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John H
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 03:11
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Hey everyone,

I just stumbled on the TGC forum after not being here for quite some time. Out of curiosity I logged into my account and by some minor miracle I remembered my (very old) password on the first try.

Soooo I figured I'd toss up a post and see if there are any old members that may remember me. My handle was formerly RPGamer between 2000 and 2003 (if I were to guess)

I now work as a Linux Systems & Network administrator at a software company in addition to running a business with a few friends where we sell air suspension (bagriders.com). Besides sys/netadmin stuff, when there isn't much to do I code a lot of PHP/AJAX/jQuery stuff. I can definitely thank TGC for sparking my interest in programming at a very early age.

So yeah, hey anyone

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 03:55
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Hello, good to see things are moving forward for you

"everyone forgets a semi-colon sometimes." - Phaelax
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Benjamin
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 05:55
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Wow, long time no see.



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MrValentine
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 07:26
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Hi there, perhaps you would like to contribute to my thread

Why I / We Love TGC


And Hi once more, I am a recent member but always nice to meet more TGC Forum members

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TheComet
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 08:36
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Hello there

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MikeS
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 08:38
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Hey John, welcome back!



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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ionstream
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 08:50
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Ello old top.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 08:58
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Old people of the forums...


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Fallout
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 09:34
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I remember you as RPGamer. I had a different avatar, but I've been kicking around making this place look untidy since 2000.

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zenassem
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 13:00 Edited at: 19th Oct 2011 13:25
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I remember you as RPGamer as well. John H would be a tougher name to stand out,, it's almost as forgettable as the name Mike S, IanM, Van B, John Y!!! Actually not having the space makes IanM a bit more memorable... .

Your signature has been erased by a mod please reduce it to 600 x 120.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 13:46 Edited at: 19th Oct 2011 13:47
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Egads! And look, you're still a moderator.

I do remember you, you were still here when I was a noob (and I still am really), at least I think you were, I remember posts by an RPGamer that were suddenly replaced with 'John H' on one fateful day. Welcome back and nice one on your career.

Of course, some of us losers have stayed here for way too many years and picking up a ridiculous number of posts and procrastinating instead of actually doing anything productive...congratulations on being productive!

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xplosys
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 15:05
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Joined too late to have known you, but always nice to see more people from New England. Originally from Rhode Island.

Brian.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 15:07
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Of course I remember RPGamer! John H not so much...

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
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Zotoaster
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 17:05
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Dazzag, now I haven't seen you in a while. I remember your avatar used to be slightly different but I think it was cooler. I remember he had glasses, possibly.

"everyone forgets a semi-colon sometimes." - Phaelax
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Accoun
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 17:49
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Joining here in 2006 myself, not that much. But I remember reading your posts anyway.
Welcome back!

Make games, not war.
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Dazzag
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 19:30
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Nope. I had a rotating skull. Then this much cooler avatar

Cheers

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Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
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Nickydude
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Posted: 19th Oct 2011 19:42
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Just goes to show old mods never die...

I reject your reality and substitute my own...
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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 20th Oct 2011 02:46
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I think i remember you.... But I'm not an old-timer

http://awolthehunted.blogspot.com/
For the latest news on my FPS in development, check out my blog!
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mm0zct
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Posted: 20th Oct 2011 03:38
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I remember you RPGamer, I've only recently started stalking the forum again as well.

zenassem: wasn't Mike S called Yellow before? or something like that?

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MikeS
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Posted: 20th Oct 2011 03:40
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Yeah, I sure was. In fact, if you look at my sig, I leave it there to avoid confusion in case people read any of my archived posts in which they refer to me as "Yellow"



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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mm0zct
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Posted: 20th Oct 2011 03:58 Edited at: 20th Oct 2011 04:01
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I even remembered the frog avatar [edit: this seems silly to say now since I realise you've already posted in this thread, but it seems I have a long term association with you and that frog avatar]. I also remember the discussion that generated the classic quote in you sig, good times.

I'm a 2nd year PhD student in parallel architecture and processor simulation, it'd be interesting to hear what other oldies are up to.

Also I made a game! (with some friends). It looks better finished than the last video we had time to make, you can log in with reddit/reddit to avoid making an account if you feel like checking it out.

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MikeS
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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 06:38
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Yeah, the good old frog. I seem to be one of the few who has this avatar these days.

I'm a 1st year PhD student currently searching for a research topic. I will hope to be working with some professors in compilers, multimedia storage, or visualization.

I've made a handful of games for research projects during my undergrad, but I don't think they are posted publicly.

