TWG Forum Trivia

[Skar]

Fact: Skar germinated the idea for an article entitled "The Time Waster's Guide" for TLE issue 41 with the sole purpose in mind of getting hold of Diablo 2 for free.  It worked.  They sent him a review copy in exchange for the article, on spec.  Later they also sent him the Expansion Pack.

Months or years (some time) after that he discovered to his great surprise and satisfaction that Fell and others had run with the concept, created a website by the same name, and were harvesting free stuff galore from all sorts of game companies.

Now he just screens the occasional movie, for free.  Ha Ha!

[House of Mustard]

I still miss Lord of Me once in a while.  He was the very first punching bag on the forum.

[Chimera]

Trivia: This site is not, in fact, the third version of timewastersguide.com. The first was the green monster, seen here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010720190749/http://www.timewastersguide.com/

Gah! I'm blind!

I'm glad you all went with something less offensive this version.  

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

My eyes! They burn!  

[EUOL]

Okay, trivia...let's see.

HoM was the first person on the forums to get published and paid a professional wage for his fiction.

The TWG started as a website, in part, because Fell (with some of the rest of us) felt sad having to leave The Leading Edge, a sf/f magazine on BYU campus, behind and move on with our lives.

The forum names and titles were designed by Fell and myself.  Which reminds me.  Tage, now that I've moved to a different computer, my version of smartftp no longer has the login/username memorized, so I can't update forum titles or put people in the corner any more.  Could you email me the login info?

[Archon]

That reminds me, RaoCar needs some humble pie, I think.

I'm working on it.

[EUOL]

Oh, and another nifty one.  HoM has the only custom forum class--one that you can't pick when you join.  I did it for him a while back, maybe a year ago.  I don't know if he ever noticed.

[stacer]

Trivia: My wife was the third female to register, and has never posted once.

Possibly.

Fact: I registered long, long ago, but then my account got all screwed up, so I had to delete it and re-register. Tage then (after deletion) told me he could have fixed it for me had I said something. So I've been around far longer than my registration implies. I think I was even on the first page of members, or at least right at the top of the second page.

But also...

Fact: I never posted till I noticed Izzy (Mistress of Darkness) complaining that she was the only girl who ever posted.

[Fellfrosch]

Trivia: multiple forum members, including myself and GuJiaXian and SE (and almost certainly more than that), have applied for various jobs at Wizards of the Coast. We were all rejected. Then Stacer came in out of left field and got hired there, despite not being a rabid geek. The injustice....

[Shrain]

Inconceivable!  

[stacer]

despite not being a rabid geek.

You're just jealous.

But I still claim that I'm as much a nerd as anyone here, just about different things. And EUOL has bestowed nerd status on me according to TWG standards for as long as I work at Wizards. I'm an honorary geek, apparently.

[Spriggan]

Hey good catch, Sprig. I'd forgotten about all those date-stamps being the same. Do you guys remember hand importing all the old articles into the 2.0 site?

I rememeber I helped.

[JP Dogberry]

The weird thing about me meeting Mr. P is I'm probably furthest away from him out of anybody.

Trivia: The forum has had essentially three subgroups: TWG East, TWG Utah, and TWG Aus, which is basically a bunch of people I know who started posting here, and seemed to have left a little before I did.

[Mr_Pleasington]

Technically there's also TWG Gateway...

...but I guess that's just me.

[Fellfrosch]

Trivia: Almost every woman on this forum has, at one point or another, been attracted to EUOL. Despite this, Ookla and I are the only ones to have shared a bed with him.