Topic: Nostalgia Thread

[Milsap]

I think really, if you want to come back here; just do it - ignore the past, ignore your online rapsheet and if anyone wants to drag it up then it's their bad karma not yours.

Unfortunately, popularity and reputation matters just as much online as it does in the real world. I've got a rap sheet a mile long here, and I really do not care.

I had 21 Karma I think but quite a few were for stupid reasons, bias always clouded the system I found (both positive and negative). I much preferred seeing someone earn it, thus making me give it out than receiving it.

It was more of a popularity monitor than a maturity one I always thought. if it did come back there would have to be a new way of dishing it out.

i had +7 for calling milsap out on being pretentious about Music These Days

You're welcome. But if you think I'm bad with that stuff you should have seen this guy called MuscleMuseum. That guy had some serious issues.

When did Cpt Falcon and his missus have the baby? They met here too, that's the amazing thing. Articuno and Lugia were another couple who met here too (she's recently got married to someone else). Now I'm feeling old.

[MRxo]

@ Muhed - #pkmntournament was before my time but you used to go on about it a lot to me saying how good it was. That's all I remember about it =P

@ Milsap - I don't think there is a way to change giving it out but I dunno, I do agree to an extent.

[That Girl in the 'Roo Suit]

Oh Muhed, it's been a pleasure watching you grow on this site =]

[Sappy]

When did Cpt Falcon and his missus have the baby? They met here too, that's the amazing thing. Articuno and Lugia were another couple who met here too (she's recently got married to someone else). Now I'm feeling old.

I think that was the news when I had just arrived as a member.

[f3raligatr]

My earliest memory of joining here was Rob posting topics looking for love advice on like a daily basis. Sorry man.

Bi-daily.

I'm also still having counselling over THAT Zelda v Final Fantasy thread but I think it did cement Rex and I becoming bros 4 lyf

That was.. CitizenGeek and Chrono mainly, wasn't it? Who else was there..?

This is probably going to be messy, I'm kind of jumping from corner to corner of my mind here..

It's actually surprised me because looking back now, it's past the ten year mark since I first discovered this website. Weird really.. this account still feels relatively new and yet it's nearly six and a half years old. I guess the way the past couple of years have been with my own life, last year especially, have distanced myself from here and you tend to forget how quickly time does pass.

I still remember people like SuicuneGirl, ImperialDragon, Selim, PsyKoViggy, 16bit, Musclemuseum, Chrono, CitizenGeek, Crystal Walrein, Draco the Dragonite, Maikeru from when I first started here, along with a couple of others whose names are currently escaping me (there used to be a ridiculously skilled artist who specialised in the Hitmons.. but I cannot for the life of me remember his or her name, Iveechan was it?).

I remember ThePokéLab forums, Teams (Muuma Army), the AS| fad, the Couples Fad (Prof Clo & Falcon I believe it was who had a baby girl in 2005 called.. Rachel May iirc), when the Moveset Clinic was ridiculously active.. hm. The Dragonair argument was fun.. I think I got temp-banned for my part in that, in fact I'm sure of it, that was the last ban that I received.

Karma was interesting, but I think we were wildly inconsistent with it; sometimes you'd make a really well-thought through post and really go out of your way to help another member and get overlooked, and then somebody got karma usually for calling somebody out. I don't know whether we were meant to take it that seriously or not. That's going back a bit though.. christ..

You're welcome. But if you think I'm bad with that stuff you should have seen this guy called MuscleMuseum. That guy had some serious issues.

In all honesty, I always thought you were Musclemuseum. I don't know what to make of you now after you've implied you're not the same person..

I think it was around about late 2004, early 2005 when I was the most active, although later on in.. 2007 I think, I was active again once I'd wormed my way back into people's good books. I remember when we tried to integrate Netbattle into tournaments on here, I believe I got to the Quarter Finals of that tournament or even the Semis before Raphael knocked me out. Havok, Dan_Dan, Roman (Chaos), Raphael (Pokélla.. was it?).. are the people I can remember alongside myself, Lord Raven, Alex (CS10).. hm. I could be missing people here, I'm trying to differentiate who was active in 2007/8 and who was active in 2004/5 here. Then we had myself, DanDan, Alex (CS10), Alex (Webbz), Jay (Movemaster), TCoZ, Tim (Enigma) and Liam I think.. who were close in the TeamBuilding forum back when I was a Moderator there.. hmm.

