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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 can remember signing up ages ago but never being interested in the forums until fairly recently (about 3-4 months ago). I was actually looking for cheats for an old Megadrive game (I didn't find them here!) but I took a belated interest in the forums and then decided to grace my foul presence upon the unsuspecting world. I've seen a few people come and go, I've seen my fair share of idiots (Top Score you know you're there!) and I've seen decent people who try to get us thinking about something other than our dreary mirthless existence on this godforsaken planet.
So what do I think of it? Well, considering I'm a bit older than the majority of people on here (I'm 23), I've been pleasently suprised by the technical knowledge and grasp of the English language other users have. And they say education is going down the drain!
So, all in all, it's been enjoyable and I'll stick around and hover in the background and stick my oar in whenever i don't agree with anything. Oh yeah, I also like the odd insulting session once in a while (it keeps your blood flowing!). Sometimes I do get angry about freakish dogs pontificating about nonsensical rubbish but that's the way of life.
Here's to the future.
*Unbeliever raises his glass in a toast. He pauses, and looks around. There is no-one here. Closing his eyes, he imagines all the SR users here and drinks to their health.*
*ching!*
So what do I think of it? Well, considering I'm a bit older than the majority of people on here (I'm 23), I've been pleasently suprised by the technical knowledge and grasp of the English language other users have. And they say education is going down the drain!
So, all in all, it's been enjoyable and I'll stick around and hover in the background and stick my oar in whenever i don't agree with anything. Oh yeah, I also like the odd insulting session once in a while (it keeps your blood flowing!). Sometimes I do get angry about freakish dogs pontificating about nonsensical rubbish but that's the way of life.
Here's to the future.
*Unbeliever raises his glass in a toast. He pauses, and looks around. There is no-one here. Closing his eyes, he imagines all the SR users here and drinks to their health.*
*ching!*
I won for my first proper review over 10 lines long. Ahhhh, the good old days :-)
or did i turn 16...
Won GAD with my 2nd ever post i was 15 then
*Cries because of the fact that Isa's a failure*
I'm a failure! Waaaiiilll!! I can't think of any good shock tactis, persuasive language or whatever y'all call it in those reviews!
I'm a failure!
I'm a failure! Waaaiiilll!! I can't think of any good shock tactis, persuasive language or whatever y'all call it in those reviews!
I'm a failure!
No the sheep.
I think that people who win a GAD quite soon after they join are the ones that stick around. It just says that 'its possible' and not just a bit of a farce.
I know I did, I won two in a short space, but I know that if I come up with a good idea then I'm a winner, I've been working on a lot recently, expect a few attempts soon (no bloomin spoofs though)
I know I did, I won two in a short space, but I know that if I come up with a good idea then I'm a winner, I've been working on a lot recently, expect a few attempts soon (no bloomin spoofs though)
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> You joined a few weeks or something after me..
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Who did? Me?
> You joined a few weeks or something after me..
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Who did? Me?
You joined a few weeks or something after me..
I was an existing customer of Special Reserve for ages and knew all about Gameaday but never had access to the Internet. So when I finally did get access I went straight to Gameaday.co.uk.
Won on my 7th day there, too. :0)
Won on my 7th day there, too. :0)
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