Topic: Bring me up to speed, I'm torn with curiosity (Read 5264 times)

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Cry and yet we have the same birthday Cry

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guys what happened to chef is he still here with a diff name or?
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?
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guys what happened to chef is he still here with a diff name or?

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... when I think of Kaworu, I think gay transformers. Is this accurate?

This is the most accurate thing I think I've ever read.
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I think I remember DDay and Kaworu...DDay by name, I think I remember you starting out...and I apologize if this is uncalled for, but when I think of Kaworu, I think gay transformers. Is this accurate?


And I remember Atari. I was gonna mention him, but I wasn't sure if that name was from this forum...in fact, Atari, didn't YOU do sig and avatars requests for people along with DragonSlayer.


Faust, I'm sure you're still as graceful and lithe as a rolling dew drop.


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Vellfire, your name rings a bell, but I can't remember if I picked it up back then or since I re-joined. Was it always that?

Atari made a bunch of RPG maker tutorials.
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This is the most accurate thing I think I've ever read.
just add "scarily close to overdosing on drugs" and yeah

seriously man kaworu worries me sometimes :\
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?
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I had to post because this topic is such an awesome blast from the past. I forgot all about Grindie. His art was always really interesting.
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You know who else I remember? Death Jester (or DeathJester, or w/e). If I'm not mistaken, he was the closest thing to the resident asshole around here. Again, never did anything to me, but he was crazy fiesty. Like a jungle cat. Never made a single joke. Lots of death threats, though. Shoulda been just...Death. (I'm kidding, probably.)


There was a guy WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when. See, before my LAST account, I had my FIRST account. A week long failure of an internet identity that, in all honesty, shouldn't have even existed. I was like seriously 12. I pissed off a guy called Very Old Man or something. FIRST MEMBER I INTERACTED WITH. He tore me a new one, then Abraxa did too. Then I came BACK and they were nice and I was very tippy-toe-ish for YEARS until I stopped caring and made a dumb poll. Bart suspeded my account for a day or so and I just never bothered to come back. It was...time.


It's weird, man. This website had Reddit's traffic back then. The competition was intense, 200+ users online, easily, day to day. Fuck man.






With all due respect, what happened? But I guess I can ask myself that, too. :(


Sorry guys...and seriously, I'm still shocked over Paladin. Brutal. :( :( :(


UPRC, I vaguely remember a name like yours...as in a 4-letter abbreviation or something along those lines, but I can't attest to that. Is this the name/4 letter combo you always used?


P.S. You think Grindie's Boiler Room is still up? :P
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what happened was that a new version of gw was supposed to be in development but it was never finished despite the staff being shuffled many times and different people trying to get things done. it's really because the core userbase of gw grew out of game making or at least rpg maker and gw didn't really have any focus anymore. there was lack of motivation to get work done on the new site because no one really had any idea what it should and would be plus gw didn't really have many members who had the skills to get it done. eventually the rpg maker crowd got alienated and most of them left over the years to other rpg maker communities.

basically a lot of passivity over a very long period of time is what really brought gw down to the point i believe there's probably not really saving it anymore especially since most people here are adults now and too busy to dedicate enough time to get things rolling again.

and hi im dragon slayer

edit: and to clarify there was no old site up when the new one was in development. so that means we had no site for like 4 years. that does wonders!
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i get the feeling that the only reason why this site even still exists and people still come here is because we just look at the days gone by too fondly and need some constant nostalgia kick to get through the day. there's not really much to offer here any more. some of the same old faces, not too many new ones. a little bit of interaction, but nothing too engaging. it's a ghost site, feeding off of old memories rather than making new ones.

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i think imaek used to go by really old man or something.

i haven't updated my bookmark.
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i get the feeling that the only reason why this site even still exists and people still come here is because we just look at the days gone by too fondly and need some constant nostalgia kick to get through the day. there's not really much to offer here any more. some of the same old faces, not too many new ones. a little bit of interaction, but nothing too engaging. it's a ghost site, feeding off of old memories rather than making new ones.

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Or maybe that there's no reason for it NOT to exist? IRC is pretty much as active as I remember it and seems to be more of the focus for this place now, the forums being an addition (everything needs a forum!!!)

Anyway, how can you remember things TOO fondly? That's like something being too tasty, or having too much of a good time!
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There was a guy WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when. See, before my LAST account, I had my FIRST account. A week long failure of an internet identity that, in all honesty, shouldn't have even existed. I was like seriously 12. I pissed off a guy called Very Old Man or something. FIRST MEMBER I INTERACTED WITH. He tore me a new one, then Abraxa did too. Then I came BACK and they were nice and I was very tippy-toe-ish for YEARS until I stopped caring and made a dumb poll. Bart suspeded my account for a day or so and I just never bothered to come back. It was...time.
Yeah, the guy you're thinking of is imaek. imaek's first name was TheMOLE, then superoldman, then imaekphp. He's the reason I joined this site! I was in some chatroom in 2003 and he kept saying "hi mom" every 5 minutes and I thought it was really funny so I started talking to him. He introduced me to targ like cupcakes and through that I joined GW. He was a seriously funny dude - way, way ahead of his time. He operated on a different level. All of the Targers were exceptionally funny and creative dudes, but imaek achieved this mastery that I think only Hundley and Diggity paralleled (and in different ways). I'm only now beginning to understand the depth and subtlety of a lot of the stuff he did back in 05 or 06.

The dude was an actual genius.
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i was gonna disagree with hundley and say that we only use this place as a way of keeping in touch with this specific group of people but then i realized no that's IRC and yeah the forums are more or less what you said (summary: never disagree with hundley he is always right you dolt)
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, someone on GW had this in his sig:

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Art is not, and has never been, subjective.

"Art is subjective" is usually a term used to justify the insufficient pedagogical practices of self righteous dredges who believe themselves true artists despite their complete disregard for the principles of effective design...

Saying that art is in the eye of the viewer is nothing more than self-interested postmodernist bullshit requiring a concerted ignorance of the history and legacy of artistic achievement.

Where is this from? ??? I am dying of curiosity
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that could be a quote from any number of lectures ive been too :(