My handle comes from way back in my Quake days, when l33t-speak was shiney and new. L33t is shortform for Elite. Basically, to translate what I said:
Leet.
Fear the elite ones.

<Raffles rides L33t's rocket>

;)

Ummm...I know that's Quaketalk for me getting blown up (I hope), but it sounds rude...

:)

      Kali, actualy I put very little thought into it. It started by me taking the hadle on a BBS when I was a teen. Things just built from there. . .No I don't have to think about it. Just remeber the 80's.  :p

That is a good thing, I have the flu and can't think right now.

Oh by the way people, yes the Italics as things that Jack is thinking. Only Kalika and Hunter are privy to those. Like wise only Kali and Jack seem to understand hunter.

So yes much like Berd would not have known what Hunter was thinking about his food preferences.  Aaron would not have know they were talking mentally about his new found powers. Now the power word will probably be felt if not heard. Also I am not complaining, just an FYI. It’s all part of this bonding thing. The Triad is complete.

I will recall this! :)

Obviously I'm not a big Quake player, but still that's cool. I thought it meant something but my small mind couldn't grasp it :)

Ah yes the 80's. Let's see here I remember Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Rainbow Bright, Transformers, Voltron (kind of), oh yes and Strawberry Shortcake. Yes I vaguely remember the 80's :) (side note, I didn't mean that 'think to much about...' as an insult. Hope you feel better soon).

Were those hypercolor shirts 80's or 90's?

I remember the eighties, all too well... :(

Ugh.  High school.  Yuck.

Ah yes, the eighties. I just had a good reminder of them due to an 80's themed xmas party through work. Who remembers teased hair, ponytails on one side of the head, parachute pants, and really loud colors?

Enough with the bad memories!  I lived through High School in the Eighties!  -_-

:)

     Hey! I had a blast in the Eighties! Buying booze before I was old enough, I looked old enough to be able to pull it off. That's when I was at the height of my Martial Arts Skills and phisical prowess. I remeber weelky all night AD&D games! Glutton for punisment. . .

God I had fun in the eighties and realy ninties. I was a little hellion!

But I sisn't do teased hair, though I did have some bright closthes. My favorite was the real acid washed jeans! And my hair was a Beatels Mop top. Out of style as allways. Gads the Halloween patries, Trash can punch! Sigh!

I don't know what you guys problems are. . . I had fun with it!

Because High School sucked up most of the eighties for me, and I wasn't popular.  Hence, High School stank.  People made my life very miserable.

My clothing then resembled my clothing now.  Simple pants, tee shirts, etc.  Nothing fancy - I was too self-concious.  My hair was pretty much the same - I never had the big hair thing.  I wore glasses more.  I had braces in the earlier eighties.

I was taking Judo at the time, and unhappy with it.  I didn't start my Kung Fu until much, much later.  I will admit I was GOOD at Judo, but it wasn't my thing (though it has MASSIVELY helped with my Kung Fu, filling in gaps in the KF training).

I was likely in the best shape I've ever been in (easily getting award of excellence on Canada fitness), but that didn't help the issue of being spat upon by many students.

I didn't have any self-confidence, and that made life hell.

I didn't start developing self-confidence until I was well out of my teens, and thus the eighties.

So, on that ridiculously serious note, that's why I hated the eighties.  :)  It's all my fault, of course.  I shouldn't have cared, I should have had more confidence, etc, etc....but still.  :)

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:)  This is the world's smallest violin, playing just for me.  :)

        Oh hell Cyan, I can tell you I was not popular. I was respected at best, due to my bad reputation that we spoke of before. I was a geek, I only had on friend that was in the <b>in crowd <b>. Figuered out later on he was a geek in disguse. But no one picked on me, at least not to my face. What’s more is I had just enough self confidence that it didn’t matter. I was working two jobs and going to school. Yes I was in good condition, it was not long after high school that I started riding my bike 40 miles a day.

