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Per · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 16:21 Post subject:

Petition to change Briosafreak's rank to "Does Stuff".
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Montez · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 17:20 Post subject:

Big T · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:15 Post subject:

Jebus · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:21 Post subject:

I don't know, I never really liked Kat - for the brief while I known her.

She was all like 'Oh everybody, look at me! I'm shy! Woo-hoo'!

The sheer paradoxes in that alone annoyed me greatly.

Big T · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:42 Post subject:

quietfanatic · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:56 Post subject:

I love the atmosphere of the Fallout RPG's and I soon found the NMA news page, so it became my home page. After a few years I started lurking on the forums, especially GD. I was pleasantly surprised, because instead of the bleating of the monosyllabic sheep that seems to characterize normality, ideas are actually well reasoned and usually supported with evidence. This is a place where I can learn from others and know that people will understand my own views, even if they don't agree with them. The anti-intellectualism in Australia is not found here and no one ever tells me to write shorter posts because it makes their head hurt (the university student forums have been a big disappointment for me). Simply put, the vast majority of people in this community are intelligent and generally considerate, although we have different viewpoints on many things. That is why I like it here so much.

The lack of tolerance when it comes to blatant and continued stupidity brings to mind another title for NMA, 'No Retards Allowed' (no offense to the mentally handicapped intended). I approve of Rosh's punishment of arrogant, stupid noobs, although I think he is a bit too harsh sometimes. Sadly, it appears to me that we 'normal', rational, considerate people of NMA are some of the rare mutants of the internet.
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Brother None · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 13:54 Post subject:

SimpleMinded · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 17:52 Post subject:

Per · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 18:00 Post subject:

Brother None · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 18:06 Post subject:

DJ Slamák · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 20:16 Post subject:

Man, I'm such a noob. I only go back to the fairly early days of V13, when NMA was at GameStats and DAC (then very obscure to me) was at fallout2.net.

I don't even know how I first got to NMA, all I remember is flinging my very n00b self at some guy called Sweaty Testes in the forums. D: Good times.
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Briosafreak · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 20:24 Post subject: Re: History of NMA

SimpleMinded · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 21:48 Post subject: Re: History of NMA

oooo i remember that site! I actually posted in the forums back then if anyone knew where i could read ALL the tips of the moment because I liked them so much. I must say... it's been improved a lot since then Smile

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Very nostalgic pics Brios... any of the geocities site or was it much the same?

Briosafreak · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 0:18 Post subject:

I don`t remember the url so i can`t find it. I started coming here already at Gamestats, so i don`t know how it was, there are old timers like me, and dinossaurs from the day the vaults were beeing built like Kharn and Rosh, maybe they remember Smile

Edit: and PCE_ElPrez, he`s more dinossaurish than me Smile

[PCE]el_Prez · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 0:42 Post subject:

My memory is pretty bad due to the years of alcohol abuse but i remeber that i found NMA around the time fallout 2 came out. Of the things i do remember about the old days were trying not to say anything too stupid (to avoid being harassed by Xotor), the minigun thread, and a flame war with APTYP.
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KQX · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:24 Post subject:

Wow, great links Briosa. That really took me back.

Here's some nice ones from the archived board:

Crazy ARTYR

ARTYR dislikes penis

First post by Happy Suitcase man Kharn liked him from the start.

Kharn's thoughts on Europe 5 years ago (also a surprisingly large contribution from cmcd of the old DAC forums)

Doyle and guns

A poor noob

Guns in Space An "interesting" discussion. It might remind you of a certain other "discussion" that tortured a lot of us here.

I do have the link to the infamous minigun thread, but something tells me its dangerous to post it.

Brother None · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:58 Post subject: Re: History of NMA

Per · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 13:11 Post subject:

Lesbian vampires?
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Odin · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 15:22 Post subject: Re: History of NMA

Wow, nice to see that some people remember stuff I didn't. I'll post my story...

I remember reading about Fallout in some computer magazine back before it was released and immediatly figured out that this would be a game for me, I remember getting the demo and being quite dissapointed but I still wanted to try out the game.

After I got it it went on to search the net for various tips and such about the game, this was back in 97/98 when I didn't have internet access at home. It ended up with me going to the university and finding NMA, I remember that I thought this site had it all on Fallout.

The reason I stayed was because I started posting news for NMA around when FOT was being worked on (2000), I started getting active on the IPLY boards and found news before it was posted on DAC, NMA and V13.

Kreegle actually offered me a position as a news poster for DAC, I really didn't plan on getting involved but the honour of being asked got me thinking. But I started thinking about NMA, because that was the main Fallout site for me. So I emailed Miroslav and asked if he wanted help, and he did. So I turned down Kreegle and joined NMA.

After being active a while, Miroslav started to posting/working on the site less and less. Since Miro was more and more absent I felt the urge to do more, eventho I only had a basic understanding of HTML code. I also figured out that gamestats was a dying site, then I brokered a deal with gphosting.com for web hosting.

We were actually going to get php/mysql support on gphosting, the aim was to move onto phpBB at that time. But they ended up putting it off and off, so we couldn't move onto phpBB.

It was also around this time that Miroslav hit me with the bomb, he emailed me to tell me that he was leaving for the military the very next day, and he hoped that I could run the site while he was gone.

By this time I didn't know squat about the site and it's code, I had to learn the hard way..learn by doing. The only help I had was Rosh, which was good at stuff.

At first I was afraid to tinker with the sites code and content, but I ended up trying and making alot of changes. Rosh helped at times, but most of the changes are my bad. So blame me if you don't like them Razz

Since gphosting didn't give us what we needed and the fact that they hardly answered my emails, I had to take action again and move the site. Rosh and me decided on telefragged, we had alot of other offers including gamespy.

Now that we were on a server with php/mysql support we could install phpBB, which was the time when I tried to convert the dcforum to phpBB. It went ok, but the sorting was off, so I decided to start fresh and just store the old dcforum (had to insert the converted phpBB since they disabled cgi on the server).

Since I knew that Kharn used to be a moderator I offered him an admin position and hosting for the TO site, which turned out great. I consider him a very close friend.

I also remembered Briosafreak and ended up offering him a news position, which he did excellent. Even better than me! He also got admin right later on, since it would help my burden.

Rosh has stayed like he used to, vicious and helpfull. He's stayed as the main forum admin like he always was, his insight and knowledge of the gaming industry/Fallout has given me much.

As for Miroslav, well after the miltary I hardly talked to him. I had his cell number and could contact him for dns changes and such. But he started to leave after FOT, and still haven't gotten back into the scene. I recently got in touch with him and can say he's doing fine. Oh and he says hi to you guys.

Other guys I remember are Starseeker, Xotor (which I'm sad that we lost), APTYP and Per...+ others but I can't post the entire list can I Wink

All in all, I'm very happy with the site and how it has evolved. There's still alot of work I want to do, but things take time.
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