20 years of CoG

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Such things are why I really like this forum and its denizens.

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Mate, when you joined CoG it was as subtle as a hand-grenade in a barrel of porridge.

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Thank you Foghorn.
I feel attacked. I’m snowflaking.

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It started with the tickets. Hours of entertainment there. Pretty much just been lurking about since apparently…

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Hey bud, we’re just pulling your leg verra gentle…

We love you :stuck_out_tongue:

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Have we chased @Rizak away now? :cry:

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If it were that easy, it would have been done years ago.

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I was latecomer in 2013. I became a @Lee_Ars groupie since I just fell in love with his Ars Technica story of working at Babbages as a teen. I then stalked him to his forum and had to join… :love_you_gesture:

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Truth: I still have dreams—probably at least once every few months—about working at that job. Usually I’m my current age but for whatever reason am back working as like a temporary seasonal hire or something, and I’m always excited that I remember how to clean the shelves and run the POS.

Crazy how first jobs sometimes stick like that.

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That’s understandable. It was a job in a field that you loved at the perfect age where you met your life partner. I’d say that’s a fairly seminal moment of your life.

I’m probably about a dozen years older than you and one of those idiots that plunked down $700 for a 3DO at the time, which my wife still gives me shit about. I did play a lot of Road Rash on that system and loved every minute of it.

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My older brother has a Virtual Boy. I think it has about an hour of use.

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That’s probably 56 more minutes than most other Virtual Boys on the planet.

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I remember seeing one of those in my local Blockbuster circa 1995. It was set up with a demo of whatever Mario game they made for it. I remember thinking the 3D effect was cool but everything else was “meh” especially that monochrome screen.

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I used to dream about my first job working retail. I’ve also dreamed about returning to a previous job that was pretty low-stress but I know I couldn’t afford it and the move would be a difficult sell.

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