Get to know your fellow VGFers: Tell your life's story

[Valigarmander ASS]

In this thread, I want everyone to just give a short little story behind our whole lives. If we understand everyone's history, I think it'll bring us that much closer as a big, smarmy family. It'll also help us feel as though we've been friends for life, even if we've only been here a couple of months. It's good to know a person's story.

My story...

...began in September of 1990, when I was born in a little hospital in Oregon. My mother, Rhonda, and father, Bob, had me and took care of me, and I even got a sister (Amy, 1991) and a brother (Nicky, 1994). My early childhood began good enough. Once I moved to Cornelius (into the same house I've been living in for 14 years to today), I made a bunch of friends. Typical childhood stuff. I entered Kindergarten in 1995, and got switched around classes (apparently I was too old to start the year; I'd have to take next year, but luckily I got to be in the class of '09), and got settled in eventually. It was... an interesting beginning to school. In between 1st and 2nd grades, my very best friend moved away (that ****ing sucked), and I sort of began a social withdrawal by then. In the 2nd grade, I also discovered my knack for writing and illustrating, as did the people around me. I was proud of myself.

Around 4th grade, I started getting subjected to bullying. Didn't do so good for my self-esteem. In the 2002, my family was hit by three very big bombs: my grandfather (my dad's dad) passed away, my uncle (my dad's brother) turned himself in for child molestation and will still be in jail for several years now, and my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I wasn't too happy then. I eventually lost faith in God and fell out of my family's Christian beliefs to wishy-washy agnosticism, and at times nihilistic atheism. In April 2006, I attempted suicide and was taken to the hospital, and treated for clinical depression. I now take meds for it. I also met a wonderful girl who later became my first love, but the relationship only last six months, and many of you remember how poorly I took the breakup.

From 2007 onward, I've made incredible improvements socially and emotionally. Now almost 18, I love making new friends and I'm not afraid to make an ass out of myself. Future outlook: good.


That's my life story. WHAT'S YOURS?

[M. Hercule Poirot]

Well, my life has been simple, but here is the story:

I was born quietly in Georgia, and subsequently adopted by the woman I now know as "Mom", in a hospital located somewhere obscure. I was carried across the US at that young age, and before I was even old enough to remember, had been to Arizona, Hawaii, and Washington. After that, I came to live in a small house in Mississippi. Soon after, my father died, a blow which haunted me for years. I remained at home, being privately taught until we moved into a new house and I eventually went to a public school for the first time since first grade: 4th grade, the year where I first grew to know the menace of human spite. For two years I was ridiculed for being quite eccentric. There I found I liked to write, and decided to go somewhere with it.

After a few more years of home-schooling, I was sent to a Christian Academy, a decision I have come to regret. Through three years of boredom I have spawned a love for music, writing, and reading every book I get a hold of. I began writing lyrics and playing the drums, two things which have payed off privately and hopefully professionally later on in life. Although I endure ridicule, I also revel in making others laugh. As far as I'm concerned, my life s moving normally. And I have no complaints.

[Jace Mario]

Mine isn't that long and in depth as everyone elses, but anyway.

My name is Jace Van Kaathoven, and I was born December 11th, 1994 in Queensland, Australia. When I was a toddler, everything was looking fine, my mother and father became devorsed, but I was not old enough to understand at the time.We moved to NSW, Sydney when I turned 3, and life was fine. Halfway through my 4th year alive, I discovered my older brothers NES and SNES. That is when I fell in love with games. I'd play alost all of my Mario games every day, and watched the T.V show. (fast fact: I actually finished Super Mario brothers 1, 2, 3 and the lost levbels while I was 5)

After I finsihed preschool, I went to primary. I was a really shy kid, and didn't have many friends. I used to be bullied alot, but it didn't bother me too much, I knew how to avoid it. In Year 4, I discovered my Imagination's skills, and always wrote stories about video games I liked, and just plain old weird ones. When I started junior high, my Grandpa (who hasd his own general store) gave me HEAPS of old comics. I loved the idea of them, and the idea of collecting things, so I began collecting straight away.

