Archeopterix has got to be the most.....er....colorful....old timer. I've seen (I always thought her) post within the last year or so, but not so much lately.
Now there's a dinosaur for you, if you ever did see one. :tongue:

Archie is often around, and yes it is a girl. You can usually find her on #elderscrolls.

I keeps coming around because I's so senile I keeps forgotting I don't like this forum.

I come back because gamesas have been releasing consistently good titles, for the last decade. That and I love to read the users' speculation about up and coming TES games, with such a rich lore the topics can get pretty interesting, speculative or not. The place is pretty friendly to boot.



Cripes, Archie is still around? I remember... she used to pop up in threads like that Toasty guy from Mortal Kombat 2.
It's good to see some of the old users are still active.

It's the search button... really, it's a trap! Once you want to use it, you have to register and than Boom! You're trapped! For all readers that are not members yet:
Don't get under the spell of the search button!

I love this forum, I seriously do.

I used to frequent the Bungie forums quite a bit. But then, they turned bad. Really bad. The only thing the Bungie forums are good for is arguing about Armor Lock and flaming the crap out of people who don't deserve it.

This forum really is awesome. I've been here for a good few months now, and I haven't been baited into a flame war ONCE. Coming from the Bungie forums, I actually really like that the mods keep things strict. It will ensure that this forum will go on as long as Bethesda does.

Edit: Plus I was a lurker here for a good 5 years. So it's about friggin time I finally just made an account.

i joined long ago just came back.

I've been spending alot of time on the Bungie fourms since Reach was released, and it has really made me miss here.

and @ HARVEYtheDAMNED: I still hate Armor Lock. It really is an abomination. Kidding. I couldn't resist. Although I do kind of hate it though.

Because this forums is like the last bastion of hope for the non-idiots of the internet.

hehe, I second that. :sb:

I joined back in 2007 and I am glad to see the community has remained a mostly polite place to discuss opinions and ask questions about your current playthrough.

Morrowind led me here, and the modding community, and now there's Skyrim.

I reckon having so many people stick around is half the reason this place keeps the... environment it has. Helps to indoctrinate newcomers, you could say . In regards to "fish"y sticks, well, other memes have succeeded it, I suppose. Can't bring that sort of thing back, it just becomes a hollow ghoul, bereft of the meanings it once had.

Oh, and have tasty sconce, baked fresh!


Are you saying we're faeries? :stare:


The need to keep things PG-13 has been frustrating for some people, too (not for bad reasons, just that it can constrain various artistic and sciency discussions, for example). But for most people, restricted topics/content don't come up enough to be a significant problem.

It should be said that mods (individually, usually) are sometimes willing to babysit a potentially problematic thread, when they have the time and energy to do so. They're not out to ruin our fun, they've simply got higher priority tasks to do with their unpaid, volunteered time .


Like that, is it? :hubbahubba:

EDIT: Later on I'll post a little more, stuff I was going to say before I went and typed out replies to a bunch of quotes .

2002? 2005? 2006? 2008!?

Pffft! Amateurs!

Back in my day we had to post using smoke signals, uphill both ways, in the snow!

There are very few people on the forums who can make me feel like a noob :hehe:

Tell me, Mr. Donner, is that single-image placeholder site you speak of the special holiday edition, with Santa Claus standing in front of the gaping, molten maw of Dagoth Ur?

Whoa, hold the phone... So, like, in just under two months, it'll be twelve years since I joined up here? Unreal. Geez.

If I find that old Zip disk buried in my closet somewhere, I may be able to find the ICQ chatlog that brought me here.

I just love all of you.

...Wow, an uber veteran moderator.

It is threads like this that make me feel ashamed of my join date....

[ass kissing] And the reason I think is because of the great job our moderators do [/ass kissing]

I'm pretty sure it was http://www.imperial-library.info/content/page-17 here. Maybe http://www.imperial-library.info/content/page-10, it's been a long time.


Do you also need to find a Zip drive?

Don't think I don't have a Zip drive!

It's the AC adapter for said Zip drive that I'm missing...

But they have some internal Zip drives on some of the editing stations at school, so I could always borrow one of those.

And I thought I was showing my age!

I still have all of the photos GT posted of the Morrowind release party but they're quite a bit younger than your ICQ logs.

Technically I been here since 2005. But I don't remember the password nor email associated with my old account XD.

This forum generally has a much more mature and nicer population then most other game forums. I am not a very active poster on here but I am usually still reading here on a daily basis and have been for over 6 years now.

I've been a member on this forum since it started way back, under several different user names over the years. I find that out of all of the forums I'm a member of, this is the most civil, respectful and well moderated. However I feel It has gone downhill somewhat since Oblivion was released and the moderators have had to become more heavy handed, in some cases stepping over the mark imo (but then the troll rate hase increased significantly). This forum still outdoes just about any in civility though (except for maybe the DaggerXL forums wich are by far the best).

Holy crap.

Hungry Donner, you're a giant new player.

EDIT: I see the old autocensor is still in effect.