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So I was looking through my old posts and I got this idea for a thread:
What do you think when you read how you used to act throughout your time on EoFF?
When I first joined I seemed very childish, then I eventually got into that whole "flaming/arguing" phase of my life(of which I apologize to anyone I may have annoyed back then). Honestly, some of the stuff I couldn't even finish reading because it was embarrassing.
I absolutely hate reading my old posts and I hope to God no one remembers how awful I was. It's incredible to think I was ever like that.
Looking back, I was a bit more... childish and careless with what I posted. But I was eager to make friends with most others. I guess I've gotten more selective and careful, but as you can see it's still me.
Once I was an exciteable bastard. Now I'm just a bastard.
Too stuff way to seriously and got into unnecessary conflicts. Then again, that could be said about anywhere I posted on the internet. I didn't appreciate how low key this place can be, too.
I used to be horrible with grammar and spelling, bit i g0t betta wit tiem.
I avoid looking back on most things. I'm a different person now and past me was a strraaaaaaannnggge thing.
But, I like looking back. I think it's fun to see how much I've changed, and how much more violent Shin-Ra knights have become. :(
Hey, they were pretty lax until Shorty came on the scene. She's like the reincarnation of Leeza. ;)
Cool people don't look back at explosions.
We just put on our shades and walk away calmly.
I can't believe I used to sign off every post :sweatdrop
Some of it I can hardly make myself read.
Some of it makes me giggle uncontrollably.
back when i was younger, I tried to make a concerted effort to not seem like a 13 year old on the internet, despite being exactly that
if you read all my posts you could probably watch me grow up. at the core i'm still the same person, i just express it in a cooler way now
^_____________^~V yoop
As you get older in life- you start to realize most of the stuff you did earlier in your life was dumb...
I can't stand reading my old writings, on-internet or off.
That's the worst part about being a writer.
However, I do like looking at the old art I have done in the past. It's amazing to see the progress I've made (if any) over the years.
Good point, comparing things (writing) I did 10years ago to now, is like night and day. Can you post a long ago picture and currently?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent Proto
I used too many smiley faces and did ^_^...I think. I hate looking back at older posts and seeing what I was like.
The only difference is that I was a typical extremely horny and pervy teenager then. My sense of humor was a tad different as well. I still find things that aren't really that funny to other people people, funny.
I considered deleting my account and starting over as someone new.
Aside from my massive spam fests with Philoki and Paul? Always stopped by the likes of Leeza! curse her!
Moving those aside, I was a right dick, oh wait still am the difference being that I'm a better looking dick with age.
I used to be a little trout who had a couple of random arch enemies in the FF forums because they liked FFX and FFVIII and I would be an abusive annoying scrote at every turn. Now I've branched out and I act like this to everyone. It's progress! :jess:
Slowly, like society, I just began to degrade and become less sophisticated. Eventually, I even gave up on making my riddles rhyme... And if you knew me in real life, you would know how much of a big deal that is.
I was a lot more friendly and caring, I must concede. I've steeled myself over the years, as people often do when they grow up. I am still friendly and still caring, but nothing like what I used to be - I would consider it my personal duty to help everyone I did and didn't know through any kind of problem they came across. I had a deep empathy with those I knew back then. Likewise, I was a much more sensitive person when things happened to me. This had it's highs and lows. Far more highs than lows, I'm happy to say. I was a poet back then, too, and wouldn't hesitate to post my poetry into the Writer's Corner. I haven't attempted writing a poem for years, now...
I would spend a lot of my time socialising with everyone I possibly could from EoFF - phonecalls to random EoFFers were sometimes every other day. I would often have five different chat windows open at once, and I would be quick to respond to all of them at the same time. I definitely was in chat on a daily basis, or else in a Yahoo! Conference (sometimes with voice and/or webcam enabled). I would talk about my personal life more openly, because my personal life was more offline than it was online and offline people were less likely to trace it back to me.
The impersonal things: I posted more (My most active years were probably 2000-2003). I had poor grammar.
I was a lot more excitable, a lot more long-winded, and a lot less jaded. I also used to sign off all my posts and I took things that weren't supposed to be taken seriously way too seriously. And I still played Final Fantasy games. I suspect I would probably find it embarrassing to read ten-year-old posts of mine, but I doubt there are any left here. If there are, there can't be many.
That said I probably would be willing to help restore old posts despite the potential embarrassment. Someone on staff should let me know what they want to know about how the process works. I've restored missing posts into several old databases (mostly FG's) so I suspect I'll be able to tell them something about it.
I thought this was actually an age thread.
I hate the person I was in my twenties...and I'm only 33.
What a waste of energy and thought on someone who doesn't exist anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
You still are strange. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Faris
Young and naive and so utterly foolish. :s
I was a whiny little trout.
He exists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chemical
I thought this was actually a Viagra thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
I was a big asshat and I bucked authority here. I got a rise out of all the nonsense and stupid arguments. I have very much mellowed out.
