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When did you discover HLP?

The beginning/2001
30 (42.9%)
2002
19 (27.1%)
2003
10 (14.3%)
The Derek Smart Wars/Year of the n00b/2004
11 (15.7%)
2005
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 69

Voting closed: February 02, 2005, 04:36:35 am

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Offline Marauder

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How did you discover HLP?
on: February 02, 2005, 04:34:08 am
OK, admins, I'd especially like to hear from you! ;)

Well, back in '01 or '02, I was searching for FS2 pictures and stumbled upon Blackwater Operations images.  When I reached HLP, I immediately got scared off by the red and black, thinking this was a gothic site and my computer would get infested with viruses...(yeah, I know, a weird reaction :nervous:).

So I forgot about the site then stumbled upon it again in 2004 on the first day of school.  Read up on classics like FreeSpace: Jeopardy, and other things.  Registered later that month. :p

OK guys, spill. :cool:  You too, Kalfireth and Setekh. :D
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Offline Fineus

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #1 on: February 02, 2005, 04:47:27 am
The beginning of course :)
 

Offline Andreas

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #2 on: February 02, 2005, 04:48:04 am
Well, I had been lurking around the freespace.volitionwatch forums for, I don't know, a couple of months?

Then one day I remember checking out the BWO forums, and these guys there were talking about something called HLP. That's pretty much the way I ended up in here, and I'm glad I did. :D
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift
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Offline Ausar

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #3 on: February 02, 2005, 04:48:48 am
Heh. Gothic site? I know a guy (asian, wears glasses) who used to be a goth, with all the hairdo and such, and now he's studying to become a minister!

No, wait, I'm going off subject... I found this site a short while after finding... no... wait... I can't give off my identity to Set'...

Lets just say.... ...early 2004....
... ... $10 says Setekh doesn't know who I am....
 

Offline Ransom

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #4 on: February 02, 2005, 05:03:58 am
I was directed here from a post on a Freespace thread on some mac gaming forums. A bit later I found out that a mod I'd been looking forward to (MT) was hosted there, so I registered.
 

Offline vyper

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #5 on: February 02, 2005, 05:10:09 am
I found the original Sector Game, then was duly directed here.
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14
 

Offline Windrunner

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  • The Hammer.
How did you discover HLP?
Reply #6 on: February 02, 2005, 05:19:59 am
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
The beginning of course :)


ditto ;)
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Offline Turnsky

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #7 on: February 02, 2005, 05:33:31 am
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Originally posted by Windrunner


ditto ;)


been here since it was first announced on volitionwatch

hell, my comic even first started here..
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in case of emergency, administer caffeine to the artist,
he will become docile after that,
and less likely to stab you in the eye with a mechanical pencil
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Offline Primus

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #8 on: February 02, 2005, 06:32:50 am
I think it was 2003 when I first found my way here, but for some reason I left too..  But when it was the time of The Derek Smart Wars/Year of the n00b I came back and registered. Now I refuse to leave :D
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Offline mitac

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #9 on: February 02, 2005, 06:37:18 am
2003. Probably via :V:'s site, then proceeding to Volition Watch, after that HLP. Just watching most of the time.

Edit, having read Fishgut's post, I figure I was wrong - as the source code was released well after I started lurking VW. So, I figure it's rather early 2002.
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Offline MatthewPapa

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #10 on: February 02, 2005, 06:38:47 am
I fould this place through VWBB shortly before the DS incident.
 

Offline Setekh

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Reply #11 on: February 02, 2005, 06:45:30 am
In the beginning, naturally. Been inviting people ever since. ;)
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Offline Clave

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #12 on: February 02, 2005, 06:52:26 am
I have no idea how I found this place or what I'm doing here...
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Offline Col. Fishguts

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Reply #13 on: February 02, 2005, 06:56:53 am
Back in 2001 I was browsing throgh the VBB and found a link to the XWAUP, which absorbed me for a year or so. Got interested in FS2 again -> found the VWBB (mainly TBP and BWO) -> some dude posted a link to the early SCP page an said there were those crazy people trying to get a real project rolling.
I bookmarked the page, since it looked promising although not much was implemented back then (mainly new SexPs and bugfixes and removed limits). That was sometime in 2002, but I didn't know what this HLP thing was supposed to be (besides hosting for the SCP), but with time I wandered more and more outside of the SCP forum and got sucked in and eventually registered.
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #14 on: February 02, 2005, 07:06:09 am
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Originally posted by Clave
I have no idea how I found this place or what I'm doing here...


You're sure you're certified not insane? Sounds like a textbook case to me... :p
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Offline Corsair

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #15 on: February 02, 2005, 07:19:04 am
Got here in fall of '01 through the link on the Machina Terra website after searching for FS2 on Google. Lurked for a while, then decided to join up in January '02.
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Offline Rictor

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #16 on: February 02, 2005, 07:20:52 am
Probably linked to from somewhere, back in the day when Freespace sites were abundant.

even though my registration date says eary 2002, I lurked for a while so I probably found it sometime during the latter half of 2001...
 

Offline Gloriano

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #17 on: February 02, 2005, 07:21:04 am
when it was announced on volitionwatch i found HLP, lurked few months first. then registered that was in 2001
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Offline Ashrak

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #18 on: February 02, 2005, 07:25:37 am
i donno
I hate My signature!
 

Offline Clave

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How did you discover HLP?
Reply #19 on: February 02, 2005, 07:40:48 am
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Originally posted by Setekh


You're sure you're certified not insane? Sounds like a textbook case to me... :p


I can forge most certificates, I also am working on a 'sane' stamp as used by the Simpsons when visiting the asylum that time...:nod:
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