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| AquaTriden | Oct 18 2014, 08:17 PM Post #1 |
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Just Someone
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I remember first joining this Forum a long time ago... The Month is August, 2010, it was the beginning, or near, the first Semester of my 8th Grade life, I was scavenging through my step-brothers cabinets, because, y'know... I was a nosy child back then. Regardless, I stumbled upon a game I'd never heard nor seen, it was called,".hack//Infection." I was so intrigued from the box art, to the pictures on the back, to the description of how it was played. Sadly, I only played the first hour or so before I had to get off, and that game disappeared when he moved out for College. Sadly, my young mind didn't recall the title very well, but soon enough I found it, and the first thing I saw was the title of the game on Youtube. The man had a very nice voice, something I could listen to without getting impatient even if he ranted, and oh boy, could he rant... After watching that, I noticed he played a lot of very odd games I had never seen before and them all sparking some form of happiness or wonder. Seeing the winnings of the contest for the picked LP(Okami), I quickly Subscribed and continued watching. I remember first hearing and joining this Forum, looking back I seem so naive and self-centered...But I still found humor in some posts I made. I even remember what my first avatar was, a gif of Suicune, I used a lot of symbol based emoticons aswell. I can truly say that Mr. Nakate had impacted my life severely, and I would not be this way, from his outlook on life, to the small lectures he gave that gave more insight then imagined, and him not knowing, but teaching me to be an all around swell guy. Now I'm a Freshmen in College, going for a degree in,"Game and Animation." I've been taking drawing classes and 2 Dimensional Design, with a Computer Science as a backup due to how....unreliable, going for a job like that to be, but everyday I've noticed how much better I have become artistically, I cannot draw myself, but now I have the experience of Projection. And now, Vagrant Epochers, let us step back and recall how we came to be Wanderer's of this Forum that I still love and cherish dear. I realize something like this might have been done for before, I apologize in advance if this seems like an unnecessary repost. Edited by AquaTriden, Oct 19 2014, 10:00 PM.
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| Hatsune Candy | Oct 19 2014, 08:37 AM Post #2 |
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The soul of a forgotten file
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Oh god, it's been nearly three years since I joined this forum. So much has happen since then, so much has change, a lot of it not of the better. The only reason I ever even joined this place was because of Vocaloids and Hatsune Miku, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for them. That being said, I don't ever regret become an Epocher, because without it I would be a lot more naive; I still am, just not as much as I could be. Though still, there are some days where I wish things could have gone a bit differently or that I had known what I do now, but I doubt that would've changed much anyways. ....Ya know, I used to be an optimist, whatever happened to that? |
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| AeroA113 | Oct 19 2014, 03:07 PM Post #3 |
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Coming to this forum certainly was a trip. Coming here, after I drew for Naka's videos, felt pretty weird. I was very flattered when Kuma had said that I had impeccable grammar. I didn't know, though, what I was getting myself into. For a second though... I was looking for Minecraft videos. Naka's videos kept popping up in my suggestions, and I kept telling myself, "I don't wanna get into watching a series." But after seeing his videos pop up again and again, I sighed and said, "Alright, what do you have to offer me, Mr. 'Naka Teleeli'?" I couldn't be more happy when I started watching. When his videos had fanart in them, I told myself, "Well, I'm a good-ish artist. Why don't I give it a shot?" And when one of my pieces of artwork got into his videos, I was so happy. Naka is really the one who got me to push myself in my limits for drawing. He's the reason I had a jump in my skill level. I wanted to draw cooler and cooler things for his videos. And getting those pictures into his videos made me so elated, I was so proud of myself. I have to thank him for that. I always feel bad that I don't watch his videos anymore, yet I'm still here, on his forum. Maybe I'll go back to watching him in a while; I've gotten myself latched onto Markiplier and Game Grumps lately. On this forum, a lot of things happened. Most specifically, my transformation from a prude into a... not prude, I guess? I'm super embarrassed to think about how I was back when I first joined. I'm sorry, to everyone, how shitty of a teenage girl I was. I swear I will never be like that ever again. Now, I'm desensitized to almost all the stuff you guys have to throw at me. ... Almost everything. Don't get too crazy pls I'm still not comfortable with everything. But even so, I've done a complete 180 from what I used to be. And I couldn't be more proud of myself. It's all thanks to you guys, really. I did go through some shit when getting to this point. Some stuff that was really shitty. But thanks to that really shitty stuff, I'm now stronger, and a happier person around everyone. I can interact with more people, and joke about more stuff now, that I'm this strong and desensitized. I love you guys. You're great. Thank you for making me who I am today~ ![]() except kuma. you suck, bear~ <3 just kidding, you helped me too |
