How did you discover 4BG?

[fartyParty]

I don't know if there has been a thread started like this in the past, but I'm interested to know: How did other people find 4BG?

[Simon]

I met Miles in the Melbourne Uni toilets. I had a small bag of crack and a raging hardon, he had a sniffly nose and penchant for "glory holes"... the rest is history!

[Ches]

Well, Tim suggested that we start a webiste one night, and sugegsted it be called "4 Bitter Guys"- we apathetically grunted the affirmative, and the next thing we knew Tim had registered the domain and was hassling us to help him get it set up. Micahel wrote a bunch of amusingly gross content, the rest of us put in a token effort and the site slowly took shape. Late, i scammed a copy of UBB from work and we put up a forum. Sometime later PlayNOW! fell over and a heap of users moved here. We moved across to PHPBB and the site continued to grow. Eventually even Michael got the shits with writing articles and gave it up for a bad joke. Somewhere in there those treacherous bastards gave me the flick in favour of the eminent and vastly more amusing Adam. Also, Ilce called us ugly.

[fartyParty]

I discovered it while Googling "CNNNN" and "Craig Reucassell, Chris Taylor" back in 2003. The 4 Bitter Guys post was about the 3rd result and contained this gem...
Aus: Mel & Charlie to be replaced
After reading it, I joined immediately.

[Bustybonnie]

I discovered 4BG because Ches and I were an item.

But everyone knows that already

[Gullible]

I'm a refugee from Playnow!, which was in turn a refuge from the old Gamenation forums, which were the first forums I ever bothered frequenting regularly.

Which is sad, considering the state of those forums today...

[Miles]

You're from PN/Gamenation? What was your nick?

[Gamma]

I remember posting here under a different username ages ago when there was about a dozen or so members... I can't remember why I originally joined, but I re-registered and stayed when PlayNOW choked.

I hope at least one person found this place via the Pool Room.

[westical]

I searched for cocaine home nudity on Google one day.

Or came here when PN was hacked.

[Beer_Belly]

I was a refugee of PlayNOW HACK #1

[Dan]

I've been friends with Simon for years. He told me someone was talking about my Halo efforts at the Starcity AMD launch, so I came on here to brag. There were quite a few funny people in that thread so I read around a bit and found a lot of people to be halarious.

I've been on and off browsing this ever since.

[Karsten]

Well I count at least 3 spelling mistakes in my post - fuck I'm terrible. I wonder if people who haven't met me think I have a speech impediment. Actually forget that, I know the ones I have met me think I do at the best of times.

My story? I went to uni with Miles (where we did German together). And as is Miles' want, he hassles. And hassles. And if you don't do what he wants, he'll hassle you some more. Eventually you decided to do what he wants as you're afraid of being hassled to death. So I joined the forum. I think by that stage I knew Miles for a year and a bit and Michael, Ches, Bustybonnie, Suse as well. Met a lot of the other Melbourne crew at a 'games night' (my first) 18 months ago I think. And a lot of the Sydney crew in February last year when Miles and I drove up for a short holiday.

PS - I still think Rosie should die - fuck I still can't listen to request fest or whatever it is now. Die bitch. Die.

[friick]

I'm yet another Playnow refugee. Still post there now though...

[FNM]

I was searching for a pic of Lynx Accelerate, to put as my MSN display pic... in order to show everyone just how much I loved it. I came across an article written by Michael himself detailing his struggle with accelerate and ultimate switch to voodoo. I had a look around and it seemed superior to any other forums I'd come across, so I stayed.

[emptyvessel]

I'm a Playnow refugee. Originally joined Playnow because jonty sent me a ICQ message telling me someone on there in Mildura was selling a Dreamcast.

I joined the forum, bought the Dreamcast, hung around and jonty is a slack fuck. The rest is history.

[ren]

when i first met kars and marc they kept talking about this 4bg thing, so i asked marc what it was and he explained it was a forum full of nerds that piss and moan about all sorts.

so i signed up.

[ren]

[Adam]

PlayNOW was my haunt, then this site started and I posted at both. A while later some of the admins at PlayNOW reverted to their infant years and ran the site accordingly, and as a result it was no longer enjoyable. I stayed on here.

Before or after that time, the guys said to me 'be a bitter guy' and I said 'okay', and went spastic writing articles like there was no tomorrow. During and following a chronic bout of depression of which I think everyone's familiar but nobody knows the more frightening details, my contributions nosedived. Fortunately, so did everyone else's.

Before or after that time, PlayNOW went down indefinitely. Under the auspice of a certain PlayNOW admin, 4BG became a proxy PlayNOW to bridge the gap. When PlayNOW returned to service a few months later 4BG had become very busy, and few people returned to PlayNOW. As a result, aforementioned PlayNOW admin decided it was our fault PlayNOW was quiet and got dirty with us for stealing his user base, to the point of banning any mention of 4BG at PlayNOW. This is where the association ended.

Before or after that time, I fought with Miles, Tim and Michael, Miles fought with me, Tim and Michael, Michael fought with me, Miles and Tim, and Tim fought with me, Miles and Michael. The fighting continues but we all love each other. Awww.

[KingForADay]

I'm another ODWF/Gamenation refugee that ended up on Playnow. Got referred here and found it far less painful to read. Thus, I hung around for a bit.

[Nomis]

ummmm. i cant remember, but im sure it was really stupid.

[Pop]

[gavin]

I got on here through a link from http://www.jasonrivera.com. Exciting, no?
No.

[unfnknblvbl]

PlayNOW refugee here - I've since found that both places appeal to me, so I try to stay out of any inter-site flame wars that may or may not happen.
However, I keep wondering why PlayNOW hasn't collapsed in on itself yet... it's kind of surreal

[Playnow evacuee]

I didn't come here from playnow like half you dickheads seem to have.....


wait....


shit.

[Michael]

All evidence points to a third forum which is influencing PlayNOW's irregular content, but when we look, the ghost forum simply isn't there. We do not completely understand the universe around us, but I have full faith in modern physics and believe we will discover the mystery behind PlayNOW some day.