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How did you com to the site?

Postby WhoWouldWinInAFight? » 19 May 2009, 11:07

Simple thread just to show how your life led to this site. Also your progression within the site.

For me it went something like this.

Unforgotten Realms ---->(long time) ----> The Escapist ----> Unskippable -->(around the fifth episode of Unskippable) -->LoadingReadyRun (Videos ---> LRRcasts ---> Forum(first forum I ever joined))
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Hakaryu » 19 May 2009, 11:10

fan of mewtwo>find a mewtwo fan site on ezboards>2006 our own site is built>friend from the website posts a link to LRR.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Zivlok » 19 May 2009, 11:23

Harry Potter ----> a certain strip from the webcomic Questionable Content relating to Harry Potter ----> Reading through the QC archive at 3 o clock in the morning ----> Link on the Author's Comments to a post by Tycho at Penny Arcade ----> The link was just to to the main page, and so, two years ago, it would have taken me to the rant, but now all I saw was ----> Gabe's post about Desert Bus ----> Decided it would be the last link I would click on before going to sleep ----> Over the next 72 hours, I spent about 10 of them sleeping, and most of the rest of them watching Desert Bus ----> Slowly watched all of the videos, then came here to the forums!

Or, I could just say "desert bus".
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Tim » 19 May 2009, 11:32

Was in English class. Jeremy Petter went to the front to rep Desert Bus 1. I checked it out, stopped by, and went from there.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby James » 19 May 2009, 11:40

Tim wrote:Was in English class. Jeremy Petter went to the front to rep Desert Bus 1. I checked it out, stopped by, and went from there.


And now we can't get rid of him :P
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Master Gunner » 19 May 2009, 11:48

Playing Freelancer years ago because it was there--->Several years later doing the same thing because I was bored--->wikipedia page+mod site--->Asgard Mod+forum--->Talk Like A Pirate--->Rest of LRR--->LRR Forum--->2.5 years and 4000+ posts later, posting this.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Yaxley » 19 May 2009, 11:52

If I recall correctly it would have been Ars Technica --> Desert Bus --> LRR
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Telaril » 19 May 2009, 11:54

I think it was
College ---> Some obscure webcomic that doesn't exist anymore ---> list of a bunch of webcomics ---> Penny-Arcade ---> Desert Bus ---> videos ---> Podcasts ---> Forum

I think the podcast contests and podcast/thread interactions were a great way to get people to the forum. They definitely pulled me in.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Metcarfre » 19 May 2009, 11:57

Sent Halo via facebook -> Youtube -> Typed in loadingreadyrun.com -> videos -> forum.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby danpete6 » 19 May 2009, 12:01

Me stating a bunch of random facts ---> my brother telling me to watch 'Installation anxiety' ---> watching all the other videos
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Alja-Markir » 19 May 2009, 12:19

I'm not certain which chain of subjects led me here, per se...

But I do remember the approximate time when I first heard got on the forums, of course. Let's see, it was.. uhh... seven years ago, collective-relative? That sounds right.

Nine months here, fourteen in Tenochtitlan 1387-88 before that, one spent observing the construction of the Aelian Wall, three interviewing Jamyang Chojey and the Drepung school, another sixteen back here, preceded by those four in Jerusalem during the revolts, ten traveling between Edo and Osaka with that band of Taoists, eighteen accidentally stuck in remote Great War Switzerland (god that was a pain), another five wandering Van Deiman's Land, six studying neolithic toolmaking, and then the first two again spent here.

So that's... what, twenty-seven months ago concurrent to your perceptions? And I'd been watching for about... sixteen months collective-relative, or seven present-concurrent? Sounds right. I lurked for a bit. Although I can't for the life of me recall what was going on then that would have drawn me here, specifically...