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| Gaia | Oct 19 2014, 06:48 PM Post #4 |
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The Embodiment of Earth
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So yeh want me to reminisce, eh? I should start off saying I came from Gaia Online. This is a website many are likely aware of, but if you're not, it's essentially a gigantic forum with games. You can customize the premade avatars they make for you in almost any way you want. I was rather shy and awkward in real life, but on Gaia Online? I made a few friends. I found out about MMOs. I learned about anime streaming sites... And overall, didn't have any useful changes. I was noted for being smart and a little off the wall there. Later I found Let's Playing. My first was Chuggaaconroy's Earthbound LP. I ended up watching all of his videos, but never really branched out. One day (I'm not really sure how) I looked up something on Youtube. It wasn't .Hack//, but... Somehow I got Naka's .Hack//Infection LP. Since I played Infection as a kid (It's the only .Hack// game I have...), I watched it all the way through. I consumed the whole LP in a very short time. I opened Naka's playlist and kept the tab with the videos open until I finished the LP. Later on, during .Hack//G.U. (Which came out a week after I finished watching the .Hack//Quadrilogy videos), Naka advertised his forum. I'd thought nothing of it at first, but when he once again advertised it later, I was hooked. Here I am. Noting that I came from Gaia Online, I kept a few of the mannerisms that I had there. I did whatever I had done at Gaia Online Forums in an attempt to fit in. This amounted to putting HTML colors on my text, and trying to be silly. That didn't really fly. That didn't make me friends, and it didn't show who I was. It was here that I first really expressed my true voice. Here that I acted at my responsibilities in real life had taught me to do. I know many come online to escape, but VE reminded me that I need to live. I had always fancied myself a writer and a creative, and I showed that early on with my interesting greetings. Those of you who were here for it may remember "Gaia's Amazing Wall of Text!" It's also noted that I received the nickname Gaia at this time (given by Milk; I was Gaia's Flaming Bat at the time... Those were the days.) Gaia became a conceptualized character, and, because of it, I've actually become much more creative in my everyday life. I take more risks, I'm more willing to meet new people, and can actually show people the philosophies and ideas I cook up from time to time. I came from being a kid who'd thought he had it all figured out, to a slightly older kid, who realized that it's okay if I have issues, and it's okay if I'm not perfect. I'll never be perfect, I can play to my strengths though. I still don't have it all figured out. I've got a good idea of what I want to do though. That was something I had to teach myself; being here taught me that I could express my true personality, and I can only thank you guys. I've developed into what I think is a fine young gentleman. (Still, I'll look at myself in my mid-twenties and ask what the hell I was thinking at age 18.) This is a forum that I'll always remember, but I've all but left behind. I feel like I've got no more to contribute here~ It's been fun, and hopefully someone can revive it, pick it up, and kickstart where we left off, but I've got no more power to bestow upon this forum~ I'll come check things out from time to time. If someone starts up a good RP, let me know, but I've got no more drive to develop topics and make posts. Gaia's old... Reminiscing on all the unfinished projects, and all the dead threads. This feels like goodbye, and I feel like I'm ready to say it, but I always want to leave this place open. So I'll just say... I'm glad to have found this place. I was riding my bike to the store today and cried tears of happiness because of the beauty of Autumn where I'm at. I feel like a bird out of its cage. Thank you again. Also, So Bored... We never did become roommates in college like I promised you. Still love you though, bud, even though neither of us are around anymore. Edited by Gaia, Oct 19 2014, 06:58 PM.
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| Colonel Krampus | Oct 19 2014, 08:02 PM Post #5 |
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Great Post, Man!
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I don't really have much of a story as to how I got here. I just found the forum right when it first started, and I've been here through everything. One thing I know for sure though: I was stupid back in the day. I posted the dumbest shit because I was the dumbest shit. I annoyed the hell out of everybody, and looking back on it, myself too. I can't even imagine how I thought that was acceptable. My days as a poster back then were filled with spam and drama and dumb. I thought that everybody hated me for no reason, even though there was clearly a reason. It was fun though, I just wish I could've joined the forum with a clearer head. From being around here, I eventually realized basic etiquette and how to be a decent person on the internet, as well as real life. I feel better from it, even though I feel bad about it. Unfortunately, not much goes on around here anymore, and I've kinda faded out of existence. I've gone through a million name changes, so I'm barely even the same person I was 3 years ago (my name used to be Omegashadow50, what the hell is that even?). This is probably my first post in months. However, even though I don't post anymore, I'll never officially leave. Not until the forum ends for good. Edited by Colonel Krampus, Oct 19 2014, 08:03 PM.
