The MBoard

I'm feeling a little sappy and nostalgic tonight so I've decided to pay tribute to the community that made me who I am today.

I can't remember how or even when (8? 10 years?) I came across the blue checkered floors of the MBoard. I was a kid. A legitimate child. I grew up with the MMX series and only really played X1 and X3 and the BN games. I remember lurking around under the guise of Guest before taking the plunge and finally registering under Chaud21xx. Seems appropriate now considering my history with MegaMan but back then it was just because I thought Chaud was the ##### and the original name was taken.

Even as a registered user I remember continuing my habits of never posting and never contributing. As a 10 something year old child I was deeply afraid of being judged by these adults who took pleasure in casting out those who "talk3d lyk this" and abbreviated you as "u". I remember pouring over user posts trying to understand and mimic the styles of the respected community members. Eventually something gave way and I started to post. I knew I had to type properly or else I would be crucified and so I did. While my friends at that age were typing like "idiots" there I was, capitalizing my letters and adding proper punctuation to my sentences. Eventually this became a habit of mine and I began to converse with people who I thought were way older and smarter than I was.  

Soon enough I was engrossed in the community. A vast majority of my time was spent between these blue walls and I loved it. I've met some of the smartest (I'm looking at you Delta), most cynical (Insert all the old guard here), talented (Morgan... You brilliant artist you!), funniest (Someone linked me the fake essays MastaFuu wrote back in the day and was surprised when I told him I knew the creator from long ago) people here in the forums and all of you helped shape my childhood for the better. I wasn't exactly unpopular in school or a loner by any means, but I always found myself happier surrounded by the blue glow of my monitor.

Years passed and as the MegaMan series that brought us all together peaked and fell we stayed together (mostly) as a single community. People moved on as they do but there was always new blood fresh for the harvest. Eventually a select few of these newbies would be welcomed into the fold and we would converse about everything as though we were old friends.

In a perfect world I would still be on the blue checkered floors to this day conversing with everyone about the next MegaMan game or making an ass out of a newbie. Unfortunately all MegaMan empires must fall someday, and while MMM remained strong for many years, it too eventually succumbed to the ravages of time.

What we have now is a relic. A message board about a singular video game series with no links to any semblance of social media. It's old, dilapidated and relatively empty, but, when I look at it I still see the shiny blue checkered hallways that lit up my monitor and consumed much of my childhood. Friendships have been forged, broken and then wrought anew in this domain and I owe a large part of who I am today to it.

So thank you MegaMan Matrix. Thank you for being both a home and a teacher I didn't know I needed. Thank you to everyone who magically came together to form this razor sharp edged community of cynics and fanatics. When I'm going through rough times I always seem to find myself looking back at MMM and really cherishing the chance I had to experience this community and everything it had to offer.

If you're ever around my parts and want to have a drink or something feel free to find me on the Facebook group (Sorry Abe! The offer still stands for the curmudgeons who refuse to use Facebook though!).

Thanks for everything MMM.

Beautifully put.

Last time, I did the numbers, it's been over 10 years. A lot has changed since then. Which is a shame. I'd love to still be playing old school Megaman games, making sprites and seeing people do fanart of our avatars..

D'awwww...

What a wonderful post. That brought back so many memories. And you're right, this place taught me how to type... and how to not be a prick on the internet.

I remeber back in the mChat Room days, most internet fun I had in a LONG time.

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

Haha, same. Pretty sure for DZX9 as well.

Great post, mang. Haven't seen you for a long while.

I also learned how to type properly because of this place. I specifically remember Ares getting me to do it.

#####, when I was younger I told myself that I would still come here and post everyday. I feel bad when I remember this place and then don't come to check for new posts...

Great post, mang. Haven't seen you for a long while.

I also learned how to type properly because of this place. I specifically remember Ares getting me to do it.

#####, when I was younger I told myself that I would still come here and post everyday. I feel bad when I remember this place and then don't come to check for new posts...

Your not missing much. xD

Awww.  Thanks.

I love all of you beautiful people <3

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

NATURE VS NUTURE

I am unconvinced.

Very nicely put, I doubt I'll ever have as much fun (or as much of a headache) on the internet as this place has provided over the years :D

I love you guys.

I've always hated you. And everyone. And this website. And Mega Man.

...

Dude... I've been doing social network ##### for so long that I was just looking for the 'like' button to click on your post...

Ugh, social media killed the mboard, and Capcom killed Mega Man.

