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Mon 06/01/03 at 23:15
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--How did you know SR?
--What did you feel like when you visited SR for the first time?


Roughly 164 days ago, I saw an advert in the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine. It had lots of little pictures in it about great websites and big club shops, but what got my attention was the little advert where that Bob guy doesn't buy his games but wins them from GAMEADAY.co.uk and another picture of Lara in short pants with descriptions below it saying "would you cheat on Lara?" "Over 20,000 cheats for all formats" and the name of a website which appeared to be "UKCHEATS.com" printed in bold letters.

I never thought of trying to win games through competitions before, and that was what made me to come to SR, to win games instead of buying them, seeing that my mum doesn't like me to buy games all the time. But at first I wanted to look at the cheats first at ukcheats.com because I couldn't defeat Dark Yojimbo in Final Fantasy X. So I typed "ukcheats.com" in the search engine and as soon as I saw the results for "ukcheats.com", I think the first few words I saw were "Win prizes for submitting cheats" below the ukcheats.com link. And then I edited my details to SR as soon as possible and because my favourite PS2 game was FFX at that time, all I could think of was submitting cheats (which were more like hints or the parts of a walkthrough) in order to win prizes. But unfortunately, I never won a single prize, I never even had a chance.

To be honest I'm kind of shy, and I couldn't be bothered to visit the chat forums in SR, and I wasn't confident to write reviews at all, so all I could do was just submit cheats and hoping that I would win one day. Later that month I was talking to my friends in school about SR, if they knew anything about it and what they thought of it. One of them said "Oh, right, that site. Don't like to go there, land of the paedophiles". Then another said "You don't win anything anyway, they just take your cheats, reviews and walkthroughs, and that's it, you never win". And so I objected by saying "But how about that Meka Dragon dude in GameADay's Hall Of Fame, he's won about 30 times now." And the same person awnsered back "I'll bet the people who won are like the same people who made that crappy website anyway, so we would think that there are people that have won from their crappy competitions". That really got me discouraged from trying to win GameADay until one of them said "Yeah Isa, you're dumb, as always. Wait and see when they rape you, man that would be funny" Insults from my friends about SR made me feel discouraged even more with the question wondering in my mind "Is Special Reserve one big hoax?" And so I asked my mum if SR was for real, a website where you could win games and stuff. But as soon as I told my mum what I had to tell about SR, she just got mad and even went all mental because I told her that I edited my real details to SR about my real name, where I live and stuff. She said to me don't trust websites like these, for all you know they might be bad people who want to know where children live and then rape them, like paedophiles. That even got me more discouraged than ever, but not enough to make me think that SR was one big hoax.

After a few days on SR just submitting cheats, I finally wanted to go to the chat forums in SR. So I went to the Sony forum, and the first thread I ever visited was Asher D's Final Fantasy Forum, I saw a lot of SR users there, some of their nicknames were in red while others were in purple. I didn't really know what the colours that highlited the nicknames were for at that time, I thought it was some sort of pattern on the forums or something, until later I found out about regulars, noobs and notables.

Yeah, I can still remember the first thread I made in the Sony forum. It was called "Anything bout Final Fantasy X". I met some nice people there such as Snake Eyes a.k.a King Cactuar a.k.a The Green Goblin a.k.a R-One-Oh-Seven and egghead a.k.a morbo. I never said anything in the other forums at that time really, because I was really shy, I never understood what the regulars such as Asher D, KR and Jive were talking about in ssxpro's PS2- Longest Thread. So the only thing I ever did was to hang around in my own little thread that I made which was called "Anything bout Final Fantasy X" and submit cheats. That was all, nothing else. And because I was so shy and I felt like I was some sort of stranger from another dimension, I would call any SR user/member "Sir", didn't matter if the SR user/member I was talking to was a regular or a newbie, I would always put the word "Sir" before their name, or whenever I would refer to them.

