I would like to give my thanks to
Bay-12 for being one of the best communities I have been a part of (And I've been to plenty; including having been part of the Myspace social media craze for the time being); for many reasons:
-Being a place where my oddball personality is more widely accepted, and feeling like a second home.
-Being a good source of debate, information, good games, and randomness, and as a bonus, keeping me up with what comes out of the internet at times (memes and etc.), and making (non)sense of it.
-Making even spambot garbage topics interesting.
-For accepting me as a Steam Friend/multiplayer game contact (always willing to allow more, just click the little globe under the avatar), and giving me a reason to invest in multiplayer games, as well as get into Team Fortress 2 and Left4Dead.
--Addendum: Actually being competent players as well most of the time. I had my ass kicked a few times, but we also worked brilliantly as a team as well.
-For getting me out of a few creative blocks and such, and allowing me to show off some of my creativity without bashing it for the hell of it. Other communities weren't as kind. At least I got critiques, not criticism and (unnecessary) sarcasm.
-For being the kind of community that has sharp wits most of the time, and not resorting to cheap taunts, slurs, and etc. that are not only offensive in certain respects, but are also offensive at a creative scale (e.g. Not funny, not creative, no thought/heart put into it)
-For always giving me a reason to hop online besides news and looking for stuff and reading tropes.
-For not being too dull, nor being too "exclusive" to either lose my interest, or turn into a mob of bullies of sorts to convince me to leave by other means, just because of either an innocent mistake I made, and made up for, or my personality (or being a natural bully-magnet; being non-partisan and willing non-voting independent also added to it), or flat-out bad luck which also forecast the following years to suck just as bad for everyone else (mass-unemployment, SOPA/PIPA/COICA, for example) (e.g. Organizing a cyber-attack and such. Not cool [REDACTED], not cool in the least).
-On the note of politics, being surprisingly mostly civil about it; ranging from Occupy protests and the Internet Censorship bills, to anything else Congress decides to pull a fast one on us with (Looking at you NDAA and SOPA). I think I got more info I need and want here, than I got from my siblings whenever the topic comes up (mostly banter on how I need to vote to have an opinion, or some BS like that; from what I've been seeing lately, more people are starting to understand my perspective nowadays).
EDIT:
-I would also like to thank
Bay-12 for helping me get rid of some leftover items that would otherwise eventually become worthless in my Steam gift bundle(s) and so forth that I can't offer to my siblings since they also own said items (Current Holiday Sale and
related thread).
ADDITIONAL THANKS: (in no particular order)
Janet for her HAPPY thread (and doing a good job moderating it) and other antics.
WorkerDrone for being a good source of entertainment alongside Janet at times.
Vector for bringing all sorts of culture, math, and interesting stuff into the forum.
Vester for good input in topics, and her many drawings.
Solifuge for the interesting/funny livestream sessions.
Aqizzar for being incredibly tolerant with alot of the goings-on in the forums, and acting as a bit of a sub-moderator of sorts.
Footkerchief for being extremely helpful and insightful in the upper forums.
Deon for being a generally helpful person, including modding assistance.
Toonyman for being a good source of entertainment stuff.
KaelGotDwarves for being quite the badass.
Japa for similar reasons, as well as his contributions in the community forts and modding.
Ein for a few good basic lessons in Japanese, and other related interests.
FreeformSchooler for having such bizarrely funny avatars/smileys.
Naxza for our little rivalry that helped motivate me to climb up the Super Meat Boy leaderboards at such a ridiculous pace.
The many LPers and Livestreamers of the Play With Your Buddies Board for allowing me to join and watch some rather entertaining LPs.
The fans/supporters of my airship megaproject(s) for giving me a reason to start and finish a megaproject in DF; and even getting around to working on it's sequel.
Anyone that makes use of any ideas and/or input for ideas/projects/features wherever involved for trying them out, at least, and making me know that not everything I come up with is pointless/useless. Of course, with appropriate critiques/responses relevant to them.
Anyone else I forgot to mention for just being yourselves.
And last, but not definitely least:
ToadyOne and
ThreeToe for both working on DF, and making such an awesome community through some rather epic moderation throughout the boards.