Real-talk; I actually kinda stopped using Mboard when I started using facebook.

If it weren't for this place, I wouldn't have my daughter or my husband. I also have many friends that I communicate more openly and frequently with than some of my family members, and a strong sense of internet ettiquette. On top of it all, I was actually introduced to MegaMan because of this place after being brought here by a friend.

I love that I can still come on here, even if it's not especially active. It's kind of like an old playground where you can come and sit on the squeaky swing and think, with the added benefit of there being someone else here sometimes.

Sometimes.

I don't know if I would say this place had a huge impact on my life, but I do remember I spent a LOT of time here starting at... What? 14 or 15? Either way, about ten years ago. I know I spent a lot of that time being a jackass. I'd like to think that's no longer the case. I ended up coming here tonight because I remembered I had a photobucket, and going through that I found a lot of things that reminded me of this place and I couldn't help but wonder what the state of this place was, and how the people here were.

If it weren't for this place, I wouldn't have my daughter or my husband. I also have many friends that I communicate more openly and frequently with than some of my family members, and a strong sense of internet ettiquette. On top of it all, I was actually introduced to MegaMan because of this place after being brought here by a friend.

I love that I can still come on here, even if it's not especially active. It's kind of like an old playground where you can come and sit on the squeaky swing and think, with the added benefit of there being someone else here sometimes.

Sometimes.

Holy crap, you got married and have a kid? I mean, I guess I SHOULDN'T be surprised. It's not like you're the only person I used to know who ended up married with children, but still. I guess it's because I left for so long and have no context for who any of you people are now. Congratulations, incidentally.

I know I spent a lot of that time being a jackass.

I still missed you.

I still missed you.

That's sweet. Deep down, I still miss that great, big, bushy, beard. Also Mikero, 'cause that guy was the coolest. And ASR and Windy because one of my favorite jokes to make in comic jams was confusing the two of them.

Also just this place in general since there were a lot of really cool, really nice, people.

It's why I still check it, every single day.

71 clocked days of online time, I'm still in the lead!

If my tablet wasn't broken I think I'd try my hand at starting up a new comic jam.

If your tablet wasn't broken I think I'd try to ruin a new comic jam.

If my tablet wasn't broken, then I could reply to a comic jam you've ruined to tell you you've ruined it.

My tablet is just fine, but I don't want to worry about maintaining my #####posting reputation.

We will never have a good comic jam.  EVER.

Did we ever have a good one?

Hokay.


There's a reason I haven't chimed into this thread yet. I wanted to wait until I could really absorb it and reflect, and post properly. I'm glad Chaud created this thread because I'd been thinking some of these things for a while.

I don't have a ton to write about it truthfully, but I never did do anything fast and easy did I?

There's many memories I have of this place but the resounding thought I have of MMM is more of a feeling than anything else. Like many of you I came here at a fairly formative time in my life. Like some of you I came in with a terrible screen name (not that I have a good one now).

I was here before I knew Photoshop. I was here before I realized I could do art and animation for a living. These are things that now comprise so much of my life that I breathe them.

I didn't know I could have friends--People I actually call friends when I actually speak of them in my actual non-digital actual life--that I'd never physically met.

A part of me really did grow up here and learn that I could actually speak my mind if I wanted to. It might sound alien that an internet forum let me find a voice rather than destroy it, but such is the case. I've found that the world outside MMM actually falls short in that regard, and so it is lesser.

A big reason I didn't post this until now was that when I was moving I had to go through all my stuff since childhood. And I found something that really touched me.



[spoiler](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/38/ak3t.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/12ak3tp)
clickup[/spoiler]



Now, I want to say that I absolutely hate everything about this drawing and would never in my right mind post this now if it weren't for what it's existence means to me.
I don't think I ever told anybody about it. I know I've done this kind of thing since, but at the time this was a huge undertaking for me and I was very jazzed about it. The whole thing was going to be coloured and have EVERYONE I could think of.

You might see that you are missing from this. You aren't. Unfortunately, I only found these two pages. There was at least 2 more pages involved. Abe was to be the centre, with the mods. A page on the left of MH Alia included at the least Speed, Lunchebox, ASR, NovaMan, Jake, Sano, and myself. Mikey, Morgan, DZX9, Edge, Chaud, TLO, Ares, orclev, and others appeared on further pages.

