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    Default Wow, never thought a system could change a guy's life?

    Don't tell James Steven that! BTW, anyone know him here? I'd just like to email him and say "wow what a trip."

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    The Saturn Changed My Life -- No, Really

    Here's a little history of my Sega Saturn and how it changed my life. My Saturn has been at over 10 different homes I have lived at in 5 different cities in 4 different states in the course of four years.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I was able to move away from Hawaii to save myself from being homeless thanks to a good person I knew from the Sega Saturn NetLink IRC chat server who paid my way to Ozark, Missouri (of course I paid him back) where I lived for six months.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I was able to meet three different sets of roommates (one roommate who ended up saving me from being homeless) and lived at three different apartments in Springfield, Missouri where I lived at for another six months.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I met a girl in the Sega Saturn Netlink IRC chat server (no, I wasn't gonna go steady with her, we were just friends) who lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma who let me come live with her. Then I ended up meeting her uncle at a Christmas party and he ends up being the vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma where he actually hired me with no questions asked as a Data Entry Remittance Clerk getting paid $7 an hour.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I was able to finally meet my future wife (we're getting married at the end of this year), the mother of my child (she's a month pregnant), and the love of my life after knowing her off of the Sega Saturn NetLink IRC chat server for almost 2 years.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink I was able to move to Cincinatti, Ohio and finally get an apartment with the love of my life.

    *Thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I was able to attend a party in Cincinnati, Ohio of whom over a dozen people attended where I got to meet my best buddies that I knew online that I met using my Sega Saturn NetLink to IRC chat.

    And finally, thanks to my Sega Saturn NetLink, I was able to live the experience of a lifetime for the past two years, meet dozens of great and not so great people, mature a lot, live in many different cities, find out that internet romances can actually work (me and Jeanette have been actually living together for six months now, not counting the two years we knew each other from the Sega Saturn Netlink IRC chat server), have a child, and get married.

    Never would I have thought that a videogame system would change my life in such a way. Isn't that funny? A videogame system? I mean, who would of thought that a videogame system could change and improve one's life this much? Anyways, this was just my story that I needed to share with you all about how my Sega Saturn changed my life and how it helped me started a new and better life.

    -James Stevens

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    Wow, that's some story.

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    Suppose I could say the same to all of that for the internet/computers, except I didn't move around so much and live with so many people, I was the one that had everyone living with me :/
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    Holy moly. Thats quite some tale, Steven. Erm, what can I say? You owe Sega big time!

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    Actually it was the Internet that changed his life, because as we all know:


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    Quote Originally Posted by THATinkjar
    Holy moly. Thats quite some tale, Steven. Erm, what can I say? You owe Sega big time!
    Heh, that's not me! That's some guy named James Steven.

    And at that Mr. Rogers pic

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    Quite an awesome story there.

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    Now I need a Sega Saturn and a Sega Saturn NetLink

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven
    And LOL at that Mr. Rogers pic
    I don't think that's Fred Rogers.

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    No, it's indeed not. I did see a slight resemblance at first glance, but that ended at second glance.

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    The Internet is also a powerful aid to religion




    Either that or shes surfing shemale porn.

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    hmm very interesting, but hey i could see it happen, since i've got the internet i've made some very good friends

    so i could see it happen.


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    Nice story man, Its good to hear something like this every once in a while


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    It needs to be said: NETLINK: SERIOUS BUSINESS!

    Good GAME.

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    Sounds like someone got some real use out of IRC as well, that's... amazing! I always thought productivity = 0 with IRC as a variable.

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    How old is this? Hasn't netlink been dead for awhile?

    And no, IRC is not dead, it's still very active.

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    i can safely say that internet has ruined most aspects of my life.
    Even if I go to hell, I will live to the end of this world. And if the world does not come to an end... I will destroy it with my own hands!


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    This guy sounds like a real loser. Should have been looking for a job first how to become stable and less time with his games. Priorities man! Games and internet are fine and good but not when your on the brink of being homeless every five months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by supaevil
    This guy sounds like a real loser. Should have been looking for a job first how to become stable and less time with his games. Priorities man! Games and internet are fine and good but not when your on the brink of being homeless every five months.
    I don't think it is fair to make any judgements. There are many details and circumstances we are unaware of, I'm sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by supaevil
    This guy sounds like a real loser. Should have been looking for a job first how to become stable and less time with his games. Priorities man! Games and internet are fine and good but not when your on the brink of being homeless every five months.
    Heh yeah I was thinking he was going homeless way too much. But who knows, could be a really really unlucky guy.

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