Topic awaiting preservation: Why did you join the Asylum

I found this interesting, its from 2001 --> Why did you join the Asylum?

Hum,
Not being around back then. I would have to say I found the Asylum while looking at cool background images for my desktop at Ozones.com and I came across the Philosophy and Silliness Section and found the people to be very interesting. Anyway...my little baby is crying...see ya.

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To meet chicks.

To meet DL.

Yea,
I hear chicks dig Insane Asylums, and people named after a gun from star wars.



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At first I came to talk with some JS freaks. That was at the time Slime released his JavaScript raytracer, and I was about to release 3D TOMB. And I found much more reasons to stay than just the JS freaks.

Some dude posted about it in other forum when I was looking for PS tutorials.

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Sexy Demoness cel

I stumbled on the Asylum when seeking nerds to share my passions with.... All I found was a strange building in which somebody had painted the walls orange, the doctors were selling black pills and a mad torturer was hiding in the basement muttering incoherent sentences about "shock therapy"... I still wonder why I liked the place ;-)

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I still wonder why I liked the place

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mmmh, the tentacle porn ?

I'm actually a script on a server. I grab emails from threads.

Moon Shadow: désolé

I fell asleep in front of the computer whilst trying to figure out what PhotoShop could do. When I awoke I was here! Some nice people showed me to my cell and said they would help me understand the voices in my head. They took notes and a photograph
just after giving me my first Black Pill. I then promised the Doc that I would do the all the Asylum gardening if I was shown just some of the mysteries of PS.
I then locked myself away in my tastefully padded cell with the Doc's Hands On Medicine Book and I've been blissfully happy ever since.
Now the voices in my head are singing and I am never going to leave.

:::tao::: ::cell::

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The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of course that helps. It is not hard work or experience, though they help, too. The secret to programming is having smart friends. (from http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ )

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That is why I joined the Asylum.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 02-13-2005 02:56)

HE MADE ME JOIN!!!!!!!
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... just kidding actually my story with the Asylum goes farther back than what my 'Insane Since' date says! I joined the Asylum around 2001-02 by the name of darknosis. I was new to Photoshop back then (well not that new had been using the software since 98) and needed some help I believe it was chrome that I was 'in' in those days. Anyways I don't remember who but someone in the Asylum made me feel bad about something... I think it was Suho... maybe or it could be Slime I don't remember so anyways I left the Asylum like a little baby noted that I wasn't of much then nw I'm more mature than then. 'Twirth my return I vowd to hunt down and teach whoever that person was a lesson... if I can only remember that name!!!

I actually played around on Doc's main site for atleast a year, then I stumbled upon HandsOn, then I found this place while trying to find some tips on Photoshop (Like just about everybody else) after about after I had found Doc's main site, and took the wrong pill and was forced to stay... =)



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A guy I know online named GraFFiX pointed me here when I was asking some website related questions. Then I found mr.max who was the smartest and talented human on the planet. I don't visit as much as I should anymore.


The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. --Groucho Marx

I got here from Google... somehow...
The place looked nice and I could smell those black pills. I can't remember what those black pills smelled like at first, but I know it was good at the time, now I don't notice the smell. When I was here my fist day, I submitted my site to the reviews, at that time, I didn't realize how crappy my site really was (syntax wise), now I'm all standard XHTML in just about every project from that time on. But, yeah, I got here from Google.

[edit] Bleh... Some comma and spelling. [/edit]



(Edited by zavaboy on 02-13-2005 18:53)

In the old days the good doctor edited and contributed on an book, which he don't want to be remembered by, thus i looked for his site, found the asylum and never checked out again.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmm

let's see .. I've been watching Doc since 1995 .. found his site during a college class that I wasn't suppose to be attending and the teacher happen to put Doc's site on the main screen for the whole class to check out the cool javascript at play here .. and since then going back and forth to this place .. and then finally had noticed he started a forum and WHAM! .. the first to have a padded cell .. with even more pillows to rest my insane head on .. no not that one ladies .. [innocent grin]

needless to say I'm a stocker ... muhhhahahaahahahahaaaa

no really this place just needed someone to take out the trash and thats where I came in ..

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I was looking for answers to questions I had about php programming and stumbled across a link to this place. I had already been to Doc's site with all the amazing Photoshop work and DHTML about a year before so I was shocked to find out that I had been missing out on this forum for so long.....

I was studying for a web programming/admin degree when I first came here, but when it was all said and done I learned more Javascript and PHP here than anywhere else. I love this place, it is one of the reasons I now get paid to play on computers!

am I the only person who had never seen Doc's websites before being interned in the Asylum ?

Heh could be!

I found ozones.com back in 97. Started doing web development back then and didn't know really what javascript was capable at that point.

Joined the early version of the board mostly for javascript help and some photoshop. (Back then it was co-hosted I believe before UBB).



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

I finally joined after years of lurking. I actually think it was a thread about lurkers that made me finally sign up

In anycase, now I am an official lurker.

