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Van B
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Asheron is definitely a bloke, going by a slip-up he made when posting once, referred to himself as a he.

Kinda creepy to do that if you ask me, I mean it would be understandable for a woman to pretend to be a man here, but the other way round...There's also that incident where he pretended to die - although despite this strangeness he was a fairly decent person, a good mod on RGT too.

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Does anyone remember a guy called Obese?
he is the reason I had to have 87 at the end

and for infamy; yeah Indi is kinda like Darth Vader ain't he
and the crazed lunatic that is Serdj Adjo!!! AAAAAAAHHHH! save the children
have you TCG Heroes guys thought of having them as enemy bosses would be cool haha

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Zombie 20
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See this is nice, we newcomers get to hear stories about the older members from RGT, its kind of exciting.

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 18:24 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 18:25
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nooooooo I'm an unknown.

Oh well, I really don't post that much on anything but the wip.

And even though I'm still here all the time, my most known people list would be a lot like Drews, 'cause everyone seemed to be in a bigger league when I was new.

Anyways you should add Megaton or "Aticat" to the list. I'd add Seppuku Arts too. That guy's everywhere.

Edit: Mike S

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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 18:25 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 18:26
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Quote: "See this is nice, we newcomers get to hear stories about the older members from RGT, its kind of exciting."


Yeah, can't wait to hear the story about Cash Curtis. I bet there's alot of interesting stories behind that avatar.

Oh oh! Quiet! It begins!

STORY TIME!

*All the younger members gather around the Board, their eyes glitter with excitement. Zombie 20 seemed so excited as he leaned over the board and fell on OBese87's post, making the post all garbled up, making no sense whatsoever.*

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I'm well known! YAY!

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You are assuming we can remember anything. This all used to be fields you know... Well I'm sure it was green or something at some point....

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Who are these people?

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Ron Erickson
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Quote: "Yeah, can't wait to hear the story about Cash Curtis. I bet there's alot of interesting stories behind that avatar."


I don't think Cash was around in the old RGT days.

Quote: "Does anyone remember a guy called Obese?"

Yeah. He used to write a lot of his posts in binary if I remember correctly. He also was always asking to be voted to moderator, even though there was no election being held. He was really just a spammer.

Quote: "The Master Coder"

There was a post on the Binary Zoo forums a little while back about the old RGT days. TMC's name was mentioned and he "showed up" and made a few posts. He is still working on car physics games and seems to be doing well! You can check out some of his latest stuff here:
http://www.kjmsoftware.co.uk/auto_cross_racing/auto_cross_racing.htm


There are a couple of different lists that could be made. There are the "most well known" as the title suggests. Then there are "the best coders". Then you could break it down further to those "currently here", and a "Best Ever" category.

Most of the names that I would mention have already been said.

Here are some other old names worth mentioning though:
Digger
Dragon Master Andrew
40thieves
Flaming Amoeba/White Eagle
LeLurch
Sgt.Slammy
Tracer
Warpy

I could go on forever. lol
Most of those names were pre-RGT!

Hey, what ever happened to RobK?


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Anybody know me?


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For me?
TDK
VanB
Grandma
NeX the fairly fast ferret (Oh come on)
indi
raven (*toggle*)
JessT
Benjamin
Dazzag

Quote: "Everyone's entitled to an opinion...but your opinions are wrong."

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Wow Wolf, that is a list that got my grey cells firing a bit! I'm starting to remember my own name even... Then again, we are talking about 7 years ago. I'm practically middle aged now dammit!

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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 19:25 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 19:31
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who is this lee guy anyway? Im the one that made TGC what it is today!

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Quote: "Oh yeah,since I posted, I also want to say. A newb is someone new."

OH MY GOD
NO WAY

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 19:29
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Quote: "raven (*toggle*)"


Now THAT made me laugh


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Woo! I made a mod laugh!
Go me!

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Wasn't there also a Quoth the Raven or somesuch at one point?

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what about butter fingers at least in the FPSC forums

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That's odd, I was under the impression that I was well-known... I guess I must have skipped over all the many posts that mentioned me


And Mr. Bear!
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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 20:12 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 20:16
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For me that list would be:

Jimmy
Richard Davey
Drew
Zenassem(sp?)
TDK
IanM
Robert Knight
Mr. Picone up there^
Ben and his multiplayer stuffs
Raven(I think everyone knows Raven)
APEXnow(!)
Freddix
Sparky with his uber collision dll
indi
Van B
Lee Bamber; not exactly a forum regular though.

I can't think of any more off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are many!

Oh, Hamish Mc Higgis, or higgins or something and Uberwigget too!


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Diggsey
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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 20:14 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 20:15
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Oh well, looks like even with a free 2D physics plugin for DBP one may not be well known


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tha_rami
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I add Diggsey for his ubercool avatar (though I wonder if this was his first post, who is he anyway ?)


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For me the it's -

Cash curtis
TDK

-a short list


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Matt Rock
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I'd have to say, in no particular order:

Agent Dink
JessT
Hobgoblin Lord
Jeku
VanB
Dazzag
The cat formerly known as Megaton
Cash Curtiss II
Kevin Picone
CR
Josh
Diggsey
Manticore Night
Benjamin
ChrisK
Indi
Bizar Guy
Tinkergirl
FredP
... and I'm sure I'm missing people but my mind is elsewhere at the moment. I'll actually read the thread some other time, say "wow, how could I have missed such and such," and make ammendments in the future .


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Posted: 4th Oct 2007 20:37 Edited at: 4th Oct 2007 20:38
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YAY

Thanks tha_rami

I add tha_rami, because I know he doesn't like being called the_rami!