I can say myself I owe it to TGC quite a bit for getting me this far. I have vivid memories of my early days spending hours just walking around an untextured matrix, trying to get just the right smoothing function working.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Pincho Paxton
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I'm still here till the Rapture!

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 17:54
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Careful what you say, I mean the guy who predicted rapture for May this year said he was only 6 months out.

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soapyfish II
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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 18:10
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I remember Eternal Destiny!!!! That's the right game, right? How far did you get with that project? From what I remember it was one of the few threads on the Team Requests board that looked reasonably promising. Those were the days. ..................
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John H
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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 18:32 Edited at: 21st Oct 2011 18:43
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Wow, great to see so many familiar names around I started college as a 3D Art & Animation student in Champlain College's Game Design program, but eventually decided the game industry wasn't for me.

I remember my first attempts at PHP were a shot at making a simple CMS for a game website. Of course, the basics of programming came from DB/DBP Currently I'm developing a inventory management system targeted towards small->medium sized businesses, as well as an iPhone app that speaks with an arduino for an air-ride controller

One night a week I teach a 1 credit hour course at Champlain College covering enterprise hardware virtualization, it's only a five week course so I'm covering ESX and Xen. One of the major shortcomings of our Computer Networking program is the lack of hands on practice with real enterprise technologies. A lot of classroom work involves using VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox, but not once does the program delve into architecture that one would encounter in a real world scenario.

I recently switched my home desktop over to Ubuntu 11.04 and managed to get both my GPU's running. I was running Win7 with my 5870 along side some ancient nVidia GPU from early 2005 (5 monitor setup), but before switching over to Linux I ordered a cheap 6770 as it runs on the same Linux driver (fglrx) as the 5870. Tweaking my desktop is something I've always enjoyed doing, and that hasn't stopped.

This was taken a ways back - 5 monitors FTW
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4664023/screen_real_estate.jpg

and this is my server 'rack' (rather.. pile)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4664023/serverpile.jpg

That pile consists of a few old machines scraped together for various purposes (NAS, security cameras, digital tv recording) and one old blade I used for my senior thesis and upgraded the components of. It started as a 2.6GHz Xeon single core 32bit proc w/hyperthreading, I added a second of those (4 cores total) and found 12GB of PC2100 ECC registered RAM on eBay for $40 and upgraded from a measly 512MB With 12GB of RAM (given its rather slow) I run a few different VM's on it for various webservers, a MineCraft server, mailserver, Asterisk Server using Skype as a SIP provider (I have phones!) and other trash VM's for security testing and general shenanigans. It's nice having a server I can throw up a VM on if friends want a box to play around on and are too lazy to setup a software VM themselves

YAY COMPUTERS!


Oh, and yay cars I'm a little lower in the front since this shot, but not bad.


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John H
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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 18:48
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Quote: "I remember Eternal Destiny!!!! That's the right game, right? How far did you get with that project?"


Haha yup! That was the one. I didn't get too far... I had a working battle engine with spells and attacks... semi-random monster stats, different drops, EXP, stuff like that. I think I had something like 3 or 4 different monsters that could generate a few different "mobs". I had the first couple areas of the world done, but never got past that. I focused a lot on trying to make things look good before getting programming stuff done.

Looking back, my problem was always my inability to say "ok, good enough, go forward". I was constantly tweaking and redoing stuff. I also didn't have any experience with animation which always bugged me. I wasn't content with having mobs slide across the ground before attacking you, whereas that should be totally acceptable as a starting point. I think if I were to go back and have a stab at it now, I could get much farther much quicker - unfortunately the chances of that are relatively unlikely as I've got enough stuff to take care of right now. It would be fun though, maybe sometime this winter! I think I have all my old DB projects saved somewhere.. hehe

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Posted: 21st Oct 2011 22:25
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I remember eternal destiny too. It was a really long running WiP. Shame it never got finished. Having said that, it was an RPG ... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??!! At least it wasn't an MMORPG, but I don't think anyone was making multiplayer games back then.

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EdzUp
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Im still here, dont post much these days (picking up more of late though). I am still toying with DBPro but havent got loads of time these days (family life soaks up my time now)

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RUCCUS
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Feels like a high school reunion, I say we IRC it up soon.
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Alucard94
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Seeing lots of people in this thread I haven't seen in ages, then again I haven't been here for a while either. I do remember you I think, I'm still a pretty new user to here though so I'm probably just remembering wrong. Hello!

Hello, I am Seb.
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