Ohayou gozaimasu!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:37 pm
Hey everyone,
Man, I can't believe I haven't found this place or joined here earlier. In fact, I only found out about the website thanks to random searches for filling in some of my old notes and finding the PDF's from google. Decided one time to actually check out the website that hosted these, read the history section and was like "Duh, NIGHT OPS, from &TOTSE!!!!!" I absolutely cannot believe this is till around, let alone active, and active on a FORUM (everyone seems to have left forums in favour of modern social media...)
I don't know how often I posted, but I definitely read the old night ops threads back in 2003 (although I could have sworn there were ones earlier than that...) I was a huge night opper back then, and although I knew about &TOTSE as early as 2000, I usually posted on a website called Ninja Man Online which had much more organized tutorials for stealth, concealment, and making your own ninja weapons and tools. Later when it shut down I opened by own website and forum from 2001 until 2004 (I eventually named it Descendants of Ninjutsu), then everyone migrated to a website called Art of the Ninja which, according to internet archive, only survived until February of 2008. Then a member from there named Dothacker opened up his own version that lasted until December of 2012. After that there was nothing unless you count Facebook, but Facebook sucks compared to forums and there was no legit continuation of any of it. Plus people probably just got older and moved on.
Anyway, that's a short history of the much more ninja focused night ops style of community, although it was not strictly Night Ops in the original &TOTSE definition of it. Anyone remember or were a part of those forums?
Anyway, hopefully I have a chance to post here and get involved in the community. It sure would be nice to be part of a Night Ops focused community again, even though I come from a very ninjutsu type of a background.
Man, I can't believe I haven't found this place or joined here earlier. In fact, I only found out about the website thanks to random searches for filling in some of my old notes and finding the PDF's from google. Decided one time to actually check out the website that hosted these, read the history section and was like "Duh, NIGHT OPS, from &TOTSE!!!!!" I absolutely cannot believe this is till around, let alone active, and active on a FORUM (everyone seems to have left forums in favour of modern social media...)
I don't know how often I posted, but I definitely read the old night ops threads back in 2003 (although I could have sworn there were ones earlier than that...) I was a huge night opper back then, and although I knew about &TOTSE as early as 2000, I usually posted on a website called Ninja Man Online which had much more organized tutorials for stealth, concealment, and making your own ninja weapons and tools. Later when it shut down I opened by own website and forum from 2001 until 2004 (I eventually named it Descendants of Ninjutsu), then everyone migrated to a website called Art of the Ninja which, according to internet archive, only survived until February of 2008. Then a member from there named Dothacker opened up his own version that lasted until December of 2012. After that there was nothing unless you count Facebook, but Facebook sucks compared to forums and there was no legit continuation of any of it. Plus people probably just got older and moved on.
Anyway, that's a short history of the much more ninja focused night ops style of community, although it was not strictly Night Ops in the original &TOTSE definition of it. Anyone remember or were a part of those forums?
Anyway, hopefully I have a chance to post here and get involved in the community. It sure would be nice to be part of a Night Ops focused community again, even though I come from a very ninjutsu type of a background.