20 Years

[LBt1st]

Whiskey 7, honestly I'd say we all came out pretty ok. Homes, families, fancy pool projects, photography and other hobbies etc.. You'd think a group of nerds would end up with a few nut jobs or something. But after 20 years I think my biggest takeaway is how normal and well adjusted this group actually is.

[xer0s]

The 20 years went by so fast. Feels like....
No Wait! It's been a long ass time!!!!!

Wow, blast from the past. How do you only have 882 posts?

[Transient]

Probably betting them on a sports game or something. :shrug:

[ToxicBug]

Probably betting them on a sports game or something. :shrug:

Good times. My registration date is supposed to be around 2001 :rolleyes:

Oh wow :olo:

Topic: Jobs in the computer field

[Captain]

I blatently can't be arsed to be a professional geek.

I like my sex with women too much.

[seremtan]

he spelled "blatantly" wrong

and also "myself"

[menkent]

You'd think a group of nerds would end up with a few nut jobs or something

There were a few of those too. Didn't Darkvvulf or someone have a little fraud problem?

[YourGrandpa]

Don't forget about touchy-rapey officer lawl. :rolleyes:

[ToxicBug]

You'd think a group of nerds would end up with a few nut jobs or something

There were a few of those too. Didn't Darkvvulf or someone have a little fraud problem?

Yeah might be a survivorship bias.

[seremtan]

vaguely remember badmutha got busted for receiving weed through the mail

SoM has spent some time in the bumsex camp too

[Eraser]

Strangler

[seremtan]

oh jesus that fucking nutjob

didn't sys0p go to prison as well?

also where's my free t-shirt? :alert:

[MKJ]

Officer Charles :/

[Don Carlos]

Lawls

[LBt1st]

Apparently I need to lurk harder. Didn't know we had inmates up in here!

[menkent]

didn't sys0p go to prison as well

I thought he just went to 4chan

[Κracus]

I stayed out of jail... yay...

[Eraser]

But you're a drug dealer who beat up people with a lead pipe

[seremtan]

in bars

lots of security cameras

[mrd]

Been a long ride :olo: I signed up here under the user ID {Rampage} back when Q3test came out, which I think was something like September '99. I remember staying up until midnight or some crap to download the executable file, and then flying around an early version of dm17. And yeah I am pretty sure that was on 56k :dts:

Had a couple hiatuses from this forum, but always came back. Spent a lot of time in level editing and a bit in the programming forums. Had some good memories talking level design theory with a bunch of guys... some real talent came out of those forums back in the day. There are too many names to remember but I can remember djbobbles, Foo, inolen, evil_lair, hell so many others. The names don't stick but some real talent. I remember actually being approached by a guy at Blizzard looking for level designers, because he saw one of my maps. He actually sent me his copy of D2:LOD Battle.net Beta CD in the mail, lol. It ended up going nowhere but I believe this was in preparation for what was to become WoW. I think that was probably early 2000's... 2003 or something. I released a few maps, none of them I would call particularly stellar but had a ton of fun learning the craft and just being creative, and learning the ins and outs of the engine and the game code. I remember back in those days, R&R was hot shit, back then it was the "cool" forum. Lot of weird shit went on in there. I actually remember specifically avoiding GD back in the day but that was when this site had probably 100x as much traffic.

Still haven't made it to 10k posts >:(

[mrd]

The 20 years went by so fast. Feels like....
No Wait! It's been a long ass time!!!!!

Now there's a name I haven't seen for a while!

[Mat Linnett]

Still haven't made it to 10k posts >:(

You and me both

[vesp]

:paranoid:

I'm not sociable and/or mental enough to be anywhere near 10k.

[Κracus]

But you're a drug dealer who beat up people with a lead pipe

The one that got away from it all.

[Eraser]

:paranoid:

I'm not sociable and/or mental enough to be anywhere near 10k.

You looking to pick a fight?