NationStates Jolt Archive


How did you discover nationstates?

Salutus
07-03-2005, 02:01
How did you discover nationstates? any funny stories? or did you just happen upon it?

personally, i had to do it as a requirement for my international relations class, but ironically it was blocked on our school's network as soon as the class was over. it was categorized as a 'game.' way to go, administration.
Arribastan
07-03-2005, 02:04
To be honest, I don't clearly remember, but it was probably a friend who read the book.

EDIT: I just remembered. My friend told me about it one day, saying his brother's friend had read the book and visited the site. He never mentioned the forum, but when I got here, after a few weeks tinkering with my nation I started to visit the forum. Soon, I started posting, and eventually I told other friends about it. (everyone I know has left, to my knowledge) None of my friends ever tried the forum part of it, to my knowledge.
Takuma
07-03-2005, 02:06
A friend showed me it.
Potaria
07-03-2005, 02:07
I found out about this place on the Game Informer forums. It's as simple as that.
Andaluciae
07-03-2005, 02:07
US News and World Report did a segment entitled "game of the week" and NS had it. I tried it out, and boom, I was on.
Neo-Anarchists
07-03-2005, 02:07
By accident when I was trying to find Max Barry's website.
Evil Arch Conservative
07-03-2005, 02:09
I learned of it from US News and World Report too.
Eichen
07-03-2005, 02:09
I read about the site on The Cult (http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net).

Then I read the "okay" novel that started it all. Then I joined here.
Salutus
07-03-2005, 02:09
To be honest, I don't clearly remember, but it was probably a friend who read the book.

EDIT: I just remembered. My friend told me about it one day, saying his brother's friend had read the book and visited the site. He never mentioned the forum, but when I got here, after a few weeks tinkering with my nation I started to visit the forum. Soon, I started posting, and eventually I told other friends about it. (everyone I know has left, to my knowledge) None of my friends ever tried the forum part of it, to my knowledge.

yea that second part was pretty much what happened to me. after a while i found the forums and i remember the first thread i wandered into was on abortion and sdaeriji was one of the first people i ever talked to.

edit: i got a couple of friends onto it, two of them left and a couple still do it. only one does the forums.
Salutus
07-03-2005, 02:11
I read about the site on The Cult (http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net).

Then I read the "okay" novel that started it all. Then I joined here.

what is the novel about?
Manawskistan
07-03-2005, 02:12
somethingawful.com

(I was once a Goontopian, I try to keep the funk alive)
East Coast Federation
07-03-2005, 02:12
http://forums.talkgeek2me.com/ A member on that board, used to be a Star Trek board, over 2 years ago.
Arribastan
07-03-2005, 02:13
yea that second part was pretty much what happened to me. after a while i found the forums and i remember the first thread i wandered into was on abortion and sdaeriji was one of the first people i ever talked to.
The funny thing is, I come here in waves. I'll visit for 3 weeks straight, then only come here once a week to login for a month, then do it again. I've been resurrected once, maybe twice. But I still come back. I remember Marathon's deletion, and I remember Beeker's deletion. Sad, sad days those were. The forums will never be the same without Mezzaluna's and Beeks' touches, and now Stephistan is leaving.
But I digress. The first forum I looked at was II, and I've slowly lost interest in II (It's gone far, far downhill) and gained interest in General.
Salutus
07-03-2005, 02:14
The funny thing is, I come here in waves. I'll visit for 3 weeks straight, then only come here once a week to login for a month, then do it again. I've been resurrected once, maybe twice. But I still come back. I remember Marathon's deletion, and I remember Beeker's deletion. Sad, sad days those were. The forums will never be the same without Mezzaluna's and Beeks' touches, and now Stephistan is leaving.
But I digress. The first forum I looked at was II, and I've slowly lost interest in II (It's gone far, far downhill) and gained interest in General.

stephistan is leaving??? why?
Arribastan
07-03-2005, 02:16
stephistan is leaving??? why?
right here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=402954
Salutus
07-03-2005, 02:17
This used to be a good place to test your intellect. Now it's a place to call people names and indulge in mastubatory fluffle-fests and popularity contests.

haha so true. but that's a bummer.
Eichen
07-03-2005, 02:18
what is the novel about?
Jennifer Government (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385507593/102-3109190-5276149)

