2004's Year in Review - Page 2

**ThirdMarioBro** · 12-31-2004, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

I'm 19, lived here in Springfield VA for my ENTIRE life. Even worse, I've never left the east coast of America. The furthest south I've been is Florida (to visit my Grandparents once) and the furthest north I've been is Delaware.

I want to travel so bad it isn't funny! I've been studying for a while, Tokyo should be fun. It'll be good practice before I join the JET Program and head over there to assistant teach english in a couple years.

Whahahahaaaaaaa

I wanna go.

*pouts like a two year old*

*JameO* · 01-04-2005, 11:06 AM

Although this really didn't mean that much to me, the death of Rick James was somewhat on my list. I like his music but im not heart broken over it. Maybe if it was MJ then I would but he's got a load of problems. Nintendo DS, Halo 2. Being a Canadian, no hockey was horrible for the last part of this year. That's all I can think of right now.

*zkarlette* · 01-06-2005, 12:44 AM

Besides finding the Technodrome

This year was pretty much bad for me

NightwatchersOnlygirl · 01-06-2005, 07:11 AM

When I became a Raphael fan
Sweet yum-yum

*Storm Wolf* · 01-06-2005, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KROW

Storm Wolf.

Awww.....

Only a few events sprinkled 2004 to make it tolerable for me. Not much good came out of the year on my end.

I did meet KROW, though. The one thing that will actually make 2004 "Memorable" for me.

Irfit · 01-08-2005, 08:22 PM

2004 ruled for me
a nice year, i met a lot of friends (real friends i mean), i have a new GF from 2004....i started to be a TMNT fan (a real fan i mean) and i feel really nice....

**Jo Dawn** · 01-08-2005, 09:38 PM

Oookay. I've re-thought mine.

2004 was not as bad as it seemed, upon further reflection.

It was the year I really became a 'woman', in different terms. I became more 'girly'. Wearing pink (forbidden since I turned 4.). Really figuring out how to do my hair... Hehe. Discovering that, yes, I DO like makeup. And can even APPLY it!! And clothes! Oh, I am addicted to shopping. (Trust me, I have someone you can ask. He'll tell you.

) Hehe.

I'm not the thinnest woman, but... I'm liked for the way I am. Even been told I was beautiful and gorgeous (something not heard from anyone but family members and their friends before). I'm more comfortable with that, with myself now.

I may not like my jobs all the time (okay, I hate the one) they afford me to be able to pay my bills. While I cannot move out yet, I still have the ability to buy many things that I want (no not all, I'm not spoiled. Heh.

).

I really came into my own, figuring out who I am: Physically, mentally, sexually.

While I've discovered much about myself that I never thought I WOULD figure out. So, in retrospect, really, 2004 wasn't all that bad. No time in which you learned something is a waste.

So, come on, rethink this. How was your year, really?

*Anarky* · 01-09-2005, 05:44 AM

2004 was the year I had to work. Not just a job you do in the evenings, but real work. In a real office. I had two jobs, allthough they were in the same building. The first one had to do with real estate, selling it and generally taking care of people's concerns about real estate. That job was great. I loved it. I had no problem getting up at 6am, I had no problem with working until 7pm sometimes. It was cool. I had responsibility and I was being respected for what I did. People liked my work, liked the way I was doing it. Also, I didn't have anger problems anymore at that time. I hardly ever got into fights and was happy. You know the feeling when everythng is OK, it couldn't be better.

Then, in June or July I changed office. Fully motivated and very curious of what was ahead of me I changed into the "social service" office. There you are supposed to help people, either by talking to them and/or giving them money. In the end you are supposed to help them get a new life which they can live on their own. At first, I had to realise that we don't talk to people. That was insane. How can you find out what was wrong with the people when you don't talk to them? Insane... Well, so I went on and talked to the people. I was knowingly disobeying orders so that I could fulfill my "mission" the I was satisfied with it in the end. So the meeting room is most of the time occupied by either me or my boss (female, I shall call her D. in the following). D. is a nice person, very female appearance and behaviour (yes, she is very spiteful at times) and I like her a lot. She doesn't give too much about bureaucracy but obeys it without complaint. The there's the big boss, mayor of the town I work at. The bastard. He was the reason why I hated my job there.He was the one that I could kill. He was the one that made me xerox things for him in the middle of a meeting. The bastard. And then he has the nerve to yell at me, because I don't listen to him. But, allthough D. likes the boss (she sort of sees him as a graddad or something), she has to agree with me that he is a sexist bastard. You can easily tell by the percentual amount of young women working there. Not that it'd really bug me, but it's something I noted, while I was doing one of my brainless-jobs. Jobs where you don't have to think, jobs where you just put Paper A ontop of Paper B and then pack it into enveloopes. I became aggressve then. By late october I almost went for my boss. The bastard.

