Cringing at your past
Recently, I became fascinated with checking out OWF's old topics. I've been looking through them for awhile now, and I'm quite astonished at how we all used to act. Well, at least, how I used to act.
On a whim, I seachd my own name, and saw quite a number of topics I made long ago. Let's just say I'd beat my past self senseless for his stupidity, even though he was around 8 when he joined. Anyways, I'd like to invite old members to search their own name, and go back to near their beginnings, and bring back a 'gem'. Hopefully, we won't all be to traumatized/embarrased. Well, here's mine, from quite possibly the most important moment in OWF history, which was around my first post. My welcome thread has been lost to time, unfourtunately. :
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Am I counted as an old member? :p I have been here a year! ;)
Okay, here's one of my n00bish situations, it was the first thread I ever made, I mean, look at my grammar! :lol: |
Unfortunately, I ahve not been here long enough to be able to look back and reminisce of the way things used to be. Although, if I had been here as long as you, mitsur, I probably would have posted some things that would have given me the douche chills :p.
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Jesus. I was a friggin' moron.
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It's to bad I can't find my very very very first topic, as it apparently no longer exists. But I'm sure it would have been funny. The last topic I can find of myself is dated back in 2004 I think. And even those are... pretty funny :p.
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Um, well, I'm not exactly one of the older posters here, but what the heck, I'll see what I looked like way back in October.
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How excited I was... and how many exclamation points I used... |
The earliest posts of mine are found in Fan Corner, from 2005. Not much difference from my current posting style.
And here's my first topic in General Discussion. These posts are more newcomer-ish. |
Cringing at your past? I cringe at what I post now.
I think I've remained very consistent throughout my stay. |
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...t=Cullen+Heath
I also think it's funny how used said this: :
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The first thing I ever posted was my epic poem, Ode to an Odd Quest, and perhaps one of the better entries into the forum. I had no welcome thread, this being the first forum I ever joined, I was under the deluded impression that other people started threads to welcome you. I soon realised what I'd done, but I felt it were too late to do anything about it.
Then I started this thread in the GD, later moved to the fan corner, where people posted their made-up creatures. But the most embarrassing early poss I made are probably here, Abe01's thread about vegetarianism. I feature some rather choice posts on page 2 and 3. There are some other threads from last spring such as How close is Oddworld to it's sun? and They should have Meeches in the game. Long posts were a staple of mine, in which I explained various phenomena in scientific detail, provoking replies of awe, confusion, in the case of used:), a hostile PM. |
I've just looked back on my very first post:
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Do I count as an old member? :p
Old or not though, it nearly makes me want to retch looking through my early topics...God was I a dumbarse.... Take the hamburger topic for example... |
There aren't that many active old members left. If you joined before 2007, you're in.
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All though I am new I was looking at my first thread that I made, just to try and get a sig. [It was just 2 weeks ago I was a moron.]
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My old posts were of biblical proportions.
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Of that, I have no doubt. *falls before Hobo* All hail the great cheesy Amazonian death-monkey! |
The oldest post of mine I can see is this:
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I wish I could see my first posts, I know that I've always used as correct as I can English and punctuation. I think the only difference would be that I used to post about Oddworld. :
Hmm... I was a lot funnier back then... |
Absolute spamming troll when I when joined. But I was young, and I've had over 5 years to amass a great difference in my posting styles.
I believe Cullen has in his signature one of my more intellectual quotes from years back. Alcar... |
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It's realy a shame I can't find my posts from the very beginning back :(. Havoc |
I feel no need to cringe. But then, I joined OWF older than most experienced members are today. What I find more interesting is how similar my posts are.
My fifth ever post, on 12-04-2002 (my second day here): :
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And a wonderful theory on when the quintology would be completed: :
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I dwelled on this forum for summer 2001 and then joined in October. However, one of my first posts was in December of 2001 so here it is:
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I cringe at what I post now. I cringe at what I posted in the past. But luckily, I was pointed in the right direction early. But I still feel a bit embarassed at my first post.
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I used to be a dick. :p
Still am, but I've got more power! Muahahahahaha! - Rexy |
Oh you can go back further in history than the search function can. Annoying...
Anyway, my first thread: http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=6954 Ugh. I said "Ok". Still, check that punctuation! |
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I love that one. I know that the thread had also some really other good ones from you and Xav, because I wasn't exactly sure which to use in my Signature. You'd have to find it, though, cause I can't remember what the thread was called. |
Would you go to Oddworld if you had a chance?
Easy. That little arrow on the quote is a link. |
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I can't find my first post. This is the earliest one I could find.
http://oddworldforums.net/showthread...531#post222531 I've stayed more or less the same. Friendly with random outbursts small of crazy and angry. Except now I've been around for longer and feel like I have a little more power :p. Edit: Nevermind. Here's my first post. http://oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=10943 |
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I remember looking at that post, Skillya! Does your mum let you play Oddworld in the house now, or is it still the same?
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I don't think she cares anymore. Maybe she realized that her efforts to un-obsess me with Oddworld were futile.
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Well,I never play any Oddworld games anymore. Usually, when I want to play something, it's either Dead Rising, or FF-X. I have no idea why I like to play that game.
Goddamn whiny little bitch Tidus... And if this post is totally random, instead of fitting in with the above two posts, I blame AIDs. I don't now why I blame that, either. It seemed like a good idea at the time. |
Ahhh the past, I was a moron back then. Always talking about topics that do not go with the first post and pissing people off. Although I was a moron I have enjoyed all the time I have spent on this forum.
Anyway, anyone here like cheese? |
After looking through some of my early posts, I can see how n00bish I was (and still am to an extent) XD. I really must've had no life in the real world...Oh well. Getting joy out of little things was never bad.
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