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Memphis wrote:79160589

blimey. and I forget my PIN on occasion. ha.

Turbanator wrote:.............. Phoenix, yours hasn't changed in all that time?! Impressive!

Turbanator wrote:Oh and Spawn... was his nick Spawn? the dutchee with Spawn avatars.... *testing my memory now*

Transient wrote:A couple people used Spawn icons, myself included.

DTS wrote:Remember blood.angel.

The last time he wrote a message to me on the forum he said I was the only one he knew on here.

DTS wrote:Turbanator, can't you put your Q3W archive online? Offline is no place for an archive of a website, is it? (Maybe a personal one, meh.) People complain that no-one can find the useful info that was on the forum and could be found through a search.

Chemical Burn wrote:Disclaimer: If you or some event isn't mentioned in this list, that is because A: I forgot. B: I didn't know that. C: You're not as important as you seem to think you are.
That said, here is the comprehensive (to the best of my ability) list of Great Q3W Moments.

Q3W Moments: Year One



Q3Test goes live. *security* becomes a reality.

WYD begins playing in Q3, after a long run with Half-Life. CyriC is your leader, and Dark Metal is your Daddy.

(A large gap of time Ceebee does not have any information on. Donny, raw? Fill in any blanks here!)

CWM makes it to 9999 posts, then leaves Q3W to start his own board, amid a great deal of contraversy.

John Rocker gets banned.

Dark Viper, the original Q3W admin leaves with a position taken with Infogrames. Caligirl becomes head admin, CyriC and then Turbie are brought on as Webmasters (basically co-admins).

Horka Thane begins his (maybe self-vaunted?) campaign of challenges against some of the board's top players.

Duhard starts putting the smack down on players here and elsewhere and at this time, is considered probably one of the board's best players (something, like it or not, he still is).

BDI is formed by Elk and Saturn.

Khalsa is formed.

Legion becomes a mod of R&R after a stint as being a GD mod, losing that slot, and coming on again to take that position.

Q3W Moments: Year Two



I post my first skin in General Discussion...a very hideous rendition of the Conni model called "Soul Catcher" that ends up being the start of "Bad Girls v1.0". (I'm listing this not as a pat on the back, but because it eventually leads to me petitioning for the then, Bots forum to get re-worked into Bots, Models and Skinning. That's important because it's considered to be a good community resource).

This is what I consider Q3W's highpoint. CG is running a ton of really cool contests, CyriC is managing the web side of the site and keeping the content interesting, and Turb's starting all the hacks that have made this place one of the best message boards out there.

The coming of Geoff. While some of you consider this a great thing, it is largely considered a black letter day by anybody who actually contributes anything to this forum.

The coming of sys0p. (Again, love him or hate him, he was a personality here, hence worth noting).

BT gets banned for another time, amid some contraversy involving a 'rumor' that he hacked the boards.

In March of 2000 there was a q3 instagib tourney, for icon prizes.. back when about 5 people had icons. "tofudabeast" won for the lpb, and "decaye" won the hpb tourney (on q3t3 ) it was mostly hosted on Torments server, and Storyteller ran the tourney.
Neither winner ever got their icon. There was talk at one point of extending the icons to the winning clans, CC and AI. nothing happened with that. (supplied by Thor).


Playboy writer Gillian Bonner comes to Q3W to do some research for an article she writes. Some of the posters are quoted in this article (including myself and milla ) though, it comes down to an extremely heated debate.

Duhard vs. the Nachos Chicks. Duhard and his team win by a sizable margin.

Paul Steed leaves id software, June 2000 in a rather heated contraversy.

Geoff vs. Duhard. Geoff wins.

Geoff gets banned and keeps on trying to come back with a series of predictable alt-nicks.

Horka Thane starts a huge hype campaign, about him entering the CPL tourney. It never happens. Horka pulls a fade.

GSI buys out Mplayer and much of the control over the site the community had is hacked away at. This leads to CaliGirl leaving. Turb becomes admin, CyriC becomes co-admin/webmaster, and Astrocreep is brought on as another co-admin. CyriC also fights tooth and nail here to keep Q3W largely the way it was (something he doesn't get a lot of credit for).

