Any of the friendly faces still here?

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Hi guys!

I doubt anyone around these parts remember me. I have taken some time off paintball, but am now back in the game, I figure, of all places why not make a return to AO! So this is just a friendly hello.

Catch you guys later.

[personman]

I was wondering where you went.
WB.. but AO has changed

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

I remember you.

You are one of the few people who's name lenght rivals mine.

[pputkowski]

Yes, AO is garbage.

But at least i'm still here to poke fun.

Still have the timmy?

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Really?!?! AO is garbage? Why? what happened to all the good times? Anyone want to give me the scoop as to what has went on?

[pputkowski]

Election 2004 basically...

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

really? What happened to the good ol "No polotics no religion" policy?

[pputkowski]

As long as it's republicans bashing demo's it's ok on ao.

Pffft.....religion, hah

[MonsterMag]

yeah ao is turning to a clone of "PBnation"
People are becoming alot ruder,stuipid, smart mouthed and just plain jerks

That is about 80% of ao , the rest of us are nice

[personman]

What? The election had nothing to do with it as far as I can remember, maybe I missed something.
I was thinking of some individuals who think they are e-cool by posting random things and making smart comments. No names though, you'll figure it out.
That, and TK left. That sucks.

[pputkowski]

Ok, maybe not the election as much as politics in general over the past year...AO is very one-sided.

[wes]

holler back, i stopped posting cause everyone looks like a moron, but i do stalk. very very often.


this helps alot:

[GT]

I remeber j00,

AO is not going to crap. We just have an influx of n00bies because of mags becoming abit more popular. Nothing wrong with that.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Well,

After talking wtih pputkowski a bit on aim. I seems that all of you "AO Noobs" should be ashamed of yourselfs. Firstly, if you do not know who I am, then let me introduce myself. I'm "The sponge". The name originally came from a AO chat party, from which I hear is now no longer a event. Then the days of the revolutions came. Damn, these were some good days. There was pie, and for a brief period I do believe there was pepper, which me and Joker took over. However, the starter of all this was "Wang" and to be a member of wang you had to be like a "l33t hAx0R".

After this there was the anti-revolution revolution, which at this point it all became played out and sort of faded. During this time, one of you found the link to the "l33t" translator which I made a reference too above.

During these days there were many of chat partys to keep the AO goodness going. Everyone was friendly, infact, the only non-friendly thing that went on around here, were the post wars!

THE DAY OF THE POST WHORES!
They posted and it was good. I do believe the biggest post whore of them all was the one and only pyro. Along with numerous others, forgive me for not knowing your name off the top of my head. Then there was the deletion of post counts. Many of you got your post count deleted by cphil.

At this point AO, was the best and most friendly, online paintball community on the net. Listen up a shout out a few names I remember off the top of my head that gave this place the edge. From what I hear some of these guys are no longer here. And who ever ran them off should be ashamed.

The list:
Tom Kaye (what did you guys do!)
Clare
Shartly, I must say something about Shartly. He was a man who would let you know how he felt and why he was right. He commended alot of respect around these parts
M0SSMAN
Falconguy016
Cphil
Sneaky Hacker 420
Personman
Bob the cow
pputkowski
automagsRT1419 (numbers mite be wrong)
Cryer
Snoogans
Load SM5
Blazestorm
Kevmaster
Python014
Coffey Nitro
SlipknotX556
Pyro
Rougefactor
Squid (good times dude)
Joeyd
Magman007
Jack & Coke
Miscue
RenagadeOfFunkRTPcf
Kai
Edweird
Logamus
Rambopreacher
Jedi (along with his Mom LMAO!)
dj89

I'm sure I left out a ton of people there, but those are a few I remember.

Now here is were I make my point.

From what I hear, this place has become PBN.

One think I recall that AO was, was a place that anyone could come and ask any question, get a answer, along with a smart remark that was tasteful yet humrous. Just reading some of the post around here now, everything is so serious. It looks as if there is no fun left. Between all the posts about war (don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for our boys) and weather you should get your kids video games, and current news. What has this place turned into? And then, I look on the flipside, and see PBN lieing within all the the serious you guys try to play on. After reading a couple threads, its seems as if some of you think you are alot better then other members of the community. Which is probably why, some of the names posted above are no longer here.

This will most likly be my final post on AO. I may post every now and then in the bst forum, but from the looks of things. Some of you guys have ruined the place that I use to call "home"

-Wes

[magman007]

i see how it is, forget magman.... to shame


but yea, ao has gone to crap, its been a long time comming, but its finally headed down to the dredges of E society