The Shrine

Do you even remember?

I think that I was referred here by one of the dudes from the Mana Tree House or Eblana, but at this point I've got no idea. It was so long ago!

I was looking up a site for Chrono Trigger (which at that point was the hottest RPG available) and also was interested in Wild Arms and there was a lot of talk going on about that game too. When I first got here I was buying SNES and Genesis games new.

I think through Tort, who no longer posts. I started out only posting in Ruminations, and I think I even started arguing with Sine before actually posting.

Andrew, do you remember how you first encountered me, and I think by proxy, the MTH?

Via Pete Wisdom aka Esque from either the PSXNation boards or the Sega Saturn board (can't remember the exact name of that one... y'know, the one with PSXblowz. Anybody remember that tool?).

M'k'n'y dragged me in here after we met in Asheron's Call

(abstains)

Black Lotus wrote:Via Pete Wisdom aka Esque from either the PSXNation boards or the Sega Saturn board (can't remember the exact name of that one... y'know, the one with PSXblowz. Anybody remember that tool?).

Yes, I remember him, the Internet was a MUCH smaller place in those days. You could actually know all of the people who headed videogame websites back then =P

Kupek wrote:Andrew, do you remember how you first encountered me, and I think by proxy, the MTH?

Oh Jesus, vaguely, I think. Didn't it have something to do with a guestbook and insane Christians?

Man, did I find both Eblana and the MTH through you? Insanity if so, that's the first couple of years of my internet experience right there.

I was searching for info on Final Fantasy 7, I think. And I came across the board completely by accident. It was the 1st message board I had ever seen online at that point and you guys were all discussing games, I started to join in.

I cane durning the days of the awauademense thanks to The Gray formerly known as Arioc who was formerly known as Malhavok....I also hosted the fucker for like a month before we got booted do to bandwidth usage..

Kupek wrote:I think through Tort, who no longer posts.

Do you still keep in contact with Tort? What's he doing with himself these days?

Black Lotus wrote:Via Pete Wisdom aka Esque...

And where the fuck has he gone!

Lox wrote:I was searching for info on Final Fantasy 7, I think.

Be honest. It was FF7 slash fanfic you were after. It's okay, we're not going to judge you for it.

There was Manaman too, but I think he went into some sort of fucked up depression along with Crono and some others..... Or they've been kidnapped by a certain poster here.

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:

Black Lotus wrote:Via Pete Wisdom aka Esque...

And where the fuck has he gone!

Hasn't posted in over two years. He's still got an email and yahoo in his profile.

profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=60

Yes, it was some insane guestbook thing. And I think I was the one who introduced you to the MTH, Eblana and all that. Well, if I wasn't, then it would be an amazing coincidence if you found those independent of me, and then we randomly encountered each other through my guestbook, of all things.

Tort's doing alright, although I haven't spoken to Tort in a long time. The last time was in person, actually. Last I knew, he was doing the normal thing: working a job and seemed to be in a good relationship. My freshmen year of college, I ran into a friend of Tort's from high school. Tort knew we were both going to VT, and I think he showed him my homepage, which had a picture. One random night I was eating dinner and someone said "Are you Scott?" and I stopped, frozen between the responses "Yes" and "How do you know that?" I've actually gotten to know that guy much better than Tort, and I've hung out with Tort a few times in person because of that association.

The Seeker wrote:There was Manaman too, but I think he went into some sort of fucked up depression along with Crono and some others..... Or they've been kidnapped by a certain poster here.

Let the search of Ish's basement begin! You go first, Eric.

Kupek wrote:Yes, it was some insane guestbook thing.

Far out, I wish I could remember that story, I'm certain it was awesome. I've probably got it written down somewhere though.

Go on Eric, it's just up ahead!

The last time ManaMan stopped in here, he was married and off doing the responsible adult job thing.



Andrew.....how did you know?????

Blame Arioc/Malhavok/Gray for all the suffering you guys have been through over the years ;-)

I think I see this thread like every year...

Anyway, the exodus from the sega-saturn board, where all I really remember is G-man, Braaak! and PSXblows.

I remember my first post, everyone ignored me....which kinda pissed me off. And I've been trolling as revenge ever since.

I found this place while looking for Wild Arms tips on the search engine WebCrawler...

edit: When I was.... 13? god damnit, lol.

Nev wrote:(abstains)

No one cares, anyway

Oracle wrote:

Nev wrote:(abstains)

No one cares, anyway

Sometimes I wish I hadn't tossed the hard drives with the archives of the old, old pages on them. I could probably have pulled up some posts to make us all embarassed (those who were here back in the day, back in the day).

Zeus wrote:Blame Arioc/Malhavok/Gray for all the suffering you guys have been through over the years ;-)

us former basement sellers can blame him for a lot can't we

Chris Hansbrough wrote:

Zeus wrote:Blame Arioc/Malhavok/Gray for all the suffering you guys have been through over the years ;-)

us former basement sellers can blame him for a lot can't we

We can try :-)

I know it was through the the Mana Tree House and Eblana that I found tOWS. How I got to those places is a little fuzzy though. I think I stumbled upon MTH through a link on the Unofficial Squaresoft Homepage, but I'm really not quite sure anymore. I found Eblana around the same time (I searched for it after it was featured in an issue of Game Players), but I didn't start posting until a few months later.

Was it Wild ARMs like everybody else? I think it was. FF7 was shortly after that. It was my first message board experience, and I never really left.