DreamTheaterForums.org Dream Theater Fan Site
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Manolito Mystiq on June 23, 2013, 02:13:21 PM
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I became a Dream Theater fan, back in the second half of 2001 when I met some guys who were part of our school musical and recommended me some songs and albums. The website had the Scenes from a Memory design. I really liked the Vocalists section, because I started to do a lot with singing, since I was starring in a musical and since I wanted to sing all this DT and Queensr˙che stuff. Martin Dahlberg, a.k.a. Maestro, was such a cool member.
The musicians sub forums disappeared, and it became just a general musicians forum.
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Been a fan of Dream Theater since Images and words and was a member of the old forums to chat with like-minded DT fans. I migrated over to this one when the old one died.
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I came here looking for recommendations on which DT albums I should get next.
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I've been getting back into Dream Theater in the end of 2011/beginning of 2012 because for some time after the split I couldn't stand hearing anything theirs/about them, but the thread from there to forum joining is kind of blurry. I don't know why I searched for a new forum to join, but I remember thinking "why don't I look up if DT has official forums? They're my favorite band, after all!" and afterwards I just lurked for a month after I found you guys because you were unbelievably cool and I was stunned at how the "hive mind" had my exact sense of humor + all that wonderful diversity and I was too intimidated by the coolness of this place :mora:
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I wanted a place to bitch about the United States Postal Service refusing to deliver my package of Black Clouds and Silver Linings for a few days because they had too many packages from the same distributor and were pissed off.
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I'm awesome, and this place was awesome, so it seemed like a good fit. :neverusethis:
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I joined to chat with fellow DT fans. I didn't know any DT fans in the town where I grew up (being a town of 20,000 people). I joined in 2000 when I was in college and had readily accessible internet.
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I was told there was lots of girls here.
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Found the forums through a search for something Dream Theater related on the internet. I signed up after a few days of lurking because of the people here. This place has the best community on any forum I've seen.
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Dream Theater discussion group? The only thing better is if I could find one IRL... like that's ever gonna happen...
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I just like to join forums I guess, more to read and more to write. Not that it was random, as I am a DT and music in general fan, but it kinda seemed like a nice extra forum.
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I honestly cannot remember how I cam across the old DT.net site. I believe I was looking for the official DT discussion forum and found this place...and did absolutely no posting until the switch to dtforums.org. Even then, I think I lurked for quite a bit. Funny that even on the internet I was shy... Hm. Either way, I fell in love with the community and the fact that it was very...homely. It still is, and despite the fact that many of the founding members have come and gone, there's still plenty of folks here that don't even know I was around and yet I remember them clear as air. It's...strange, to have that feeling of familiarity that others don't feel at all because I was experiencing it through the looking glass, so to speak.
Either way, I'm sure the original intent was to simply discuss some DT album material, whatever album was out at the time (6 degrees, I believe?). It grew to be much more than that. :heart :police:
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Oh man, that's such a long time ago!
I think what happened was that some buffoon on a horseless carriage told me about a musical play band called "Dream Theatre". I mounted my Pennyfarthing and bought the wax cylinder with WDADU on it for a sixpence.
That's how long me joining DTF is ago.
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I was obsessed with DT, though I haven't been to the DT section for a couple years at this point.
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Technically I became a member of DTF because the old DTF became not DTF. :neverusethis:
I was told there was lots of girls here.
You misunderstood. What we said was "we have lots of young virgins". It's not our fault if you read into that wrong.
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:rollin
Remember Kazaa? I was actually ORIGINALLY introduced through that because I searched for...well, there's no way I'm going to remember the exact song but it had the word 'prison' in it, and this came up in the Kazaa que, literally: "PRISON OF GLASS - DREAM THEATRE". And that led to me searching Yahoo (NOT google....bwahaha) for that exact wording and it brought up the forums... Funny how dredging up some memories will open up more. Liquor probably helps...or...does it? I don't know. What the fuck.
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When I decided I'd finally had enough trying to get along with MP.com, I looked for a new forum. Not sure why, but I googled "dream theater forums" and not surprisingly this was the first hit. Once I found that there was a P/R subforum here, I pretty much moved in.