Team Arena is released.

Q3W Moments: Year Three




Geoff comes back again and is banned again within a week by CyriC.

BT comes back for awhile, and gets banned again by Astrocreep. (too bad some things don't stick).

After a lockdown of R&R and a huge contraversy, Astrocreep leaves Q3W and starts Mapcenter (considered to be one of the developer's havens these days).

milla is named Astrocreep's replacement. Her work primarily focused on making the forums more amicable (esp. the TA forum) and getting Skin of the Week turned around to Skin of the Moment, which she maintained herself as well.

An attempt to start a Q3W tourney starts, and falls flat on it's ass.

The All Your Base Craze.

Ben becomes mod and gets himself banned in the course of a week in the single stupidest Act by any Q3W poster.

milla leaves as co-admin for her own reasons.

The destruction of PicPie and the Sega Forums.

Kaiser gets banned for Doom Warez.

CyriC leaves as webmaster and begins work on Phobos Lab.

CyriC (in his last act as standing webmaster) and Turb nominate me as the new admin, so Turb can focus on doing more kickass hacks for the site.

I bring back milla as an equal power admin to myself (rather than co-admin) share responsibilities. I focused mainly on straightening out the forums, and milla focused on the website.

Wolf Test comes out.

The Nutsy Plague. A series of poorly drawn comics by STD General that gained a strong cult following in General Discussion, though despised by the majority. Eventually these were moved to their own site, rather than the weekly postings that had been the tradition.

charliealpha takes over Khalsa.

The Newbie Mapping Contest by Grandpa Stu and Booker.

The coming of Eonix/Methyd. (Like him or hate him, E was a big personality here.)

9/11

After a large pain in the ass trying to get prizes, I get the Christmas contest kicked off (little known fact: That was supposed to be a Halloween contest!)

Turb begins Ye Great Diablo II Movement.

Q3W Moments: Year Four



The List is created by Legion.

Methyd gets banned by yours truly for being a knucklehead to Turb.

Mumblez leaves the TA forum as a moderator after the "Great ShoutCAST" contraversy.

korupt is banned and tries to sneak on with a great outpour of alt-nicks not of the likes this board has seen, since Dave and raw. All are banned.

The Great -Replicant- spam contraversy.

The Movies forum is born.

Lots of forum changes go on during this time, by the collective efforts of Turb, milla and I. New icon rules, some tightening of rules in R&R, and some loosening of others.

The WDY contraversy.

The infamous Dutchee Thread.

GSI comes once again to tamper with Q3W. Milla leaves, I stay long enough to rally the community into a frenzy and to fight for as little change to the forums as possible (to this day, I'm really proud of you guys for having my back).

I name raw as co-admin, knowing I'm planning on retiring my post.

Eonix/Methyd gets unbanned, by yours truly.

The Drama Queen contraversy in R&R.

Once everything got settled, I retire as admin to focus on my pursuit as a texture artist/skinner, mostly (contrary to popular belief, the GSI thing only had a small bit to do with that choice). raw becomes your admin (and a pretty kickass one at that).

sys0p leaves Q3W to focus on learning programming.

The Q3W record attempt for a player tower is attempted. Transient's Official Explanation to it's eventual downfall as an attempt:
"It started with DC bringing up the possibility. People seemed interested, and somehow I got dropped with the weight of being in charge (I didn't intend it that way). Later, I got loads of schoolwork, and layed low from Q3W (had little choice or notice at the time), and nobody seemed to want to take charge after I relieved my position."


Methyd and Donny do the highly contraversial Q3W Poster's Choice Awards.

A gaggle of folks leave Q3W, including Methyd, who ends up coming back...sort of.

Paul Jaquays leaves id software and takes a position with Ensemble Studios.

Sporadic Horka Thane sitings.

The Q3W assault upon the Cliffy Cam billboard.

Methyd gets banned...again, for basically the same shit that got him banned the first time.

Community modeler/texture artist and beloved little sister to the entire Q3W community, Arya passes away at age 14.

Present.