I made this thread years ago and was gonna bump it, but I can't find it. So a new thread ahoy!

With the recent ndim scare, I thought it'd be appropriate to bring this back. The idea in this thread is to go through your post history for this month and pick a year. Then reminisce on some memories over some posts from that year! I'll start in the next post with...

2013! 10 years ago. Damn does time fly. I was 23 years old, I was living in Utah for less than two years at that point. I was working in the meat department at Walmart and thinking about quitting. I was living with my dad and stepmom in their house and browsing FE on the kitchen table. I still had hair and still never had a girlfriend.

Onwards!

KC @ 6/9/2013 12:16

I'm pretty much exclusively streaming everything too. I don't have DVR on my TV downstairs and it's rare that people aren't using the one upstairs. TV is hard to keep up with due to my incredibly silly work schedule. BB and Survivor are really the only shows I actually watch on television. Everything is either downloaded or Netflix'd. 1) Big Brother 2) Survivor 3) Sons of Anarchy 4) Walking Dead 5) Breaking Bad 6) Orange is the New Black 7) House of Cards 8) Louie 9) Curb Your Enthusiasm BB and Survivor are kind of just automatic at this point. Even though I bitch about them all the time, I've been watching both since I was like 9 and I'm probably not stopping anytime soon. As for the others, caught up on all of them and intend to continue watching them except Breaking Bad (Only on Season 2. Like it so far though!).10011111111111111112222222

OP is a POTD about shows I'm currently watching.

This has remained mostly true. I have a really hard time binging through TV shows. Shows I do watch are usually just background noise to something I'm doing on the computer or cleaning. And honestly.... this was probably the last time I remember watching so many different new shows at the same time. I don't even watch reality TV anymore when I use to religiously, the last Survivor season I watched was Season 33! It's crazy to me that Orange is the New Black was on 10 years ago, where does the time go??

Also I have no idea what the string of numbers here means (:

KC @ 4/9/2013 20:29

Matt @ 3/9/2013 17:07 What season is this one modeled after? I haven't used the Survivor one a lot, but the Big Brother simulator is so great so far and there's so much to make it even better. Super excited regardless, I'm probably first boot tho. Dude.

Man BrantSteele has been around forever and it's kinda funny seeing this after just updating Ultimate Showdown finally yesterday.

KC @ 17/9/2013 17:12

Noise Rock, Punk, Hardcore, Math Rock, Indie and Classic Rock make the bulk of my playlist. Hate most manufactured mainstream shit. When my old MP3 player busted before I got my iPod, I about died when I had to suffer with the radio. Only thing up here is about 20 Country stations, a Top 40 station and NPR. NPR it was.

I was a fucking snob with music back then. I've softened up on this a lot. I actually don't mind Top 40 at all anymore. Also electronic music has bypassed everything these days. I don't listen to a lot of punk or it's subgenres anymore.

KC @ 18/9/2013 15:13

Shadow @ 18/9/2013 11:20 hi none of you know me but I'm Shadow Hi Matty (:

Shadow joined FE 10 years ago!
you better not stand in my way shadow. hereby you have officially been warned

KC @ 20/9/2013 12:47

Finally watched the episode. I dunno how to feel. Honestly I came into this with really bad feelings but the twist overall... is actually very well done. Once we get deep in the game, it could get very intense. The whole RI sacrifice thing is really interesting too. The big problem here, however, is that it's previous players. This twist itself could have worked just as well without them. The chumminess and people knowing each other kind of dampens the effect of what they had. In addition, returning players may not mind as much letting their loved one play on (Just like what happened with Rupert, and what I bet happened with John/Candice as well). Also people are going to target loved ones based off who their loved one is (Rupert's wife, Gervase's niece (Although that could have happened to anyone to be fair)), which fucks people over needlessly. Couple of other things... Oh great, another MEN RULE THE WORLD alliance. Very original. How hilarious that Hayden has gotten himself into yet another Bro-Gade alliance. Jesus Christ. Hope these dweebs implode soon. I think I'm more athletic than Gervase and that's not something to be proud of. Although it made me laugh because one of Gervase's angles on Borneo was that he couldn't swim. Why the fuck would they put him in the front of the boat when he was doing so shitty in the challenge? Weird. Had a feeling Colton's whole thing was a facade with that next episode preview. It's great that this guy cries on television because people don't understand what it's like to be him, yet he's probably the biggest bigot to ever be on television. Fuck off.

