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Offline Xenon

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Actually, my password was ridiculously simple, and therefore quite easy to remember.  I've since changed it to something more secure.  Web security wasn't as much of a priority back in 2001. :)

Let's see, how do you summarize 13 years in a few sentences?  HLP was founded right before I started the second half of my junior year at college, so any time I would have spent here got sucked up in coursework. :sigh:  Got a job, got married, spawned the three most wonderful kids in the local stellar neighborhood.  I started dabbling in BitCoin awhile back, and actually made a tidy profit -- good for a nice vacation, but nowhere near enough to retire on.  Then IceFire told me that HLP was starting HLPCoin and suggested I drop by to offer a few pointers.  That's how I got here.

I must say that I'm a bit staggered by the sheer amount of content everybody has produced.  In 2001 you could count the number of released campaigns on two hands and a foot, but from the wiki it looks there are ten times that many now.

 

Offline karajorma

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Here, on HLP? Huh... learn something new every day.

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Offline Bobboau

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Here, on HLP? Huh... learn something new every day.

he was very active here for quite some time

seeing that old thread I had forgot how close HLP and Warpstorm were at one point.
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Offline Gortef

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I wonder how many of the old VBB peeps are still around.

Some of us are indeed still here.

Anyone else remember that guy? :D

Only vaguely... and that's propably a good thing I suppose.
Habeeb it...

 
 

Offline Gortef

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I just recalled all the long TaS threads... oh lawd...
Habeeb it...

 

Offline General Battuta

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I just recalled all the long TaS threads... oh lawd...

And the hanging light fell onto your head?

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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People keep dropping nostalgia bombs on my feet and blowing my legs off.

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Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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Offline Bobboau

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warpstorm is still there, they just launched a completely origonal forum software and are keenly interested in new members.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Orly? I may have to investigate.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
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Offline Gortef

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I just recalled all the long TaS threads... oh lawd...

And the hanging light fell onto your head?
Yes, yes that's esactly what happened just afterwards
Habeeb it...