And to be honest the first regulars I knew were Asher D and NatBu(c) a.k.a Nathan Buchanan. And my first review that I ever wrote was Medal Of Honor: Frontline for SR, and you can bet that I was pretty crap at writing reviews at that time, I would spend most of the review on the summary plot and very little about the gameplay and stuff, I would just focus on one thing and forget about the rest. I didn't know what I was doing at that time until Asher D told me that I was just writing summary plots the whole time, and I should focus on the bits where I like and don't like about the game. So I kept trying to improve my shock tactics and persuasive language in every review I made, but they all failed, seeing that it was me who made them, because of the fact that I'm a failure.

And so here I am, telling a tale of how this dumb Uruk-Hai Orc got to know SR, and all the pain and sorrow he had to go through so he could be here today, telling every SR user/member who could be bothered to look at my low-life tale. And I'm still trying to win on SR!!! Grrrr!!

So:
--How did you know SR?
--What did you feel like when you visited SR for the first time?
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:15
Regular
"Still luv her?! dun"
Posts: 932
--How did you know SR?
--What did you feel like when you visited SR for the first time?


Roughly 164 days ago, I saw an advert in the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine. It had lots of little pictures in it about great websites and big club shops, but what got my attention was the little advert where that Bob guy doesn't buy his games but wins them from GAMEADAY.co.uk and another picture of Lara in short pants with descriptions below it saying "would you cheat on Lara?" "Over 20,000 cheats for all formats" and the name of a website which appeared to be "UKCHEATS.com" printed in bold letters.

I never thought of trying to win games through competitions before, and that was what made me to come to SR, to win games instead of buying them, seeing that my mum doesn't like me to buy games all the time. But at first I wanted to look at the cheats first at ukcheats.com because I couldn't defeat Dark Yojimbo in Final Fantasy X. So I typed "ukcheats.com" in the search engine and as soon as I saw the results for "ukcheats.com", I think the first few words I saw were "Win prizes for submitting cheats" below the ukcheats.com link. And then I edited my details to SR as soon as possible and because my favourite PS2 game was FFX at that time, all I could think of was submitting cheats (which were more like hints or the parts of a walkthrough) in order to win prizes. But unfortunately, I never won a single prize, I never even had a chance.

To be honest I'm kind of shy, and I couldn't be bothered to visit the chat forums in SR, and I wasn't confident to write reviews at all, so all I could do was just submit cheats and hoping that I would win one day. Later that month I was talking to my friends in school about SR, if they knew anything about it and what they thought of it. One of them said "Oh, right, that site. Don't like to go there, land of the paedophiles". Then another said "You don't win anything anyway, they just take your cheats, reviews and walkthroughs, and that's it, you never win". And so I objected by saying "But how about that Meka Dragon dude in GameADay's Hall Of Fame, he's won about 30 times now." And the same person awnsered back "I'll bet the people who won are like the same people who made that crappy website anyway, so we would think that there are people that have won from their crappy competitions". That really got me discouraged from trying to win GameADay until one of them said "Yeah Isa, you're dumb, as always. Wait and see when they rape you, man that would be funny" Insults from my friends about SR made me feel discouraged even more with the question wondering in my mind "Is Special Reserve one big hoax?" And so I asked my mum if SR was for real, a website where you could win games and stuff. But as soon as I told my mum what I had to tell about SR, she just got mad and even went all mental because I told her that I edited my real details to SR about my real name, where I live and stuff. She said to me don't trust websites like these, for all you know they might be bad people who want to know where children live and then rape them, like paedophiles. That even got me more discouraged than ever, but not enough to make me think that SR was one big hoax.

After a few days on SR just submitting cheats, I finally wanted to go to the chat forums in SR. So I went to the Sony forum, and the first thread I ever visited was Asher D's Final Fantasy Forum, I saw a lot of SR users there, some of their nicknames were in red while others were in purple. I didn't really know what the colours that highlited the nicknames were for at that time, I thought it was some sort of pattern on the forums or something, until later I found out about regulars, noobs and notables.

Yeah, I can still remember the first thread I made in the Sony forum. It was called "Anything bout Final Fantasy X". I met some nice people there such as Snake Eyes a.k.a King Cactuar a.k.a The Green Goblin a.k.a R-One-Oh-Seven and egghead a.k.a morbo. I never said anything in the other forums at that time really, because I was really shy, I never understood what the regulars such as Asher D, KR and Jive were talking about in ssxpro's PS2- Longest Thread. So the only thing I ever did was to hang around in my own little thread that I made which was called "Anything bout Final Fantasy X" and submit cheats. That was all, nothing else. And because I was so shy and I felt like I was some sort of stranger from another dimension, I would call any SR user/member "Sir", didn't matter if the SR user/member I was talking to was a regular or a newbie, I would always put the word "Sir" before their name, or whenever I would refer to them.

