When I was a young boy, a childhood friend introduced me to stick figure battle animations or whatever they're called, and they were totally awesome to my 10 year old mind. I eventually found this site and started frequenting it whenever I got the chance, and eventually drifted to the forum. I tried to make an account but I saw that the age limit was 13, and since I was such a saint I literally waited the two years to turn 13 and joined a little while after my birthday because I didn't want to get in trouble.

Since then I've been trapped here. I do feel like I am good friends with some members here, but on the whole I really do not like this forum and I don't know why I keep coming here.

I was finally going to join FA to see if i could learn animation, read the front page, heard about the merge, came here.
And thats pretty much all there is to it.

I scratched my head and suddenly decided to join for some animation learning and "language practicing". I was so bored back when I was 12.

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I found this site.
I spelled my username wrong.
I now post against my will.

I just laughed pretty hard.

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I went through a long pivot time with bubbles (he had some other username back then (me too, I was the_grimreaper)) and Zed.

I did not realise you were you. Hi.

Oh, how I enjoy reunions.

Half a year doesn't count as veteran, but IDGAF.
I have enough experience to at least survive here. Basic story:
Made a YT
Saw Hyun
Got Flash
Joined FA
Made an RHG
Merge
Made a clan
Grew up enough to not be considered a noob
Now.

Story:

When I watched disney movies, I was like, "Oh, that's cool! How do they do that?"
I figured out that it was called animation, I googled it, I found some stickfigure animation stuff that I can't remember, somehow I found stickpage and got obsessed with the 'popular' animators, and I joined stickpage.

I bumped like a thousand old threads, made lots of people mad (Including Lake. I remember that he was always angry.), and started to animate.
I filled Miccool's inbox, bugging him a lot. I started 3 or 4 forum websites about animation. The most people I got was 30. Miccool got me to name one of my sites "flashfest.hostname.com", and I didn't realize until later that without the host name it was a porn site.
I made friends with people like Kieran., Poppetje3D, Sacred, Woof, and briefly Lixu. I made many collabs that got me a little bit popular (Jump the wall collab and sequel(That's later on FA) and some other crappy stuff.)
-I also made a writing forum and invited writers from here like Devour. That didn't last for very long.-
I made a forum with gunnzoz that didn't last either. (I think this might have been later when I was on fluidanims.)

I then made friends with Fresh and A16, who are awesome. I don't think they're active anymore.
Miccool said he was going to go to fluidanims, and I was like, "What is this magical website?" And so I went there. I stayed active here and there, and back and forth.

I made friends with Pluto, and I liked his collabs and stuff. Cool guy. Theory was cool too.
I made Run1, a joint on irc. I went through a bunch of name changes. n0trusting > n0trust > NofT> Chip > NT.
Run was what got me more popular, and Woof liked it a lot, so he asked me if he could make Run2. I said sure. That was more popular with lots of famous animators. Now lots of people think that Woof made the Run series instead of me.
I joined lots of collabs. One here was the kill sacred finale.
I then made Run3, even though I had earlier told Woof that he could make it. I felt guilty, so that's why I say in the credits "Thanks for letting me make this, Woof." And now people still think he started the series. Run3 was pretty popular.
I spent lots of time on irc with people, and still do.
I created more mild collabs like Chasm and Decapitation.

I've animated small animations throughout this whole period, and you can find the best I've made here: http://n0trust.deviantart.com/
I have a terrible memory, and lots of the events I just typed are probably out of order. One big change on stickpage that I remember was when the portal closed a while back.
I went off and on, being off these websites for half a year or something, and then coming back on.

Very recently, fluidanims merged with stickpage, and I focused back here instead of fluidanims. I will be making more collaborations, and may have already started some.

And it is the 5th of September, 2012.
The End.
*Story of my life without the huge rest of my life off the internet.


Some of you people I've known for a while might not have known some of the details above. And now you can.

Synopsis of my activity on Stickpage compared to other animation community websites: (In order from which I spent most time on to least time.)
1. Fluidanims (Joined early 2009, active until merge with ons and offs.)
2. Stickpage (Joined 2008, active until now, except for a big gap in the middle.)
3. Various forums of my own
4. Newgrounds (Not active at all except for voting on friends' videos.)
5. Shiftlimits (Joined between 2008-2010 and stayed active for about a week.)

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2007-2012: popped in less and less as the years go by, still post very occasionally, xiao style 3 is still sitting 3/4 done on my computer...feel bad that i never completed it

also my last tracked post was 3 years ago, not sure if thats just cuz others have gone off database or if it's really been that long...

Everyone just keeps coming back. It's a curse.



And you see, I replied to your post. Also, finish that xiao xiao style 3. I liked the style 2 one when it came out. Just make sure you up the sound quality.

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also my last tracked post was 3 years ago, not sure if thats just cuz others have gone off database or if it's really been that long...

We had a forum reset and lost two years of posts. It kinda sucked. There was an SPP History thread which people had put a lot of effort into.

I think I saw you post once or twice in those two years. Was it you who became a professional poker player?

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Was it you who became a professional poker player?

yep thats me :) poker pro jan 2011-october 2011
poker dealer october 2011-august 2012
now pro poker player again

guess i posted sometime last year then or you wouldnt know this, cool.


@N T - haha not sure if i even have the animating ability anymore. problem is its on a 10 year old computer which goes super slow and the very thought of sitting at that computer for over 2 hours is unbearable. i might just release it unfinished if i ever decide that im 100% sure i wont finish it. else i'll just throw in some ending as quick as i can without trying to give away that i probably suck at animating now and release it :P
& upping the sound quality...idk in what way you mean but my knowledge of flash is all but gone so i probably wouldnt even know how, unless you just mean choose different music :P

Holy mother of God, it's St3lf. That guy who criticized the hell out of my animation in 2008...

So eh, hi. How's XiaoStyle3 going?

haha which animation was this :P

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/441897 That crap.

Paradoxically enough, I haven't improved much since then. Anyway, it's nice to see another old member again.