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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #40 on: January 08, 2006, 12:49:15 am
Quote from: Singh on January 07, 2006, 06:47:16 am
Happy Birthday, HLP!

Five years ago, eh? *does magic math* ermm...hmm.....that'd be 2000.

I like your magic math. :lol:

Lessee... five years ago I was in my second semester at college, and I hadn't yet discovered Freespace. :)

Five years from now I hope to be married and raising a family. :)
 

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #41 on: January 08, 2006, 02:30:59 am
Quote from: Goober5000 on January 08, 2006, 12:49:15 am
Quote from: Singh on January 07, 2006, 06:47:16 am
Happy Birthday, HLP!

Five years ago, eh? *does magic math* ermm...hmm.....that'd be 2000.

I like your magic math. :lol:

Drat, you beat me to it! :lol:
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #42 on: January 08, 2006, 03:39:39 am
5 years ago I was playing Deus Ex way too much, which was about the only game I played for about 6 months.  I was a total nuuu-b at any game back then, cept for Descent and Freespace, which I was hooked on way back when.  I was entering college, and I got everything life could pretty much throw at me all in two semesters worth of time. Studying, Relationships, Real Life, Etc, you name it, it all hit me at once.  Since then I've went through treatments for depression and social anxiety (which in the end, I actually made the changes to get over those problems, not the treatments) and have become pretty much lazy, trying to finish up school. In 5 years I hope to have a stable job and a place of my own.  At the end of the 5 years, I hope to be ready to start a family of my own but as of right this moment, I have no idea if I want to do that....

  

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #43 on: January 08, 2006, 03:59:13 am
5 years ago? it's hard enough to remember what I did 5 days ago...
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #44 on: January 08, 2006, 07:35:39 am
5 years ago i was 16 and i joined this place:D
While being totaly adicted to FS1/FS2:D
And ofcourse meeting Steak, Thunder and tons of others:D

Happy B-day HLP!!

I may not be here as much as i used to do, but i still damn love this place:)
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #45 on: January 08, 2006, 07:48:27 am
5 years ago, I was 8, and just moved to Belgium, barely spoke Dutch and was frankly having the worst time of my life
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #46 on: January 08, 2006, 08:01:15 am
5 years ago... I was studying. Second year in polytechnics actually. Yeah. More or less active in FS2 community and curious about this place when it appeared.

5 years from now on... beat's me, let's see what happens. :F

Happy (belated) Birthday HLP!
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #47 on: January 08, 2006, 09:27:40 am
Quote from: an0n on January 07, 2006, 07:24:34 pm
Quote from: Carl on January 07, 2006, 04:36:22 pm
Yes, because at 16 you totally know what the world is about.
It should be illegal for people to act like they know what the **** they're talking about before they're 25.
That makes me feel better :)

I'm 23...near 24...and I know less about what the hell is going on than I did when I was 19.
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #48 on: January 08, 2006, 12:45:37 pm
Five years ago I was in eighth grade, so I was probably wishing I was dead.

As for knowing what the world is about, it's really quite simple: Always put the shower curtain on the inside.
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #49 on: January 08, 2006, 01:03:13 pm
:lol:

Indeed, one of the great lessons, and one that is learnt with much mopping ;)
 

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #50 on: January 08, 2006, 04:46:18 pm
Quote from: Darkage on January 08, 2006, 07:35:39 am
5 years ago i was 16 and i joined this place:D
While being totaly adicted to FS1/FS2:D
And ofcourse meeting Steak, Thunder and tons of others:D

Happy B-day HLP!!

I may not be here as much as i used to do, but i still damn love this place:)

Darkie!!!!! :)
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #51 on: January 08, 2006, 04:49:12 pm
That's not Darkie!!! He wasn't drunk! ;)

Good to see you :D
 

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #52 on: January 08, 2006, 07:41:48 pm
I don't think I was on HLP already 5 years ago.
I do know, however, that 4 years ago Nodewars was taking form around these times (late january or february iirc)

Maybe I need to play FS again, it's been ages.
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #53 on: January 09, 2006, 04:21:28 pm
Hmm.. 5 years ago, I was in the middle of 5th grade. I was pretty much over my FS high, but I was also probably wondering "when the hell is FS3 coming out?" And five years from now, I'll be halfway through my first tour of duty with the USMC.