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I like Dream Theater, and Heretic said I should join
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One look into bosk1's dark eyes and I was his for the taking.
Well, I lurked for years but never joined until 2008. I don't have an answer to why I didn't join earlier.
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I've been around since the Scenes from a Memory theme also. Seemed like a cool place to discuss Dream Theater and other bands.
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When Scenes from a Memory came out, the tour was coming to town. I was in love with that disc and wanted to know more. I thought the splitting of the sites was the most ridiculous and immature drama, and I wanted nothing to do with it, so I stayed away until a few months ago.
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Portnoy jumped ship, so I came from his board to this one with a bunch of other members. And you guys have been a fun group these past few years. :tup
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My first 'forum' was over at MP's place and I was fairly active in there for a while. I joined here but initially wasn't very involved or active.....and then when the whole 'break up' happened I gravitated to DTF just because the atmosphere over at MP's place was strange to say the least. I started participating here more and more and actually a year or so ago I deleted my facebook account...had the mods at MP's place delete my account and I even asked TempusVox to delete my account here because I was kind of 'fed up' with online junk. I'm very thankful that Tempus told me that he wasn't going to delete my account. I took a good 6 month hiatus and didn't start posting again until I saw a thread KirksNoseHair started on 'self banning'. I commented in there because of the self ban I had enacted. Been fairly active in here I think ever since.
Really enjoy the folks in this place......
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I got really, really tired of GamesFAQs metal.
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I needed something to keep open in another tab incase I got caught looking at porn. Something that would be the exact opposite of porn.
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I saw a terrible thread on another forum about this same subject and figured I could escape those kinds of threads over here.
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I like message boards, and I was just getting into DT so I checked to see if they had one. They did.
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I had no clue about message boards a bit over four years ago, but an old boss of mine kept talking about all the funny shit that happened on the Van Halen links, so I went to find a home of my own. Joined Yessfans and got bored out of my mind. Went to my second favorite band, DT, and joined. Within a week, I knew I had come home. :heart
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YesFans used to be much, much cooler, like five or six years ago. But a bunch of the really cool people left, and some of the more dickish people have relentlessly stayed on. There's still some cool people left, but it's not like it used to be. It didn't help that Yes took a huge break, and after going years without any new music to dissect, it did get boring, which is why so many people left.
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I was trying to find info on the radio city show, so started hanging and got hooked
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I became a DT fan in 2007 and decided I wanted to join a discussion forum about said band. I found DTF and lurked a bit until I registered in February 2008.
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YesFans used to be much, much cooler, like five or six years ago. But a bunch of the really cool people left, and some of the more dickish people have relentlessly stayed on. There's still some cool people left, but it's not like it used to be. It didn't help that Yes took a huge break, and after going years without any new music to dissect, it did get boring, which is why so many people left.
Plus the forum itself is such a trainwreck. There are billions of subforums, it's impossible to follow anything.
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I joined Voices.uk in like late '09. The site was pretty much dead. I wound up browsing around the web and found this place. :JayOctavarium:
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I had been a DT fan for a couple of months and was looking for a forum where I could discuss their music, so I ended up here after lurking for a while.
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I like message boards, and I was just getting into DT so I checked to see if they had one. They did.
That's it.
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I like message boards, and I was just getting into DT so I checked to see if they had one. They did.
That's it.
Yeah, pretty much the same for me too.
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I became a DT fan in 2005. Used to go in the old chat room on DT.net, and eventually in 09 I found the forums. I came here to spread my happiness and cheer with all who breathe!
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YesFans used to be much, much cooler, like five or six years ago. But a bunch of the really cool people left, and some of the more dickish people have relentlessly stayed on. There's still some cool people left, but it's not like it used to be. It didn't help that Yes took a huge break, and after going years without any new music to dissect, it did get boring, which is why so many people left.
Plus the forum itself is such a trainwreck. There are billions of subforums, it's impossible to follow anything.
That's a valid complaint, and I agree with it, but what I've discovered is that it doesn't matter past the first day.
