In hindsight, joining The Bore was fate.

[thisismyusername]

I was better off before discovering internet forums

I've been posting on internet forums since 2000.

Look at this figgurt thinking that's old.

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1995-ish or so, probably earlier. Forgetting the year. I've spent 20 years or so of my life posting on internet forums.

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[chronovore]

This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.

[Trurl]

This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.

Should this place raise its profile by leaving trails of breadcrumbs at GAF or is it better to stay secret?

[Human Snorenado]

This whole place is just a nostalgia trip of old buds, I probably shouldn't even be here. Feels like I'm invading a private space.

Naw, every place needs new blood. You're it now. Shit, I was the new blood here at one time. People come and go, that's the hard part to swallow.

Should this place raise its profile by leaving trails of breadcrumbs at GAF or is it better to stay secret?

If you don't give a shit about your GAF account, sure.

I'd say no regardless, though, as who wants your average GAFFER shitposting all over the place.

[Rufus]

Message boards are only readable when they're small, but they also teeter at the edge of the void. 

[Momo]

I'd love a couple of more Europeans here that posts during my at-work-and-bored time.

[thisismyusername]

When I was a 15 year old (pretending to be a 21 year old) dude I cybered a lot with a 30 year old woman on AOL who in retrospect was probably a 50 year old guy.

Hey it's me, your cyberpartner.

[Kara]

A front is GAF (shitty Sony consoles, pedophiles). The Bore is a Taco Bell enthusiast site.

[Phoenix Dark]

Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

[chronovore]

Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

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There's more than that: Bebpo has a real job, Andrex has made multiple movies, we managed get Atra out from FemAtra phase and walk him through his first awkward sexual encounter, and Vestal has left Earth to rejoin the Moon People that sent him to save us.

[Cerveza mas fina]

wasnt willco trying to make it in hollywood?

[Let's Cyber]

GAF originally, looked it up after posters were talking about "that other board". So maybe 8 or 9 years ago?  Been lurking for a long time on and off but was too chickenshit to sign up for an account. Came for the GAF meta commentary, stayed for the community.

I find it hilarious "thebore" is still censored on GAF. 

[jakefromstatefarm]

Esch and I were talking about PD's taste in porn and he told me to check out the nsfw thread here

And the rest is history.

[Joe Molotov]

Then I was gonna leave too but Jack Remington sent me a PM begging me to stay and keep posting political stuff.

leper Jack Remington

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

i was shitposting AND moderating a video game related forum at least as far back as 98

Same here.  I've been shitposting since I was 12 back in 1998 and was a moderator when I was 14.  I quit being a moderator because I no longer cared about the e-cred.  It's why I laugh at how the GAF moderators act about their unpaid entirely voluntary "job" as a moderator.

[Shuri]

I'm pretty sure that Jim dude gave the forum to Evilore, it was getting too expensive/complicated/big to run. Lore ran into all sorts of problems that nearly killed the forum, i remember when they ended up hosted by IGN for a while, who was like OMG WE WILL NEVER ABANDON GAF and then after a while, super shitty popups started and it was a wild time and one day they moved to their own server.

i started posting on GAF in 2000 or so, during the dreamcast heydays. I started posting on message boards in 1993 or 1994, on local bbs systems, this shit was like crack to me, I would get into huge arguments with people.

I think willco msged me on irc/#ga or maybe on the forums, or was it demi?  I remember when we would all hang out on irc and play uno on the 360, and I would chat with demi and cloudwalking on msn from times to times. Demi was cool, cloudwalking was very refreshing.

This was before  she met Jarosh online. I remember trying to taunt demi to go meet her, I think they eventually met but stayed friends. I think. Didn't Willco try to get into show business?

This feels like a lifetime ago. You guys all changed nicknames and I don't know who is who.

I'm just not very active anymore on forums, life gets in the way, but I can be found on irc, at the same place. I miss the old forum culture and the knowledgeable people that used to post. The bore got me thru some rough times in my life.

I hope everyone is doing well!

[D3RANG3D]

I didn't even know this site existed until it was brought up on the borecast.

[demi]

i still have all the games morphix gave me for my birthday. what a nice guy.

[a slime appears]

When I turn on the internet explorer browser it used to go to yahoo.com but now it goes here?

Is this a new search engine? I need some banana recipes. Thank you, internet people.

[nudemacusers]

Consider the talent that came through our forum, and where they are now. Willco is an editor of a website, Cheebs is married to a woman, Shake is editing videos for a Chinese rapper, and TheBlackStallion is a porn star.

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TBS doing porn now? mollywater must have gone bust.  :'(

[Atramental]

If I recall correctly, TBS got beat out by another guy selling water with a very similar name but slightly different spelling. 

[Monochromatic]

I came across this place from just googling GAF because I'm a loser with nothing better to do in my life besides read about internet forum drama on a Saturday night.

I'd be embarrassed I was dumb enough to not notice I was posting in an incredibly old thread but ehh

[hampster]

I found GAF because of 1up Yours and found The Bore because of the Borecast / Cruncheons.

Now that GAF is dying the Cruncheons is no more, it's time to follow another gaming podcast into the ether

[Positive Touch]

retronauts mang

[Cryo]

I've been lurking this thread for so long that I don't even remember how I came across this site after being permed on GAF, but I'm glad y'all still exist while the many iterations of OA got chewed up and swallowed into progressively worse websites.

[jacob.armitage]

bumped an old thread by accident because I'm a special fellow

Seems somehow topical again.

