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Just checking in for the first time in many years, how are we all?
{L}:
Hey there everyone!
I was just watching this video in an ongoing series I've been following by youtuber Redlyne yesterday, and to my surprise, Blockland made an appearance!
This led me to have a little look at the forums for old time's sake.
I've not posted in over seven years now, although Blockland definitely has crossed my mind a few times.
It's so strange for me because Blockland was such a huge part of my childhood. I first started playing in 2005 when I was only five or six years old, and now it'll be the 20th anniversary of the game in a short amount of time. Don't even get me started on Age of Time. I remember that Green Hills were some of the very first words I learnt how to spell in life because of the old map loading screen.
I was very sad to see that there's been quite a few deaths in the community in recent years of people I remember playing with often, such as GSF Ghost and Bushido.
Have there been many others that I'm not aware of, I wonder?
It's nice to see that although the community has quietened down in the past decade, there are still occasionally events/reunions of players etc.
Life has been very good to me although definitely brutal at times too.
I do sometimes still game although there isn't much time to anymore when you're in your mid-twenties. I'll have to give Blockland a play over the coming days!
I hope you have all been well, give me updates and check-ins!
TheScout:
i'd been watching that same series and thinking, "lmao what if blockland showed up" and when it did i felt like i was shifting realities.
anyways 30% of the users turned out to be child enthusiasts, 30% fell down the alt-right pipeline and became fascists, 30% did effectively the exact opposite of that, and 10% just kinda still exist
Mr Queeba:
--- Quote from: TheScout on March 21, 2024, 05:39:42 PM ---i'd been watching that same series and thinking, "lmao what if blockland showed up" and when it did i felt like i was shifting realities.
anyways 30% of the users turned out to be child enthusiasts, 30% fell down the alt-right pipeline and became fascists, 30% did effectively the exact opposite of that, and 10% just kinda still exist
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part of that 10% here, yeah its been a bit of ride
anyways we're still out there - i think people just ended up splintering off into discord friend groups once things here died down (i certainly did lol). i started playing blockland when i was 8 (the demo, got my key at 10) and it was a huge part of my life for over 10 years, had a lot of fun although being a naive young kid on the forums was quite the mistake in hindsight
log:
There have been a few check-in threads the past couple of years; it's still crazy to me that my professional career started with a couple offline html saves of KINEX's torque script tutorials on the scattered space forums at a labor day party I brought a laptop to as a kid. Whatever the opposite is of falling down the alt-right pipeline--I hope I'm in that 30%?
Smashed_Eggs:
--- Quote from: log on March 21, 2024, 07:59:06 PM ---Whatever the opposite is of falling down the alt-right pipeline--I hope I'm in that 30%?
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transgender anarcho communist?