It feels weird that despite being here for... sixteen years or so, I've never gotten involved in any forum groups, played videogames regularly with you folks, or other stuff.
I guess that's social anxiety for ya.
Yeah, despite my trips to PAXes (PAXen?) and hanging out with folks a bunch over the years, I have never really felt like...in? Social Anxiety ++ more like
One of my vivid memories was being on the infamous PAXTrain in '08. That was a fucking experience.
The smell on the way back. Jesus fucking christ.
You’re on a power trip and need to settle down.
Oh fuck this is taking me back. Am I right in remembering you were on it too? There weren't many from SE++ on the journey. @Belruel was definitely on it.
yeah I think there were only a few of us... the first 6 or so hours were great and then power glove guy wanted us to be on video and then there was a multiple hour delay because of COWS and then the general started barking orders and it smelled and I was over it!
It feels weird that despite being here for... sixteen years or so, I've never gotten involved in any forum groups, played videogames regularly with you folks, or other stuff.
I guess that's social anxiety for ya.
Yeah, despite my trips to PAXes (PAXen?) and hanging out with folks a bunch over the years, I have never really felt like...in? Social Anxiety ++ more like
It doesn’t help that several forumers have strongly hinted that they do not like me after meeting me. But, I am weird and I’ve encountered this all my life, so I should be used to it by now I guess.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
what! fuck them!
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
My family still doesn't really have a strong grasp on what forums are, so they are always continually mystified by any reference to "my internet group."
It has become easier in the past few years to just refer to y'all as my vacation friends.
It feels weird that despite being here for... sixteen years or so, I've never gotten involved in any forum groups, played videogames regularly with you folks, or other stuff.
I guess that's social anxiety for ya.
Yeah, despite my trips to PAXes (PAXen?) and hanging out with folks a bunch over the years, I have never really felt like...in? Social Anxiety ++ more like
It doesn’t help that several forumers have strongly hinted that they do not like me after meeting me. But, I am weird and I’ve encountered this all my life, so I should be used to it by now I guess.
My family still doesn't really have a strong grasp on what forums are, so they are always continually mystified by any reference to "my internet group."
It has become easier in the past few years to just refer to y'all as my vacation friends.
My grandmother actually started browsing forums for celebrity news at one point, so she surprisingly gets it. I don't think she ever signed up or posted on any of them, but she understands trolling, banning, etc.
She warned me to never trust or believe anyone, and to not post at all if I can avoid it, which is good advice.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
yeah, when among the unwashed, I just refer to you lot as "my internet friends".
which is presumptuous, to assume friendship, but that goes down smoother than "these people who I kinda observe through a peephole shaped like an internet forum"
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
My family still doesn't really have a strong grasp on what forums are, so they are always continually mystified by any reference to "my internet group."
It has become easier in the past few years to just refer to y'all as my vacation friends.
I prefer "my sinister taskmaster," but I'll accept "vacation friend."
It feels weird that despite being here for... sixteen years or so, I've never gotten involved in any forum groups, played videogames regularly with you folks, or other stuff.
I guess that's social anxiety for ya.
Yeah, despite my trips to PAXes (PAXen?) and hanging out with folks a bunch over the years, I have never really felt like...in? Social Anxiety ++ more like
Yes, hello, I am in this same boat here.
I got introduced to the forum through the WoW guild here, and despite still posting over a decade later I kind of feel like I'm in the background a bit? That's mostly my fault for not being the one to reach out to interact with others, I've always been rather bad at that.
I have met a handful of folks and shown up for a few PAX East photos, and man I wish I hadn't just clammed up and been so shy every time. Major credit to @Bucketman for giving me a pile of gummy bears at the 2011 photo, though. I'm not sure I ever properly thanked him for that.
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Dyshow am I even using this gunRegistered Userregular
Also since my bookmark for this page hasn't changed in such a long time, this board is still social entropy to me and I had to think for a second about everyone in this thread referring to the name changing.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
I remember I started lurking / posting in 2004 when I was 14, I'm now 31
One of my earlier memories of this place was getting dressed down by tynic and probably some other folks in the D&D (was it Everything Else back then or was that something else...?) chat thread for some stupid libertarian views I had at the time and that was probably what started chipping away at my conservative upbringing into the raging lefty I've become
I still post very rarely but I think I'd be a much shittier person if not for this place
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
edited September 2020
I’m lying here at 1:20 am with a stubbornly clingy baby asleep on my chest, in a city I’ve lived in for 11 years after moving here from the other side of the world to be with a forumer who is now my husband and father to said baby, reading this here thread that took me down memory lane.
Gosh I am having lots of feelings, including great embarrassment as I recall my past conduct around here. Oooooof. But many good feelings, too.
Life is weird, but what’s even weirder is that my story isn’t even unique within SE++ alone.
EDIT: ok I’m done editing now, the sleep deprivation has fried my brain quite completely.
VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
edited September 2020
I never participated in a forum battle myself but I do remember helping Blake make his stop-motion entry on the floor of his apartment not long after I moved to Perth.
And he was defeated by someone who MADE A VIDEO GAME ABOUT US (was I a playable character? fuck I don’t remember) and the stupidest thing is that I’m not even 100% sure who the forumer was who made it, because that game was amazing!
Was it robcham??? I wanna say it was robcham ugh I’ve got the worst memory, I’m the worst
VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
Fuck I remember wearing the jersey to PAX 2012 along with everyone else and coming up with elaborate stories to explain what SE++ was to people who would ask about them.
