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So Long and Thanks For All the Posts

monikermoniker Registered User regular
edited May 18 in The Whirlpool
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I started posting on this forum over two decades ago while in highschool. My eldest niece is about to enter high school next year. Which gives me some idea of just how far that distance is. The influences of discussions here have undoubtedly shaped me into who I am today. Arguably it led to the chain of events that caused me to meet my wife. It's a strange farewell that also isn't one, but bittersweet all the same. Goodbye PA. We'll always have Paris

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  • HerrCronHerrCron It that wickedly supports taxation Registered User regular
    I've been here since 2008, but it feels like much longer.
    It's been a hell of a ride.

    Now Playing:
    Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
    Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    2003 here. Hardly seems possible.

  • ScreampunkScreampunk TehSpectre https://letterboxd.com/screampunkk/Registered User regular
    2006

    ancient times

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    May 2013 for me.

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Sometime between 2002 and 2004, not sure exactly.

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    Phorums. Early 2000s. Definitely after 9/11, which I learned was happening from the IGN forums.

    Too long. Roughly half my life

  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    2005 for me which nearly puts me in the half-life club, but I'm pretty sure I lurked earlier than that and may even have had a forgotten-about account so I'll claim it

    I liked your posts moniker! thanks for makin them

    Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Phorums. Early 2000s. Definitely after 9/11, which I learned was happening from the IGN forums.

    Too long. Roughly half my life

    Same, I started visiting in the "Phorums" days but didn't register till 2003. Honestly I thought for sure they'd shut this place down years and years ago, but hey, it just kept living on. Every other forum I used to go to has ceased to exist.

    3ds: 4983-4935-4575
  • ScreampunkScreampunk TehSpectre https://letterboxd.com/screampunkk/Registered User regular
    We'll never stop not stopping!

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Sometime between 2002 and 2004, not sure exactly.

    Samesies!

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Truly the end of an era. Thanks to you all for some wonderful times!

  • Mc zanyMc zany Registered User regular
    I joined just after these forums were setup but before there was another set of forums pre 2003. Anyone remember what they were?

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    I can't actually remember when Grandma's house happened any more... things are fading.

  • Bizarro EchoBizarro Echo ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    I joined in April 2003. I turned 45 last month. So yeah, pretty much half my life wasted spent here.

  • WitchsightWitchsight Registered User regular
    I joined after getting my first apartment / desktop, and finally realizing that you could just talk to other nerds about obscure videogames on the internet.
    Being into weekly online comics at the time helped find the place. Some others at the time might have been Allancomics, White ninja, PBF and polkout.

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User Mod Emeritus
    Joined sometime in 2004 or 2005. My account was wiped in the last great forum crash of the pre-Vanilla days and reinstated in 2006, hence the later join date.

    I think I joined because I was looking for a place to hang out after the Planet Age Of Mythology forums shut down. It's been a useful place to put down stuff that would otherwise have stayed in my head over two decades.

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  • WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Joined sometime in 2004 or 2005. My account was wiped in the last great forum crash of the pre-Vanilla days and reinstated in 2006, hence the later join date.

    I think I joined because I was looking for a place to hang out after the Planet Age Of Mythology forums shut down. It's been a useful place to put down stuff that would otherwise have stayed in my head over two decades.

    Similar story for me. I joined this and that videogame specific forum here and there. The only ones I remember were a Skies of Arcadia one, a Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri one and a Fire Emblem one that wasn't Serenes Forest.

    I ended up joining this forum as a kind of generic all-videogame forum. And I've lingered here ever since.

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  • SpaffySpaffy Fuck the Zero Registered User regular
    2004 here. Lost an account somehow, don’t remember how. I’m 41, so that’s another of us with half a lifetime here.

    These forums helped me a great deal when I went to rehab. Hard to believe that was a decade ago now. And then again when I lost my mother, then my father. The rest of the time I spent mostly laughing and learning.

    Thank you all. See you at CoRe.

    ALRIGHT FINE I GOT AN AVATAR
    Steam: adamjnet
  • HerrCronHerrCron It that wickedly supports taxation Registered User regular
    Oh, I lurked for ages, but then eventually made my account to join up with some urban dead shenanigans.
    A website that didn't outlive here, due to some legal fuckery in the very normal united kingdom.

    And then I just started meakin' poast in the D&D chat thread and that was that. I briefly spent time in G&T for the mass effect thread and SE++ for the homestuck thread, but mostly, just chat.

    Let's see if CoRe works out...