With any forums, my starting point is the Control Panel (here at DTF it's "Show new replies to your posts"). First thing I'm interested in is the threads I'm following, and there they all are. After that, I use New Posts ("Show unread posts since last visit") to see what's been posted lately. Doesn't matter what subforum they're in; there they all are. I prefer forum software that lets you "subscribe" to a thread without posting in it, but if they don't support that (such as right here at DTF), I post something, just so it will show up in my CP from that point on.
So once you've done the initial scan of whatever forums and subforums you might be interested in (which is admittedly a pain but it's just a one-time thing), the internal structure of the forums themselves doesn't matter. Just start with your CP and check "New Posts" and you don't miss anything.
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With any forums, my starting point is the Control Panel (here at DTF it's "Show new replies to your posts"). First thing I'm interested in is the threads I'm following, and there they all are. After that, I use New Posts ("Show unread posts since last visit") to see what's been posted lately. Doesn't matter what subforum they're in; there they all are. I prefer forum software that lets you "subscribe" to a thread without posting in it, but if they don't support that (such as right here at DTF), I post something, just so it will show up in my CP from that point on.
I have never used any of those options.
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I'd been lurking for a while and wanted to talk about On The Backs Of Angels when it was released, so I finally became a member. Had been lurking for a couple years on and off, though fairly regularly after MP left the band.
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I discovered the site after MP left, I was looking for info and this site popped up on Google. Now I'm not able to leave now.
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With any forums, my starting point is the Control Panel (here at DTF it's "Show new replies to your posts"). First thing I'm interested in is the threads I'm following, and there they all are. After that, I use New Posts ("Show unread posts since last visit") to see what's been posted lately. Doesn't matter what subforum they're in; there they all are. I prefer forum software that lets you "subscribe" to a thread without posting in it, but if they don't support that (such as right here at DTF), I post something, just so it will show up in my CP from that point on.
I have never used any of those options.
It just seems the most efficient to me. Why navigate through several subforums when a single click gets you all the threads you're following, or anything new that anyone has posted?
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One look into bosk1's dark eyes and I was his for the taking.
You are one of many.
My story is, after LSFNY came out, I was on DT.net a few times browsing the forums and the merch pages to try to snag one of the "sold out" tour soccer jersies. I kept checking back to see if they got more of the jersies in stock, but they never did. On a whim, I called the customer service number, and the woman I spoke to said she actually had one single one left that was sitting in a box, and she would be happy to send it to me. A friend of mine's son had just started to REALLY get into DT at the time, and he was there when I made the call. He was really disappointed that they only had one shirt left, so when it came, I decided to give it to him. Anyway, my trips to the site got me lurking on the forum, and I eventually signed up sometime during the SDOIT cycle.
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I was looking for the album art for DT12 (as if I would have found it anywhere) and stumbled upon this thread on google: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=35334.0
I instantly registered, and waited for a couple of weeks before I finally was let in.
Then I made this: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=35334.msg1561676#msg1561676
This: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=35334.msg1578299#msg1578299
and this: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=35334.msg1581816#msg1581816
While commenting on the in-studio thread throughout
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Er, well, I hate to admit this, but it's the truth. I was a pretty regular member over at MP.com. But a couple of years ago I really fucked up. I hadn't had a drink of alcohol in quite a long time, but I relapsed. It was a long, slow slide that, like a snowball going down a hill, went faster and faster and got bigger and bigger and....well, let's just say I made a complete asshole of myself, burned a really good burgeoning friendship with someone over there and ended up getting (deservedly, I must admit) banned in the process. I suppose in some ways it was actually a good thing because not too long after that I got my head out of my ass and hopped back on the wagon where I've been ever since.
Anyway, I had been a member here for a while, but hadn't posted much. I was a member at the old DT.net back in the day, but never posted much over there either. When I got the bum's rush from the purple place, and after the dust had settled a bit, I started poking around here a bit more and took a liking to the folks here. And that's how it happened that I ended up here. I think when I first came here a lot of people thought I was just here to pimp my band, but I really was looking for a fresh start somewhere and I'm glad it worked out. Good group of people here. :)
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FWIW, I didn't think you were here to pimp the band. I have lurked on MP.com and Neal Morse's board forever, but rarely post. I kind of knew you from both places. When you started posting here, I figured, "well, it's about time." :lol I think my last time posting on Neal's forum was about the time we did the TransImperial forums April Fools prank just before TA did the Whirlwind tour. Wish you could have seen that--it was truly epic.
