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DivW
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:08
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How is it that everyone on these forums seems to know who each other are? I've been here for a fair bit of time now, and over time i've noticed how certain people always notice each other, like they say "Hey fallout, you changed your avatar" for example. You know what i mean, the regulars. I'm not a regular here, but i try and post a couple of things, and i was just wondering how much it takes before you can be considered a regular here. -Dave

PS: This is a bit of a rubbishy post, so ignore it, if that floats your boat.

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lagmaster
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:16 Edited at: 13th Jan 2004 14:16
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i've been following darkbasic since spring 2000. i didnt really become active in the forums till 1.08 retail came out.

there are a few that have known me for a while, but it's the new ones that dont really know me.

btw there are older members than me

but if you come on a forum most days and talk to people, you get to know them and creates a friendly forum atmosphere

it's just the 2003/2003 new people that come waltzing in here thinking they own the place that annoys me

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Dave J
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:16
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Basically if I recognise someone's name then I consider them a regular. And since I recognise your name I'd say you're a regular. It doesn't really mean much though, just that you either stay here too long or have been around quite a while.


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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:27
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im a regular

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Dave J
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:31
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Actually, I think of you as more of a fly, you're always there but you don't seem to contribute anything worthwhile.


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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:32
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lol, hopefully I can gain some R-E-S-P-E-C-T from DBG

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actarus
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:34
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Oldbie,semi-oldbie,rookie,veteran,lurker,regular...Most people haven't been here the same amount of time.

Still,I can see a good few names that are still around since '99 so I guess they are the regulars.

Nevertheless,the most popular member posted around 7 replies in his whole successful(afa popularity) DB time...Zennicanin14.

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Eric T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:38
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I've been around DB since 2000, then joined the forums in late 2002- beginging of 2003(damned joined date dosen't work.... i couldn't of joined that day, i was in the hospital that whole week.... the mental hospital).

I don't consider my self a regular though, more of a troll...lol

If i ain't here, i'm probably playing DOA2 Hardcore on the PS2
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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:40 Edited at: 13th Jan 2004 14:41
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I'd say you were a regular eric, then you kinda drifted off...

I started db in may 2003, joined not much later

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actarus
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:43 Edited at: 13th Jan 2004 14:44
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-I don't consider my self a regular though, more of a troll...lol



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Eric T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:52
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Quote: "I'd say you were a regular eric, then you kinda drifted off..."


bahhh drifted off...no

started to get programming and modeling before forum usage...YES!!!

If i ain't here, i'm probably playing DOA2 Hardcore on the PS2
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indi
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 14:59
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I dont remember eric T from back then but i dont want to cause any heartache over that and I dont see the same enthusiam with code snippets or huge ideas from back then also.

Perhaps a new wave of users are in a learning process before we see good things.
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actarus
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 15:05
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And Alberto Meyer finally showing up after all these years,maybe will we see the legacy of his work continued?Time will tell.

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Eric T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 16:59 Edited at: 13th Jan 2004 16:59
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Quote: "I've been around DB since 2000, then joined the forums in late 2002- beginging of 2003"


(quote from myself)

I also only had 6 total posts for about 3 months... then i actually came onto the forums as a normal everyday user.

If i ain't here, i'm probably playing DOA2 Hardcore on the PS2
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Ian T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 17:39
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I recognize you. I know everyone who's posted here actually. I can't instantly remember posts you've made, but the avatar+name combinations are easily recognizable .

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 18:46
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I recognise everyone here except Eric T (sorry, but now I know you !) I guess "regulars" are just the people who post enough to be noticed. I guess using the IRC chatroom (which I don't much) probably helps as well.

Do you bite your thumb at me sir?

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JoelJ
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 19:19
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am i a regular? or just an idiot?

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Ian T
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 19:22
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Not a regular but I know you anyways.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 19:24
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fine............i see how it is

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TKF15H
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 19:36
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I've visited the forums since before darkbasicpro was out.
Though, till today, I only have <600 posts

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actarus
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Depends also on the level of addiction to either DB of the forums themselves.

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John H
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 22:56
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Take Exeat for example. I know he had another avatar before that one, it was some guy in a mask...he was red

Ive been around DB since the summer of 2001, forget when I joined, and I have acumulated over 4k in posts


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Chris K
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 23:06
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You've been coding in DB for three years????

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John H
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Yea I liked the old site..but this one is much more professional.


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Killswitch
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 23:13
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I come here almost everyday and no one recognises me!

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Killswitch
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See?
All I wanted was a loyal army of cyber slaves to do my bidding!

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Ian T
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Killswitch is a real live oldbie, like me . From the old days.

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Killswitch
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Whoo! Some one recogises me! Ah my life is now complete, I'm just off to shoot myself now that there nothingleft to do

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BatVink
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I suppose 9 months and 1,127...sorry 1,128 posts makes me a regular.

But what is a regular? I prefer to think of myself as an unusual.

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lagmaster
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transworld:
check the wip forum, there's a topic with 99.999% in it. less than a month old. check that.

aahhh darkbasiccodebase.co.uk it seems everyone has forgotten about that. now when looking at it, it's just filled with rubbish now. was it kenith mcinnes? or something like that, who ran it.

if anyone wonders where some of the oldies are, some are on llrgt, some use blitz now, some just disappear. it's the apollo forum that what caused the split.

