09-04-2019, 08:52 AM
09-14-2019, 11:29 PM
Hey, cool! I'm on the list!
09-15-2019, 06:01 AM
Oh and I miss Coco. He was best admin.
09-15-2019, 10:06 AM
I was about to say the same, DJ Coco was such a nice guy
09-24-2019, 11:06 PM
Oh! I don't think I've posted here yet!
I don't miss anyone here since I'm new but my dog has to get put down and I'll miss her very much. : (
09-29-2019, 01:19 PM
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Hey - it has been over a decade since I browsed these forums but was curious to take a look after reconnecting with a few people recently. MFGG not only served as really inspirational to me when I was younger (I first registered when I was about 10-11 years old) but also helped carved the career path I wound up following. It has been crazy still seeing so many people around to this day making things, recently seeing Freakzone doing AVGN Adventures, Thunder Dragon being up to a new project - so many people really stuck to their guns and have been killing it!
This has been a community i always have wanted to return to but that's not really something easy to approach considering just how much of a mess I was just before I stopped browsing altogether. When I was young I started off much more mellow but eventually began making a lot of posts on the old PPP that were cries for help about abuse at home, things were pushing really far, and as I weakened at home the intensity from others built up since I was making a fool of myself. I remember having a lot of jokes poked at one topic I had made mentioning a drunken family member that stuck around for weeks. It's not something I am fully going to go into, but as life was changing I was a became more unhinged and unstable at age. Using a message board when you're just crawling into your double digits seems like a bad idea, but really my worst behavior was by the end. I started trying to toughen my exterior since I needed help at home that I couldn't find anywhere and asking for help led to a lot of ridicule. Eventually I was just a gigantic angry bitter snot lashing out at people before they had the chance to throw something my way, trying to be a tough guy on the Mario message board at age 14. None of the behavior was excused, it was all ridiculous, and honestly it was why I eventually just went away completely rather than trying to reconnect since I was just a broken miserable person. (08-13-2019, 10:30 PM)Fourside Seven Wrote: It was apparently him playing pranks with another member of the forums but this was also at a time where I was frequently dealing with strange people calling my phone so on top of the stuff I was dealing with online, I was also dealing with massive privacy and safety concerns. I remember this instance because I felt terrified during the whole ordeal (being young still and barely understanding technology) and what could be done to my own end alongside realizing the weight of just what it was I was going along with. There was a specific user I looked up to a lot and did a lot for, initially out of respect (he taught me a LOT about how computers worked), but more out of fear by the end. At one point they showed me a fake AIM client they made in MMF that was to phish info (my introduction to the term "phishing"), later they introduced me to a website where you can get someone's public information, fun introductions to technology soon becoming nothing but links towards potential tools to weaponize. They had a specific obsession with your end and sent me a web page on AIM telling me type the number and specific messages to go along with it. I knew they were calling you so it's not like I was guilt free - I was a little brat puffing my chest trying to be tough so I wouldn't be hurt. Submitting that form was my only contribution during that specific ordeal (did not call multiple people) - but I do remember the forum situation since I was asked to infiltrate it after I was getting a long with people there settling in. I remember I'd get scared to wake up to my computer certain days since I didn't know what other shenanigans I was going to get wrapped up into, and from what I remember they said they were an adult at the time of all of this, so having some adult stranger online hovering over you with this kind of power was intensely terrifying. They were really obsessed and were looking up everything they could, I never realized just how much someone could do off so little. It felt like being some bizarre henchmen to some evil scientist invested in bullying people on a Mario forum (eventually migrating that discussion to their own forum). We both acted like turds, it was all completely petty and ridiculous, and by the end I think I became so much of a jerk that they didn't want to deal with my end anymore. Ultimately though, running with a bad crowd for awhile doesn't excuse the behavior nor does a messy home life - I acted like a massive turd and continuously kept getting worse. I don't know what I can really do to make things up to you for something that was over a decade ago but I am not even kidding when I say this - I get haunted thinking back to all of this with just how rotten I acted on the forums. I loved so much about this community and by the end I was swinging a sword around wildly trying to keep everyone away out of fear. It was really terrifying the lengths some people used to go to back then, and with unfamiliarity to technology especially at a young age, someone doing this sort of thing had to have been INSANELY scary to deal with. If you want to PM me, I'd really like to figure out some way I could resolve this - even if it took almost a decade. It was absolutely insane what you got put towards with that one and you didn't deserve it. Any insults or ridicule from those days are warranted (although I'd advocate for accurate info rather than a flubbed doxx!) The person I was when I was a little kid was a deeply miserable confused little brat. I still really hold a lot of fond memories of a lot of you guys over here at MFGG and I'm sorry again for what behavior I demonstrated as a wonked up youth. I'm glad the site has stayed strong over all this time and that so much of the community still exists.
09-30-2019, 05:26 AM
(09-29-2019, 01:19 PM)Ding Dong Wrote: Hey - it has been over a decade since I browsed these forums but was curious to take a look after reconnecting with a few people recently. MFGG not only served as really inspirational to me when I was younger (I first registered when I was about 10-11 years old) but also helped carved the career path I wound up following. It has been crazy still seeing so many people around to this day making things, recently seeing Freakzone doing AVGN Adventures, Thunder Dragon being up to a new project - so many people really stuck to their guns and have been killing it!Omg I can't believe you're here! I missed you. I always wondered what happened to you over the years. Glad you've got something good going for yourself these days
Well, I can't speak of what happened exactly I think all of us did some stupid s*** we regret. That's just what you get when you shove a bunch of anti-social kids into one room. It's good that people are openly speaking about it now though, which will hopefully bring some closure.
Also obligatory OneyPlays quote here.
