Ya but I'm twelve. Most kids my age barely have a mind, let alone a sharpened one. Add this to my lack of spelling ability normally, subtract spell check, and... add the five ... carry the one.... and you all have headaches.
The God of Spell Check rules. He keeps your head from imploding.
12?!?!? Why, when I was your age, I remember when the Internet was synonymous with AOL! We dialed up at 12K modem speed, and that was good! I remember the phone connecting sounds coming out of my computer whenever we connected, and I remember that we had to MONITOR our time, you know why? Because we had to pay for the minute! Then, we got unlimited time per month, did you know that? That was a fantastic stride for us, because then we could use the internet as much as we wanted, although it was still just AOL internet. Regular internet searches were boring because of a lack of content, so we would just hang around the AOL portals. Was anyone here using AOL around the time of 2.0 or on? I was a part of Antangoinst Inc, the AOL gaming network. Anyone remember that? No, you youngin' kids wouldn't remember that, wouldn't you? That's because you were just a sparkle in your daddy's eye when we were waiting to connect.
But shit, I remember AOL... chat rooms were where it was at. I am a little embarrassed at the number of times I said "a/s/l" in my AOL years.
I also remember text-based gaming on those little tiny internets... bulletin board somethings? BBN? BBS? I can't remember. Legend of the Red Dragon for the win. There were a few freakin awesome games I miss... I wish I could play Trade Wars again.
BAH! You young, wipper-snappers don't know nothin' 'bout how it was in the old days. You think LoRD was text-based. It had pictures, dammit. Now, Gemstone, that was text-based. We had to use special "hacker" programs to connect to AOL because there wasn't even an auto-redial feature, yet.
OH MY GOD remember auto-punters? They were programs designed to automatically disconnect someone off AOL! People used them to bounce annoying people out of chat rooms.
All they did was spam them with pop-ups until their connection failed. Not hard to do at the time. I even avoided being punted on a few occasions by simply clicking the Xes on the windows as they appeared. Te worst was how everybody knew the fucking command to make a sound play from a chatroom. SO your fucking "gotmail" notification would be going off non-stop.
EDIT: Remember trading midis and wavs. I remember one time when I tried to get a girl to upload some song she had to me after i sent her one I had and she said she didn't want to give it to me because she liked it and didn't want to lose it.
I remember when midis were the new awesome form of music technology. I also remember Antagonist Inc, it was a great gaming network on AOL. They have been long dead since AOL lost popularity, though. They used to have hundreds of demos of games, old and new, up for download in their archives. This was when downloading games was a very new and scary idea, so downloading free demos was way exciting.
MIDIs were lame. MODs were what all the cool people were making. I even wrote a few myself, but I could never find an instrument set that didn't sound like crap.
I recall a sister of mine got a modem and would sit on a 286 computer chatting on a bulletin board thing. This is possibly ironic as I'm the computer nerd of the family. But then we never had AOL. I have never done this "a/s/l" thing. I was too busy playing sweet games like Command & Conquor, Warcraft, Diablo, and Mechwarrior. I miss Mechwarrior. It won't run in XP! I need to put 98 on an old computer! But I've been saying that for years and never done it.
I remember getting on AOL dial-up, except I was on it's bastard look-a-like called Compuserve. My first screenname was violinchickLS and I mostly stayed on the little kid sites (which is probably better), and didn't really start chatting it up with the big kids until I was about 12 (when we got the unlimited monthly plan, and I could stay up til 3 every night since there were less people on and sites generally ran much faster in the middle of the night).
That was also the time of my weird near-anorexia stage, where I would try to sleep in as late as possible during the summer so that I could use it as a valid excuse to skip breakfast and lunch, and then I posted on inksandwich ALL the time and made tons of friends on AIM who were way older than me and lived many miles away.
Ahhh... I miss the good ol' God of Pre-Teen Insanity. It was a comical time in my life. I actually had fun with it, since I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.
Edit: QueenQuenlin, if you suffer from any of this, I hope you can safely move out of the preteen phase without developing any worse problems. You should be fine, you seem like a good kid. Just beware of olda guys trying to send you pictures over AIM or anything.... you shouldn't have to figure out about those guys the hard way. *Shudder*
I remember my pre-teen years, they were mostly filled with A) my complete lack of true sanity as well as true insanity, and when I was around 4-5 I pinched people's eyelids when I was really mad.
