I joined after lurking for around 3 years.
It was the days of Wii modding (when I started lurking). I just wanted to play games on my Wii again, since an original copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl damaged badly the disc reader of my Wii after 2 or 3 uses. It seemed to be a common problem for many first year consoles, and Nintendo fixed them for free. But not in my country. I would have needed to pay the same a new Wii costed for sending it to NOA. So I simply let it gather dust for a year.
One cold night of 2009, I finally realized I didn't need Nintendo at all. GBATemp had the solution for my problems. No more disc reading problems thanks to USB loaders. But I didn't create my account since I felt safer as a guest, without all that drama that meant being a member (that was nearly non-existent by then, but it already was present in some threads).
I joined until the last day of 2012, since I realized the world didn't come to an end on December 21st, and I could very well start a wild ride around here while the real judgement day comes near.
