Tell me about a dead internet community you used to be a part of.
It could be a Skype group, a forum, an imageboard, or anything.
>>27982215
pre-2011 /mu/
>>27982323
What was it like then?
>>27982323
pre-2011 /r9k/- OC
pre-2014 /r9k/- Feels
I used to browse a forum for Yu Gi Oh slash fiction filled with crazy women. I left it a long time ago and it's defunct now.
Used to post on totse, then moved to totse 2 and watched it slowly die. Rip in peace dudes
Was on ED and their forum for a minute, that was fun. It's just a zombie now
/Storytiem/ on cripplechan. I miss you Onyx. Bogwarts was so good <3
dinky bomb
>the alternative sports community on /asp/
Mook trashed the whole thing by inviting a avalanche of pro wrestling shitposters.
Now that is 95% of all traffic on the board and it is difficult to have any discussion without it being overran by fatasses that just sit and watch drama on tv.
Totse forums.
Came for the edgy text files, stayed for the edgy discussion.
Madness combat dot com
(Dot net was shit)
>>27982215
This San Andreas Multiplayer roleplaying community. Used to be a flight instructor in a world where everyone cared only for shooting each others.
So I would organize together with my fellow instructors kamikaze plane strikes on unsuspecting gang fights.
They banned this practice so I left the community. I think it's still online but it's dead to me.
I was a part of an 8ch board that transferred to Skype and seems to be in the rapid process of dying.
I used to have 50,000 posts on a fucking really weird, small, Futurama forum. There were only about 50 posters on the entire forum
For some reason I literally roleplayed as Kif (the frog who was a slave to Zapp Brannigan) in every single fucking post. I remember that the other posters would say things like 'post your penis again for me Kif' with a picture of Zapp and I would do it (after using photoshop to make my dick green).
I was basically a fucking sex slave for 50,000 posts. I remember on one occasion a girl came onto the board and I really liked her, but instead of talking to her like a normal human I tried to pick her up by writing an extensive, 1200 word post describing the backrub I gave to Zapp Brannigan.
I hate that part of my life almost as bad as this current one..
>>27982964
That's one of the best things I've ever heard anon, can you tell me more? It sounds fascinating. Did you get with the girl? Why did you roleplay as Kif? Why were you on a small Futurama forum?
The old Arctek (former DatabaseGaming) Tf2 servers, 6 at our highest point. I was the co-founder and server provider, good times were had. Friendly and mature community, all that jazz. The steam group still exists, and still has about 1300 people in it even though its been inactive for a long time
Bungie.net had the flood but that died some time ago
>>27983004
It's a copypasta anon, saw it for the first time about a week ago.
>>27982964
I wonder how many times you will alter and repost this so you can upload it on /r/4chan.
>>27983075
That's really disappointing I was genuinely excited.
>>27982215
Does anyone know or remember melodramatic.com?
It was like a small, tight-knit, shitty LiveJournal that was always down. It's peak was probably back in 2003ish. It was up until about a year ago
I used to play a game like Second Life , but better imo called club cooee. You can still play it but it's not like it used to be.I was friends with a lot of people, I had my own room and people visited it a lot and overall it was every comfy.I was happy
I was in a skype group where eggman got cucked, dog sothoth cucked that guy, and vicky cucked that other guy.
Oh man. Back in, maybe 2009? I found an online game where you could make levels and then share them and play with other people (think ROBLOX but not nearly as extensive, there was no lua scripting and all blocks were one size). Not the greatest game but development had basically just begun and the real appeal was the online community. We probably had ~40 people active on the forums and on IRC. It was really great and we were all friends. But over time the game descended into this pay2win nightmare with a million bugs. Eventually nobody could even play anymore, people started to question whether or not the developers even were still around (turns out they had been fired and nobody told us), and eventually the website fell into disrepair and then closed down. So a large portion of the community transferred to a new forum based around a new game, to be developed by one of the lead people behind the first game! But that game never came out, because a developer ran off with all the money or something. So people transferred to a third forum, this time run by the community and not based around any specific game. I pretty much dropped out at this point, a long with a bunch of other people because the community had degraded into "jaded people who post on 4chan a lot" and "everyone else" factions and the forum was shit. But then, after a few years of this, the developer who ran off with all the money re-appeared along with the investor who killed off the original game, to announce a NEW GAME, just a month or two ago. So we all had a nice reunion there, but it's pretty much completely dead at this point. We were all pretty much kids back in the glory days, but now we've all gotten much older and don't really have any interest.
