Hello AO, good to see you all. My name is Mike Eckert, and I used to be a very active member on this board many years ago, before the days of AGD ownership even. My handle on the board was "Vegeta", but I could not log in using that name so I made a new account to say hello.
I haven't been around in a long time, and so I do not even know if there are people around that remember me. I sure hope so, though. The boards used to be a bluish color, then went to the gray for a long time after the folks at AGD started to hang around, but now the look has changed again as it seems.
I used to be a automag newb on here, until I bought my first 68 mag. I couldn't tell you how long ago this was but I am guessing about 6 years or so.. maybe I am off. I can remember chatting on the IRC chat, and talking with online friends. Names I can remember are CPhilip, Army, Sara, SHartley, RobAGD, Miscue, and I'm sure I would recognize many many others if I saw the names.
I remember now how great of a board this was and how nice the people were, also in the chat. I remember I had a very slow computer (it was something like 300mhz) and the times were changing so I needed some new hardware but had no money for it. A forum moderator named Miscue was so kind that he boxed up a pretty much new condition Gigabyte motherboard (a very very nice one) and an AMD athlon 2000+ and shipped it to me from Nevada to Missouri, for free. I offered to at least give him something but he refused. I went on to use the computer made from those parts to do so much.
I also remember Tunaman, who I helped start up his website. A great guy who sent me several tidbit parts for me to toy with.
I haven't read the boards at all so I really hope people that were around are still around. I would love to exchange words to see what everyone is up to. The reason I fell away from here I guess was my weening paintball time combined with the fact that I formatted my harddrive and afterwards lost the cookie that had my saved password. I couldn't remember it and I could never, and still can't, login to the IRC chat anymore (is it still alive?). For a whole host of coincidences with old emails long gone and connection problem I got seperated from AO, and then slowly forgot about it. But not totally.
As far as I am know, I still have all of my paintball gear, including the original 68 Mag and in addition, a newer spyder Imagine that I traded some things for. I have never used it, as I got out of paintball about 3 years ago. I haven't played but maybe one game since then. Sad, but money had to goto other things.
I am writing this as I am moving tomorrow morning. I am going to be attending the University of Missouri Rolla. I guess I am just trying to catch up to old online groups I belonged to as this is sort of the turning point in my life. AO was the best of any group I was ever apart of online.
As far as where the money went from paintball, if any remember I was into web design and graphic arts as a hobby, and I think I even kept the pages on the AO server for a STL meet once. Well, that hobby became a small career in which I made a nice sum of money working online and at an art studio doing graphics work. But paintball for me was already winding down. So what did it go to? Well, I now own a '87 Porsche sportscar and spend my freetime with others of the same hobby. There is something similar between German engineering and AGD markers. Maybe that is what I saw in them all those years ago.
Well I was know to be long winded then and I am now. I will wrap this up, but if anyone out there remembers Vegeta, I'm back saying hello. I can't stay long, as I know nothing about paintball as far as today's markers and action goes, but I will check this thread if anyone wants to leave me a message. Or if SHartley wants to argue with me about something. Plus I still need to thank Miscue again for sending me those computer parts, I hope his Acura is running nicely.
Best wishes,
Mike Eckert, AKA Vegeta.
[email protected]
I haven't been around in a long time, and so I do not even know if there are people around that remember me. I sure hope so, though. The boards used to be a bluish color, then went to the gray for a long time after the folks at AGD started to hang around, but now the look has changed again as it seems.
I used to be a automag newb on here, until I bought my first 68 mag. I couldn't tell you how long ago this was but I am guessing about 6 years or so.. maybe I am off. I can remember chatting on the IRC chat, and talking with online friends. Names I can remember are CPhilip, Army, Sara, SHartley, RobAGD, Miscue, and I'm sure I would recognize many many others if I saw the names.
I remember now how great of a board this was and how nice the people were, also in the chat. I remember I had a very slow computer (it was something like 300mhz) and the times were changing so I needed some new hardware but had no money for it. A forum moderator named Miscue was so kind that he boxed up a pretty much new condition Gigabyte motherboard (a very very nice one) and an AMD athlon 2000+ and shipped it to me from Nevada to Missouri, for free. I offered to at least give him something but he refused. I went on to use the computer made from those parts to do so much.
I also remember Tunaman, who I helped start up his website. A great guy who sent me several tidbit parts for me to toy with.
I haven't read the boards at all so I really hope people that were around are still around. I would love to exchange words to see what everyone is up to. The reason I fell away from here I guess was my weening paintball time combined with the fact that I formatted my harddrive and afterwards lost the cookie that had my saved password. I couldn't remember it and I could never, and still can't, login to the IRC chat anymore (is it still alive?). For a whole host of coincidences with old emails long gone and connection problem I got seperated from AO, and then slowly forgot about it. But not totally.
As far as I am know, I still have all of my paintball gear, including the original 68 Mag and in addition, a newer spyder Imagine that I traded some things for. I have never used it, as I got out of paintball about 3 years ago. I haven't played but maybe one game since then. Sad, but money had to goto other things.
I am writing this as I am moving tomorrow morning. I am going to be attending the University of Missouri Rolla. I guess I am just trying to catch up to old online groups I belonged to as this is sort of the turning point in my life. AO was the best of any group I was ever apart of online.
As far as where the money went from paintball, if any remember I was into web design and graphic arts as a hobby, and I think I even kept the pages on the AO server for a STL meet once. Well, that hobby became a small career in which I made a nice sum of money working online and at an art studio doing graphics work. But paintball for me was already winding down. So what did it go to? Well, I now own a '87 Porsche sportscar and spend my freetime with others of the same hobby. There is something similar between German engineering and AGD markers. Maybe that is what I saw in them all those years ago.
Well I was know to be long winded then and I am now. I will wrap this up, but if anyone out there remembers Vegeta, I'm back saying hello. I can't stay long, as I know nothing about paintball as far as today's markers and action goes, but I will check this thread if anyone wants to leave me a message. Or if SHartley wants to argue with me about something. Plus I still need to thank Miscue again for sending me those computer parts, I hope his Acura is running nicely.
Best wishes,
Mike Eckert, AKA Vegeta.
[email protected]
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