But in the end, I must say that working is a lot better than school. You have more liberties, but you have bosses.

That was the professional part.

Personal...hmmm, my best friend, something like a brother to me got himself a girlfriend. A suicidal, stupid, high-pitched-voiced slut. She betrayed him once which doesn't keep him from being with her all the time. We hardly ever see him anymore. He has transformed into a moron. He listens to Eros Ramazotti (some italian romantic song singer) and he like things like "her, her music, working for her and being with her". We don't see him anymore. We all hope they break up soon, because she is ruining his character, she's ruining him.

But all in all, I must say 2004 was a great year. Lots of new things to learn, lots of people to meet and lots of places to go.

Ra · 01-09-2005, 06:14 AM

ahh...2004...the begining of the end...

about the start of last year or somethin' i was moved from my wonderful home in America, USA to a dry, desert rockland formally known as Australia. with my friends left behind and i was stuck with nothing, i took up channel surfing in my depresion. in about April i was hooked on the turtles and i was craving for more. i joined up here in about July/September and instanly fell in love with the place and everyone here *emotional sob*

while all this was going on, i was moved into a posh school with high fees and weird teachers. i was considered a "freak" by some people when somebody found a doodle of a turtle in the back of my german book. others couldn't care less and became my friends, (yeah, including Tash from the GD forms) i became more interseted in acting, visual arts and writing. MAJORLY interested in writing. the computer started to over flow with idea's for stories, pictures and whatever other things my mind had in store after the September holidays. Nothing didn't really happen until xmas

basically the whole year was a sea, a sea for each year, a part of the ocean which is my life. the unpredicible nature, the highs and the lows and the movies, all will come in this year. and if life wants to destroy what's left of my life, i say bring it on

*CyberCubed* · 12-02-2020, 11:31 PM

God I wish I can go back in time to this time period. The early 2000's were great.

~~Leo656~~ · 12-02-2020, 11:51 PM

*I* wish I could be Kensuke Sasaki and you could be that guy he killed and I could just suplex you on your head 87 times for no goddamn reason and get away with it thanks to my Yakuza connections.

"Allegedly".

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 12-03-2020, 07:58 AM

Wtf?! Random thread resurrection, and even more random violent daydream..... You guys must be super bored.

*sdp* · 12-03-2020, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peanut

The release of the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD.
Various videogame related stuff, Nintendo DS, Halo 2, Paper Mario.

I remember how we all had bootleg Star Wars DVDs of the original trilogy since for some reason Lucas refused to release it for years until 2004

Back when it was super important to own movies and shows on DVD, man what a waste of money that was.

Nintendo DS no one thought it'd be good because of the PSP, only after the DSlite and Mario Kart DS came out did it start becoming sold out.

*CyberCubed* · 12-03-2020, 08:54 AM

Man 2004 takes me back. I was 18, I was in my freshmen year of college.

Online I spent all of 2004 spamming IGN's The Vestibule board as I was racing to 100,000 posts. Also most of the other time spent terrorizing serebii's forums and places like toonzone. I had actually only just registered here in the drome on December 2004 even though I lurked since 2002, so I wasn't even known in this place yet. Can you believe back in 2004 nobody on this forum knew who I was yet?

Besides that in terms of videogames...Gamecube and GBA were my main focus here. Basically playing Mario Sunshine, Zelda Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Smash Bros. Melee, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and Fire Red/Lead Green. F-zero GX was also amazing and Mario kart: DD. In the fall Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door would come out and Prime 2. I was a Nintendo only gamer back then and just between Gamecube and GBA I had my fill of games. I wouldn't play games like Metal Gear Solid 3, Halo 2, or any other PS2 franchise till around 2007-2008.

Also 2004 was when we were in the second season of the 4kids TMNT cartoon. I remember people complaining Turtles in Space was too long even though it was only 5 episodes, not to mention the infamous reveal of Shredder as an Utrom. You can look through the archives of the 4kids section, people were PISSED when Shredder was revealed to be an Utrom.

*sdp* · 12-03-2020, 09:10 AM

2004 was when I started to get back into animation, I had gotten past my early teenage years of "it's for kids" to a "i can like whatever I want" teenage phase. It was Teen Titans that got me back into cartoons and from there I started digging into the DCAU and also posted on Serebii and Toon Zone at that time

Liking Pokemon during that time was not "cool", in my opinion still the best time to like Pokemon before it went mainstream again.

My gaming forum to go at that time was either gamers.com or 1up.com whichever one was popular at that time.
At this time I wasn't really gaming anymore since I had "outgrown" it, I just kept up with the news from time to time, I just loved music much more and of course collected worthless DVDs at that time, no figures or anything. I was avoiding 2k3 in 2004 since I didn't have a way to watch it, it wasn't until 2005 that I first got to watch it.