Also in ~2007 I hung out on a forum for a clan in AdventureQuest, I think they all thought I was a girl even though I wasn't purposely making any indication of that. I stopped going there and eventually it just died, I guess.
There was this swedish manga forum called BCmanga. It was shit but I met so many cool dudes and dudettes there. It's been dead for 7(?) years and I miss it so much.
YoYo Games.
I would reupload decompiled games and pretend I was a master hacker.
Fuck you Mark Overmars. The sandbox is officially 100% changed, all the old ones are gone and it's all GM: Studio now
>>27983115
I was too anon :^(
rocksonora.com, it was an old forum about local bands and concerts, it went to shit when normies and namefags arrived and started posting memes translated into spanish
hogwarts.nu
Swedish Harry Potter fansite mainly for preteens.
Closed 2006.
Wikipedia says it was the 3rd biggest social community in Sweden 2004.
There used to be lewd map threads on /r9k/. Some guy would post threads whenever possible on /r9k/ with a Zeemap in the OP, so that people could put their markers down and meet friends or fuck. The threads were filled with gay ERP instigated by the OP, who everybody called admin, and he made a Skype group for people ERP on. I was in it for a little while but was kicked out for being mean to people. Admin was later driven off of /r9k/ after desustorage.org/r9k/thread/13256799/ split the map threads and he stopped receiving replies. He went to 8gag and currently is the board owner of /cuteboys/. He still posts here sometimes, too. His posts and hips are very recognizable.
>>27982215
Youtube video game trolling community. The shit is dead, the jokes are washed up, and the old legends are all kia.
Mikeproject.
I don't think it's completely dead now. But I was a personality there along with a bunch of other well-known losers. I was there during the great "Show Us Your Tits" thread of 2002.
I was 15 and lied about being 17 or 19 depending on who I was talking to.
>>27983411
I think they're xMike now. It changed between the two a lot.
>>27982907
it is not dead, i still play samp and roleplaying comunity in english are still very alive.
you should look into it if you want.
every time it is 11/9 i do the kamikaze.
darkland. It was a gmod community that had two gamemodes: Fortwars and SEOW RP
>>27983302
All concert goers are normies
bacman forums, where all my friends from benheck were till it closed down
>>27982215
Totse.com
A really great place to meet fringe internet types with really diverse interests and usually good discussion ranging from drugs, guns, bombs, politics, and philosophy to lighthearted shitposting. I learned more there than I ever did in school and made some unusual friends that I'll never contact again because the website just up and died one day when the founder got sick of it. RIP
>>27982215
AoG community was by far the most cancerous one I have ever been a part of and I loved every single moment of it.
>>27982846
Huff raid murder suicide
ChocolateMS (private maplestory server that died suddenly like 8 years back or something)
I posted on a comic forum as teenager. Everybody ignored what I said and acted totally neutral toward me except one guy who I think may have hated me. I can't even make friends with weirdos on the internet, how low can I get.
>>27982215
LUEser checking in
>>27982215
The YouTube video making community.
>>27983321
I miss those memesters.
i used to spend all day everyday on the phantasy star universe demo on xbox 360. it was like 3 planets worth of content from full game and free. i was super rich and had all the best gear. literally the best force on the server. pretty much everyone hated me though.
>>27982402
What's pre-2017 /r9k/?
>>27982215
In the late '00s, I was a member of a fan forum dedicated to a game which was already over 10 years old at the time. I made a few posts there and participated in a couple of their projects. Actually, I just checked that forum and it still exists and some posts are still made there, but it's very far from active. Most people have moved on to other forums or even to different interests.
>>27982215
Onemanga Forum AKA OMF, miss it so much famalam
>>27984227
>What's pre-2017 /r9k/?
Rage and bait and porn.
I actually guess /v9k/ counts as being dead. It's a hidden board on wizchan now but it's nowhere near the same as it used to be.