I am currently in my 8th year of school, I still am the subject of most bullies though, but it's not worrying me too much. So far, I am not having many complaints about life, I am feeling the side effects of puberty and depression, though. I love to entertain people, write stories, play videogames and the like.

[CuccoLady]

I was born in Pennsylvania and lived there until I was 3 and a half. Then we took a 5-day train ride across the US to California, and I've lived here since.

As for schools, well, I went to a normal preschool. Then for first and second grade, since our public school is crap, I went to some OTHER crap private school in Gilroy. I made some friends whom I subsequently abandoned when my mom pulled me out of that school at the end of second grade to go to the crap town one instead.

I stayed at the town school for a year until my mom homeschooled me for fourth grade. I didn't have too many friends outside of my neighborhood ones, so when at the end of my homeschooled year I went to a K-8 school, I was like... WHOA.

So, since I didn't ever get a real feel for what kids are normally like, I never dressed well... fashion disaster... and I was incredibly outgoing. Luckily for me, the school I went to was a small one and everyone there was interesting and outgoing. There was a small clique thing full of insane people like me so I felt right at home.

Eventually, I was obsessed with Teen Titans and randomly asked people if they'd seen it. One girl said yes, and she actually turned up to be my best friend! She also taught me a lot in the way of dressing like a human. xD

So, I stayed, grew, and matured at this school, eventually turning into the geek I am now.

Speaking of which, my mom when she turned 40 got herself a N64 for her birthday. She bored of it, but my sisters and I loved it, so we got more and more consoles. :]

...Yep, that's my story. I actually used to be a lying, snobby, self-centered smartass until I went to the school I'm at now. Thank heaven for that. xD

[speed is OVER 9000]

I was born in 1994 in the Burbs of Chicago I was Raised by my Mom and Grandma (my Grandpa died when I was 6 months-old). The first 5 years of my life consisted of Trains, Legos and playing N64 at my cousin's house.

Then School came along. School is where I met my best friends Ryan (A kid who shared my love of gameing) and Mike (Who was a pathelogical liar) they both stayed my friends up until this very day, but School isn't just where I met my friends it's also where I met my major Self-Esteem problem and my huge immaturity issue both of which would go on to follow into the rest of my schooling life.

The next few years went by uneventfully until third grade where I changed schools (My Mom had me in a fancy ass catholic school). I was now in the jungle known as puplic school, I was immediately outcast for my love of gameing and my crappy dressing, And that was just with the teachers!

Two years later I found myself in junior high and a year after that I found myself in home schooling.

[DarkZero]

I'll make it brief.

I was born on 2/22/94. My dad was an irresponsible drunk who left us when I was 3, and my mom could never make enough money to support us. Then, 7 years later, my mom finally got married. And now, I live with my mom, stepdad, and stepsiblings (one of which is KrystalKat).

[speed is OVER 9000]

OMG your sister really exists O_o

[KittenTheSmitten]

Kerplop. I was born in 1990. Dad left long before that... >_> Hope he's dead....Anyway, I was teased pretty much up until the end of high school, and now I'm what you might call popular.

That's about all of the interesting stuff I can tell anybody about my "past", anyway. My life basically started, like, three months ago, now that I've applied for the college I'd like to go to and that I'm talking about moving out. That's a different story, I guess.

x"3 thanks for listening. Reading, whatever.

[Inferno Dragon]

not much to tell about myself.
I was bourn as the bastard love child of a girl who couldn't take care of me on december 5th 1985. Was adopted just days later by my parents. I had a near fatal asthma attack when I was 2 I think so I was injected with steroids to keep me alive. at age 3 my parents divorced, my mom got custody of me but my dad still visits twice a week. I started kindergarten and got my NES when I was 4, best year of school until senior year of highschool btw. from 1st grade all the way to 12th grade I was bullied for various reasons that are still unknown to me. I was in 8 high school plays and four musicals (Grease, Joseph, Le Miserables, and Into the Woods) I joined here in 2001 to escape my daily tourment and retain some semblance of sanity, summer between freshman and sophmore year of highschool. after graduating I went to TCC for two years, UNT one year, and I'm back at TCC now to finish off college. also I converted to egyptian paganism spring of last year, my great grandmother died when I was 1, my grandmother on my dad's side of the family died my senior year of high school, my grandfather passed away last year and I lost an aunt earlier this month.

so like I said, not much to tell.
I'm a geek.
I like anime.
I like videogames.
I like to draw when motivated to do so.
and I have a short fuse as some of you here have noticed. but that's from the bullying.

