What's your MGSF story?

[Jassassino]

I've just began fencing recently actually, Kestrel. I spoke briefly about it in the Fitness thread, but I'm aiming to (hopefully) work in fight scene and stage combat choreography one day. Honestly a wonderful sport which I only joined out of necessity initially, but have found it to be a phenomenal time, filled with great (albeit very posh lmao) people.

I signed up to troll Max, who told me his account name was Granin (lmao) along with a friend I went to school with at the time. We must have been about 14? But I ended up making really good friends with a lot of people, finding a place to experiment (and fundamentally a reason to) learn a lot of photoshop/GIMP principles and graphic design tutorials through making signatures and memes, and that kept me around. Those of you who saw me around probably saw me with a new signature most months (something I both love and hate - I always found new random inspiration from games, TV or film, and always had a new graphic set, but also never had an iconic sig/avatar because of that!).

Shortly after joining, MGR was announced and I desperately wanted to play the cool ninja hack 'n' slash, so I binged the franchise over the summer. I remember it being a beautiful day one day, friends were going to the beach- I was late because I was playing MGS2 and so engrossed lmao. (Yeah I was on this board for about 2 years without playing a single MGS game except the demo of MGS2 lmao)

Roll on the era of MGSF where we all went absolutely crazy for Mafia. That kept me hooked. Honestly cared little for what Org I was in after NCR (I loved FO:NV lmao) but still loved all the drama with Philosophers and Foxhound which I joined after.

Not to mention the FH podcasts and game nights. DrEd and Gene were always great chat for both. Kept me around even longer and suddenly I'm an MGS stan one day.