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[Diablo]

I'm glad to see this site is still somewhat active! Is anyone from the 2000s era Nerf OLC still around? We had some good times and would love to hear how people are doing these days.

-Diablo

[Silly]

Hey man! I wasn't personally around at that point, but I think that if anyone from that era is still in the hobby, they are probably using Discord for hobby communication now. That's where a handfull of the Nerfhaven staff are as well, like Meaker, Captain Slug, Doom, Langley, etc etc. 

 

If you have a Discord account and want more info, you can DM me. Username is 'Sillybutts' on Discord. 

[NerfMonkey]

Hey dude! I still pop in once a year or so for nostalgic reasons, though I moved away from the hobby long ago. We met at a war you hosted (I think) in Parma, OH in June of 2007. Nice to see you here!
P.S. This is the first time I've posted here from a cell phone in 21 years, haha.

[CA13]

I am doing good, miss the activity here and how cool it was

[HasreadCoC]

Hello all.  It has been an age.  I randomly remembered this site existed?  Exists?  And sorted by today's active topics... and got nothing.  So I kept widening the range, and this was the most recent thread.  I wouldn't say I was from the 2000's era, but the 2010s, yes.  I saw an old nerf post pop up in my FB feed today about the Nerf Balzooka, so maybe that prompted me.  I haven't built anything Nerf related in a long time, but I still build things.  I play discgolf these days, and I built some garage shelving related to that.  This hobby (nerf, specifically modding and the internet community around that) helped me learn and develop some of those DIY skills, so I'm grateful for that.  I actually have a friend in the discgolf scene who I met back in local nerf wars, and he coincidentally also got into discgolf, so we reconnected there.  So that's another bit of fun.  I remember the BritNerf Ohio Revolution (I think that was the name?) fondly, and buying some PVC wyes off one of the major members of this site to use for making hopper clips (that i still have, incidentally).  Might have been Ryan, who I was sad to learn had passed.

Hopefully this rambling doesn't run afoul of the mods, who I still remember with some fondness being real powertripping rules sticklers, hahaha.  Hey, I'll give you this: the authoritarianism of the site did cement a lifelong attention to spelling and grammar into my internet interactions, so that's good, I think?  Other than maybe people thinking it means my posts are AI now.  Man, the world looks so different these days.  I miss a decade and a half ago, or at least aspects of it.

 

May this digital message in a bottle find you well, internet nerfer browsing the graveyards of yester-decade's posts, when it's seen long after posting.  And hey, if you want to find a similar collection of oddballs that the NIC had, maybe try your local discgolf community.  We're still out there, and still misfits, together.