09-30-2019, 10:00 AM
Welcome back Delmore. I missed you
10-01-2019, 02:49 AM
what the hell he actually WAS dingdong?
(10-01-2019, 02:49 AM)Fun With Despair Wrote: what the hell he actually WAS dingdong? I was enthralled by the internet as a kid which saw me browsing and interacting on every corner of the web I could at the time. Discovered Klik & Play through a fangame I found on AOL when I was 8 and that was what started my hunt for fangame and click communities. I've actually gushed about this place as well as a few other old sites on stream so I didn't figure it'd be a stretch I used to come here as a tiny, tiny infant. It's also the moment of my life I'm most embarrassed about (even if I was just a kid) since I wound up going overboard with some other members, my end hoping to just fit in and not be next as a target. Mario would not have been proud... The environment here seems much more relaxed than what it was back in the day and fan gaming has really evolved in so much of a way that I'm usually anticipating fan projects more than official titles at times just because so much time, love, and effort goes into them. It's impressive seeing that MFGG has stuck around after so many years with an active community still outputting content! (09-30-2019, 08:33 AM)Vert Wrote: Also obligatory OneyPlays quote here. I remember that quote!
10-01-2019, 07:14 AM
Good to see you, Ding!
Hullo there, I am Great Destination Tracks 3, but you can call me JC The Slug.
Oh ,and, uh? follow my twitter probably http://twitter.com/JCTheSlug101
10-01-2019, 08:06 AM
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(10-01-2019, 06:57 AM)Ding Dong Wrote: The environment here seems much more relaxed than what it was back in the day and fan gaming has really evolved in so much of a way that I'm usually anticipating fan projects more than official titles at times just because so much time, love, and effort goes into them. It's a sad day when that is a 100% true. You give Sonic to a small group of indie devs and they somehow come up with an infinitely better title than anything Sonic Team can make nowadays, despite Sonic Team having the larger budget and more time. Mania and Forces are even around the same length. Maybe one day Nintendo will go full Mania and hire some indie devs to make a 2D sprite-based Mario. People told me that it'll never happen, but then Cadence of Hyrule was a thing and apparently pretty good too. The future of fan games is pretty promising. (10-01-2019, 06:57 AM)Ding Dong Wrote: I remember that quote! Hurray!
10-05-2019, 04:11 AM
(08-13-2019, 06:50 PM)MDragmire Wrote: Wait what the f***, DingDong is AdmiralDelmore? (09-29-2019, 01:19 PM)Ding Dong Wrote: Hey - it has been over a decade since I browsed these forums but was curious to take a look after reconnecting with a few people recently. MFGG not only served as really inspirational to me when I was younger (I first registered when I was about 10-11 years old) but also helped carved the career path I wound up following. It has been crazy still seeing so many people around to this day making things, recently seeing Freakzone doing AVGN Adventures, Thunder Dragon being up to a new project - so many people really stuck to their guns and have been killing it! Message me on Discord. Fourside Seven#6708 We'll discuss this there.
10-05-2019, 10:37 AM
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(09-29-2019, 01:19 PM)Ding Dong Wrote: I still really hold a lot of fond memories of a lot of you guys over here at MFGG and I'm sorry again for what behavior I demonstrated as a wonked up youth. I'm glad the site has stayed strong over all this time and that so much of the community still exists. I was talking with @Bungalo a while back about how a couple of your stories on Oney Plays or on stream lined up with the time frame that we were active on the site, so I had guessed that you were who you were. I was gonna leave well enough alone 'cause I figured nobody wants their activity from when they were still in grade school pinned on them nearly 20 years later. I'm amused that my guess was right, but more importantly, I'm proud of the person you became despite all the trouble you faced growing up. I'm sorry for antagonizing you so many years back and invariably compounding whatever stress you were experiencing in your own life. I know for a lot of members I may have been viewed as nothing short of a chaotic incomprehensible shitposter, or maybe entirely forgettable to others. But if anyone else's experience was anything like mine, then a lot of us probably didn't think too much of it at the time, even if our relationship was adversarial. To me, that's just how you were, and I had accepted that. Everything was in good fun, and everyone was just part of the gang. to a broader extent I'm proud of everyone for what they chose to do with themselves. Whether it be sticking to their guns and following their dreams or doing something more practical. The world is very different now from the one we grew up in -- and so is the Internet. Everybody gets points just for making it, y'know? I don't think people have the same sort of patience as had for each-other back then. The same sort of compassion to see each other though our struggles we shared in public or confided in one-another. It is a lot easier today for people to telegraph their struggles or whatever turmoil haunts their lives, and even easier for everyone else to turn a blind eye to it. During the most critical and intense periods of some of our lives we made ourselves vulnerable in some ways and gotten hurt, but in others we shared a bond that for some carried all the way into our adult lives. I wish the best for everybody that I ever came in contact with. Whether we left on a positive note or a sour one. I try forgive anyone for lacking the clarity of mind to act better in the moment, and hopefully, you can find it in yourself to do so too. I know I have @Retriever II and @CuteYoshiGirl to thank for my livelihood at the moment, all it takes is one person willing to show you how to do something and another to give you the resources to express yourself -- and years down the line server operation and web technology in general is my career and with those skills I'm never without a warm place to sleep for too long at a time. There aren't words to express the true depth of my gratitude. The same goes for anyone that spoke to me during the times that I never thought I'd live to see the day where anything of the sort would happen. Life is complicated, and long, but we're stuck in it together -- and I don't want anyone ever feeling like they want out. So thank you, everybody, for sharing something special with me. Something incredible, unforgettable, and unmistakably human that will live on in my heart for as long as I can remember it all.
10-05-2019, 03:44 PM
Oh s*** it's Dingmore
10-05-2019, 04:23 PM
10-07-2019, 01:37 AM
Nice to see you ALIVE
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