I have been plaguing you for a year.

[Flippy_D]

Yes, this marks one entire year spent in your company. So looking back, what's happened to me over the last 12 months?

Disclaimer: May not be entirely historically accurate.

8/8/2002: I join. A few weeks later I start a rather silly thread called 'The Simpsons: Bring it on'. They bought it on. After a rather heated argument with DGMacPhee fuelled by a misunderstanding, I resolve not to challenge the entirety of the forum again.

I wander around the forum for a couple of weeks more, sticking mainly to the Critic's lounge, gen gen and AGStalk boards, blissfully unaware that I'm probably pissing quite a few people off by posting inordinate amounts.

Sometime in early October: The first ideas for Tourist Trap start to grow. Cue newbish excitment, ignorance of the task and overenthusiasm. It would still make a good game, but until I can produce one very nice background a day, it's a long way off, folks.

Early November: Abandon all hope of ever making an AGS game. Wallow in self-pity. Start to take interest in sprite jam.

Mid-November: Enter sprite jam for the first time with a pitiful motor-driven blue cup. Lose, probably heavily. Undeterred, I keep entering, and make a regular habit of it. Start to link pictures with anonymizer alot.

Early December: First ideas for DROID start to materialise. Ambitiously forcast January 2003 as release date. Proceed with not doing much at all until Febuary. Achieve brief status as the creator of an in-joke (ERGO).

January: Nothing much happens.

February: First room for DROID finally done. Characters are already complete. Try to script, fail miserably, give up for a while.

March, April, May: Nothing much happens. At all. Really. Although I might have won my first sprite jam with my red hot chilli pepper. I also think I discovered #ags sometime during these months. Within 30 minutes of joining I am devoiced and banned from roger. Ho hum. I don't think Annie likes/d me.

June: I think it was somewhere around this time that I was recruited onto the Roger Foodbelly team as 'puzzle designer and proofreader'. I get to see the intro movies.

July: Start composing on a regular basis. Results gradually improve. Or so I'm told. Am promoted to joint project leader for Roger Foodbelly.

August: Realise I've now wasted an entire year with AGS and not had much to show for it. Start working on DROID in earnest. Current status: 32% done.

This may not be a particularly productive post in the grand scheme of things, but I thought it worth displaying. Anyone got champagne?

[SSH]

You forgot that on 22 May, the invention of your eponymous phrase by DYDO:

"Flip a D"

referring to adding the anonymiser stuff to an [ img ] : the service which you have so admirably performed so many times.

[D · Y · D · O]

Wow, I didn't think anybody would remember. That about sums up my AGS achievements over the past year. And Flippy didn't even like it...

Hey, Flippy, if you have 32% done, that's not even so bad. I mean, you there a THIRD of the way. Keep it up!

[Evil]

Heh, I remeber when flippy joined. It doesnt seem like he has been here for just a year. You better stay Flippy or no one will learn the way of the anonymizer.

[Pet Terry]

Hehe, I remember too when Flippy started to post... a lot I joined the new forums too about a year ago. Made 2 games in that time... and started a couple more... done lots of art for custard, team challenge.. done lots of music... pretty cool

EDIT: Okay, yesterday was a year from the day I registered

[scotch]

I've been here nearly a year.. what have I done?
Day 1, ask if ags will ever support 3d characters (still waiting )
Day 2 onwards, do art for other people's games.

It's been fun.

[DragonRose]

Congrats, Flip. I think you've been a heck of a lot more productive in your one year, than I've been in 1.5

January 2002: After being completely ignored as the artist for a QFG fangame that never got off the ground, quietly joined the ez-board forum with the long and convoluted name "Roseofthedragon."  Posted in some threads about girls as either characters or as game makers.

July 2002, switched over to the Yabb forum, changed my name to Dragonrose.  Made a joke that got Pessi mad at me (I don't think he even remembers), got really embarrassed and left the forum for several months.  No one noticed.

Eventually, came back, released a game called Wanderer that sucked big time. Petaglair said it sucked, people got mad at him, and I had to explain that IT REALLY DID SUCK, and I'd even e-mailed him saying that it sucked.

February 2003: officially started working on Candace Grace.  Only have three puzzles programmed so far.

[LGM]

You stole my Roger Foodbelly job

Bastard


:-p You've been very productive, I would say.

[Czar]

Well you have a great portfolio Flippy
Congrats on your promotionm i didnt know you got one...
Well, I dont know for how long have i been here (not only yabb), but i know i still didnt move too much from when i registered.

edit: I dont know why, but now when i tried to read your topic, i read I have been playing my guitar for a year

[MrColossal]

You left this off your list

[Flippy_D]

Yeeesssss..... can't imagine why.

Seriously though, that was probably the dumbest thing I ever did. That's why I didn't edit it, because others apart from you can learn from your mistakes.

Also, I must admire your diligence in finding something with quite such poignancy. It really means a lot to me that you went out of your way to find that link and post in it what is essentially a nice, unprovocative post. Thank you so much.

[DGMacphee]

What was the heated argument about?

Was it about the new episodes being crap, or something else?

[Flippy_D]

It was about your usage of "I OWNZ j00!". I'd just come from a place where people took that seriously, so I didn't realise you were joking.

