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Postby Psycho Warrior » Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:54 am

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Got bitten by the nostalgia bug and decided to go back and read as many of the old spam threads as I could find. Mainly the old Building threads. I'm sad to see that most of them are gone for good. Even the wayback machine can't help finding the WDHQ and the Afterlife threads. At least The Office and Starbase Trion are still available for viewing.

I've already perused the Ask Halo, Locust, and (me!) thread of yore.

I still find myself chuckling at all the quips and jokes there. Decided to archive the funnier stuff incase this site ever bites the big one.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Blastback » Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:25 am

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Yeah, got hit with the same bug a few years ago. Sucks that the old threads from before the board crashes are gone for good. I'd give a lot to be able to go back and reread stuff like Another Night at the Energon Pub, or the World Domination Headquarters.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:00 am

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Blastback wrote:Yeah, got hit with the same bug a few years ago. Sucks that the old threads from before the board crashes are gone for good. I'd give a lot to be able to go back and reread stuff like Another Night at the Energon Pub, or the World Domination Headquarters.

Honestly, the WDHQ and its sequels probably influenced my style of humor more than anything.

Going back through them has been a blast. I'm on page 20 of Starbse Trion still archiving stuff and I've been laughing at a lot of the old gags. But something in there jarred a memory that is potentially pretty somber. I used to AIM with Locust about sprite projects (remember AIM?) and he told me that he was older than me, and in Starbase I saw he admitted he was over 300 lbs. Considering how old I am now, I hope he changed his lifestyle habits. I'd hate to learn someday that Locust isn't with us anymore. He was my first real friend on this website.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Blastback » Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:42 pm

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Yeah, I remember you and he just clicked. Need to work on my own weight, ballooned over the years.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Sun Feb 23, 2025 6:36 pm

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So I'm rereading the surviving building threads, ancient relics at this point, and I'm reminded of the golden years of this site. I'm archiving them atm.

But I'm also reminded of how the spammers (like me!) influenced the site. The destruction of the party forum, quote limit being put in place after we kept making pyramids.

But I'm seeing a surprising amount of posts of us complaining about deleted posts. I really didn't remember this happening as often as it did. then again I used to have 30K posts and now I'm down to 6K so its clearly happened more than I think.

Another reason I have for archiving those threads is... because I wanna write a book. its a comedy, and I wanna have fodder, inspiration to draw on. Because the tone I want to have is somewhat reminiscent of the building threads.

EDIT: I managed to get 5 pages of the 1st starbase trion building thread but the other building threads are totally lost. Internet Archive only has so much magic it seems.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:28 pm

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I'd say sorry for the double post but its not like anyone's going to post anyway.

So I'm nearly done combing through the Ask thread of ancient days, salvaging what I can for a book I wanna write.

I gotta admit it made me nostalgic. Seeing us talk about stuff that was new at the time, games, movies, even shitting on Bush as fun as that used to be. But I could see familiar faces dropping off, new ones coming in, the gap between posts getting bigger and bigger, people talking about college and jobs.

Then I come across this as I'm nearing the end of the ask thread.

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Really hits different now that there's not really anyone here. Honestly I feel more like I'm putting graffiti on the wall of an abandoned building than posting on a forum.

I wish I could pull more data but so much of its been lost over the years. I can't even ask most of the people about the old memes and jokes because no one's here.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Blastback » Wed Mar 26, 2025 10:30 pm

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Yeah, I have mixed emotions visiting the site. It's always been my internet home for lack of a better term, but it's kinda painful at times, remembering what used to be. It was the people that made it special, and so many are gone now.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Thu Mar 27, 2025 12:20 am

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Blastback wrote:Yeah, I have mixed emotions visiting the site. It's always been my internet home for lack of a better term, but it's kinda painful at times, remembering what used to be. It was the people that made it special, and so many are gone now.

damn right.

Funny how a site meant for nerding out about one of hasbro's IPs came to be so much more. Ryan did a good job making this place so much more than that. (Ya hear that Ryan!? I said something positive about ya!) Never gave him props for that but he did. ... at least until he killed the party forum. that was a mistake.

Some part of me is holding out that some familiar face might see these threads I made and might respond. While archiving I did manage to find the DA pages of some familiar faces. Neko, Halo (she's freakin' pretty!), and its good to see they're alive.

Part of the reason I started the new Ask thread was just to test how dead this site really is. the patient is weak, but not dead. That, and to have a taste of the old spamming days again.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Rodimus Prime » Fri Mar 28, 2025 2:30 am

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We used to have a lot of fun here. I got here in 2001, but took a break around 2006. Came back after the 1st Bay film. Even that's been 18 years. The place has changed a lot, mostly due to everything changing. Most people I knew here are gone, save for a couple old heads like you. But be careful what you say anymore, opposing opinions are frowned upon these days.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:56 am

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Rodimus Prime wrote:We used to have a lot of fun here. I got here in 2001, but took a break around 2006. Came back after the 1st Bay film. Even that's been 18 years. The place has changed a lot, mostly due to everything changing. Most people I knew here are gone, save for a couple old heads like you. But be careful what you say anymore, opposing opinions are frowned upon these days.

I've noticed. :roll:

Its not like I'm going to have anyone to talk to regularly here so I doubt I'll run into trouble.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Rodimus Prime » Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:51 am

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Was the Party Forum the successor to the After Hours Forum back in the day? How was it ever confirmed that someone asking to join was actually 18?
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Burn » Sat Mar 29, 2025 3:27 am

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Rodimus Prime wrote:Was the Party Forum the successor to the After Hours Forum back in the day? How was it ever confirmed that someone asking to join was actually 18?

I think (and someone can correct me on this), the Mods sort of just decided if a person was "mature" enough.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Blastback » Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:03 am

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The Party forum was a place for forum games. Like post something about the person above you, rate people's sigs or avatars, silly things like that.
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Re: Looking at old threads

Postby Psycho Warrior » Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:21 am

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Rodimus Prime wrote:Was the Party Forum the successor to the After Hours Forum back in the day? How was it ever confirmed that someone asking to join was actually 18?

No, it was simply removed from the normal board index, but I and some others figured out a few backdoors into the old party board. It never had a rated +18 barrier.

As for Shadowman's Party Forum that he made when Ryan removed the one here, that I know never had any kind of age restriction.

I can see a little of the old party forum here on the internet archive (but no threads survive) but shadow's party form has plenty of old content on the archive.
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