I figured it was you once you dropped being from Minnesota in a post once. You did it again the other day but I figured it wasn't worth "Accusing" you of being saltynutz but then here you are in another thread just straight up admitting it.
I remember you were a big simp for Apple back in the day, too. Maybe you had an Apple thread in the Tech section once.
As for why I came on here? I think I found this place on accident. It was around 2005 or so when I got broadband internet and was able to download music and shows and movies without tying up the phone line. I began a binge of downloading stuff from forums. RapGodFathers and a few other sites had albums leaked weeks before their release date. Same with mixtapes. Eventually, I branched out to several other forums to cast a wider net on leaks.
Let's see how good my memory is.
One of my first encounters was with Bobby Sands. I forget his original username but we agreed to trade a Nate Dogg album for something like Rap Phenomenon. I think I fucked up the upload of The Prodigal's Son and he was on my case to get the rest of the files so the trade was even but I never did. I was a bastard but I honestly didn't have it so I ghosted him.
There were two twins near me in Indiana name Kamikazi and Diaz. I don't know what happened to them but I did add them on Facebook 14 years ago. I hope they're OK.
Saltynutz, I remember you being Asian and your face was your profile pic.
I remember Sebastian, the German. I think he went on a power trip and lost his mod powers and then sueprnova'd out of here. I think his username was beReal?
Duke was another guy I remember from the car forums. He had a Lancer Evo IX MR and I used to shit on him all the time because he said that the car I liked was bad. It was the 2006 Pontiac GTO, basically a re-badged Monaro. I never let that go.
There was another dude in St Louis named PuffnScruff. Cardinals fan and I used to get in to it with him too since I'm a Cubs fan. I stopped talking shit when the Cards won in 06. Whenever the Cards won again in 2011 or so, I still thought of him.
There was a hot Asian girl named Helena. Then I said some anti-Muslim things and she got mad and I asked her how an Oriental person could be Muslim lol. What are Uyghurs, amirite? I don't think she was but...
Did Rahim ever get his steak? I know he never had one. He was kind of a weiner.
Pauly Pac and ThugStyle, I think I had them on Facebook too. Thuggie I think was in the UK and Pauly was from Rexdale, ON? There was someone from Rexdale. I can't remember who.
There was another guy from New York that was a huge Yankees fan. I really only dealt with him in the Sports section. He was a Jets fan, too. I forget his name. EDIT I looked him up from an old fantasy football league, his name was Bank Robber.
What happened to Mark Deez? He was such a meme and then he actually got with some big artists and made a few songs.
I forget his username but there was a British Indian guy with the first name Vikas. I know his last name but I'm not about to dox him. Came to the US, went to Michigan for business school and then got married. I think I left a vulgar message on a photo on Facebook and his family saw it and he blocked me. At least that's what he told me.
Ray. I was tight with Ray back in 09 and through 2013 or so. He enlisted in the Marines and did his service and came back. Not sure what he does now but we are still friends on Xbox Live and I see him active quite often. I still haven't reached out to him.
Shadows. Jesse. I had his number too and we texted quite a bit but he also fell off. He worked at the SD zoo, I think. It's been 13 years so I don't think it matters but when Keco's workout pics leaked, he was the one who sent them to me. I don't think I sent them to anyone else but for some reason it was only my name that came up when she spoke up about it (maybe Eric's too) and I got the brunt of the blame on that one lol.
I think I've seen Carmi post like once a year. I think she had a kid?
Anyone remember Bachaveli? I remember he got clowned on for saying he was a business man and someone said he sold Cutco knives and that they were shit. I don't remember what my issue with him was. I think he shat on A-Rod a lot despite being a Yankees fan.
Is Morgan still around? And his friend Stred?
FlipMo and Sofi seemed the same to me, I don't know why. There was another Serb, I think, named Rizzle? Hizzle?
There was one guy named Saint. Maybe Saint33? I know we did a fantasy league together here on SH.
I don't know why I'm still here. It's the only forum I post on, unless you consider Reddit to be a forum. A couple car forums but that's only when I want information and not a place for me to shoot the shit. This place has been kind of consistent. I liked Pac's music but all of you know more about him than I do. The history, the lost tracks, remixes, etc. I don't think I care about any music artist the way you guys care about Pac. When I came here, it was Streethop so I don't know anything about the Tupac Board era or what went down back then.
I come here to shoot the shit in the tech forum, usually with Masta who blesses me with his tech knowledge lol. I learned a lot from him there. And then the general talk thread here in Our Block. I think my Coronavirus thread is going to be a nice time capsule to re-visit in a decade. The initial posts in that thread went from thinking it was going to be done in a few months to being something we might be living with forever, though not as serious.