I spent a lot of time on a habbo hotel fansite, as shit as the game is the community did wonders for my coding and pixel art
>>27984327
Post an example of your art or link a tumblr/DA/whatever if you have one.
>>27983212
What was the game called?
>BZPower
>Mask of Destiny
>a bunch of Lego fansites and geocities MOC-pages long since lost to the sands of time
c. May 2002 to Jan. 2006
All day, everyday.
In retrospect, I was a faggot, but I would still give anything to go back.
>>27984524
Atmosphir
Forums about sprite comics way back in the early '00s. I think it was a fireball20xl related thing at first. Then it was some anime forum where the admin literally got cucked.
I nearly became a furry and a tranny, come to think of it.
>>27982215
>Tell me about a dead internet community you used to be a part of
Fuckin wow
I remember when we got the First Down title of Anub'arak back in wotlk, good times
Furry-furry
Fan Clubs chat on Neopets around 2007-2009ish
I used to play darkspore lmao
Now even the forums are gone
>>27984542
Unity...
Duty...
Destiny
Back in '04 I joined a forum for Game Maker, a video game development tool. I really wanted to get into game development and RPG Maker was really bad, to me, and this one seemed more promising.
It was pretty life changing to say the least.
The forum was really small compared to the other GM forums, maybe 80 people went on it regularly. I would post my shitty projects on there and get excited when people would comment on them, even if they were mean. I never gave up. Learning how to use this program was probably the last time I was really happy.
As time went on, I became more recognized and my GM skills were improving. I was promoted to "Reviewer", in which I was allowed to post official reviews of Game Maker games on the forum's website. The forum has grown quite a bit, to about 150 people or so.
After a while, Yoyo Games (the current devs of Game Maker Studio) bought out our little forum, and shut it down. They uploaded all of the games currently on the site, to their site, without the owners permission. There were a few attempts at revivals but they never came through.
I moved to a new forum, but it wasn't as magical as the first one. I mostly shitposted in their IRC channel.
(cont)
>>27983938
I just have a compulsion to give you a (you) out of both pity and sympathy
Young fags everywhere.. I use to play these 2 MUDS, they are both dead now.. I had so much fun on Ancient Anguish use to have hundreds of people on at a time now lucky to get 10..
Land of Karchan
Ancient Anguish
>>27984542
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I was a stupid little kid when I used to browse (a little later than you, ~2003 to 2009) so I couldn't realize how autistic it made me.
I hear it's some SJW shithole nowadays.
I used to post on a nation states roleplaying forum, man that shit was fun
>>27984542
You sound like a faggot senpai, how many cocks have you sucked since then
>>27984933
You must be an old Robro
>>27984848
The IRC was probably the second part of this saga. I would idle in there and made a lot of new internet friends. We would competitively play this indie game called Soldat and work on our projects. We were bit of a mean spirited channel and would give new people a hard time.Those that would endure it eventually became a part of our merry band of misfits.
We were probably the most sarcastic/rude website community of the whole GM community. I didn't even really post on the website, just earned my veteran status through the IRC channel, and being a refugee of the other site that was shut down.
While on the IRC, I met a dude who lived in the same state as I did. He was super cool and I went to go meet up with him. Turns out he brought his girlfriend. She really wanted to meet me for some reason. Turns out she found my abandoned facebook/myspace profiles and knew what I looked like.
One time I went to go LAN with him because L4D1 just came out. His GF liked to play too but she had other plans. At the time I was a KHV and had no interest in girls at all because I figured they found me gross. And I was okay with it. Until she took me on this weird pseudo-date. She was super aggressive and eventually made out with me. Not knowing what to do I went along with it. I also fingered her in the middle of a movie theater. Indirectly, Game Maker gave me my first experience with girls. I was about 19 at the time.
(cont)
>>27982215
I used to be an active member of theanimeboard before it got hacked and the owner stopped caring. The website had contests, anime links, everything and a nice close knit community. I miss it everyday I wish i could be a part of a community like that again but chan is nothing like it
Reminds me i should talk to my old buddies from there that helped make my teenage life bearable
Totse.
Nsider Forums.
Both were GOAT.
