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Dipstikk let slip the information of who it really was to someone and word started getting around. Dipstikk was banned from TM. He avenged this by making it very open on OWF who Wired was and what TM was. Public outcry ensued and certain members wanted to overthrow any mods who went to TM. There were tears and catfights.

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

Ruh roh!

From that first thread, there was someone here with Bjork as an avatar and I never saw them! NO!!!!

Still, my history of Oddworld was mainly not being here.
After quickly getting over newbie-n00bish tendancies, everything seemed fine. I was on dial-up and avoided the big threads due to loading time, but everything was fine'n'dandy.

Then I went dormant.
I think there was another active time for me, but I went dormant again

I came back and everyone seemed a bit more... "aw, **** it". It seemed like the rules were less strict. A lot of high-ranking people had left {like Hobo} and a LOT of people were tip-toeing around some "Rule NAZI"-style thing that Alcar did (which I still have no idea of since I probably wans't here when it happened).

I came back to people all-out preaching their religion, rather than just stating a belief {which is the socialy acceptable thing to do} and a lot of accounts/users that HAVE to be jokes. Seriously, if I actualy started to believe 3 particular accounts on here are not controled by people haveing a laugh it would take the human race down quite a few pegs IMO.

Hmm... I guess that's the more macabre side of OWF's past. But then again, OddChat used to be active. And in that time, I was there, RPing with the rest of them {which usualy involved violence}. Heck, I remember when we blew up the world and a Mod had to transport us all to a moon to continue talking... and fighting.

Just my tuppence as I'm swinging by...

Just wondering, who here is a member from way back? Like from the EZboard and the UBB days?

- yes. *waves hand* January 2001. First year at Uni. So long ago. :P Ezboard with its lovely popups. And the mutiny that almost occurred when "someone" (Was it Syd?) went through and deleted all the old topics.

Pilot didn't run off with Sydney, it was Pilot who pushed Sydney away. The Glass Asylum may have died, but its legacy continued with The Stoneage Repository and then The Church of Pokey. I briefly swung by there a few months ago, but it's full of such immaturity and lack of depth I just couldn't stay.

- yeah, same here, on the whole "other forums" thing. Pilot made a big long post about how "right" it was that they'd kicked the founder out, if I remember right, and I vaguely recall there was a short story on TGA by one of OWF's former leading members where a dragon beat the snot out of "King Pompous Pilot", but it all happened over summer break and I was just "oh, change of scenery again then" when I got back. *shrugs*
TGA was all right for a while but there's only so many times you can discuss things like "isn't it disgusting when girls don't shave their legs!" especially when there's no new blood coming in - I mean, it wasn't a fan site, it was essentially just a pretty-looking place for friends to swap ideas across timezones. :P I only used it as a place to post my art, and since most of my friends from TGA are on devART I don't exactly miss it. Syd shut it down because she was tired of the stupidity there, I think (as evidenced by Max's mention of the Stonage Repository. The name says it all. :P ;))

...yay.

I came in during the UBB period, if my memory is correct. Part of the big MO newb influx. May pity be given to those who read my posts, as I was a bad, [i]bad[/b] poster. For all intents and purposes, I credit soley this board with beating into me an unshakable sense of grammar that holds over to Aim and MSN, and for that I am grateful. But alas, time has pushed me past my peak involvement. I don't see how people like Luke have kept up for so long; honestly, it boggles my mind.