         I was the school crazy, no one would mess with me, not twice. But some how me and my geeky friends all had our geeky fun, and lots of it. No I didn’t dress loud that often, usually darkly to add to that bad rep and warn people off. Still it was nice to dress up from time to time. As for the hair, well the mop to was how it fell of it’s own accord.

       life was fun. . . Why? Because we made it that way, we chose to have fun with it.   That’s the way life should be.

Let's see... the eighties... aka "the Decade that Style Forgot".

Can't remember much about them, other than I had three different jobs during those ten years.  I vaguely recall being 21 near the start, and married at the end... the rest is pretty much a blur.

Cyan I can relate to your high school experience a lot, only mine is fresher in my mind (oh joy). I think we could all agree that happiness doesn't equal popularity. It's pathetic, but I probably have more friends online than I do in real life. I am introverted and get anxious when I have to speak with and interact with people that I don't know, so I don't make very many friends. I don't get anxious when I interact online, but it makes for a poor social life. At work my team (I supervise 19 customer care representatives in a call center for a telecommunications company) is great, but we don't really mingle that much outside of work. It's too political and at the end of the day I am still "the man" to them, plus some of them have kids older than I am. It's sad.

I agree with your point of view on life being fun Jack, but it's harder to keep that outlook while in high school. I mean most kids are such a chemical mess due to puberty that it can be difficult, especially if you don't have a group of close friends to relate to and have for support. The result is usually a crappy high school existence, but a more mature, competent, and independent adulthood. Not that people who had a blast in high school aren't these things, but it generally happens faster with those who existed in the outskirts of the high school society.

Due to the fact that I was born at the beginning of the 80's, I'll refrain from commenting on those particular years. I'm sensitive to the feelings of my fellow players. >P

And High School? Well, I'll also refrain from commenting on those years as well, since High Schoo for me was, in one word: HELL.

Total Hell. Not even the madness of the Logrus could match the type of crap I went through. >(

On other, more positive notes, I'm a HUGE Masaki Kajishima fan, not just of Tenchi, but of the man behind the mythology. :)
The third OVA series has started in Japan! W007! >D
Still no American publisher yet, though. :(

Bit of Trivia: That "Tenchinow has entered the room" message was wayyyy too memorable for me. I actually met my wife online. In the Anime chatroom that my particular handle was spawned for, and that was pretty much the exact line that would follow whenever I entered. :P

Another bit of (useless) Trivia: I did my first Roleplaying in that same chatroom... way back in '95 or so...

*runs off to check the new posts*

Well Aaron, that would put us at right about the same age, at least you have something to show for yourself.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:56, Wed 17 Dec 2003.

Oh, I'm not that ancient. I'll let Cyan, Jack and BBR have those spots. I'm just a young'un at 24. But for me, the really abd times was primary school. I'm also very much an introvert, and am very happy spending long periods of time alone, with nothing but a book and my music for company. I changed schools every year, and was always the new kid, the one everyone picked on because she was a loner.
It wasn't till I hit highschool lthat I actually had friens, and we stuck together through the years. So, to me HS wasn't a horrible part of my life, but a reasonably good time for me.
But, I understand where Kali is comming from a whole lot, since I am pretty much the same, with more people on my MSN contact list then I know in RL.


Long live the internet. :D

       I don’t know Kali, I watch a lot of the ones that exist in the outskirts of High school society  fall to the wayside of life. I think of it as one of those things that either make or break you. Psychology is a hobby of mine and really those in the in crowd often do not have it much better by the studies and the looks of it.


         Thinking about it I was much more like Lexy, I grew up being moved from school to school every year or two. The lower grades were my torment, always a new pecking order, always the new kid. Once I made it to high school I was just so bloody happy to be somewhere stable that I didn’t care. Make fun of me, I don’t care! Tease me, I don’t care! As a matter of fact, remembering back now me one of my best friends did nothing but tease and torment each other.  But man we had fun with it. . . It was all good natured, I guess it was our way of toughening each other up for the attempted tormenting of the other kids. He was the only one I  was ever comfortable enough to do that with until later in life.

Things weren't terribly good natured where I was, Jack.  :)  I was in the opposite situation - same school, year after year.  People who got to know me, and found all my weak points.  Blah blah blah.  Listen to the angst.  :)

But, as Kallika said, I came out the better for it in the end.  Suffering, I suppose, IS good for the soul.  I occasionally see those people who were popular in High School again - they haven't changed, and are still playing the same, stupid games, and thinking it makes them someone.

