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When/How Did You Discover Forum Games?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,220 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Baggly wrote: »
    If we get to 100 posts, no probs :D

    Just 48 more posts so! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Dont go spamming the thread now Dec :)

    Now its 47


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,041 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    I found FG a few years ago , actually I think Kolido was talking about an upcoming Werewolf game over in the Reality Forum tbh , so I signed up to play .
    Never again is all I'll say :pac:

    (46 posts now ;) )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Was is the Im a celeb one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,041 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    I think it was Baggly.
    Both yourself and Kolido were my mentors .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,454 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    I think it was Baggly.
    Both yourself and Kolido were my mentors .

    And Baggly has you to thank for his name :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,041 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Kolido wrote: »
    And Baggly has you to thank for his name :D

    A permanent reminder of how badly I mix up words/names :o:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,270 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    I played in Jayop's first werewolf game and everyone suspected I was a wolf because of my user name!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    An odd thing happened to me in 2018. I won't go into it in depth. 

    But I suffered a breakdown in motivation. I couldn't find anything to occupy my mind. Nothing made me feel anything. I would spend days literally walking back and forth, totally aimless, just so that I was doing something. I couldn't concentrate on anything. I had no interest in life. There is/was little reward system in my brain. I was thinking how am I going to get through the rest of my life when there's nothing to do? I thought about suicide, not 100% seriously, but more seriously than ever before. I even wrote out a suicide note. It seems silly thinking of it now.

    One day I came online and found forum games somehow and I took an interest. I think it was the Catchphrase thread. Gradually other interests started to come back too, like music and films and books and such. Forum games were what sparked my recovery. I don't post as much now and don't need to as I have more going on in my life and I'm sort of half-quitting boards.ie 

    Thanks to everyone who runs the games and everyone who makes this a fun corner of the internet.


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    xxxxxxx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Hey Sheridan81; im glad you are doing better and its bittersweet that you arent around as much - but in a good way, since its because you have more going on in your life again.

    Hope all is well and stays well for you! If you ever want to pop back to FG, please do! You can ignore the rest of the site, but its always great to have lapsed FG-ers come back :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Glad to hear it helped you Sheridan.

    I have found Forum Games great for the mental health myself too, especially over lockdown the last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Good to see your name pop up again Sheridan. Good to hear all's good and you don't need us :p

    In all seriousness, it's great to hear about our little friendly corner of the internet having such a positive effect and that it helped you out :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭davetherave


    First post in here was Lady Skunks Marvel Movie Sheep in July of 2019. Coming up on it's second birthday now, the entry list must be a mile long at this stage :pac:

    10am on a Wednesday, must have been a quiet day in work to try and wrap my head around what a sheep was.
    I can only assume the thread hopped up in the latest posts list and was like "Marvel? Deadly, I'm in. I don't understand it but I'll probably win the fecking thing. :D "

    First game that was completed was Nations of the world - the Peehs Extravaganza by Sully.
    Only getting to run through the reveal now. Thanks for organising sullivlo, I'm just happy I didn't come last in my first game.

    Eleven Sheep and only two aces. I'd like to say I misread the rules but no, the only take away from this is to pick the answer that I think everyone else will be going with because more often than not they are not going to go with that one.

    and Tusk said
    You think that now, but wait til you try that with the next game!

    Taken about 10 years off my life this lovely place has with the second guessing and oh no I should have picked something else :)


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    2019/Necro


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    Ok kidding.

    Summer 2019 I guess I was bored and I kept seeing something about sheep on the latest posts feed. So I went lurking and then asked to play. It was Necros Alphabet Sheep for Boys Names. I was immediately addicted.

    I love Forum Games. There's no ill will or snide comments. It's all fun and good natured jokes and it's been absolutely brilliant during all this covid stuff. My most exciting weekends over the last year have been here. The guys running the games deserve serious kudos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Played in jayop first game in AH and then campaigned for a new forum. After a few initial blips in the mod team, myself and Pawwed decided to offer the position to Pter and then he went and confused everything by changing his name. We then invited Quickbeam onto the mod team.

