Been up to past 5 years?

[J-T Spirit Of Fire]

time is up. post deleted!

_{As requested, I'm inserting the old deleted post below. /Net}

Holy hell.

I'm gone for 5 years and this place is absolutely dead.
Wait whaat!? I was gone for 5 years?!

Still, in the last 24 hours.
1 Staff Member, 0 Members, 167 Guests, 1 Invisible User< Me

So people do visit? There must be some people who still care to check every once in a while. I'm living proof.

I don't even know why I'm bothering with this. Maybe some of you guys will actually respond.

So to anyone still visiting this place what have you guys been up to the last 5 years?

I'll go first.
I've been doing pretty damn good imo.
I joined the Marines a year ago. That includes the 33 weeks of training to become a marine. It was pretty damn tough. But I've always known that I was a more of a blunt instrument and not a thinker. So i fit right in.
I also got engaged back in november. Yay for me. =D

Looking back its hard to believe I was once making sprite comics. Its fun to reflect back on ol'days. Looking at my profile pic now puts a little smile on my face.

Sooooo what about you guys? And I'm mostly referring to the old folks from back in the highlights of this board. I couldn't care less about the people that joined this year or last year.

I will definitely delete this topic if no one responds in 24 hours time. woosh! it'll vanish as if it were never here.

edit: fixed a few minor/major grammar mistakes. Thanks for reinserting, Net's.

[Chaos Tank]

Well it would seem we've missed a secret message from JT. No doubt the crab people got him and intercepted the message.

[Netto]

JT's message wasn't very secret. Not too hard to find the original post.

As some sort of response to JT; Congrats on your engagement and nice to read that all goes well. =P

Might as well briefly share what I've done the past years...

• Won 7 iPods, 16 portable speakers and 173 litres of Pepsi... from Pepsi.
  
• Finished gymnasium
  
• Became a Cisco Certified Network Associate
  
• Moved to an own apartment
  
• Hired as an IT-Consultant at Lexicon
  
• Hired as an Onsite Service Engineer at Fujitsu
  
• Moved to a larger apartment
  
• Became chairman of an organisation for hard of hearing youths in Stockholm
  
• Started an own small business in IT-Consulting
  
• Became a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
  
• Received a small award from Fujitsu for "delivering impeccable service"
  
• Became a Microsoft Certified IT-Professional
  
• Purchased a new apartment which I will move to in two weeks
  

About three years compressed into a small time-line-y bullet-list. =P

I'll surely revisit for more nostalgia trips.

[J-T Spirit Of Fire]

people started to respond?
Didn't know you had post tracking powers, Netto. do me a favor then and re-insert my original message in my post.
And its nice to see youre doing good.

Take care, ya'll.

[Netto]

May 18, 2012 23:56:57 GMT 2 J-T Spirit Of Fire said:

people started to respond?
Didn't know you had post tracking powers, Netto. do me a favor then and re-insert my original message in my post.
And its nice to see youre doing good.

Take care, ya'll.

I don't have post tracking powers, I just know where to look.
Inserted your original message in the first post. =)

Cheers

[viruszero]

Indeed, congratulations on the engagement. May you two be very happy and fortunate together.

Well, I suppose I'll go next.

• Started my own forum, Endless Fight (the links in my signature, feel free to join. We're a lot more active than here with some familiar faces names.) Which has led to me improving my CSS/Javascript/Photoshop skills a fair bit. I've also spent a lot of time doing promotion for my site (which is a lot harder than it sounds...)
  
• Graduated university (last year).
  
• Became staff on the host of the forum.
  
• Got a part time job (I'm still looking for a better job though).
  
• No luck with romance yet.
  

Beyond that not a whole lot has happened worth mentioning. Played a lot of PS3, spent a fair bit of time at work, occasionally did some rping, got a tablet and have been doing some minor doodles now and again and that's it. Occasionally checked back in here to make sure things weren't spammed up.

[VileMKII]

Lets see

• Got engaged, then got dumped 2 years later
  
• Worked as a collector for a finance company for 2 years
  
• Got a new job that I now make twice as much at, but hate. Im a manager at a store called Menards
  
• Improved my hobby skills. Im getting damn good at airbrushing models
  
• I no longer sprite
  
• I am still the heroclix champion in my town.
  
• Make really good costumes when I do work on them
  
• Looking to open up my own comic shop in the new few years. Gotta find a good location for it. Both city wise and city location wise.
  

[Rio]

What's up everyone? I just dropped by to read the collab comic thing we did years ago. That was a fun read. It's funny too, 'cause it looks like we just spent all our time arguing after a while, but now it just seems like a regular comic.

[VileMKII]

It's a bit sad coming on here. I grew up here, mostly. During those junior high days I didn't have many friends, and when I went to military school I lost all mine. However this site, I made pals, and we all just got along..... for the most part. It was fun, I felt like I belonged. I honestly wish we all had time still to get on and just post stupid stuff like we use to, but in the end we all grew up. No more getting home from school and hopping online to talk about Megaman, or role-play.

I just want to thank you guys, you made my youth fun. And while many will not see this post, I remember nearly all the members that were even remotely active while I was.

Thanks to
Rio
Virus
Jet/Tank
Uia
Netto
JT
Mantisk
Zsaberslash
Miguel
Darc Abyss
Paytrel
Zanji
Flash The Reploid
RandomDrifter
Sorrum
NekoGabby
Shadow Tamer
Raikon
Advent Axl (or whatever name he had)
ZDragon
ManiacalReploid
Z-Buster
MaverickZero
Storm
Jovany
generalshenx
Track (he had the best sig)


Im sure there are a few names that if they were to pop up I'd kick myself for not even thinking about them.

