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[Mario the black knight]

It doesn't mean as much as it used to, but I figured I had to do something.

It is now at this time that I realize I have spent literally half of my life on this forum and forums like it.

I do wonder what has happened to everyone from time to time

Also, you better start preparing to run for president soon.

[tim]

Damn just noticed this thread. You probably have a higher PD+groovy post count than me now. In fact you must. Most people throughout PD history are still contactable one way or another. There’s a group chat through Facebook active with a few people, mostly the later arrivals like Rayne and Lord, but Mex is there and interacts from time to time for example.

[tim]

I think the only person I’d have no idea how to contact is Devil

[Mario the black knight]

I'm glad Mex is still talking to people, she went on that tear actively avoiding us all for a while. Not that I don't understand a desire for internet security these days.

Facebook though? I know you're an old man or whatever, but fuck. I didn't know you were THAT old

Peeki is one I wonder about, is he still surrounded by large groups of asian woman in The Philippines, or has he gone back to Egypt to take his rightful place as Pharaoh, toppling that false regime...Also probably surrounded by large groups of asian woman

Yeah, poor Devil. I feel like we don't even know any of his other aliases, if he had any, since I suspect "Devil" was just a play on your name. Do you even have his email on any of your old messenger accounts or anything?

Another thought I had was whatever happened to KG? I remember for like a minute she was a vlogger with a small audience, before that was like a legit revenue source like it is nowadays, so she was actually a little bit of a pioneer in hindsight, especially as a gay vlogger back then, when now that is like practically the norm in that world. Did she keep up with that? Did she secretly become famous in the like lgbt vlog world and we didn't hear about it, or did she drop that just before Youtube Money became a thing?

I think one of the things I think back to most was like, PEAK Yu Gi Oh. Back on that really shitty site with the little sprites, where we actually had serious competition for the title and like half the forum was playing. I feel like that was when we got to know a lot of people better. And man was it fun contending for the title like that, even if the game only had the shittiest old cards, and it was all just monster mash meta. I think some of my first all nighters on the internet were in that game.

I also think of some of the more obscure posters from time to time, some of the backgrounders and oddities. Like Pikashnozz McNutz....that fuckin guy...what happened to him? He feels like a relic of the ancient internet, like he was born from the primordial soup at the edges of the dial up era internet and just crawled onto land, steeped in the strangeness of that time, and just evolved into Pikashnozz McNutz, with no physical presence, he is just a Gateway computer from 2001 with a CRT monitor, and a tower with a CD burner and a 2.5 inch floppy drive, and a mouse that still has a ball, and he disappeared from the internet when he ran out of AOL free trial disks.

Or even just some of the no names who weren't really in with us, but also weren't offensive, and just good to have around, like I feel like we had a good group for a few months, I guess it was late 2008/early 2009? It was when Justin was around for a little while as LuigiTheLight, I just remember a lot of the problem posters were mostly put in their place, before Lord's insurrection, where it was most of the core group, me, you, Eve, the later days of Mex, Pichubro was really coming out of her shell at that time, I think Peeki MIGHT have been around from time to time, that might have also been when we saw the last of Devil? or that might have been just before? I think even Xion made a small resurgence during that period.

But there was also just this really solid group of background posters in that time, people like NidoKING and Lacemaker(?) and a few others I can't totally remember the names of, who were just solid, good quality backgrounders who really kept the place running, it was like a short renaissance of the old days, but less chaotic. That was a good time.

[tim]

peeki's still in phillipines, he's pretty active on facebook, i notice his profile updates and stuff all the time when i log in to check the chat. i don't think kg's on facebook anymore, but she probably wouldn't be too hard to find. yeah, i think she ended up deleting her youtube channel in like 2007, after she actually got some deal of recognition there relative to the time, because it worried her mom. haha, it is kinda funny to think that could have been a springboard to real internet fame given how that time was REALLY the ground floor.

yeah, dmo ruled. that was awesome. definitely one of the best eras of pd-gr00vy history. i remember new years 2008, we just played nonstop with a couple people. including hatsuharu, i just remembered! there's a blast from the past. no way we could get in touch with him.

nidogod, who i think is nidoKING you mention, is in the facebook group chat too. hardly ever active but if you 'mention' him he'll respond, so he's in the loop. lacemaker dropped off the face of the earth in like 2009. she was a good poster, but only around for that short amount of time. i could maybe contact pikaschnozz from the old final fantasy message board i met him from, but that's pretty dead too now.

late 2008/early 2009 was definitely a really cool, chill time on the board. but mex was gone by then. mex made her big exit around right before summer 2008.

