Goodbye, AGN.

[Mercy]

I have been trying to drop in at least once a week for the past...2+ months. Once the virus alert started setting off my scanners, I decided to wait to see if things were fixed or if AGN was just in the final death throes. Sad, since I actually have use for a forum for something game related, but whatever. Now that everything seems copacetic again, I will do my best to clean up the spammers. If it looks like AGN will be up for a while, I may bring in a few new members since my village needs a place to chat and share info.

-m.

[King Aquamentus]

I can't believe it took me till now to figure out that the reason this thread remains so active isn't because it is about one person leaving the board. It's because it's about the board leaving that person's life. Against his will. He's simply leaving before it goes critical (duh, but point is, he's saying goodbye not cause he's leaving, but because AGN is dying.)

[gdorf]

Over the years AGN was one of the sites I instinctively typed into my address bar without even thinking about it. I've visited this site so many times over the last ten years its a force of habit. But when I saw the virus warning a couple of months ago I knew it was the end for AGN.

Its been a good run. I'm glad the boards made it to ten years and I really enjoyed reading a lot of your posts. I'm sure I'll still check here every one in awhile while the boards continue to remain up, but I pretty much consider the boards dead at this point.

Thanks for a well-written goodbye, Atma.

[MottZilla]

I just noticed the attack site warning went away because I got an email for a reported post today. It's nice that it seems to be cleared up. But it's still going to be about the same as before i imagine.

[The_Amaster]

I've never gotten an attack site problem...

Man, I probably haven't been around here in a year or more. This place was such a huge part of my life when I was in my mid-teens. Some of the coolest people I've met on the internet posted here. Now...I barely check in anymore. Its a bit melancholy, certainly.

The grand irony being that ZC is probably finally closer to a stable release then it has been since like 2008

[callitaday]

I've never gotten an attack site problem...

Man, I probably haven't been around here in a year or more. This place was such a huge part of my life when I was in my mid-teens. Some of the coolest people I've met on the internet posted here. Now...I barely check in anymore. Its a bit melancholy, certainly.

The grand irony being that ZC is probably finally closer to a stable release then it has been since like 2008

More like 2002. :3

[Master Ghaleon]

Well AtmaWeapon sad to see ya go but I know exactly what you are saying. AGN for me years ago was my life. Always when I got home from work or when I woke up I always logged in to see whats going on. Made new friends on here and even dated a girl from here too! This place was the spot for me and then something changed. AGN used to be very active with members then all the sudden poof. I think what happened is the majority of AGN were young members and when they got older they stopped coming here. Either cause they got jobs or they got a gf/bf and didn't have time for AGN anymore. I used to be very active here but hell I got so many things I gotta get done in my life its somewhat hard for me to log in once in a while to see whats going on. About 95 percent of the people that I used to talk to here have vanished. It's a shame really.

[SquallLionheart]

Wow, names I recognize in this thread. I am amazed that people still pop in every now and again.

I was a 12 year old little twerp when I joined this group and now I'm 23, married, and I'm in college for video game design. People say time flies, but holy crap.

If there's anything that a classic member can do to help, just let me know. After all, I'm one of the few remaining members of The Order of the Phoenix - heh.

[MasterSwordUltima]

I was a 12 year old little twerp when I joined this group and now I'm 23, married, and I'm in college for video game design. People say time flies, but holy crap.

Same here. Except - I was engaged for a while, not anymore [all for the better]. I came here looking for RPG Maker 2000 tiles, found Zelda Classic - found it to be an amazing program. Still never completed a single quest [whether that be creating one, or playing a custom one]. Then I started up that fancy ol' Mage Point Question stuff [MPQ, yeah]. That got pretty interesting, especially when we started doing the Megaman forum battle stuff - a neat forum based pseudo battle system. Then the first incarnation of Shattered Earth came about, and I think I dated an imaginary person - granted I was like 14? That was definitely the weirdest part of my adolescence. [Only KJAZZ can really confirm whether hyper was real or not, really - fucking weird].

Then Shattered Earth shut down a few times, and I got a real girlfriend - [actually, I remember her and I playing it when it came back up for a while years later]. Anyway, then I got more and more into military re-enacting [considering I can't join due to an autoimmune disease I have], and as of the past few months I've really gotten into photography, which I am incredibly passionate about.

I still wonder what happened to some of the older members; Cyclone, TSA, Prrkitty, Eckels, etc.

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[edit]I guess I can't even change my grody avatar and signature? :\ [/edit]

[mrz84]

[QUOTE=MasterSwordUltima;440345] Then I started up that fancy ol' Mage Point Question stuff [MPQ, yeah]. That got pretty interesting, especially when we started doing the Megaman forum battle stuff - a neat forum based pseudo battle system. /QUOTE]

I remember those. Those were pretty fun figuring out the answers to. And I remember helping out with a Final Fantasy kinda battle thing too... Now I sound like an old man..... :sweat: