Ever look through your old posts?

[Iroscato]

They can provide pretty good markers on where your mind was at that time. I used to be such a little prick just 3 years ago...
Anyone else get embarassed at their old shit?

[Broomstick]

Oh, hell yes, I get embarrassed about some shit both here and other places. There's a reason I like using an alias as opposed to my real name.

But other times I go back and I'm real proud of a well done argument or precise phrasing. I revisit old discussions I enjoyed having, topics I'm thinking about again, I'm always doing vanity searches on the boards I frequent.

[Borgholio]

They can provide pretty good markers on where your mind was at that time. I used to be such a little prick just 3 years ago...

Hell, sometimes I'm STILL a little prick...

But yeah, it's funny when I read back at my old posts and think, "God, what a fucking troll."

[Iroscato]

They can provide pretty good markers on where your mind was at that time. I used to be such a little prick just 3 years ago...

Hell, sometimes I'm STILL a little prick...

But yeah, it's funny when I read back at my old posts and think, "God, what a fucking toll."

Heh, I still have my moments. It must be kind of cool/sobering for the long-time members to do it, having a decade or so worth of posting to look back upon.

[Eleas]

Heh, I still have my moments. It must be kind of cool/sobering for the long-time members to do it, having a decade or so worth of posting to look back upon.

Well, it's something. I just realized I've been here for twelve years. It's slightly unnerving to read my older posts, truth be told.

[aerius]

Every once in a while if I'm bored. I'm definitely more crabby than I used to be.
I'm getting old and becoming more & more like my dad. This is a fucking scary thought.

[Eternal_Freedom]

I looked at some of my first ones from 2010 (jesus that was a while ago) and damn was I aggressive. I'd spent ages lurking here so I figured being aggressive alpha-male style poster was the way to fit in.

Luckily uni mellowed me out some so I'm no longer so bitter and twisted. Plus I realised you guys are really accepting so I didn't have to "fit in," I could just be me.

[Thanas]

If anybody is not the least bit embarrassed by looking at old posts then he or she did not put the time spent to good use.

[Iroscato]

Every once in a while if I'm bored. I'm definitely more crabby than I used to be.
I'm getting old and becoming more & more like my dad. This is a fucking scary thought.

I thought weed was supposed to chill you out?

[Tsyroc]

Every once in a while if I'm bored. I'm definitely more crabby than I used to be.
I'm getting old and becoming more & more like my dad. This is a fucking scary thought.

I thought weed was supposed to chill you out?

His older posts probably remind him how long he's been trying to get that threesome with his wife and her sister.

[Dartzap]

I do occasionally have a walk down memory lane. It contains so much idiocy that I usually run away again, worried the stupid may get back in no he'd and meek me lok dub one not. .......bugger

[Lord Revan]

yeah I watch my old posts it's kind of funny how different I was back then, I guess getting "used" to my depression issues worked wonders for me.

[aerius]

I thought weed was supposed to chill you out?

Not that much since I'm using it for pain management (yes it's legal, I have the license for it) as opposed to getting high as a kite.
If I upped my dosage I'd be pretty chill but I seriously don't think my employer would be too happy.

[Zor]

Frequently. It is refreshing to see far I've come.

Zor

[Iroscato]

It's also fascinating looking through the HoS archives. Invasions by Nazis, paedophiles, brain-dead bodybuilders...sometimes I think I was born a little too late - the internet seemed so much more fun/disturbing back then

[Guardsman Bass]

I'm pretty mortified by a lot of my very old posts.

[Darmalus]

It's a fantastic way to destroy any sense of nostalgia.

[TheFeniX]

Jedi-Outcast.com was the first forum I signed up on. It was a sad day when it closed. I routinely check(ed) my posting history to go over my arguments or just general opinions. But here, my posting is sporadic at best. For the most part though, I do well for myself because I don't like offering opinions of shit I don't know all that well.

One thing I hate is seeing a decent post I've written marred by me forgetting something at the time or not knowing about it. Also is when I catch a reply to one of my posts months/years after the fact. I'd necro a few threads on this forum if it'd do anything constructive.

[Patroklos]

I mainly discover that I used to really, REALLY like to talk about SW. Today, not so much.

[madd0ct0r]

for me, nothing's changed? damn.

[Ahriman238]

All the time, particularly in the newer Honorverse and Rifts threads where there's specific old information I'm trying to get for comparison purposes.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Oh, I was definitely a miserable little shit back then. Some people would probably argue I'm still one, now.

I don't think my behavior on THESE forums was ever all that bad, though there are some things I was definitely guilty of: idiotic over-aggressive posturing on subjects I didn't know that much about, unnecessary flaming, pointless +1 posts with terrible jokes, some horrible logic in some arguments I waded into, etc.

However, not long ago I went back and found the DiceTroll forums, which had been the first Internet forums I ever joined (back when they were called BlackOrc). That was back in 2002. Reading through my first posts over there was super depressing. I was such an ass for any number of reasons.

[RogueIce]

Absolutely.

It took me until the beginning of season 2 to discover just how magical friendship could be, after all. Very embarrassing indeed.

[Arthur_Tuxedo]

Sometimes I go searching for old posts to re-educate myself on a mostly forgotten subject, other times I stumble on an old post by accident. Either way, I generally walk away impressed when my old self was knowledge-dumping, and embarrassed when the subject was politics or relationships. I don't think my psyche could handle re-reading flame wars that I took part in.

[Soontir C'boath]

Not intentionally, but having looked at my post count, I do wonder how I accumulated so much and how much dumb shit I must have written given most of them were made before I went to university.