What is your best memory here on GFF.

And why do you need to remember it?

For me, it's Akirage's death. (Yes I know, what a horrible thing to say about some 17-year old kid's death whom I barely knew, as the best memory I have of this forum). It's the best memory I cherish about GFF because that is one of the first times I remember each and every member who decided to become involved, stood up and said, "we care about this person as a community."

I'll never forget the kindest words I've carried to that funeral. I will NEVER forget that mother's face when I gave her a stack of printed emails, the ache in her eyes when she read how many people had been affected by her son's "internet addiction" and that it had actually spawned relationships, friendships, and more. GFF wasn't just "some web page" that her son was madly addicted to, it was a gathering of his mentors, friends, companions whom he loved to discuss video game music and DDR with, and furthermore, that people loved him for who he was.

The fact that a gathering of people on an internet forum can do such, is pretty amazing. I regard memories like this as important because of all the bickering, trolling, antagonistically elitist assholes we can be sometimes, it's times like this when GFF truly stands out as one of the best fucking gathering of internet junkies, ever.

So folks, sharing times. Let it be touchy like mine, or be as brash and/or hilarious as you like. What's your best GFF memory?

My best GFF memory is looking at Yushiro's gigantic dick and Mina's huge breasts in the Naked Member pics thread.

I remember back when I was 16 telling myself, "SOMEDAY I MAY POST IN THAT THREAD"






what, this doesnt qualify as a good memory? fuck you, gff sucks, im out of here forever

Infernal's gurnal.

(Any entry. Take your pick.)

For me it's a fond memory I have from a few years ago. See, back in the day (I remember it was the summer that the Cowboy Bebop movie came out in Japan and I wanted it see it sooo bad) someone posted a link to a girl's webcam.

The girl lived somewhere like Brazil or Spain or something, and she was always doing some weird stuff at her house. Sometimes she'd be dressing up in some weird outfit, eating some whacky food, or just sitting around in her underwear looking kinda hot if I remember right.

Then one day I go to the thread to see what's new with the girl, and everyone's going on about how she's going nuts and playing with knives. I tune in myself and see her sitting on her couch with a pair of scissors rubbing them around on her skin, kind of near her wrists. I watched her for probably 10 minutes just looking at the scissors with a psychotic look on her face. I shut it off and went about my day as normal, figuring she was maybe sizing herself up to make a custom shirt.

The next day I come into the thread and everyone says how the webcam is down. Theories were thrown around about how she might have killed herself, or that maybe she lost her internet.

All in all it was pretty strange, and even though she was entertaining to watch in a Big Brother sort of way it freaked me out that the day after she played with scissors her webcam is gone. Did she commit suicide? I've always wondered.

I will forever remember the death of Phoenix6901. I know it's a morbid memory and I never once spoke to her but it wasn't her death that got seared into my brain so much as the reaction after her death... To be more specific, I remember Brady going apeshit on EVERYONE who was paying their respects to her and citing "I DON'T NEED YOUR SYMPATHY" as the end of the argument.

I have nothing against Brady now and he and I speak over AIM on occasion but that alone got seared into my brain for all the wrong reasons.

There are a few that really stand out for me. When a friend of mine passed away, I made a journal entry about it, and the outpouring of support was overwhelming. Not just from people I considered friends, but from people who I was at odds with for long periods of time. It meant a lot to me, and some of the AIM conversations let me get my focus back and look at the situation rationally. When something unfortunate happens to people, the sheer decency of this place is beyond anything I've encountered on the internet. We might all take umbrage with NP half the time, but we offer our support when his father dies. An instigator like myself has a rough time of it, and even the most ardent of Deni-haters offers some common human decency. I've seen it happen over deaths, I've seen it happen over people losing their homes, and it always surprises me just a little. Very impressive.

I find the explosive arguments I've had around here not overtly memorable. Brady and I went a few rounds, niki and I went a few rounds, as have Skills and I on a few occasions, but they're usually short lived and with people I eventually come to respect quite heavily, so eventually I sort of forget about the pointless spats.

Pang having to Drop His Track certainly exists way the fuck up there. That was one of those internet moments where you have to set the keyboard down and just sort of laugh at the sheer absurdity of a situation. As was pretty much anything involving Legion, you know, ever. You just sort of had to let your jaw drop and laugh, really hard, at what was going on.

The one that trumps ALL of those, however, still has to be the Dope Fucks Sass fiasco. It was a situation that came up over an idiot move, was handled as bad as possible, and just seemed to be played poorly at every opportunity. I felt bad for the people involved, but mostly watching the clusterfuck unfold was black comedy at its finest.

I'm sure I'll think of more later, but those are the big ones that stand out for me right now.