I have my Cutie Mark Crusaders hoodie from the MLP thread. I also got one for all of my friends, when one of them was getting married. Two were supposed to be gifts for the couple, and we were going to split the cost. But, nobody ever paid me back after I ordered them...so I just wound up paying for like six myself.
If there's a guy who remembers everything it's probably Flarne
@Platy Your faith in me is flattering, but undeserved. I have forgotten most things. I do remember that weird plastic bathroom in our hotel room in Bristol though.
I think if I hadn’t stumbled onto this place in 2006 and grown up alongside it I would definitely have been at risk of ending up in some much more toxic internet bullshit. I was not a great person for a lot of my 20s.
One weird thing from the olden times that’s stuck in my head is the phrase “wherna wherna wherna”. I think it was used to torment someone who is no longer around. I never knew why.
I remember you got killed one time by a lightswitch
I do not remember this. Maybe because I died.
Sometimes it feels like the EuroPAXes was just recently and then I remember the last one was over five years ago.
We celebrated New Years at a Japanese style spa in town last year and ran into Kochi. It’s a very small world sometimes.
I kinda loved the forum battles also just for the absurdity of the insane amounts of talent being used just to slapfight forumers and be seen by a couple dozen people. Like, more effort would go into some of those 1-2 minute videos than some AAA movies get
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Yeah, despite my trips to PAXes (PAXen?) and hanging out with folks a bunch over the years, I have never really felt like...in? Social Anxiety ++ more like
yeah I think there were only a few of us... the first 6 or so hours were great and then power glove guy wanted us to be on video and then there was a multiple hour delay because of COWS and then the general started barking orders and it smelled and I was over it!
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I feel like that video comes up way more than anything else.
YES!
It doesn’t help that several forumers have strongly hinted that they do not like me after meeting me. But, I am weird and I’ve encountered this all my life, so I should be used to it by now I guess.
It has become easier in the past few years to just refer to y'all as my vacation friends.
Well, I like you.
My grandmother actually started browsing forums for celebrity news at one point, so she surprisingly gets it. I don't think she ever signed up or posted on any of them, but she understands trolling, banning, etc.
She warned me to never trust or believe anyone, and to not post at all if I can avoid it, which is good advice.
which is presumptuous, to assume friendship, but that goes down smoother than "these people who I kinda observe through a peephole shaped like an internet forum"
I prefer "my sinister taskmaster," but I'll accept "vacation friend."
Yes, hello, I am in this same boat here.
I got introduced to the forum through the WoW guild here, and despite still posting over a decade later I kind of feel like I'm in the background a bit? That's mostly my fault for not being the one to reach out to interact with others, I've always been rather bad at that.
I have met a handful of folks and shown up for a few PAX East photos, and man I wish I hadn't just clammed up and been so shy every time. Major credit to @Bucketman for giving me a pile of gummy bears at the 2011 photo, though. I'm not sure I ever properly thanked him for that.
One of my earlier memories of this place was getting dressed down by tynic and probably some other folks in the D&D (was it Everything Else back then or was that something else...?) chat thread for some stupid libertarian views I had at the time and that was probably what started chipping away at my conservative upbringing into the raging lefty I've become
I still post very rarely but I think I'd be a much shittier person if not for this place
Gosh I am having lots of feelings, including great embarrassment as I recall my past conduct around here. Oooooof. But many good feelings, too.
Life is weird, but what’s even weirder is that my story isn’t even unique within SE++ alone.
EDIT: ok I’m done editing now, the sleep deprivation has fried my brain quite completely.
And he was defeated by someone who MADE A VIDEO GAME ABOUT US (was I a playable character? fuck I don’t remember) and the stupidest thing is that I’m not even 100% sure who the forumer was who made it, because that game was amazing!
Was it robcham??? I wanna say it was robcham ugh I’ve got the worst memory, I’m the worst
I still have a spreadsheet in my google docs showing who ordered one and what name they wanted on it.
I don’t know why I have this! I didn’t order one and I don’t think I had anything to do with them!
But it’s there! 88 names long.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
Man I haven't thought about Natek in a long time. He was good people.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
BLAKE AND I HAD ONE OF THOSE SAY NO TO JELLIES SIGNS HANGING IN OUR FIRST APARTMENT TOGETHER
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
They certainly weren't easy to produce.
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It WAS Robcham!
@Platy Your faith in me is flattering, but undeserved. I have forgotten most things. I do remember that weird plastic bathroom in our hotel room in Bristol though.
I think if I hadn’t stumbled onto this place in 2006 and grown up alongside it I would definitely have been at risk of ending up in some much more toxic internet bullshit. I was not a great person for a lot of my 20s.
One weird thing from the olden times that’s stuck in my head is the phrase “wherna wherna wherna”. I think it was used to torment someone who is no longer around. I never knew why.
I lurked intermittently from at least 2005 on
I need a full version of the spacesuit song, that shit so catchy rofl
I do not remember this. Maybe because I died.
Sometimes it feels like the EuroPAXes was just recently and then I remember the last one was over five years ago.
We celebrated New Years at a Japanese style spa in town last year and ran into Kochi. It’s a very small world sometimes.
The lightswitch was this crooked one
I don't know if that was something you got off the internet or something inside your apartment
It's called my moonrocket by valerna btw
Oh wow. Yeah, that’s my bathroom from two apartments ago. My current switches are even. I hope.
I read the first few pages before skipping ahead and ending up here.
Thanks.