How long have you been here, what have you learned and why did you stay?

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Terin

#61 April 24, 2008, 08:14:09 pm

Mario, Luigi, and their Gay Incestual Stories!
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I joined after visiting off and on for a few years. I didn't register until I finally moved away from cow-moo's website after being a staffer there. I came initially trying to be a staffer and post lots of tutorials on how to do various things -- a few people may remember I actually had tutorials explaining how to build platformers in Game Maker, which were probably some of the first GM-centered articles. I think I did a few RPGMaker ones as well, and just misc. development for worlds and story-building. I've built a few games and engines, never really finished anything. I've learned a lot about how these communities work and the help I've received from various guys in the Programming forum has been infinitely valuable. It's very... humbling, I guess. I have a degree in Computer Science here in the US, but there are younger people or people who haven't gone to a university who I can learn a LOT from. But I suppose that may be my own arrogance too. I dunno. I've grown to respect a lot of people here too. So many different people and different ideas. We have some really talented people, and although I don't agree with everything, we have some interesting folks, and it does open a lot of ideas.

Anyway, that's way too mushy for me. Let's not have another one of these topics for a while.

--Terin

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tuxedo marx

#62 April 24, 2008, 08:17:07 pm

Fuckin' A.
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A guy once said to me "don't go to Gaming World it sucks" so I did anyway and stayed because I liked it. hmm, what have I learned? don't mess with GW!

Sorry this isn't an epic tale of wonder.

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Kaworu

#63 April 24, 2008, 10:08:40 pm

kaworu*Sigh*Isnt he the cutest person ever
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Quote from: Terin on April 24, 2008, 08:14:09 pm

I joined after visiting off and on for a few years. I didn't register until I finally moved away from cow-moo's website after being a staffer there. I came initially trying to be a staffer and post lots of tutorials on how to do various things -- a few people may remember I actually had tutorials explaining how to build platformers in Game Maker, which were probably some of the first GM-centered articles. I think I did a few RPGMaker ones as well, and just misc. development for worlds and story-building. I've built a few games and engines, never really finished anything. I've learned a lot about how these communities work and the help I've received from various guys in the Programming forum has been infinitely valuable. It's very... humbling, I guess. I have a degree in Computer Science here in the US, but there are younger people or people who haven't gone to a university who I can learn a LOT from. But I suppose that may be my own arrogance too. I dunno. I've grown to respect a lot of people here too. So many different people and different ideas. We have some really talented people, and although I don't agree with everything, we have some interesting folks, and it does open a lot of ideas.

Anyway, that's way too mushy for me. Let's not have another one of these topics for a while.

--Terin

Weren't you the guy that dr funk told to fuck off(and finally go banned for)?

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Terin

#64 April 25, 2008, 12:46:27 am

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Quote from: Kaworu on April 24, 2008, 10:08:40 pm

Weren't you the guy that dr funk told to fuck off(and finally go banned for)?

I have no idea. I used to chat with Dr. Funk, though. Man, I forgot about him. There were so many GW-sagas, it feels like Dragonball or something. Then there was Waluigi-Soap... Man, that was like years ago. I still remember Faust and a bunch of the other guys. Man, that was years ago. I don't remember half the people here anymore. Just the people who've stayed. I remember the hype about Rast's Dragon Destiny II -- and how disappointed everyone was when it got canned. But that game had a LOT of interesting systems in it.

I actually remember being back on Don Miguel's site -- I won one of his contests to build Minesweeper. That was pretty crazy, haha.

--Terin

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Zeitgeist

#65 April 30, 2008, 11:07:40 pm

World Wonder
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I've been here since 02. I had another account (the SN was Dart64), but everytime I tried to login w/it, it wouldn't let me, so oh well. I originally came here in 02 for the RPG Making. I was also part of RPG Wolfpack at the time, before it died out. I was also big on RPG2kNet. I'm still here for the game making, but it's not as big on my part anymore due to a general lack of time and lack of interest.

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Madolah

#66 April 30, 2008, 11:36:08 pm

;Wyrm
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I met a guy online from a forum i was moderating at the time and he reffered me to Epiphany gaming i noticed a handful of people from when i lurked at the end of Cedarwoods. Silvs and them told me to come here and i refused it but started lurking then a month or so after i joined and i got lured quickly to the graphic art community and well i just love the colorful cast of the community we have here.

Wyrm | Madolah | ær

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Sudman

#67 May 01, 2008, 10:33:31 pm

Comrade!
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No idea how long ive been here. A lime though! I useto run FearRPG back in the day with a few other randoms but once I left school I lost interest and time. Guess I stayed here to keep in touch with certain people really.

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Sarevok

#68 May 02, 2008, 02:40:37 am

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It's a bit hazy. It's also 4am and I'm not proofreading ~~well~~ at all.

