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[KittyTac]

I'm mostly still here for forum games.

[Teneb]

So long as shitposts are dank and there is the sweet stench of leftist degeneration in the air, you will probably find me here.

So worry not, for all is well and all manner of things shall be well.

[Loud Whispers]

Pounded in the butt by the inevitability of decay

[Kagus]

I'm here because I'm too damn old and grumpy to invest myself in a different forum. I've been here for ten years goddammit.

Also to insert dumb comments into serious discussions.

[misko27]

I'm here because I know (some?) of you guys, some(?) of you know me, and to be blunt I've been here for a long enough fraction of my life that leaving would be dumb. My relationship with this forum predates almost all of my actual friendships. Can't leave that, you know.

[Cathar]

I'm here because of all the online fora I visited, this is one of the only places where I feel treated like a human being, because it stands as a proof that you don't need hair trigger moderation for people to be good, and because it's the forum of the best game pretty much ever.

[Rolan7]

I'm here for the bizarre moderation style, which I at one point complained about.  Having a single busy dev act as a nuclear option goes completely against common practice, particularly when the rules of conduct are pretty strict.  Yet it works, somehow.

It's likely that I just enjoy passive aggression and cattyness, heh.  Or that I like watching people forced to attack positions rather than people.  "I was mistaken in this particular part of my argument" is still a rare bird, of course, but that *never* happens when people trade insults.

I guess the parts of GD that *aren't* the politics thread are okay too   But they really are, because they humanize people with gross political beliefs.  That's not a reason to be merciful or a doormat to them, but it keeps the political discussion from being pure lofty theoreticals.  There are lived experiences, perspectives to try to understand.

Anyway, I still miss being a part of the tgstation community.  Everybody was rude, insincerely offensive to show emphasis, and really passionate about the game (or its development).  The politics of choosing the headcoders and head-admins, and how those groups worked together and with the most vocal/passionate players (shitposters), was truly something.  I didn't leave for any reason, I just got too busy.

I love Reddit mechanically, and it's a great source of useful posts, but I would never "join" the "community".  Share a finding or comment on a game, sure, but never join an argument.

And 4chan is useful.  Loud Whispers said it better than me, as freakin always   I particularly like the "civ4xg" thread on /vg/.  *checks the current thread, cringes* Like, it's full of shitposting obviously.  But after a while those become part of the atmosphere, an amusing clownshow over which gentlepeople of taste discuss actual matters of import.  A discussion of ideal territory-claiming *looks* a lot more profound when its interlaced with Wiz as an anime girl eating your money.

It's very Shakespearean, that contrast

[MrRoboto75]

I think reddit is mechanically garbage.  By default only things that are popular get read.

[bloop_bleep]

At least the upper DF boards remain innocent. The decay has yet to spread there, probably because that is where new users tend to begin before they drift to the lower boards (like I did.)

[Parsely]

I don't go in the politics threads, just the emotion threads and all the creative ones, and I don't really have any complaints. I'm not sure what people mean by "decay", from my perspective nothing has changed drastically except for the types of games that are popular in Forum Games.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't go in the politics threads, just the emotion threads and all the creative ones, and I don't really have any complaints. I'm not sure what people mean by "decay", from my perspective nothing has changed drastically except for the types of games that are popular in Forum Games.

This is the dark souls of forums. Every now and then we must sacrifice an ancient forumite in order to keep the bonfire burning for a few more years

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm shocked that Kagus is actually more ancient than I am in these forums

[Kagus]

I'm shocked that Kagus is actually more ancient than I am in these forums

I disguise my decrepit personage with the youthful vigor of ignorance.

[GiglameshDespair]

This is the dark souls of forums. Every now and then we must sacrifice an ancient forumite in order to keep the bonfire burning for a few more years

Yes, indeed. The shitpost brands the bay12er. And in this forum, the shitposters are corralled and lead to the lower boards, where they are locked away, there to await the banning of the emotion threads...

[TD1]

Rage has already been cruelly torn from us.

What will be next?

Sadness? Terror? Happiness?