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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread

« on: January 09, 2024, 02:22:31 PM »

yippee

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Off Topic / Re: VIPER GOT ARRESTED

« on: January 05, 2024, 08:43:42 PM »

well god damn

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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?

« on: December 23, 2023, 05:24:33 PM »

mine is also fitness related but less specific. I just want to do strength training every other day and walk at least 30 minutes on the off days. surely over time I will increase the scope of these goals but I think that's a manageable place to start. the most important thing for me rn is just getting some kind of activity every day and trying to get in better shape. I'm not especially worried about changing my diet at the moment because that's never gone exceptionally well in the past and it's going to have to be a much more gradual process. trying to change both at once would not work for me

good luck on yours

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Off Topic / Re: Whamageddon 2023 (it begins)

« on: December 22, 2023, 02:34:23 PM »

I don't think I've heard this song before during or after christmas in years

Are AI covers counted as a loss?

ai covers are definitely some kind of loss

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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 16, 2023, 06:34:19 AM »

i have only met adam. SO FAR. but it's only a matter of time before the rest of the furry squad

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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, 11:34:43 PM »

Nightfox, who was a furry and apparently is also OP.

teehee

ikr? It's so weird to see. It's like BLF has done a 180 and suddenly everyone's showing their regrets over all the bad stuff they witnessed. For such a long time, the culture here was so centered around insults, drama, not getting called out as long as you were popular/funny, etc.

it's definitely different..... everyone's adults or at least late teenagers now. we've all had time to reflect on past behavior (although I'm sure not everyone actually has) which is probably benefitted in many cases by not being around here so much anymore. I've been posting a lot less in the last few years, for sure, but I don't think I've ever really fully disengaged for any considerable period of time. so maybe I didn't get that bonus lol. but I think I have gained a lot from my other friendships and from just understanding myself and my relationships with other people better than I used to

They were always so popular for seemingly no reason, and no one really called them out very often from what I remember, but now we're seeing a decent amount of posts doing that.

he was a "cool" adult, and I think that's just the way kids tend to look at adults they think are cool. in not being an authority figure they can just become someone with more agency and life experience than you, which is something a lot of kids will look up to. as adults ourselves now, in retrospect we understand that his presence here wasn't particularly cool, and his behavior certainly wasn't. but he definitely wasn't universally liked even back then

i always worry one day i'll click on the tab and it won't load up anymore.

it is inevitable...... i find myself hoping that someone's archiving it all, but I don't know if I have the patience to do it myself

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!

nice. before I got into programming I wanted to be a surgeon and I was sure that was where I was going to take my life. but then I learned javascript, and it upended everything. which is good, I guess, because I kind of like it?? but it's also complicated lol. I don't love doing it as a job, and I've lost almost all interest in doing it for fun in my personal time now that I do, but it's Okay and it provides me with a pretty cushy standard of living. so I don't think I'll be abandoning it entirely for some time. I do think in the long term I'll be looking for management positions rather than going down the path of more and more advanced engineering positions
I've mentioned this before on the forum but think it's a little funny the way I got into it. almost every programmer who came from here, I think, got into it because of blockland directly. like making mods and stuff. but that just never happened for me. my entire programming life is all but entirely separated from blockland itself (aside from a few userscripts I made for the forum). but like I mentioned in the op, the support of some of my friends from here was nonetheless essential

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?

there's definitely a lot of different experiences. when I say I don't really I have bad memories, I don't mean that nothing bad ever happened to me, just that, for me, the things that stick out to me, after so many years, are mainly the positives. the bad things did happen and have affected me profoundly. like I mentioned in the OP I still have trouble sometimes with being argumentative and rude about things that really just don't matter. I was, in general, far more exposed to loveual content and behavior than anyone of my age should have been, like I was 11 the first time I saw furry research, (cw for more Advanced csa) [and the first time I sent nudes to someone, I was 12, and they were several years older]. pretty much everyone around me acted like these things were normal, and granted, most of them were also around the same age! so I don't blame most of them. except for the guy in the censored bit. that was just bad. but it wasn't normal, and it certainly wasn't healthy, and these kinds of experiences had a long-term effect on my behavior and my general outlook on love, and maybe some of that is related to my effective aloveuality these days. again, I should probably see a therapist lol
but despite all of that, and everything else, I think for me it was still a net positive, being here? maybe? or maybe that's just the parts of me that are still maladjusted thinking that. dunno!! but I think I'm ok generally now

hello, foxcrotch.

hello my gay friend

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Off Topic / Re: They're watching

« on: December 10, 2023, 11:56:06 PM »

we love a nonbinary monarch

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Drama / Re: Trinko is extrememly rude and depressing, why is he a monitor/admin on BBC?

