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
