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| 16 OCT 2012 at 12:37am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Man, it's weird coming back here after being away for all this time, and also after all those changes.
But, a few days ago, it dawned on me, it was ONE DECADE ago that I became a member of JA. Today, Oct 16, is exactly 10 years. TEN..... Oct 16, 2002. Back when we had Forum Gods, Agustin was called Rael and the tourneys were called Match Days! (btw, I've posted tourney memories on Facebook. If you were a tourney fan, pm me so I can add you in order to see them)
Well, I've been a member on other forums, some even more than ten, but there are 2 major differences:
1. The rest I abandonded after a while
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2. None of the others played a role in shaping the course of my life, like JA did. Even my current job has resulted after chain events that started right here - and it's not even adventure related!
Granted, it's not a full 10 years, considering I've been inactive for the past 3 or so. But that doesn't undermine the fact that it's been A DECADE
Well then, here's to 10 more! 
(oh and back when i was posted using only lower case and ending sentences with... maybe i should have made this post in that manner too... )
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 16 OCT 2012 at 3:34am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Welcome back Aya. Are you still living in America? What was the name of that soccer game you and Alkis used to play?
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| 16 OCT 2012 at 10:35am |
SupportAdministrator
Posts : 111
Joined: 24 DEC 2011
Location: US
Status : Offline | I'm still newer here but congrats on a decade! thats some dedication!
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| 16 OCT 2012 at 8:09pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Oh my gosh! My 10 year anniversary was last Friday, I never even noticed.
Welcome back Aya,
Ive often wondered what happened to you along with a few others. I have the same question as Caroline, are you still in the U.S.?
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| 16 OCT 2012 at 11:57pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | I'm a 10-year old baby, too: spreading poop in high quality fashion for now a defecate decade!
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 17 OCT 2012 at 1:15am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I'm just a young 'un then, amongst all you old codgers. I joined May 2003.
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| 17 OCT 2012 at 3:38am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (16 OCT 2012 3:34am)
Welcome back Aya. Are you still living in America? What was the name of that soccer game you and Alkis used to play?
Thanks Caroline. I'm not sure if I'm fully back yet. Although I lurk from time to time.
No, I'm not in the US anymore. However, I'll grab any chance that comes my way to go back, that's for sure.
As for the game, it's Kick Off 2. And Alkis and I are going to Milan to participate in the World Cup next month!
Originally Posted By Support (16 OCT 2012 10:35am)
I'm still newer here but congrats on a decade! thats some dedication!
Well. technically the dedication lasted about 7 years. But, like I said to Caroline, I was an occasional lurker, so that may count!
Originally Posted By Helen (16 OCT 2012 8:09pm)
Oh my gosh! My 10 year anniversary was last Friday, I never even noticed.
Hey Helen. I didn't realize you were also from the old guard! Maybe you were among the quieter ones back then? I mainly remember Rael, Michal, Belinda, Sennebec, Adventuredog, Friday, Elfstone. All of them have disappeared, but I do have some added on FB.
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 17 OCT 2012 at 8:05am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Yes, I was among the quieter ones, and fairly forgettable.  But you and I were the "Parasite Eve" fans. And Rael (Augustin) and I were the Genesis "The Lamb lies down on Broadway" fans. And I still am BTW
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| 17 OCT 2012 at 10:09am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Posts : 1303
Joined: 28 OCT 2011
Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | i'm 10 years old as well, but i don't know the exact date i joined since my profile dissappeared into oblivion last year.
The first 9 years I was mostly a forum lurker, now i've become a lot more active
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| 18 OCT 2012 at 4:52pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Aya! Good to see you back! Wow, ten years? Where does the time go? I'm almost there myself. I have to admit I never guessed I would be around here that long back when I signed up, as I'm not a joiner or very social at all. But I'm glad I did, as the regulars over the years here have been almost always great people to know, and dedicated, knowledgeable adventure gamers to boot.
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| 18 OCT 2012 at 6:43pm |
Bonsai-sanSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 214
Joined: 9 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | A Screenshot Quiz for Old-Times Sake? Hey.....where's that Bastich nowadays?
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| 18 OCT 2012 at 9:26pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Hey, Aya! It's good to see you around.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 2:32am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Hey LadyK, great new avatar!
Andromus, as opposed to you, I was thinking I'll probably never leave this forum!
As for a tourney, this can't work any more, as Google Images has made it way too easy to cheat...!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 1:40pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | OMG, I see i've been missing out on a JA re-union! Oh happy day.. i already had an ecstatic little exclamation in another thread when i saw Aya, and here is Bonsai-san, and Mark , and..
Yes, yes, we must do some tournament in celebration! Let's do one starting 10 November or something! Aya, one must factor in for that- for the googling. We were still doing tourneys... who was that guy who always arranged them? ..and LadyK sill does them at MM (don't you, LadyK?)... one must just crop the pics a bit and so forth.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 3:44pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | 10 Nov? Is that some anniversary? The first tourney?
I think google images is very smart and cropping won't help. Though I'm not sure. I'm curious now. I'll try some of the old tourney pics some time, see what it comes up with.
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 3:59pm |
SupportAdministrator
Posts : 111
Joined: 24 DEC 2011
Location: US
Status : Offline | Tourney? I am confused?
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 10:03pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I think the name Trav is looking for is Bastich isn't it?
@ Support
I think tourney is short for tournament. Either way it was a fiendishly difficult set of questions none of which I could ever answer but which all the clever-clogs around here thoroughly enjoyed.
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| 19 OCT 2012 at 11:49pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Who's Aya?
How've ya been dude?
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| 20 OCT 2012 at 12:20am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (19 OCT 2012 11:49pm)
Who's Aya?
How've ya been dude?