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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby iamafish » 19 May 2009, 12:21

a friend telling me about zero punctuation ---> unskippable ---> link to site ---> Time is Money ---> a bit meh ---> more unskippable ---> back to the site ---> crime an punishment ---> sold!
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Tapir12 » 19 May 2009, 12:37

Member of UVic anime club (where I kinda knew Matt) --> Kei-Kon 2004 --> LRR --> forum
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Elomin Sha » 19 May 2009, 12:39

It comes down to Shirow Masmune

New Dominion Tank Police -> Ghost in the Shell Film -> Video Game Design Course -> Gaming sites -> Hearing Jack Thompson -> Some how found GamePolitics.com -> Ghost in the Shell 2 film and Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig -> Interested in Kazundo Goda's thesis on the refugees in Deijima -> Mass Effect debacle with Cooper Lawrence -> Dissertation idea on Goda's words mixing with the media -> going to gamepolitics.com to find LRRs video Max Effect -> Watched it -> Watched Ways to Hide a Body -> Stayed ever since and loving every minute of it.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Lord Chrusher » 19 May 2009, 12:40

I was friends with Graham in elementary school but I did not have much to do with him in high school. In my first year of university I ran into Graham on the bus and he told me about the site and gave me a LRR business card (It's like porn but better). A couple of weeks later I went to LRR and found it awesome. A few months later I joined the forums but I did not start posting a lot until about a year later when I had a job with an internet connection.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby wilson_x1999 » 19 May 2009, 12:58

A few weeks before Talk like a Pirate day I started looking for pirate related stuff and I came across "How to talk like a pirate" -> Rest of the videos in a few days -> forums
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Re'ozul » 19 May 2009, 13:19

going to "The Escapist" -> noticing the "Lost Planet" entry in the competition -> ?google? (don't remember) -> here I was.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Cake » 19 May 2009, 13:56

James wrote:
Tim wrote:Was in English class. Jeremy Petter went to the front to rep Desert Bus 1. I checked it out, stopped by, and went from there.


And now we can't get rid of him :P

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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby empath » 19 May 2009, 13:56

ITLAPD -> "How To Talk Like A Pirate" -> nothing actually LRR-ish

...long time passes...

Penny Arcade mention of Desert Bus For Hope -> loadingreadyrun.com
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby OMGItsSarah » 19 May 2009, 14:14

You can all blame Gurei for me being here. He made me watch, and now you're all stuck with me. Me and my LRRgerie.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby the amativeness » 19 May 2009, 14:20

College -> RvB marathon viewing session -> Various other Halo vids on y*****e -> Halo: The Future of Gaming

Fast forward a few months

Watching random vids on y*****e -> "Hey, what was that spoof vid I watched last year?" -> Halo: The Future of Gaming -> LRR
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Alina » 19 May 2009, 14:24

My brother showed me Mental Battle (found cool but was busy)--> several months passed--> I was sick and had nothing to do so my brother showed me Mental Battle again and I proceeded to watch the bulk of the videos before I got better-->lurking-->forums
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby JesterJ. » 19 May 2009, 14:38

Xfire-->1337-->LRR Forums.
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Jillers » 19 May 2009, 14:39

Friend showed me Phailhaus --> ISC --> More Videos --> joined forum
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Re: How did you com to the site?

Postby Evil Jim » 19 May 2009, 15:06

On & off I become a frequent reader of BoingBoing.net. In June of '07 they had the following post about Shake Hands With Danger, earthmoving vehicle safety film. They also posted a comment from forum member Sean, linking to the "Shake Your Hands" video remix on LoadingReadyRun. I loved the video & bookmarked it, not paying too much attention to anything else thinking the big blue website was another video archive.

A week or so later I dug up the "Shake Your Hands" link so I could record an MP3 of it & then decided to check out the main page to see what else I might like. By then "Gorgeous" was the newest vid. I thought it was hilarious & watched it three times in a row. Over the next week or so I gradually made my way down the video page watching everything that looked interesting. Then lost track of the vids I'd already seen & just started at the bottom & made my way up to the top of the archive again.

Having enjoyed the entire archive & now waiting an entire week for each new video I decided to check out the forums for more LRR content. Then the podcasts. Now 2,552 posts later, here I am.
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