Man I do honestly very much miss watching and discussing Survivor... perhaps I should watch this year with that shiny Paramount+ subscription I barely I ever use (:

KC @ 20/9/2013 14:51

Finally was able to catch this just now. Andy winning was the right move for sure. I don't really get his hate at all, he played a hell of a game from start to finish. Call it "floating", but he knew there were bigger threats than him in the game and he wanted to keep it that way. It worked like an absolute dream. I called him one the safest people in the game very early on and it's no big surprise that it paid off. I did kind of facepalm when he axed Spencer but as soon as GM started talking during those questions, I understood why he did it. That was one of the most cringeworthy things I ever saw. I had to actually look away from the TV. Awwwful. Glad to see questions were treated with a little bit more importance this season cause it may have very well made a difference this time around. Ever since BB11, they've been watered down and treated like they don't matter. I enjoyed Dr. Will playing Jeff Probst during the debate too, that was a nice treat. I hope they make that a yearly fixture with maybe a different alumni each time. No shock at Elissa winning America's Favorite. Ugh at that stupid shocked face she made, did anyone really expect anything else? Although Howard in the Top 3 was awesome. I wish he made jury :( Off to look at post-game interviews. I'm interested in Aaryn and GM's reactions to being fired.

p sure this season is why I don't watch BB anymore. I was a Big Brother fanatic and I think this is the year I actually sent in an audition tape.

KC @ 22/9/2013 13:39

RGIII fucking sucks. Gronkowski needs to come back already..... I can't believe I'm rooting for a Patriots player to get well right now.

The only year I played Fantasy Football, Robert Griffin III was my #1 pick. I don't play Fantasy Football anymore.

KC @ 24/9/2013 13:59

Ah, very cool. I think if the actual people being promoted help out, it would work perfectly. Also another similar idea, featured players for the various FE-related games would be neat along with that. Although it would be incredibly overwhelming considering the amount of regulars. Can't really talk on this cause I still have people yelling at me that I never finished mine. But it's something like this: http://urtvhome.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=profiles . If the actual players help out with their own stats, quotes and profiles it could get shit done. I tried to get people to help out with these but people just wanted to see what I'd say more than actually help which is kind of why I stopped doing it. Twas meant to be interactive.

Holy shit, that link took me down another rabbithole. I can't believe it's been almost 12 years since I've hosted anything. But yes! Affiliate links! Let's make it happen!

KC @ 26/9/2013 16:47

....porn usage? Most people in this state are forbidden to even touch their penis unless it's to create a baby.

OP is what sucks about my state. This is hilarious because porn was outlawed in Utah this year. Porn sites are blocked from being accessed by anyone in the state of Utah because porn is evil.

KC @ 26/9/2013 10:29

Playing through GTA V, all I can keep thinking is why the fuck do we need another generation now anyway? I'm not getting anything right away. I got a 360 really late, just a little under 2 years ago. So I still have a lot of really great games I haven't even touched yet. Looking at both though, I'm not a fan of Microsoft's vision at all. I play video games and sometimes Netflix. That's it. I don't need a master entertainment system. But nonetheless, I'll let the reviews speak before I throw my money away.

Ended up getting a PS4 two years later (:

This attitude definitely didn't stick because I got a PS5, Series X and new PC all this year because I'm terrible with my money.

KC @ 29/9/2013 1:22

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Nice!

