My discovery of Starmen.net
Since the release of EarthBound three lines of dialouge in the game have been eating at me for 8 years. That is the sign in Fourside. You know the one it says, "Planning meeting for EarthBound 2". It all but says "The game will be out in two years so get ready!". Sadly, I've watched the months roll by not really thinking about it. It was not until I was searching for information on Mother 3 one day that I stumbled upon Starmen.net.
At the time I knew a US release of Mother 3 wouldn't happen but what of a Japanese one? A Google search for "Mother 3" returned a stream of web sites that had a lot of information! It was then that in the list I came across none other than an article! It was Tomato's "Tomato on Mother 3" article. After reading I poked around the site for about an hour. Liking what I saw, I came back quite often. Usually I would visit the site every day.
After visiting for about two months, I decided I would register for the forums. It was a wonderful expierience seeing my name with the post. I would return on and off to the forums once or twice a week. Mostly because I thought new people to the site would be criticized for hanging around too much.
Many months later I found the courage to hang around more and more. As most of the forumers do I got more and more comfortable with the site and the way things worked in and out of the forums.
I later noticed that EarthBound meant much more to me after becoming a part of the community. I didn't notice anything special about it afterward or anything like that but being part of the community made me feel good and I enjoyed the game many times more afterward. There is certainly something special about this site. Not just the catchy graphics or effects something greater most everyone here tries hard to make their and others stay at the site a pleasant one. For these reasons I am thankful.
I believe this site will serve lifetime memories for those that try to make the most of their time here. Competition in the many contests has made me a much better graphical artist. Writing articles and fanfics will help my writing skills.
The contests and activities give great potential for growth among the citizens in the community and I hope more people will participate. Sure Draed will always get first prize for his killer Flash movie or Kyosuke will blow away the competition with his art or singing voice. I enjoy competing with everyone here! Whether I win or lose (or stalemate like in Plo's Hard Trivia Banner Contest) it doesn't matter in the slightest! Every contest I enter, I walk away with a good feeling and a bit more expierience. Whether I'm drawing a new Fukunaga picture for Tomato or reid, working on a new Flash movie with Squilburt, drawing for a request or working on a new article; you can bet there's a smile on my face because I'm doing what I love most!
Since the release of EarthBound three lines of dialouge in the game have been eating at me for 8 years. That is the sign in Fourside. You know the one it says, "Planning meeting for EarthBound 2". It all but says "The game will be out in two years so get ready!". Sadly, I've watched the months roll by not really thinking about it. It was not until I was searching for information on Mother 3 one day that I stumbled upon Starmen.net.
At the time I knew a US release of Mother 3 wouldn't happen but what of a Japanese one? A Google search for "Mother 3" returned a stream of web sites that had a lot of information! It was then that in the list I came across none other than an article! It was Tomato's "Tomato on Mother 3" article. After reading I poked around the site for about an hour. Liking what I saw, I came back quite often. Usually I would visit the site every day.
After visiting for about two months, I decided I would register for the forums. It was a wonderful expierience seeing my name with the post. I would return on and off to the forums once or twice a week. Mostly because I thought new people to the site would be criticized for hanging around too much.
Many months later I found the courage to hang around more and more. As most of the forumers do I got more and more comfortable with the site and the way things worked in and out of the forums.
I later noticed that EarthBound meant much more to me after becoming a part of the community. I didn't notice anything special about it afterward or anything like that but being part of the community made me feel good and I enjoyed the game many times more afterward. There is certainly something special about this site. Not just the catchy graphics or effects something greater most everyone here tries hard to make their and others stay at the site a pleasant one. For these reasons I am thankful.
I believe this site will serve lifetime memories for those that try to make the most of their time here. Competition in the many contests has made me a much better graphical artist. Writing articles and fanfics will help my writing skills.
The contests and activities give great potential for growth among the citizens in the community and I hope more people will participate. Sure Draed will always get first prize for his killer Flash movie or Kyosuke will blow away the competition with his art or singing voice. I enjoy competing with everyone here! Whether I win or lose (or stalemate like in Plo's Hard Trivia Banner Contest) it doesn't matter in the slightest! Every contest I enter, I walk away with a good feeling and a bit more expierience. Whether I'm drawing a new Fukunaga picture for Tomato or reid, working on a new Flash movie with Squilburt, drawing for a request or working on a new article; you can bet there's a smile on my face because I'm doing what I love most!
