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Geek Culture / Well I'm parting with my pc...good bye everyone (for good this time)

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 21:45
Well I won't be around anymore...I can't tell you why or when I'm coming back or why I don't have a computer anymore. (No it didn't blow up)

Sorry to all those projects I am going to have to dump.
And my DB Generation website as well...(If anyone wants it, be my guest)

To Pet Rat, I'll still get that GUI I promised, so don't worry.

I'll probably still be around for a week or so to read the thread and that's it...

Have to go now, bye everyone.


DB generation: http://www.excaver.com/dbg
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Matrix Reformated
ReD_eYe
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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 23:23
noooooo, your like a very distant unknown brother to me!!!! don't tell me you've found something better to do with your time? or you've found the meaning of life or something? its gonna be weird without you come back soon


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Mattman
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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 23:41 Edited at: 9th Jan 2004 23:42
Let me guess, he got grounded

I'll take over the site, I know PHP and MySQL, I assume thats what you use

no
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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 23:51

One for the road
cheers

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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 00:22
Hmmm, this is a curious departure indeed and he can't tell us why?

Maybe he's been sent off to area 51 to work on a top secret goverment project to find out why you can't tell it's not butter.

Programming anything is an art, and you can't rush art.
Unless your name is Bob Ross, then you can do it in thirty minutes.
mm0zct
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 00:29
nooooooooo!!!!!!......
oh well maybe he's moved on to become some form of higher being.
this place won't be the same without you, no-one to make half sensible, funny posts that are still slightly related to the thread topic.


on why he's leaving, maybe he found another tv in a skip and brought it home so he's grounded, his isp's gone bust or he's moving house.

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Chris K
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 00:32
He got banned from the computer by his parents I guess

PiratSS
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 00:40
Are you serious?

Dude. you were like my brother, the only person who is close to me IN CANADA, TORONTO and ONTRARIO, I mean what are the consequences of that?

And your avrar was the best!!! Man, this sux, maby I should leave too then... to pursue the next gen, DirectX....

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heartbone
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 00:56
Maybe the institution has computers with net access in its library.

Good luck.

Peace, the anti-Bush.
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 02:00
Downloading dodgy material on a public computer always catches up with you in the end...er, so I've heard.

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Dave J
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 03:13
My guess is that like most people, the computer draws us away too much from real life and the 'things that matter'. You'd find you spend too much time on the PC, not enough time with real life friends, don't play sport as much, etc. It becomes a bit like an addiction where there's nothing else left in your life.

Perhaps he thought he'd be better off not using the computer at all. Then again, perhaps there's another reason entirely.


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Rye
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 04:47
I know what you mean Exeat, ive spent so much time on computers instead of socialising that i find it very difficult to have conversations with people. I'm slowly getting back to reality now that im at uni, where its hard to stay on my comp because of all the social activities, mainly getting drunk with the guys on my corridoor.
UnderLord
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 05:21
Peace out.....

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Puffy
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 07:09
I had that problem... I turned into an uber nerd... then last year I started going to the gym... stopped programming... and kinda got contacts... O_O bought new clothes... and advanced my skills at digital illustration... now all the girls wants me... O_O OH YEH...


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Ian T
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 23:06
'He got banned from the computer by his parents I guess'

I'm guessing something very similar .

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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 23:13
But surely he would have said he was grounded or banned from using his PC?

Something doesn't feel right here

Programming anything is an art, and you can't rush art.
Unless your name is Bob Ross, then you can do it in thirty minutes.
Preston C
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 23:23
Quote: "I had that problem... I turned into an uber nerd... then last year I started going to the gym... stopped programming... and kinda got contacts... O_O bought new clothes... and advanced my skills at digital illustration... now all the girls wants me... O_O OH YEH...
"


Puffy, thats inspiring! I think I'll start working on getting some muscle on these sticks I call arms, and I think I will get contacts...