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SimSmall
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A list that sprang to my mind:

TDK (Programming)
Barnski (Winsock Plugin)
Kjelle69 (Newton Wrapper)
Seppuku Arts (Modelling)
Tinkergirl (Design Tutorials)


...There'll be a lot more, but off the top of my head, I immediately thought of this lot.
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Quote: "I add tha_rami, because I know he doesn't like being called the_rami!"


In real life, I do that the same way. My name would be Rami Ismail, but they keep pronouncing it Rami Ismael. Everytime I hear that I shout back that its Ismail. Seems problems you have in real life tend to have a virtual version as well.


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Most well known to me would be VanB, Wolf and Indi.

I remember the good old days. I went under the name Dead Glory for many years and some of you probably recal that name. Back in 2001 when I started on DBC 1.09 (pre RGT) I think I got pretty famous on one of the boards, can't remember which. I won the DBC multiplayer contest! During RGT I was one of the most famous. When I was the first who reached 1000 posts GuyS renamed the rank for 500 posts to "You post as much as DG"

That was a crazy time. Never been like that ever since GuyS quit. RGT was the official Dark Basic forum for a while and it had a lot of long time DBC users. It was before all the newbies you see on Apollo. Which was why a lot of us RGT users didn't move over to Apollo when it opened.

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I'd have to say IanM, VanB, and APEXnow from Apollo forums.

I bought dbc 1.08 (and eventually dbp) from RGT, and I recall visiting those old forums back then to ask a few questions but I dont remember my original screen name or other user's names from there That might have been in the end of 2000 or early 2001? I dont recall when dbc 1.08 came out.

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What about me!?

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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so, what exactly happened to indi, was it in a thread or something. Where is he at now?

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Edit: (spent too ling typing the list )
DA,
I remember when you released the demo for "the magic land" which I was very impressed with

I think my list is:
VanB (since lonewolf),
Kangaroo2 (since his "coding a fps game in one week" project),
Mullvalen (helped me with the distance formula using sqrt),
TK (useful math snippets and his game DarkWarriors),
Digital Awakening (since "the magic land")
Lassix (since limefly)

And some I remember from llrgt: xtrade, prime8, drakex and manic

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Quote: "When I was the first who reached 1000 posts GuyS renamed the rank for 500 posts to "You post as much as DG" "

DA:You were my posting idle back in the day, then I lost all my posts when RGT died and therefore lost my love of getting as many posts as possible.

[edit] Is RGT long enough ago to be "back in the day"? And if so, what do you now call what was "back in the day" when RGT was "in the day"?

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David R
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Being a comparative unknown... cool

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is debatable though...


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Woo Hoo!! At least I got one mention (Matt your back on the christmas card list)

of those I did not see listed (does not me they were not) I would say

Dave Gervais
Ric
Tiresius

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i am lol
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oi

Wheres my mention KOHAKU



Also I'd like to nominate if not already mentioned:

Me
Mnemonix
Batvink
Benjamin
Hyrichter
indi
IanM
RobK(some years ago)
Scraggle
Giff
APEXnow
CattleRustler



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I pretty sure you can be a 'Most well known' for being here 12 months.
I think those who know me know me for annoying questions that are asked before, arent worth answering, and ones that only dont work because of me.

I still wish I knew who indi was.

The other thing I want to point out is that by most well known, I dont mean who you think is the most well known to you. I mean who you think is most prominent on the forums.

I cant believe this is a hot topic.

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*Adds aluseus god for starting this thread, congrats mate*

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My god man, where have you been?

Alright, first off indi was a well known mod who was a little too outspoken, he sometimes blew up at people but could bottle it up too. One day he snapped and started bitching at everyone and left with a note saying how bad tgc is.

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I remember him not being a mod, and he was *always" helpful to people who needed it.

I'd put jordan story games on that list, just out of sheer annoying-ness. People knew who he was for a few months.

And still, no Doctor on the list...

Edit:

Uncle Sam?


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@aluseus GOD: Search "reality check"

My most well known members would be the mods and anybody who has created a legendary/great program or game e.g. Benjamin, Cash Curtis II etc. . Well that was quite a lazy list

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I add Dr.Manette and Serdjo X or whatever he was called. For completely different reasons of course


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yay!

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zzz (making Soul Hunter)


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It's a shame some of the 'lesser succesful' members of the forum are remembered better than some of the other users

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Quote: "That's odd, I was under the impression that I was well-known... I guess I must have skipped over all the many posts that mentioned me"


Funny thing was, I was going to mention you, but didn't...so er...well I guess I could rectify that by saying Kinda Young Programmer. But I'm sure there's several unmentioned still...especially the ones that left long enough ago...I mean who remembers Stalker? (I think it was him) Ah he was a great modeller, I remember he started working on models for a Mexican style game. Then there's Psycho Gary, he left because he had no internet connection but I found him coming onto MSN a few times after on a friend's computer, I hear he did well on working with his game, does anyone remember that, it looked pretty kickarse at the time.

Also, I didn't see anyone mention BigAdd, I'd say he's well known and maybe Mike Inel, especially for his er...nVidia incident that I'm sure is something we can laugh about in the near future.

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I add tha_rami, because I know he doesn't like being called the_rami!
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Or 'the rabi'...sorry rami, but you must admit the guy was quite funny in a "we're laughing at him and not with him" sort of way.

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Wolf, Cash, Rich, Megs, Seppuku, Benjamin, Dink, Drew, Dazzag. I generally remember peeps I talk to about something useful. Not that any of the people I have mentioned have anything useful to say.


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I always thought I was a little better known that this tbh I've been here for ages and I hang around alot.

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Quote: "I went under the name Dead Glory for many years"
Hah! I didn't even realise! Thought you were dead.

Quote: "That might have been in the end of 2000 or early 2001? I dont recall when dbc 1.08 came out"
I may be wrong but I think I had 1.06 in mid 2000.

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