I remember when, having been introduced to the game by a childhood friend (who I hadn't seen since moving to Florida 5-6 years prior after 9th grade) but kept in contact with via phone 1 or 2 times a year..who later became the imm Andaren (who I never had any contact with in game)....
Then, after enlisting and getting to my Airborne Infantry Unit at Fort Polk...I finally had enough money and time to get a crap computer and dialup.....didn't take long for me to log on...I think it was hosted in Japan? At the time?
At first, because my crappy keyboard was loud, I was concerned my cfing would bother my roommate in our barracks room....so I set myself up in my closet and closed the door to cf.....which of course marked me out as a wierd f**ker...then after finding out my roommate was an idiot who I couldn't stand, I went in there to cf more than I would have...just because i wanted to avoid the guy with the mind of a 6 year old. (I got locked in that closet more than once...heh)
I did, however, succeed in getting two buddies addicted ( which I will probably answer for when I die). Around this time, because of the whole cliquish diku clan and aussie clan and russian clan stuff going on...whicj became apparent on glimo's....one or more of us statted posting with the tag Ftaclan....more to mock the other "clans" than anything. Later, bith of my army buddies immed,( one of them multiple times). And it was basically only cf that kept us connected as some of us left the service (some willingly, some forced out), around this time I lov3d playing the glimo/dio game as a troll of all the insane, sheeple liberals who play cf by being the most stereotypical strawman that liberals love to hate about conservatives while on the forumd.
Through one of those buddies,Two other army buds got addicted, one of THEM immed, and others from got addicted from them too....again something that I am ultimately guilty for.
And to think, it all started with a late night call in the mid 90's to a friend from middle school while I was at UF...where he explained this computer game where you could roleplay and have more fun even than when we tried to do AD&D back in 7th grade.