For some people this was before their time and they weren't pictured, but if I didn't name you it doesn't mean you were left out (I mean Sano got it, right?) I'm just not sure where you ended up or even when this was drawn. I assume John, Majikn, and Vinch were there because I can't imagine it being right without them.

Since first coming I've been subjected to, and have become every single kind of person there is and it's an experience that is indelible. It's always like coming home again, even now, when I see that trademark blue-blue-blue pattern.

I honestly don't believe I would have done half the stuff in my life without your guys' constant support, friendship, and bickering and I can't imagine doing half of the upcoming stuff without you.

I hate that my old drawings look like this, I hate that I have even worse stuff. I HATE that I have worse stuff that came AFTER this, but I love you MMM. Thanks.

##### yeah

Mike, I feel very similarly, but am not a word smith of your caliber.

So,

##### yeah

i'm going to post a long-winded thing akin to mike later BUT FOR NOW

bask in this fun memory from 2008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VuRhCN5PVc)

I don't know if I have much to say about this place (even though I've been here for 10 years of my life) but I also have something to share:

(http://i.imgur.com/OEIIb.jpg)

I keep this in my signature here and on other forums. Man. I wish I finished this.

Alec, that was 2008...?

Wow. Great memories though, I loved that.

Alec, that was 2008...?

I know right? Holy #####.

Let's all make new memories together at Abe's new...

MIGHTY NO9 MATRIX!!!!!

HECK YEA!

You might see that you are missing from this. You aren't.

I am. :(

MIGHTY NO9 MATRIX!!!!!

Hahaha, yes! I can't wait for the new Mighty Matrix!

Man, I still yearn to play one of the MMM games that have come around in all this time.

I still yearn to dunk a basketball autonomously.

Mike, that picture is still a billion times better than anything I ever drew so don't be too down on your past skill level!

Mighty No. 9 Matrix eh...?

If I had the time and cash then I'd do it, but that goes for resurrecting MMM as well!

Time?  You have nothing BUT time my good man.  The game doesn't come out for like, a YEAR!

Money?  Everyone here will donate a dollar and you'll be set for years!  I suspect you'll have to build a money bin to hold it all, in fact.  But please, no swimming in it.

Time?  You have nothing BUT time my good man.  The game doesn't come out for like, a YEAR!

Money?  Everyone here will donate a dollar and you'll be set for years!  I suspect you'll have to build a money bin to hold it all, in fact.  But please, no swimming in it.

I'd donate.

And thus worthless.

i just dip them in food coluring and shop in ameruca so jokes on you

And thus worthless.

At least our debit and credit cards have chips in them!

It warms the bivalves of my black heart that Rez would have made that same reply ten years ago, but back then he would have been correct.

My heart is black because it's a ninja not negroness but also that.

Upon closer inspection I want to change my answer. Back when I was in high school. I used to visit this place every day, and it was easily the highlight of my day most of the time. I was going through a lot of crap at the time and it was nice to come someplace where that stuff didn't matter, and I could act like I was kind of a bog deal, and I could joke around and draw whatever, and get real praise and critique on it. Mikero was easily one of the best people I have collaborated whether it was in a Comic Jam, or just clowning around. Rezzo was always fun too, and Delta, and pretty much everyone here. Even the people I didn't get along with were great. I think this site is kind of why I never got crazy with drugs and drinking like other members of my family did.

It's a shame I kinda fell out of contact with everyone and got too busy and too "adult" to come back.  The first girl I ever really loved I met here. It's kind of crazy.  I didn't really appreciate this board,  but it's a great place with great people.

luv u 2 bae

: TheRedPriest   5 June 2014, 14:41:58

And thus worthless.

At least our debit and credit cards have chips in them!

We prefer our chips in bags or covered in nacho cheese and bacon, thank you very much.

Upon closer inspection I want to change my answer. Back when I was in high school. I used to visit this place every day, and it was easily the highlight of my day most of the time. I was going through a lot of crap at the time and it was nice to come someplace where that stuff didn't matter, and I could act like I was kind of a bog deal, and I could joke around and draw whatever, and get real praise and critique on it. Mikero was easily one of the best people I have collaborated whether it was in a Comic Jam, or just clowning around. Rezzo was always fun too, and Delta, and pretty much everyone here. Even the people I didn't get along with were great. I think this site is kind of why I never got crazy with drugs and drinking like other members of my family did.

It's a shame I kinda fell out of contact with everyone and got too busy and too "adult" to come back.  The first girl I ever really loved I met here. It's kind of crazy.  I didn't really appreciate this board,  but it's a great place with great people.