I don't know man, seems like some guy pretending to have been around for ages
Good to see you're still here Inland!
@Support: Tourney is indeed short for "tournament", like Caroline said. The tourneys used to be trivia tournaments where players had to guess the game from part of a screenshot - kinda like the game going on in the adv forum right now. They lasted 3 months, with 10 screenshots posted every week, and players scored points according to certain rules, that changed from tourney to tourney. You can still find them in the trivia forum, after page 2, but all the pics are gone now. I recently discovered pics I had saved. Especially the winners are worth seeing, since the final rankings were usually posted in a unique manner (Star Wars theme, Halloween theme, Fantasy theme etc). I posted those on FB.
The last 2 tourneys were posted on the JA main page, and featured 2 rather unique prizes for the winners. The 1st tourney gave the winner the chance to have his photo included as an easter egg in Scratches. The 2nd tourney gave the winner the chance to include himself as a 3D character (non speaking) in Culpa Innata!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 20 OCT 2012 at 2:20am |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hi Caroline
Yeah, I see Bastich is now doing his quizzes over at Adventuregamers. More recently there was also another guy, a member here who had is own site or blog, who was doing tournaments, according to themes. His name is sitting at the tip of my tongue... LadyK is also good at doing themes.
Aya, let's keep the answer to what 10 November celebrates a secret - it can be the first question... 
..but maybe that would be too soon. Mid-November maybe?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 20 OCT 2012 at 7:46am |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3472
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Wow, even thinking about that it's been TEN YEARS since the forum started is just freaky!! Believe it or not, I vividly remember the day and screens when I set it up. Oct 2, I think it was. Although I can't remember who member #2 was at the moment. Deciding on icons and forum areas and the like. Definitely the good old days!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 21 OCT 2012 at 5:52pm |
FienIntergalactic Janitor
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Posts : 41
Joined: 3 NOV 2011
Location: NL
Status : Offline | Hiya Aya! How very nice to see you again! Hope you remember me, I used to be Evil Betje. That hasn't changed, I'm still an evil bitch of course, but not here. I don't visit JA much anymore.
Hope you're doing okay in Greece? The situation must be hard on so many people. Which reminds me of an indie game I played only recently: The Sea Will Claim Everything. A weird but great fantasy game. After playing it for a bit, it gradually dawned on me that it was sort of based on the politicial and economical situation in Greece. Metaphores, but also Merkel c.s. You might like it.
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| 22 OCT 2012 at 5:10am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Traveller (20 OCT 2012 2:20am)
Aya, let's keep the answer to what 10 November celebrates a secret - it can be the first question...
..but maybe that would be too soon. Mid-November maybe?
Hmmm, maybe it will be the first question, and then we'll continue after I get an answer!
The thing with the tourneys (besides the cheating possibilities now) is that there isn't enough interest. There was even a page on FB about it, but only got 4 or 5 likes. I know that some ppl loved them (I did too), but it's really a lot more work than it looked like, since I took ALL the screenshots myself (except the Halloween tourney, if you remember it). Which was fun when there was big participation, but not as much towards the end, when interest waned.
Originally Posted By Val (20 OCT 2012 7:46am)
Wow, even thinking about that it's been TEN YEARS since the forum started is just freaky!! Believe it or not, I vividly remember the day and screens when I set it up. Oct 2, I think it was. Although I can't remember who member #2 was at the moment. Deciding on icons and forum areas and the like. Definitely the good old days!
Just noticed that your date is still the real one. So it took exactly 2 weeks for me to realize the forum had opened. I remember discovering JA and wanting to sign up during the time that the forum was closed, and I was checking back occasionally. I don't remember #2 either, but I think it was some person who didn't ever post.
Originally Posted By Fien (21 OCT 2012 5:52pm)
Hiya Aya! How very nice to see you again! Hope you remember me, I used to be Evil Betje. That hasn't changed, I'm still an evil bitch of course, but not here. I don't visit JA much anymore.
Hope you're doing okay in Greece? The situation must be hard on so many people. Which reminds me of an indie game I played only recently: The Sea Will Claim Everything. A weird but great fantasy game. After playing it for a bit, it gradually dawned on me that it was sort of based on the politicial and economical situation in Greece. Metaphores, but also Merkel c.s. You might like it.
Betje!! What a great surprise. Of course I remember you, you were one of my favorite forum members back then! Hope you're bitching 'em up wherever you are!
Yeah, things in Greece are kinda bad right now. Personally, I've been lucky so far, and everything has gone by barely scathing me, but the worst thing is that everything here is 100% uncertain. So you never know what can happen.
I haven't played The Sea, but I want to. It was developed by a Greek guy who currently lives in Germany. Jonas Kyratzes, maybe you know him from earlier works like Infinite Ocean. Of course, since its content is political, one has to know the background of the writer, in which case is a left-wing/socialist one (afaik), therefore the spin will be affected by that.
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 22 OCT 2012 at 9:04pm |
Bonsai-sanSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 214
Joined: 9 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | ........and thanks to you I actually played Fatal Frame II and crapped in my pants numerous times. Still have that PS2 game too, but those undies are long gone.
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| 23 OCT 2012 at 3:27am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Bonsai-san (22 OCT 2012 9:04pm)
........and thanks to you I actually played Fatal Frame II and crapped in my pants numerous times. Still have that PS2 game too, but those undies are long gone.
Oops, I guess I owe you a pair of new undies!
And yeah, FF2 is among the scariest games ever created, and that's not in a "crash! the zombie jumped through the window" fashion...
Of course, you have to play FF3 too. Here's my old review: http://betax1.justadventure.com/reviews/FatalFrame3/FF3.shtm (yeah, I found all the old reviews!)
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