Do you guys still keep in touch with old users?
 

Typhoid
Dylflon
Bond
Professor S?
Crash
Dan
KillerGremlin
Acebot
jeepnut


Those are most of the names I remember

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Nope, cant say that I do sorry.

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Friends with a few people on facebook, but that's about it. Feel like after everyone went off to college people stopped hanging around on AIM, MSN, or whatever other chat clients we used back then.

I wonder if kids these days still use those things or if it's all text messaging and snap chatting.

I really don't understand snapchat.

/old

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The only two I keep in touch with are Xantar and Bube:
A few years back, Bube and I would play coop Starcraft 2 and Portal 2.
I'm pretty much on daily chat basis with Xantar, I enjoy that. :)

(The only GTer I met in real life is Germy! I went to a Spinto Band concert in Amsterdam and met him there.)

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I actually follow Xantar on Instagram which is kinda funny considering we haven't spoken in years, lol.

I certainly remember Germy and the Spinto Band's tunes. My girlfriend knew about them in the 2000s and I felt cool telling her that I knew one of the band members (from an online gaming forum XD).

Also Vamp, pretty sure kids stick to social media for all forms of communication. I myself haven't used AIM or any IM client in ages (outside of Google Hangouts). Still, AIM holds a special place in my heart lol.

I bet BaB still regularly communicates with a bunch of former GTers.

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Well Typhoid/Dylfon/Swan and a few others were all friends so still kind of speak to each other.

Swan and I and sometimes Combine do bad movies Friday almost weekly over Skype.

I've been out to Vancouver... thrice now so met a few of them and still speak to most via Facebook

I keep in contact with Crash via FB. Actually sold him one of my NES Classics.

Dan if you mean CanOfDan/DanChaStu, I still keep in contact with regularly. Probably second only to Xantar who I talk with on GChat.

I tracked down KillerGremlin on untappd... don't ask.

Keep in contact with Acebot. Actually hung out with him when I was down in LA last summer. Sent me an awesome birthday text!

Geo and Magus keep in contact with.

Have a few others on Facebook, I know Jason and Vamp and Allie, Prof, MarioThePlumber? (Plante), jeepnut

Essentially, it's never been impossible to find me is what I'm getting at

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No, but it would be nice to get back in touch.

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Wow. It's been almost 2 years since I last logged in. I still exist! Thanks for remembering me, takegiantsteps!

By the way, if anyone wants to friend me on Facebook, you can find me at @matt.kettmann.3

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Logged in just to post that I miss you people.

I keep up with the people I know irl. Dylflon, Swan, Dyne, Combine...the other usernames I can't remember.

I've got a handful of people scattered on my fb, PS4, and IG, but only catch up from time to time with BaB.

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I don't see you in steam anymore. :P

And the times when talking about video games had some kind of riveting mistery is over. Now you know all as it develops and companies don't dare deviate from the norm too much.

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Hot damn, I remember you.

Glad BaB helped me pass this message along, lol. Also, it feels weird having this username. Vamp, if you get a chance, can you just change my username to BlueFire? :-o

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Done.

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Because I rarely play any Steam games. :P It used to be Portal 2 and then for a while Evolve. Now it's back to Nintendo; if I play a PC game, it's usually Starcraft 2. :)

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Hey, I still exist.

I felt like the last time I looked here there wasn't anything going on. The Facebook group sent me here, so that was indeed a good reminder!

In terms of general life updates. I'm married and have a house now. The band has kind of been on a long hiatus and we're not doing as much any more. We are re-releasing our first album and playing a few shows in the northeast this summer though (Philly, Brooklyn, Boston.)

I've been interning at a new digital marketing agency in Philadelphia that hopefully becomes a full-time gig. It's the first "real" office job I've had. It's different, but enjoyable. Theoretically it will be a bit more stable money-wise than the music industry was. Not quite as exciting, maybe, but stability has its perks.

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Oh kudos on the marriage
Let me know when you're performing in Brooklyn. Try to make it out if I'm in town

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Brooklyn show is July 29th...

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Of course it is... why wouldn't it be the weekend I'm leaving town....

I mean granted I'll be out of town for a lot of weekends, but like all of July I'm around until the 28th

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congrats on marriage and the house. hope the job works out :)

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Wow, just logging into this forum stirs up all sorts of feels.

Someone make a GameTavern Facebook group and I'll gladly join...we should get a chat going. Slack is another popular platform, if people had emails they wanted to share.

Also I'm doing well. The only person I have kept loosely in touch with is BaB via Untappd. I'm curious how Professor S is doing, and Bond, and everyone else. Nice to see this thread lit up.

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Haha, I need to add more people on UnTappd....No one I know really uses it. Username: Hughesreviews if you guys want to add me. :)

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Already exists, not that anything ever happens there...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/950273095004335/

Of all people, I mostly wonder what GameMaster is up to. Mysterious little guy...

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dang, lots of people in that Facebook group. You're making me want to reactivate my account.

But I won't. :p

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You're welcome :D

Apart from hosting BaB on his LA visits, the extent of my GT interaction is playing "Oh Mandy" once in a blue moon and catching glimpses of Bond crushing it in law via LinkedIn updates.

Also, this was the first time I managed to remember my password in years.

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I still talk to Xantar via Facebook whenever I get the chance (or he sees me sign onto the PVG page from time to time)...

I've pretty much stuck to Twitter, G+ and YouTube now- still the same guy, married with kids and still gaming when I get the chance.

Turns out, you eventually get to the point where you can afford every game and system you want to play, but then this awkward polarity exists where you either no longer have time to play them, or any interest to with the way some of the yucky economical practices publishers are forced to use these days.

Time to build my own studio, I suppose.

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Ha, that is so spot on! I now have quite a backlog of games I have purchased on Steam or elsewhere that I have yet to really play much of. The desire is still there for the most part, but the time is not. I will say though, despite the fact that I COULD pay $60 at launch for most of the games I want to play, I very seldom do. I have no problem waiting several months or longer to get the games I want at discounted prices for probably 90% of my game purchases. There will still be that occasional must have title that I will blow $60 bucks for, of course!

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This. It doesn't always pay off for Nintendo titles, but on other systems and Steam I get GOTY classics sometimes for less than $20 since I "waited" (translation: played other games in my backlog, or current games that take too long to finish like Xenoblade).

Having a lack of time to game sucks, but it's still satisfying to know that if I could buy a game I want, I can regardless of price or platform.

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bump

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Picked up The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt the other day. Plan to invest some time in it starting Thursday. Also started playing The Last of Us recently. Guess my game queue is delayed by a few years.

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The Witcher 3 is amazing, well deserving of all its awards. Possibly my favorite game of the past 3 to 5 years. Some people think Geralt is a lame / boring character, but personally I love him.

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Went down to Miami at the start of April

Missed out on Geo here, but got to hang with Magus.

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Went to Canada this past August and hung out with... well pretty much half of whats left of the forum.

I'm planning to hit up LA again this year for The Game Awards sure will try better to link up with Ace!

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Didn't for a long time but finding the FB group will make it easier to keep in touch. 3 years since I signed in. Good memories again :)