No time like the present to reconnect!  Most of us aren't dead yet!  At least on the outside...

Well, if anyone wants to reconnect, you can hit up my skype whenever I'm on.  I stopped using aim years ago and forgot my screen name.  My skype is the same as my username here.

Skype is for hipsters who can't talk without pictures.

I'm just too lazy to type to people.

He's lying.
We've only typed at each other.

i found this #####ty game

http://freewebs.com/mmmrpg/

I ALMOST thought that was a spambot post.  Almost.

i found this #####ty game

http://freewebs.com/mmmrpg/

Sweet! Saved a copy.

I'll be brave and poke the dead horse, but I want to thank MMM since I got to meet and make some lifelong friends and have actual real life adventures as a result. Things like couch hopping across the US into the basement of Ares on more than one occasion, to having a lifelong confidant through Master Vile, and probably being the only person to this day that actually talks to Sano on a consistent basis.

I suppose thanks are in order for the friends I once had, leaving good memories, like Xero and DJ, the latter of whom ultimately led me to being something of a co-admin at RPM for a good while, until we went our own paths. I could fill up a 15 page essay about the other various people I've met and talked with over the years due to being here, so I'll just leave it as a thanks for having an interesting community for me to mingle with all these years.

Another thing I'll give thanks for is that I used the site and community design when I make my own things these days, as a set of "standards" to strive for. I think things were great the way they were presented here, and the success I've had as an administrator of various projects following a model similar to MMM speaks volumes of how timeless it was in design, similar to Megaman Classic.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as Capcom execs used to say, you know?

You shouldn't disturb the dead...

You shouldn't disturb the dead...

I always felt that rule was inefficient.  

14 years ago today, "Delta" was born!  :D  And immediately started breaking rules.

I must say, Abe, that the combination of blue checkers and bright primary colours for the site design have always been inspirational for my own site designs.  Up until now I've had blue math webpages, with thick black borders, as if they were copied from a SNES game.  Good job!

I read that as "Blue Meth" before having to go back to see it was blue math.

I must say, Abe, that the combination of blue checkers and bright primary colours for the site design have always been inspirational for my own site designs.  Up until now I've had blue math webpages, with thick black borders, as if they were copied from a SNES game.  Good job!

You know.. I hadn't really thought about it until now but this site design still looks really good.

Most of the time if you go back to something started in the 20th century--especially message boards--it looks it. They are usually either ugly, cumbersome, or overcomplicated by the current standards, or all of the above.

I know MMM has evolved and updated many times since it's inception but the overall feel was kept intact with truly lasting appeal in aesthetics and functionality. I know believe in intelligent design.

Hey now, don't go pushing your beliefs on everyone else son.

I guess now that this thread hasn't updated for two years, I should be just on time to respond to it.


You know what's really embarrassing?  #####ing old posts from that one user on this site.  His name was like "Winged Warrior" or some #####.  From his quickly squirted art and lack of response to anything but a complement to it, to his brash quagmires one could roughly call "engagement" in the community.  It's pretty obvious that he wasn't really having the same conversation as everyone else most of the time.

So, #####, It's been like nearly 15 goddamned years since I joined this site,  I remember coming in like a bull in a china shop and almost as quickly being told to use spellcheck or to not let the door hit me on the ass.   Somehow I retained my membership, though I'm 99.9% sure not on my own merits alone, to post my incessant stupid dribble everywhere.  I swear it physically pains me to read over some of my old posts. 

In 2017, I'm a completely different person, and I hope it shows.  It took way longer than what I'd favor to be acceptable in the terms maturity and understanding, requiring way more tolerance for bull##### than what could be asked of any group of people really.  I'd like to formally apologize for keeping you all waiting. The site in the state as it is now, I feel like I really have missed out on a chance to really get to know any of you.  I think I regret that most of all.

Though I can't relate to being that person anymore, and I've been quite vigilant in throwing out any unnecessary garbage or baggage from any point before my mid twenties...  I still feel like this place was utterly instrumental to my success of being who I am today.  So in addition to my apologies, I do want to give my sincerest thanks.

So many of you had an impact on me as I came into a proper realization of what it means to be a functioning social adult.  Some of you showed me what it means to be truly creative, others showed me what it means to be successful in artistry.  I was introduced to a proper etiquette and the value of an articulation with words.  I was given a window to witness common and acceptable interpersonal interactions and with all of that I was able to piece together an ideal self to craft.