[DGMacphee]

Sounds familiar.

Oh well.

1 571LL O\/\/nZ j00!!1! ROTFMODLOL!!!!!!11!

[Flippy_D]

W3'11 522 4B0UT TH4T!1!

[veryweirdguy]

Here are a few who joined around the same time as Flippy (within a month or two):

Flippy_D: Date Registered:  08 Aug 2002, 19:08
Petteri: Date Registered:  07 Aug 2002, 09:01
Archangel: Date Registered:  14 Sep 2002, 17:19
Vel: Date Registered:  29 Aug 2002, 08:34
Shattered Sponge: Date Registered: 22 Oct 2002, 14:28
Czar: Date Registered:  25 Aug 2002, 23:20
Rincewind: Date Registered:  30 Aug 2002, 18:34
veryweirdguy (that's me!): Date Registered:  04 Sep 2002, 18:22
Scotch: Date Registered:  11 Sep 2002, 23:51
Deltamatrix: Date Registered:  14 Sep 2002, 00:35
fidodido: Date Registered:  16 Sep 2002, 01:06
juncmodule: Date Registered:  21 Sep 2002, 01:32
Barcik: Date Registered:  29 Sep 2002, 13:23
Trapezoid: Date Registered:  01 Oct 2002, 04:28

We have all been plaguing you for a year!

* veryweirdguy disappears off into nostalgia...
(Of course there were others who had only made like three posts, but all those here have made over 100 posts and have posted in the last month)

[Flippy_D]

That's very thorough work, vwg ^_^

Gosh, I thought quite a few on this list were here way longer than me.

[Shattered Sponge]

  AHA!  Your list is quite, quite flawed; I (and I think one or two other people on that list) as I was on ezboard for quite some time before we switched to yabb - that date was just when I decided to follow everyone else here.

SO THERE!

[Trapezoid]

Yeah, I was on the ezboard for a while too. I happened to be taking a break from AGS when it switched to agsforums-- so I showed up later than all the other ezboarders. I think I've been around for closer to 2 years.

[Pumaman]

Yeah, it says "Transferred from ezboard" in the profile for people who joined within the first two weeks of this forum opening - so it's not entirely accurate

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

And I was on this forum as Apolloice way before I rejoined as Archangel, so there

[m0ds]

March 2000: Joined, met Jeremie Lumbroso. Helped people out on the forums.

sometime in 2000: Joined the "Day of the Tentacle II" project along with Helm, Jeremie, kittywisdom & others.

sometime in 2000: started making music for people. I remember when I was pretty much the only AGS music-creator back then.

Late 2000: Made a tune for Larry Vales II. Larry Vales II released.

2000/2001 (cant remember): Started project "Tank". Failed miserably. Although, it's what brought c_lex to this community (from what I remember).

March 2001: Jocke Andersson asked me to make music for FoY.

2001: Became the AGS General Chat moderator.

Late 2001: Took over as project leader for FoY.

Early 2002: Started work on Kinky Island in some form or other.

Mid 2002: Organised and held the first Mittens in the UK.

I really can't remember the rest.

m0ds

[Privateer Puddin']

March 2002 : Found AGS for the second time; understand the dos roomeditor this time.

August 2003: Finish Game!11

what? i can wish

[MrColossal]

Yeeesssss..... can't imagine why.

Seriously though, that was probably the dumbest thing I ever did. That's why I didn't edit it, because others apart from you can learn from your mistakes.

Also, I must admire your diligence in finding something with quite such poignancy. It really means a lot to me that you went out of your way to find that link and post in it what is essentially a nice, unprovocative post. Thank you so much.

what, you're telling me that wasn't an important time in your stay here at ags? and who gives a crap now anyway. i posted that as a joke. If there's someone out there still holding you to that post then that person has a problem.

jesus man i'm not setting out to attack you or anything, guess i should have added those hehe's

oh and flippy, next time can you not use such big words like diligence or unprovocative, I appreciate the link to poignancy but those other big words just blew my mind!

Thanks!

eric

ps Notice how not one person has mentioned it or made fun of you about it or cared at all? it was a joke

[Flippy_D]

I don't want to start an argument.

I linked poignancy because I thought the dictionary statement suited it perfectly.

Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

Quite frankly I don't care if it was a joke, it's something I'd prefer not to revisit.

In fact, I find it somewhat ironic that I've already posted here that an argument involving me initiated because of a misunderstanding of humour.

PS: Tact.

[Dmitri]

I could've sworn I joined somewhere around October...

meh probably can't tell from that since I committed Hara-Kiri around December, or January I think.

embarassing  

edit: w00t found a link

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=4139

edit 2: hey cool, in the profile page it says I average 12 posts a week, how about that eh?

[veryweirdguy]

Oops, sorry to all those who weren't supposed to be in my list....

I tried to find Flippy's first ever post as compensation, but his profile only shows the last 914 posts he made.

Oh well :.

Here is the furthest back I could find

Feel free to outdo me.

[Robert Eric]

Twelve post average?  Dmitri, shouldn't you be doing your homework?

[Dmitri]

hehehe  


I'm actually amazed I have that much free time and I spend it all here

mebbe I should take up knitting

[veryweirdguy]

You should start knitting scarves, judging by your new avatar...