[MUSHMAN]

I was born August 15, 1992. Nothing interesting happened until 3rd grade, when I caught strep-pneumonia, and missed a month of school and got a nice scar from where they cut my open to drain the fluid out of my lung. The next year one of my best friends moved from Indianapolis, and I made more friends the year after that. Last summer when I ripped a tendon in my foot. (Which the doc said won’t heal)

So ya, that’s my story, condensed.

[DarkZero]

Originally Posted by speed

OMG your sister really exists O_o

Where have you been for the past 4 months?

[Mikhail Gorbachev]

2/22/92-Present, Phila, PA. No siblings. School, bullied, etc. Probably deserved it for being such an idiot. High school's looking good, actually. Nothing really of much interest.

[Col. Les Claypool]

9/17/1994 - born in Kenosha, WI. Moved to Michigan two weeks later. Been here my whole life. Hate school and people from school with a few exceptions. Major music nerd, likes video games and internet too. Plan to go to ML's school for high school. That's it.

[Tazy_10]

Born 07/10/1990........

Everything else is an implanted memory.....

(Also Read: It's boring and has barely any trauma compared to the rest of you)

[Ace Mercury]

I was born in Canada. It was cold at the time.

I went to school, then high school, then university. I'm now unemployed =/

[United FACE]

I've lived in the same house in Michigan my entire life, I went to a private school with ML, then went to public schools, met Marchie when ML went to a different school, now I'm in high school as a Junior and I thought I knew what I was doing with my life, now I have no idea.

I enjoy singing, writing, playing Smash Bros. with my friends, reading, throwing random surprise parties that have no meaning but are just used as an excuse to throw a party with our group, playing basketball with friends as well as mean games of four-square, and sledding down the local hill in the winter. All of these things are favorite past times that shan't be forgotten.

[Metal Man]

Born some time ago, one of the last members of the 80's generation.

Lived at home with parents pretty much. Went to public elementary school.

At that time life went to pieces, as kids of all kinds would mob up and beat me up, at about 1st-second grade.

Eventually I became so enraged that I began to go into psycho-rages, during which I felt no pain and punched until whoever it was was... well, yeah. Either far away or in some serious pain.

Eventually the picking on me stopped, after I routed entire groups of enemy children with the zipper on my jacket as a whip, and that time I chased a guy who tossed milk on me for all of recess (30 minutes), fists psychotically shaking and ready to beat him down.

That, and the time 7 kids attacked me and the ringleader (named Trevor Harrington of all things) nearly choked me to death, and I kicked him in the groin to save my life.

I also crashed into many poles with my head during this time. Why, I don't know. Additionally I introduced my friends to the internet, and joined the internet during this time (1998), mostly to get Pokemon codes. I also introduced them to Missingno.

I was 1 point off of getting into the GATE program for gifted youth, but that wouldn't bother me too much. I began playing the Clarinet, and I remember distinctly a tiem in which I nearly ate staples due to some jerk sticking them in the cafeteria spaghetti.

I was also exposed to a crazy teacher named Caralee who, in general, gave various praises to my journal of the time, which complained about the broken lights and involved crazed ramblings.

I also remember fighting over who would play Oregon Trail II on our ancient Apple IIe printers. We were gonna get new ones, but the Janitor stole them all and skipped town.

I left this school before Middle School, for fear of what further injury lay ahead (middle schoolers knowing what knives are and how to use them, for example)

I went to independent study from then on. It was there I did many things. I saw September 11th on one of my class days. It was shocking, yet I never really felt effected by it.

...

I joined VGF in the year 2000, and I joined independent study around that time, to give you an idea of how long that was. I had just entered Middle School...

