What is your set-up?

[ithil]

you're the same ithil that (used to) post there?

Yep.

You know, this is the last place I expected to find MTite, this being about a non-japanese-non-RPG (although non-Square too) game and all that ;)

Hee, that's very ironic. Would you believe I found MT because of Blizzard, and that I was introduced to anime less than a year ago by STL? Small world. :->

Time for some reminiscing. When I was 15, we moved to where I presently live and I made some new friends. They were into this game called Warcraft II, which was the first real PC game I ever played. A few months later, I convinced my dad to finally buy a family computer and wheedled net access out of him a year after that. Then Starcraft came out, and I bought it immediately (before I owned a computer that could run it!) and started following Blizzard religiously. I believe it was the fansite warcraftiii.net that linked to this Penny Arcade strip, and I got hooked on the comic.

One day, Penny Arcade linked to MegaTokyo. They'd done it before, but this time I actually followed the link and read the entire archive (rants and all) on a 28k line, then posted about it. (Yes, I made an intro post. *wince*) I stopped posting almost immediately and stopped reading most of the comics I was following a couple months later. It was very painful to keep up with a sheaf of online comics over dialup.

A few months later, we got broadband (Qwest finally installed a DSLAM for our neighborhood), and a few months after that I started reading MegaTokyo again and decided to create a forum account. That probably would have gone the way of the first one, but as fate would have it, I noticed this thread (which you argued about fuzzyballs in), and found STL to be a very interesting character until he got banned, at which point we started talking over email a lot (around 500 KB worth in three months).

You might remember this as the Time of Great Lag, just prior to Piro's purchase of Matoko. However, I had gotten hooked on FFX and my brother was playing through Lunar 2 or something during the day, so I couldn't get my hands on the PS2 until 11 PM. I ended up skewing my schedule to the point that I was going to sleep after 6 AM, and the wee hours of the morning happened to be when the server was actually usable, so I became the top poster on the boards by a 50% margin (you might remember me running posting statistics in Tech Talk). After two weeks of spending almost every waking hour posting to MT, I pulled myself off the boards cold turkey... and was stupid enough to talk about it in #mtfn, which was one of two MT IRC channels I was idling in. I got hooked on IRC. (See what summer vacation does to you, kids? I suppose it was better than two summers before that when I sunk several hundred hours into becoming a minor Counter-Strike god.)

And so I come to the end of my tale. STL joined #mtfn late one night and we spent three hours chatting, thus rehooking him on IRC and leading to the eventual creation of #stl (he put up the server, so he picked the name) several months later (which I happen to be idling in right now).

To be honest, Northwood/Reason and all, the place was much more fun with stl around :lol:

Stop by sometime. It's a blast. (I can PM you the address if you like.)

I can imagine a bunch of computer junkies like this 'Reason' guy replying just like Pete did.

If you think STL would reply just like Pete did, then you really know him very well. :lol: