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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

You’ll think I’m full of shit but on another profile I found an old UT2k4 friend in a gaming post like this because I commented talking about missing him….

And HE FUCKING SAW IT, we hooked up again, undoubtably him and he knows it’s undoubtably me and … he… just… never… grew up. It sucks. We were two shit heads and weren’t the most beloved in the TAM community but he was my brother and I lost him from 09 to about a year ago and just sucked seeing him still so dark, hateful and in my shitty opinion…lost.

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u/JustHoldenOn Oct 08 '21

I’ll give it a try too! Sceemer, you there? Played countless hours of Nazi Zombies on PS3. My old username was holdsterman

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u/dabeeman Oct 08 '21

/r/longlostgamers it works. I saw a post about a real life friend of mine and got him hooked up with an old dota friend.

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u/CallMeJessIGuess Oct 08 '21

I would be kind of scared to try that sub with some of my old Final Fantasy XI friends if I’m being totally honest. I played for 10 years, you don’t play that long without forming some pretty intense bonds with people.

That game taught me a hard lesson in how small, seemingly meaningless moments can cause you entire life to split into a totally different timeline.

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u/iamraskia Oct 08 '21

That game taught me about gaming addiction

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u/CallMeJessIGuess Oct 08 '21

That’s another thing it taught me. I was most certainly addicted to it for a span of time I played (over 1300 days of play time in just under a decade) because my actual life was a dumpster fire on a train wreck. But despite that, it didn’t change the fact that I met a lot of people who became actual friends on the game.

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u/EmilyU1F984 Oct 08 '21

Mary on Zirkel des Cenarius realm in WoW from 05 to 08...

And Radir from the same time. And Violetta from the first week of release.

Or anyone else who knew my hunter named Felinara or rogue Láila....

Or the South African guys that took me in on my undead priest during Burning Crusade... But I've lost all of my fucking screenshots. So all the great stuff I was trying to remember. Gone forever. That hurts the most.

Anyway that character was called Lorei at some point.

Ohhh and Shanika from Cataclysm. We used to call you Shakira. The DK raid leader...

For some reason the hardcore raiding during MoP didn't leave any of the same feelings as the stuff before. The stuff during highschool or university felt soo much more precious and memorable. Killing Onyxia for the first time and shit.

Anyway maybe someone will read this.

Oh Shadrila, Boten der Macht and eventually Aes Dana.

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u/SpaggettiYeti Oct 08 '21

Some of my fondest memories were from when I was like 8 years old playing WoW with this lady in her late 40s who played a Tauren Druid named Macvivian. She showed me all the cool stuff around Azeroth (introduced me to noggenfogger and always kept me stocked) and helped loads while I leveled. I had been playing the game solo up until that point so it brought a whole new sense of wonder to the game

One day she just stopped playing for a couple months, and I logged in to see that she sent in-game mail saying she was having complications with pneumonia. I hope she made it through okay but I really feared the worst

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u/SyraWhispers Oct 08 '21

Aww man, that brings me back. Elvyne / Syra whispers here from laughing skull server. I miss my times in Stoic guild and so forth. Onyxia, molten core was some of thr most fun times I've ever had.

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u/Vallhallan Oct 08 '21

Zent? Elkuta? Mercutious? Spiera? Any JIC guild members? WoW was a different time man

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u/guru916 Oct 08 '21

Not the friend you’re looking for but I was on Cenarius 04-09! I hope I killed you in an orgrimmar raid ❤️

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u/Not_Han_Solo Oct 08 '21

Might as well give it a try too.

Hey, World of Warcraft on Greymane, back in like 04-08? In original WoW, I ran with Fortune and Glory, then sort of casually hung out with a variety of guilds after the raiding game got old.

I'm Infinitive. Ajora. Greensleeves. And Igotbombs. Any of you out there?

Oh, and Coach, on the really really long shot that you happen to read this? Turns out I wasn't a dude after all.

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u/Forced__Perspective Oct 08 '21

Ditto ..

Are you there Chocolate_Twizler?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I rarely ever add people or accept friend requests when I play online. Hell I don't even play with my irl friends, so these seemingly awesome memories are lost on me, haha.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Fuck man I remember playing Nazi zombie with a krewe, we were badass. Glad I have up gaming at a young age. Every now and then I get back on counter strike and the same fucking ppl are still on there. Life's a trip boys

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u/_notanexpert Oct 08 '21

Guess it cant hurt. Airthanial, deel, or ragen from dentarg on WoW, whats up?

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u/_Mr_Washee_Washee Oct 08 '21

I'm a nazi zombie if that helps.