Jason

Back in -97 -98 when I got truly into the web I got to know ppl at a forum that went totally commercial, the core ppl went over to TopazDesigns forums at http://devras.com/tdf/ and Bob Pankalas place, www.teamphotoshop.com from there I got hooked on Anders Quickers interfaces at http://www.aqa-d.se/ from there it wasn't long befor I stumbled on the Doc's place...

Since forums and communication are some of the the biggest things of the net for me I found the forum, the rest as they say, is history

/Dan

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-{ ?The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.? (-Barlow, John Perry) }-

Came initially for the site reviews - thought I'd learn some code
Even though I'm now proud to have a number, I still feel a bit like a lurker; except in the photograpy forum
I feel priveliged to keep such company and I'm slowly learning; not a day goes past that I think - doh - that's how ya do it. Like brain surgery - easy as when you've done it a few times

[sense] Organisation is anathema to organisations [/sense]

I joined the GurusNetwork first, and learned of OzoneAsylum through there.

The rest is history.

I joined up in early 2000, after having lurked for any period of time. I simply dived right in. This was the first forum I ever joined, and I have never had cause to reget it. I started off in photoshop, proved how entirely inept I am there, moved into 3D, likewise, now I just administer the place, and try to keep the peace wherever I can (which, those who have seen me verbally tear people a new one can tell you, is ironic, really).


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When I first bought PS I found Doc's tutorials somehow and then stumbled upon the Asylum from there.

At first I joined to get advice on my website. I lurked for a while and then finally posted asking for crits on a new page I was working on. Then for some odd reason I stuck around. Guess I'm just a sadist.

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(Edited by krets on 02-15-2005 16:46)

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am I the only person who had never seen Doc's websites before being interned in the Asylum ?

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Nope, I found the Asylum before seeing any of Doc's sites too. I don't remember what tangent I happened to be on the day I found this place, but I lurked around for awhile before claiming a cell of my own (which has been somewhat abandoned lately). What kept me coming back though were the piles of great code snippets that I kept running across. Besides the resources available here, there always seemed to be someone who could help out when you ran across a problem you could figure out.

Why?

Honestly, I don't know why...

cell 799

I hade a question and the damn button wouldnt let me post anonymously. Damn facist pigs. I knew this place was up to no good from the get go. I lurked for about ten maybe fifteen minutes and just knew you people were sick.

Now?

I don't know why I stay. No one here really uses filters. It's all about;

"studying the world about you"
"draw what you see"
"use css"
"standards this and standards that"
"does god really exist"
"does WS really exist"

Dammit I'm tired of the plattitudes! I want the "incredible artistic creativity filter" I know mahqa has one, I suspect tao has one too, Oh and don't even get me started on those new guys with the 3d animation short...

Oh and that warmage guy with the detailed understanding of blend layers and composites?

Damn all you people and your talent!

Oh an what about The Grand Poobah himself? pfft, I'll bet he has 'secret' filters he uses and just made up all the ttorial stuff to throw us off track... Friggin weirdos... pixel by pixel you taunt me with your superior talent... ohh, one day though... one of these days... huh? what was that noise? what happened to my voice... WHAT's HAPPENING!?

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Is This Thing On?

Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

Well, I don't remember why I joined the Asylum. But I am almost sure that I had a nick, prior to viol, and I joined the Asylum sometime before I signed as viol, but I forgot both the nick and the password. So, I signed again as viol to never forget.

atitude

In one day I found two things within the Asylum:

1) ...a solution to a perplexing problem that I had.

2) ...a perplexing problem to which I had a solution.

It was a match made in heaven.

I was running from some people and made it back to my flat but a strange gas knocked me out and I woke up here. Everytime I try to leave a large bal captures me and dumps me back here.

Somehow it is all connected with SchitzoBoy's underwear.

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The Emperor dot org | Justice for Pat Richard | FAQs: Emperor | Site Reviews | Reception Room

if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

*sniff sniff*

Hmmmm I wonder who's cell is this... smells familiar... ... ... I'm watching this door...

THE HUNT CONTINUES!!!! ooo pink pill... colorful!

To meet pixels.

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I was led here by my wife (Zenfrodo) after she stumbled across the Hands On Tutorials site. I lurked for a bit and decided to join after seeing the sig competitions.


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

(Edited by Moth on 02-23-2005 06:44)

I was quite green at PS and had a question. Its still around, but it looks like all the pics are down. Yeesh, that was around 4.5 years ago. (that was before black pills existed!)

I was amazed at how much the people put into helping me out if i had a question...

As far as PS goes... a few of the members here make me think i am still green at it.

I don't even remember exactly when I got here... sometime in 2001 or 2002. I was learning to use PS, like so many others, and stumbled onto The Doc's home page and tutorials, the gurusnetwork and the hands on stuff... Then somehow I got here...

I stayed because of the overwhelming level of intelligence hidden behind some really nutty banter... Lurking in these halls are some of the smartest computer geeks I've ever come across. When I have questions, I always get an answer that works.

