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Feb 23 2007, 02:46 AM
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Ee san
Group: Nobles
Posts: 506
Joined: 3-July 06
From: British Columbia, Canada
Member No.: 12
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I found out about Nexus in August of 1998, the summer after...Grade 9, I guess it was. This was roughly one month after the game went commercial.
I am not even 100% sure how I found it, to be honest. It was definitely online, likely from some gaming website. I was the one who hooked 4 of my friends on it, but all of them quit by early 4.0.
It is a common myth that the community is somehow different - it is not. Not in any meaningful way, at least. The old tend to see the past through rose-coloured lenses, and reflect on 'the good ol' days'.
I have not noticed a decline in the sort of players that play. There were asses back then, there are asses now. This has always and will always be true.
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Feb 23 2007, 03:36 AM
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Sam san
Group: Nobles
Posts: 808
Joined: 6-February 07
From: Cape Canaveral, Fl
Member No.: 1,757
Characters: Frog
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It was actually my first time ever online...Just a 6th grader in early 98 =)
My dad had bought a new computer and I was over(saw him just twice a month) looking up stuff. Somehow I remember looking up hercules(that show was so cool hah), and stumbling upon some crappy hercules rpg. I don't think it ever worked, or maybe I was unsure of what to do. Anyway, I went farther into that search, role playing games, came upon a java based one, maybe two, that I couldn't get working either, then somehow went on to find Nexus that day.
That's why I can never truly quit Nexus. I mean, it was basically the first internet experience I ever had.
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Feb 23 2007, 05:13 AM
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Level 5
Group: Citizens
Posts: 10
Joined: 23-January 07
From: Ilbon
Member No.: 1,652
Characters: FallenTennyo, KinirokoYume, YureiOkami and RyukoKamino
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I actually discovered it while hanging out at a friend's house. I saw her younger brother playing it (I believe it was during the Shattering at that point...or at least they had been playing that long) and the two of them proceeded to tell me that I should give it a try. A year or two later, I worked up the courage to finally download and install it (it wasn't my computer at the time ;P) and I've been hooked ever since ^^;
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I give up.
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Feb 23 2007, 08:24 AM
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Enchanted
Group: Nobles
Posts: 153
Joined: 15-December 06
From: England, UK.
Member No.: 1,415
Characters: Ffyll
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Found 99 when I wanted something to do after moving to a sleepy village in Scotland (6 miles to the nearest shop, 18 houses, all old people, I don't think they've realised I moved in yet!). Back then everyone played PA and this link came up on an IRC channel.
I went off and on and off and on and mostly off for 2 years, then went to uni and forgot. Now I'm married and need something to do in the evenings...
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QUOTE What a great front you got here... ... with Ffyll -- Moraghul, whilst hosting an insanity Bloodlust line-up, carefully examines the front lines!
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Feb 23 2007, 09:17 AM
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Oh san
Group: Retired Staff
Posts: 3,120
Joined: 3-July 06
Member No.: 2
Characters: AceoStar
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Some kid on irc back in 98 or so and I started playing. Had my first toon that I played with my woman for about 9 months, and I quit after logging on her char and giving away all her [Content removed] after a fight =p
Few years later I tore my ACL and needed something to keep me occupied.
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AceoStar, Imperial Guard of Buya. Put www.StatAddict.com in your profile to track your stats today! Learn to keep upErrr, NF is filtered at work these days, I'll be checking the forums a lot less often.
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Feb 23 2007, 02:04 PM
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Sam san
Group: Retired Staff
Posts: 1,062
Joined: 3-July 06
From: Edmonton, Alberta
Member No.: 31
Characters: Corath, Halanna, Aemon, CorJr
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One of my best friends (Aramina) told me about it in grade 11, so that was fall of 2000. She said it was a great game, and lots of fun... I looked into it, and basically read the old NexusTK website with the history and such, and I was lured in. I registered that December, and played for quite a while before getting bored of it. However, my VERY first time playing it was April 1, 2000, when some other people told me about it. I logged on, and my character had a FLAMEBLADE to begin with! I thought that it was so cool that new characters got such a sweet weapon... but the next day it was gone, so I logged off and didn't even think about it for many months later.
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Feb 23 2007, 03:19 PM
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Il san
Group: Nobles
Posts: 232
Joined: 3-July 06
Member No.: 22
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QUOTE(Corath @ Feb 23 2007, 11:04 AM) [snapback]27262[/snapback] One of my best friends (Aramina) told me about it in grade 11, so that was fall of 2000. She said it was a great game, and lots of fun... I looked into it, and basically read the old NexusTK website with the history and such, and I was lured in. I registered that December, and played for quite a while before getting bored of it. However, my VERY first time playing it was April 1, 2000, when some other people told me about it. I logged on, and my character had a FLAMEBLADE to begin with! I thought that it was so cool that new characters got such a sweet weapon... but the next day it was gone, so I logged off and didn't even think about it for many months later. I remember that, that was april fools day. Ice beast also roamed in the Inns and the cities. My friend Daes, or Gotunks back in the day showed me it.. way to many years later I still roam the forums..
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"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves." — Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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Feb 23 2007, 09:08 PM
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Il san
Group: Banished
Posts: 185
Joined: 3-November 06
Member No.: 1,108
Characters: Jehst, Essa
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back in 1998 I was forced to goto my cousins birthday in a nearby city. so i went and he was playing this game and it looked pretty sweet, so i asked him about it and he gave me nexons Url. I went home that night downloaded it and it didnt work on my computer... no joke. About 4 months later I downloaded it again to see if it would work and for some reason it did and i played on and off ever since.
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You don't got enough calcium to have a bone to pick with me!
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Feb 24 2007, 03:50 AM
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Ee san
Group: Nobles
Posts: 536
Joined: 4-July 06
From: Vancouver, BC
Member No.: 71
Characters: Superman, Batman, umm.... Superman.
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My friend found it and called me "I need your help blocking someone in this game I found, it's hilarious my guy looks like a retard and has a soup-bowl cut!"
Sold!
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Shh... I'm lurking...
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