Your Fondest Memeory of Charas

[Razor]

You son of a bitch

[Archem]

[Zerlina]

Dudebro I remember when you first told us about the acting gig you landed in some horror(?) film with... I wanna say David Hayter?
You were definitely the 2nd coolest* person on Charas that week. It made everything else everyone else had done look like crap.
One of us! An actor! It was a very cool thing, and I clearly speak on behalf of everyone because you can't trust these people to talk for themselves ('else they might disagree with me!)
And so yes, it might come as a surprise that you weren't so popular at school. But it's like I always say, **** highschool that place was a shithole, never look back. Never ever ever ever ever--


*after me, of course

Wow I had no idea that anyone would even remember this! And yeah, it was Dave Hayter (movie's now on VOD). Surprisingly it got panned by critics in North America but praised by critics in the UK. I think because it's really weird. That's really kind of you to say, also.

And, best of all, you're Canadian.

You ever hear this joke?

"How do you find a Canadian in a movie theatre?
Roll the credits and wait for someone to yell "He's Canadian!"

[Archem]

Surprisingly it got panned by critics in North America but praised by critics in the UK.

Different audiences.

[Zerlina]

Yeah... long story short though. All your comments are so sweet and supportive. And I'm glad to have virtually-known you all these years

[Osmose1000]

The time I was active on Charas was a time where I was growing up in sufficiently embarrassing ways that it's often difficult to remember the good parts over the bad parts where I was mean or angry or ignorant. But my fondest memories would at least include:

• The roleplaying thread that Warxe ran in 2003ish that prompted me to be active on the forums.
• MSN chats. Endless. MSN. Chats. I honestly cannot figure out how I had so much to talk about back then.
• "Conning" my way to admin and server access because I claimed to know how to program and was friends with an admin. On one hand, I'm fairly sure replacing the forums and then leaving the site within a year after was a bad idea in the long run, but on the other hand, nothing else I've worked on has stayed in use for so long, so that's something!
• Checking in every few months for another "Remember old Charas?" thread and desperately searching for someone to mention me. RAZOR ALWAYS DELIVERS

For me it's less about individual moments and more about that period in my life as a whole, and the people I shared it with. It's embarrassing to treat it so seriously when it was "just messing around with people online" and is so disconnected from the life I live now, but it really did help teach me a lot about interacting with others, being creative, and being responsible. Mostly it taught me how not to do those things.

I still remember most of you and appreciate the time we spent together.

[Zerlina]

That last paragraph actually made me teary. Speaks to how special this place is...