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i signed up here 20 years ago today

FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAYWAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
yes it DOES need to be a thread

its important to me (´• ω •`) ♡

admins, make a 20 year badge or be proved cravens

i see a lot of old names i recognize and thats cool, even if we weren't like super pals or anything

you know how when a show goes on for like way too long and you watch a later season of it and think back on the earlier seasons and you're like, "wait, who the fuck are these people? this shit feels fake." like half the original cast is gone and its all new people and the old people are all doing stupid stuff. like buffy is fucking spike and xander married a demon or whatever. like what is this shit? wheres angel. this show lost its identity and its just in late era "we're making shit up now idk" mode, like its not even canon

i feel like life is like that a lot of the time. many people have entered and left my life and now that i am pushing 40 it's harder for me to feel like new additions to my life are like.... canonical Fallout's Life cast members. part of this is because i have a very bad memory, but like how is someone i meet in 2023 supposed to be as important as someone i was talking to when you could still reasonably claim that a 9/11 joke was "too soon" ?? idk

but SE++ is firmly in my canon, filled with important times and places and people. one day i hope that i learn to feel like a new person in my life is as important as seeing callius's giant dick. i still remember when he told me not to use duct tape during sex. or when he told someone else and i was lurking because i didnt know how to talk to people

how are u guys doing? i hope you're having a good year ( ° ᴗ°)~ð (/❛o❛\)

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    before a mod locks this: you know what i always wonder? what part of the political spectrum do you think Defender fell into? lol

    ive got $5 on that guy being arrested for january 6th

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    why cant i edit my profile

    is it too old

    this is mod abuse i feel personally attacked

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Mods clearly out for Fallout's blood. Whippy shall not be stopped

    Ideas hate it when you anthropomorphize them
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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    whippy.... no...

    whippy wouldn't do that ...!!

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    YOU'RE OLD

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Wait are we buffy or spike

  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    YOU'RE OLD
    when i figure out how to call your mother on this computer you are in SO much trouble

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Wait are we buffy or spike

    early series buffy/spike back when things made sense. when the WORLD made SENSE

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    I remember when Jenny Calendar was like a techno-pagan or whatever. God, she was hot.

    Gridman! Baby DAN DAN! Baby DAN DAN!
  • cabsycabsy the fattest rainbow unicorn Registered User regular
    wow so 'midlife crisis brings you back to the forums' isn't that unusual after all, huh

  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    Hi @Fallout.

    The profile edit thing is a bug that's been going on for months, I think.

    X-Com LP Thread I, II, III, IV, V
    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    hi fishman!!

    i cant believe you finished the LP youre so cool

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    cabsy wrote: »
    wow so 'midlife crisis brings you back to the forums' isn't that unusual after all, huh

    wow. WOW.

    munkus still posts here? lol

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    FCD wrote: »
    I remember when Jenny Calendar was like a techno-pagan or whatever. God, she was hot.

    hell yeah

    RIP her she was great

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited November 2023
    I think I was also 2003 but maybe I was 2004. I don't remember the date at any rate. I think it got eaten by one of the forum switchovers?
    oh no it's in my profile still, august next year I guess. Whatever.

    BahamutZERO on
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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    @BahamutZERO ur profile says 8/8/04 o:) its kinda buried in there

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Wow congrats

  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    Fallovt!

  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    I'm super close to 20 as well - January 2024 will be it. I knew it had been around that because I knew I was a member when my son was born and he just turned 19. It's crazy that he's 19 now, I've been here nearly 20 years, and yet, I'm still just 29 years old myself.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Weird how that happens

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
    Made a shitpost and I never stop punning

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    My 20 years was back in July.

    I don’t like to think about too much

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    My account will be 20 years old next October. I sometimes wander what it would be like to still have my old old account from like 2000 ish, but I had to make a new one when that email address was deactivated.

    I definitely browsed some old version of the forums that was on v-bulletin I think in high school, and was viciously bullied for asking about half life mods in whatever social entropy was called back then, instead of in the games and technology area.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    My account will be 20 in a few years
    I joined this forum on the infamous day of 6/6/06 and I still have no idea how I found it or why I did

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    My 20 years was back in July.

    I don’t like to think about too much

    mine was in october

    i am an elder, worship at me

  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    I started lurking regularly around this time of year in 2002, although I didn't register an account until 2003.

    Coming up on spending half my life posting here, although I've noticed my engagement and interest slowly drifting away.

    X-Com LP Thread I, II, III, IV, V
    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I started lurking regularly around this time of year in 2002, although I didn't register an account until 2003.

    Coming up on spending half my life posting here, although I've noticed my engagement and interest slowly drifting away.

    are you still having sex with tube tho

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I am also nearly at 20 years. I believe I was lurking in Middle school and officially joined around the end of 2003 or early 2004, then my account was deleted in 2006 due to forum shenanigans (I might still have an email from Khoo and Tube about that somewhere buried deep) and I am now 37, still existing here. Still into a lot of the same stuff as the community and part of me wonders if all of us are just that similar, or if we all influenced each other.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    edited November 2023
    My 20th year is coming up sometime in December. I signed up after Gabe, I think, posted something on the front page asking a question that he'd take answers to in the forums. Or something like that. Not quite half my life but clooooooose. I can only imagine how insufferable I came across to a lot of people during my more post-heavy years.

    I drift in and out of here a lot of the time. Usually it'll be big political or social events going off that I want to read some thoughts and analyses about while they're going on, and then I stay around for wrestling and [chat] and the occasional video game or tech thing. These forums have been the most consistent community and resource in my life for a long long time.

    Aside from one PAX, I never did meet up with anyone IRL. Although I used to do the holiday gift exchanges, which is how I got into the God of War games and Zapp's chips!

    Gim on
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Just checked.
    Looks like I hit 20 years in July.

    My bones hurt.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I am 37. Being here for around 20 years means I have been on here for more of my life than I have not been on here.

    I am writing up a big thing for this years Holiday Forum, but being a kid in the early 2000's who was online right when the internet became a thing, I very easily could have floated into weird Usenet sites or early 4chan and become a much much worse person than I am today. Instead I went to a place where I was mocked constantly and it pushed me to try and be better. Misguided in the directions and reason? Sure, but still made me a better person overall.

  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    I've only been here 16 years. Practically a baby, brimming with youth. You're all the olds, not me.

    SteamID - Fig-D :: PSN - Fig-D
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    18 years, here. I can officially vote on forum rules.

    *Touches earpiece* what's that? Oh..

  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    It's weird that this is still an active forum.

    I wonder how many new users we get. Brand new people being like "I should register an account for the Penny Arcade webcomic forum."

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    edited November 2023
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I've only been here 16 years. Practically a baby, brimming with youth. You're all the olds, not me.

    I found dinner!

    Magic Pink on
  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
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    2020 was a year once

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Taya wrote: »
    It's weird that this is still an active forum.

    I wonder how many new users we get. Brand new people being like "I should register an account for the Penny Arcade webcomic forum."

    What even is the state of webcomics now? In the early 00s I was regularly visiting at least a half dozen every week.

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    I'm at 16 years on the forums so now that I'm 30, I've also spent over half my life on these forums, which is wild

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    What the fuck is a 20?

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I guess we have a third old person thread then

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