I check things out periodically.  I just rarely have anything to say.  I've always been the quiet, pacifist type.

They did mention that they may add more games soon...  I was surprised not to see more Sonic, though.

And hey, Xero.  Hope all is well!

Nice!  I'll probably get it just for the MMWW, although the Sonic games would be fun, too. 

Tell me about it...  I've owned MegaMan 9 and 10 now for a while, and still haven't had time to finish them.  It's sacrilegious!

Where's my apology!?

I'm joking.  I don't care.  In fact, it was probably me that destroyed your message board, not Speed, given that I destroyed those at least once a week back then.  God I was terrible.  I miss terrible me.  Now I'm so ... gentle.

You shouldn't disturb the dead...

I always felt that rule was inefficient.  

14 years ago today, "Delta" was born!  :D  And immediately started breaking rules.

I must say, Abe, that the combination of blue checkers and bright primary colours for the site design have always been inspirational for my own site designs.  Up until now I've had blue math webpages, with thick black borders, as if they were copied from a SNES game.  Good job!

And thus worthless.

At least our debit and credit cards have chips in them!

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

D'awwww...

Abe only sent me my personal messages, and maybe my posts.  I probably still have them somewhere.  I think I recall him commenting on how unusually large the file was...   But I don't think he ever sent me a backup of the forums themselves: Matrix is his, forums and site, and I wasn't allowed to have them. :P

I probably have records of our AIM conversations, though, Jaap.

By the way.  http://www.megaman.co.uk/mboard/index.php?topic=52.msg61426#msg61426

He probably wrote that himself.

Edit: http://wotn.atspace.org/   That's his website.  It used to have a chat attached.

I refused to watch the last season of Breaking Bad.  As far as I'm concerned, it ended with the fourth (I think) season. 

I saw him several years ago, somewhere.  I might be able to find him again if I can find some time.  I think he has/had his own website, with a chatroom.

I don't have a facebook account and I will never get one.

SO HA!

I noticed.

Facebook is also good if you read a lot of articles/news online.  Generally, you can't read everything posted on the internet, so you just focus on a few blogs are news sites.  But with Facebook, you can post interesting articles, and your friends will also do the same.  Often times you and some friends will be interested in the same thing, and so you can get a lot of information that way without have to wade through useless crap.

That said, you do get a lot of ##### like game-invitations, ads, people "liking" things when in fact they probably never did (it's just Facebook advertising), etc.  You can control this somewhat with your feed-options; otherwise, you just learn to ignore this and search for the important stuff.

I don't even know what Slayers is...  I just thought the Red Priest/Rez was a character from some anime.

This could very well be Voulnet pretending to be Metty, dressed up in a green T-shirt and Met helmet!  But very well...  I don't have the energy anymore to actually check.  It's easier just to believe.

METTY!  HI!  What have you been doing all of these years?

I have a friend who has a phone with a stylus.  The phone is slightly larger than an ordinary smartphone, though.  A Galaxy something-or-other, I think.  She has a purse, so she just carries the phone and stylus around in that.  Imagine.  Purses.  Clearly we all need to be carrying them around.

: Delta  10 February 2013, 21:27:12

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

They couldn't do a Google search for your area and go from there?

Hey.  They're still getting used to "cut-and-paste" on a computer!  Besides, I don't want gift-cards.  Why restrict where I can spend money, if I could have more freedom with cash?  It's not like a gift-card is somehow more thoughtful.  At least I don't think it is.

I'm somewhat disappointed with my Nexus 7 for taking hand-written notes.  I find it fairly difficult to get it to detect subtle movement of the stylus.  I'm not sure if the Nexus just isn't good enough for that sort of thing, or if my stylus sucks.  My tablet laptop used to be able to handle my hand-writing, but now the hardware always fails after a few minutes of using a stylus (I will never buy an HP laptop again...).

Anyone else have any thoughts on just simple note-taking on (portable) tablets, like Nexusees or iPads?  This might be something I eventually would like to have.

Prove that you are whom you claim to be!

I eat the flesh of students that fail.

Some wines, especially white wines, are fantastic.  Very little alcoholic taste.  And beer does smell bad.  And often tastes bad, too (I'm not a fan of hops).  I drink it for the social effect.

And now I don't think I can ever go back to just one.  At least not when I'm working.

I love my Legends games.  I sleep with them.  Naked.  When I have bad dreams, and I wake up in terror, I only need to reach out and touch them, caressing their smooth plastic cases, knowing that they are there and all is well.

Actually, this wasn't too far from the truth at one time.  In fact, this guy here is watching me type this [see pic attached].  A gift from an old internet friend.

Here are the pics to prove it!

Edit: huh...  never knew that would happen with a dual screen.

I'm imaging the following:

"Hey...  Hey man.  Do...  Do you...  You...  Do you still love me, man?  Do you love me?  Because I love you.  I love you so much.  We're like.  Best friends.  Significence.  Significent friends.  Do you love me?  Do you even like me?  You stupid ####.  After all I've done.  Do you even...  ####!"

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

I can get silly depending on the group of people that I'm around, and also depending on what I'm drinking.  Red wine puts me to sleep, but beer (2, in fact), makes me all buzzzzzzzzzzed.