KC @ 26/9/2013 23:03

Annnnd done. Incredible. Everything about this game was such a step up from GTA IV. Wanted to hold off on blasting through that end game but damn, shit got intense and I just had to see how it'd all end. Not that it matters, I'm sure as shit not done playing. There's still a lot of side shit I haven't touched yet and I still have much exploring to do, namely underwater stuff. I am 100% replaying through this in the future due to all the alternative choices and you can make. I played Vice City and SA both at least 10 different times and this will likely be the same way. It helps that those games are very linear and this one isn't. There's a lot of decisions you can make and I'm really curious how they effect the ending or how heists go. The only thing I'm a little bummed about is heists and the reason for that is.... Spoiler + It just seems like the "leveling up" doesn't really matter at all. If you pick the low level gunman, they die in the mission. If you pick the good guys, they're already good anyway so what's it matter? I don't really know about the drivers, but there's only two heists that use them anyway. I said earlier I was going to keep picking Rickie and make him a master hacker, but only two heists needed a hacker. So he went from bad to just okay. And even then, the hacker's role in that last heist was extremely limited. He took pictures of cars you had to collect for the preparation of the mission... like it was completely irrelevant since a map blip was shown anyway. Franklin did the traffic light hacking so he wasn't even necessary overall. That said, each heist has a "this way" or a "that way" scenario so maybe using other ways effects the usefulness or opens up slots for other roles. I dunno. . Other than that minor knock, it was masterfully well done. I'm so hyped for GTA Online.

I beat GTA V on my birthday. Huh.

Mass majority of my posts throughout this year's September is GTA V as it had just launched in the beginning of the month. I don't think I've ever matched the hype I had for a game release since then and doubt I ever will. I bought a 360 specifically to be able to play GTA V when it came out and after never having a gaming PC and being stuck with my PS2 until then, it was a pretty mindblowing jump.

Watch Survivor, join us

Math Rock

That's right man

October 2013. I have 72 pages of posts to go through lol, jesus



- I ran Thirteen Nights of Halloween! TEN years ago??? What lol, that's absurd. Specifically at the end of October I posted the above images of my dear pals KC and Shadow making the finals together. I wanna host another one of those now

- I was binging Mad Men

- I was watching the Sox win the World Series and that was probably the last season of baseball I paid any bit of attention to

- I was looking forward to Star Wars: The Force Awakens lol. Specifically Cumberbatch as the villain (??)

- I posted Poll of the Day #39

- I was watching Survivor: Blood vs Water

- I was looking forward to Battlefield 4

- I created the first of many threads to try to change THIS post mark which still haunts us to this day: http://i.imgur.com/b0TZ7Ui.png

- I got voted out in that huge silly vsurvivor facebook game with like 253 votes against me because I got caught joking around and trying to impersonate this Gabriel Nunez guy in the chat but forgot to click the anonymous button

- I attempted to start a Mosaic Banner thread, which flopped hard but was a gr8 idea tbh!!! I may bring it back sometimes

- I teased GoT III. So long ago

- We were playing GTA 5


This is just a few of those 72 pages, it's too much to go through. I have to split this up

One more for now. I celebrated FE reaching 40k posts:
1,279 Topics, 40,721 Replies

And this is today:
11,566 Topics, 790,832 Replies

Topics are on the same pace, but posts SOARED ahead

What is Thirteen Nights of Halloween

Rodney @ 29/9/2023 19:36

What is Thirteen Nights of Halloween

http://www.ndimforums.com/fe/forum.asp?forumid=109

The first in my lighthearted "holiday/pixel series"

- Thirteen Nights of Halloween
- Twelve Days of Christmas
- Eleven Courses of Thanksgiving

F&E from last year was a spiritual successor

Which one was F&E

Rodney @ 29/9/2023 19:52

Which one was F&E

mage hand

Curtis @ 29/9/2023 16:32

- I got voted out in that huge silly vsurvivor facebook game with like 253 votes against me because I got caught joking around and trying to impersonate this Gabriel Nunez guy in the chat but forgot to click the anonymous button

Oh my god I remember this shit

Also I sure do miss those holiday themed games, those were a lot of fun

Ten years ago

I just checked, and I wasn't yet on FE 10 years ago, but my earliest October posts were from 2015, and they were all in mafia games. It was probably a bit after that before I finally branched out into other aspects of the site.

Doesn't have to be 10 years ago or even the furthest date, just any random year in your post history for the current month you wanna pick.

Which on the subject of, it's now October!