Back in early 2000 one of my buddies from school showed me he found this AWEOSME program that could actually make final fantasy games, and we started playing about in rm2k for a few hours at his house. He told me he found the program on some site that I can't remember, maybe Katie's RPGMaker Page or something shit like that. I search for rpg maker in yahoo or something and stumbled upon the old geocities gaming world site (god it was bad). But it had rpgmaker so me being 12 and naive, I thought it must've been the one he meant.

I have absolutely no idea why I signed up on the forums, but I did, and pretty soon me, bart, cytwo, orange and froz were on 31 hours a day being goofy kids giggling about sex. Bart told me to join everyone on IRC and I fucked up and ended up going into #rpg_infinity instead of #rpgmaker, and thought that bipolar japanese chick Finn was Fenix(Bart), so didn't realise my mistake until the next day when bart was like 'WHY DIDNT YOU JOIN YOU WERE ONLINE DOUCHEBAGCUNTFACEHWORE'. Back then there -wasn't- any good rm2k games, let alone even thoughts of cms or cbs or anything like that. (hell custom GRAPHICS was a novelty), so we all toyed about and made really shitty rpgs and thought they were all absolutely incredible.

Gradually as the years have passed I slowly began to lose interest in making games myself, and just badgered everyone to make me appear in their games (leading roles in rpgmaker story 2 and hotmog..yessssss). I spent 2 years teaching RPG english, that was a laugh for sure. Basically the community has been the thing that's been keeping me here the whole time, especially as said before 'you can get away with more stuff here'. I don't need to lie every post and hug you and make you coffee. If I think your game is shit, I tell ya chump.

I took a couple of years out due to personal reasons + taking everything online too seriously and taking jokes as insults (and compliments as insults) and I think it's done me wonders tbh. I'm back here...because I'm bored. Occassionally popped in every 4-5 months to say hi to DarkPriest/Faust/Bart, but that was about it really. Around january 2007 I rejoined proper, and almost immediately went to a britmeat and met lars. Meeting 'real people' behind the community changed everything, because suddenly it wasn't a bunch of bastard-coated bastards with bastard fillings on here, it was me buddies. I've basically stayed it proper since '07, and I've only just recently started to bother posting on the forums (my post count says it all. 666 of those posts are fake that were set when I left..so I've basically got 750 posts in 7 years). IRC has always been the thing I've cared about here.

What have I learned?
~~Felix~~Fenix is a cooler name than bart. CyTWO was the best member here. RPGMaker games used to be shit, but we accepted it back then. Now they are still shit. DeePee doesn't make good music anymore. Brits are extremely hostile and racist on IRC. Europeans are too good at soldat. Canadians are too good at WC3. Admins don't listen to people or update the site. Steel IS our god.

On a more serious note, I guess GW would be where I've kinda learned a lot of [cliche]'lessons of life'[/cliche]. Taking everything as it comes, being laid back and not getting worked up over people like Nightblade on the internet has made life so much less stressful and more enjoyable. Anything I've been unsure about in real life there's 5000 people on here that have experienced it too, and 6 will give me good advice about the situation. Hell I've even learned ggg..gg..ggg.gggigg.ggigirllsrsls.r from GW and how to deal with relationships =P

I never did find Katie's RM Page

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Paragon

#69 May 02, 2008, 02:50:52 am

wake up with the king
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Grin Tree

#70 May 02, 2008, 03:57:45 am

Protect ya' neck.
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Quote from: Paragon on May 02, 2008, 02:50:52 am

This about right, considering we more or less took the same route (Hehe...Linkmaster SAB). The only differences with me are that I posted on Don's board for a short amount of time before being banned (this was after discovering RM95 in 8th grade many moons ago) and the frustration from RPG Maker 2003 just led to quitting altogether, as opposed to moving on to Sphere.

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Hundley

#71 May 02, 2008, 10:40:01 am

professional disappointment
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i thought i would find all the answers to the universe at the gaming world forums community

i think i did a pretty good job of this though(NO THANKS TO YOU)

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headphonics

#72 May 02, 2008, 10:57:56 am

sea of vodka
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Joined: Dec 24, 2003
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i've been here for a while. i joined for CHARSETS or some shit but i stuck around because idk, i liked the idea of posting as a member of a community at first, plus people talked about stuff that i found interesting at the time and didn't really have any other outlet for. i wasn't especially internet savvy and this was the first forum i'd ever bothered to join, so a lot of things seemed interesting! another big part was that i was just planning on killing time until gw came back up (it went down in prep for gw5 a few days after i joined). i stayed even after the site came back up because it didn't take very long to get involved in the community on more than just a superficial level and really start caring about it. i connected with people here, or felt like i could, and that was the main reason i stayed.

i've learned a lot of stuff, but nothing i really feel like going into. some of the people i've met here have had a pretty big impact on my development over the past few years, though.

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