I would just go to concerts all the time at this stage in life and High School was still my day to day.

01-04-2005, 11:06 AM	#22
JameO Mad Scientist Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,753	Although this really didn't mean that much to me, the death of Rick James was somewhat on my list. I like his music but im not heart broken over it. Maybe if it was MJ then I would but he's got a load of problems. Nintendo DS, Halo 2. Being a Canadian, no hockey was horrible for the last part of this year. That's all I can think of right now. __________________ "Lie, Cheat & Steal, Atleast I'm Honest"

01-06-2005, 12:44 AM	#23
zkarlette Fashionably late Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4,146	Besides finding the Technodrome This year was pretty much bad for me __________________ "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time" E.W

01-06-2005, 07:11 AM	#24
NightwatchersOnlygirl Stone Warrior Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In Nightwatcher's loving arms Posts: 941	2004! When I became a Raphael fan Sweet yum-yum __________________ Nightwatcher is taken by me,NightwatchersOnlyGirl Nightwatcher Is my boyfriend. I love "My" Nightwatcher Nightwatcher can put his boots under my bed anytime Nightwatcher loves me! NW 4 EVER NW is Mine NW is so sexy Forever Nightwatcher's....

01-08-2005, 08:22 PM	#26
Irfit Random Punk Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Santiago , Chile. Posts: 47	2004 ruled for me a nice year, i met a lot of friends (real friends i mean), i have a new GF from 2004....i started to be a TMNT fan (a real fan i mean) and i feel really nice.... __________________

01-08-2005, 09:38 PM	#27
Jo Dawn Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Authority On All Things Don Posts: 5,190	Oookay. I've re-thought mine. 2004 was not as bad as it seemed, upon further reflection. It was the year I really became a 'woman', in different terms. I became more 'girly'. Wearing pink (forbidden since I turned 4.). Really figuring out how to do my hair... Hehe. Discovering that, yes, I DO like makeup. And can even APPLY it!! And clothes! Oh, I am addicted to shopping. (Trust me, I have someone you can ask. He'll tell you. ) Hehe. I'm not the thinnest woman, but... I'm liked for the way I am. Even been told I was beautiful and gorgeous (something not heard from anyone but family members and their friends before). I'm more comfortable with that, with myself now. I may not like my jobs all the time (okay, I hate the one) they afford me to be able to pay my bills. While I cannot move out yet, I still have the ability to buy many things that I want (no not all, I'm not spoiled. Heh. ). I really came into my own, figuring out who I am: Physically, mentally, sexually. While I've discovered much about myself that I never thought I WOULD figure out. So, in retrospect, really, 2004 wasn't all that bad. No time in which you learned something is a waste. So, come on, rethink this. How was your year, really? __________________

01-09-2005, 05:44 AM	#28
Anarky Outlaw Hero Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tannhauser Gate Posts: 4,867	2004 was the year I had to work. Not just a job you do in the evenings, but real work. In a real office. I had two jobs, allthough they were in the same building. The first one had to do with real estate, selling it and generally taking care of people's concerns about real estate. That job was great. I loved it. I had no problem getting up at 6am, I had no problem with working until 7pm sometimes. It was cool. I had responsibility and I was being respected for what I did. People liked my work, liked the way I was doing it. Also, I didn't have anger problems anymore at that time. I hardly ever got into fights and was happy. You know the feeling when everythng is OK, it couldn't be better. Then, in June or July I changed office. Fully motivated and very curious of what was ahead of me I changed into the "social service" office. There you are supposed to help people, either by talking to them and/or giving them money. In the end you are supposed to help them get a new life which they can live on their own. At first, I had to realise that we don't talk to people. That was insane. How can you find out what was wrong with the people when you don't talk to them? Insane... Well, so I went on and talked to the people. I was knowingly disobeying orders so that I could fulfill my "mission" the I was satisfied with it in the end. So the meeting room is most of the time occupied by either me or my boss (female, I shall call her D. in the following). D. is a nice person, very female appearance and behaviour (yes, she is very spiteful at times) and I like her a lot. She doesn't give too much about bureaucracy but obeys it without complaint. The there's the big boss, mayor of the town I work at. The bastard. He was the reason why I hated my job there.He was the one that I could kill. He was the one that made me xerox things for him in the middle of a meeting. The bastard. And then he has the nerve to yell at me, because I don't listen to him. But, allthough D. likes the boss (she sort of sees him as a graddad or something), she has to agree with me that he is a sexist bastard. You can easily tell by the percentual amount of young women working there. Not that it'd really bug me, but it's something I noted, while I was doing one of my brainless-jobs. Jobs where you don't have to think, jobs where you just put Paper A ontop of Paper B and then pack it into enveloopes. I became aggressve then. By late october I almost went for my boss. The bastard. But in the end, I must say that working is a lot better than school. You have more liberties, but you have bosses. That was the professional part. Personal...hmmm, my best friend, something like a brother to me got himself a girlfriend. A suicidal, stupid, high-pitched-voiced slut. She betrayed him once which doesn't keep him from being with her all the time. We hardly ever see him anymore. He has transformed into a moron. He listens to Eros Ramazotti (some italian romantic song singer) and he like things like "her, her music, working for her and being with her". We don't see him anymore. We all hope they break up soon, because she is ruining his character, she's ruining him. But all in all, I must say 2004 was a great year. Lots of new things to learn, lots of people to meet and lots of places to go. __________________ Because it's... I dunno... brutal.