It was a spanish Dota channel, we used to be good friends but it died and we lsot contact...
I still remember those good times we had...
>>27982215
I was in a Skype group solely based around anime and Vocaloid back in 2011-2012. It was something, we were all best friends practically. At that point Minecraft had started being popular as well, so we hung out on our own servers for eight hours while in call. I think the best part of it all was I would come from school absolutely ecstatic to talk to them and build something new.
I still know them all, but we're not friends like we used to be.
>>27984848
>>27985006
I'm reading this. Posting so just to encourage you.
>>27982215
i used to post on gamefaq's
it allways seemed like people refrenced events/drama that took place between users that happened before i ever even got there, and nobody was kind enough to say exactally why all these users were so hated, so i never reallly caught up
also fuck eric p.
>>27985006
I felt mega shitty afterwards, cause I just did some dirty things with my friend's girlfriend. I couldn't help it, I was lonely. Eventually he found out, years later after they broke up, and he laughed it off. Surprising. I doubt laughing it off is how he really felt, and I'm still curious to see what he thinks. I'm still good friends with him today (And his now ex-girlfriend who likes to pretend she never was into me to the point of near-rape). A happy-ish ending I guess.
Anyhow, as time went on, the our IRC became smaller and smaller. Me and some friends from there moved to a larger channel on the network that had nothing to do with Game Maker. We were the very few that remained who originally came to the network for GM. I was the only one left who was from the tiny website's staff channel. The last of my kind has a cool ring to it.
Today, I am still in both channels. It's just me in the staff channel but I refuse to let it de-register. The other channel has some people in it still but people rarely talk.
As for my Game Maker skill, I have a fully released game on Steam and its semi-successful. I won't say which one cause its not important, but I'm quite proud of it and all of the self-taught screwing around I did paid off a little. I'm still super depressed and unhappy, but the responsibility of keeping my game running has given me a purpose in life
In recap:
>GM introduced me to friends
>GM introduced me to my hobby
>GM introduced me to my goal in life
>GM introduced me girls (albeit indirectly)
>GM has made me tons of money
>GM has kept me from killing myself
It's not the best thing to use to make games, but I owe a lot to this little guy.
It was a vBulletin Forum called zomgstuff. Got my first and only internet friends there, we talked about everything from hobbies to politics to how to generate more traffic for the site (lol).
>>27984933
I was an administrator on Gateway, which was once the largest MUD on the Internet (with 100+ people online at peak hours -- a figure which should give you an idea how long ago this was). Surprisingly, Gateway is still up at telnet://gatewaymud.org:6969. If you decide to drop by, tell them Slog sent you.
>>27985130
Are you working on another title?
>>27982964
Don't worry anon, I think your copy pasta is pretty funny
>>27985286
Cool shit senpai, I never meet fellow MUD players I feel like were almost dead, those were some fun times man..
Totse. Zoklet. I want to kick spectral in the face. How the fuck isn't this comment original
>>27985629
I don't miss the drama. Fido, MUDs, Usenet, BBSes, the thing which characterized them most was the non-stop petty politics. I became administator at Gateway, for example, by overthrowing the previous administration. I had agitated for a coup, which caused the admin to shut down the MUD to stop it, but the guy with physical access to the server room at the university where we were hosted decided to throw in with us and put the MUD back up. (We discovered later that the woman who had control before us kept massive logs of the cybering area which people had been told couldn't be logged or spied on. She even had the logs separated by quality, presumably so she could decide what to schlick to.)
>>27985832
My fucking sides man, I saw this happen to "private rooms" as well, when I was younger id crank one out to a chick via cybering, I heard of a actual woman cybering with her wolf one time wtf.. did you ever read any of the logs thats funny
>>27985937
You don't need to read too many to get the general idea.
> VikingLordmaster says: i cum on ur tits
> KittenBLASTAR says: o do me
> *VikingLordmaster nuts on ur hot ass o baby
> KittenBLASTAR says: ur so big
etc., et al., ad nauseum
We ended up deleting all her logs and I coded the area to be actually unloggable and unspyable. But we covered up the existence of the logs or people would never believe we weren't doing the same thing.
