Storm Earth and Fire
Would you like to make a contract?
My last visit was late 2017, my last post was 2016, but if you look at my post history, I was last truly active in 2013. So it's really interesting to see people with 2016 join dates be part of the 10 most recent people to look at my profile. So I get a little sad when I see that some of them also have last activity being 2018 or 2016.
I'm not a pillar of this community, at least not to my knowledge and not in any current capacity. Most of the users on my friends list are (long) gone because almost all of my activity here was role playing. It's kind of why I came here originally, Pokemon Crater's forums died (again) and I needed that void filled. The community here was fantastic, we had our drama, but it was all good fun and we realized it amounted to nothing at the end of the day. I see that section hasn't been alive in a year, nothing wrong with that, the core of the community slowly faded away and there wasn't another generation to come in afterward. I think I was like 14 when I started forum role playing, but 17 when I came here, a decent chunk older than most of the people already here. A little crazy to think that they're probably out of college or whatever by now and starting to build lives for themselves.
Forum role playing seems like some kind of rite of passage to me now. Nowadays, I love playing tabletop RPGs, and that definitely grew out of hanging out here.
So below this is a thread from last November about pretty much the same thing, and I guess that's what prompted me to make this one (by the way, I'm pretty sure Mew's Hangout hasn't been around in a long time). The notice is still hanging up there, wondering where I've been for the past two weeks. It was a good way to try and nag me back into doing something. Well, it'll be gone now.
Besides that, it's incredible to go to a forum running on vBulletin like this. It's quaint, lacking a lot of features that we'd expect from a modern forum. Anyone else remember InvisionFree? Free reign to create forums using a fairly limited version of the same software, but it didn't cost a dime and they hosted for you. It was the way to organize groups of internet and real-life friends back when I was in middle and high school. Unfortunately I barely missed the grace period (they stopped August 2018) and I couldn't save my personal ones.
Anyway, there's no point to this, was just spurred on by the aforementioned thread. Props to Butterfree for keeping this place up (though I suppose being attached to a website helps) and I love that there's still people around here. New users, even.
I'm definitely still into Pokemon, although I've given up on Go, and my Moon and Alpha Sapphire playthroughs haven't gone anywhere in ages. I've got a Switch and I'm still gonna line up to buy Shield.
If you check out what user groups I'm in, you'll see a group for people who read old RPs. I used to regularly do this, whether it was to relive some especially memorable moments, critique myself, or just to pat myself on the back for something brilliant. I dunno if I could go do that now, but I suspect it won't be as painful as I think it will be.
But really, if you've looked at my profile recently, why? I have a very low user number because I happened to join not long after this place was rebuilt, I wasn't part of the pre-2008 forums
I'm not a pillar of this community, at least not to my knowledge and not in any current capacity. Most of the users on my friends list are (long) gone because almost all of my activity here was role playing. It's kind of why I came here originally, Pokemon Crater's forums died (again) and I needed that void filled. The community here was fantastic, we had our drama, but it was all good fun and we realized it amounted to nothing at the end of the day. I see that section hasn't been alive in a year, nothing wrong with that, the core of the community slowly faded away and there wasn't another generation to come in afterward. I think I was like 14 when I started forum role playing, but 17 when I came here, a decent chunk older than most of the people already here. A little crazy to think that they're probably out of college or whatever by now and starting to build lives for themselves.
Forum role playing seems like some kind of rite of passage to me now. Nowadays, I love playing tabletop RPGs, and that definitely grew out of hanging out here.
So below this is a thread from last November about pretty much the same thing, and I guess that's what prompted me to make this one (by the way, I'm pretty sure Mew's Hangout hasn't been around in a long time). The notice is still hanging up there, wondering where I've been for the past two weeks. It was a good way to try and nag me back into doing something. Well, it'll be gone now.
Besides that, it's incredible to go to a forum running on vBulletin like this. It's quaint, lacking a lot of features that we'd expect from a modern forum. Anyone else remember InvisionFree? Free reign to create forums using a fairly limited version of the same software, but it didn't cost a dime and they hosted for you. It was the way to organize groups of internet and real-life friends back when I was in middle and high school. Unfortunately I barely missed the grace period (they stopped August 2018) and I couldn't save my personal ones.
Anyway, there's no point to this, was just spurred on by the aforementioned thread. Props to Butterfree for keeping this place up (though I suppose being attached to a website helps) and I love that there's still people around here. New users, even.
I'm definitely still into Pokemon, although I've given up on Go, and my Moon and Alpha Sapphire playthroughs haven't gone anywhere in ages. I've got a Switch and I'm still gonna line up to buy Shield.
If you check out what user groups I'm in, you'll see a group for people who read old RPs. I used to regularly do this, whether it was to relive some especially memorable moments, critique myself, or just to pat myself on the back for something brilliant. I dunno if I could go do that now, but I suspect it won't be as painful as I think it will be.
But really, if you've looked at my profile recently, why? I have a very low user number because I happened to join not long after this place was rebuilt, I wasn't part of the pre-2008 forums
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