And to be honest the first regulars I knew were Asher D and NatBu(c) a.k.a Nathan Buchanan. And my first review that I ever wrote was Medal Of Honor: Frontline for SR, and you can bet that I was pretty crap at writing reviews at that time, I would spend most of the review on the summary plot and very little about the gameplay and stuff, I would just focus on one thing and forget about the rest. I didn't know what I was doing at that time until Asher D told me that I was just writing summary plots the whole time, and I should focus on the bits where I like and don't like about the game. So I kept trying to improve my shock tactics and persuasive language in every review I made, but they all failed, seeing that it was me who made them, because of the fact that I'm a failure.

And so here I am, telling a tale of how this dumb Uruk-Hai Orc got to know SR, and all the pain and sorrow he had to go through so he could be here today, telling every SR user/member who could be bothered to look at my low-life tale. And I'm still trying to win on SR!!! Grrrr!!

So:
--How did you know SR?
--What did you feel like when you visited SR for the first time?
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:21
Regular
"All about the Beats"
Posts: 1,998
Isa wrote:
> --How did you know SR?

One opened on the road where i live

:)
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:25
Regular
"That's right!"
Posts: 10,645
You asked your mum about SR? She doesn't like you buying games? Are you ten years old?

Anyway, I first heard about SR when Rakuga kept bragging about winning. Boy, did he brag! He would just say "I won another game" then brag some more. I didn't believe him at first, then I thought SR was a hoax. He convinced me it was real, so I joined. The website confused the heck out of me, but not as much as the forums. New posts at the top of a topic? Madness!

Anyway, I posted loads of reviews, and I won on 1st January, 2002. Won a couple more times, but all my prizes were games that hadn't been released yet, so I didn't get anything till Robocop trilogy came out. When I saw it on my kitchen table when I came down one Friday, and realised what it was, all my doubts about it being fake were gone, and I've been having a laugh almost every day on these forums ever since.
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:25
Regular
"Balls"
Posts: 3,505
wow i am meantoned... still cant spell.

i found out about it as my mate said that he was a memeber and i had a look in his mag and it looked great. so i joind and thats hows it been for 2 years.

and i manly sticked to the final fantasy forums when i was egghead, then when i was morbo i went to the nintendo forums and met new idaes of the gamecube. i also met alot of nintys, and a person who cant chose a name of any good quality.
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:27
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
Isa wrote:
--What did you feel like when you visited SR for the first time?

Like a virgin touched for the very first time.

Like a virgin.

Like a virgin.
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:30
Regular
"Picking a winner!"
Posts: 8,502
Seen the site when I was ordering my PS2 about a year and a half ago. Though no harm in trying and won within a few weeks of being here. After the game arrived I thought, the site is cool, some of the folk on it are cool to talk to stuff about and you get an added bonus of maybe winning a game.
It used to be cool chatting to the folk in the WLT in prime about absolute nonsense but thats all gone now.


I tell my friends that most of my games are free from this website but half of them don't belive me or are too drunk to catch on.
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:33
Regular
"Still luv her?! dun"
Posts: 932
morbo wrote:
> and a person who cant
> chose a name of any good quality.

*Looks left n right*

U refering to me?
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:35
Regular
"Balls"
Posts: 3,505
no not you isa yours is fine. elimnator, the pheiniex or whatever, he's a good mate on here but has no sense of name chosing.

and i still cant spell. hahaha
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:37
Regular
"Still luv her?! dun"
Posts: 932
Yes, I knew you couldn't from the day I met you!! Hahahhaahah!!! Please don't hit me.

*Get's smacked by morbo*
Mon 06/01/03 at 23:42
Regular
"Balls"
Posts: 3,505
*looks at his bloody fist*

i think i should ov wore the brass nuckles

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