The first mention I think I ever saw of a "
www.pckf.com" was in the summer of 2010 when my friend gave me the mod
Dead in the Desert. So for me, it's been 10 years since I'd only heard about PCKF.
![Helmet Head :helmet](./images/smilies/emotikeen-helmet.gif)
(Well, 11 years now, since I couldn't post about it last year. Wasn't 2020 just the best?
![Cheeky :p](./images/smilies/emotikeen-cheeky.gif)
)
Since then, I'd always intended to check the place out someday. I was definitely intrigued by the idea of "modding," whatever that entailed (somehow I'd always dreamed about making my own Commander Keen games), and a community dedicated to that sounded like the coolest thing. It was 2016 when I started really lurking, and finally joined in 2017. This is my first and only account (on any forum, actually, barring Keen:Modding and a very short-lived use of a Lego message board years ago which I apparently wasn't actually allowed to use at the time
![Roll Eyes :rolleyes](./images/smilies/emotikeen-rolleyes.gif)
).
In a place where membership is often measured in decades, I suppose my 4 years is really not that long, though I have already been a diehard Keen fan for most of my life. Now that I'm finally here, I intend to stick around indefinitely, maybe eventually becoming one of the recurrently revisiting members that never quite stays gone.
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/emotikeen-wink.gif)
I have to say, I've become more than a little emotionally invested into the community here. Y'all are stuck with me for a little while.
![Mort LOL :mortlol](./images/smilies/emotikeen-mortlol.gif)
Someday I'll pass 10 years myself.