The Birthday thread: Rebirth

[Niku]

wait come back you forgot your present

oh man i love wild arms

[Mongrel]

Ahahahahahaha

Perfect.

[Friday]

If you had told ten year old me that one day there would be a JRPG that entirely copied Ennio Morricone's musical style I would have said "well yeah duh it's like the best music ever" and then did a quickdraw motion and made gunfire noises with my mouth

and yes i was watching that shit as young as ten, my dad loved westerns and had me watch them with him over my mom's objections to the violence, probably the only time my dad was right in an argument with my mom

[Friday]

Happy Birthday, Cait. I've been watching old Jeopardy lately and I always think about you.

[Friday]

Newbie.

[Friday]

(I expect at least five paragraphs explaining why it is not actually your birthday, thus confirming my suspicions that it is in fact your birthday, as you only get so wordy when accused of having a birthday when it is in fact your birthday.)

[Newbie]

There is a person named Jason Love who posted on this website under the username "Newbie" who had a birthday on March 29, yes. I am sure that, if he were here, that person would appreciate the birthday affirmation.

However! I am something different. At some impossible-to-define moment, I began exhibiting symptoms of an upper respiratory infection, and this so-called "cold" has transformed me into a thing I do not recognize. The skin of its face is peeling from having blown its nose so much. It is a creature of no age, or perhaps of every age, so wretched has its form become: it shifts, chameleonesque, showing at one moment the vigor of youth when running for tissues, yet at other times so contorted with paroxysms of coughing and reeking of unseemly odors that an observer might identify this as the decrepitude of the ancients.

Definitionally, a thing of no age or of every age cannot be described by something so mundane as a date of birth, and so I must object that yesterday was not my birthday, for I could not have experienced such an event.

If someone can find this other 'Newbie' and give him birthday wishes, so much the better, but I cannot receive them, for I am not him.

I think I had more to say here but I just realized it's like 2 AM on a work night, fuck, I should quaff some cough syrup and crash already PEACE

[Friday]

huh, alright I'm convinced

Guild

[Friday]

*Guild PMs every player and non-player on the boards seven times in response*

[Friday]

hey Niku

listen I'm down with your more recent works and shit, i love your simpsons memes, but i have been waiting for a long time for you to return to form and hit us with you best and most powerful artistic creation again

so yeah when can we get more adventures of Boobbuttboob

[Newbie]

Happy birthday, Niku! I hope it's a good one.

[Niku]

damn runes of magic is still up apparently so boobbuttboob could strike back at any time

[Büge]

Happy birthday, Niku!

[Friday]

[Friday]

Happy Birthday Buge! Hope you have a good one.

[Mongrel]

Happy birthday to both Thad and Jimmy Carter!

[joke about about 'Thad Carter' goes here]

[Friday]

Thad is the answer.

For the next 365.25 days, at least.

[Friday]

Friday: age 9

[Friday]

Sometimes I'll notice a birthday from a poster who doesn't post anymore and hasn't for years (or even over a decade) and it feels like a ghost haunting the forums. Old memories come seeping back in through the cracks. I wonder sometimes if there are old members who are still around every once in awhile, who just lurk, never posting. And the thing is, very very occasionally, this actually turns out to be true. It makes me feel kinda good, like maybe you CAN go home again. I know the forums and the community we had in the 2000s are gone, forever turned to dust by the passage of time and facebook, but they're still alive in all their fucked up glory in my head.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Glames.

[Mongrel]

I'll never forget that one avatar Glames used to have. You know the one.