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MikeS
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I consider myself a regular as I browse the forums everyday.

[
Quote: "i]You've posted 1975 Messages[/i]"


Most people I can remember there avatars and sometimes there names before the name change.

I came in with patch 3 of DBP I believe.



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Hamish McHaggis
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Quote: "You've posted 1792 Messages"


Dang you're beating me yellow , well you did join 9 days before me, I can post 183 messages in 9 days, that's 20 messages a day, easy ...

Who has changed their name? I can think of three...

- MrMAToad -> TCA
- Sonic -> Spooky
- NWC Omega -> Preston something or other.

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Hamish McHaggis
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1/183 ...

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Hamish McHaggis
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OH!! Eric_T is liquidz_snake , yeah of course I know you.

Do you bite your thumb at me sir?

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Dazzag
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I'm quite regular. But then I like bran flakes

Most people left cos of Blitz or cos they got bored of the forums.

Personally I like the forum. Might not be what it once was, but it beats a few forums for humour now and again

Quote: "Killswitch is a real live oldbie"

Really? Can't remember at all. Interestingly though, are you the same mouse that was around yonks ago? Can't remember the handle, but it had mouse in it, but was not just "mouse". If you see what I mean.

Hell, I remember when Dr Av. was right up there. And for the newer lot, what about Equillibrium? Good stuff.

Cheers

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Hamish McHaggis
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Ahhhh.. nope, don't remember you're old name , hi anyway!

3/183

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Dazzag
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Who me? Heh, check da codez.

Cheers

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StevieVee->BatVink

+1 on Hamish



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Posted: 14th Jan 2004 01:37 Edited at: 14th Jan 2004 01:38
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Hark at you, Yellow!

or did my sig give it away?

The easy to remember peeps are the ones with their own Avatar. (jump, froggy, jump)

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indi
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those were the days my friends

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Ian T
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I saw Crappycoder and John111 mentioned on the first page... yeah old days

Thanks indi I didn't know the wayback machine had the whole forums

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After being a regular here for over a year now, I've discovered I don't contribute to these forums as much I would like to. After posting 1007 times, I'm begining to wonder what percentage of my posts were actually useful or worthy of attention.

One thing is certain, I spend too much time in the General Forum. Come to think of it, a lot of us spend to much time in the General Forum

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ive been around since DB was on a magazine cd, i think pcformat. In the old forum i think i was called Dark_Monk. That seems ages ago. I vist here every day and have a browse, dont post too much though coz i dont useually have anything to contribute. I had sort of a break from DB between xmas 2002 and november 2003.
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Years ago, was there an older DB'er who died? - I can't remember if it was this forum but I remember someone dying back when DB1.6 was doing the rounds.


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indi
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van B that was asheron being an idiot regarding passing away,
It caused a huge uproar and then it slid into whether he is male or female.

I was also reported to be disembowled by a big red kangaroo when I went
on holidays once.

It was the era of the prankster or the RGT days which is now LLRGT.
sort of funny in hindsight, but useless content nonetheless
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Oh yeah, the old is Ash actually a bird discussion. Funny. Most amusing how many people started "helping" him/her out a lot more after that one.

Was Ash the one with the massive (ie. 30,000 lines of code) demo of some robot walking over a flat landscape? The one that seemed to be really hyped up (by him), but never was released, and always looked like a 20 liner? Very funny that one.

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Quote: "I can't instantly remember posts you've made, but the avatar+name combinations are easily recognizable ."


Yeah, that's the same as me. I recognise the names and avatars but just don't know what projects there working on, what they've done and who exactly they are heh.


Quote: "Take Exeat for example. I know he had another avatar before that one, it was some guy in a mask...he was red "


lol yeah, that was a long time ago. Back when I despised sig images as well I think Red General started using the same avatar so I had to change to a unique one because I kept mistaking his posts for ones I'd made lol. I remember you used to have the funny guy I can't remember the name of with the AK-47. It was classic.


Fear the Deadpool Avatar!

Anyway, I originally found DarkBASIC in 2000 when there was no DBP and it had that really dark site with the yellow mask logo thing which I'm not sure what it was supposed to be. Unfortunately the 'IDE' DBC used threw me off completely, I couldn't stand looking at that thing. urghh. So it wasn't until 2002 when DBP was released that I started getting interested in it again, I sort of browsed the forums for answers to any questions I might have had (without actually posting anything, mind you), usually I would find what I was looking for so I never actually registered until about November 2002. Then silly old me forgot my password and ended up re-registering in February 2003. Seems so long ago now, lol.


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remember RPGamer's old avater? that was classic!

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Am I a regular? I'd be pretty surprised if I am, seeing as this is my 73rd post.

I too discovered a DBC demo on some magazine coverdisk, and since it didnt have a time limit, i used that up until the alienware compo started so i could get my hands on the 90-day demo of DBP. That's about when i started posting on the forums, i think. Then I got DBP for christmas! yay!

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Nope, I don't recall you, sorry .

indi-> Thanks for clearing that up... brings back more memories too.

Anyone remember the 'Barrel of fun' game post where one guy posed a fake company and said he was working on a professional game? I actually defended him... wouldn't do it today of course... obviously nothing turned out of it, as do all the fakes.

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