>>27985937
I should mention, though, that I *did* code an interactive stripper for people to use. If you give Gateway a shot, tell them to clone one for you. It had a few hundred lines of code and I was pretty proud of it.
Quizilla.
> catty, closeted bitches who would call you a nigger but would burst into flames at muh homophobia/muh bible belt
> basically /cgl/ but with fanfiction
> all shared an e-boyfriend and hated each other for it while also being friends
>>27982215
Haha, used to frequent the Warezslutz boards for those hub passwords to the treasure trove of software. Used to run FTP servers for file drops, etc. Good fun, still miss the DC++ community in its heyday, circa 2001.
Emuforum, german emulation forum. People remade it countless times but it never was the same afterwards.
I used to play this swordfighting game on steam called Blade Symphony. The game never really sold well, and the community remained small and stayed in like 1 or 2 active servers.
That game was comfy, just sitting around and watching other people casually duel or afk and do other things, a newbie joins the server then everyone scrambles to duel him to see how hot his shit is, master swordsmen teaching newbies then everyone gathers around to watch the true top 1% players duel casually in the server.
Game was good too. Think of it like if Dark Souls PvP was balanced. Game just slowly died though. Never gained traction. I miss it kinda but i understand it was near death the entire time i played it.
Back in 2013 there was this small online flash game known as Ninth Realm. The game had its own forum and many other kinds of stuff. Since there wasn't any kind of promotion for the game and it only was playable on Newgrounds and its own site, the game died (You can still play it but it's most likely dead or filled with newbies).
I used to chat daily on the forums (which were shut down years ago) with several people who also actively played the game. We'd share our personal game guides to each other and play these silly forum games.
I miss those glorious bastards...
>>27982215
fotolog
Predaphiles, a fansite for adult fans of Predator who drew fanart, wrote fanfiction, and cosplayed.
A lot of germans writing raunchy fanfiction about Yautja fucking human women.
I used to post in the chat box of an anime streaming website. Pretty low.
Used to post on hipforums.com
It's used to be a cool site back in the day but a great purging happened around 2009 and now it's just filled with retards.
After the Great Purge there was a series of little private forums set up for the cool kids. The first one had around 40 people. This splintered off into further and further forums. We're now on the 3rd one with only 4 people left and even they don't post much anymore. Lots of good stories and big lulz that will die with us.
I actually sent thirty bucks to keep the servers running on the old oekaki my "bff" and I drew for.
I was supposed to get a commission in return but the girl I asked was to "Christian" to draw what I wanted.
>>27982736
Same here famalam; remember infrared and his meth addiction and that one guy who was banging the hot chick who was also on totse? and umposidedown? Good times.
Is Zoklet and everything totally gone now?
I started two 8 ch boards, both of which failed miserably after a couple months
hmotaku, a harvest moon forum. shit was fun
my old guild in wow
text boards on 4chan, actually met a good friend of mine on there, he lives about 45 minutes away of he's still alive
neopets guild
>>27987157
and I made the banners for one of those failed boards.
Anime webrings
Particularly those for Hiei, Kurama, Onegai Teacher, and Duo Maxwell
Also http://yukatakeuchifan.bakunyuu.com/
Before I used to post on any of the big boards on 4chan I only uploaded images on /cm/.
It used to be a bit different pre-tumblr and pixiv, plus it had fewer pages than what the boards have now and was constantly spammed by bots before captcha was added. Definitely seemed to be more active compared to how it is now too.
Most japanese artists had personal websites attached to webring searches for their favorite series (for example, this http://horrorgame.net/ ) so you'd have to spend time browsing all of their blogs to find good fanart. I used to use the Megaten web search the most but I just checked to see if it was still active and it's gone.
Been part of a couple. Always game related. Would get sad when things got quiet and the server/forums died out but I always knew it would happen.
Then came Nostalrius. Was part of a great guild, bunch of friends, people I got along with really well. I felt empty for like 2 weeks after that shit got shut down. It wasn't because I lost my character, it was because our community suddenly got shut down.
>>27987244
Wait, I made a mistake. The megaten web search is still live.
http://shindds.main.jp/search/index.cgi?mode=kt&kt=02_07
I spent all my extra time in highschool on this thing.
