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poking around in Google found me this little gem, a history of Descent by Sirian- very good read as always (Sirian is probably the most prolific Descent commentator ever .

http://www.buef.com/games/Descent/History.htm

DUDE! Yur famous!

oh.. btw, some of those groups' health status need to be updated.

There was a discussion about this a while ago started by this thread Clicky

Which in turn led to this thread...Clickyx2

hehe. Always fun reading it every once and a while though. Brings back memories.

This makes me seem like a complete n00b... heh. I only showed up about two years after the story began.

tyranny: thanks for the links- good to remember that stuff occasionally.. which brings up the question- am I the only old PPG member left around here? Anyone?

I remember getting awards for beating up on PPG members back during my DMC days. Didn't have very many of them, was never easy

http://www.buef.com/games/Descent/History.htm

It's been 10 years?!?! Stop making me feel old.

Just in the middle of the "gold rush" as it were. Two main popular clans were GOP and XPG. I was trying to get into GOP at the time but they were having civil war. When two GOPers, Salient and Breadman wanted to start a new clan with me and Sharpie. Another guy who joined from GOP, who most of you know well was 8-bit. I was a little sad to see that PSF didn't make it in Clicky's posts. I know we didn't last long but we got to know and learn from most of the descent greats and earned a respect as a clan with very honorable players.

whoops....I am so sorry J. Damn...that was stupid of me.

I was rushing to write that at the time and didn't intentionally leave out PSF. Now I feel really embarrassed. All of the PSFers have been great to me while I've known them. Especially you, sharpie and bread. It's kinda funny that I didn't mention you guys considering that I had asked to join sometime in '99.

The reason I remember it was because I believe you guys had an age limit for membership and I was too young (18 back then) and had already been on kali for a few years . Being 24 now its a good memory looking back, brings a smile to my face. Which is why I cannot believe for the life of me why I left you guys out...

Anyways...my apologies once again J. Tell Sharpie I said hi If I ever make an official write-up combining Sirian's list with mine PSF will definitely be on there.

Tyranny wrote:I remember getting awards for beating up on PPG members back during my DMC days. Didn't have very many of them, was never easy

You failed to mention WHY it was so hard- we hardly ever played on open Kali servers, once we got our lazy butts out of IRC!
Really, Sirian hit the nail on the head- we were a bunch of elietists that didn't mix well with the usual Kali crowd, and that, I think, is the main reason why the PPG is dead. Without a new flux of membership, any organization is doomed.

That was one reason. The other was that every PPG member I did end up playing was shortly after I had just started playing online for the first time

They were all pilots I had a great deal of respect for. The same goes for the group as a whole. Can't hold the elitism thing against them, everyone on Kali was a Kali descent elitist too

Oh, I didn't realize that Clicky's post was you. If it was, you should be ashamed. Just kidding OH sorry bout the age limit thing. We thought it would be better to have 21 & older clan. You saw what happened when Destiny joined our clan on the sneak Anyways, glad you guys are still around.

"Clicky" is just a generalized request to "Click here"

Heh! By the time I reach that age I'll have been playing Descent online for 10 years...

Not that far away actually...

ppg and dmc AH! the memories heh!

I just wanna say hi to present/former UFers..
I miss you guys

TobyCat
LoNi_
DESTINY
Paralysis
kurupt
Zyanid
KidThunder
Retribution
Sickness
Manson
MadJack
Delirium
Drakona
Lothar
CREEK
Kumba
Avilyn
Epikrupto
l33tn00b
Xenocide
DESTROYER
Nitrate
Daz
kufyit
Sin
Cobra
PaVel96
ChaosWing
ZoSo
Hypnosis
KrazyK
master
Warrior
Pox
Qui-Gon
stupe
Warrior
Zeek
sfuzzi
deimos
Birdseye
@ldak
Grudge
Modak
Slurpy
Trojin
Warmaster
krutch
Buddha
Freak0
Friction
EgaD
IM_GOOD
Everyone
Vallax
Psyllo
Legion
Bubble
realm
Satan/Spread97
Alfa
Humle
Warlord
juggernaut
Djcjr
BliTzD

i'm sure i left some peeps out...not on purpose though.. i'm just old!

wow, lots of aliases listed

I still have no clue who l33tn00b was... heh...

Jediluke wrote:I just wanna say hi to present/former UFers..
I miss you guys

...
Kumba
...

i'm sure i left some peeps out...not on purpose though.. i'm just old!

Wait a minute, Kumba was let in to UF?

That removes any credibility UF ever had as a legitimate elitist clan.

kumba was our most talented player!...he IS the reason our clan was considered elitist.


*I* know who l33tn00b was
He's listed in there by his 'real' nick already.

which doesn't narrow it down at all... since I already know the list of guys he *could* be. TC said he'd tell me when we LANned up in Victoria, but he never got around to it...

That was a very entertaining read

FiendAngelical ... uh oh! Cat's outta da bag!
=)