I can remember when they used to do interviews on the forums.. some Munchlax dude used to do them. I might be jumping between eras here.. actually. I can remember a Couples Topic, Mystic Articuno started that I believe, along with the original Photo Topic before that got shut. Then there was the NameRater contest (I've been an 'Admin' for two or three years now and even I don't know what eventually happened with that..). ForumBurp used to be brilliant, it was just one of those things that would've burnt out had it continued for too long. The Spam Forum..

IRC is a shame, there used to be a real core that has just faded gradually without anybody really being there to replace them as we've all grown older. I remember the 'old' crowd, Barnaby, Yolanda, Church, Rachael, DawnatDusk (Alice.. was it?) Veyka, Wergoheb, Dan, Muhed (Lord Raven), Phil (Irrelevant), evilspike, Turner, Firestorm, Jasper (Pandemonium is his most recent name, I cannot for the life of me remember his old, more known, username), myself, Kat, Maikeru, Chani, 16bit, Rex.. then it kind of changed and the likes of Sappy, Chandler, Bonnie, Leon, (I don't think Will, Thunderraichu was that active), Richard, Claire, Alex, Kay, myself, Liam, Alex (Webbz), Mitchell, Mik, Mohinddddder (Movemaster/Jay), TCoZ, TSOL, Lugiafanatic.. hmm. Quiz nights used to be good too, until we all started Googling the answers to call Mik out at his own game. I think Mike (Typhlosion) eventually used to do questions that Google couldn't help with to try and trip us all up in the end. But yeah, it's a shame that it's slowly deteriorated.

DawnatDusk.. I'm sure she was called Alice, I seem to remember her saying on a number of occassions that she was going to kill herself or something.. then we found her about a year later extremely active on another couple of boards.

Just a question.. actually.. Upaa and Sappy.. are you the same person or am I growing senile in age?

Honourable mentions for those who I haven't already mentioned in some form go out to SimonTogetic, Luci (all I remember about you I'm afraid is your love for Sonic & Ribena), Kendal (Internet Hate Machine), Brin (Midnight Apology), Emma the Espeon and Conor (Kilgannon, the one I associate C&C with). The rest of you.. you've probably been lost in about ten years worth of memories..

I'm absolutely positive that I'm missing a whole load of people from the years gone by.. all I can say that it just doesn't feel like ten years. In a weird way, I don't feel like a Senior member of this website after all that's happened, I still see Psythor, Typhlosion, Jeroen, Ledyba and Irrelevant as the Administrators.. CS10, Dragonpika, EmeraldMilotic, Mushroom, Angelic Lapras King, LordBarnabat as Global Moderators.. and I can't really remember who the Moderators were. I just remember getting a tingle down my spine whenever I saw a Mod/Global/Admin posting in a topic I'd created hoping it wasn't a warning of closure. Not that I used to listen to them..

.. Oh, and who could forget the best member and admin ever.. pikachafan26<3<3 who proclaimed that she would "nevr evr evr leav u". I'm sure I can speak for us all when I say that she's lived up to that claim.

[Spriter]

Heh, I used to remember Dan Dan really contributing to Competitive Pokemon on here. Speaking of which, the SMP! That was nice to read through, but it died recently after a failed revival...

I haven't been here long, but I do remember Helenoftroy. Gosh some of the posts...

[Shaymin]

aaw Rob missed me out AM I NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH :C /goes to cry in a hole

pahaha anyway i remember i was a real noob. Smilies were... apparent everywhere and I was a dweeb. Still am, but I remember just being... really unlikeable? Anyway if i had met me then i would have slapped me upside my head. I got into trouble with Liam for uploading the wrong thing - I think it was one of Kay's sprites that I thought was neat so saved then uploaded it and put it in Liam's sprite school? idk i just remember getting SUPREMELY UPSET he accused me of stealing when I was just being an idjit

I remember when SFA, RP, and loads of other boards were really active! There was a sprite contest every other week and shops everywhere where you could get some real good quality. I still sprite but I've actually gone down in how good I am because I had a massive break.

