Tuesday, February 17, 2004

The Newbie Lounge
The Newbie Lounge: you can see it, there. You can't get into it, unfortunately [or fortunately, depending on how you look at it], but you can see it.

Now, as some of you might know, Sere and I made up what was [after the "Who do you most respect", thread, I believe] "Newbie Forum Patrol". We had the Weapons of Justice, and "thwapped" whoever got out of line. We went along and posted in every introduction thread in the forum. And I mean every. All in all, I would have posted in around 130 threads by the time it closed down.

Along for the ride were my now long time friends Ashy, Mo, Dan. Circeus was there, too, I believe, with his socks. ^.~ And there were many more that I got on very well with, but have lost contact with since then, especially since I've changed rather a lot, heh.

The Newbie Lounge was also where my nickname -- Rae -- formed. Sere Tuscumbia had been reading SYF: Garrotted Threats, which I was involved in at the time. My character in that RPG was Raellyra Stanton. Now, this RPG, [created by Liamc2], was heavily based on reality, so it was a deal where you could use your own name. I didn't, obviously. However, Sere thought that I had, and started calling me Rae in the Newbie Lounge. That caught on, and everyone in the NL started calling me Rae. I figured it was easier to get them to call me that than to explain it all, so I went along with it. Eventually, the name filtered out of the NL, so most people knew me as Rae. It's only lately that people have started calling me other names, heh, and Rae has been forgotten, almost.

But yes. I do have fond memories of the NL, however it's obvious that it had to go. Even I knew it was spammilicious, and I was in love with it. It's abscence made OB a better site, and I know I matured a lot since it died.

So I don't think I'd take it back if I had the chance, heh.