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fingolfin Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 17:34:00

over in csfbl we were talking about when we started earth and i date back to approx aug 97. once i took over ucn i started taking various notes and here is a note on my fellow alliance leaders from my first reset running ucn (notice Omega and MD weren't even born yet they started end of my first reset/beginning of second)


I was 29 back then and today is my 43rd birthday. That's a lot of years...



Alliance leaders - age, occupation, location

Rock
RT - 46, entrepreneur, East of Cincinnati, Ohio,
Fish - 27, coach a swim club. Vancouver, Canana

Laf
Viper - 42, owns Computer software company, Virgina
El Paco - 22, living in Stockholm , sweden and I am studying to become civil engineer with matimatical physics as speciality. one year left.

TGA
Digtek - 33, Electronic Tech / Mgr,Florida

UCN
Fingolfin - 29, Financial Advisor, San Diego, California

HAN
Niceti - 25, South Korean, don't know occupation but is in the military though

OMEGA
Jer Bu - 23, manage a restauarant, Saskatchewan, Canada


TIE
Inferno - 47, Manager at Cadence, Californi

OOA
Zardoz - 46, web designer/graphic artist from Virginia


EOS
Scarface - 17, Student, Toronto


AVENGERS
avalones - 21, electrical engineering student, in Montreal.

SOL
Norcal - 47, Owns manufacturing company, Northern California

Red X Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 17:59:15

lol that is old as dirt not saying your old =p
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Apr 29th 2012, 18:41:26

lol..
I was 20 at the time of that post.. scary:P
I didn't realize inferno was that old.. or jer bu.:P
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Apr 29th 2012, 19:00:03

when exactly did NM start wasn't Cartoon around at this time?
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Apr 29th 2012, 19:19:57

I was around 16-17 back then....
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fingolfin Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 20:10:27

nm started either same reset as md and omega or the reset after that

Red X Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 20:24:29

lol i was 11 =p
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mrford Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 20:46:35

Were you planning on stalking and killing all other alliance leaders?
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oats Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 21:00:53

I was 12 at that time and I kept asking Bu what was in the 'beef' on the Pizza Hut pizzas. Soy, mostly.

fingolfin Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 21:41:48

i believe my thinking at the time of collecting this was to ensure that i wasn't the only adult doing this. i occassionally questioned the sanity of a grown up with a job spending 2-5 hours a day on a text based game.

evidence mounted that it was indeed mass insanity

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Apr 29th 2012, 22:16:02

no worries fin, a lot of us are still here lol

that should answer any question of sanity :)
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Brink Game profile

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Apr 29th 2012, 23:35:25

There were more of us at age 29-30 wasting too much time in the day on a text game then. =(

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Apr 30th 2012, 0:43:30

Happy Birthday!

Chevs

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Apr 30th 2012, 2:28:57

hahaha i was 10 in 1997.

i didn't start playing until 1999.

fack ive known some of you fags for more than half my life
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Serpentor Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 2:29:28

I had my whole office playing 1B at one point. My manager was craziest. He'd AB us and laugh so loud across the office at us while we were working.
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Angel1 Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 2:45:19

I was all of 7 years old at the time of that post. That's downright scary.
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hanlong Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 2:53:22

wow :P

i was like 14 :P
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Apr 30th 2012, 2:58:01

ya I was 12. lol. I started the next year

martian Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 3:48:30

@fin yeah. Most of the people I chatted with when I started playing in 1997/98 where actually my age or a bit older (many of whom were in FBI and Omega and SoF when it formed). I was pretty amazed to find an online game where I was around the average player age...
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Apr 30th 2012, 3:54:40

Nice that put me at 13... Almost had hair on my balls then!
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hawkeyee Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 3:57:10

I started playing around then too. I was in grade 5, so it would've been 97. Beefhawk and Grelk recruited me to Tiger (don't think it was "the" Tiger though). They had a 1b division. Eventually I got called up to the 1a division. Tiger merged into some alliance... I forget what it was, but I believe Empress Athena or something similar was the head of it. I quit the game and returned in around 02. By that time the alliance had merged into Omega and that's where I found Beefhawk and Grelk so I just picked Omega. Even 02 is so long ago... it seems like not so far back, but that's a decade. Shiiiit.
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Apr 30th 2012, 4:09:48

Empress Athena aka beltshumeltz formed beserk.. and the imag.
:P
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iScode Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 5:17:31

what are you on about martian, imag was formed from the fires of hell itself!
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pele Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 6:08:55

My first reset actually was in UCN... 1998 Tobias recruted me.
Then one set with an own allaince with a few freinds. Then Elitez for oh so many years (until the merger with TIE) and now TIE...

