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[Patrick Haslow]

Wow. I bet this is the last time the old timers ever get together. I remember all you guys, and its hard to believe you all showed up. Hope life is good for you and you're not all showing up now because of the free time that comes with being layed off (like me).

I actually thought Mattias disappeared prior to 2003. Time flies I guess. I also got a copy of CDark and used it rather successfully on The Dark Tide III. Just having a preview render was a tremendous time saver. The DarkXL does indeed have a more modern tools approach though.

[Barry Brien]

No way were you layed off? Thats awful. I've had my hours cut down to 12 1/2 a week and there is a chance that they'll be gone for good after July. Thats one of the main motivations behind getting back in to modding as you say.

[Lionel Fouillen]

Yep guys. Economy is bad everywhere. I'm a freelance IT consultant (but of course IT covers a wide range of specializations) and nobody needs me since mid-October! Right now I just finished a little work for a client which took me 1 week and that's it! I'm actually going to live at my grandmother's house for free as of 1st of April (as she recently retired to a home for elderly people) because I cannot afford anymore to pay for a rent by myself.

[Barry Brien]

Jesus we're all phrikked then.

[Fish]

[Patrick Haslow]

Yeah I got layed off back in December right before Christmas. I will be starting a new job soon but unfortunately will have to move far away again. Sorry to be hear about your situations guys. It is definitely rough these days.

[Tom Manning]

I just remember how funny he thought he was by calling all Americans "butcheteers"

Hilarious.

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[Lionel Fouillen]

Patrick, were you still in Vancouver? And where will you be heading now ?

[Burning Gundam]

Damn, that sucks you got laid off. I came pretty close to getting laid off but apparently I come highly recommended so they kept me and let a lot of other people go. I honestly feel a tad guilty about it too.

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[Patrick Haslow]

Looks like I am heading to New York City. (p.s. Sorry for hijacking the thread.)

[Jackson]

Good luck in NYC, Patrick! I'd actually been commuting there since August for a marketing job, but quit (probably not long before I would've been laid off) after realizing that field just isn't for me. Now I'm going to grad school for English Ed.

[Ghost Returns]

[CarlosG]

Matias. I suppose that I may have had a little different take on him only in that I respected his coding skills and I suppose I enjoyed the sparring. But I can say that it appears today that I see a ton of posters all over who vent via board. I know one at the office who winds into a knot when taking things too seriously and allowing ventful posting to spill over into real life. I'm not defending Matias for being himself but I'm simply saying that his behavior in retrospect appears to have been the prototype for what I see a lot of people do today.

I suppose I can relate to that since I found myself caught up in that and turned it around by viewing the high quantities of daily bad news as pure entertainment.

The invention of the mouse story was well remembered and epic. Matias would also post a translated story from Sweden then quiz us on the meaning of the story. hehe... classic. He would also try to give out debating tips and claim to be the sole arbitor of who won a debate. Double classic. On the surface I believe that he believed he was performing a humanitarian tast by educating the unwashed masses who live exclusively in North America but mainly occupy slaughtered native indian tribe land. But really I think he was a lot like Stewie Griffin and tended to be uptight about pretty much everything. Dude needed some good old fashioned laughter in his life.

On a lighter note...hey... I remember all you guys. I'm the one who still has a job. Losers! jk...about the losers thing...hehe

[Marley]

[ACE]

Wait a minute! What if he never left at all? What if he's still here and he's using a different name! Nah that couldn't happen, could it?

[sheepandshepherd]

I wonder which one of us is him

[Barry Brien]

It could be any one of you, in fact he could be all of you. Now there's a conspiracy theory.

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[Casey Neumiller]

Good lord, this thread is like a bad acid trip. I thought I'd forgotten all about this.

[Burning Gundam]

Seems to be a magnet for attracting old users though, which I guess in an ironic way is a good thing

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[Fish]

Exactly. It took such an uneasy topic (and a bit of an economical crisis) to reunite the community

[Geoffrey S]

Kinda cheap, venting about all that crap a decade on. Had forgotten all about the guy.

[Ghost Returns]

Yeah, well... I'm kind of cheap like that. But think about it, how many people do you know fall insanely in love with three films from a country they hate? That guy was crazy. Maybe still is.

[j-dogg]

Ah good old Mattias. I remember him very well. *sets clock back to 1999* He would post something on the old boards and somehow he would finagle the topic and turn it into a Finland vs. America thread.

Good times.

By the way hello all old-school DF'ers, been a while but I'm back too.

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[Ye Olde Schoole]

WOAH!

It has been such a long time since I have been on here. Amazing to see it still exists and is alive (sortof at least).

[Burning Gundam]

That's great and all, but why oh why did you post it in THIS thread?

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[klasodeth]

To open old wounds, of course.

[AlexG]

I think I still have some MSN chat logs from talking to the M man... maybe I should dig those up and post them for a giggle.

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[Nottheking]

Hey people, I'm still here too! ...Oh, wait, I'm too late to jump on the bandwagon again, aren't I?

At any rate... Sheesh, I'd forgotten quite a bit. Well, not directly FORGOTTEN, but neglected to really think up. Mattias... Quite a character. Indeed, he didn't really get along with many people well at all. Though perhaps most of all, I felt it a little surreal how he came to act towards me... I wonder how he came to cope with the fact that I was an American, in spite of him not really being able to disagree/argue with almost anything I said. Perhaps he just opted to disbelieve where I lived?

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[Ghost Returns]

Mattias, Mattias, Mattias....

I remember him telling me about Intel's latest development, neglecting the fact that I live a half hour north of Intel, and did some contract work there years ago.

Then there was his infamous "Forcebuilder" editor, and his attempt to yank it, and threaten to sue anyone who still had the demo copy. Well, I still got mine.

Then, when I told him about Lucas being born and raised in Modesto California, in the United States of America, it's like he wouldn't even acknowledge the fact. Nor the fact that the game and films he loved were American creations.

Dude was insane. Like I said earlier, he probably still is. Hopefully he's in a better place, and by that I mean a mental hospital.