The following is a ridiculously long post.
I guess I'll try to fit my PC life in here and whatever came before...
To tell you the truth, I've never really been at a forum before. However, that's not to be confused with my internet life. I've always loved playing life-simulators like the Sims, for example, but the thought of playing it with real people across the world, despite the fact that half of them are probably sex-crazed rapists and pedophiles, really interested me. I'm really the type of guy that loves to have friends. The idea of not only having RL friends to talk to, but some over the internet as well appealed to me. Let's see.. I think you could say I got initiated in Internet Chat with Neopets. That's right. XD I joined that stuff when I was 11, I'd say. I was never interested, but this girl I talked to at the time raved about it and I thought why not? But, I did sign up as a minor, thus not being allowed in the chat. I wasn't interested, thus why I quit it. One year later, in 7th grade, my ex-friend made me get back onto Neopets and I decided to sign up as an 18-year old for the hell of it. I had no idea you got more benefits. As I went on, I eventually found the chatroom. I went in there, and made a friend. I really liked the guy, but my parents soon found out (mainly because I told them), and they didn't like what they heard. So, I got cut from Neopets.
Later that year, my friend got my onto CokeMusic, which was a real online life-simulator. At first, I played because of what the point of the game was -- to play music and make money. Friends were of no importance. Of course, that bored me, as I only really liked playing when my friend was online too. He wasn't always online, so I eventually gave up on it.
Skip up to 8th grade, I get back into CokeMusic. This time, I played for the point of the game, since I went back on my own, without any friends. Boy, this was a blast. I had a great group of friends, and I loved coming home from school to go on and play with them, while being on MSN with my RL friends. My mom eventually found out I was doing this. But, instead of banning me, I asked her to give it a shot. She did, and I forget why, she ended up banning me from it. This was my first sad moment over the internet. It really sucked. I don't go on anymore. Apparently CokeMusic has changed dramatically. I highly doubt my old friends still play it. I think I snuck on once only to find one of my best friends left, probably because I did. XD;
Skip forward to December 24th (that's right, Christmas Eve), 2006. I was bored while waiting for the evening to have Christmas dinner and open presents, so I started thinking about Pokemon a bit. I think I was playing FR or something at the time, I don't usually randomly start thinking about Pokemon. XD; So I was wondering to myself if they're ever going to make a Gold & Silver remake, seeing as they made a Red and Green remake. I googled "Pokemon Gold Remake" and saw the thread "Pokemon ShinyGold - The Pokecommunity Forums". I had no idea what a forum was, but I don't even think I payed attention to that. I checked out what the link gave me, and I liked what I was seeing. I tried downloading the attachment and it told me I had to be logged in to download. So I registered as "marz" \o/ I downloaded, I played, I loved. My first post was actually deleted (XD) because it was exactly what zel
didn't want people posting in his thread "how du i make the ipsfile work plz help :(". However, my second post, cheering on zel, was not deleted. :) I never made myself a welcome thread or anything.
I had no intension on posting very much, or even being active. I kept myself reserved to the Hacks Showcase section. I made quite a few friends in the ShinyGold thread alone. One day, I saw a link to an Umbreon Fanclub in the last poster section of the MCG. As I stated before, I always stayed in the Hacks Showcase section, so I never bothered to look around or check anything out. I liked Umbreon, so I decided to join up. Little did I know.. This was the first post of
many in the MCG section, thus gradually making me get less interested in the Hacks Showcase. I guess you can say this is the Turning Point in my PC Life Story. But back then, I still visited the Hacks Showcase. I wasn't completely reserved to the MCG.
February 9th: I started a ROMHacking Group called
HackerCross Productions. Please excuse the lame-ass name. It was a complete disaster. At the time I was basically fighting against my friend TreeckoLv.100's hacking group Galaxy Productions and Christos' hacking group called.. Windbreaker-something, I think. I was all excited that I had made one of these hacking groups, and it did get me a little more known around the Hacking Section, but the fact that we didn't come out with anything was kind of phail. I eventually gave up on the hacking group, when I started getting out of the whole ROMHacking scene.
February 14th 2007: First warning for SPAM. XD In the ShinyGold thread, of course~ Scizz had given it to me, and I clearly remember him writing "Have a nice day" at the end. I loved the absolute irony that this was a bad thing, yet he ends it off as if nothing was wrong. I thought to myself "If I ever warn anyone.. I'm so gonna put that at the end of my PMs." Anyway, I accepted the warning, I really didn't mind. I never thought it would do anything. I wasn't really interested in being a moderator at the time.
I think by this time I really started developing more of an interest in the MCGs. I made some good friends pretty fast. My first best friend must have been DarkIllusion. We talked daily, and sometimes had 7 PM chains going at once. It was crazy o_o; As I made more and more friends, including Murderface, Harmony, HOPPING FROGGY KISSES and some others, they all thought that me and DarkIllusion should have paired together, but.. we never did. Neither of us were interested in pairing.
