Same here. I spent half my youth on forums, in my case related to Rollercoaster Tycoon. The other half I played the game. I could put a lot of creativity in that game and the community. Besides, rollercoasters are f'ing awesome.I mean it's impossible to understate the impact the early forums I joined when I was 13/14 had on me.
WHAT?! veen. veen. My man! Also have you ever fucked with http://www.openttd.org/en/ - seems up your alley.
I'm interested in all of those things!!! veen, what's your steam ID? and flagamuffin if you're on that too.
Chris Sawyer's the man, aka The Assembly-Writing Superhero. OpenTTD is really cool, I got into it about a year or so ago but I'm absolutely terrible at it - I know how to build bus lines and rail lines but that's about it. Know a good tutorial that's better than the wiki? Also: SimCity 2000. Amazing.