My highschool gaming group.
Man those were some real good times, I had awesome friends and we did everything together. It was a great blend of being "real-life" friends and also part of a gaming community. We used to organize lan parties or go out.
These days most of my interactions with my "friends" are defined by absolutes. Having total online gaming friends or people that do not play games at all.
2008-2009(early 10) ish roblox was phenomenal. Back then build-2-survives weren't done to death / dead, the game clones of stuff like L4D1 weren't laden with microtransactions, and everything was pretty good. Also, rip forums.
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Hydrocity gaming. Small little minecraft cracked server from waaaay back in the days of minecraft beta that absolutely exploded around 1.7.3b / 1.0 release. Was mainly known for being an SMP/Anarchy (More SMP in the early days but moved hardcore into Anarchy later) server and later around 1.0 release being one of the better OG Minecraft Hunger Games servers.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/b6c021ab-160a-446e-b0c4-7efc51ec3da8/image.png
My old group of friends that i used to play games with over skype. It was a mix of childhood friends and friends of friends. Some of them i still talk to today.
We'd go to school, i'd meet some of them there and then like clockwork once we got home we'd all log in and play minecraft or gmod or some other game together. I still remember that week one of us bought everyone else a copy of terraria that had just released and we played on a server for a week straight, only stopping for school and to eat.
One of the guys i still talk to regularly. He had a youtube account full of videos we'd made together but it was all accidentally deleted when he had to make a google-account and we lost such a treasure trove of memories.
And ill never forget all the friends i made on different MC servers through the years.
I joined this guild on mobile mmorpg game (quite recent actually)
Then i got close to 3 guildies so much that majority of our time always spent on us in 1 party.
We always do thing together. lvling,farming,screwing around,etc
We formed our own group since we are pretty damn close,we even know each other true name in there.
Then the dark days comes.
One of my member left the game because college is pressuring her too much.
1 member cut contact with the other one and left the group.
and finally, the last guy and i have retired from the game.
Today,i briefly return with my retired friends to visit the game.
We reminiscence our old days together,how happy we are during that old days.
But,everything has its own ends,and so does our days.
If only i could recall time
There was a Saxton Hale (TF2) server I used to loiter in for a while. Funnily enough, I stumbled across it on the first day I played TF2 and I never forgot it, and then, about three years later, I went back on the server and it took me about 3 months to realise 'HOLY SHIT. It's that server'. Reached a point where everyone knew everyone, but the server gradually died, and then I got locked out of the Steam account I used, so I've lost contact with all the friends I made there. I miss you guys.
Tropsical guy.
GNation RP, owned by Lord Gollum. Awesome community I used to go to back back in 2009. Gollum was a great guy and owner, some young kid gave him a bunch of money through the donation system, he gave it all back when he found out his age. He was always cool with everyone and never started shit.
The server was shut down later that year. I later learned at some point Gollum nearly died due to heart (?) issues and I haven't heard anything since. Hope everything is okay Gollum, where ever you are man.
Good times. I played on GNation servers and posted on the forums all the time back then. Never heard from Gollum afterwards though. His servers kicked off a love of the game for me though. Can't thank him enough.
We launched a bunch of communities afterwards, but they all linked back to GNation. (RIP Combine Dance Party and Atomic Crowbar)
Thanks man. I'm glad you enjoyed LifePunch. It changed my life for the better and I'm happy to have met all of you while running them.
I used to play BF2 almost everyday for a summer on the same server, was called Kellys Heros or something. I miss seeing the same people and getting to know a few of them in the days before I used MSN Messenger. There was a guy I'd always squad up with and talk to in game. It was one of those things like "see you tomorrow" and then at some point it was the last time. Same story with the people I used to play GMOD with which lead me to this site. Except I still hang out with them on steam and they're still some of my best friends.
You play a game with people everyday, but it comes to an end eventually.
i miss my boy warp/esk0, he'll be back someday, i know it
I miss tight-knit Sven Coop servers, Snark Cafe and one other I can't remember the name of.
i know this may sound lame/cheesy/dumb or whatever
but reading through these posts made me tear up
game servers/online communities, i've always thought of them as "places" you can be at
and when you find out in your mid/late twenties that the spot you used to hang out at as a teenager/early adult is no more, it kind of hits you in the gut
i dont want facepunch to end. it will end eventually but i dont want it to end. im going to miss you
The SC2 Wings of Liberty eSport days
It was like literal WWE levels of insanity and drama.
The hype surrounding the show kind of died. I guess the cancelation of the show contributed a lot. I don't even notice them on people's avatars on Steam anymore.
I kinda miss the Zombie Outbreak Roleplay (ZO-RP) community of SA-MP. Back in 2009, I was just a little powergaming piece of shit who had only recently discovered roleplaying. ZO-RP was based on the lore of Resident Evil. There were a bunch of different factions - Zombies, Civilians, Survivors, Umbrella Corp, S.T.A.R.S and eventually Red Tabs and Tyrants, but there were many more unofficial factions. When I first joined the server, I was forced to play a zombie because my name didn't follow the right format. I also kept talking OOC as a zombie and didn't even understand what brb was. I thought it meant burp, lol. Anyway, I changed my name to Dave_Second and could finally become a Civilian. After several months, I joined the Umbrella Corp. Oh, I remember the glorious day of establishing a safezone on the pirate ship and camping there for hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNO3QAke44U
All I have left from ZO-RP is this video.
