My post count is entirely coincidental.
Yeah, I'm not bullshitting you. For all the shit it recives about noobs, spammers, fags, and various other heinous crimes, I love you, NGBBS.
Looking back at two and a half years, I’ve certainly come far. What a milestone. Now, this is going to sound like an awfully long tribute speech, and yes, that’s what it is. So if you want to ignore it and just post a quick congrats or whatever, be my guest. But I wasted my 10,000th post, and I’m not going to let this milestone by without naming some of my greatest friends on this fine community.
Despite how fed-up I appear with his thread-whoring, I still love him. He’s supported me, he’s an absolute laugh to have around, and almost all his threads are pure gold. His dedication to Newgrounds BBS is much higher than a lot of people here, almost fanatical. The way that he spent around 5 hours a day on NGBBS while on holiday is only a testament to this. I may have 10,000 more posts than him, but he’s the regular to watch. The next Ozcar, except with more grammar and less lawnmowers.
Iamnone probably will never read this, as he’s currently in the army in whichever country he calls his own, and I wish him the best of luck in that. But he after the Muffin Clan was locked, and the top 100 posters was locked (You bastard, dobio >:U), I didn’t have any place to call my home. Got chatty with Iamnone, he showed me, amongst various places, The Alliance, and the C&C Regulars Lounge. He was the one who drove me to improve my sig making to SSM quality. To Iamnone, you rock. No other way to say it.
The Alliance
That brings me neatly onto The Alliance, or what is left of it. It used to be an awesome place. You can’t mention spam without the Alliance popping up these days, and maybe we have sunk quite far, but I remember back when the chatter there used to be about things going on on NG, not about how NG is ghey and sucks dic. Now The Alliance sucks, to be blunt, but I check there now and then in the hopes that it will return to its former self at some point. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic, I don’t know.
Bahamut is a great regular. Helpful, active in all areas, he’s a bastion of mixing good deeds with those regular attitudes. Perhaps misses the marks on some jokes every now and then, and sometimes a bit too “good-samaritan” sometimes, but he deserves more respect than he sometimes gets. He’s a great lud. Don’t know how much he’s influenced me as such, but he’s a great guy
Hoaders
He appeared on Newgrounds around a year ago, and he’s one of the greatest guys here. He makes amazing sigs, he’s funny, he’s up for a bit of gay bum-fun with the guys at the CS:S clan thread. From last summer, where he could barely open photoshop, to being one of the greatest sig-making talents on Newgrounds, I owe him a lot. Just for him being great.
The Sinister Sig Makers
From being my idols, to my mentors, to my friends and companions, the SSM has always been a big part of Newgrounds for me. The original SSM, the ISM, then the SSMR, which I was fortunate enough to be a part of until its recent lock. I helped make signatures for those who can’t afford or don’t have the time to photoshop for themselves, and most importantly, I had fun (I'll come back to this point later) I completely respect Juggernaut’s choice to lock the thread, if you’re not having fun making sigs, then you shouldn’t be making them at all.
Cool_Penguin_0
Great guy. Shame he’s from Liverpool, but can’t win em all. He’s hilarious, I made my first (and last) half-decent flash with him, and he’s still great. He's a comic genius. Love and kisses.
Cap123
He showed me Newgrounds in that fateful summer of 2003, and while he doesn’t post anymore, he’s such a character and so influential in my early actions on Newgrounds. Big heart if you’re reading this, Chris.
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And lastly, but not in any way, shape, or form least, I am in debt to all the members of the Muffin Clan
Only a handful remain active on the forums, off the top of my head dave and Maus spring to mind first, but -Rocket- was fairly active till recently, wondereyes comes and goes, but to be perfectly honest, every single member affected me in some way. Running a massive spam-fest of a crew was no easy feat, and along the way I learnt some valuable leadership skills that dare I say might have even rubbed off on me in real life, one of the only positive outcomes of my stay on the internet.
More than anything, the Muffin Clan meant a lot to me, a lot more than anything on the internet ever could. I may sound like a right faggot, but seriously, I loved the Muffin Clan. I didn’t fight back at the lock, because in all honesty, it was right to be locked. I posted in the Muffin Clan so much, it was unbelievable. I took care of situations, I made my first sigs, I negotiated agreements, set up competitions, and I feel better for it.
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People who didn’t quite make the list, but still count to me a lot: Lost_Chances, Ledgey, Newgrounds Counterstrike: Source Clan, SlipperyMooseCakes, Maus, DanAbnormal, Tom_s00, Nucko
Other people worthy of mention: DeckHeadTottie, Mick_The_Champion, HilariousGenocide, Earfetish, Rabid_Echidna, and all of the other Newgrounders on my MSN contacts list.
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