Am I feeling superior?  Yes.  Is that bad?  Probably.  :)

But, frankly, I have a good understanding of what it means to be someone that isn't well liked.  It helps when dealing with people.

As for online friends, like everyone is talking about...

Well, Lexy knows that I have online friends, now.  More than I have in the 'rw'.  :)  Popularity has never been where it's at for me - friends, though...I didn't have many, so they're very important.

Kallika, I'd say you have something to show - being a good person is something, though it may not be as immediately satisfying as money.  :)
This message was last edited by the player at 14:36, Wed 17 Dec 2003.

Oh, and....Violence! :)  Everyone get ready - one of our missing players could be coming back! :)

Oooo, I really hope so, even if it'll drop me a rung on the warfare totem pole... :)

I was in the same boat as Cyan, same school district from kindergarten through high school. My parents actually wanted it that way because they were both raised in households that moved almost every year and they hated it, so they didn't want that for me.

It's so easy to get caught up in negative things. I mean it is generally easier for people to complain about something than to praise it. Was everything about high school crappy? No. Would I do things differently a second time? Of course. I think high school is so sour to me because of the poor choices that I made. I think of high school and I get irritated at myself for the decisions that I made. After being with the same people since kindergarten, you get used to their teasing, their alienation, their tricks, and who are the ones who will embarass you in front of others (the ones you avoid). That doesn't bother me as much as I bother myself. Other people are out of my control, but I am in my control and that's the most frustrating part for me.

See Cyan, that's just the thing. I'm not entirely convinced that I am a good person. Money isn't what I would equate to having something to show for yourself. My jobs pays well and I just moved back in with my parents, so that's not an issue. I was referring more to Aaron finding happiness, starting a family... the intangibles that are seem to be the hardest to find :)

I agree, it would be cool if Ares returned. the more firepower the better!!!

I am returning, although briefly, as it may turn out.  Our Glorious Leader, BBR, persuaded me to come back and do him (and, indirectly, another player) a favor of sorts, but for the player it's not the sort of favor I'd want somebody to do for me.

If my crap life is sorted out slightly in the meantime, then I may just stay a while longer.  If not, then Ares is living on borrowed time.

It is good to be back, though you might not all think it's so good to have Ares back when he makes his Grand Entrance.

Yeah.  HS sucked, with a vengeance.

Well, you seem like a good person from where I stand.  And I DO agree with you on the High School issues.  I would do things differently these days.  I would care less, and forge my own way.

It's difficult to do that, though, when you're 14-17 and have no self-confidence.... :)  Lots of reasons for that, some of them my own fault, some my environment (just like everyone).

So, I'm not crying myself a river.  I just don't look back on High School with fondness.  If it was a proving ground, I failed.  Not failed to be popular - failed to be happy.

As for money, that last comment of mine was a joke. :)  I'm not big on money either - it's a means to survive.  Happiness and starting a family...yes, that's the tough stuff.

Ares, you're not coming back?  And this is all a big, nasty trap?  Poot.

I hope things improve for you.  I really, really do.  It was cool having you around.  I'm sorry things are going so poorly for you as well.  :(  Really sorry.

I was a constant target in High School... or, more appropriately, ALL of school. Seriously. Every single grade I was in, from K-12, was like a shooting gallery for me. It blew. Seriously. I went from getting my head bounced off of desks (6th grade) to having someone try to run me over (11th grade). Yep. That's my life.

AAAAANYway...

Kali, sacrifices had to be made to get to where we are now, though. Seriously tough issues, like my mother-in-law not coming to our wedding... much to my wife's serious dismay. -_-

Oh well. Excrement occurs.

Falling back to the Quake thing... I actually preferred the Unreal Tournament series, if just for the death quotes. A favorite was:

"Aspectre ate Rai's dripping green load."
Oh yeah. The ol' sludge cannon... >P

Welcome back, Ares! You missed the madness! :P