Bring back oify no passwords just a 5 before the 6 and no talk about it
[QUOTE=Over-Run;49273166]Holy fuck I never realised I've been here > 10 years, since I had another account also I used to use when I got banned. Hope a new Garry's mod will give the forums a bit more life. Seems a bit quieter lately[/QUOTE]
I really think it's because of when they removed part of the forums, but maybe that's just me.
[QUOTE=maximizer39v2;49284696]Pretty early into my time on here I ended up getting banned for like 2 days and was pissed and made a new account, which is why my name has "v2" at the end.
That being said I come here much less now that they removed the creative sub-forums (especially the MS paint one R.I.P.) but I might get back into it. Especially so if another create a battle thread happens :v:[/QUOTE]
Those MS paint threads were the shit.
[QUOTE=dai;49234385]in a few months it'll be the 10th anniversary of my first post on FP
it was a thread in the wrong section with a title in all caps
I got banned[/QUOTE]
I got banned for my first post too. :v:
[QUOTE=650leetARIMI;49284697]Bring back oify no passwords just a 5 before the 6 and no talk about it[/QUOTE]
no blues allowed sorry
I think my 9 year should be coming up pretty soon. Through a long string of me making accounts and forgetting the passwords, I arrived to shadowdude14. Pretty sure my first post was me trying to troll in the gmod section and I got banned for it.
It's funny to think about how FP has been there through a lot of my life and how it has helped make me who I am right now. Without Facepunch, I wouldn't be ME
[editline]10th December 2015[/editline]
you guys remember Hezzy?
[QUOTE=t h e;49234987]Kinda irrelevant, but I've noticed join date elitism has become less common from what I've seen, I remember it being pretty bad before but I haven't seen join dates mentioned at all in such a long time (maybe I'm just missing them). It's kinda interesting[/QUOTE]
I remember Garry and the mods cracked down on that sort of thing starting 2009 and into 2010 and that effectively killed it.
[QUOTE=skylortrexle;49284920]Those MS paint threads were the shit.[/QUOTE]
I might make a new one eventually.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;49285511]I got banned for my first post too. :v:[/QUOTE]
I got banned for my second (?) thread. Made a stupid 666 joke. :v:
I miss the early days of memes when only gamers knew what they were, oh and of course YTMND (I think someone mentioned that earlier). Also does anyone else get super nostalgic when they hear Rick Astley anymore?
I used to have 20-30k posts before the nuking of the custom forums
I miss 'em but I thank god every day the majority of my old posts are gone forever :v:
Still, if not for FP, I wouldn't have two of my best friends.
I checked up on my first account which was permabanned until one of the purges happened, and now it's not permabanned anymore please don't hurt me mods
anyway, signed up in march of 2009. God damn, 7 years, huh? All of high school and these three years of college I've been on facepunch.
with my original account i'd have been here for about 11 years but can't remember the username and have no access to the email it was registered under
who remembers phpbb fp lol
My first account got permabanned from the old smartness system. I said one of the key instaban phrases.
[QUOTE=skylortrexle;49298109]My first account got permabanned from the old smartness system. I said one of the key instaban phrases.[/QUOTE]
i'm sure it'd be unbanned by now after all the garry's bday unbans
snigger
i've been here for eight years
i've nearly been here for half of my life (lurked in 07) and i'm 19 in june
what the fuck
Well, among the people in here I'm probably still among the younger part, but it's kinda weird to have been here for so long. Never really engaged much with other users on this site, though I had a stint at Minecraft back in '11 or the like. Overall, I still use way too much time on this site, even though my posting frequency has dropped quite a bit.
[QUOTE=TravisG;49233246]So I've been thinking about writing this thread for a few months now knowing that December would mark my 10 year anniversary at Facepunch, and it is strange to think of everything that has happened in the past decade. Thinking back where you were 10 years ago to now is a strange thing, and its made me think a lot about how I first found these forums and all the events that have gone on in my life. I know that it technically won't be the decade mark for me until the 9th, but I happen to find myself sitting in front of my computer with the motivation to write this so I thought now would be as good a time as any.
To those reading this I am certainly no better than a ghost to these forums, virtually no posts (although I think a great deal had been archived at this point, not sure if that affects anything), and not much of a presence here. But putting that aside, I have frequented these forums for quite a while now silently reading all the happenings and going-ons around here and all the exciting stuff all the members post. I've never been much of an opinionated or outspoken person, so I never felt a need to comment much or make many contributions to the community, but that hasn't stopped this from being some what of a hallmark in my life. And I'm sure anyone who has been around here for as long as I have, all the 05ers and earlier have hopefully thought about this at some point and how Facepunch has impacted your life.
