The Mindset Reborn wrote:Hello all. I have not posted on these forums since 2013.
Hey! I haven't thought about you in a long time - but it's good to have you back!
I have recently done some reorganisation of deep, ancient backups, and discovered some things from that era (and before) that may interest people here, especially those involved in the Future Tech roleplaying community circa 2004-2010ish.
Some preamble and history, since it's now 2021 and Nationstates has changed a lot since I was an active participant:
- My original nation name was The Mindset. The oldest archive of this on Wayback Machine is circa 26th March 2009, however I believe my original nation was founded sometime in 2004.
- Under the guise of this nation, I founded the Extra-Solar Union of Systems (ESUS) future tech alliance. The original founding post is lost to the mists of time on the jolt forums, but I have restored an archive of the forums circa October 2010 from an old backup. These forums were previously private, and required a roleplaying test for admittance. At its peak around 2009, the ESUS had around 40-50 active members and was by far the largest active future tech alliance at the time, and perhaps since? (I believe). Sadly, I have not been able to find a backup of the ESUS wiki, which contained a lot of information and worldbuilding.
- I created the Nationstates Galaxy Map application around this time, which drove recruitment to the ESUS. I have found the code for this too, but it's godawful, and I don't have a database backup.
- I maintained a second nation, specifically for posting in the General forum, under the username Getbrett during this time. The Mindset was my 'future tech' roleplay nation, whereas 'Getbrett' was designed to be a 'American Psycho' style sociopath, and I roleplayed as such within the General forum (perhaps too well) - and this nation, and my main one The Mindset, were deleted by moderators circa July 2010. For this I was declared delete on sight. Honestly, I was a pest and a shit, so this was deserved.
- On March 2011 a friend from an offsite forum called UMP posted what amounted to a suicide note on Nationstates. Although I was DOS, I created a new nation, Getbrett2, to attempt to reach him, and for this I was given temporary leniency from the mods re: my delete on sight status.
- This nation was created circa 2011 and recently restored after I discovered the aforementioned backups above, and I decided this may be interesting to others from around that time, so I reactivated the account to post this.
The Mindset and Getbrett were the same person?
Well, today I learned! I always thought you seemed like a good guy - and, well, that was ten years or more ago and this nation hasn't been deleted yet so clearly the past is safely in the past. I'm glad to have you back.