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[Rose]

I'm pretty much a crotchety old man by forum standards, both in time since signing up, and also just plain age.

[Gentlefish]

I'm no crotchety man yet, but I've put my hours in here. It's been sad seeing some people disappear even though I started lurking more again thanks to some bouts of crippling depression and general embarrassment of abandoning some awesome forum games because of it.

[Tawa]

A little over four years for me. I've gotten quieter over the years, but I like to think it's because I'm not a hyperactive goofball like I was when I was 13, rather than growing distant from the forum.

Haven't seen Vector for a while. I think I've seen Tiruin somewhat recently...

Can't recall Owlbread, I think I've seen Scriver a few times, Hanslanda or whatever his name is? Can't recall if he visited GD much.

Personally, I'm spending more time on Reddit now.

Vector wiped out a couple months' worth of posts and said goodbye. Probably won't be coming back anytime soon :\ Tiruin posts now and then but seems to spend most of her time on the discord.

Can't stand Reddit at large, myself. I used to be really into it, but nowadays I check the front page once or twice a day and leave.

Spoiler: Reddit rant (click to show/hide)

I trimmed about my sub list down to about 20 subs a couple weeks ago, after I realized I wasted at least half an hour mindlessly clicking next on my front page when I could have read a book or something else productive. Mostly gaming and meme subs, with r/askhistorians and a few other oddities thrown in there. That way, I just have some funny stuff and interesting questions or advice dropped onto my front page, so I can scroll through the first page or two, then close out and forget about the place for the rest of the day.

Mainly I can't stand how it's impossible to have a genuine discussion. Arguments consist mainly of ad-hominems, thinly veiled ad hominems, and "well if you look at the statistics"-style bringing up evidence without actually citing it. The scoring system only exacerbates this. Downvotes have no real reason to exist--they say that they're for comments that "don't contribute" or that break the rules, but this is ridiculously vague and overlaps with reporting, so they end up primarily serving to silence dissenters. Frankly, most of the place is an overgrown comment section with a pretension of cleverness, somewhat like a more articulate Youtube. Kind of ironic how they make fun of imgur's community for the same thing, ha

[Tiruin]

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Vector wiped out a couple months' worth of posts and said goodbye. Probably won't be coming back anytime soon :\ Tiruin posts now and then but seems to spend most of her time on the discord.[...]

I'm still pretty much active here! Just additional busyness and the like, but given that this is both my first forum and that I've met a lot of great people who impacted my life even with the tiniest, nice things, I'm not going away unless something major happens that stops me.

And Vector is doing well last I heard; they're going about with their life, overcoming steps that brought them down before, and generally being awesome.

If you do really miss them and want to communicate--just send a message, like writing a letter. There's no guarantee it'll be answered, but these things are received anyway.

Also I'm only on discord because it saves everything I write (Ok that, and there are also a lot of y'all over there making it a nice place too). >_> IRC deletes everything, which is good in a way, but with my spotty internet, I dislike having any messages I take the time to write and flesh out from thought, only to have it die midway and get deleted forever because of bad connectivity.

[TD1]

Hhrrrrrrrrm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Puppies are conspiring with terminator to take over the world.

Hhrrrrrrrrm.

[Yoink]

Goddamn it why am the one having to take the lead and motivate these excruciatingly lazy people to get their arses in gear? So stressful.
Despite my efforts we are running extremely late, and I feel bad for the other friend whose event we are late for. o_o;

[Mech#4]

Hm, the PC Powerplay forums closed down last december. I hadn't been there in years, but I used to be active there about 8 years ago. It's not totally suprising but still a bit of a shock.

PC Powerplay is a tech magazine in Australia. I used to get them frequently for demos and the build-your-computer sections. Though the last time I bought an issue was in 2016 since their hardware write ups are well done in my experience.

[Yoink]

Bills and rent and shit all dropping at once, fark.
Just when I thought I might finally have been on track to get my finances under control...

[Eric Blank]

Sick as fuck today but have to work because everyone else is sick as fuck/injured/preoccupied too

Hope the customers like rhino virus and phlem with their brake pads

[George_Chickens]

There's a Bay12 Discord? I wish I knew.

[TamerVirus]

There are several out there with varying degrees of active participants.
I think that there was some beef between some of the discords so they aren’t discussed here much

[Bumber]

Encountered a shiny Chancey in Pokemon Ultra Moon. Accidentally one-hit KO'd it because I used the wrong move.
(The proper move wasn't even on my active Pokemon, but that didn't stop my brain's autopilot.)

[Eric Blank]

Man fuck winter weather and bronchitis

My head is going to explode. My lungs already have

[IronTomato]

Encountered a shiny Chancey in Pokemon Ultra Moon. Accidentally one-hit KO'd it because I used the wrong move.
(The proper move wasn't even on my active Pokemon, but that didn't stop my brain's autopilot.)

I remember the only shiny pokemon I ever encountered was an Eevee in SoulSilver. It was in the Battle Castle so I couldn't catch it. Good times.

[Jopax]

When you finally get some extra cash to spend and you decide that it's goddamn time you got that gundam model you've wanted for years now. But as it turns out, the universe at large is having none of that, since the sites you've checked are either not shipping to your country, have stupidly high shipping or in case of the suprisingly cheapest option amazon, don't accept paypal :V