What is your FAVORITE FORUM MEMORY

amateurhour

For me it was either the time a bunch of people changed their avatars to xenomorphs across like two days, a really good game of Werewolf a long time ago, and the last two months where everyone has been working to build a new forum.

hlprmnky

The time the StarCraft thread took a bunch of whining and arguing among bronze league buffoons (including me!) and turned it into a charity show match tournament that ran for years and raised many dollars for children’s hospitals as part of Child’s Play.

Commander Zoom

amateurhour wrote: »

For me it was either the time a bunch of people changed their avatars to xenomorphs across like two days, a really good game of Werewolf a long time ago, and the last two months where everyone has been working to build a new forum.

The above, but with the maze guy from Oglaf; a really good game of X-COM a long time ago (again, @Fishman ); and the last two months.

And one of the posts I'm still most proud of is at the top of this thread.
The only sour note is that I made it at the start of what turned out to be a really bad day.

Yeah, it was that day in November 2016.

Yellowhammer

Death of Rats saying thanks we all needed this. Amazing posting moment that I wish I could quote in it's entirity.

Captain Inertia

When Perrsun posts the EPYC submissions

The LDB smut

When Thanatos called the backwards B

When the hero will be called upon to save the mountain again

Blake’s wall-mounted 90-degree rotated washing machine

Etc

Monwyn

"The book thread sends its regards."

bloodatonement

Silly little memory to start.Someone wanted to make their car play "Samus Aran's Appearance Fanfare" whenever they opened the door. I jumped in the the discussion and the final product ended up being a gutted record your own message greeting card attached to the door and the car frame. It worked pretty good .

The other, just absolutely wonderful memory, was the Steam Thread Space Battle hosted by @akajaybay a decade ago. I still have the thing archived on my Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bwlgw_AbOUegLUd4M1VXVWxCaHc?resourcekey=0-8rvw2KDrHBt2s91cZd1juw

Tynnan

The Great Oglaf Avatar Takeover

JayKaos

Honc fridays.

tinwhiskers

Bad Company 2 on The Iron Dome.

JonBob

Draw a Reindeer threads every year.

SummaryJudgment

I can't remember the particular jokes - they don't matter - but I remember days where I'd be in a good mood in chat and joking and riffing back and forth in a good rythym -- puns, meta commentary, whatever -- and people seemed to be enjoying it. And I've since hosted folks at my house and ridden a motorcycle like 1000 miles to go see them, how about them apples.

D&D Secret Santa was also great; I couldn't participate this year but I had a blast on either end for the years I did and I still have art and spices and headphones and all kinds of stuff that make me think fondly of my Santas

TOGSolid

I'm biased as fuck but the birth of the Oosik Irregulars and the trajectory that took is definitely up there.

A Flock of Walrus got banned from Mechwarrior Online during its early testing due to leaking us screenshots so we christened the PA MWO group in their honor. Get some cool art, we get a funny story about our origins written, have lots of fun...

and then get fucking canonized in the official Battletech 2nd Succession Wars source book which also means we have a Sarna page
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Oosik_Irregulars

This incarnation of forums will close and we'll all eventually turn to dust but the Oosik Irregulars are eternal

Tonkka

I liked it when they fucked on the boat.

Fallout

the 'lution when riotcow said my art was good

Fallout

playing CoV with tube and co

getting jailed and banned a great many times

almost going to PAX 1 but my mom said i can't meet people from online

posting my broken jaw debacle

various splinter forums

forum battles but there were actual artists who are probably all famous now

having mental illness in public and having it catalogued forever. but before that was normal for everyone to do

having memories in a place for longer than any real place i lived in real life



just kidding it was winning a 15 (???) year game of x-com and being the sole surviving original member AND commander AND winning the game and killing the bad guy. eat shit, aliens

thank you fishman

Havelock3.0

when “quads” made it from the G&T thread into Mass Effect canon

One of my favorite memories at least. Too many to count.

initiatefailure

Lewie Ps mum made me a painting and also sent me some scones from the UK once and that still kind of blows my mind

Fallout

moriveth and jansons wedding

xXx_bLunTmaSTeR_420x69?

The first time I saw the raptor jesus ytmnd

Not here, no, a different bad forum before this

Blake T

I liked the fund raising thing that mully organised years ago where everyone all donated things to bid on.

Gazing

Remember that time that Neco posted in this thread?

xXx_bLunTmaSTeR_420x69?

Neco wrote: »

Remember that time that Neco posted in this thread?

Am I being incepted

xXx_bLunTmaSTeR_420x69?