VGF was a part of my routine then. I would battle people in the monthly Nintendoland Battle topic. I was a member of the Nintendoland Battlefield crew, for which the Gunjin was once named after (and was created for us, to boot)

I also watched NC back in the old days. But it was Welcome to NintendoLand! which got me into VGF. I had become addicted to Deathmatches and had wanted to roleplay fighting for some reason.

...

Anyway, I went through independent study, and once took a test which got me to be Second Alternate on Battle of the Child Geniuses II (with Dick Clark.) I even met Dick Clark in person, and got a camera for my trouble, and shook his hand.

Grumpiest. Man. Ever.

Although he was sorta nice when he was 'in character' as what everyone else thinks he is.

Anywaaay, time passed, and it was boring. I joined SSQ in 2002 (Super Smash Quest, that is) and began roleplaying there, FINALLY satiating my need for roleplaying. Codiekitty's weird online HTML game nearly did it, but it closed after I sent an application.

VGF had trouble beginning around here. I saw its quality of its main site deteriorate and members vanish as time went on. The Sega Battlefield's high point was around here, with me fighting in the Candy Wars across a long time. I also remember battling DARTH BOWSER and numerous others. Indeed, Joker hasn't changed a lick since that first free-for-all in which I fought him. A shame Zora isn't around.

Time marched on. SSQ quickly 'ended', however I had managed to pass the GM test (with a Goldeneye-like Mission) and with sheer force of persistence I beat out my competitor (GM_Link, whom some of you know.) Thus I became leader of it... not a very good one at the time, though!

What do you mean, my life couldn't have been all about online? But it was. Clarinet ended because it interfered with my roleplaying. I had no friends. I lived at home, doing independent study stuff well, but also only needing to do it once a week, as I was too danged smart for it (See above).

My relationship with my Dad began to sour as I gained free will and, using it, began to disassociate from his activities. Mostly because they bored me to death and he forced me to come along.

We enter the near-modern era in 2004-ish. Various dramas involving SSQ happen. VGF stuff happens too, I forget what exactly. Oh, right. I became SMBHQ mod, and immediately began a war with Sean Kelly. I wanted to help. And he, contrary to his original word, stayed on.

(I got the last laugh, however--I got an HTML job for which I'm paid $20 an hour now; He remains doing his thing, most likely for less.)

More SSQ stuff. This all blends together as it was too much information to remember. Also I'd consider it a low point. I did little, I experienced little, I lived in a very small, hermit-like world.

That said, I joined a Sonic-based RPG in 2004-ish based on a chance occurrence of it having the same name as one I was making. Naturally I was too naive to realize it was furry at the time, but that would become irrelevant as time wore on. See below for the very strange conclusion of that.

The fruit of this was what would ravage 2005-early2006. I alienated various people with my hermit-like behavior and basically made an arse out of myself. That said, I also clashed with Shane over his forum methodology. My main mistake was insisting upon my opinion--for Shane was not really bothered by the opinion itself, but of course, being harassed by it.

I went from mod to nothing, and then from there worse than that, as Kunx and I began to fight one another. I had no clue of his condition and he none of mine, and all the same time I fought with Saeed as well, fighting a percieved 'n00bization' of the community.

Luckily for me, Bandit became obsessed with this concept and ran off with it, while I fatigued and eventually left. I tried to return once while Kunx was alive, only to be chased off. It after he died that, finally, I was able to come back.

Feel free to stab me for any implied ill will with him, but we never really got along, and it's really hard to express that when the person you fought with died, and your last words to him were likely in anger.

Anyway. 2006 was a year of regeneration. I began to reflect and, in my self-imposed isolation, I began to see the truth. Additionally, I began my major College career; now surrounded by vibrant and intelligent people, I was able to see what communities were and how they formed.

I learned some real math and began to pick up the pieces. Slowly, painfully, I began reconstructing things. With the help of my English teacher, I realized the true way to write, and broke free of the reigns once placed on me in SSQ story-wise. Unfortunately I forgot to control the plot so as to be sensible. This would be the beginning of the end for the current incarnation of SSQ.

2006 was also the last of my nonsense, although it had been going out of style since mid-2005. (As most bad stuff is just that: rotten.)

