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Geek Culture / A Full Decade! (Of being on this forum)

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MikeS
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 00:41
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Today marks the tenth year I've been a part of this forum!

I have started out as a guy who hardly knew how to program, to being a Ph.D. student studying programming languages & Compilers. Maybe this isn't a big surprise to many who followed this thread long ago.

It's been great to work with TGC on several newsletter articles, contribute to the codebase, be a part of the mod squad, and collaborate with several members of this forum.

Here's to another ten years for myself and all new and old members alike!


Share some of your favorite TGC memories of the last 10 years(or maybe more for you oldbies )!

- Playing the Equilibrium demoes
- Writing for the newsletter
- Being part of the Mod Squad
- Helping kick off two development teams through Curved Basic (Which now exists and will develop further in the future here)
- Hosting the 3D Competitions for over 2 years.
- And of course, receiving a Dark Basic Pro CD From Real Game Tools.



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A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 02:13
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I too bought my first copy from RGT. Oh the days of RGT, from the Asheron debates to the unfortunate disappearance of danny wartnaby. My 10 year will be arriving shortly as well, and it's interesting to see what my code used to look like. A quick look reveals that early on, 60% of my posts were code snippets.


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Assuming you took a mere 20 seconds to write each message, you've spent 63.10 hours (2.63 days) posting to this forum.
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I don't think 63 hours is bad considering a 10 year span!

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
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Van B
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 10:44 Edited at: 3rd Dec 2012 10:47
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Here's to 10 years

15780 Forum Messages
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Assuming you took a mere 20 seconds to write each message, you've spent 87.67 hours (3.65 days) posting to this forum.

Makes me feel as old as my RGT ringbound DBPro manual looks right now .

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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TheComet
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 11:03
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I must post some more!

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Assuming you took a mere 20 seconds to write each message, you've spent 37.34 hours (1.56 days) posting to this forum.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 14:05
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Your Post Count

To date you have posted:
5891 Forum Messages
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Assuming you took a mere 20 seconds to write each message, you've spent 32.73 hours (1.36 days) posting to this forum.

Must... get... life...

GETTING THERE!

Here is to you oldies!

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Dazzag
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 14:21
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Quote: "Share some of your favorite TGC memories of the last 10 years"
There is too many to mention! Da Codez, Indi's breakdown, Raven's long winded (ie. longer than mine) posts, numerous idiot posts (eg Smartass), various MMORPGs, demos of vast flat brown landscapes with cell shaded robots, hard drive crashes (with no backups) the day before a long awaited (fifth put back date) demo is coming out, the wondering if Ash was actually a girl, laughable team requests from the "President" of the company... the list goes on and on

Essentially a great decade (about 12 years for me if you count the forum that existed before this one) full of a lot of laughs

Out of interest I was 27 when I first got into DB, and I am 40 next year. I literally can remember when this all used to be fields. Just replace "fields" with "all Indis posts"

Cheers

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Van B
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 14:37
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Or replace fields with object-on-matrix demos .

I think my fondest memories would be the competitions, they would create a nice buzz around the forum - maybe I'm just more comfortable around stressed people, like some sort of passive aggressive thing.

I think though, the most interesting thing to happen to the forum was Red Oktober, he's not here anymore to defend himself, but suffice to say he was quite the douche.

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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Dazzag
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Quote: "object-on-matrix demos"
Good point. Some of the response posts to "yet another screenshot from another angle" posts could be fun. And do you mean "demos" or just "loads of posts of the same thing"?

Quote: "I think my fondest memories would be the competitions"
Yeah the competitions were always good. The one I judged is obviously my favourite

Quote: "the most interesting thing to happen to the forum was Red Oktober"
You will have to remind me. I'm not good with names...

Cheers

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TheComet
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 15:03
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Quote: "Share some of your favorite TGC memories of the last 10 years"


And what about our physics being all wrong? Black holes are inside every planet and sun you know, the energy flow is like a boat on a water in a sink it doesn't push it only pulls, like an eagle with spaghetti cheese.

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Dazzag
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Quote: "And what about our physics being all wrong?"
Bit too new. Will take a good couple of years before becoming classic.

Personally one of the best moments of the forums was when the functionality to skip to the newest page came in (ie. based on your login). Was asking for that for many months before it was implemented. Aaaaaahhhhh....

Cheers

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Van B
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Red was a user here with anger management issues, he issued physical threats, dissed the software, and had a fairly memorable flame war with Cash Curtis. He spent the whole time trying to develop a submarine game in various languages and didn't get too far, which seemed to make his anger management worse. Eventually he was shown the door, like given a full refund, barbie.com'ed, and sent on his way... cast out from the magic kingdom to live as a troll, in a cave, eating raw fish and moss for sustenence (at least that's what I assume happend after the ban).

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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Richard Davey
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I can't believe these forums are still going to be honest (in terms of the spit and rubber-bands that must be holding them together, not the community), it's a decade old PHP code. Amazing really.

Oh and hi all

Oh and Raven! Dear God I forgot all about him. What a classic.


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Green Gandalf
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Quote: "He spent the whole time trying to develop a submarine game"


He's still at it. Shame he couldn't behave himself here. A lot of his stuff was interesting.

Submarine demos
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 17:56
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Well congrats on your 10 years and nice one on the progress you've made, I am happy for you. I wish the best of luck for your PHD.