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| THEkingroxas | Oct 20 2014, 12:13 AM Post #6 |
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I'm Dante~
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My, my, my how far we've come. I rarely come around here, and even when I do, it's for the RP. Used to be really active around here. But everything waxes and wanes. I came 'round here at the beginning of my freshman year at highschool, angst and all. Now, as I write this, I'm in my senior year. It's certainly been a roller coaster around here. I'm sure that most people would would say the same. I've come here for comfort, ranting, celebration and all the rest in between. Most of my memories of this place are nice ones though. 'S been a wild ride, guys. Cheers. |
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| Wool | Oct 20 2014, 03:25 PM Post #7 |
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Triggers.
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Holy hell I've wasted a few years on here. Found Naka after the whole April Fools thing with DairunCates and watched his Katamari Damacy videos. I was like 11 or something, wow. Then at some point Naka made a video talking about VE and here we are. I could probably go find some of my first posts on here if I wanted to, but I'm too lazy to. Anyways skip to today where I'm also a college freshman majoring in History at one of the best schools in the world aaayyyyyyyyy. |
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| Kikei | Oct 20 2014, 03:42 PM Post #8 |
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I was an antisocial thirteen year old who came here because I wanted friends. For the first few months I was here, I didn't post. I just lurked around until I finally found the courage to post an introduction topic. A lot has changed in the past year I've been here, and although I don't really hang around here anymore, I can say it's been a fairly good experience. I had a lot of fun. |
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| Speedy | Oct 21 2014, 02:25 AM Post #9 |
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Fairly sure I've given up.
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Touhou Mother. Back then I was in a bit of a Touhou phase. I think I've made that one abundantly clear.. and I wasn't really the only one around, haha.. The forum gladly obliged in new Touhou news and sharing the joys of new games. Anyway.. I was looking up something from Earthbound on YouTube (don't even remember what tbh), and kinda got into a tvtropes-ish mood, and started just cycling through videos. And then I ran into Naka's latest video for Touhou Mother. Liking what I saw, I headed into his channel and, some backtracking later, found the first video of the LP. One video spree later, I noticed that Naka had released a new video for Touhou Mother.. with a link to a new forum, used explicitly for voting and other infodumps. Long story short, that latter part has fallen into obvious disarray, as the forum became more than just a place for voting and information. I don't really mind that. I'd like to think that I helped shape Vagrant Epochers, the forum, to what it is today. Or.. what it has been. It isn't.. quite nearly as good as it was, but I suppose that was inevitable. It was through action and interaction that we've made this forum grown and expand from a simple discussion forum.. to a community. And to be honest? Thinking back.. I think we should be able to help this place regain it's former glory. But what we need are topics that people are interested in, we need to run more forum games again.. I'd like to share more projects again, but with.. how my track record ended up, I don't think anyone has any trust in those anymore, haha... I'm just so crazy busy nowadays.. worse than I've ever been.. =_=; Edited by Speedy, Oct 21 2014, 02:28 AM.
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| SupurNeoDude | Oct 21 2014, 08:39 PM Post #10 |
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Deliciously delicious.
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Uh, sure, why not? I remember looking up some Kirby Super Star videos and stumbled upon one of Naka's first LPs if I'm remembering this right. I'd been on and off with his channel until a friend said I should play a Persona game. I was too lazy/stingy with my money (it's gotten even worse now), so I looked for playthroughs and Persona 3 looked interesting, but was really hard to get into. Then I started looking for Persona 4 stuff instead. I ended up subscribing and marathoning it until right when Naka and Ogre came back from hiatus. Followed it all the way through and remained on and off until Naka dropped a "state of the channel" video. He mentioned his forum and to be honest, I was a real lonely kid at the time. He said that people were there and I literally just signed up for an account without knowing what a forum even was (my first posts could probably tell you that). I had some fun times (and stupid times), and once I got a bit more common sense and tact, I made more constructive(?) posts. I even got myself Skype and started using that for most of my forum shenanigans. I feel like while I have grown, it hasn't been that much, or at least not enough to satisfy myself. That's part of the reason why I've been really idle lately: I'm just focusing on myself. I've been looking into different things and keeping up with a whole bunch of stuff that it's kind of difficult to consistently keep tabs on everything. The other part is education. I am SO happy to get that privilege, no matter how much of a pain in the butt almost everything is in college. I hope my future posts won't be too bad, 'cause looking back, the stuff I've said to you guys seems kind of asshole-ish and awkward. |
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