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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here
« on: December 15, 2023, 12:48:19 AM »and there rarely is anymore. but it's like a habit.....I feel that. I used to do that for a while once things started slowing down. It's now dwindled down to me showing up here maybe a few times a year. But every time I type "f", it's still the first thing that pops up in the address bar.
...I used to post here all the time, I was like a freak about it... ...between the two accounts, I've spent nearly a year and a half in total on the forum... ...I open it, becoming "active", and leave without doing much elseBecause of you, mld, and any other high post count forumer, it inspired me to try and post a lot everyday. However, me being a naive and dumb teenager, I made some real dumb posts and just all around was a forgethead. Pretty much like 90% of the forumers here from those times anyways. But since I stopped doing that, it kinda humbled me in a way to myself which made it easier to focus on other things that were important to me at the time. I wish I would've finished any of my add-ons though. That would've been a nice feeling to achieve.
I can skip checking for days and practically the only thing new is a post in the geese thread. we actually got lucky this week, with a cool-sounding gamemode in General Discussion....I think I'll still show up to post some stupid stuff to bring back some nostalgia for myself and have a laugh or post in threads like these in hopes I'll reconnect with some old friends or even people I just used to talk to or play with. I haven't played the game in so long, but it would be nice to hop on with said old friends. Or hell, even make new ones!
ok anyway back to the actual premise of this post.....pretty much the same again for me. I thought I wanted to be a programmer, game developer in some way, graphics designer, web page developer, or literally anything to do with "code" or graphics and a computer. Turns out my calling was Automotive Collision Repair lol! I'll still want to mess with code here and there and I've messed with graphics design, video production and whatnot but I think in the end, I'm where I want to be. It's really nice knowing some forumers got it good in some ways that make them happy!
and then there's everyone I met here.....I'm all for getting back into contact with old blocklanders or even making new friends with the ones that hang around here. Some part of me just wants to have a good close-out memory to this game, to the rest of the these memories. That desire just won't go away. I know eventually this will be gone, but I'd like to keep some little glimmer of the past in the present. Whether it be reconnecting with people, making new friends from old forumers, or just playing the game every now and again.
and there are more bittersweet memories, particularly of people who seem lost to time. a lot of people had this experience with vegetarian zombie, who dropped off the face of the earth, as far as I know......and there's just this vague sense of unease related to him and all the other members with a similarly unknown fate. don't even know if they're still, euphemistically, around. closure would be nice, to at least know what happened, whether they're gone, they drive for uber, or graduated college and got a nice job, or work in retail. just to knowI would also like to know :(
it's funny how few bad memories I have....I think I can speak for quite a few members here that I wish I could've had fewer bad memories of this game, this place. They seem to drown out a lot of the good memories. I suppose it didn't help that I was a richardhead and all that richardheadedness stemmed from a stuffty childhood. But what else is new?
I wonder a lot about whether all of the people I remember so fondly also remember me...I feel that. It's a little addictive at times. I would like to meet a lot of members from here in person, but I'd get self conscious about it all I think.
sorry for the double post, but I felt like this should've been a separate one since it's a wall of text to fox and not xalos