I owe you all an apology...

[eargosedown]

After watching Decino play a map from 2000 and talk about how long ago that was, it made me take a moment to check my account history here on Doom world.

 

Turns out I first registered in 2004 here, and my account will turn 20 in a few months.  It struck me how much of my life that has been.  Who I was when I first found Doom world, and who I am today, and how Doom and this community has been such a part of my life.  I'm not the most active here, and usually just lurk.

 

I thought about every year looking forward to reading the cacoawards.  Remembering all the nights laughing at absolute insanity in the post hell. 

 

Thinking about the time I rooted my brand new iPod Video to load a version of PrBoom so I could watch demos between classes on the train. 

 

I remembered being thrilled to see that stupid last secret in Downtown Industrial Zone be figured out with the pain elemental trick. 

 

I remembered trying to learn how to do SR50 so I could get a hangar in 9 seconds for the first time.

 

Getting absolutely mugged for weeks trying to play Alien Vendetta, and being too much of a scardy cat to play Doom 3 at night on my old CRT.

 

I thought about my dad buying more RAM for our first PC to play Doom and letting me sneak peeks.  And how even today, I still watch YouTube videos of gameplay while working.

 

I thought about playing coop in ZDaemon for hours and hours and hours.

 

It's amazing this community is still here, and thriving!  I'm so blessed to have made the friendships in the community I made along the way, and to get to share in the laughs.

 

But there's something I need to get off my chest, and I hope you'll forgive the adult me for the young me that first came to Doom world back in 2004:

 

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

 

Here's to another amazing 20 years of Doom and Doomworld!

Edited April 23 by eargosedown

[Murdoch]

1 hour ago, eargosedown said:

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

 

Never, that was a cardinal sin that will condemn you to the smelliest pits of Doomworld hell where badly drawn replacement sprites will poke your naughty bits with sharpened sticks for all eternity!

[Devalaous]

Oh, I remember you from way back, wasn't there some meme about you saving at 1% health or something?

[Captain red pants]

Hey man, I'm glade that you've enjoyed your time with us...

 

3 hours ago, eargosedown said:

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

[Dark Pulse]

3 hours ago, eargosedown said:

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

[LoatharMDPhD]

// 12 and a half in earth years or martian years? you'd have been 23 and half years old by earth standards...

[OpenRift]

52 minutes ago, Captain red pants said:

Hey man, I'm glade that you've enjoyed your time with us...

 

Banger reference, I love it.

[Amaruψ]

Reminds me that I was a few months shy of my 13th birthday when I joined Gamebanana. 

I'm now a few steps away from being an admin there

[Patrick_Plays_Doom]

6 hours ago, eargosedown said:

 

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

 

Art thou sins can not be forgiven by any mortal or demon

thee act of criminal can not be disengaged by thine simple ask of forgiveness

The act of thee is shocking, thou members of doomworld may gasp at thou act you have commit

how art you feel? you art is weak for confessing thou

you shall not be forgave by any or all

i hereby banish thou to the hellhole of shame, unable to leave thine zone forevermore, and thou shall bow to the floor in shame, of the act, howevermore fall down in thee league of criminal

Edited April 23 by Patrick_Plays_Doom

[eargosedown]

9 hours ago, Devalaous said:

Oh, I remember you from way back, wasn't there some meme about you saving at 1% health or something?

 

I used to make Let's Play videos forever ago (remember when those were 90% of YouTube?) and... I was hot garbage at Doom back then hahaha

[Andromeda]

12 hours ago, eargosedown said:

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half. 

Heh, I also did this when signing up for a Wolfenstein 3D forum back in the day :P

[Gothic]

13 hours ago, eargosedown said:

The truth is, I wasn't 13 when I checked the box and registered for my account; I was only 12 and a half.  Please find it in your hearts to forgive <3

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Most shocking news of the day!

[The_MártonJános]

14 hours ago, eargosedown said:

[...] I remembered being thrilled to see that stupid last secret in Downtown be figured out with the pain elemental trick. [...]

I hate to be that guy, but that wasn't MAP13: Downtown, but MAP15: Industrial Zone instead.

All aside, no scorn from me. My early Internet exposure time was worse, and I'd be glad if I could bleach all those memories out from my brain.

[Patrick_Plays_Doom]

2 hours ago, Gothic said:

 

 

"I DID NOT! MR ELECTRIC SEND HIM TO THE DEEPEST PITS OF HELL AND LET HIM BURN, HIS CELLS AND FABRIC TORN APART ATOM BY ATOM, THE PAIN WILL REMAIN FOREVER, HE WILL BURN AND BE PRICKED BY THE SPIKES"

either way tho i was not ready for an "He ruined my dream journal" meme here lol, well done

[Lila Feuer]

I came for awesome drama and I got feels instead.

[Li'l devil]

I vaguely remember you, mostly for posting selfies in the "Post a picture of yourself" thread. I think you were still somewhat active when I joined in 2016.

[Antroid]

Oh hey, long time no see. I'm certain you remember that one time when I chainsawed a spider mastermind! I don't recall absolutely any context for what was going on. I think I was sharing my screen, but why?..