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warning: this will get weird.
I miss chat channels, you miss chat channels. Let's get all misty-eyed and nostalgic about it. Ready? Ok, go!
for most of its existence, -x17 was full of self-important blowhards. you went there for a game and some bm in every sense. it was very popular. i did not enjoy it for more than 5 minutes at a time and i bet most of you will say the same thing. in that way, it reminds me of germany in the late 40's. most of the old x17ers act as though they had no hand in the crimes against humanity taking place daily. repent! repent! we were all stupid when we were young, i was just stupid elsewhere.
nh was swell. ~nohunters was where you went if you wanted to have an angry, homosexual orgy in the form of a ffa. also, bizarrely good players lived (live) there for years. NH was and is more my style. it's probably the community i've been around the longest and, for those ex-nhers wondering, it is still a bastion of fluid sexuality and inexplicable hostility. it's fairly awesome.
someone needs to get in the habit of writing up awesome battlereports again. where is breeze? he was my favorite bulgarian. all the old legends are now wrinkled husks of their former selves (translation: they almost all play sc2 but have produced no battlereports). mark4 asked me for a spongebath last week because he cannot reach his dirty inner knees. i obliged.
what else? tot's channel was fun but i almost never idled it. us west was a misnomer as it was actually korea. i remember lazy weekend afternoons reading sclegacy's channel listings and cycling through them on bnet. wgt, that was a grand ol time and surprisingly mannered, too!
i'm not going to lie, this post may have been a thinly veiled attempt to connect with old nhers. maybe i will remember my decade-old smurfs when i see old names..
but what else was there? refresh my memory! cf? was that a thing? i am old and have a terribly foggy recollection of this past decade. tell me the story of your favorite (or least favorite) bnet1 channel.
god, i miss chat channels.
the ever growing list of channels i've been reminded of:
rekrul's west channel.
team aerola
motel ..!
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Anybody remember rekrul's channel back in USWest? 2003ish.. I used to hang out there all the time until he got that bot that autobanned everybody that joined.
Good times. I never heard of nohunters though, sorry 
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It was all about Ladder Challenges baby!
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i do remember that (rek's channel), cant believe it slipped my mind! it was huge, especially within the tl scene as i recall. in my memory, it was the source of much drama and, to a lesser extent, good games, always the calling card of a good channel. but as i've established, my memory is fuzzy.
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USWest Original SC Channel 55 back in the day when it was bgh that's the first community i hopped into when i started playing on bnet. then i hopped onto bw in 03 and was in marlboro ever since... sc2 has been out .... with NO CHAT CHANNELS
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marlboro! that sounds familiar, i swear. also, there was a hotel channel .. was it a bgh hotspot? so many vague names floating in my head. hm.
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No one else went to bsb on east? :/
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channel dok @ useast is where I would be at least 20 hours a week for old school maps. All non-pro maps, all blizz maps, in all varieties, with 3v3, 2v2, ffa, race wars... was simply the best. Many of them downloaded the blizzard map releases so we had non-stop blizzard map goodness. It was crazy how even after I started playing competitive maps, I would always lose to them on these BW maps. Crazy shit. Hidden Shrine, Tropical Seas, Killing Fields, Tribes, Garden of Aiur, Wheel... Most epic matches you've ever seen. two 200/200 protoss armies vs two 200/200 terran armies on Killing fields? Yes please. I want my childhood back.
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Wasn't it motel?
I stuck to cf for the most part 
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On November 09 2010 14:33 Murderotica wrote:
channel dok @ useast is where I would be at least 20 hours a week for old school maps. All non-pro maps, all blizz maps, in all varieties, with 3v3, 2v2, ffa, race wars... was simply the best. Many of them downloaded the blizzard map releases so we had non-stop blizzard map goodness. It was crazy how even after I started playing competitive maps, I would always lose to them on these BW maps. Crazy shit. Hidden Shrine, Tropical Seas, Killing Fields, Tribes, Garden of Aiur, Wheel... Most epic matches you've ever seen. two 200/200 protoss armies vs two 200/200 terran armies on Killing fields? Yes please. I want my childhood back.
i agree with the wistful sentiment expressed in this post.
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On November 09 2010 14:34 Straylight wrote:Wasn't it motel? I stuck to cf for the most part
YES. motel. there you go. 
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On November 09 2010 14:30 Empyrean wrote:
No one else went to bsb on east? :/
maybe. again, terrible memory. what sort of channel was it?
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anyone remember "brood war kor-namomo" or "brood war kor-nexus"?
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Can you tell me roughly what year "brood war kor-namomo" was established in? For a period of time I was naming some of my Diablo 2 characters Kor-Namomo, but I couldn't remember the exact reason till now, lol. I don't think I've ever been in that channel either.
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i remember those two channels vaguely - mostly nexus.
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channel marlboro on uswest... still active.
also growroom and op hyo-
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the other great thing about dok was that it was full of true old-school gamers like the ones nipping at the heels of top players in 99 and 00, were all in a tool-fan group with Maynard so their names were like MJK, To0l, AEnemic, etc. and they were all 100 apm gosus. One of them never used hotkeys... EVER. And he had perfect macro. The timings were wired in his brain. he was sabertoothgrrr on USEast. BTW all these players were vanilla players up till like 20005/2006 so that's why it is probably a different flavor than what most of you saw, but damn was I hooked on vanilla because of those assholes. Delayed my BW development by years.
EDIT: Murphius@USEast will rape anyone at micro tourney to this day, guaranteed. He played protoss and worked with 12-man armies all over the map simultaneously, raping like 3 of your expos with some crazy reaver goon ht archon sair mix.
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clan pros had a pretty large community, basically all the people of "motel" kinda..
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On November 09 2010 14:45 Nikon wrote:
Can you tell me roughly what year "brood war kor-namomo" was established in? For a period of time I was naming some of my Diablo 2 characters Kor-Namomo, but I couldn't remember the exact reason till now, lol. I don't think I've ever been in that channel either.
I remember that channel and kor-nexus. I never idled in them much, though. I wanna say that was around 2005/6? They could have been around earlier
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On November 09 2010 14:50 Murderotica wrote:
the other great thing about dok was that it was full of true old-school gamers like the ones nipping at the heels of top players in 99 and 00, were all in a tool-fan group with Maynard so their names were like MJK, To0l, AEnemic, etc. and they were all 100 apm gosus. One of them never used hotkeys... EVER. And he had perfect macro. The timings were wired in his brain. he was sabertoothgrrr on USEast. BTW all these players were vanilla players up till like 20005/2006 so that's why it is probably a different flavor than what most of you saw, but damn was I hooked on vanilla because of those assholes. Delayed my BW development by years.
EDIT: Murphius@USEast will rape anyone at micro tourney to this day, guaranteed. He played protoss and worked with 12-man armies all over the map simultaneously, raping like 3 of your expos with some crazy reaver goon ht archon sair mix.
my college roommate was a vanilla freak up until about a year ago. it was very bizarre to see but it's sort of cool - seems like a tight knit community on vanilla.
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