Meh.
Alenaland
07-03-2005, 02:23
I belong to a beading group where someone posted the link. Damn enablers.
Naturality
07-03-2005, 15:52
ran across it on a game search
Legless Pirates
07-03-2005, 15:53
Friend told me about it. I told lots of other people but they all quit
Planners
07-03-2005, 15:53
Friend.
Kazcaper
07-03-2005, 15:54
A bit dull really - my boyfriend came across it on some political newsgroup he's on, and recommended it to me. Still, I'm really glad I found it one way or the other :)
L-rouge
07-03-2005, 15:57
I was watching Weebl and Bob and it was one of the banner ads, looked interesting and I've been hopping in and out ever since!
Jordaxia
07-03-2005, 16:00
PcZone interweb game thingy. Then I never went to it. Then some hopeless NS addict wrote in a letter, so I did go to it. To think, if I just listened the first time, I'd be a mid 03 instead of very early 04.... think of all the respect heaped upon me for absolutely no good reason! Or not.
Monkeypimp
07-03-2005, 16:06
I found out about it in late 2002 on the forum of another game I player at the time. I started a nation, but for some reason issues didn't work properly and I couldn't be bothered finding out why, so my nation died. I signed up again in May of '03 for some reason I can't remember.
Caribbean Buccaneers
07-03-2005, 16:13
Another NS user called 'Atlantian Outcasts' continually went on about NS and what his nation was like. So after much nagging, I came here. I think I had a nation as far back as 2002, but it's name was lost in the swirling bottomless pit that is my brain, thus it died. Then later on some people were talking about it on another forum I'm a regular at, and so I came here again and stuck around, this time. With more nations than I can healthily handle, I have to say...
FutureExistence
07-03-2005, 16:38
The senior pastor of my church (Bristol Vineyard, www.bristolvineyard.com - sorry about the poor website design!) recommended it to us on his 'blog. A few of us tried it out, but I think I'm the only one to stick with it.
I used to be "The Community of Reactivists", but I got tired of NS at one point, left it over the summer, and my nation got deleted. I started this one, and I come on a couple of times a week.
DHomme
07-03-2005, 16:47
I think it was on i-am-bored.com once.
Markreich
07-03-2005, 16:47
I was at the Hyatt on Jamboree in Newport Beach, California. (Also known as the "West Coast White House" back when Nixon was in office.) Nice place.

Anyway: After working for 4 days with 2 other guys to swap out 110 laptops to our field workers, we were done working. They went home on earlier flights, as did most of the field workers, so I really didn't know anyone.

It was raining hard on the last day, so golf or most any other walkable outing was not an option (though it was March and 70 degrees). I didn't have a car, and didn't want to bother renting one even though I kind of know the area.

We still had the high speed in the work room, so I checked e-mail, etc. Decided to search for online Risk or something to pass an hour or so until dinner. I found NS instead. :)
You Forgot Poland
07-03-2005, 17:22
Same place I get everything else I know/do. Fark link.
Yelda
07-03-2005, 17:28
One of the Mods (can't remember which one) posted something (can't remember what) on Slashdot and mentioned the site. I immediately came here and founded a nation.
Olwe
07-03-2005, 17:34
The region I'm in consists almost entirely of people from http://www.theconclave.tk... so yeah, when the UN delegate founded the place he put a link up there and I was one of the first people to click on it. I've got four nations now, so I guess you could say I'm something of an NS addict, although I don't post in the forums much.
MuhOre
07-03-2005, 17:43
I believe i first saw it on Newgrounds i was one of first people to sign up i think, anyways but i got bored, because of the issues and did not understand what to do.

Then a year later, i hear about their first birthday...well upcoming. So i signed up again, only this time i met some people, and stuck long enough that new issues started to pop up. :)

G-d Bless Newgrounds! :D
I V Stalin
07-03-2005, 17:48
A friend showed it to me last July, so I joined, thinking I'd just check it out occasionally - every couple of days or so. Which was how it started. Then I found a friend of mine also had a nation...then that another friend had one...so I now have this nation in the first friend's region, and another nation in the second friend's region. And a third nation, which is in some random region somewhere. I didn't start using the forums until about October when I was bored on a Sunday night with an essay to write for the following morning...bloody forums...or bloody essays, getting in the way of my NS-ing.
Occidio Multus
07-03-2005, 18:08
a person i chat with often online told me about it...i ignored him for a few months, then finally gave in. i had read Jennifer before, and truly enjoyed the novel, but i had never went to the site. i surprise even myself by being on the general forum, and not rp ing. but, hell,things change.