Well of souls, although I don't think it was ever really all that alive to start with, it was alright.
>>27987201
And then I got banned for not bowing down to roasties, and got profoundly irate.
I'm glad it died.
a few old skype chats with irl friends & destiny.net forums in 2009
I used to go to Yahoo chat rooms regularly (met two girls from there), and used to go to cdrom-guide.com when I was pirating Sega Dreamcast games. I have no idea if either community is alive.
>>27985073
This is pretty much exactly what I came to post except the group was based around anime and sex role-play.
>online with them right now
>six messages in the last 12 hours
>>27983513
I played Darkland Fortwars too anon, got banned for pissing off the autistic mods
Fuck garrys mod is filled with fucking cancer now, not a single good Wire/ACF/PewPew build
Its all fucking lameass adv. dupes and prefab sEnts
Used to build on Markus's(?) War Build but its long since dead, creativity is a rare find among the TTT/RP server spam and typically you just end up in a ghost server or its filled with kids/xenophobic russians
>>27982215
A game called erepublik, used to be really fun and community driven, but as the years went by, the admins kept making it more pay2win. I liked the community, but most everyone I originally knew had left the game, so it was time to move on. Great times though
>>27987157
My board lasted nine months. It was pretty emotional when I finally abandoned it.
As a teen i liked rap and posted A LOT on a forum explicitly for metal-fags to complain about hiphop.
>Tell me about a dead internet community you used to be a part of.
PlanetNamek dotcom, Dragonball Z was the first anime I watched (this was on bootleg VHS fansubs purchased from a little anime store in the late 90's.) PlanetNamek was the most popular website by far. The forums were pretty active. The site simply disappeared one day without much notice.
Active Worlds. So Active Worlds is still around but it's nothing like it used to be. This wasn't the first virtual world program but it was leaps ahead of the competition when it came out (again, mid-late 90s.) In fact I think this was the program that got me hooked on computers because the sheer amount of stuff you could do. There was an impressive building engine, you could make your own bots, you could own a server. In the late 90's this was all incredibly futuristic. In many ways Minecraft was a total regression from AW.
If video games count, then SWG, Chilastra server. So there were thousands of players on every server, but there was a tight knit group of about 30 very wealthy "elite" players that I somehow found myself in (probably from playing way too fucking much.) We built and ran the player cities and organized the world PvP. I've played several MMO's since then and while some of them had great gameplay, none of them had the freedom or community aspect that SWG had. There wasn't really any endgame PvE to speak of, players drove the entire system.
>>27982215
Before facebook there was myspace and before myspace there was just a whole wild west of social pseudo-dating sites. One of those based in Canada was called nexopia and it also had a whole bunch of forums where I would talk shit about politics (as best as some 19 year old could). I had so many great pictures of myself on there and a few years after myspace became big, they shut down. I was also a part of facthejury.com, and vampirefreaks.com
Also before that I used to go on newgrounds, which obviously isn't dead yet, and would also argue about politics there. I was soon drafted into "The Devil's Advocate Group" and we also had our own little phpBB forum with about like 5 active members, and that one is 6 feet under.
A competitive pokemon general on /vp/.
We had a chatroom on pokemon showdown (an online pokemon simulator) called /cpg/. I don't know if they're still alive, but last time I checked they were dying, so I assume that if they still exist it's just the ashes of what we used to be.
Used to spend every day and night circlejerking there and laddering with my bros. One of the most fun times of my life. It was something I was good at, I liked the people there and they liked me too. We had a lot of things in common, more than with anyone I've ever known.
Even if all I ever saw was a name and some text, they truly felt like friends at some point. I hope they're all doing all right.
>>27987206
I didn't know what a webring was, sounds strange
2004 - 2007 Runescape
Good times, I remember my friend from school at the time who was way ahead of me in levels gave me gold trimmed rune armor for my birthday... that was when I was like 13 years old. That guy goes to my uni and I still give him a bronod every once in a while.
I just miss it you know? I miss hanging out at Lumby meeting people and shit, leveling up my fishing skill to 99 was probably the most fun I had as a kid other than going to the amusment park or something. Fuck I hate myself for saying that but I just loved it OK.. It was memorizing.
