Hello

[Joseph Snapple]

Leandros messaged me on Steam so I figured I'd pop in. I was formerly highwind124/Joseph Stalin on GW but have opted for, uh, not really that second name as I can't really justify the joke at this point. I've noticed a lot of familiar names that are neat to see .

 

[Crystal]

Good to see you here @Joseph Snapple, and yeah, I can understand not wanting to pick that particular name, lol. Welcome Home

 

[shortkut]

Welcome @Joseph Snapple glad to see you here! @VashTheStampede will be very happy

 

[canadaguy]

Damn how's it going man

 

[Boots]

I love the new name. Good to see another familiar face!

 

[Cole]

wow. there's a name. sup man?

 

[VashTheStampede]

About time you showed up

 

[Mark]

Leandros messaged me on Steam so I figured I'd pop in. I was formerly highwind124/Joseph Stalin on GW but have opted for, uh, not really that second name as I can't really justify the joke at this point. I've noticed a lot of familiar names that are neat to see .

Welcome back, dude. Good to see you back. Somehow I remember both of your usernames.

 

[Tubby23]

Welcome back, I remember you, though I'm sure you don't remember me

 

[Raposuh]

Hay dood

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

If we twist your head do you give us fun facts?

 

[Tommy Boy]

STALIN!!!! Welcome back dude!!!! So glad to see you here!!

 

[shortkut]

If we twist your head do you give us fun facts?

You need to take his head off and look inside

 

[Mark]

Oh, and I added you to the old folk’s home, @Joseph Snapple.

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

I'm still going to call you Stalin.

 

[Andy]

You were always highwind to me even after the name change

 

[Joseph Snapple]

About time you showed up

Eeeehhhhhhh *shakes fist*

Welcome back, I remember you, though I'm sure you don't remember me

Name at minimum is familiar~

If we twist your head do you give us fun facts?

You get the equivalent of an owl pellet

Oh, and I added you to the old folk’s home, @Joseph Snapple.

You say this but it's 5PM and I've now been waiting 3 hours for dinner

I'm still going to call you Stalin.

Fair

 

[Joseph Snapple]

Keeping this a separate but general thing: even though I've largely fallen out of contact with a lot of folks as time passed and things changed (as they are obviously wont to do over a decade+ lol), I was always glad to see those of you on my steam/psn/etc friend lists online, even if it was just occasionally, and especially over the tumult of the last few years

 

[Mark]

You say this but it's 5PM and I've now been waiting 3 hours for dinner

@Boots or @aura seer are the resident meal service personnel.

 

[Crystal]

@Boots or @aura seer are the resident meal service personnel.

No one ever likes my cooking

 

[Mark]

No one ever likes my cooking

You burned ice cubes getting distracted with here.

 

[Crystal]

You burned ice cubes getting distracted with here.

Not my fault the water was flammable!

 

[shortkut]

 

[Olga]

Glad you changed my name, because, as an Eastern European, saying “I miss J S” performs some sort of violent act on my psyche.

I missed you! It’s good to see you here!

 

[Nae'blis]

You burned ice cubes getting distracted with here.

@Crystal s inspiration maybe?

And welcome home!

 

[Crystal]

@Crystal s inspiration maybe?

And welcome home!

Who doesn't want flamin hot corn flakes?

 

[Nae'blis]

Who doesn't want flamin hot corn flakes?

Darn tootin'!

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Another person to keep the Sports sub forum busy. Welcome back-o.

 

[Tirith]

Welcome to the better GW forums, I guess. I remember both names.

I have like nobody on PSN or Steam, so...

 

[Leandros?]

Leandros messaged me on Steam so I figured I'd pop in. I was formerly highwind124/Joseph Stalin on GW but have opted for, uh, not really that second name as I can't really justify the joke at this point. I've noticed a lot of familiar names that are neat to see .

Right on, right on

 

[Ben]

I don't think I ever knew you as highwind, but definitely the latter. It's nice to see how everyone has grown past the edgy teenage stuff.

I'm sure I had you on Steam until I went nuts and purged everyone, unless someone else had the same avatar. I can't recall ever actually playing anything together, though. My gut says it was around when I was hanging with Nick/marasamune every night.

Welcome back!

 

[Joseph Snapple]

I don't think I ever knew you as highwind, but definitely the latter. It's nice to see how everyone has grown past the edgy teenage stuff.

I'm sure I had you on Steam until I went nuts and purged everyone, unless someone else had the same avatar. I can't recall ever actually playing anything together, though. My gut says it was around when I was hanging with Nick/marasamune every night.