    Now Playing:
    Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
    Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
  • GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    21 years as of febuary; been here long enough to remember seeing when neocons weren't uncommon, The two threads about male circumcision (where I declared my hypothetical son would be as aerodynamic as his old man so that he would be able to dive bomb the little man in the canoe with as little drag as possible), the discussions on why anarchism is stupid, marvelled at the idiocy of objectivism... really there has been a breathaking number of silly threads in the forums.

    I will miss this place to be sure, but I hope CoRe can be a forever home for me :)

  • TubularTubular Registered User regular
    If I remember correctly, I joined in 2006, in the lead-up to the launch of the Wii. I certainly wasn't expecting this place to have such a profound impact for the better on my social and political awareness and views.

    Thanks, PA. I hope to see as many of you as possible over on CoRe.

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    I joined in 2004. Left in 2010 after looking back now was a particularly unpleasant yet in hindsight unsurprising interaction with moderation and especially Tube in PMs. Came back for what appears to be a single day in 2014 to be mad at Xillia for being a bad game, which I stand by, and then very late 2015 for Disgaea 5. To an alt that was on the email I still had access/remembered the password to that I think I was originally going to use for some Phalla , but who the fuck knows. It wasn't the first PA diaspora I was involved with.

    But does anybody remember my One True Name? Probably. It's not like I've kept it a secret. I just didn't care enough to reclaim the other account, though it does have a unique avatar that I can never get back.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    But does anybody remember my One True Name?

    SemicircleCosine

  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    I joined in June 2003, maybe 2004 in my early teens. I was more of a regular in my teens and early 20s but I've always crept around as a lurker from time to time. I credit this place for forming my identity politically at least from the questionable blue collar conservative / basic liberal family I grew up from. I've had other influences to mold me since, but this is where I first had any real consciousness.

    I'm 35 now, and I've had a forum account for longer than I haven't - I'll miss this place, but CoRe looks like it'll be a decent continuation. I look forward to seeing folks keep on keeping on.

  • GashikGashik Office Communist Registered User regular
    Didn't make an account until 2010, but had been visiting the site and lurking since probably around 2000 or so. Never much of poster, but I've read so much stuff here that it's gonna be weird to say goodbye to it. Will be strange lurking a new forum after all this time.

  • AridholAridhol Daddliest Catch Registered User regular
    2004

    @ElJeffe it was probably a passing moment in your life but it turned into a catalyst for me to get involved here, with the folks here. You're a good person.

    Everyone in the Canada and other threads, thanks for all the good discussions. I wish we lived in a universe where stark contrasts in opinions didn't destroy relationships but here we are.

    Good luck and godspeed all.

  • Uncle_BalsamicUncle_Balsamic Registered User regular
    Almost 20 years of lurking. Feels untoward

    Here's to CoRe

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited April 17
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  • Atlas in ChainsAtlas in Chains Registered User regular
    I loved this place. Thank you, every one.

  • ronzoronzo Registered User regular
    Like a bunch of us, I started lurking in 04 or 05, sign up in 2006. Would have liked to see my account hit 20 years, but eh well, vanilla would have likely totally imploded the forums by then anyhow.

    Here’s to you, PA forums!

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    This was a nice place to talk, thanks everyone

    We're all in this together
  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    June 2005, when the ability to register was sometimes on, sometimes off.

    It's been a fun nearly-20 years! I've very much enjoyed talking with you all (mostly reading, tbf), and I hope to see you at CoRe.

    Be good to you and yours, everyone.

  • HerrCronHerrCron It that wickedly supports taxation Registered User regular
    I feel that iTunes is just misunderstood

    Now Playing:
    Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
    Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
  • boogedybooboogedyboo Registered User regular
    Time sure flies! Been lurking since 2004, registered in 2007 for Phalla and Minecraft. Have fond memories of Rapture, Columbia, and Underdark. And been enjoying reading the discussions on D&D and SE++ ever since. See you all at CoRe!

  • RaynagaRaynaga Registered User regular
    2003 here. Ups and downs. This place helped me through some pretty awful times. CoRe continues the legacy, but it really feels like a piece of internet history is just going...poof.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 18
    Started in high school in 2002-2003 and you guys have been my friends/enemies/frenemies ever since. I love all you weirdos.

    Fencingsax on
  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    2003. Had started lurking before the boards came down temporarily and right when I went to register saw that they were gone.

    A few months after the boards came back I came across them and registered.

    I wasn't old enough to drink yet and now I'm 41.

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