Talking of posts:

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As for memories, there's plenty of fond ones...heck, I even look fondly at the flame wars...people these days are just soooo reasonable, we just don't get them like we used to. But I am with VanB, I really miss the old competitions, I mean they were ace and there was a lot of energy and excitement about them. I think these days there's more out there for TGC to compete with and with people moving on, it's in some ways a lot quieter. I don't think competitions of the same scale are viable anymore, but it'd be ace to see compos with decent prizes to motivate folks some more.

There's also plenty of members I miss and some really great projects we never got to see to the end. Megaton Cat, Jimmy, Grandma, Animeblood (I still speak to him), Gil Galvanti, Bizar Guy, Cash Curtis and heck, even Raven - sure he was the centre of a number of flame wars, but he was still good to have around. There's probably many more.

Quote: "I can't believe these forums are still going to be honest (in terms of the spit and rubber-bands that must be holding them together, not the community), it's a decade old PHP code. Amazing really.
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Lol, it's pretty damn solid. That's why I've always preferred TGC's forum software and I'm not just brown nosing you. Plus Jeku's done well in updating it, we've got youtube tags and syntax highlighting now, sure it's still outdated, but it does a good job regardless.


Quote: "- Playing the Equilibrium demoes
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I wonder whatever happened to the developers. I remember them moving to Blitz Basic and had a couple of other really awesome looking projects and then suddenly their website went offline and never heard from them again. I would so have loved to see them complete a project.

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TheComet
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 18:07
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Quote: "people these days are just soooo reasonable, we just don't get them like we used to. "


I think the real reason is that the AUP is enforced much more strictly. Back then it was OK to refer to someone as a "selfish bitch" and get away with it.

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Blobby 101
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Comet, I am offended by your language! I will now proceed to spend 5 hours crying. Also, I may report you. So there.

On a serious note though, I wish I'd been here right at the start. It feels like I've been here for ages, but 2006 really wasn't that long ago xD I remember some of those old WIPs though: Dream, Geisha House, Pirates of Port Royale. There was a time for a few years when there were quite a few decent WIPs going around.
I don't know if it's the forum or me, but there seems to be less interesting stuff happening now - it's all mobile stuff and apps (which frankly, I care very little about), and DBP seems to get pretty much ignored. I tend to spend all my time here in GC now :/

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JLMoondog
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I started on the gray forums during my sophomore year of High School. Still have my classic DB and DBP case + spiral manual too.

Anyone remember this mascot?


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Kevin Picone
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ahhh...the good old days.. proof that progress sucks


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Fallout
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2012 22:27
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Another old timer chiming in ...

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Too many interesting memories to list. I wish I could post up a screenie of all the awesome games I started but never finished. It'd be a good trip down memory lane.

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Another oldie (43 years old!) checking in.

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I have coded diddly squat in last 7 years except help a few people with code snippets.

Would love to get back into coding, specially to finish game I started in 2005, but working all day in front of a computer means I've had enough of looking at a monitor by about 6pm and would rather relax in the evening in front of the tv.

Off to make a nice cup of tea now, see ya!

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Phaelax
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Quote: "Anyone remember this mascot?"

I remember him! The raft down the river demo. Umm, Scorch was his name right? I made a model of it for a logo on a db website (the pic isn't the logo, just the only render i could find)



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Dazzag
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Roll on the next decade. I'm looking forward to buying my avatar a beer when it turns 18 Technically I joined in either 2000 or 2001 (after mucking about for a year or so with DB and various other things) on the old forum (and haven't changed names) so I'll get a sneaky one in when he turns 16 on here methinks.

Cheers

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Ah!! How does one check how many posts they have posted?

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Phaelax
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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=post_count

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Jeku
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Wow, almost 10 years for me too.

Anyone still remember CMC 101? I remember Rich blocking anyone from even typing his name. If I remember correct he made the mod's nuke button just for him

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MikeS
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Posted: 5th Dec 2012 10:33
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Quote: "Makes me feel as old as my RGT ringbound DBPro manual looks right now "


I still have the original packaging somewhere, as well as a letter promising a copy of CharacterFX. Now that it's a free tool, I guess it's not that big of a problem.

Quote: " I literally can remember when this all used to be fields. Just replace "fields" with "all Indis posts""


He was quite a helpful member for a long while! It was unfortunate to see him crash and burn.

Quote: "I think my fondest memories would be the competitions"


The Alienware competition is what spawned my first real game. I really wish we could get another competition like that. There was so much excitement watching people push the limits of DBP in those days. Perhaps these days there are too many other game jams or other competiting interests.

Quote: "Oh and hi all "


Hi Rich, great to see you stop by.

Quote: "Well congrats on your 10 years and nice one on the progress you've made, I am happy for you. I wish the best of luck for your PHD."


Thanks Seppuku! As far as I know, the guys who did the Equilibrium demos moved to blitz, started one or two projects but eventually left them for full time jobs. Honestly, they were ahead of their time compared to most of the indie devs around. I think if we had the gaming boom we're having now, those guys would have been one of the real big indie success stories.

Quote: "Anyone still remember CMC 101? "

:Shudders: In some weird way between him and geri they are responsible for most of the mod tools powers we have!



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Not as impressive as the other oldies here, but still -- I *tried* to... get... life... at a few points along the way.


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