Remember inception

Raiden333

PAX West Coast Train Trip 2007-2010. Organized via the forums, so it counts!

At some point the train trip was more fun than PAX itself.

edit: Remember when people who weren't part of our cult would walk into the downstairs arcade game room that we had hijacked with a rock band setup, and anyone older than 20 would be like grandpasimpson.gif out of the room because we were horribly uncool nerds, and then any random kids who wanted to participate were shunted to the front of the line and made to feel like the star of the show

Gazing

Tumin wrote: »

Remember inception

I was literally just thinking of that movie yesterday

I have never seen it

Foreverender

When a sore Dennis Dyack came to the forums to defend Too Human

That was real right ?

Man that game was a disappointment

xXx_bLunTmaSTeR_420x69?

Too Human was interesting! Veilguard poached almost the entire combat loop!

minor incident

Too Human wasn't as bad as the jokes made it out to be, but Dennis Dyack popping up like god damn Beetlejuice anytime his name was mentioned to defend it was far more interesting than anything in the actual game.

Pinfeldorf

The Pod.

RoyceSraphim

edit threads, my diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

the animated sig detailing a coversation with one fuckmuppet and their ignorance revealing that they had never known thr touch of a woman or had a single conversation with one that wasnt through a poorly made fast food call box

munkus beaver and their dogs doing battle with the Ur-Possum

Taramoor

The hundred page thread that only @crwth was allowed to post in. And that was the only thread they were allowed to post in until they reached 100 pages.

Dirty

I remember having fun with the MS Paint Wars.

Taramoor

When one of the ranger threads mysteriously and for no adequate reason just turned into pages and pages of sexy nuns, leading the mods to shut it down harder than I had ever seen a thread shot down to that point.

When I got Gabe to endorse me for the Nintendo Street Team on the main page, so multiple threads appeared in the chat sub-forum trying to figure out who I was with titles like “WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU YOU SUNUVABITCH!”

When Gabe and Tycho got a question about the phorum at a PAX panel and their response was something along the lines of “we don’t know who they are or endorse any aspect of that place” leading to some serious self-reflection by the Mods and the forumers, eventually culminating in the Glorious Edict and a massive overhaul of who we were and how we operated.

Fallout

Taramoor wrote: »

When one of the ranger threads mysteriously and for no adequate reason just turned into pages and pages of sexy nuns, leading the mods to shut it down harder than I had ever seen a thread shot down to that point.

When I got Gabe to endorse me for the Nintendo Street Team on the main page, so multiple threads appeared in the chat sub-forum trying to figure out who I was with titles like “WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU YOU SUNUVABITCH!”

When Gabe and Tycho got a question about the phorum at a PAX panel and their response was something along the lines of “we don’t know who they are or endorse any aspect of that place” leading to some serious self-reflection by the Mods and the forumers, eventually culminating in the Glorious Edict and a massive overhaul of who we were and how we operated.

oh my god ranger threads

i completely forgot lol

Fallout

when did we stop having to put nsf56k in post titles

Fallout

honestly thats when the internet went sour. you can tell

Munkus Beaver

Taramoor wrote: »

When one of the ranger threads mysteriously and for no adequate reason just turned into pages and pages of sexy nuns, leading the mods to shut it down harder than I had ever seen a thread shot down to that point.

When I got Gabe to endorse me for the Nintendo Street Team on the main page, so multiple threads appeared in the chat sub-forum trying to figure out who I was with titles like “WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU YOU SUNUVABITCH!”

When Gabe and Tycho got a question about the phorum at a PAX panel and their response was something along the lines of “we don’t know who they are or endorse any aspect of that place” leading to some serious self-reflection by the Mods and the forumers, eventually culminating in the Glorious Edict and a massive overhaul of who we were and how we operated.

Yeah uh.

That was my question at the PAX.

I believe my exact line, as a melodramatic autistic guy running on pure exhilaration and fueled by the good times with the other mods and Nads, asked them why they had "Forsaken us, the forums."

the cheat

remember this bullshit?

Fallout

the cheat wrote: »

remember this bullshit?

THE CHEAT

Tubular

It was a time in the Canadian politics thread. A lot of us were worried about the state of things at the time, including climate change, and PEI had just elected the Greens as the opposition.
Discussing logistics of that beautiful little island, someone in trying to defend that they weren't that quaint, claimed that they had multi-story buildings. Upon some quick research, it was discovered that the tallest building on PEI was ... maybe 10 stories. Without missing a beat, someone changed the thread title to, "We're all moving to the tallest building in PEI", or something like that.

Many, many great memories on these forums, but that was just such a moment of synchronicity and comradery, all coming together so seamlessly.