Got some money with which I used to go and buy some much-needed new pants (boring).  New shirt.  Bluetooth headphones.  Some other nice things, too.  I'm apparently a hard person to buy for, especially when the conversation goes like:

"What do you want for Christmas this year?"

"Nothing.  You don't need to buy me anything.  Seriously."

"No really, what would you like?"

"No really, don't."

I used to not drink.  And then I had some beer once.  The substance was disgusting (it was a bad brand and tasted like stale bread), but my eyes were opened, and I awoke to see a whole new world!

Yesterday I had some red wine (Zinfandel), and put some Capt. Morgan's Spiced Rum in my latte while watching the latest Batman movie.

The night before that I was at a party where I had various beers from Quebec, more red wine, and some Canadian maple whiskey.  It was Canadian night at my friends' place, so we had homemade poutine and nanaimo bars, too.  I have been described as a "fun drunk", whatever that's supposed to mean...

In fact, I feel a slight headache coming on at the moment, and my solution for that is an Advil, and some rum mixed in with coffee.

I might finally bite the bullet of social media when I get a Nexus 7 at christmas but I just hate it...

(Got surprised when I got some Yeahs on my crap drawings in Miiverse though!)

If I ever see you on Facebook, I will donate $100 to a charity of your choice.

I just bought a Nexus 7.  I don't use it much for social media; mainly for a work-related e-reader that has the ability to email.  But it has lots of other things available for it.  Basically a giant smartphone minus the phone.

I can't believe I posted this over one year ago.

Hmm... I'll have to hunt the old ones, unless Delta still has his *ahem* catalog.

Managed to find them in a 2003 backup.

Me in 2002 (a year after joining Matrix!), then in 2009, then just last night.  I lost my beard.  And later gained some scruff.

Whatever it was, it was fun. After all, it was the years of Matrix and the net was still a lawless void where you could be whatever you wanted. Residual self-image and #####.

Yeah, it was definitely fun.  A lot of it was abundantly idiotic, but laughs were had.  At the expense of others, usually.

I'm sure I have them on my backup harddisk somewhere.

And people had online personas.

Yeah, what was with that, anyway?  I always thought it was a bit weird.  Even though I certainly had one, too.  Probably MySpace, Facebook, and so on got rid of that pretty fast.

Delta and Hazard thought I WAS Nall when I joined.  Good times.  I still miss the Mega Man Avatars though.  I was Grenade Man!

That's probably how we started talking in the first place...

That's the best kind!

Now you get to be exposed to my "controversial" posts about atheism, homosexuality, and casual sex!  :D

Well, it wasn't hard to find you given that you asked to join the FB group. 

I keep looking for the "like" button...

Happy 30th, Abe.

Who knew ten years ago that ten years later you would be ten years older.

I want nothing to do with it and in no way approve of it.

Never saw that coming...

I don't use facebook so I can't see it, but I'd appreciate it if you'd change the name to have nothing to do with this site.

Okay.  It appears that whoever created the group has changed its name to something no one will ever associate to MegaMan Matrix.  Everyone can live happily ever after.

Of course, only those with Facebook accounts can join.  :P

Aside from the fact you pretty much go on Facebook as you.

I wouldn't exactly say I'm "me" on Facebook.  In real life I'm not nearly so ... vocal or something?  I'm a lot more considerate of other people's feelings, too.  The arrogance does carry over, though, slightly.

I'm also not as self-absorbed on Facebook and in real life as I am on Matrix.  Somehow that just became part of ... "Delta".  e.g. this very conversation.  Must be the blue checkers. 

My interest in real people is nil, hence my lack of Facebook...

Maybe you should move to a real city and meet new people.

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Ever since I decided I'm definitely going into the comedy business, I just dropped any handles and just started plastering my actual name wherever I posted. I still use the initials as a handle sometimes, but that's it.

I recall watching one of your acts.  Something about not being able to smell?  It was funny.

Ah, Hazard, it's been a while.  How are ye?

Interestingly enough, I did find the other roughly 20 comics on another CD.  I can post them if anyone is in suspense of what happens next!

The newer ones are way better, and yes, are also older than dirt.  Which says as much about me...  I can't even grow a beard anymore; too much grey.

So I decided to copy all of my old backup CD's onto an extra hard drive that I have, and I started looking through some of the stuff I had saved.

The following comes from a CD marked Dec. 21, 2001.  It's a comic created by a former member of Matrix named Prof. Hazard.  Most of the characters are based off of former members who have long since disappeared.  I only have the first 29 (or at least, these are the ones I found so far).  They did continue on, though not for very long before Hazard ended the comic.

*Disclaimer: these are not mine (although I did help to make them), so I probably have no right to post them by some stupid moral that someone thinks is true.  I obviously don't care.

Delta smells irl.

srs folks. srs.

Yeah, I smell you whenever you're around...  It's awful.  We still need to hang out again, Chods.  I've just been super busy and stressed.  Not that that's ending anytime soon...

So... can we just summon Delta already? That would make this place better by default.

What with my magnetic personality and all.  Haha.  Heh.  eheh.

Abe's right: other sites have replaced message boards, or at least the role they used to play.  Instead of going on the internet to meet weird people from other parts of the world, you go on Facebook and stalk your old schoolmates.  At least that's what I do.  But there will always be the group of people who don't like their local peers and will need a place to go and socialise, so I can't see message board communities dying out completely.

For comparison: me when I was about the same age as Morgan.