[tim]

xion is on facebook, i added him to the group chat and he immediately removed himself, fuckin xion. he went to the UK to visit eve, apparently eve was a bitch to him while there per her own admission, and he pretty much dropped out of contact with any of us ever since. but he's reachable at least.

[tim]

devil joined PD before me and dogar, i'm PRETTY sure, so his name wouldn't have been a play on mine. i remember his real name was milijan.

[Mario the black knight]

I remember we were worried for a minute about Peeki after Philippines got blasted by that massive cyclone. I'm sure he just floated atop a raft of asian woman, because that is like his thing. I remember he was trying to become a chemical engineer or something.

That is one of those near misses, huh? 2007 was when a lot of the channels that basically run Youtube were just getting started, and I don't think the Partner Program started until 2008, which is when people started making ad money from Youtube. It's not unreasonable to say if she had kept with it she would likely be a millionaire today. Like quite a few of those vloggers from that time period doing exactly what she was doing run massive media companies now.

2008 DMO carnival, one of the greatest new years of all time. The New Year's Miracle Champion was crowned. I wish had had access to something like YGOPro back then, something that was more sophisticated and had access to all the cards and all that. Though having all the sprites and stuff was fun to be able to see everybody in one place.

Oh yeah, Hatsuharu. He was around from time to time. I think he only played with us a few times, I'm not sure if he was at the New Years tournament, I think that was mostly me, you, Peeki, and someone else, I can't remember, I don't think it was Eve, I think she was there early on but had to go to bed, and then someone else came in, it MIGHT have been Kelsh?

Nope, not Nidogod, he was that punk rock guy from New York. I'm talking about NidoKING, he was just the most background of background posters, nothing remarkable about him other than just being a young, future prospect. He never made any groundbreaking contributions or anything, he was just one of those people I saw who I thought had potential to be good one day and was just one of those solid backgrounders.

Yeah, Lacemaker was almost too good to be true. I think she was from New Zealand or something? I think she was actually someone who had been around for a while in the RP scene, but only branched out from there and crossed our paths for a short time before falling off the face of the earth. Really a shame too. If theres anyone who REALLY will never be found, it's probably her.

I'm not even 100% sure Pikashnozz is real, I feel like he might have just been a collective hallucination/fever dream we all just occasionally had. But was he from that place with BOOOONJam?

Oh yeah, thats right, she was already done by then. Was that the same time where me, you, and Xion all tried to play FFX at the same time, but only me and Xion finished the game?

[Mario the black knight]

Oct 12, 2021 15:36:59 GMT -5 tim said:

xion is on facebook, i added him to the group chat and he immediately removed himself, fuckin xion. he went to the UK to visit eve, apparently eve was a bitch to him while there per her own admission, and he pretty much dropped out of contact with any of us ever since. but he's reachable at least.

Yeah, that was a weird situation.

Did you at least try to reach out to him 1 on 1?

[Mario the black knight]

Oct 12, 2021 15:40:09 GMT -5 tim said:

devil joined PD before me and dogar, i'm PRETTY sure, so his name wouldn't have been a play on mine. i remember his real name was milijan.

Oh really? I thought he joined around the same time

Ha, yeah, good luck finding someone based solely on a first name which is like the Serbian equivalent of John or Bob.

[tim]

even with the restricted card choices, DMO can't be beat. the sprites and the physical space made it what it was. how you could all be in the same place, see other players walking around, go to different rooms and walk up to those duel fields. it was awesome.

[Mario the black knight]

I really do wish someone had made a more modernized Yu Gi Oh game that was really good, where the dueling engine itself was good, but it also had that physical presence aspect to it, because YGOPro's dueling is really good and solid, but the lack of physical presence makes it feel less polished, while DMO's dueling was just OK, but the physical space made it feel more complete.

Konami is just a garbage company and has literally never made a good digital Yu Gi Oh game, and are pretty much out of the game business, and modders and unofficial sources don't have the resources to make the perfect Yu Gi Oh game without it being shut down