But maybe I shouldnt, if you get a close look at my face without my glasses on, in my opinion, I look like I'm about to murder someone or something (gotta stop being so serious).

Cheers,
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Ian T
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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 23:55
'But surely he would have said he was grounded or banned from using his PC?'

Not at all, many people prefer saying 'I'm away on business' to 'my parents think I'm spending too much time on the computer', me included

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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 00:45
"don't play sport as much"

whooooooooo there's something that tears me up

(i hate sports)

maybe like me, he's realized that he is truely addicted to forums and is going cold turkey.

wean yourself man! don't go all at once

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Puffy
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 09:36
o_O They should have a patch... injects a low amount of dopeamine in your veins... wean you off quick...


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Benjamin
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 00:20
I cant beleive this...I also dont beleive this. How can we be sure it is not someone impersonating megaton ?

@megaton
Anyway megaton, try and e-mail me sometime soon so I know whats going on. I cant beleive your actually going to be without a pc..

I'll let Mattman take over the site until hopefully one day you can come back to re-claim it .

Well, good luck with that fish . Give it a good beating from me .

Later(I hope)

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Mattman
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 01:28


Hope you come back megaton, as much as I like taking over this good site, I am sad to see my partner-in-nonsense leave

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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 01:38
My guess is he has become a tree hugger, and obviously needs to now run a flower shop.

Cheers

Ps. If there is any small chance I am correct, then any hope of a nice bunch of alstroemeria's?

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
John H
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 02:08
Quote: "I had that problem... I turned into an uber nerd... then last year I started going to the gym... stopped programming... and kinda got contacts... O_O bought new clothes... and advanced my skills at digital illustration... now all the girls wants me... O_O OH YEH..."


Ive never had a problem with the ladies I use the computer a bit, but I still have plenty of friends, then again I got to a school with all of 40 high schoolers so its not hard to be popular there The women are on high demand, the hot ones anyhow

Megaton - You cant leave man! This sux! You were one of the coolest forum goers around!! COMON! /me is guessing he got grounded from the computer, which happend to me a little while ago...

Was it bad grades m8? Just cuz reports cards just came out, a little bit of a guess, never sure tho. Thats what it was for me at least...

Well anyhow, you best be back sometime!!!!

Till we meet again, may many beautiful women be in your path



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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 14:09
lol... Mattman, you had better look after DBG... grrr, lol...

Quote: "Till we meet again, may many beautiful women be in your path"


Don't we all wish that? lol...

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Benjamin
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 16:02 Edited at: 12th Jan 2004 16:04
Dont worry, I'll be aiding Mattman with the site as much as he needs me

[EDIT]
@Megaton: I have backed up all the files of the site on a CD (Man that megaton_creations.rar is big)

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 18:35
turrah


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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 18:59
NOO,We're Freinds... plz get another PC...


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 20:39
Wow...didn't know so much people cared...

Well what alot of you said is pretty much the reason I left...but not exactly...yes I am being forced to take a break from computers...more then just report cards and too much pc...

So I currently write this in secret as my 2 week suspension from school starts...

Pet Rat and Akira, I probably won't be on msn till I'm 18...(just 4 more years to go) so goodbye for now...petrat, can you open megatoncreations.rar, and seperate DBG from my site? Send the open source dbg to mattman (the /program_screens is on the server) because I don't trust mattman with my other personal files...hell I don't trust mattman at all but I won't be able to update DBG anymore so there is nothing to lose...

Thanks again everyone...bye bye
(Got to go shovel driveway then study for Exams, EQUA, some other stupid governament test, and do my Buisness project...


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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 21:22 Edited at: 12th Jan 2004 21:22
@Mattman i thought i was ur partner in non-sense...or is it that i just talk nonsense to you...wait yeah the second one thats it...

Bye megaton may the...stuff be with you sumwhere...if you lived closer to me i would give you a computer...i have sumwhere near 30 of 'em and most are in a cluster that has no use...

