I recently caught up with a friend of mine from Highschool who dabbled with Byond a bit when we were going to work on a game, and it made me curious... its been over 20 years since I first joined Byond, I haven't been very active here for most of that time since graduating college, but still remember a lot of the community.
What are you all up to?
I've been mostly slinging business app code for a living the past decade.
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 Aug 27 2024, 1:25 pm
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Aug 27 2024, 8:53 pm
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Not doing a whole lot. I joined back in 2007. It's been 17 years. I haven't really touched gaming in some years; mostly working as a full stack software engineer and lurking around Vylocity.
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I joined back in 06, almost 20 years, goodness! I come around and look at things, but I honestly haven't been active since the guilds were in place. That was a time to be alive. I miss the different communities it created.
Now I'm an Automation Engineer handling the SOAR for my company. A lot of what BYOND built in me has come full circle here (first job where I actually have to think like a programmer lol), and I'm STILL ripping source codes, just in the workforce now lol. | |
Enjoying the freedoms of life because crypto was a blessing a few years ago.
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Well I am still Teka via various gaming platforms, mostly a steam gamer of Jrpg preference!
Joined back in 2001 with my Timmy key, but everyone knows me as Teka(real name is Tim) I am 35 years old now, I spent a lot of my years in maintenance, and general repair sort of work, but for the last 2 years I've had a carpenter job in a work shop doing joinery, Started doing multi-skilled work and then going on to a side by side apprenticeship and i am 2/3 of the way to getting my qualifications and papers for being a carpenter. I am married and have a wife and 2 girls who are nearly 4 years old and 8 months old. Still living in the uk in the house i bought with my wife in 2018. Doing well in general, checking on Byond probably a handful of times a year still, I haven't tried programming in years though i was best at web development html/css etc i still enjoy drawing but no pixel art any more. | |
Well, I moved to Texas for a few years when I was 19 years old. Had a wild young adult sperge out like Miley Cyrus. But we can just ignore all that. :B but I got really bored of that life, so I decided to move off grid, and so I did.
And I am glad I did because the years are coming where people are struggling to pay their bills, and my only bills are propane, gas, and water. My hobbies are the same, where I make music and games. I actually did fiver for a couple of years and made a bit of extra money. And I am still making an MMO that may or may not ever be finished lol. | |
Branks wrote:
Enjoying the freedoms of life because crypto was a blessing a few years ago. Hahaha, back when everyone thought it was a scam. If I had $10 worth of bitcoin I would of been so rich. | |
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Ganing wrote:
Now I'm an Automation Engineer handling the SOAR for my company. A lot of what BYOND built in me has come full circle here 4 years of tinkering with BYOND gave me an excellent start in OOP principles, debugging code and problem solving once i hit college. It did teach me some bad habits too, but those got beaten out of me pretty quickly. I feel like spending 3 years in HS trying to help other people debug code issues in code bases they don't understand is the reason why I pick up and understand new codebases at work quickly. | |
Teka123 wrote:
Well I am still Teka via various gaming platforms, mostly a steam gamer of Jrpg preference! Well I'll be damned, I didn't think you still lurked around Teka! | |
I joined in '05, been 19 years. I'm 28 and probably not where i should be in life, but overall I'm happy, healthy, and enjoying a mostly quiet life on a farm. Recently worked at a national park for the summer and that was a really awesome experience. Probably will keep doing seasonal work and traveling for the next couple years. After that, who knows!
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Kumorii wrote:
I joined in '05, been 19 years. I'm 28 and probably not where i should be in life, but overall I'm happy, healthy, and enjoying a mostly quiet life on a farm. Recently worked at a national park for the summer and that was a really awesome experience. Probably will keep doing seasonal work and traveling for the next couple years. After that, who knows!aye we are the same age and joined the same year. | |
Kumorii wrote:
Hell yeah, brudder. B) Good to see you're still around! You as well! BYOND will always be dear to my heart. | |
Still here, Still gangster since 2007
Also, I just noticed 'Atol Soldier' is back. Im that old to know him, and the rivalry of supremecy and Dark Apoc, good lord. Byond's Gangsta | |
Since 2008. Moved to Australia and live by the river in a cabin I made. Got a project on the go, might be the first to classify as an actual "game". I go out into the city to get power and wifi. Things are good
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Hey Kumorii I'm 28 too!!! 1996 pals!!
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I just got an email telling me my membership was expiring so I thought I'd have a look at the forums and saw this thread, which was rather amusing.
Nowadays I'm a software engineer for a company that makes audiovisual hardware - Blackmagic Design. I work on the firmware for various products in C++. I still think back to my old BYOND days fondly. Definitely part of why I am where I am today. | |
Rod5 wrote:
Still here, Still gangster since 2007 Haha, good old days bro ;p | |
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