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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/celebrating-20-years-of-guild-wars/
"Twenty years ago this month, ArenaNet launched the first Guild Wars® campaign, which would eventually be called Prophecies™."
MEMORIES!

Always good to see this place still around in some way or the other. Did a random post a few years ago. Doing another random post almost 5 years later for a grand total of 20 years from the time I spent here. This place will always hold a place in my heart from my high school years back in the early 2000s. I will never forget the times spent here and the people I met. I am hoping all are doing well and still enjoying the things we all used to enjoy! Just felt I needed to do another random post!

Someone in a group I'm in just messaged me and was like "you were on otakuboards too?!" So I had to come back. And now this soundbyte is going to live in my head for the rest of the week, dredged out of the dusty corners of my mind. 😂

Oh wow, that's a blast of nostalgia, thanks Petie.

Holy moly, this place still exists!

I was having a nostalgia trip on Facebook  of when Boo randomly put song lyrics of an Original Song parody we did on the OB podcast back at its height.
Looking back, the Podcast was one of the most creative things I'd ever done and it was so much fun to interact with so many of you guys in person. The show was just a giant hodge podge of user-generated, user-driven content and it truly embodied how amazing and talented so many of you were.
I remember my early years of OB were just me with a very age-appropriate user name doing random RPs with total internet strangers.
I remember being intimidated to interact in other forums because I felt so out of my depth there, but the regular posters there were so amazing welcoming and kind.
A fond memory (and this really dates me here, lol) is when I got my first invite to a group AIM conversation with several of the staff/regular members. I felt so honored because at the time I was a brand new moderator.  It was so cool to interact with people in real time versus on a forum.
From there it was Skype and Facetime and even IRL meetups. So many of you are so rad.

I hope everyone is doing well!
 

I hope y'all had a great Christmas and New Year!

For anyone who celebrates and happens to be checking in, merry Christmas and happy New Year!

What are you most thankful for lately? I am a little embarrassed to admit but I am super thankful for some decent preschool content. No Cailou or Dora the Explorer. I am thankful for Bluey. (That Australian preschool show about a dog family of heelers.) It's a good show. I am also thankful for my toddler who is funny, super smart and sweet and this dog of mine. The best boy

I couldn't believe it, after so many iterations of OtakuBoards, I thought for sure the attachment in the original thread was gone, and the original files, because I was so bad at backing things up then, were long gone.
Then I saw it, in my attached files, still there. A movie I made about OtakuBoards life set to a parody of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the daftly titled Moderator and Otaku: The Short Side of TheOtaku.
 
 
Back in the day It had little fanfare and was watched by about 5 people. I think this was due to the need to zip the file in an attachment as there was no YouTube or anything like it back in the day and image hosting websites had their limits. You did have to jump through a couple of hoops and then have a flash player installed on your pc to watch it, after all. 
Besides being a parody of Master and Commander, the film references several notable events and the crazy characters of OtakuBoards at the time and was heavily influenced by Dragon Warrior's Daily Comic series. The cop-out ending was hastily thrown together simply because I got bored with the project as the frames piled up and Flash became less stable on me, computers of the time, eh.
I thought this might be interesting to some as a throwback very much of it's time and it certainly did bring back a few good memories. ?

Oh goodness! They are both absolutely adorable.?

No one will see this. They're 5 now. He loves his hot wheels roads, she is really good at coloring. I'm happy one of them got my artsy side. Their dad is a good artist as well so one had to. 

So far in this thread you've called her babies gross and insulted her home. Nice, bro.

Haha, yeah I agree. I never would've imagined that either. I've had to do lunges while holding one, just to finish a workout. Never thought that would happen, lol.
Currently they have their first cold.
Here's two, a few weeks ago. Jun is wearing the shirt I was brought home from the hospital in, 31 years ago. The other is one of the few pics of me and them.

If someone in like 2008 had told me that ten years later, 100% of OB's activity would be updates about a member's adorable babies, I'd be confused but very happy.

It's been a long, long, LONG time... (2000's username was Patronus)

Gods. It's been a long time. I turn 32 in March. I got glasses three years ago. I'm engaged and living in a house with my polycule that we own. 13 year old me first finding this place would never believe this post.

[color=#0000ff]Since we have now moved to the newest version of our forum software, I'd just like to remind everyone that this thread is here in case you notice any problems. Please report them right away so we can deal with them as quickly as possible! Thanks![/color]

[color=#0000ff][b]Edit:[/b] Never mind - looks like we'll just use the announcement thread.[/color]

Well who would join me if I did?! Hm...?
I feel like it’d be a lonely RPG...

This news sucked so much. Des will always be cool and awesome to me. The world sucks more without him.

Sigh...
 
I'm old now. How sad. lol 

I haven't posted here in quite a while, and I know no one else really has, either.  But I got hit with a super hard wave of nostalgia today, and since this is the closest thread to the topic I could find, it shall do.

When I first showed up here, I was kind of a lurker.  It was the Anthology and the Theater that drew me out, and in particular I remember the Event Coordinator competition, where White and Sandy hosted competing events, swapped control of the events halfway through, and the community voted on who was the better dude.

I was a part of White's game, Mafia.  I don't remember whether the mafia or the citizens ended up winning; the most I remember about the event now is that, as part of its course, I ended up striking up a pretty long-running dialogue with a member by the name of Tekkaman, who had a habit of posting in grey text and highlighting user's names in a dark violet color—which, actually, is precisely where I picked up my own habit of black text with crimson names.

And, long story short, I was browsing around on a P2P musician garage sale site when I ran across this bass, and he was the first person I thought of.



I honestly spent twenty minutes considering buying this bass just for the memories of that color scheme alone.  And I don't even like painted bodies.  Both of mine are natural stain.  Just ... whew.  You know?

[quote name='Lilt' date='02 November 2010 - 09:28 AM' timestamp='1288715299' post='701474'[b]]There's a lot you can do with this idea, Shy. So I can't wait until it becomes an actual RP. If you need any help with this, let me know. [/b][/quote]
Um. Okay. I'm in. Let me know what you need.

- Shy

Holy necromancy, Batman.

Let's put you back in your cell.

20 years later and here we are.

Twenty years as of today! Wild.
 
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