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#freetox support thread - clique not allowed
Shift Kitty:
Is his real name even Eric?
SeventhSandwich:
I'll actually be high-key bummed if the forums dies out soon. This place has served me well as a 'known place'. It's like a familiar coffee shop that I can visit whenever I want. Most of my activity here lately is arguing in political threads, but I do enjoy the company of the people here which is why I come back so much.
The forums are also somewhat of an encyclopedia of my ascent through adolescence into early adulthood, and I can go back any time and see where I was intellectually and my interpersonal relationships at the time - or just whatever cool stuff I was interested in back in July 2013. The forums and Blockland have generated some of my most treasured friendships, and I've met people who have helped me to accomplish great things and work through problems outside of my online life.
I can understand where Badspot is coming from - that he gets stuff on disproportionately to the amount of effort and freedom he puts into this community and the game. But I don't think that we're all just awful people. We've definitely had our fair share of starfishs, egotists, and literal psychopaths, but there are also plenty of great people here who aren't necessarily as visible as, say, someone like Iban. I don't think we're any worse than any other community on the internet with a relatively laissez-faire moderation style, but we've got history, traditions, heroes, villains, and all kinds of weird characters. There aren't many other video game forums that can boast the same kind of depth and longevity as ours.
I have great respect for Badspot for making a place that played such a pivotal role in my childhood. I'm not sure what to think now that we've heard the first mention of the forums actually 'ending' sometime in the near future. When it happens eventually I'll still have this innate reflex to go visit the forums, which will take a few months to really go away. I'll probably find other communities to be a part of, but there will still be a big piece missing. Maybe I'll be surprised by how other places don't have the same kind of toxic problems we did. But even at the forums' worst, I'm still glad it was a thing.
The Resonte!:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on August 30, 2017, 11:17:11 PM ---what's the nuclear option
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your computer explodes
--- Quote from: Shift Kitty on August 30, 2017, 11:37:27 PM ---Is his real name even Eric?
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is he even human? is he but a mind consciousness?
Jefferson Block:
God damnit seventh now I want to cry
McZealot:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on August 30, 2017, 11:40:34 PM ---I'll actually be high-key bummed if the forums dies out soon. This place has served me well as a 'known place'. It's like a familiar coffee shop that I can visit whenever I want. Most of my activity here lately is arguing in political threads, but I do enjoy the company of the people here which is why I come back so much.
The forums are also somewhat of an encyclopedia of my ascent through adolescence into early adulthood, and I can go back any time and see where I was intellectually and my interpersonal relationships at the time - or just whatever cool stuff I was interested in back in July 2013. The forums and Blockland have generated some of my most treasured friendships, and I've met people who have helped me to accomplish great things and work through problems outside of my online life.
I can understand where Badspot is coming from - that he gets stuff on disproportionately to the amount of effort and freedom he puts into this community and the game. But I don't think that we're all just awful people. We've definitely had our fair share of starfishs, egotists, and literal psychopaths, but there are also plenty of great people here who aren't necessarily as visible as, say, someone like Iban. I don't think we're any worse than any other community on the internet with a relatively laissez-faire moderation style, but we've got history, traditions, heroes, villains, and all kinds of weird characters. There aren't many other video game forums that can boast the same kind of depth and longevity as ours.
I have great respect for Badspot for making a place that played such a pivotal role in my childhood. I'm not sure what to think now that we've heard the first mention of the forums actually 'ending' sometime in the near future. When it happens eventually I'll still have this innate reflex to go visit the forums, which will take a few months to really go away. I'll probably find other communities to be a part of, but there will still be a big piece missing. Maybe I'll be surprised by how other places don't have the same kind of toxic problems we did. But even at the forums' worst, I'm still glad it was a thing.
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Yea, this is pretty much how I feel, except I've been banned like 30 times between 2009 and 2012 so it's not exactly a concise log of my childhood. Most of them were before you needed a key to register. I've literally been on this game for 8 years--almost half my life. I was in elementary school 8 years ago. I was so different. It's nuts. I'd miss the forums a lot, but I don't think I'd be as upset as if it shut down a few years earlier. The thing about this forum is that when I get into political arguments I know who the people are and I can feel like this person is going to remember what I said the next time I bring it up. It's almost like the BLF has continuity when compared to places like Reddit. I'd probably survive by adding everyone on Steam and just chatting via the BL group.