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I originally was a member at DT.net not sure of the year maybe 2001/2001. I then joined MP.com due to a friend and I posted some over there, but none after the MP drama. I just didn't feel comfortable over there either. I came here after I got out of rehab. I had another good friend here KNH and soon came good friends with lonestar. It just feels more like people care here then at MP.
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I don't even like DT but i had a PC and Internet... so, what the fuck!
But really it was to chat with like-minded people and learn stuff i didn't know about DT
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I googled Dream Theater forums after I bought some tickets to the 2011 gig in Leeds. Found it's an alright site, so stayed.
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The Devil made me do it :metal
But seriously, I'm a fan since I&W but back then we had no internet. Much later I would only visit the official site looking for news. I stumbled upon DTF when Mike Portnoy quit and I googled for more information. Then I lurked for some time an finally decided to join about a year ago. That's all there is.
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I had lost contact with DT pretty much between '98 and '04 (got married, had kids). Got reconnected late in '04 when I stumbled upon info on a new release coming up. Found dt.net, and posted there for a bit. Wasn't involved enough to know about the drama between here and 5/8 group. I knew the board was shut down, but didn't take too much note of it. When dtf.org came online, I was in like Flynn.
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Dream Theater was my obsession at the time, so I joined up.
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I was in some boring French lesson. And then I started browsing the internet secretly on my phone. I was looking up a countdown for best Dream Theater songs. Why? Idk. Then I discovered this badass site. I joined. And that's how it started. I love this fucking site. :)
I wanna hump this forum and start getting emotional.
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I know Bosk1 AFK, and he had introduced me to SDOIT and Awake (The former hooked me, the latter took some time). We then went to a DT show in SF for the ToT tour, and I became a lurker on DT.net for a couple years, checking in every once in awhile. Since 8V was released, I've started spending more time here.
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We then went to a DT show in SF for the ToT tour
For some reason, when I think back to that show, I keep forgetting it was you and thinking it was Travis.
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We then went to a DT show in SF for the ToT tour
For some reason, when I think back to that show, I keep forgetting it was you and thinking it was Travis.
??? :'(
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We then went to a DT show in SF for the ToT tour
For some reason, when I think back to that show, I keep forgetting it was you and thinking it was Travis.
??? :'(
I think it's because you white people all look the same. :neverusethis:
...or it's just that I went to 3 DT shows with Travis in years prior to that, and I just have memories of that time period of what a huge DT fanatic he was back then.
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ITT: bosk calls FW another man's name during sex.
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:lol
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I was a fan of Dream Theater, but I actually joined the forum because of how impressed I was of the General Music section and how wide a variety there was on bands discussed. :tup
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ITT: bosk calls FW another man's name during sex.
Oh yeah, right, like YOU'VE never...uh...yeah... :blush
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"Jerry" and "Gerald" are similar enough. Just be glad I sprang for the Golden Corral.
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I sprang for the Golden Corral.
Which shocked me, because I've been raised to believe that the man usually pays. But, hey, I'm always open to new ideas.
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I sprang for the Golden Corral.
Which shocked me, because I've been raised to believe that the man usually pays. But, hey, I'm always open to new ideas.
Yes you were...
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:corn
I always did like to watch...
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DTF was actually the first big international forum that I registered on that wasn't a Swedish-site, and the first band/music-related forum I became a member on. It was a big deal for me then, and I was a huge fan of DT, and wanted to share my love for them with other people.
Over the years I feel like I have changed a lot as a person, but this place is still cool, and I still like posting here, despite not being as much into DT as I used to. I feel like I started out as a very immature troll on this forum, which gave a lot of people a very negative view of me, as a person who tried to get people react by stating shocking things, trolling and so on. There might still be people who look at me like that, so in that sense I really regret not being more mature when I made my account here (and for the first 1-2 years), but I feel like I have changed for the better over the years, and I still like a lot of the people here.
