Hello, my name is Dave

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Just thought I’d introduce myself and explain how I got here.

Me - 20 years ago ^

I’m just some ordinary, random guy from Wisconsin with a wife and two kids trying to eek out an existence in this world. I work in a small plastics factory as a trainer/supervisor that seems to get gobbled up by a larger corporation every few years.

My only small claim to internet fame is that I was once a beta tester for Xbox Live almost 11 years ago, and I was one of the first 10,000 or so on the service. I still have that account with the GT of Road Rash although I don’t play on it like I used to. There have been ill behaved, low life pond scum on there since the very beginning.

The reason I’m here is that a few months ago I ran across an excellent article on Ars called “How I launched 3 consoles (and found true love) at Babbage’s store no. 9”. I did a little digging around on the site about the author and liked some of his other articles. I was bored one day recently and did a little more digging on his bio page at Ars and found myself at his blog, which led me directly here. I thought about registering at the Chronicles of George forum but instead took a stab here instead.

I’m glad I did. I really dig the way this Discourse forum works from the the other boards I’m used to. I find dragging photos and YouTube links in the text box a joy to behold.

I have some mod and admin experience at two vBulletin forums but that are no longer around. One of them was a relatively popular one back in late 2002 when MotoGP was released for the XBL beta called XBLRacing,com. I was a mod there for many years until one admin made a mistake on the control panel and let a flood of spammers in. The site was on it’s last legs anyway but I was still sad to see it go. Forums in general seem to be a dying breed to me especially the smaller ones I’m fond of. I belong to many of them across the net but I only tend to post on the smaller ones and if I think about it, I’m really only active on one board right now although I do like the crowd I find here and at CoG.

Hopefully I stick around for a while. Thanks for letting me in your world and fire away with any questions you may have.

Dave

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Howdy, Dave! I’m still not entirely sure what I’m going to do with this Discourse forum, but much like a guy wrenching on a car in his garage, I’m having a fun time fiddling with it. So, welcome :smile:

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Figuring out how to quote was fun. Highlighting the text in your post brought up the “quote reply” button, which was interesting and cool.

Anyways, thanks for the welcome. :beers: I figured I’d just register on your newest forum but I may just hedge my bet and go ahead and register on the CoG board and play with some Vanilla as well.

I forgot to mention in my original post that I did buy a 3D0 back in the day at $699.99 less than a year after the photo of myself was taken. A fact that my wife to this day still gives me shit about. :blush: I still have it but I haven’t hooked it up in a number of years. I keep hoping that it will be valuable someday. :money_with_wings:

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Welcome! I was glad to see you register on CoG. We have so many spammers register that it was nice to see a new account that I didn’t have to ban immediately. :slight_smile:

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As long as I behave myself here I shouldn’t have to worry about the ban hammer. Thanks for the welcome!

I know the pain of dealing with spammers all to well. :angry: On the boards I had mod or admin privilages on it became a chore to deal with all of them. It was non-stop insanity.