God of Small Children Attempting Somethoing (yes it's true) Similar to Torture.
QueenQuenlin, if you suffer from any of this, I hope you can safely move out of the preteen phase without developing any worse problems. You should be fine, you seem like a good kid. Just beware of olda guys trying to send you pictures over AIM or anything.... you shouldn't have to figure out about those guys the hard way. *Shudder*
Naw, I'm good. I'm in the middle of the healthy weight range for my age. As to guys, I tend to cut any contact short as soon as anything remotely close to pictures or thing of the same deal. I feel that I have evaded the preteen madness. But with my 13th b-day coming up, the teen madness might get me... Oh God of Avoiding Adolescence Madness of Any Sorts please help me!
I think the God of Avoiding Adolescence Madness of Any Sorts has the longest title so far.
The god that sits you behind a bitchy fat woman on an airplane, and her recline function is broken, allowing her chair to recline all the way back into your knees, and she never returns the seat back up, not even when she's stuffing her fat face with food, and she gets really pissed at you when you try to move, because the tops of your knees push back into her chair and wake her up, so she threatens you by telling you that you "don't want to rumble with me", and so you decide to be a spiteful little prick by pushing into the back of her seat with your knees every 15 minutes for the ten hours you have left in the flight and make sure that you forcefully grab the top of her chair when getting up and returning to your seat after every hourly bathroom break you take, also out of spite.
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12?!?!? Why, when I was your age, I remember when the Internet was synonymous with AOL! We dialed up at 12K modem speed, and that was good! I remember the phone connecting sounds coming out of my computer whenever we connected, and I remember that we had to MONITOR our time, you know why? Because we had to pay for the minute! Then, we got unlimited time per month, did you know that? That was a fantastic stride for us, because then we could use the internet as much as we wanted, although it was still just AOL internet. Regular internet searches were boring because of a lack of content, so we would just hang around the AOL portals. Was anyone here using AOL around the time of 2.0 or on? I was a part of Antangoinst Inc, the AOL gaming network. Anyone remember that? No, you youngin' kids wouldn't remember that, wouldn't you? That's because you were just a sparkle in your daddy's eye when we were waiting to connect.
God you people make us all feel old.
But shit, I remember AOL... chat rooms were where it was at. I am a little embarrassed at the number of times I said "a/s/l" in my AOL years.
I also remember text-based gaming on those little tiny internets... bulletin board somethings? BBN? BBS? I can't remember. Legend of the Red Dragon for the win. There were a few freakin awesome games I miss... I wish I could play Trade Wars again.
God of remembering the old internet?
EDIT: Remember trading midis and wavs. I remember one time when I tried to get a girl to upload some song she had to me after i sent her one I had and she said she didn't want to give it to me because she liked it and didn't want to lose it.
I remember when midis were the new awesome form of music technology. I also remember Antagonist Inc, it was a great gaming network on AOL. They have been long dead since AOL lost popularity, though. They used to have hundreds of demos of games, old and new, up for download in their archives. This was when downloading games was a very new and scary idea, so downloading free demos was way exciting.
The God of Old School Gaming?
That was also the time of my weird near-anorexia stage, where I would try to sleep in as late as possible during the summer so that I could use it as a valid excuse to skip breakfast and lunch, and then I posted on inksandwich ALL the time and made tons of friends on AIM who were way older than me and lived many miles away.
Ahhh... I miss the good ol' God of Pre-Teen Insanity. It was a comical time in my life. I actually had fun with it, since I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.
Edit: QueenQuenlin, if you suffer from any of this, I hope you can safely move out of the preteen phase without developing any worse problems. You should be fine, you seem like a good kid. Just beware of olda guys trying to send you pictures over AIM or anything.... you shouldn't have to figure out about those guys the hard way. *Shudder*
God of Small Children Attempting Somethoing (yes it's true) Similar to Torture.
I think the God of Avoiding Adolescence Madness of Any Sorts has the longest title so far.
I’m sorry but you are wrong.
"The god of super-duper-very-very-very-long-crazy-names-for-gods/goddesses-or-any-thing-else-for-that-matter-MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Has that title
And as far as "gods" go, I like Terry Pratchett's idea of the "Oh God". He was the god of hangovers.
Also:
God of redundancy god.
The God of Casual Gaming.
It's growing in power. Beware.