Despite popular belief, I still enjoy what I consider to be the best DT-albums; SFAM, Awake and 6DOIT. They are all great albums to me, and I still think they are pretty sweet. There are also albums in their discography that I don't really like at all, but I can still talk about DT in a positive way, just based on the great albums alone.
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Dream Theater was my obsession at the time, so I joined up.
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I went to the 2006 Octavarium show at Radio City Music Hall in NY. After that, I was at the peak of my DT obsession and was looking for other fans. So I guess I joined early April 2006 on DT.net.
This was the first forum I joined, and its still the one I spend the most time at, even though I don't leave General Discussion and PR. I don't listen to DT as much anymore (I listen to less music in general now) and I haven't even bought their last 2 albums (and just found out now they are recording another.)
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I have a computer and Internet connection so what the fuck.
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I asked Google if there was such a thing as a website made from bacon. This was the closest suggestion.
Oh and I've been a fan of the band since '93. Was an infrequent poster at the dt.net forum before it got closed down. Have posted ocassionally on JP's forum. MP's forum is not for me and to be brutally honest I can't get along with the colour scheme.
What keeps me lurking here though is I really believe that this website really is the epitome of what internet humour should be. I think the DT fans here are very witty..........apart from when they're not.
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I've been a fan since the I&W days. I joined the official forum during the SFAM days. I had kids in '01 and '03 and missed the 6Ds and ToT tours in the process. When LaB came out, it really reinvigorated my interest in DT, and I rejoined the forum at that point again.
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I was just getting into Mastodon and was looking at different album rankings around the net, the Mastodon thread over in General Music popped up. I started reading the other threads and the various Top 50 threads really caught my attention and I wanted to do one of my own.
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I have a computer and Internet connection so what the fuck.
:lol :rollin :lol :rollin :lol
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Listen, Mano, you can't just post the same thread on every forum you post on. lol.
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I've been a DT fan since '92. I joined the Ytsejam Mailing List in '95, then reluctantly migrated over to the MP.com forum in '99, when it became apparent that that was the new best place to get DT info ASAP. After the MP/DT split, I started looking for a new place to get DT info, and somehow found this forum. (I think maybe someone mentioned it on MP.com.) So, I decided to share my thread-killing abilities with this forum.
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srs answer:
joined dt.net/bb in 2002
got a username here after the split
posted infrequently ever since, only because I know a small handful of people here.
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I was originally a member at DT.net until they shut it down TG. Decided to join DTF in Aug 2007 shortly after the split. However, the main reason is that I've been a fan almost since the beginning (1992).
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I actually started out at The Purple Place (mp.com). There was a point in time where it was THE place to go for DT news. After the split, it got really weird there (I still stayed on, but it got to a point where I just... left). I didn't find DTF right away - hung out at a casual game forum, but I got bored with that due to their rules applying to some people and not to everyone and most everyone there didn't know who DT was (there was one gal who knew who Porcupine Tree was, though). That, and the gaming forum was mostly older ladies so...
FINALLY registered for this lovely place in late 2011. Should've registered sooner, as DTF is the best them, ever.
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I actually started out at The Purple Place (mp.com). There was a point in time where it was THE place to go for DT news. After the split, it got really weird there (I still stayed on, but it got to a point where I just... left). I didn't find DTF right away - hung out at a casual game forum, but I got bored with that due to their rules applying to some people and not to everyone and most everyone there didn't know who DT was (there was one gal who knew who Porcupine Tree was, though). That, and the gaming forum was mostly older ladies so...
FINALLY registered for this lovely place in late 2011. Should've registered sooner, as DTF is the best them, ever.
>game forum
>older ladies
does not compute.
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I agree. It's hard to know what's greater than "game forum" or "older ladies" when there aren't any terms preceding them.
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The key word about the gaming forum was CASUAL (as in easy games :lol ).
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Dream Theater was my obsession at the time, so I joined up.
Me too. When I joined back in 04 (I think. Wow, almost 10 years here), I was really in to forums. DT.net was one of at least a dozen that I was into at the time. I still belong to a bunch, and lurk on many daily, but DTF is the only one I'm really involved in.