Welcome back!

I think I remember us playing WoW a bit on...maybe Anub'arak? around Cataclysm but I can't recall any additional overlap.

 

[Ben]

I think I remember us playing WoW a bit on...maybe Anub'arak? around Cataclysm but I can't recall any additional overlap.

Oh shit, maybe we did. That was definitely my server, and Cataclysm is around when I recall getting mara and DrLarry into playing it. Now you mention it I think I recall you being a hunter?

That was probably when the guild was called Strange Factory.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I remember Stalin playing a dwarf named Gimpedli

 

[Ben]

I remember Stalin playing a dwarf named Gimpedli

Yep, definitely recall that name now. But... Dwarf hunter would have meant Alliance, which I played to start with, so it must have been earlier than I thought. I was a Gnome warlock called Munstrum to start, then switched to a Tauren druid named Skelde.

Fuck... Did _you_ play WOW with me too, Vash? I remember playing Guild Wars with Christina and yourself, for sure, but not WOW.

I blame trying to block out those 6 years in SC from my memory, and weed having helped remarkably well.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I played for quite a while and I know I had characters on that realm but I don't know if it was concurrent with when you were playing...those names do sound  vaguely familiar though.

 

[Joseph Snapple]

Yeah I played Malygos Alliance primarily for ages then want to say I rolled Horde on Anub when Vash was there, I think? Strange Factory definitely rang some bells. I think I was playing a rogue there, Lostara was the name I believe, as well as a death knight named Gothos at some point.

 

[Ben]

Yeah I played Malygos Alliance primarily for ages then want to say I rolled Horde on Anub when Vash was there, I think? Strange Factory definitely rang some bells. I think I was playing a rogue there, Lostara was the name I believe, as well as a death knight named Gothos at some point.

I remember Malygos now. I was on that server when Burning Crusade came out as I recall rushing to hit new max level with my Gnome warlock and being proud I was among the earliest to get a flying mount. So it must have been vanilla or around then. I remember raiding Molten Core a lot. Zul'gurub, too. But I was also in some other random raiding guild I didn't run at one point, so that could have been with them.

Definitely regaining some foggy memories of Joe jumping around the Ironforge bank. And that makes me think I remember running around the Gnome/Dwarf starting zone probably with Vash, who I think was a dwarf warrior? Maybe paladin but I don't think you were human and those were the only race to start with.

I definitely server/faction/race transferred when that became available, and went Horde. Since we went from the same server to the same server I imagine it must have been a group decision, but I don't recall the names Lostara or Gothos.

 

[VashTheStampede]

On Malygos my main was a human Warrior, Caralexis I think the name was. But I had a tendency to roll alts like crazy. Never been a huge endgame min/max type in MMOs, I prefer the leveling experience. Dings just give that dopamine drip for me.

That said, the most fun I had in that game (or any MMO) was Wrath of the Lich King, running endgame dungeons with Stalin, Zio, Kat, and Christina, trying to farm my goddamn tanking shield.

 

[Ben]

I do recall the name Caralexis.

I'm beginning to think it was you guys I started playing with, but I then went to join a raiding guild to see the end game stuff. Supremacy, I think it was. Then that GM screwed everyone over and it dispanded.

I think Brig and I then might have joined a goon guild from SomethingAwful around Wrath until that crashed and I started my own. I don't think I ever played with Kat or Zio, so that must have been after I went to raid.

@Joseph Snapple did you ever play with marasamune or DrLarry? They're the two GW people (aside from Brig) that I really remember playing with towards the end. It might even have been after I left GW. But I'm fairly sure you were cool with that crowd, so maybe we did play around Cataclysm too.

I think it was during Mists of Pandaria that I quit playing entirely.

 

[Joseph Snapple]

Yeah I was cool with mara but God, I just cannot remember. Cataclysm was where I dropped the game because it just maxed out on toxicity, and didn't come back until way late into Mists (then dropped again after Legion, and FF14's done a good job making me not want to bother going back).

 

[Smacktard]

Hey man, glad we get the chance to reconnect. Can't wait to hear how you've been and play CS together again!

 

[ZandraJoi]

Leandros messaged me on Steam so I figured I'd pop in. I was formerly highwind124/Joseph Stalin on GW but have opted for, uh, not really that second name as I can't really justify the joke at this point. I've noticed a lot of familiar names that are neat to see .

Welcome! It's nice to meet you!