Time flys!!!!!!!!!!!

pele Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 6:09:32

was 18 then...

Alin Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 7:55:18

when i started in `99 i was 16.

Happy birthday fingolfin!

Mr Charcoal Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 9:28:17

My first alliance was UCN sometime in 97, I was 14. We started in 1b with a textpad list of countries that were "friends" and then eventually moved to 1a.
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Speaker Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 9:34:57

Boy the way Glenn Miller played..

trep Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 12:36:52

I think I started around '97 when I was 12-13. I remember I'd get people to go to the library at lunch to play =P

Also remember talking to old Avengers on the phone back then. Was kindda weird talking to 45 year old people when I was in middle school.

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Apr 30th 2012, 17:08:32

Originally posted by trep:
I think I started around '97 when I was 12-13. I remember I'd get people to go to the library at lunch to play =P

Also remember talking to old Avengers on the phone back then. Was kindda weird talking to 45 year old people when I was in middle school.


Thats funny; same here. Back then the middle school library was the only computer with an internet connection in the school!
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Crop Duster Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 17:39:37

i was 40 then

NukEvil Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 17:45:58

I started in February of 1998...I was 12 then.

I'm 26 now, so I've officially played this game over half my life.


Somebody please shoot me.
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Patience Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 17:56:27

lol... I started in March/April of '97. Holy hannah, Scar was only 17??? He had an awful lot of 'tude for a mere pup. :p

I miss El Paco. Talked to him a few years ago - he's still just as nice a guy as he ever was.

Happy b-day, fin!!! Have a couple for me...
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UltraMarines Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 18:31:06

damn i was 13 then and just getting involved with Alliance Force, Artemis was leading them back then. Good times

hawkeyee Game profile

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Apr 30th 2012, 23:07:31

Originally posted by martian:
Empress Athena aka beltshumeltz formed beserk.. and the imag.
:P


Berserk!! That was it. Tiger merged into Berserk who merged into Omega
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grimjoww Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 1:04:34

i was 14 during that time haha

bug03 Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 3:36:43

I was also 13 and i think that was right before wog was started...

bug03 Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 3:37:27

And i dont remember scar being so young

Wharfed

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May 1st 2012, 3:45:25

I was 7 and barely knew much about computers at that time. Seriously, all I knew was that I used an Apple Macintosh at school. I sure as hell wasn't showing any sort of symptoms in relation to Aspergers nor was I acting like it(today, most psychiatrists or whatever they are called would diagnose me with Aspergers if I were to let them), I was the popular kid in elementary school, I ruled the playground, I was best at math and building fluff with legos, I was best at playing Monopoly and SimTower! YEAH!

I've also only played this game for the last 4 years or so. Not the last 15 like some of you.
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CaptainTenacious Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 4:09:21

I too was 7 and was to pre-occupied with Nintendo 64 to pay attention to the internet at the time
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ZEN Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 4:16:14

I was 16 going on 17.....and had already been playing a year. ick...

Little fun fact for you. Fing (G-Money is what he was called back in the hood) went to see my band play and we drank beers. In fact, we were so bad....he needed to drink to enjoy it. In fact, I am drinking right now remembering it.

When I still had my old 386, I had entire alliance lists saved on it....in word perfect. I remember playing games through DOS....CIV being one of them.

CaptainTenacious Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 4:20:44

god you people are so old i can smell you through my computer
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fingolfin Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 4:27:16

Zero2nonE was pretty good
deception suggestion was a cool song

Patience Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 16:51:10

Hahaha ZEN... do you remember submitting your alliance lists (in CSV) through an import interface to mark your friends on... OMG, what was bb/Brian's site called?

(BTW, I had dinner with Viper and Brian and Cerb in Virginia one night... I had always pictured Brian as a little Asian fellow, but he was a tall grey-haired Southerner. Totally freaked me out.)
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Patience Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 16:51:37

GAMERSTOWN! OMG, can't believe I forgot GT. I'm old.
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May 1st 2012, 17:41:12

it only took you 27 seconds to remember so your memory isnt that bad, lol
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Patience Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 18:44:45

I'm a rare combination of senile and overachiever. It wreaks havoc with my psyche, lemme tell ya.
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Hardy Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 19:44:33

Wax > Fingolfin

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bug03 Game profile

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May 1st 2012, 20:00:30

Originally posted by Ruthie:
it only took you 27 seconds to remember so your memory isnt that bad, lol



This

Hangar18 Game profile

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May 2nd 2012, 21:43:44

Geez! Were you ever THAT young, Fin? :P

Good times back then with UCN