DON'T BELIEVE HIM! HE'S LURING YOU ALL INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY TO LAUNCH AN ATTA--
*transmission ends*
I can't stand looking back at my time here in EoFF because I was, by all accounts, a royal dick. I can just barely bring myself to read this user note:
I can't bring myself to look at any more. I sort of wish all my posts and anything related to me from 2007-my leaving were just deleted.
I managed to register a second account and posted as a new person. It lasted well until it was eventually banned. I think Psy caught on, or something. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Cim
When I created Formalhaut, it got merged with Balthier Rocks. To be honest, I probably would have preferred have Balthy getting offed :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Cim
EoFF never forgets.
I created two second accounts and didn't get caught either time. The only reason the staff knows about them is because I told them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent ProtoI managed to register a second account and posted as a new person. It lasted well until it was eventually banned. I think Psy caught on, or something. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Cim
((Three actually, but the one that's active right now doesn't count; I'll tell the staff about it a year or so after I stop using it))
I was nicer and more caring and friendly to people. This led to me getting bombarded by people needing validation in their lives, which turned me into an emotional crutch at first and then turned me bitter.
I used a lot more smiley faces, got a lot more excitable and was more of an attention whore.
I was new to forums and didn't really know how to post, etc. I remember not knowing the difference between a post or a thread or a forum, but I learned with some help. I know I didn't use enough emoticons so some of my posts showed up as sounding not like they were intended to sound like. Other than that I don't think I was much different than I am now since I was already all grown up when I joined and not a teenager. :)
It's weird how everyone is very negative about their EoFF past. I have fond memories of old posts by a lot of long-time members.
Maybe the past versions of you would think that you're boring and too mature now? Except for Raistlin, of course.
I concur. So much negativity regarding their past. What's done is done. Learn from the past so you can improve for the future. Or something like that.
The person you were made you the person you are. :D I don't view my past self that badly.
I agree with the past few sentiments. Atop all that the forums was one of the few places I felt really safe to be me. I wasn't afraid to speak my mind or explore who I really was.
I used to not post, all the time, because I was worried about saying something stupid or annoying the Shinra. Now I don't post because I'm lazy. :D
I still read the forums every day though. At least some things don't change.
And those are the current posts! :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by theundeadhero
I don't feel I was too negative bout my eoff past hahahaha
I'm not exactly an "older" member but whenever I read my old posts on a forum I've been a member of for a long time I feel embarrassed and want to delete everything. Especially since I've been going on forums since I was 8...
I don't really have any desire to go back and look through a ton of old posts, but I know how I'd feel about 'em. Some would be embarrassing and silly, others overly serious, others trying too hard to be cool. Mostly, they'd just be relics of the past that hardly feel real anymore--even if the whole conversations remain, the context in which they were held, that moment in time, is gone, and there's no way I can fully recall those circumstances.
But I think that's a good thing! As time goes by, it's easy to remember the good times and let the little annoyances and embarrassments fade away.
I still have a few extra accounts that are not banned. I probably remember some of the passwords too.
I haven't looked thoroughly, but I think I acted mostly the same.
i was.....i dunno...
In so many ways, this saddens me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I was an idiot then and an idiot now, so that hasn't changed. Back then though, I thought I needed to be a different person online than I was offline. I thought that's what people did, what the internet was for. It meant doing/saying things I wish I hadn't.
i was like that, but on another forum
which then became my spiritual home
i'ts dead now :(
You can make this one your new home.
I just don't look. I did read a bunch of my old LJ entries a while ago, though, and I wasn't displeased with what I found. I don't hate me.
And I never paid for the drugs. Not even once.
I was awesome then, and I'm awesome now.
I'm not negative about my EoFF past.
My Livejournal got pretty bad at times, though.
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Originally Posted by Shorty
i've tried a few times but things move too fast here, i can't keep up :p
that said, i've tons more spare time these days....
Things don't move that fast here. Nice easy pace, tbh! :3
And I don't care about what I did or said way back when. xD Live for the now! Don't think I was thaaaat different though.
Yeah, over the years it's slowed dear. Stick around!
I almost find it a bit too slow at times.
Gotta go fast. Gotta go fast! Gotta go faster faster fasterfasterfaster
Anyway, ive only been here a couple years. I havent changed at all, i just typically stick to a couple threads i like now. Im sure 60% of my posts come from the dark souls thread.
here's what i think of my older posts:
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Originally Posted by VampireCrono
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Originally Posted by Cid
Maaaan I was so annoying. I still am, but I was annoying back then too!
agreed lawr, you still suckQuote:
Originally Posted by Lawr
Yeah you're a thug on the internet but at least I don't have to put my finger under every word when I read, like you!Quote:
Originally Posted by VampireCronoagreed lawr, you still suckQuote:
Originally Posted by Lawr
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Originally Posted by LawrYeah you're a thug on the internet but at least I don't have to put my finger under every word when I read, like you!Quote:
Originally Posted by VampireCronoagreed lawr, you still suckQuote:
Originally Posted by Lawr
straight thuggin'
u no ur jel of ma style
I remember when the seperate games always had new posts. I also used to get on here all the time, but growing up costs different things.><
I had a lot to learn back then. It stands out like a sore thumb.
I cringe hard reading any of my old posts. Ugh. I was so petty and took things way too seriously.