Practically every single person who I shared space with here on this site had an immeasurable positive effect on me.  Some more obvious or easier to state than others, certainly, but no one without significant merit.  Even to those who might not be on exactly good terms with me at the moment, your lives and worldviews were not without impact on my own.

I treasure all of you, your impact on me, what you've taught me, and your tolerance of my behavior.  There is no doubt I'd be the man I am today without you.

Smart, posts wisdom.

I remember that my reason for joining MMM was to get 50 posts so I can download Mega Man music. Shockingly enough, I ended up almost getting myself banned for posting stupid ##### on everything trying to accomplish that, but I ended up sticking around after I (somewhat) learned my lesson. Hell, seeing my old posts on this version of the MBoard still make me cringe.

This was one of the first message boards I joined back in 2005, and MMM is the only place I stuck around for. Other places just weren't interesting enough or became too infested with stupid.

I also miss MChat, though I probably wouldn't have time to be on it now for long periods of time like I could over a decade ago.

Early on I was definitely posting out of some incentive to get to the downloads, MChat access, and the other cool stuff but I remember having the decency to at least try to be reserved about it. Like I was excited to post here and I remember posting in a lot of threads way more often than I ever posted since, but I don't think I just made a bunch of one line posts, I think I just spent a fair amount of effort in each one though I'm sure I still came off like somewhat of an idiot. But that's all in some archive somewhere now if any of those posts ever even survived.

Winged Warrior, I share your feelings to some extent. I joined in 06 which was like a good 7? years after the site began. Before MMM I had learned "etiquette" from other forums like GameFAQs and one or two other semi-private forums but I was still a teenager and pretty much everything that comes with that. I love reading old posts here sometimes; my own posts don't do much for me but reading/recalling the banter from you guys usually gives me a smile and a chuckle now and then.

I'm pretty sure I was ten years old when I first joined. I was about to enter the sixth grade which checks out. I'm currently twenty seven so this place HAS been formative for me in many ways as well. I was lucky (although these days, I feel it should just be the standard treatment) I was always treated very kindly despite my very young age and obvious communicative difficulties.

[spoiler= Home problems (click to be sad maybe)]
It's like Abe knew to be gentle with this one. Delta was always nice to me as well, due to our shared Canadian heritage (we were rarer back in those days). Then again I'm probably projecting. Still, I had this place to keep me going when I was actually otherwise in a pretty horrible place for a ten/eleven year old to be in real life. My father was very a angry self pitying sort, perpetually drunk (not like, two beers teehee im tipsy lets play ball) during the latter part of our time living with him. It's as if as soon as mom wasn't around (she was the main breadwinner and had to go to work meetings in Toronto, which was ten hours away from where we lived) he'd just disappear for the day and come back in the evening and just being really into messing stuff up. I won't go into much detail but the more I look back on it and the more that comes back to me, the more I realize how bad it actually was. He'd do ##### like forcefully submerge and restrain me in hot water. I remember struggling and he'd push down harder or seize my limbs. I can feel my spine start to spasm when I think about the sensation.

The split up was very bumpy. Dad of course would try to (successfully at the time; kids aren't always the wisest) rally up sympathy from us of course but we were moving away regardless. It was a very swift change from one sort of life to another. I don't think I've yet to recover fully from that transition.[/spoiler]

That's why I'm thankful for you guys. I was able to still develop myself, my personality, my sense of humor, my interests, social skills... I had this wonderful network of people I could fall back on. I was always talking to at least one of you whenever I was online.

I won't go into much detail but the more I look back on it and the more that comes back to me, the more I realize how bad it actually was.

I can relate to this.

: Snare   9 December 2017, 22:18:16

I won't go into much detail but the more I look back on it and the more that comes back to me, the more I realize how bad it actually was.

I can relate to this.

Same here.

We're glad the MMM was a reprieve for you Snare.

We're glad the MMM was a reprieve for you Snare.

I can agree with this.

Hi friends, it's been a while. I hope you are all doing well. Being able to come back here is a real privilege, so thank you Abe.

I'm a new-ish father now and it's a wild ride. I don't know what it will look like in another 5 or 6 years but I hope to introduce my son to some of the things that made me who I am, like the Blue Bomber.

That's it. I won't rehash my feelings but I hope stories like mine contribute to making it worth it to keep this place alive.

God willing in 5 or 6 years we'll have Mega Man 12...