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #54 on: January 09, 2006, 09:44:04 pm
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And five years from now, I'll be halfway through my first tour of duty with the USMC.

I feel so sorry for you.
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #55 on: January 09, 2006, 09:57:15 pm
January '01, I was getting my college admissions letters and worrying about my divorced parents. It was the last time all my family was still speaking to each other. :(

January '11, I'll finally be out of college and working as an entry-level architect. Maybe.
My girlfriend will have graduated by then so who knows where that might go. :)
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #56 on: January 12, 2006, 02:14:56 am
Well since 5 years ago was 2001, i was 16 and a sophomore in highschool being super naive until i had a gf that made me so mad i sort of changed for the better to be smarter :p
Also back then i was happily playing fs2 on my first built pc that was a celeron 366 at 533, 12gig harddrive, 128mb ram, and a voodoo3 3000 pci.
Barely went by the VBB until they closed down like over a year ago.
One of the major turning points in my life. ;)
Then today is 2006, and i am 21, sophomore in college:p
Girlfriendless as my last gf who was practically my fiance i found out after 3 years wasn't worth all the trouble i was going through for her.
i found hlp last christmas, and was blown away out of my skibby's.
Another major turning point in my life :nod:
Then 5 years from now, omg, i don't know how it should go.
I want to live in louisville kentucky where it gets nice and hot in the summer, where i know a ton of great people, where there's lots of beautiful chicks, doing for a job what i specialize in.
By then i'll be 26, hope really badly i have gf from now till then, because it seems i have lost my mojo. :(
Also when fs3  :v: certified all the way baby :nod:
Or when hlp purchases the rights to fs, or maybe when i do ;7
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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #57 on: January 20, 2006, 11:16:01 am
Eegads...five years ago I was 41...five years from now, 51 ... d'oh. 5 ago - working, 5 from now - working. Inbetween...camping music art kids fun games life. :p
 

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #58 on: January 21, 2006, 02:37:40 am
Hi all!!! Long time no see.  I don't think I have posted since 2002 :) 

Happy Birthday HLP!!!  What a great site.  I honestly believe if it weren't for HLP FS2 modding and really FS2 would no longer be extant.  One would think it were dead, but look, FS is alive and well.  The Open Source Project, new campaigns, its awesome

Five years ago, I was active in the FS2 community in both modding where I was attempting to make a RTS version of FS in Star Trek Armada 2.  I had succeeded well in importing actual FS2 models into Armada 2 (both cruisers, fighters, and bombers) and was really going places with the mod when my computer was abruptly stolen.  The sudden shock of that really affected me and I lost heart and interest in the mod.  I also worked on some campaigns and ship mods.  I made some pretty terrible ships like the GTB Congo and Athena Mark II.  I was also well known for FS2 Multiplayer where I was a founding member, along with The Kenny, of the Roughnecks.org squadron.  We were very succesful and one of the best squads on Squadwar.

Well, five years ago I was a sophmore in a midwestern college deciding on a major and flunking 4 classes.  Now, I just finished a MBA and am interviewing with marketing research companies and consumer products companies.

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Re: Fastest 5 years ever.
Reply #59 on: January 21, 2006, 10:37:16 am
Lemme see, I left kwik fit around five years ago and bought my first proper PC (after amstrad cpc464 and various consoles) and bought FS not long after that.

5 years from now, hopefully I'll be living somewhere in Aus (Perth or Melbournes seems good) and maybe be working in 3ds for a living. Hopefully my mota won't have tansformed into a nasty pile of rust too. My plans change from week to week though, I'm no more sure of anything than I was when I left school 7/8 years ago.  :shaking:
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