Wanna feel old?
It has occurred to me that since the forumpocalypse of 2006, the following has happened:
Lauren has finished both High School and University
Jake has finished University and dropped out of University and is now a respectable white collar worker
Mario has gone from a school IT tech to an Apple Genius (He is also now old)
Ryan has fucked his way through Eastern Asia
I have finished Secondary School, dropped out of uni, had a kid.
Tanya has also bred
Andrew has wed (But not bred. Chaucer gives him street cred)
Carter, once the young lad of the forum overblowing his teen emotional woes is now at university.
Just to reiterate: Mario is now old.
God used to look like McLovin but now looks like Jesus (appropriately enough)
Jon has broken his spine
John has joined the airforce
The belt multiplayer game of choice at the time was Gunbound, now it is minecraft (Somewhat)
I spent the most formative years of my life with you guys. Were it not for you I'd probably be even crazier than I am now. We're essentially Carter's surrogate parents.
Goddamnit, I need to sit down, my lumbago's acting up and my stories are on.
Lauren has finished both High School and University
Jake has finished University and dropped out of University and is now a respectable white collar worker
Mario has gone from a school IT tech to an Apple Genius (He is also now old)
Ryan has fucked his way through Eastern Asia
I have finished Secondary School, dropped out of uni, had a kid.
Tanya has also bred
Andrew has wed (But not bred. Chaucer gives him street cred)
Carter, once the young lad of the forum overblowing his teen emotional woes is now at university.
Just to reiterate: Mario is now old.
God used to look like McLovin but now looks like Jesus (appropriately enough)
Jon has broken his spine
John has joined the airforce
The belt multiplayer game of choice at the time was Gunbound, now it is minecraft (Somewhat)
I spent the most formative years of my life with you guys. Were it not for you I'd probably be even crazier than I am now. We're essentially Carter's surrogate parents.
Goddamnit, I need to sit down, my lumbago's acting up and my stories are on.
Comments
*shakes fist*
*urges you to get off his damn lawn*
HAX! U HAX!!!
So, no different than from before?
Moved from San Francisco to Ireland,
Worked in radio,
Started university for the second time,
Noticed that Mario is no longer a spring chicken,
Started a radio station in my university,
And left and re-joined this community numerous times.
Damn I feel old...
Also, very little sleep.
Also, I haven't finished University yet. Plan to graduate in December. But yeah! This community has been surviving for quite a while now! It's a shame it's not quite as active as it has been in the past, but I still check up on it regularly to read all the new posts. It's a good group of people.
Oh! I haven't made the appropriate comment though. Hmmm. The forumpocalypse was 2006 was it? Wow, that really WAS a crazy year for me. I think I started off lurking the StV forum WAAAY back at my first college when I started really getting into webcomic reading, joined up proper in like 2004 a couple months before graduating that college, worked at my parents awning shop for a bit over a year completely wasting my education. Decided to go back to school. More programming again, but it was also game development stuff which sounded fun. By the time 2006 rolled around I was putting in over 30 hours a week on homework alone, working part time at the awning shop, commuting a good distance to attend a school, actually attending all my classes, maintaining a social life with a new set of college friends (we played a lot of video games) and apparently going through some rough spots with the online social scene? Sleep was not shorted somehow. My only conclusion is that there were more than 24 hours in a day back in '06.
Anyhow, I graduated that second college (top of my smallish class 'cause I guess I'm smart or something), got a job which kinda went to hell. After a year and a half the company went broke, but the old boss started a new thing and strung me along for another year and a half of not so grand times. Then I became a reclusive bum and grew the appropriate facial hair. I think I ended up in Japan at some point?
I've changed a lot as a person. I used to be really introverted, and I had a major temper problem. Now I actually go out and meet people, and I only seem to get upset when I play Super Smash Brothers these days.
Fucking Toon Link...
-transitioned from my first job of working at a daycare center at a private school to running IT at the same school
-dropped out of college
-started Witch's Brew with Paul and Geoff, which I still consider to be our greatest contribution to the Internet
Since Top Web Comics' community imploded and the exiles started a new one at Inksandwich in 2003, I:
-met community members in real life for the first time at ConnectiCon '04 and '05
-went to Hawaii with my family
Since Inksandwich erupted into chaos and The Orange Belt came into being in 2005 (and died/was reborn phoenix-style in 2006), I:
-moved out of my mother's house and went to Davis with Stef
-started working at a computer repair shop in Sacramento
-took a few more college classes at Sacramento City College (astrobiology was amazing)
-broke up with Stef and moved back to the Bay Area
-started working at Apple (over three years now!)
-participated in the weddings of both my mother and my sister
-attended four w00tstocks
-rode Star Tours before it was closed forever and replaced with some new abomination
-hosted Webcomics Webconcert live-streaming from my apartment and briefly hooked up with the headliner
-attended the memorial of my mother's husband
Goddamn, but time does have a way of having a lot of things happen within it.
The Orange Belt is over six years old now. Certainly we've seen an extreme decline in activity, and I don't expect that to change any time soon, but I've had a great deal of fun with you guys and you'll always have a cool place to hang out when you need Facebook breaks.
They got rid of Star Tours!?!!!?!
Just sayin'
What else have I done? Hahah, not much compared to the rest of you geezers.
Then I continued using the OB in the US for college.
Then I moved to Hangzhou for four years for a job and used the OB there.
And now I'm in Hong Kong, and I'm crappy about signing on regularly but I still love you guys.
This site has been my home in a way. No matter where I am, it's always here.
I... wouldn't want work to be my home away from home.
Hmm... this requires further thought.
My homes on the internet .. dear god. I've been on the internet for almost 17 years. Now I have a 1 year old child and I still sit and chat on the internet. I pulled out letters from old internet snail mail penpals earlier today, some 13 years ago. I hope Hannah can have a for reals penpal one day. I suggest Esme.