    I was a game mod for the Harry Potter game that drew a few people in, and I had such a good time running it.

    I haven’t been around as much as I would like. Real life gets in the way. But I am smiling reading through the thread, both for seeing old names coming back up, and many names that I don’t recognise, all with the same positive attitude to the forum.

    When all of this whole COVID thing is over, we’re going to need to book more than one table for the beers :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    And lots of balloons!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,199 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Baggly wrote: »
    And lots of balloons!

    Definitely lots of balloons!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Baggly wrote: »
    And lots of balloons!
    Or just send somebody on a treasure hunt.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Actually scratch that. If we get confirmation that Stu is coming to the next beers I will go buy 3 massive S T and U balloons and make him mind them for the night.

    I might even stretch to an actual tin of condensed milk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭davetherave


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Actually scratch that. If we get confirmation that Stu is coming to the next beers I will go buy 3 massive S T and U balloons and make him mind them for the night.

    I might even stretch to an actual tin of condensed milk.

    You can't just throw a statement like that out there and not tell the backstory of it. That's both oddly specific and random enough to have a back story. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Sully you weren't there the second time but I did in fact bring an actual tin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Started with Jayops original game in After Hours that got moved pretty quickly.





    Yes, I was a wolf.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Whatever happened to this mythical Jayop?
    Did they just disappear one day, only living on in the folk tales of the Forum Games residents? Are they aware of their legacy?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Whatever happened to this mythical Jayop?
    Did they just disappear one day, only living on in the folk tales of the Forum Games residents? Are they aware of their legacy?

    Closed their account sadly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Necro wrote: »
    Closed their account sadly.
    There's been a few mysterious disappearances, hopefully all for positive reasons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    There's been a few mysterious disappearances, hopefully all for positive reasons

    When the game gets too real..... :eek:

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    When the game gets too real..... :eek:

    Shhhh don't tell them what happens at the FG Beers before they get there :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    This seems like a good thread to ask. Beside starting a thread or derailing another

    Can someone explain how Walrus works? Specifically where you PM the games organiser a music choice?

    I was going to enter a game the other day but hadn't a clue what to do.

    Found forum games by chance when a Sheep popped up on the main page and I joined in cos who doesnt enjoy a good sheep


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    dobman88 wrote: »
    This seems like a good thread to ask. Beside starting a thread or derailing another

    Can someone explain how Walrus works? Specifically where you PM the games organiser a music choice?

    I was going to enter a game the other day but hadn't a clue what to do.

    Found forum games by chance when a Sheep popped up on the main page and I joined in cos who doesnt enjoy a good sheep

    So in the Walrus sign up threads the host will have different categories such as:

    Songs to wake up to
    Songs to eat breakfast to
    Etc.

    You make your selection for the categories (normally a single song in each) and PM them to the game host who proceeds to listen to them and ranks them in order of their preference.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    You can't just throw a statement like that out there and not tell the backstory of it. That's both oddly specific and random enough to have a back story. :pac:

