I looked though the old posts and saw that almost everyone here including expert members were newbs and used the default engine on tgf or mmf. Pretty weird huh? never thought to see posts that old.
I too discovered TDC after losing my noobiness, but I still displayed a couple of what would here be considered noobular qualities simply because I didn't know they were so hated. For example, Grizzlies 3 uses a couple of library graphics (they can draw explosions better than I can) and uses default platform movement (it's there, why ignore it?). I've abondoned such things after seeing that everyone hates them.
Why the hell am I on the computer at 1 in the morning? No, don't answer.
My first post appears to have been lost, but I imagine it was something to do with Digitiser and Blox 2. I now rather resent the fact that I once thought it a good idea to have that name for a game.