his own clan instead of using BMWs (his clan died within 2 months) and then it was revealed that Destiny 2 would have no ingame text chat, further limiting recruitment possibilities.

Raiding was successful for a few months as AlexdeLarge came more into the fold, and Future led the raids. However, the game was not geared towards helping smaller clans, and after much debate, BMW decided to join into a larger clan. This, as Taylor said it would, did not help in the long run as the clan was poorly managed and filled to the brim with down syndrome squeakers. By the end of the year, Destiny 2 was essentially dead except for sporadic solo play by the more devoted players.

[[File:Jiml.png|upright|thumb|alt=Jim Lockwood giving the middle finger|Jim not happy with the Bimmers]]

After Halloween, Duster and Buster (no relation) brought to our attention the world of YouTube and Twitch talk shows, such as LiftTheVeil and other losers. Naturally of course, BMWs first course of action was to fuck with them. Duster and Prude both called in several times to LtV but never got any real traction because the host was a dweeb. After a few failed attempts to bit him, the group moved on to a small time Conservative host named Jim Lockwood, host of The Jim Lockwood Show, a conservative show in the style of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity but without the charisma or eyesight.  

Its a joke because he's blind.

2018 was just more of the same crap. No games, hardly any voice chatting. Just sad times. Sad!

Mid 2018, a bunch of people started getting their panties in collective wads.

Ironically, these series of splits spurred BMW to start moving in a different direction, including increasing the overall activity of the group and establishing weekly movie nights and game nights.

For the 3rd Anniversary of BMW, Taylor unveiled a new plan to reinvent BMW. Shedding the original perception of BMW as a massive fuck off group, the idea was to focus more on BMW as a close community and to set up weekly events for people to participate in. This included starting a Garrys Mod Trouble in Terrorist Town server, expanding the weekly movie night to two nights, and starting a Bimmer of the Month contest. It was a pretty good idea.

For the second year, the Fan Art contest was brought back and for the first time since 2015, the year end awards ceremony was held (This time renamed to The Bimmies instead of The Crewies)

* [[Cal Worthington]] - As leader of [[FORD]]

* [[Kimsemus]] - As leader of [[GM]]

* [[Taylor Swift]] - As leader of [[GAY]]

* [[Capitaler]]

* [[Scarybagels]]

* [[Akumos]]

* [[Your Mom]]

* [[Prudes Mom]]

* [[Louie]]

* [[Tibs]]