I don't quite remember the exact details, but 10 years ago as I kid I remember being an avid Gmod fan as most people on here probably are. I think it was around version 8 (which later turned into version 9 and than it was sold for $10 as just Gmod) that I had first stumbled upon these forums while at a local gaming cafe in Texas. I didn't have a computer of my own at the time nor did we have a family computer surprisingly, so I spent as much time and money as I could playing Steam games at this cafe. I was 14 at the time and had essentially no other hobbies to think of growing up in the rural country side, so my entire life at that point revolved around Gmod, these forums, and gaming in general.
Fast forward 10 years, still here more-or-less. In this entire span I had gone through middle-school, high-school, working my first job at a crappy fast food chain, off to university in a large city, then off to graduate school, then landing a professional job, and finally here now as a working adult. In this entire span thinking that Facepunch had been apart of my life is a surreal feeling. I don't think I have ever belonged to any specific community for as long as I have to here (if you can really call my relentless forum creeping 'belonging'). But what I'm really trying to get at is to say THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who's stuck around as long as I have, to all the new ones and old ones alike, to Garry (it should go without saying). Thank you all!
Who knows, maybe in another decade I'll be writing a 20 year post.
Just to keep the conversation going, if there are any other 5 year or 10+ year members reading this I encourage you to post some perspective. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on how things have been going in your lives since first joining this forum.
EDIT
Just realized its been 9 years...[/QUOTE]
u're welcome ;_;
I remember not being able to make an account here in 04 because you could not use Hotmail, i lurked around for a year then a friend let me share his account in 05 before i eventually made this account in 06.
I was in school when i found this place, iv'e long since left that, been to college, and uni, work and now own my own place with my other half and yet despite everything in my life coming and going over the years this place is one of the few constants.
I use to spend my days on TS with my friends reading the ban list and the reasons some of them literally made me cry with laughter, then there was a kid who bought gold membership with his mothers credit card and basically bankrupt them till it was undone, and all kinds of funny / stupid shit which would lift me up on particularly shit days.
Now it's essentially 12 years later and the only thought i have of this place is, The fuck have i been doing with my life.
Don't let life get you down bud
It was alright
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;49301853]I remember not being able to make an account here in 04 because you could not use Hotmail, i lurked around for a year then a friend let me share his account in 05 before i eventually made this account in 06.
I was in school when i found this place, iv'e long since left that, been to college, and uni, work and now own my own place with my other half and yet despite everything in my life coming and going over the years this place is one of the few constants.
I use to spend my days on TS with my friends reading the ban list and the reasons some of them literally made me cry with laughter, then there was a kid who bought gold membership with his mothers credit card and basically bankrupt them till it was undone, and all kinds of funny / stupid shit which would lift me up on particularly shit days.
Now it's essentially 12 years later and the only thought i have of this place is, The fuck have i been doing with my life.[/QUOTE]
2004? You sure? I thought I was one of the first here. I used to visit garry.tv when it was just a blog about his life and had some shit Counter-Strike vids.
[editline]13th December 2015[/editline]
Jesus Christ Garry.
[url]https://web.archive.org/web/20020811033853/http://www.garry.tv/[/url]
[QUOTE=TravisG;49233246]
Fast forward 10 years, still here more-or-less. In this entire span I had gone through middle-school, high-school, working my first job at a crappy fast food chain, off to university in a large city, then off to graduate school, then landing a professional job, and finally here now as a working adult. In this entire span thinking that Facepunch had been apart of my life is a surreal feeling. I don't think I have ever belonged to any specific community for as long as I have to here (if you can really call my relentless forum creeping 'belonging'). But what I'm really trying to get at is to say THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who's stuck around as long as I have, to all the new ones and old ones alike, to Garry (it should go without saying). Thank you all!
[/QUOTE]
Just saw this post but man, it really is sobering how many years and life events have progressed since joining Facepunch. Even today its funny to think that I was browsing this forum as a quirky, insecure memelord middle-schooler. Now that I'm "grown up" (if only that was ever a truism), I have to say, I'm glad this place has been here all those times.
FP is a nice place to be able to get information on certain fields.
It doesn't have that huge of a community like Reddit and it's not as chaotic as 4chan.
It has just enough members to fill many of the unique boards but never too few to where certain sections are like a graveyard.
I lurked facepunch around 2007 till 2009 when i finally brought gmod.
For some reason i thought you needed a copy of gmod to join up and post here.
Can I join the cool club?
[QUOTE=The bird Man;49322512]Can I join the cool club?[/QUOTE]
Ew no
Ok NOW it's been 10 years (I made sure this time). I meant to update this thread sooner, I even made a calendar notification sometime last year but I must've glossed over it at some point.
Update on my life. My job (which I starting in January) makes me wonder how anyone can stay sane for 40 years doing the same 9 to 5 routine...But I do plan on going to London in February in case anyone there wants to hang out
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