>A Fire Emblem RP forum.
I was 14 or 15 when that began. Not quite sure how I ended up there... This was the first forum I had ever been to. Before this, I was exclusively on Ebaums and MySpace.
/d/traps. A /d/ irc channel for gays, traps, and crossdressers.I used to crossdress but grew out of it.One of the traps had a huge horse cock.
I was in the very first 4chan tulpa community. Was one of the first 5 to make the private password-protected chat too.
>tfw it was the coolest group of people ever, even though most of us didnt even have or care about tulpas, just talk about our lives and random shit
>tfw it all went to shit after Dane left
>>27987135
Not that guy but infrared was afaggot. And yes zoklet is gone. The new clone is niggas in.space. Not even kidding.
Played a game called chosen space from around 2005/2006. Was never extremely active on the forums but they had an irc channel that i would go to pretty much everyday.
Played the game a lot, first because of its sci-fi appeal then for the community once i moved up in my guild.
Pretended that i was a 30 yr old working in advertising when in fact i was 14. Believed this to be necessary in order to be respected by the other players (average age was pretty high for an online game). Eventually became guild leader and topped the charts for most traded.
Eventually the developer released chosen space V2 and it just wasn't the same for me. So i stopped playing.
Googled my old ign and found that one of my guild members had mentioned me in a forum post years after i left stating that i was like a mentor to him etc.
>those feels
In high school I had a debate teacher who would show us clips from ebaumsworld during lunch.
>>27985130
why not step it up and use something that is (at least potentially) professional? unity is pretty easy to learn, and has a pretty high ceiling in terms of quality.
>>27988756
Do you think tulpas are real? If I was a NEET I might try making one.
I had a close kik chat that I ran called 5k. One of our members (also my best friend) killed himself and I kicked everyone and all of our OC memes died right then.
Pick related is the faggot that split the group up
Fuck you man
xoxo
~2 years
>>27982215
coldina's teamspeak...
rip vexx...
>>27982215Nyanners' circlejerk
>>27989616
I do, yes. It takes a SHIT TON of true dedication, effort, and above all concentration. So much that I'm positive a large segment of the population could never physically be able to create one, no matter how much they believe and try.
No magic bullshit though, of course. A tulpa is limited by what your body can sense and what your mind can create. It really is a great method to access your subconscious tho.
>>27982215
These threads always make me sad I was never part of a good community
The very first forums I joined was the Phantasy Star Online forums hosted by Sega back when the official online servers were still up. They eventually shut down both the game server, and then the forums. I still have a friend I made from there, except now he's a gay furry.
>>27982215
KoF ain't dead nigger
>>27990229
Bro I know the feels. To rub salt in the wound, those yellow monkeys haven't brought over Phantasy Star Online 2 yet and they have the audacity to air the PSO2 anime.
Used to be a pretty regular contributor on the ole creepypasta.com forums
>>27982964
kill yourself reddit scum
On old newgrounds when I was a kid I joined a "crew" of other kids to make flash videos. Ironically I don't think we were ever less productive than when we had formed the crew. Our videos were awful, our posts on the forums were terrible and our games sucked shit. One day our crew leader made a website for us and we were hyped as fuck. It had a thriving community of 15 kids on it, all about 13-14. I chatted those fuckers up on an old messenger (I don't remember which) all the time.
We had fun shitposting. The fucking forum even had it's own burgeoning culture and memes like you'd see anywhere else. We had problems like real websites with factions and trolling. It's surreal when I think about it now but to me as a kid it was all just natural.
Unfortunately it faded away into nothing, we all just lost interest in stuff. I remember getting nostalgic one day and posting some long faggy ramble there about how sad I was that we didn't talk anymore. I guess the old leader saw that and rounded us up on facebook to talk but for some reason I never joined the group chat. Everybody was there but I couldn't face them. And now I'll never hear from them again. We weren't too close and we didn't know each for too long but there is an intimacy that comes with being that embarrassing around others who were equally cringey. I wish I joined that group chat and talked to them.
I just looked up the old crew boss. He went on to study animation in university. I hope he does something great, he seemed like a nice kid and way more dedicated to animation than I was.