OSFusion is the greatest project ever undertaken. It is an unreasonable concept with unsound principles...and thats why im the head of its development.
Chris K
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 21:27 Edited at: 12th Jan 2004 21:27
Mattman, why do you think you're so funny?!

I have honestly never heard you say anything that is funny/isn't annoying.

Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 21:33
Chris Knott stop flaming, nothing he said here was even intended to be a joke it was a goodbye, honestly.

OSFusion is the greatest project ever undertaken. It is an unreasonable concept with unsound principles...and thats why im the head of its development.
John H
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 22:08
What did you do to get suspended from school

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Slayer
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 22:15
@megaton so you got a suspension from school. Well good for you.
What did you do to get this? The longest I got was geting kicked
out of school.

Your web site looks very good waht will happen to it.

I dont know how to spell
Chris K
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 22:38
I think Mattman is a pretty good web coder (PHP mainly) so he should do it proud

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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 22:46
Like slayer and rpg said, why did you get suspended? Drugs? Fighting? Swearing? Yelling at a teacher/principal? Vandalizing?


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Rye
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 22:46
My mate hacked the school network from a laptop with a wireless network card, used a program that the admin installed on every computer called netop, lets him see the desktop of other computers and controll the computer etc... He added a grand onto an order form for pencils. The person using the computer at the time saw the cursor moving and the number increase and told the admin. At the time my mate was doing this a computer admin guy walks throught the common room and sees the laptop with wireless card poking out the side. A few days later they take him out of a physics class. My mate decided to just admit it instead of lying and he got suspended for 4 days. They had no proof he did it so my mate could easily have got away with it.

The point is that he only got 4 days suspension for that and megaton has 2 weeks. He must have done something really bad like drugs or something.

(The admin were harsh as well coz they realized how stupid they were to install that program and they got the p**s taken out of them by teachers and students)
Mattman
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 23:41
Megaton visits here by school pcs a lot, maybe he got caught

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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 02:01
Maybe he wonted to kill someone. that might do it.
Or he was dateing the teacher.

I dont know how to spell
Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 02:16
lol, im sure thats what happenned tp69

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Dave J
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 02:21
I got suspended for a week for throwing a fire cracker in the middle of a class, of course I didn't mean to, we were just joking around.

Drugs is very serious over here though, I know someone who got expelled for dealing drugs at our school. Can't speak for Canada though.


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Ian T
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'Drugs is very serious over here though, I know someone who got expelled for dealing drugs at our school.'

Good...

'he came to school with marujuana & was just looking at it in the school bathroom & got suspended for 4 months'

He better! That stuff is not legal and not for anyone to use, let alone teenagers

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Personally I'm against all illegal drugs and alchol. That's just how I (am/was) raised. Whether or not that was what Megaton was involved in is none of our business really.



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Ian T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 04:28
Not accusing megaton of anything shady

Hope you can get a PC soon so you don't have to worry about school rules when it comes to that .

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Dave J
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 04:35
Didn't he say he wasn't allowed to use it until he's 18? And that he's only 14. So there's another 4 years to go!


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Ian T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 04:45
What, was he legally banned from PCs? I doubt it! I bet he'll be able to buy a computer in 4 years' time

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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 04:54
Quote: "Pet Rat and Akira, I probably won't be on msn till I'm 18...(just 4 more years to go) so goodbye for now"


Doesn't nescessarily mean he was legally banned, just means his parents are very strict. Now maybe if he hacked someone... then that might mean he's legally banned, but I don't think that's what happened.


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=\ Bah... I haven't had anything happen to me yet...


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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:57
Well megaton, I deleted the portfolio and megaton creations from the site(dont worry, I have every thing on CD till your 18 )
Anything else? Btw if you give me your address I can send you a copy of the CD. (Only send the adress in an e-mail if your going to )

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Posted: 14th Jan 2004 19:20
Hmm megaton send your address to xxxpetratxxx@hotmail.com so I can write to you(I guess thats gonna be the only form of communication).

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