As I got more and more involved in the MCG section, it became all I came to PC for. I had started my own Espeon club which was a huge success, DarkIllusion had made me a fanclub that I thought would have died out immediately and ended up getting 70-sum pages XD; A lot of memories in there, including me trying to leave PC twice. .__.; What takes up more than half of my post count would probably be the fact that I went everyday and posted in every club I was a part of at least once. It was intense. But I really liked it. I made
so many friends in the MCG section, it was really great. I loved coming to PC.
We're now in March. I think in late-February/early-March, my mom found out I was going to PC. I told her to give it a shot because I'm 14 now and I can take care of myself. So, she let me go on PC. I was really happy, because I had started getting involved with a ROMHack by Trace. That never really got onto PC, because there were a few setbacks, and I don't talk to Trace anymore. XD; The same type of stuff happened throughout March, but around late-March the noobs started invading PC because of the Diamond/Pearl hype. I wasn't very effected though, since I never looked around in that forum anyway.
Now, April is a big month in my internet life. Hope it's not getting too boring. >: In April, the idea of becoming a moderator was slowly getting engraved into my head, and I wanted to become one. Also, Drummershuff had become a moderator at that time, and I was really into making friends by randomly PMing people. I got a few good friends that way, actually. Anyway, I PMed Drummershuff mainly because I wanted to see what he was like. A lot of people liked him because I saw his Friend's List was enormous. We PMed a bit, and it stopped abruptly. ;_________; but then later on I tried PMing him again and he asked for my MSN. This... was a huge decision for me. My parents clearly told me not to let anyone see my picture, let people know my name, phone number, home address, and
e-mail. I thought "...well why the hell not? :D" and made myself an IM account for PC people, and I gave it to him. I started coming on MSN
just for Drummershuff. I'd come home, we'd talk for an hour, he'd go to bed, I'd go back to my RL MSN. He introduced me to Sammi, too. :3
From then on.. I started talking to my friends on PC who had MSN handles. It was really cool. This slowly got me away from PC, but I'd still post in my Fanclub and whatnot.
Thanks to MSN, I met tons of new friends. It's what got me most of the people whom I talk to daily. \o/ During the summer of 07, in particular, I met Loki, YoshiRiRu, Niwa and... Nastumi (I don't know your PC account name). I later on met Chibi-chan this way. This opened up MMORPGs to me. I played Ragnarok Online with them. o: I liked it. But, a lot of drama happened between me and Murderface because of it, so I stopped playing, and now I hardly play it.
Skip to May: This is when I became friends with one of my best friends Arisa. :D We both won Member of the Month for April, and I guess Kelsey thought I was cool enough to talk to. Instead of PMing me, she found my FC and posted in there. I actually unintentionally ignored the post for about a week, because it was the very last post on a page in my FC, and someone had made a post after it, so I didn't bother looking on the other page until after a week. I couldn't imagine how Kelsey must have felt to see that I totally ignored her. XD; SORRY. <3
I was talking to Drummershuff on MSN, and we were talking about how many people like him, and I told him I'd make a Poll on PC about it. He thought I was joking, since apparently that was against the rules (way to tell me
after I make the thread!) So, as you can probably guess, I got warned by Morkula. Thus starting a very strange friendship with him. It consisted of me demanding for my warning getting revoked, him getting pissed, pwning me through PM for being a n00b, me accepting it and moving on. But, one day I was talking to Drummershuff, and I think we were talking about Morkula, and I asked for him to get added as a joke. Turns out Drummershuff asked Morkula about it and Morkula agreed. I introduced myself properly, and it was a bit awkward at first, but the friendship has turned good. :]
Skip to July or August or something: I got paired with Chikara. We actually hardly knew each other at the time, or at least weren't as good friends then as we are now, but we were both unpaired and we got paired. You can thank Harmony for that. XD
Skip to September 14th: I get modded. \o/ I got added into a chat with Cowrie, Morkula and Sammi. Drummershuff told me that he got modded after being added into a chat with staff members only, so I was like "omg. am I getting modded?" and, I did! 8D Wow, that was great. XD; Well, this really opened up something new to PC: MCG noobs. >: Instead of being one, I had to take care of them. I was up to the challenge though. \o/
All was good until I decided to my name changed to Deimos. I had no idea so much would happen using this name. Especially mod-wise. I took care of some pretty big things being a mod while being Deimos. I don't think I'll go into that. All I've got to say is that it made me quit the staff on February 17th. I was quite sick of the noobs. x__x; I asked for a demotion and everything.
I decided to come back, because.. I really liked you guys. I was surprised that instead of getting beaten down with "FAKER!! LOSER!!! LOL U SUK!!!" it was more along the lines of "oh great, Marz is back. He was a good mod." Speaking of being a mod, I got modded again roughly a month later. :]
Nothing that big has gone on since then. We're now here on April 23rd, and I'm typing this up. If you actually made it through this post, wow. o__o;