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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?
--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?
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I was looking around in magazines for various cheats for some of my N64 games, and I came across an advert for www.UKcheats.com in NGC.
I decided to use that as my Cheat site from then on, as most of the cheats I found were reliable (they aren't really now, to be quite honest - :-D) and proved to be quite useful.
One time though, about 3 weeks after I'd started using the site, I noticed the advert for GAD, and being as curious as I am, I clicked on it, and though, what the hell, I'll go for it.
And I did, but I failed miserably on sending in cheats, and then failed on sending in reviews, so finally a joined the forums. I did naff all on the forums, and eventually went back to reviews, a much better and more experienced writer than before, and eventually won. Since then, I've won 8 Prize 2s, whcih is rather pleasing.
Ah well. :-D
I decided to use that as my Cheat site from then on, as most of the cheats I found were reliable (they aren't really now, to be quite honest - :-D) and proved to be quite useful.
One time though, about 3 weeks after I'd started using the site, I noticed the advert for GAD, and being as curious as I am, I clicked on it, and though, what the hell, I'll go for it.
And I did, but I failed miserably on sending in cheats, and then failed on sending in reviews, so finally a joined the forums. I did naff all on the forums, and eventually went back to reviews, a much better and more experienced writer than before, and eventually won. Since then, I've won 8 Prize 2s, whcih is rather pleasing.
Ah well. :-D
BEARDS. wrote:
> I came, I saw, I deleted half your posts.
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> BEARDS. - Modern day bringer of civilisation.
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:-D
> I came, I saw, I deleted half your posts.
>
>
> BEARDS. - Modern day bringer of civilisation.
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:-D
I used to get my Atari ST games from SR. But then i seen that they had forums in a gaming rag, so i had a look. And im still here, 2 years later.
As for how i felt the first time i was here.
Vulnerable.
As for how i felt the first time i was here.
Vulnerable.
I came, I saw, I deleted half your posts.
BEARDS. - Modern day bringer of civilisation.
BEARDS. - Modern day bringer of civilisation.
I tried and tried but I'm too lazy now...
There's plenty of stuff for me to do!
I've got a review of Halo all thought out, I just can't be bothered to type it out...
Might try later on tonight actually!
Naa, sod it!
There's plenty of stuff for me to do!
I've got a review of Halo all thought out, I just can't be bothered to type it out...
Might try later on tonight actually!
Naa, sod it!
I never tried for GAD. Not sure why, probably because I'm inherently lazy plus i don't have much time on my hands...
I joined for the GAD.
Tried 4-5 times.
Gave Up.
Here I am.
Tried 4-5 times.
Gave Up.
Here I am.
It took me absolutely ages to win!
I wrote sooooooo much in trying!
Also realised that it wasn't that I was crap at writing reviews being the reason for me not winning...
It's the luck of the day, most of my reviews are better than the Worms one that actually won for me!
I claimed Resi Evil too, I got scared of it and I haven't played it since!
I've hardly got anywhere either, it's just sitting there unplayed!
I wrote sooooooo much in trying!
Also realised that it wasn't that I was crap at writing reviews being the reason for me not winning...
It's the luck of the day, most of my reviews are better than the Worms one that actually won for me!
I claimed Resi Evil too, I got scared of it and I haven't played it since!
I've hardly got anywhere either, it's just sitting there unplayed!
That should have read "pleasant". That's for all you pedants out there.
Unbeliever wrote:
> I've been pleasently suprised by
> the technical knowledge and grasp of the English language other users
> have.
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You weren't talking about me when you typed that sentence, were you? :0D
> I've been pleasently suprised by
> the technical knowledge and grasp of the English language other users
> have.
*
You weren't talking about me when you typed that sentence, were you? :0D
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