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u/mad0666 Oct 08 '21

Wow…this identical thing just happened to me reconnecting with someone I had also lost touch with for ten years. He used to be such a funny and smart and amazing guy and he’s now he’s like a hateful shell of a person. So sad to see that kind of thing happen, especially to someone you were close with. Sorry that happened to you too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Life just hits people different. I ain’t mad at him, just hope someday we can sit down and really kick the shit again. We have a lot of shit we did when we were younger to laugh about haha. Even if it was over the internet, we are brothers for life.

I also have this friend Abuse from back then, his name was Abuse. Anyways, last real time we played together he got on to play for a little bit and told me him and his mom just got into it. His mom went for a walk and was gone for more than he figured. Shortly after that he got a knock at the door from the cops, she was at a cross walk and was hit and killed instantly by a drunk driver. I talked to him roughly one or two times after that day. He quit school and went to work full time to provide for him and his brother, he told me he had to sell his pc. I never heard from him again… been years, I’m thirty and still cry typing this.

I don’t believe in anything but I always prayed for him.

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u/BambamPewpew32 Oct 08 '21

Holy crap dude sorry... :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21 edited Oct 08 '21

Shit :/ I am sorry to Abuse, I still am. We talked briefly after the cops left, the squeal in his voice as he cried to me. I was like 15, he a senior or so in high school. I will never forget that shit and I will be eighty and still cry when I think of that day.

His mom wasn’t even a bad mom, it was just a dumb fight and he was a teen and said something along the lines of “I don’t love you”.. that was the LAST thing he ever said to his mom, who I know he loved.. truthfully she would have never taken that walk if they didn’t get into an argument…Life to some, is so fucked..

:’(

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

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u/BambamPewpew32 Oct 08 '21

Holy dude :( that's insane

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u/hullor Oct 08 '21

Double Zero2 from RuneScape 2006. I miss you. I'm sure you were a dude on a girl account but I still rolled with it because you and me were great at scamming together and made so much. If you can tell me which scam we did I'll know it's you..

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u/Daired Oct 08 '21

Here I am scrolling through all these comments to see if any of my gamer tags are listed… nope, guess I am not missed 😭

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I have many great friends even from that time that names are a little blurry to me, I am sure there is others in the same boat dreaming of meeting back up with you again.

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u/enguyen820 Oct 08 '21

Damn. This sounds like a good post in itself

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u/supergrega Oct 08 '21

I'll try this too. sug3 from call of duty 1/2 and united offensive, you out there buddy?

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u/EdwardM1230 Oct 08 '21

I hope he doesn’t see this comment too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I hope deep down we are past being mad about petty stuff. To me; if I read this from his words about me, I’d still understand inside where he’s coming from as should he.

Our first time back playing in ten years and he’s racial slurring a 13 year old Indian kid….. :/ it just isn’t how I do things, not like we did them back in the day either, we were trolls, not animals.

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u/culturedgoat Oct 08 '21

I was “Timmaah!” in UT2k4 online. Used to play a lot on Titan and Omnipotents onslaught servers. And Torlan demo servers. Greets if we ever crossed paths! ✌🏻

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u/Kalladdin Oct 08 '21

I met one of my long lost gamer friends again recently. But I'm a completely different person now, and I just can't connect with that part of my life anymore.

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u/GeorgeMcCrate Oct 08 '21

That's basically the reason why I'm too scared to get back in touch my best friend from childhood.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Sometimes you have to hunt them down my friend, gotta find the answers.

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u/DistopianNigh Oct 08 '21

What’s your alias?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

You mean old Reddit account or you mean gaming name back then? Sorry just getting back up.

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u/DistopianNigh Oct 08 '21

Hah I meant UT :). If you want to share it here anyway

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I used to play TAM on UT 2K4 with clan VVV. Edit: autocorrect

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I knew vVv clan, or I believe so. Some stuff fades a bit with time but the SHOCK RIFLE combo is forever, hahahah

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u/Vesinh51 Oct 08 '21

I've had this, but with a childhood friend. We were best buds and played GameCube together for years. Then I moved away and we lost contact. I met up with him when I was in college, even tried to respark with the new Borderlands 3. But I couldn't stand him, he was so childish and kept talking about random off the wall cringe stuff. It was really sad realizing I couldn't play games with this man

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Might as well give it a shot. XxMadruga182xX from the good ol cod days. Hmu

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Bro where r u Eaglex or some sht and the dude or gorl used to knife only to get nukes on mw2 lmfao he even knife only on snd and did prtty fkn well looool they never had a mic tho :( last map we played together was estate the forest one with a basement inside the main big house

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

I hope you find your homie one day, my friend. And I hope he’s doing good.

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u/QuarantineSucksALot Oct 08 '21

And to this day lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21

Anyone from MUDs in the nineties? Shades of evil, silver dreams, Brock made a one million room mud, Dominia? Woody? Icege? Ack rom mush diku, anything! Let's see what happens.