Where were you 10 years ago?

[Nomadic]

Seems like we've got alot of people in here in the same age range heh (20-22)... and a couple old coots :P

Oh, Just rub it in, wandering man...

So you admit that you're an old coot?

[SDragon]

... depression; it was probably at its worst in 7th grade. Bad times all around.

If it's any consolation, that's pretty much standard for 7th grade.

[Elemental_Elf]

... depression; it was probably at its worst in 7th grade. Bad times all around.

If it's any consolation, that's pretty much standard for 7th grade.

Except for the popular jocks who get to date the hot girls...

God I hated middle school.  :-/

[Lmns Crn]

So you admit that you're an old coot?

I admit to being an ancient, grizzled curmudgeon.

I'm cantankerous. I putter around. Of course I'm an old geezer.

[limetom]

... depression; it was probably at its worst in 7th grade. Bad times all around.

I appreciate the sentiment, but this was something quite different than the normal stuff. :3

[Hibou]

Uhh.. hmm... I was in either 6th or 7th grade. I remember going to Pizza Hut with my parents for dinner on NYE. I was actually not far away from P&P, although Pokemon, MtG, and Baldur's Gate would be the games to lead me into it. I was kind of an introvert at that point, spending a lot of my time playing video games and building things with LEGO, Knex, and a few other similar toys.

As people say, if only one knew then what they knew now...

[Steerpike]

I was in grade 7 (if my math is right...) and also just starting roleplaying.  I'd found an old AD&D book in my class's  "games closet" and taken it home - about a year later I was purchasing books myself.

[Superfluous Crow]

Ah, 10 years ago... Can't say I remember much. I was 9 years, and probably spent most of my time alone or with my brother. I was in the third grade i believe (although I don't know what that corresponds to in the US school system). I was probably still quite into LEGO (had a cellar full of the stuff when i was younger; this is after all the country where it was invented) and if that was the year of pokemon I might have begun collecting those silly pieces of cardboard as well. Hmm, probably played video games as well. Did the Nintendo 64 still exist back then? Remember having one of those.
NYE was probably spend somewhere with my parents and I was probably bored; was never much into fireworks. After a few years they look kinda alike.  

[Gamer Printshop]

A bunch of damn kids around here, huh, every other RPG site I go to, I'm the average age... I'll be 47 this month.

Ten years ago, I think I was still frozen in a cyrogenic tank beneath the Pentagon - wait a minute I was buying tickets to go to Hawaii on my birthday, yeah, back when I still had money and the economy didn't suck.

Oh well, professionally at least for cartography and game publishing things look great! In real life my graphic design studio might shut down - no business, not enough to pay bills anyway, which means Gamer Printshop as far as being a printshop might go away as well (design side is growing and improving despite everything else.) I'm only half excited about 2010, we'll see what happens.

GP

[Steerpike]

[blockquote=Cataclysmic Crow]year of pokemon[/blockquote]Ha I so remember this... for me I thnk Pokemon became cool in grade 6, remained somewhat cool through half of grade 7, and then by grade 8 was the province of a few guys who'd made the investment in the trading cards and weren't willing to let go.  You weren't supposed to admit that only a few months ago you'd known every pokemon and its evolved forms (and probably most of their attacks as well, and what regions you could find them in, and what types they were), because suddenly there was an enomrous social stigma around it, at least where I went to school.  Roeplaying was less mainstream there so it tended to go under the radar more so long as you didn't advertuse the hobby.

Ironically, I've noticed in recent years a nostalgic return to seeing Pokemon as cool/ironic again in my age group.  Like, if someone proposed to have a pokemon movie marathon, that wouldn't be considered totally childish anymore (or in any case it'd be a good kind of childish).

Sorry to hear about your studio, Gamer Printshop - I hope things work out.

[Kindling]

Ten years ago.... well, on New Year's Eve I was with my dad on top of the South Common in Lincoln, being 10 and watching fireworks :D

[Elemental_Elf]

[blockquote=Cataclysmic Crow]year of pokemon[/blockquote]Ha I so remember this... for me I thnk Pokemon became cool in grade 6, remained somewhat cool through half of grade 7, and then by grade 8 was the province of a few guys who'd made the investment in the trading cards and weren't willing to let go.  You weren't supposed to admit that only a few months ago you'd known every pokemon and its evolved forms (and probably most of their attacks as well, and what regions you could find them in, and what types they were), because suddenly there was an enomrous social stigma around it, at least where I went to school.  Roeplaying was less mainstream there so it tended to go under the radar more so long as you didn't advertuse the hobby.

Ironically, I've noticed in recent years a nostalgic return to seeing Pokemon as cool/ironic again in my age group.  Like, if someone proposed to have a pokemon movie marathon, that wouldn't be considered totally childish anymore (or in any case it'd be a good kind of childish).

Sorry to hear about your studio, Gamer Printshop - I hope things work out.

Yeah same here. Pokemon was super popular in 6th grade. I remember everyone bringing their gameboys to school and playing during recess.

When 7th grade hit, all the popular kids disavowed Pokemon. The less popular kids all got into the TCG. Unfortunately, there was an incident where some boy tried to steal a card from a girl and that girl happened to punch that boy, so Pokemon Cards were banned at school. Years later, I found out that girl was actually one of my players! Small world, no?

[Nomadic]

Yea same here, got popular in 6th grade and then slowly faded into obscurity. After pokemon faded though magic the gathering saw massive growth. I remember lunch breaks in late middle school and high school that had 12 way MtG games with intricate alliances and backstabbing and all kinds of awesome fun. In high school yugioh got picked up by a few of the anime fans among us and we gladly accepted it in as another way to waste our lunch break. By the time I graduated we had alternating games of magic and yugioh going on in a group of about 20 people (serious and casual players both).

[Elemental_Elf]

Yea same here, got popular in 6th grade and then slowly faded into obscurity. After pokemon faded though magic the gathering saw massive growth. I remember lunch breaks in late middle school and high school that had 12 way MtG games with intricate alliances and backstabbing and all kinds of awesome fun. In high school yugioh got picked up by a few of the anime fans among us and we gladly accepted it in as another way to waste our lunch break. By the time I graduated we had alternating games of magic and yugioh going on in a group of about 20 people (serious and casual players both).

o_O;;; Why couldn't I have gone to your school!?

At my high school, Yugioh players were horribly ridiculed, I really felt sorry for the lunch break duelists (though I was too busy eating pizza and wandering the halls talking about Gundams and Morrowind with my friends). Magic was never really that popular and when it was seen, most people were interested in and/or mystified by it (including the jocks). I suppose it didn't hurt that the Magic players were always kind of creepy and the Yugioh players were nerdy. Of course TCG/CCG players had a refuge nearby - Collectible Cards and Computers - which was the local card shop and well with in walking distance. I used to go there every weekend and play Yugioh as well as a few times a week after school just to hang out with other like-minded nerds.

[Steerpike]

My magic experiences were somewhat similar to Nomadic's, though we mostly played outside of school itself.  I was an International Baccalaureate student in high school (somewhat similar to AP), so we had to do grade 11 and 12 math in grade 11 and calculus in grade 12, making for a very brutal final two years.  I remember a lot of long afternoons where large groups of us would get together to grind out math assignments before rewarding ourselves with MtG... one guy had about 5000 cards so mostly we just played with his decks.