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Offline Siaf__csf

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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2005, 03:39:15 AM »
I've made friends all over the planet because of internet.

I have had discussions with some of the most notorious hackers to date because of internet.

I've had discussions with some of the most notorious losers because of it too.

I used to chat a lot in IRC. I knew and met quite a few people internationally, in real life. All the meetings were absolutely great.

Then one day I'm helping people in irchelp. A girl comes in and asks help, I help. We start chatting and exchange photos. She's gorgeous.

A few months later I'm in an aeroplane flying 3000km to meet her. We are happily married with 2 children.

Did it affect my life? You bet it did.

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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2005, 03:44:01 AM »
Geezus Nash NEVAR answer the phone when you are high.  Use the Screenomatic 2000.

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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2005, 03:46:50 AM »
Oh yeah, I forgot, one time a high CM totally shrecked up a scenario and I had a hissy fit and killed some squirrels and a chihuahua, got arrested, ended up in a cell with SOB, and the rest is history.

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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2005, 04:18:47 AM »
got chatty with a french girl way back in '97, was going to meet her in Chinon, but she found me talking dirty with some other tramps  online oneday.

her dream was to go to quantico.

i think she was insane.

insane.......kinda rhymes with ....shane........*click*.....

Shane is OOOpsy???

haha, i have killed him then!
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2005, 04:55:00 AM »
I can see the plethora of internet experiences so i'll take a stab at this one.

Started on the net early 90's on SIMNET which played CYAK and Hornet on the MAC - ran into Drex for the first time with that.

Did online ATC on the MSN Zone, then Eskyworld, then Westcoast ATC - got one of my students from the Zone who i'm hella tight with till this day.

Aces High boys - met Howitzer since he lived in the same town at my University. Ran into Shawk whenever I passed through Dayton Ohio. Dukemskt was my boss before this and we built Aces High based flight sims together along with a few other notables. I met my current boss that I moved out to the west coast for Urabus - and Hylander now works for us.


THE RUSSIAN CREW:

The only important woman that i've come across in my life has been Eva from the far east of Russia. Talking for about a year - her younger sister Helen came critically ill with scholiosis - 30 * curve, so we got her the operation and for the first time in 12 years she can feel her entire back while she lays in bed. Flew out to the amur in September - been together ever since.

Met up with Boroda and Estel in Moscow, first in September then for celebrating this past new years 2004/2005 with them and Eva. I have never been drunker in my life nor have I had such great company.

Boroda and Estel - I love you guys. You are fantastic!

The full russian Aces High story

P.S.  The first 5 pages of the PDF deals DIRECTLY with the relationships we are discussing - the lack of face to face contact - but everything else being normal.



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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2005, 10:59:45 AM »
Lesse. Once long ago I met a girl at a I-hop that I had known off and on for a few years online. She was in the 30-something chat rooms I frequented (before I found out about online flight sims).  Some of the people from our little chat group actually hooked up and all that, but I was married. A few years later when I was divorced I agreed to meet with her. She was short fat and ugly with a kid. I was polite, ate dinner talked about old times for about 20 minutes and left, never to hear from her again. Boring huh.

I've had lunch with Hblair a few times. Had 3 little bellybutton cons at my house. Zigrat,Bigmax,Shadomy,hblair,regurge destroyed some beer and all that.


While taking a class in OK, had lunch and acm discussions with Drex. Destroyed a few beers and snot crackers. Drove down to Grapevine and went flying RC planes with HT and a fella from the Dickweed HBG. Met Pyro.

Went to Bigmax's house down on the gulfcoast and hit the casino's. Drove with Moose from here to AHconIII (so he wouldnt get lost in Texas again).

The AHcon was the strangest. Way to much to take in. Urchin in his bear suit.  FDB's and FDB groupies. Akcurly's son AKnimitz bouncing Urchins head on the concrete like a basket ball.
Violating the blow up sheep doll. Watching Loser take a poke at Pyro. The 3 linebackers Funked, Pei and Sling. Wandering around the parking lot at 3am looking for Loser who had ditched this girl that drove down with him from Canada who I think thought she was his grilfreind but who he thought was a ride buddy :confused: who didn't have a key to the room they  were sharing whilst he was bonking the bar chick somewhere in Texas. We thought he would be in the parking lot and as the ride buddy was histerical we were trying to get her a key. Meeting Lazs, Rude and some of the othere 13th. (not that Lazs is 13th, but just that it was funny meeting them at the same time, Lazs and Rude that is. They kinda circled for a bit eyeing each other wondering if the other was going to bite, Rude finally decides to take the bull by the horns and jumps in there with the hand shake thinking that maybe Lazs cant shoot as well with his left hand...etc etc etc. LOL)

And the perpetual...your an Assassin? WHere the F*** is hblair? repeatedly ad nauseam....

Speaking of nauseam, first night at that con I ate a bad bluecheese burger and washed it down with many big gargantuan mugs that you would make good salt water aquarium starter tanks of local brewed beer. I did the throne room flip-around for about 12 hours and wasn't right for a week!

Of course, to start the con off right...About 30 minutes before Moose showed up, I was showered and shaved, packed and ready for the road when it started raining. I had this wheel barrow full of dirt in the yard and knowing my wife, knew she would attempt to dump it before I got back. Her having bad hands/wrists and all I had to dump it before I left. It being raining, I took off with it at a run heading for the 12 foot cliff over the ditch. Calculating that I would need to flip it within a foot or two of the edge of the cliff to get it to clear I speed up a bit so I could flip it early. Well, as I flipped, hoping to stick the front end in the dirt and eject the now mud over the edge, I miscalculated and all I did was speed the dam thing up. Nothing stuck, the dam thing went flying off the end of the cliff, me attached at the hands and to shocked/stupid to realize I should LET GO. I ended up head down in a full ditch with my knees jammed in my ears and a big stob of brush jammed in my back near my kidneys. The ditch was a favorite place for me to dump stuff, like unused concrete, brush...etc. I actually thought that I might drown if I lived through the crash at the bottom. Moose showed up about 30 minutes later, thankfully after I quit crying like a baby...j/k.

So, between the mudbath stob stuck in my back bluecheese-o-death burger, loser/tyson, beelzebubbles, viloted blow up sheep, FDB's, and Urchin going for a swim at 4am in his underoos, the AHconIII was by FAR and AWAY my most memorable online related event. EVAR.
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« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2005, 12:01:47 PM »
I used to hang out in a local Undernet chatroom. We had GTG's every couple of month's and a yearly trip to Galveston. Still see one of the girls from there off and on.

I've met a couple guys from AH. Sandman when he was in Dallas and Beagle (one of my squadmate's) when I made a trip to Houston. Both were really nice guys in person.
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« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2005, 12:45:08 PM »
made some friendships that have lasted for years from AH with regular visits.  

Took beetle and tomato shooting handguns.   Met a lot of guys at cons.

current girlfriend was off of a joke "match dot com" add I placed.

met a lot of Hot Rod guys and still visit them... at the con before last one of em showed up in a really nasty chevy powered Healy and we went to a meet with all the Dallas Hot Rod guys.

I believe that I have met over a hundred people I now know that were once only print on the internet.

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« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2005, 01:30:46 PM »
Once there was this uber troll who got wwII airplane computer game enthusiasts to send him money to fund a fictitious developing flight sim.

That's the height of trolldom. Causing the readers of your troll to act in the physical world and actually profit from it.

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« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2005, 01:40:44 PM »
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Once there was this uber troll who got wwII airplane computer game enthusiasts to send him money to fund a fictitious developing flight sim.

That's the height of trolldom. Causing the readers of your troll to act in the physical world and actually profit from it.


yea. but this thread is cool and shouldnt go into that!

man liz, i forgot about your burger and wheelbarrow incidents. i remember not seeing you for a bit at the con and wondering where you were for a while tho.. cant forget the loser/pyro celebrity deathmatch though, talk about weird situations
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« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2005, 01:55:41 PM »
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« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2005, 02:05:07 PM »
That was fun.

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« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2005, 02:18:01 PM »
can i come and shoot some handguns please?

actually, preferably an old rifle.

one made of would wood be great.
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« Reply #28 on: January 30, 2005, 02:31:17 PM »
If I ever go to another Con....





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« Reply #29 on: January 30, 2005, 02:55:24 PM »
Hehe, this thread rocks.

I remember that scenerio and funked's rather large I QUIT!!!!! post.  Was this the first of its kind? :D

Seems like forever and a half ago..

I began frequenting local dial up BBS's around Milwaukee with my kick bellybutton 9600 baud modem... in 1994 I think.  Major Mud, L.O.R.D, Trade Wars, and other dorky text based RPGs were the order of the day.  A few local guys I got to know would setup LAN parties every once and a while.  We'd play Command & Conquer, Duke Nukem 3D, and Mech Warrior.

Did the whole AOL chat room thing for a while.  Got boring, moved on to pr0n.  

In between it all I squeezed in Air Warrior when it was introduced by AOL.       When that died, I was lost.  I finally ditched the 486 in 1998 and went nuts with my blazing 400 celery and Riva TNT graphics blaster.  :)  

Found Aces High in late 99, early 2000.  I roomed with Curval and met a bunch of other tards at the 2003 Con in Indianapolis.  The first time I met Loser, he flipped me off :)  

Indy was the first time I met any "internet people" - local BBS's didn't count. :)  

Teh intardnet has had a pretty big impact on me so far.
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