[Rio]

^That's very close to my own experience too. Honored to be the first on the list . When I think about it, though, I might still be here had it not been for Facebook.

It seems I may have neglected to post a list of what I've done since leaving this place behind, so I'll just take the chance to do it now.

• After Megaman, I spent most of my time playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and posting on related forums for it
  
• Got over that eventually, but still go back to it occassionally
  
• Took the proficiency exam to get out of High School a year early
  
• Formed a thrash metal band which I spend most of all my attention on. (Here's a link to our FB page for the sake of promotion)
  
• Currently taking college classes at a community college so I can transfer General Ed credits over to Expressions where I hope to study at someday
  

That's mostly what I'm currently doing, but there was probably a lot more stuff that went on since the time I left here that I don't even remember or consider important anymore. I can barely even remember liking Megaman as much as I did, since it was an obsession I started in elementary school. Things change when you head off to college.

[Fool Arcana]

The weird thing is, i've never deleted this forum's address from my bookmarks...

Few of you will "maybe" remember me, i'm an old IRL friend of Flamezero, he is from my city, he actually founded this forum. My name was originally "Zero" then i changed it to "Axl", i think i was around 15 or 16 then. There are still my RP posts in this forum...

I knew only Raikon and Ice Cream Reaver, i remember a kid named Peytral, he always annoyed everyone.

Looking back, i think those days were the greatest days of my life, the life i've lived in this forum, late night chats with Raikon and Ice Reaver (never knew their real names), those friendships made me learn English and i'm grateful for that...I knew Flamezero from my town but we weren't really close or anything, nowadays he started his own sketch channel in Youtube, he even appeared on TV.

What did i do in these last 5 or 6 years? It was pretty rough, my family bankrupted, all of our stuff got taken by banks, that included my PC, my TV, my Playstation and everything else that worth a damn. My parents got divorced, i was forced to live in a room that contained nothing but old books (hence the bankrupcy) i read those books for like 1 year, devoid of human contact, then my mental health detoriated, my parents had to marry again in order to keep me sane, then i won the Fine Arts Academy, i became an excellent artist, i started to write academically about art, i grew up to be a fine writer, now i'm writing for various magazines about videogames. I started an organization that devoted itself for role playing games, we do it once a month here in my city, there are hundreds of participants every month, it's been 3 years and i'm proud of it.

I've started to write screenplay for TV, i wrote and wrote, magazines, video game sites and lots of other places. Now i got a book offer and i'm writing my own novel. Also doing lots of other things, selling tv formats, screenplays, giving speeches and LOTS of other things.

I got engaged for like 2 years but she cheated on me, got my own apartment after that, i moved in with another girl, we broke up, i've become something like a player, now i'm settling in with another girl and hoping maybe it will go right this time.

Jesus, i wrote too much, sorry about that...it's just, i wanted to write...

Keep the faith guys, take care.

[Sorrum]

I got out of high school two years ago, and have realized not having an education sucks mighty balls. So I've decided to go back to school, and start a career in health care, as a nurse. I'm waiting for a call from the Phlebotomy Lab(for like 3 months now) so I can get some experience in. I have a girlfriend who I am pretty happy with. I still live at home, but that will change in the next few months.

All in all, I'd say this place has some good memories for me. Met some nice people, made good friends, had a good time all around. I wish you all luck and good fortune in your lives.

Oh, and happy birthday Mantisk. Wherever you may be.

[Albireo]

Five years and it's rather simple.

Moved from Sydney to Canberra for University. At first was doing International Studies, then switched to Graphic Design, since it was more to my strength.

Still a guy who's studying, so not much happens for me. I do however plan on hitting Japan for exchange next year, so I hope that goes as well as all your lives did (at least whomever is doing well in their life).

[Jovany]

It has been a while hasn't it.

I remember I tried to start a card game here, based on our custom sprites. I had the 1st set done. It was comprised of 2 Starter decks and like a variation of 14 cards in booster set 1. Then as I was getting the rules done and ready, I thought I could revamp the card art and make them cleaner. And as I did that, I started adding more rules, and figuring out balance issues and how certain cards worked, and then I added Rankings and then it started looking like pokemon evolutions were forced on every sprite just to keep them playable and ahaoidsajs it just made a mess of everything...

and to balance it out, I for some reason decided on a Class system... which served no purpose but to make human looking Sprites weak and worthless, and rewarded the better looking sprites.

Honestly I had more fun making them and interacting with the community more than anything.

Another thing I remember fondly was the Comic we all took turns in making. I went from making unofficial side stories into finally joining the gang officially


What I have been doing in these last 5 years. I Competed in high school wrestling all 4 years, so My time was completly sucked up into that. I went to college and started majoring in Graphic Design. Originally I wanted to do Game Design, or something to do in the video game industry... but reality killed my dreams when I realized I problably wouldnt make it in that proffesion.

Now a days, I work on Designing Shirts on my spare time. I still crave to create a card game, so I checked on the website to try and look back on my earlier work back in my days.

Well I wonder if anyone else in the future will come back to this site and see this?

I feel like I might be the last person left here only hearing my echoes

I Actually cant believe I even remembered my password too haha

[VileMKII]

Until the site is 100% closed down I'll always log on now and then. This was my internet home, I could never desert it.