What's your MGSF story?

[black king]

I had moved towns when I was about 11. My best friend from childhood and I both loved MGS so he suggested we start a Metal Gear website. He got one from Invisionfree we called Metal Gear Fanzone. It didn't really take off and so we went to join another website where my friend knew a guy who helped him with MGFZ's skins. That site was called Metal Gear Solid Forums. It wasn't the one where I met all of you though. It was a different one I thought would remain only in my memories until I found a link to it in the wayback machine. A different MGSF if you wanna see. The old Invisionfree forums were so snazzy. It had some drama go on between its two admins and, like I would with the later orgs on the actual MGSF, I took internet drama seriously. The drama led to the root admin banning the other one and locking the site down. Both admins made new sites and I joined the not forum locking one. 

I was aware of our old MGSF at this point, but hadn't joined. Seemed like the largest forum ever with how many members it had. Then I saw the old root admin from the other MGSF had joined Pricey's and was wanting to affiliate with him to increase his site traffic. I saw it as my duty to prevent that so I joined up on MGSF in 2006 at the age of 12 to tell Pricey not to affiliate. Of course, being undercover from my old admin I needed a new forum name. I saw a username named Red Queen and decided to do that style username. Black was one of my favorite colors and I liked chess, so I picked black king. 

Eventually I fell out of their drama and I think their sites shut down. I stuck around Pricey's MGSF just to have a forum home and made a bunch of polls and such to increase my post count because post count is a big deal. Applied for Dead Cell saying that I thouhgt it was cool and I'd be honored to join one of MGSF's oldest orgs. Got a PM from Red Queen with a lecture on how MGC was actually older   Didn't get in.

Even on the old MGSF at that point I'd always felt more tolerated than liked on the forums. Then I got an invite from NINJA to be a founding member of an org. I accepted so I could finally be in a cool kids club. This guy believed in me and gave me a reason to stick around besides the love for MGS and the hype for MGS4; a game I wouldn't be bale to play anyway on account of going green for Xbox.

That org would eventually be TSF and I'd get a new green button beneath my username. TSF, like all new orgs, got its hazing. Mostly from MGC, DC, and Red Queen in particular it seemed. Eventually got this legendary thread out of it. The org business and the friends I made on MGSF kept me coming back. A lot of you played a decent role in some of who I am today since I was on the younger side on those early days. Especially your humor and references. I've used some of those in real life. 

In short, I got involved in forums to keep up with a friend after a long move, got sucked into some drama, and stayed by making new online friends in my new house.