The image memory vault

[Cardboard Jesus]

Yeah really bummed I never saved the original GRU button with the bat symbol on it. It was in use so briefly it must have just disappeared into the ether.

Should have posted this when black king  first mentioned it. Braced myself real hard and went back into my MGSF PMs. A big thanks to that absolute gangster Gene because his original designs for the LRA graphics are still up on his Photobucket.

Nice TSF sig.

Also, I could hug you for that LRA button. Added to my collection. But I wouldn't lose hope on the old GRU button yet. Have to be persistant because I could also hug Gene because in the FH recruitment thread I finally found it:

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By the way, I scavenged some old signatures from you guys if you want a trip down memory lane. Dirty Duck Null Cardboard Jesus Departed

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I fucking love you Ethan.

[Null]

black king you're a legend for those sigs man

[Aragorn]

Everyone knows we all waited all year long for one thing, The Foxhound Awards. The Foxhound Awards were our Oscars (The MGSF ones were BAFTA's at best). Gene have you got any of these badboys knocking about?

There are loads of these still up in the threads!

https://mgsforums.com/2012-outsider-awards-t42571.html
https://mgsforums.com/foxhound-outsider-...42585.html
https://mgsforums.com/the-foxhound-outsi...42652.html

I should really rep one of the most wanted ones, FH's torch for me never went out after I left even when I became less active ❤️. For all my time on the forum in different groups I feel like helping start this and the podcast up at FH was my only real productive point.

The fact that I won like 4 awards after joining by 3 months (combined from MGSF awards and FOXHOUND awards) is an all timer achievement that I will have on my gravestone. Stuff like this is what made MGSF so hilariously fun - and how we layered our signatures with more and more shit year after year.

[Suede]

My old laptop died last year so I lost access to a whole bunch of graphics. I did find this in my Dropbox though:

Gene




Not sure if there are other forum graphics in there, but I'll keep looking.

[black king]

Come on black king I know you've stashed that fully MLP'd out pink GRU button somewhere, I didn't just imagine that one. Or is that just a totally fabricated memory?

My God, I'd forgotten about that. Good thing Otacon Hal wasn't around for that or the forums would have been fluffy for real.

[NateDog]

Come on black king I know you've stashed that fully MLP'd out pink GRU button somewhere, I didn't just imagine that one. Or is that just a totally fabricated memory?

My God, I'd forgotten about that. Good thing Otacon Hal wasn't around for that or the forums would have been fluffy for real.

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HIGH CHEEKBONED GRIN!!!!!!11111

[black king]

Well I think I'll stop with the org buttons after this last one for you Refluxe. Probably the oldest one out of the group.



I do have some emoticons...

[Kestrel]

I

FUCKING

FOUND IT.



And a decade-in-the-making apology to black king, in 2013 you asked me if I still had it and I said I did not. I so did.

Also went on a dig and found the image we sourced our avatars from Kestrel the nostalgia I have rn is so sharp. Kinda want to switch back to it but idk if it's in good taste in our day and age.

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AMAZING

What the fuck was I thinking changing that? Perfect design.
I totally remember that picture of the Russians on the BTR too. You had your avatar set as the dude in black to the right.

[tr0nic]

We were getting a lot of "Batman lol" comments I think.

[Refluxe]

Well I think I'll stop with the org buttons after this last one for you Refluxe. Probably the oldest one out of the group.



I do have some emoticons...

Sick! I do love that org button - from 'version 4' of NGSF before we went full redesign into the blue.

This was (one of) the original NGSF buttons I think:



And the probationary member sig:



Love the idea that members had to prove themselves on the forum before they could properly join some orgs. Totally ridiculous. Haha.

A took a trip on the Wayback Machine and was absolutely stunned.

A bunch of org tags. (we should totally bring this feature back)

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These really bring me back...

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I don't ever remember being in Shadow Moses. As I kept going through the years apparently I was a part of Diamond Dogs, too? Whatever happened to GRU? I abandoned it? I couldn't have.
That whole era is pretty fuzzy for me, probably some kind of trauma blocking. Does anyone remember what the org scene was looking like in 2016?

Some of those sigs are sooo well designed - absolutely stunning.

This thread is awesome -- please keep it going.