The RPs. I never actually had a successful one, not along the lines of Thauxan Rebels or You Are Special. I miss those days TT_TT

Oh and the quiz. I still remember the one time I could turn up and either Mike or Joeno said the other one was the w-banker. hehehe.
One of the questions I weirdly remember was what's the longest word you can type with one hand on the right side of the keyboard? lollipop /o

forum burp was ridiculously funny. some people tried really hard to get in then people like me made comments that were apparently funny/taken out of context for the lulz.
oh and anyone remember the member council? pfft that lasted about 3.16473 seconds
i just remember a lot of stuff. Like the april Fools about DiamondPearl pokemon names! Gible and evos were called Me Myself and Irene jsdkfladfhs
oh and the april fools where the skin was made blaringly blinding and it backfired like WHOA and everyone flipped their ships and got all butthurt over it.
also when the top left PKMN.net image changed. It said "the only Shaymin in the village" on one of them and I thought that was a dig at me but nope i was paranoid as schmizzle then.

sobs softly where did time go

[f3raligatr]

aaw Rob missed me out AM I NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH :C /goes to cry in a hole

How could I forget you Grip Reaper, I must've had a brain fart o.o

[MRxo]

I didn't really know Phil but whenever I did talk to him on IRC it was a pleasurable experience. Really cool guy.

I remember speaking to Psychoshark when he randomly popped back for a week or so and he was awesome. Without him I may not have got into Dubstep lol

I was never really a main TeamBuilder Rob, I had like one good team ever. I was probably in there most when you got bumped to Global and my brother started modding it.

(If tonight goes as it may do I may end up doing a massive post in here so warnings in advance lol)

[Shaymin]

How could I forget you Grip Reaper, I must've had a brain fart o.o

maybe i secretly don't exist and am a ninja

[Sebastian Moran]

urg rob that huge list of names reminds me of people i used to be really good friends with but now i havent talked to in ages... like conor, brin, umbreon2000, citizengeek, fafnir... 
jas too obviously but we still talk, and im sort of in contact with mizz still. 
 
and ive no idea how i got bumped up to global mod, but i DO remember starting out as an RP mod (i got voted for apparently?? i have no idea who by though even now but i do remember voting for socky haha), then (sprite) fan art as well... and then this, which i remain bewildered and apologetic about. 
but yeah, RP and SFA were my domains, and these days i rarely wander out of RR. 
i should do some more spriting sometime, i havent in years but its nearly easter break. 
 
hold up i have to go and sit in my rocking chair before we continue with this topic any more. 
 

[sylar]

i remember the first time i went into irc actually
they were talking about luigis mansion and i said 'i cant play luigis mansion' and dan said LUIGIS MANSION CANT PLAY YOU and i got scared and left

i liked dan

i also remember that time me and turner just kept saying 'ok.' to each other over irc i cant even remember why but?????

[Webby]

I remember when I was really rude to Sherrin when I first joined and changed my profile to be "why doesn't Sherrin like me??? MEANIE"

I miss all my old friends here... like PK Fury, DSoul, Dana, Dane, Kristian, Kendall, Lit, Mizu, Ems, everyone I've ever PLC'd with, everyone I ever RP'd with... everyone else I'm still in contact with in some form. BUT THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU ALL.

I remember the days when I was a fad. DJ Webby Webb and his fantastic band, the Who Wants To Marry Webby thread, and all the others I don't remember.

Not gonna lie, I do miss IRC. I didn't go on much, or very often, but I enjoyed it everytime I was there. I still have the WEBBYox image that Turner made when we all got named after different chocolates (though why I was named after dog food I do not know...).

[Shaymin]

FFFFFFFFFF
does anyone remember that time on IRC when we combined our names with pokemon
Kay dubbed me Shelloz i think.

[Liam]

I love you Rob.