    Many years ago a group of about of 8 us had the first ever BGRH forum meet up. Obviously none of us knew each other, so we had no idea how we'd recognise one another. Someone jokingly suggested that we do the old film thing of wearing a carnation in your lapel. That was dismissed as being silly and that everyone should adopt the far more sensible approach of bringing a tin of Carnation condensed milk instead, which most people did. It then became a condition of coming to your first BGRH beers that you had to bring a tin of Carnation condensed milk. This culminated in the epic Night of a Thousand Corsets beers which resulted in a significant tower of condensed milk, all of which was taken home by one of the forum regulars and converted into the world's largest banoffi mountain. We even had a beers in Germany once, to which condensed milk was brought. Obviously we had standards, and should you bring a can of Carnation evaporated milk or, even worse, non-Carnation condensed milk, you were opening yourself up for at least an evening's worth of abuse. Somehow over the years the condensed milk requirement was adopted by some other forums so, while it's now pretty much defunct and most of the regulars no longer post on Boards, a little bit of BGRH lives on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Dafuq is Carnation Condensed Milk? Is that an old person thing? Was it part of the rations for WWII or something?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Dafuq is Carnation Condensed Milk? Is that an old person thing? Was it part of the rations for WWII or something?
    carnation-condensed-397g-1.png?itok=K5YsCZdm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Still no idea what it is, but the Celebrating 120 years and the fact it's been knocking about since 1899 does confirm it is old... :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Necro wrote: »
    carnation-condensed-397g-1.png?itok=K5YsCZdm
    Haven't seen this for decades - if you put the tin, unopened, in boiling water it turns into caramel. Might have to look for a tin next time I go shopping!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Its a cooking ingredient Levar. Its sweetened thickenend milk basically.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Baggly wrote: »
    Its a cooking ingredient Levar. Its sweetened thickenend milk basically.

    Explains why I've never heard of it, the only cooking ingredient I use is Meat...

    giphy.gif


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    they make coffee with it in Vietnam........ served cold usually with ice, but you can get it hot also.....
    fecking gorg :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    bubblypop wrote: »
    they make coffee with it in Vietnam........ served cold usually with ice, but you can get it hot also.....
    fecking gorg :D
    Not surprised, just looked and its 55% sugar! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Explains why I've never heard of it, the only cooking ingredient I use is Meat...

    giphy.gif

    Its amazing for making toffee / caramel. If you have a sweet tooth you will have eaten it at one stage or another, in one form or another.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,454 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    On the topic of milk, when preparing a cappucino, do you add coffee or milk first?
    My coffee machine adds the milk first but if I was making it I would add the coffee first


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Necro wrote: »
    So in the Walrus sign up threads the host will have different categories such as:

    Songs to wake up to
    Songs to eat breakfast to
    Etc.

    You make your selection for the categories (normally a single song in each) and PM them to the game host who proceeds to listen to them and ranks them in order of their preference.

    Ah grand. I was overthinking it then. Didnt think it could be that simple lol. I do enjoy the music ones so may jump into the next one


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    bubblypop wrote: »
    they make coffee with it in Vietnam........ served cold usually with ice, but you can get it hot also.....
    fecking gorg :D

    I had a Vietnamese coffee stout last week, and I was surprised that it was so sweet until my wife told me that Vietnamese coffee was a thing. I had just assumed it was where the coffee beans for the stout had come from. I don't drink coffee, but it was really nice beer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Baggly wrote: »
    Its amazing for making toffee / caramel. If you have a sweet tooth you will have eaten it at one stage or another, in one form or another.

    Ah yeah, I'm sure I've had it on many occasion in something, I just don't get enjoyment out of cooking or baking, so I wouldn't go out of my way to make anything, so I would never have paid much attention to the baking ingredients aisle in the supermarket...

    When it comes to cooking, if I can't just simply add heat to something, I'm usually just not bothered....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    Kolido wrote: »
    On the topic of milk, when preparing a cappucino, do you add coffee or milk first?
    My coffee machine adds the milk first but if I was making it I would add the coffee first

    Coffee first always.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    When it comes to cooking, if I can't just simply add heat to something, I'm usually just not bothered....
    ...if you put the tin, unopened, in boiling water it turns into caramel
    One of the easiest things in the world, and awesome spread on toast :)

    Just looked it up, takes 3hrs apparently :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    if you put the tin, unopened, in boiling water it turns into caramel. Might have to look for a tin next time I go shopping!

    That scares the life out of me, boiling an unopened tin of anything for hours.

    No stunts pulled here, I just buy the already made caramel!

    The only thing I can ever be arsed to bake/make is banoffee :p

    But not too often because I'll be eating it for breakfast lunch and dinner :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    And thats 100. Stickied.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,559 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Baggly wrote: »
    And thats 100. Stickied.
    Sticky like caramel. Mmmmm.....


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