SSQ left SMBHQ in this time. It infuriated Sean muchly; with reason, SMBHQ has few active subsections.

Of course, the ads drove me off, and now I have my own domain name. It may one day overcome smbhq.com, but it first needs a larger purpose for that--I am no Mario fan, and all the Sonic needs I can think of are already pretty much site-ized. My RPG can't function with too many people either...

2007 is the first fully 'modern' year; my job began. My connection to my Dad was destroyed. I returned to normal posting after some silence, some bad posts, and a lot of clumsy ones.

Generally I have become more and more independent. Here I also speak of the conclusion to the Mobiusrp thing.

Although I stuck out of place like a sore thumb, I managed to use my roleplaying knowledge learned from battling here to bridge the gap, and over time somehow the character of MobiusRP changed. Due to my characters and my friends joining, it lost its 'furry' quality and became more mainstream.

Its Admin left it in my hands after I'd been the most active game master there for quite a while. It would be quite a battle to rebuild the site, taking until 2008.

Some other SSQ stuff--I learned PHP and began programming thanks to Glyph Phoenix, who once did site work for me on SSQ. He made a nice PHP character manager--but we disagreed over an event in which he tried to give my webspace to someone else.

He held the PHP over my head and basically said if I would tolerate him for as he was then and the way he was acting (I.E. ignore that he made that mistake and not rightfulyl chastise him for it) he would make one of the things I had always wanted.

Instead, I fired him, destroyed his access, reverse-engineered his PHP, expanded it beyond his, and ultimately vaporized his point and him. While it was a little vindictive... thanks to this my programming knowledge is quite good and getting better as time winds on. I can't say we'd be friends if he talked today, but I can at least thank his little temper tantrum for inspiring my programming saavy.

There's this and a bag of chips, but what can I say?

I've had a crazy chaotix life full of internet madness and more than this measly post can hold. Here's a sampler.

[Vapor]

Oh, Hell, I have no idea where to even start to dare to lay down words that can describe all the mad complexities of what has happened. I'll get back to you later.

[Irby]

I was born 1994. In London, Ontario, Canada, North America, Earth. I went to kindergarden where I met friends. Then I moved on to grade 1. Then I went to 2 and then 3. Blah blah blah im in grade 8 and I am actully becoming "popular" at my school. Uh not much else. Oh yeah and I see the number 23 every where and I am scared. I have a friend who is fat. I have an albino friend and some other friends. Thats it. Currently I have returned to VGF and I am bored.

[Crazyswordsman]

Let's see here....

April 17, 1985: I was born in the Mt. Sinai Medical Center on Madison Avenue between 98th and 99th Streets in Uptown Manhattan. After I left the hospital, I moved to an apartment on 32nd and 3rd.

We lived there about a month before we moved out to Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn. We lived there for 9 years. While I was there I met a friend who would be my lasting best friend. I was very sad when he had to move to Tokyo.

When I was 2, I was sent off to preschool at a wonderful place called Open House which had a rooftop playground. It was a place that I held near and dear to my heart because it was a huge part of my early life....AND NOW THEY CONVERTED IT INTO A F***ING RITE-AID!!!!!

Learning to read was as simple as watching Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Dallas every goddamned night of the week. Those were the shows we watched. I remember having to deal with the Smurfs a lot, too.

When I was 4, my younger siblings were born. I don't remember much about their birth....except for seeing some dumb puppet movie about a puppet saying he was jealous of his new siblings. I didn't know what jealous meant at the time because I was 4.

I think I was 2 or something when I got my first video games. It was an NES that came with a Seseme Street game (Ernie's Magic Shapes and Astro Grover), and a game featuring two things that would shape my life to this day (Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt). I really don't want to talk much else about my video game life.

So when I was 5 I entered a 2 year kindergarten program at some private school. I stayed in there until third grade, when at my mother's insistence we left New York for dirty Jersey.

Although our town wasn't dirty at all (it was very woodsy), and we went to the public schools there. It was at that town when I found lacrosse, and now I try to promote the sport as much as I possibly can (after playing for 8 years).

So after I finished high school I got accepted at Washington University in St. Louis and am just about to finish my degree there. -CSM