[Cryo]

Did Copernicus ever make it over here? And can someone remind me of Squiddy's fate?

[Baiano19]

I don't even remember when I got here, but I was surprised by the amount of ex users and all ran by Demi.

Joe Molotov becoming a mod (who had a great point and click thread in the other forum) sealed the deal that this was a good place.

[thisismyusername]

Did Copernicus ever make it over here? And can someone remind me of Squiddy's fate?

Squiddy got ran out (and made EvilDemi which didn't go anywhere).

Eggman posted for a short-while, I pestered him for dick. He posted said dick (which I didn't get to see) and fucked off because demi or whoever (rightly so) banned him.

[demi]

It wasnt that impressive

[Diunx]

Don't even remember I think I joined after Dragona banned me for something and have been here for ten years now which is fucking unbelievable.

[TVC15]

I was one of the first people here. I was chatting with Willco and he told me his idea for the name of the forum, and he thought “evilbore” was ingenius and would drive Evilore crazy. I think I politely told him it was a good idea.

[agrajag]

I guess I'm a little LTTP here, but here's how I got on the bore

I used to lurk the old version of the site Evilbore for years. Not sure how I found it originally, but it amused me, and some of the posters were funny shits. Although it seems a lot of the people from Evilbore have left over the years. Kept lurking when it became the Bore and I think I lurked Bore for two or three years before I registered for an account, especially when they I saw they had a thread dedicated to GAF bitching. Started posting when I got my perma. 

[MMaRsu]

It was fate

[Arsene Lupin III]

Is demi free yet??

[AdmiralViscen]

I don't remember. I remember being on gaf when it was ga-forum.com or whatever, before neogaf. I remember thinking the demi ban was bullshit and joining here fairly early? I was on OA too so that might be how I knew. I feel like I'm one of the few who was here before they were banned lol

[Cerveza mas fina]

you told me a out it admiralviscen 

in like 07 or 08

[sinxtanx]

what bugs me is I'll never find out how I would get banned from NeoGAF

I guess it's fate

[Mochilador]

Is this our new home?

what bugs me is I'll never find out how I would get banned from NeoGAF

I guess it's fate

A little bit off-topic but I guess I remember when you got your tag on GAF. It was on a Sunset Overdrive thread, wasn't it?

[AdmiralViscen]

Is this our new home?

Depends on your thoughts on gentrification

[Rman]

Someone name dropped it.  I remember the Billy Rygar/Patel days.  I also remember the other Japanese/English teacher who used to post here.  He was really cool with Distantmantra.  I forget his name.  Kinda a drama queen or maybe it was a troll act.

[T-Short]

I was one of the first people here. I was chatting with Willco and he told me his idea for the name of the forum, and he thought “evilbore” was ingenius and would drive Evilore crazy. I think I politely told him it was a good idea.

 

[Great Rumbler]

Is demi free yet??

He was never truly caged.

[TEEEPO]

forgive me my friends for having lost faith

[Mochilador]

You can't fight your genes. It's fate.
All living things are born for the sole purpose of passing on their parents' genes.
That's why I'll follow what my genes tell me.

[bachikarn]

I don't remember at all how I found this place. Maybe Phoenix Dark? But apparently I have been here since 2006, which is kind of blowing my mind.

[Mochilador]

I don't remember at all how I found this place. Maybe Phoenix Dark? But apparently I have been here since 2006, which is kind of blowing my mind.

[injurai]

Esch told me about this place around the time gaf-hop was going to shit (2015), but this place moved to0 slow to stick around.

Then I caught wind of gaf's implosion and knew this was to place to return to for the deets. Probably will frequent less but this was always the better user culture compared to gaf.

[demi]

That's perfectly fine with me. Enjoy your stay in the meantime, thanks!

[Mandark]

IIRC, Mandark recommended this place after a particularly bullshit Dragona ban, which he had reversed with apologies. 

Mandark and I will probably not agree on much else ever, but his support for free speech is self-evident and commendable.

Aw, thanks.

As for my origin story, my account here exists because it does.

[SantaC]

Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

[agrajag]

Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

Member statuses are based on the quality of your posts here

 

[SantaC]

Got here in 2009 after i got permed at gaf. Why am I not a senior member yet

Member statuses are based on the quality of your posts here

 

But i am the same quality as mcdonalds and zelda

[Rahxephon91]

I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.

[SantaC]

I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.

I am sure you had alts

[Rahxephon91]

I wanted to get back to GAF, but in the end GAF came to me.

I am sure you had alts

I haven't had an alt on GAF for years.  5 years actually.

I mean if you look at my posting here. I don't actually post in the GAF thread much. It's mostly in the video game section and regrettably shitting up the relationship thread. I actually made the transition to the bore as my only forum years ago. It was rocky, but now that we have these infusion of posters I kind of hope they don't all stay(I would'nt mind the game section being more active) because I like that this is'nt neogaf.

I would still visit Neogaf to read some news threads and opinion threads, but I mostly found it it annoying to read and would'nt go past the first page.

[Huff]

If even rahx made the transition to regular contributor theres hope for all

Besides Dennis. Dudes a loser

[AdmiralViscen]

Mupepe post some porn

[demi]

I didnt actually start this forum. I took it when Jewco ran off to post clickbait articles on facebook banging his BBW girlfriend (now wife?)

[jakefromstatefarm]

Came here because of pd’s reputation in the nsfw thread. Stayed because of the gay subtext.