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Rav's nightime jizzfest thread got me around to checking out all the old ass threads I started "back in the day". Couldn't help but think to myself with a few of them, "holy ****, what was I thinking when I posted that shit?", then thinking to myself "eh, I was just a little kid when I posted that shit, whatever".

And then I kinda realized, "holy ****, i've been posting here since I was like 12-13, I literally grew up with this forum as a part of my life.

I mean, ****, people are always making threads about how "oh **** I consider HL2.net to be better friends that real life peoples", but I mean, it's not even just that. Some of us literally grew the **** up with this forum as a part of our lives. It's one thing to think that you consider internet peeps to be closer friends than peoples in real life, but to think to yourself that you've known some of these people since you were a little kid, holy ****.

Some hella weird shit to think about. That I've "known" some of you longer than I know my best friends in real life. It's kinda sad in a way, and kind of awesome in another way.

And I KNOW i'm not the only one. I know there's a few people still active to this day that were about the same age as me when I signed up. It's literally like we were classmates without having met each other, at all.

Who else can say they grew the **** up on HL2.net, quite possibly the worst place to raise a child on the planet?
 
And despite that you likely only know the basest information of these people you've "grown up with." The internet is a strange place where people you have known for years can still only be termed acquaintances.
 
Darkside55 said:
And despite that you likely only know the basest information of these people you've "grown up with." The internet is a strange place where people you have known for years can still only be termed acquaintances.
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Exactly why it's both sad as **** and pretty awesome at the same time
 
I joined when i was 14 and now im over 19 so ive spent most of my teenage life on this forum. Its been a great journey, and i dont plan to leave anytime. This place has really become a part of me, its grown into my daily life. People have come and gone, but the people i like the most are still here. If the oldies here decide to leave then i would have to visit a psychiatrist.

**** i love this place.
 
I joined when I turned 14, I'm 18 now.

Good stuff.
 
I think it's kinda weird to think too, that in all my years of posting here, I think my mom didn't really figure it out until this year, and that was when she started tracking all of my internet activity because she thought I was looking up druqs.
 
I signed up when I was 16 and now I feel OLD (although I'm probably average-ish). I still only consider my real life friends to be my friends though...

What really blew my mind was this incident where I was friends with someone in real life, and then a couple of months after we met, he randomly downloaded a really specific concert video from me (that no one else had or wanted) through an online file-sharing thing at our school. Neither of us realized it due to internet anonymity, but several months later he randomly mentioned this awesome concert video he downloaded, and I'm like "Hey man... that was me."

My secret fear is that someone I know in real life is on HL2.net and will figure out who I am. That would be pretty terrible. I need to stop telling stories that can identify myself. :o
 
I have a couple ppl I consider fronds from hl2.net. These bitches are really nothing on the forum compared to a 1on1 convo.
 
dfc05 said:
I signed up when I was 16 and now I feel OLD (although I'm probably average-ish). I still only consider my real life friends to be my friends though...

What really blew my mind was this incident where I was friends with someone in real life, and then a couple of months after we met, he randomly downloaded a really specific concert video from me (that no one else had or wanted) through an online file-sharing thing at our school. Neither of us realized it due to internet anonymity, but several months later he randomly mentioned this awesome concert video he downloaded, and I'm like "Hey man... that was me."

My secret fear is that someone I know in real life is on HL2.net and will figure out who I am. That would be pretty terrible. I need to stop telling stories that can identify myself. :o
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Yeah, I get way scared to think of how shit might go down if people in real life found out that I post here, and started hunting down my old threads and shit.
 
I was 14 when I joined, now I'm 20 and I've been posting more or less steadily ever since. This site has been a part of my entire "adult" life, and was formative in some limited aspects (more so if you include Hetairia as a subculture). It has been weird seeing younger members go from spammy prepubescent retards to somewhat mature, intelligent people as the years passed, and seen others go from laid back to douchey (or vice versa).
 
What if we are still here when we're 90 years old. Making threads about Depends and sponge baths.
 
Ennui said:
I was 14 when I joined, now I'm 20 and I've been posting more or less steadily ever since.
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Hay me too.

HL2.net has been a major part of my social development.
 
Just been looking through some of my old threads from when I joined. For some ****ing reason I enjoyed Land of the Dead when it came out and even preferred it to Day of the Dead.

The ****?

Guess I have changed somewhat since then.
 
...been an 'adult' since I got here. I'm a better TF2 player because of it, but socially? Nah.

Also: will add 'douchey' to my vocabulary.
 
Can't remember when I got here, Can't remember when I left...









...Wait...
 
It's because they put something in the water that makes you... makes you forget.
 
Yes I feel the same way about this forum.

When I joined I believed 9/11 was a conspiracy to allow the USA to invade Iraq. Now I think the complete opposite.

Also, whatever happened to bliink? Or Jellyworld?
 
I joined when I was 15/16 and I am now 20. I would say this forum definitely played a part in my personality changes over those years. For a start I was a heavy believer in God back then, now I am a solid agnostic lol. I would love to seek out my newest posts and compare them to the posts I make now, I am completely different to who I was four years ago lol.
 
I remember back in the day when someone posted a thread asking if anyone would come back to the forums once hl2 was released...Pretty sure I said no.

How do you see all the way back to the first post?
 
Ohh jeez, I just looked through my old threads. I could not spell at all. Rage Cage.
But back then I seemed to be more exciting I guess..
 
I was fourteen when I joined and I'm fourteen now. My, how I've aged...

In the 9 months I've been here I'm seem to have matured up a bit. When I look back at some of my first posts I'm just like :o.

I guess this forum means nothing near as much as it does to other people. But it's still a great place with generally great people, and I chat to a few on msn and steam once in a while.

I don't consider any of you friends as such, however :P. But instead wacky, bitchy, and generally awesome guys :D
 
Joined when I was 15, am 20 now. Yeah, no doubt this place had a big part in my life, but I wouldn't ever consider you guys better friends than my real ones. Sorry.
 
My avatar has been fapping ever since I joined.

Edit: And most likely will until the end of time.
 
I'm the black sheep of the family.
 
The years go by pretty fast on an internet forum.

Solaris said:
When I joined I believed 9/11 was a conspiracy to allow the USA to invade Iraq. Now I think the complete opposite.
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9/11 was a conspiracy to allow Iraq to invade the USA? Kinda backfired didn't it.
 
COMPLETE opposite. Iraq is a conspiracy for the USA to invade 9/11.
 
USA was the conspiracy, Iraq already invaded 9/11, you fools!
 
I was a whiney little **** a year ago.

I like to think I've changed..
 
Both USA and Iraq are conspiracies. 9/11 is the only real thing.
 
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