I know many of you know what my old account name was, and I really don't give a flying fuck anymore, so I will say that my best memory here was when I had major real life drama under my old account (Ms. Pikmin) and had to leave. The leaving wasn't the good part, but the effort made from people here to show they cared was really touching. I had never expected that sort of thing from an internet site, but when I received the signed card it made me feel great about being a member (even MIA) of GFF.

Originally Posted by Midna

I know many of you know what my old account name was, and I really don't give a flying fuck anymore, so I will say that my best memory here was when I had major real life drama under my old account (Ms. Pikmin) and had to leave. The leaving wasn't the good part, but the effort made from people here to show they cared was really touching. I had never expected that sort of thing from an internet site, but when I received the signed card it made me feel great about being a member (even MIA) of GFF.

I think the best part was why he went crazy.

Because fucking hilarious, that's why.

I guess it's not the kind of wishy-washy gosh, people possess empathy revelation some of you are producing, but I think the best moment in GFF history was probably sundering ourselves from the whims of an irresponsible, promise-breaking professional party boy. Can you imagine many other forum communities surviving when the founder decides to just take his chips and go home? That says a lot more about us as a group than some empty platitudes about the death of a stranger. Grim persistence. GFF's been "dying" for years now, but it keeps on living — in defiance of nature!

Beyond that, it's really impossible to look back on (Jesus Christ) 7 years of persistent ridiculousness and say "yes, but this was the high point!"

My favorite memory (other than the old "I Summon" thread) is actually an ongoing one:

How shocked people are when I tell them I'm female.

I believe OO was the last person to discover this truth recently.

Originally Posted by Seris

My best GFF memory is looking at Yushiro's gigantic dick and Mina's huge breasts in the Naked Member pics thread.

Yeah gonna have to say the shit that came up in that thread (along with the pictures) has been the stuff that has stayed cemented in my mind.

I remember Akirage's death pretty well also, even though that wasn't too long after I had been establishing myself as a member and I never knew the guy, it was the first time I'd seen a GFF that seemed so harsh and unwelcoming be remotely caring. Even if the sympathies were empty, people still put on the masks.

Props to Pang for speaking the plain truth. How many forums undergo a shift of power? Almost none.

Call me egotistic, but the Zephyrin is a Fucktard thread is one of my best memories. It's personally hard to beat when a crowd of internet goers snap a crapload of photo shoots just to show they are a fan of your work, for better or worse.

I have a lot. But one of my favorites happened in Christmas 2001. And we had some people from another forum "visit" ours intending to cause trouble. But the members here just played along and had good time of it.

Another is Maester Vash, "IT'S COLLEGE"! When he meant to say collage.

Also OO and Ozzcln in the what color are your eyes thread. "Mines is brown. Like shit". haha.

One more that I still laugh over, talking to Zeph on AIM while he was drunk. hehe.

That's just some of the memories I have of this place.

One of my older memories of lurk&leech occurred probably two years ago when I queried and downloaded the entire Jpop folder from Seanne's FTP. It took almost a week if I remember correctly and after the task was completed I was just overwhelmed with music. I don't even think I've listened to it all even til now.

At a later time, I remember seeing the GFF Starcraft Tournament and it losing activity and ultimately never getting underway. That was a disappointment

Most memorable memory is the piano performance video DVD sharing event which led to me meeting another GFFer for the first time. The most fascinating thing is that even if it weren't for that meeting to have happened, our paths would've crosses either way. Likely one of the most peculiar things to have happened in my lifetime.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

Beyond that, it's really impossible to look back on (Jesus Christ) 7 years of persistent ridiculousness and say "yes, but this was the high point!"

Well, that's kind of the point. All of us sort of joined in during different times so of course all of us remember things differently. It's interesting to see what others significantly look back on. I specifically asked, "what's your best memory here," so I expect people to think of what their own memory of this place is. Maybe in 2-3 years down the road, we can look back and laugh at some more inane silly ridiculous nonsense that don't mean much to anyone else not active on GFF. *shrugs*

I'm barely more than a lurker, but I'd say that it really touched me when the forum found out that Ayos was dead for reasons similar to those cited by Shorty. I didn't know Ayos that well... I don't know anyone from GFF that well, really... but the huge outpouring of shock, grief and compassion was very real.

Other than that... it might have been Acer's massive lolban. I don't mean to say that either of the things I mentioned are my best memories, but they are certainly memorable events. The time FinalRob came back as SuperBobby and I spotted him from his first post was pretty amusing. That's more like the 'best' if I confine myself to positive events. If not that, then the Merv Delicatessen week was also good for laughs.

I think perhaps my best memory of GFF is when I discovered through the mail that I was not in fact the potential winner of a million dollars but an inductee into the Words-Tang Clan.

Originally Posted by Jin

One more that I still laugh over, talking to Zeph on AIM while he was drunk. hehe.

You can still do that, actually. With the recent invention of cell phone texting you can do it that way too. Sometimes he'll even respond while HE'S ON THE CAN.

Then again, so does Skills.