It was that community that introduced me to the Walking Dead, Minecraft and Garry's Mod. From there, I went on to join Facepunch and also LS-RP, which is another community I dearly miss. Roleplaying gangbangers, spending time earning money, buying a car, hanging out with the homies and feeling the adrenaline rush of being robbed or shot at by the other gangs... Seriously, LS-RP was much more serious than ZO-RP. It took time to build up reputation and make friends.
broni.es or whatever it was called
was such a sperg back then because I pretty much had no online experience, did a lot of stupid shit, made a lot of friends I dont have anymore, still talk to a couple at least, but its all mostly gone
a few regulars are still together in various groups but im too unlikable to have become a part of them
it was a simpler time where sadness didnt consume my life and I could just get on skype, there would be a voice call I could join and listen in on to make me feel like I was a part of something, play games with people, not really care about anything
When I came to Ireland - I was 14.
I started playing Gmod and met guy on it who was from Ireland.
He was 4 years older but really geeky-smart kinda lad, we chatted a lot and played games a lot.
He taught me a lot about stuff in Ireland and how things are here, stuff with tech, mathematical questions etc, I could say that he helped me a lot to adapt in new country when I had no other friends.
One day (1869 Days ago) he just went off steam and never came back.
I occasionally visit his Steam page, I guess at this point I am just hoping that some day someone posts some update on this steam page comments.
Back before WoW used cross server technology, you got to know many of the people on your server. On Uther we had our fair share of cool players, elitist snobs and trolls. I miss it. I hardly ever
see people from Uther in the chats anymore.
Was anyone else a part of the Nintendo Nsider Forums back around 2005-2007? This was my first introduction to forums and damn did it get me hooked.
as someone who still enjoys the show, i can say that even though the hateboner for it has died down quite a bit, i still often get quite a few insults just for having even the most obscurest mlp-related thing as a pfp even now. not particularly encouraging.
on-topic. way way back in 2010 when i was like, 9, my first forum was a club penguin blogging one that had just opened up. made a lot of friends there but after about a year or two it died and the majority of us there jumped ship to another club penguin blogging forum that had been advertised by a member and was more active and had a pre-existing community and some neat features. both of them as i remember correctly ran on vbulletin. lots of petty drama ensued but eventually things settled down... so much so that the head admin gave up on the forum and started making clickbaity videos. the forum started losing activity but there were still quite a few of us that stayed til the end (sounds familiar, huh?). speaking of the end, it actually came in about mid 2015 because one day me and an admin on the forum got tired of the site owner ignoring the many problems on the forum and spammed him on twitter. the next day it was shut down with a message on the front page until eventually the domain expired. thankfully there was a subreddit and discord made by a member and there have been a surprisingly large amount of usernames i didn't think i'd see again searching for us (apparently now the subreddit is the top result for the site name)
anyway these two forums taught me a bunch about forum etiquette but i also got into a ton of stuff because of them. for all i know i'd probably be a completely different person with different interests today if those forums never got made.
i miss the old halo forums on bungie way before destiny was teased in odst, the solidarity we had bordered on comradeship was something that warmed my heart. now there's a lingering cynicism that just leaves me in the cold.
then there's gaiaonline, i remember having my whole family on there, the fondest memory i have was when they introduced the dark elves, it was us against everyone else (we won that event by a wide margin) and it gave me my love of dark elves. now i feel like an old lech just looking at it.
pics related, its my dark elf and my second fondest memory:
https://a1cdn.gaiaonline.com/dress-up/avatar/ava/51/09/3125a997870951_flip.png?t=1549669483_6.00_00
https://i.imgur.com/XNuP0Wd.png
Club Penguin at the beginning (2005-2008)
Also the halo.bungie.net forums, which just got deleted earlier this year.
I miss all of the old communities I used to be a part of. Reminiscing about how I’d spend hours a day playing WoW or Runescape or MapleStory or gmod fills me with melancholy. I even miss FP circa 2006-2008. Been active on and off on these forums for almost 15 years. Wild to think about.
Real early Facebook when 99.5% of people only knew about myspace, made talking and setting stuff up with friends way easier.
ryz0 was the fucking man. whenever i think of old fp i remember him.
I miss my old lan garena server. It was so much fun that i usually staying up late. We play dota 1 a lot and warcraft 3 custom games. And chat a lot too.
It was the best thing that i have in my life.we build war3 custom map together too.
Obsidian conflict, now that was a fun mod. Just checked and it's actually still up as a website surprisingly.
Back in the day I got in at the start of the original gmod SSTRP server (MWRP) as an admin and mapper. I stuck with it for a big chunk of my teenage years before eventually ghosting. Even came back after its 2nd renaming (Epsilon I think), but I couldnt readapt and eventually ghosted again.
Those were some real good times with real good folk (Monkey, Wolly, he whomst named Ryan C, Trema, Lax, another homie who eventually became a volunteer constable, etc), even with some dumb bs drama (DeerShark youre still the homie). These were good times, even if my maps were low tier ass (rp_badlands I think). Closest I could say I had to online friends.
Also my old WoW guild, who accepted me for years despite being a minor in secret (group was 17 and up, eventually admitted it). Another diverse group of very supportive individuals.
I may occasionally wish I never spent so much time on that stuff but I also yearn for those days and interactions.
The simpsons forum ~2002
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