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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2014 01:40 PM by KFC Nyan Cat.)
03-03-2014 01:31 PM
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James Comey
Banished Oldfaf in Exile
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Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
Ah yes, the glorious MS Paint movie storylines. Because people were extremely bored.
Remember the Barney Bunch videos which would have still images of cartoon characters and images (occasionally MS Paint edited images) saying obscene sexual things with Microsoft voices? Yeah, I remember that. DX
RE: Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
Now I dont even know what Im watching(there was something called Freeman's Mind or so, but the guy who made it ditched Machinima after some legal/financial issues and went independent. And his videos are hilarious...really liked watching them)
RE: Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
(03-03-2014 05:00 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: Now I dont even know what Im watching(there was something called Freeman's Mind or so, but the guy who made it ditched Machinima after some legal/financial issues and went independent. And his videos are hilarious...really liked watching them)
I actually scripted an entire rant on Gamer Poop (rip-off of YouTube Poop) and still intend to post it on YouTube.
The last good thing Machinima made was the first season of Sonic for Hire (Mega Man Dies At The End was okay, but it could've been not Mega Man, plus it was cancelled)
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
03-04-2014 07:58 AM
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RE: Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
>machinima
>good
Arby n' the chief and one life remaining was good until they went away from funny towards story. Who was responsible for the sudden non-funnyness? You guessed it, machinima.
03-04-2014 10:58 PM
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brainiac3397
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Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
^Yep.
I watched Machinima because they had funny videos. Then I don't know what the hell I was watching later. It used to be "Oh Machinima, most likely guaranteed amusement", now it's "Where's the good stuff?!"
RE: Remember when this was the kind of stuff that garnered views on YouTube?
(03-03-2014 02:32 PM)Hansgrohe Wrote: Ah yes, the glorious MS Paint movie storylines. Because people were extremely bored.
Remember the Barney Bunch videos which would have still images of cartoon characters and images (occasionally MS Paint edited images) saying obscene sexual things with Microsoft voices? Yeah, I remember that. DX
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
03-05-2014 10:51 AM
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James Comey
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