« on: December 06, 2023, 09:35:36 PM »

maybe you just suck

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Games / Re: peter griffin in fortnite

« on: December 05, 2023, 08:15:17 PM »

i can NOT believe they would put something i don't like in a game for 10 to 14 year old children.......... grrrrrrr

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Kissenger dead

« on: November 30, 2023, 02:22:22 PM »

hell forgetin yeah babey who's next

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Off Topic / Re: Whamageddon 2023 (Begins December 1)

« on: November 26, 2023, 08:39:40 PM »

going to lose my 4? year streak this year unfortunately

why and how do you already know that

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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here

« on: November 16, 2023, 07:42:22 PM »

youre someone i remember as being cool, so theres that

ty my friend

Maybe I dodged a bullet there.

hard to say. I think definitely there are some people for whom spending so much time here was a net loss, and for others, a net gain. but ultimately you just have to play with the hand you're dealt. if you're good now, nothing to regret

On December 25th, 2021, I realized I'm trans. I came out to my family and friends, started HRT, lost old friends, gained new friends, [...]

omg congrats I hope everything is going well. I don't talk about it here often but I've been identifying as nonbinary since late 2018 (although even before then I would say I had a mostly apathetic approach to my own gender, and I still choose not to use any more specific labels than that), and decided to start E in april of this year, after much deliberation and a couple years of waffling back and forth. might cause some awkward family situations if and when it becomes more outwardly obvious, but until then i am chillin

Blockland holds a lot of memories for me, both good and bad. I remember the friendships I had across nearly a decade that I was part of this community, most of whom I've lost touch with and will probably never hear from again. I remember all the wonderful game mods I wrote and servers I hosted, and the fun times we had. I also remember the toxicity this community could bring, and how somehow Blockland always brought out the worst version of myself. More than anything else, that was why I stopped hosting - I don't like the person I become when I host.

I definitely picked up some bad interpersonal habits here myself, but I think I have mostly plucked them all back out. I can still be a bit argumentative sometimes but it's ok. sad to hear that yours wasn't as positive but I hope you still gained something from your time here

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Off Topic / Re: what do greek2me/ravencroft's avatars look like?

« on: November 06, 2023, 07:47:48 PM »

I think snot has like every single users avatar on file he would know

if ur not exaggerating I would actually love to get any or all of mine (especially if there's any from the night fox account) @snot. i would pay u for ur effort. I used to keep mine, but at some point I lost the collection (and I don't think it was ever fully complete anyway)
actually, I'm stupid. i just realized what yall meant by avatar (i KNOW you literally said the peg leg thing but look pal. I didn't read it). I don't need evidence of that because mine was generally just a black or white basic space suit configuration with pink highlights

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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here

« on: November 06, 2023, 07:46:04 PM »

besides that i have similar memories/feelings towards of this community and this place @fox. without it i wouldnt have met lifelong friends.

one way or another I think it has affected almost all of us greatly. I can't think of a blocklander (former or otherwise) I still know today who doesn't consider it to have been a meaningful part of their childhood or teenage years

Krystal's clan mentioned 💃

omg hiiii

I don't really talk to anyone from here in my daily life. Foxscotch, you're like some sort of temporal anchor for this place. No matter how dead it is, I can rely on seeing a post from you!

<3 it's because it has become a part of me. implanted, pretending to be some secret new organ, waiting for me to die so that its children can consume my body and continue the cycle

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Off Topic / Re: how have the last 5 years been for you?

« on: November 03, 2023, 02:59:21 PM »

I had a pretty different experience with covid generally, I was working in an office at a factory at the time, and being a factory and all, they can't really do wfh, which.... didn't need to extend to the office staff as well, but it did anyway. so work didn't change at all actually, except we all started wearing masks lol. social life didn't change too much either, I still saw a couple of my friends every week because I had been going over every friday to wash my clothes anyway, and I still needed to wash my clothes, so we never really stopped. it wasn't until february 2021 that I got a remote job and that part changed, but the social stuff didn't, so it was whatever

I guess it was a good thing. obviously working in an office meant greater potential exposure to covid, but somehow, I managed to never catch it