01-09-2005, 06:14 AM	#29
Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	ahh...2004...the begining of the end... about the start of last year or somethin' i was moved from my wonderful home in America, USA to a dry, desert rockland formally known as Australia. with my friends left behind and i was stuck with nothing, i took up channel surfing in my depresion. in about April i was hooked on the turtles and i was craving for more. i joined up here in about July/September and instanly fell in love with the place and everyone here emotional sob while all this was going on, i was moved into a posh school with high fees and weird teachers. i was considered a "freak" by some people when somebody found a doodle of a turtle in the back of my german book. others couldn't care less and became my friends, (yeah, including Tash from the GD forms) i became more interseted in acting, visual arts and writing. MAJORLY interested in writing. the computer started to over flow with idea's for stories, pictures and whatever other things my mind had in store after the September holidays. Nothing didn't really happen until xmas basically the whole year was a sea, a sea for each year, a part of the ocean which is my life. the unpredicible nature, the highs and the lows and the movies, all will come in this year. and if life wants to destroy what's left of my life, i say bring it on __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."

12-02-2020, 11:31 PM	#30
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,869	God I wish I can go back in time to this time period. The early 2000's were great.

12-02-2020, 11:51 PM	#31
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	I wish I could be Kensuke Sasaki and you could be that guy he killed and I could just suplex you on your head 87 times for no goddamn reason and get away with it thanks to my Yakuza connections. "Allegedly".

12-03-2020, 07:58 AM	#32
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,773	Wtf?! Random thread resurrection, and even more random violent daydream..... You guys must be super bored. __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

12-03-2020, 08:54 AM	#34
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,869	Man 2004 takes me back. I was 18, I was in my freshmen year of college. Online I spent all of 2004 spamming IGN's The Vestibule board as I was racing to 100,000 posts. Also most of the other time spent terrorizing serebii's forums and places like toonzone. I had actually only just registered here in the drome on December 2004 even though I lurked since 2002, so I wasn't even known in this place yet. Can you believe back in 2004 nobody on this forum knew who I was yet? Besides that in terms of videogames...Gamecube and GBA were my main focus here. Basically playing Mario Sunshine, Zelda Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Smash Bros. Melee, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and Fire Red/Lead Green. F-zero GX was also amazing and Mario kart: DD. In the fall Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door would come out and Prime 2. I was a Nintendo only gamer back then and just between Gamecube and GBA I had my fill of games. I wouldn't play games like Metal Gear Solid 3, Halo 2, or any other PS2 franchise till around 2007-2008. Also 2004 was when we were in the second season of the 4kids TMNT cartoon. I remember people complaining Turtles in Space was too long even though it was only 5 episodes, not to mention the infamous reveal of Shredder as an Utrom. You can look through the archives of the 4kids section, people were PISSED when Shredder was revealed to be an Utrom.

12-03-2020, 09:10 AM	#35
sdp Detoxed Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 11,215	2004 was when I started to get back into animation, I had gotten past my early teenage years of "it's for kids" to a "i can like whatever I want" teenage phase. It was Teen Titans that got me back into cartoons and from there I started digging into the DCAU and also posted on Serebii and Toon Zone at that time Liking Pokemon during that time was not "cool", in my opinion still the best time to like Pokemon before it went mainstream again. My gaming forum to go at that time was either gamers.com or 1up.com whichever one was popular at that time. At this time I wasn't really gaming anymore since I had "outgrown" it, I just kept up with the news from time to time, I just loved music much more and of course collected worthless DVDs at that time, no figures or anything. I was avoiding 2k3 in 2004 since I didn't have a way to watch it, it wasn't until 2005 that I first got to watch it. I would just go to concerts all the time at this stage in life and High School was still my day to day. __________________ *Trapt* *urself Page MiscRave!!!* Click to join The Drome Discord server