I also stuck around because of the broadness of opinion showing up in the philosilly forum...

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I also stuck around because of the broadness of opinion showing up in the philosilly forum

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Hehe..nice touch!

I've been quite fond of philosilly too

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I like the name "philosilly" I forget who said it first, but it always struck me a somehow quite appropriate!

was surfing one night for the meaning of life and mistook the gurus here for the kind that would know.

they don't. hence, 'philosilly'... but the pictures still mesmerised and the banter still enlightened and somehow my hunger for divine purpose was eclipsed by this strange, burning need to gaussian blur spheres till they resembled glass marbles....

[insert fabulous sig here]

For all I know it began with me being totally fascinated by Doc's trekker interface, coming across the forums (without knowing that they were forums, of course, as that concept wasn't known to teenage Germans at that time), having trouble figuring out what all the English words meant and not returning for a year or two. The next time I happened around here has to have been around Xmas '01 when I was trying to get some style sheet things to work in NN4.... then Emps and that coffee boy somehow tricked me into getting into the specifics of CSS, stuff like tableless layouts, and into translating a bunch of GN tutorials for the intenationaglobalization project (which still is a well-kept secret!), even into writing own tutorials, reading millions of entertaining posts and web pages, then putting half a year of life into the grail.... and now here I am, studying for a bachelor of science in information technologies for some strange reason. And though I hardly know him, it might all well be the Doc's fault. Hmmm. Funny place =)

[edit: BTW - who's inmate #5555 ?? Speak up! ]

(Edited by kuckus on 02-25-2005 21:39)

I think March 2000. wow. 5 yrs. Now Im only 17 yrs old.

I joined the Asylum in search of sig uploaders...man that time was so embarassing.

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I came here naked to play tetris with Shiii, Weadah, Dl and Michael...

...And cofess it, you all came here to see me naked.

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that naked guy

Holy Wakka Moli !

Holy Toledo!!!!! Welcome back, Wakky!!! O_o

*hides stash of black pills behind back*

Ummm...look, there are a whole lot of new members you can...confisticate from! Stop staring at me!

*backs away slowly*

Ñummmm, i missed these pills...

BTW, I'm Spanish now!
I miss being Ilegal =(

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that naked guy

You're also a couple days ahead of the rest of us... Someone steal the calendar?

[edit: Oh yea... February... Only 28 days...

That's almost a little embarassing...

(Edited by Lord_Fukutoku on 03-01-2005 00:17)

Not me, I just steal pills....

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that naked guy

Totally wakkopillforous

I joined because of something mikey.milker said.
I miss that cranky basterd.

It's been awhile...
Pink pills for everybody.

Ribbed for your pleasure.

I felt it was time, I had lurked for quite awhile before hand.

Found the site through Ozones and Hands On.

I even remember when Doc was quite active in the forums.

later

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Look at me... god... I'm marvelous!

A long time ago. in a galaxy far,far away..
I had seen Doc`s work and was awestruck. I joined because I had stumbled across a trial version of PS 5.5. After some experimentation, I created a website. I came here to get opinions of my outstanding creation. Which the Inmates promptly ripped to shreds.
And rightly so. It sucked. It was frought with overdone rollovers, too many colors, and generally crappy work.
But, the thing that made me stay was the way they ripped it up. They told me all that was Wrong, but several people went to some trouble to help me make it better. Shared their hard earned knowledge freely. That was when I got hooked. This was a new concept to me. I liked it. There was so much humbling talent here...willing to teach ME !! Too cool.


Thank you all.

docilebob, you don't mean to suggest that the Asylum is somehow special, do you?

I love this place.

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(Edited by Bugimus on 03-06-2005 16:06)

To flame twitch...

...nuff said.

To build on my post count

I intially joined ot learn some tricks in PS and make some progress on a website I was working on.

Since then... I've found a sense of community here that I couldn't break away from.

I took a nearly permanent vacation recently. I found something that brought me here missing and went looking for it. While I didn't find what it was I did find myself. That is because of this place and all of you out there.

My haitus is over. I have returned for good methinks.

Thank You All,

GD

The other night eight forums became inadequate. I'd go through them and type my posts and it would take entirely too little time for them to be all read...no new posts - LAME!

Then I caught a fun post from gurusnetwork that happened to crosspost here and I remember this place and signed up this time.

When I started learning Web development and JavaScript, a friend recommended this site.

Nice people* around here.

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I think it's good to point out this article. But I do think that it's all because of the good Doctor.

cell 799

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and all 1300 of the current members (growing every day)

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Dun growed some. =)

I apperantly joined to draw pretty graphs of 'new users per month'..

I spent years ripping off Doc's fanct javascript and modifying it to do what I wanted it to do. Never was much for joining forums back then ... so I lurked. Then one day the chance to give back arose, and I couldn't 'coz of the no guest posting rule .. so I got me an id and got stuck.

I'm not around too often any more. The band, the rockets, and the volume of work see to that. But I lurk.


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
In a programmer's mind and on a salesman's lips