I don't really have a story, per se, but I could enumerate the causal steps that led me here.
I met my friend DJ Lumberjack in Kindergarten. (You can all blame him for me being here~)
He got Earthbound as a Christmas gift one year, and we both fell in love with it.
We discovered the Earthbound fan site Starmen.net.
I downloaded an EB fan game made with RPG Maker 2000 from said site (can't remember the name of it, and it's not there anymore).
I got interested in RM2K and found GamingW.net while looking for tutorials and resources.
I downloaded a game called Sunset Over Imdahl from GW.
After finishing SOI, the game informed me of a contest held by its creator, so I joined the Alternative Gamemaking forum to enter the contest.
AG died after a while, but one of the members (Ruby Angel) introduced me to her friend's forum, Cedar Woods.
Cedar Woods died about as many times as Poke-Place has, so I spread to various other forums, mostly spending time at Epiphany Gaming.
EG eventually died, and many of its members got absorbed into Monkey Productions.
Somewhere in the mess of Cedar Woods, Epiphany Gaming, and MonkeyPro, I met Ame (Cyberian at the time).
Around the time Pokemon Diamond and Pearl came out, Ame told me about his then-unnamed Pokemon forum, and I joined up.
Right before the forum died (the first time), one of us came up with the name Poke Place (I think it was me, but I'm not 100% certain).
Poke-Place died.
Ame found a new server and started it back up.
Poke-Place Reborn died.
Ame found a new server and started it back up.
Poke-Place Re-Reborn died.
Ame found a new server and started it back up.
Poke-Place [Reborn] died.
I made Ame a Poke-Place sub-forum at MonkeyPro when HGSS was announced.
Ame found a new server and started it back up for real again.
Here we are today at Poke-Place [[Reborn]].
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