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Robo
Formerly Roboman, still
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2012-06-19, 09:34

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Originally Posted by Capella View Post
As a kid, I'd played the wide plethora of educational games available at my school (Oregon Trail and the other Trails, Operation Neptune, several Super Solvers games...), but Myst was my first exposure to more mainstream video games. I played through it with my best friend and occasional hints from her mother, and while parts of it were over my head, the act of picking out a story solely by what was left behid was infectious. Then Riven came out and then her mom got the books, and I was forever down the rabbit hole. It was not the first thing I would say I was a fan of, but it was my first experience with participating in actual fandom with other people. I went from tentatively posting on a forum to moderating that forum, and now I'm doing an academic project on community within online fandoms that will be my college capstone. The amount of influence that game and its successors has had on my life is immeasurable.

Also, it has brought me many a fantastic friend.
That's sweet.




But god damn, that fucking pipe puzzle.
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