It's okay if I feel like crying, even if I'm not upset, right gang? Because I feel like crying a little and I'm not sad.
>>27990449
Which fruit were you?
>>27990331
Oh I'm well aware, unfortunately. I tried playing the shitty patched version of PSO2 that /vg/ has a general for, but it's nearly unplayable since 90% of the text is untranslated.
went to check out an old gaming news forum that was somewhat popular back in the mid 2000s thanks to this thread.
its disturbing whats happened to it. there seems to be just 3 or 4 regulars left who were all must be in their 30s or 40s by now and 3 or 4 other posters who, for the last 2 years or so, have just made childish shitposting threads with insults and gore on a regular basis.
>>27990476
Funny but we were less notable than them, we weren't even a blip on the newgrounds radar. Just a bunch of dumb kids with dumb dreams who thought by calling ourselves a "crew" we were official. God damn it's silly but I remember that we used to pat ourselves on the back for being so much more mature than those other crews, even though now it's patently obvious were just a bunch of fucking fedora children.
It was a more innocent autism though. Not like now where I scrolled past 14 cropped porn reaction images to get to this one.
>>27990490
>I tried playing the shitty patched version of PSO2
That's why I'm only localized or no deal. Seriously, it made me rage so much to see the PSO2: The Animation come out when we haven't even got the game in the US
I used to be part of this close-knit group of thousands of people when I was in middle school. It had figureheads (I was one of them), and we posted obscure memes and did raids. It was like /b/-lite. This was in 2003-2007.
My part in that was that I represented 'irrelevancy'. I fell out with it before it died, but it died completely 5 years ago. I kind of miss being important to people.
>>27987244
>>27987282
The pre-pixiv days of /cm/ were so different.
It's useful, but I miss how /y/ and /cm/ were. A different kind of cancer. Thanks for sharing, anon.
>>27982215
>1999
>lurk and post on some forum
>pokemon themed forum
>if you post a lot you move up in the ranks
>getting little badges beside your profile name
It might have been called pocket gamers or something like that
Glory to mlpchan...
>>27982215
The Random board on cancerous fucking funnyjunk. Some used to call it wanna/b/, but it wasn't really similar to /b/ because there was a known group of users rather than anonymity. Ended up becoming a small and tight knit group for a few years, then everyone left. Must have been around 3 years ago.
>>27990838
Is any part of funnyjunk still populated?
>>27990875
Seems to still be alive and kicking as a content aggregator, as for the boards, I have no idea. I'm pretty sure the site has exchanged hands several times.
>>27982215
old /b/
Fuck, I'm old (45 now) but I have been using the Internet since the 1980s, back when it was all text.
I used to be on EFNet when 200 users was a big day, on #hottub.
Moved over to some #gothic channels.
Loved Yahoo! Chat for a local chats set in St. Louis until they closed that shit out of fucking nowhere.
Metafilter, started in 2006, stopped posting because it's all social justice all the time now.
.... I just want a place to call home.
>>27982215
An anime forum
emo-corner
Emofwendz
StuffYouWillHate
>tfw still emo but the emo community is now dead
played an online game called endless-online
indie game, around 2k people online, shitty as fuck game
the endless-online forums were amazing tho. something like 40-50 people posting about random shit. it was /b/-lite before i knew what /b/ was.
lots of stories. saw some cp there, saw a lot of internet arguments, made me into the man i am today.
eventually it got shut down cause a bunch of illegal and shady shit happened. its all deleted now.
Anyone remember movieforumz?
>>27982215
Animetake.
My cousin and I used to have a lot of fun fucking around on PSP SOCOM FTB and FTB2 back when we were in middle school. Hacking, glitching, etc. Playing till 5 in the morning, pissing off all the asian fags who came online at that time.
Was part of A3, which was a browser-based text MMO kind of thing. Dailies themselves took no more than fifteen minutes. Mostly hung out in the forums and chat. It was great. Eventually, it disbanded out of nowhere. There were a great amount of refugees who split up into several different, similar games.
I spent two years on one of these refugee sites and had even more fun there since I was in on it from the ground floor up. Had an Internet girlfriend and everything. After awhile, it began to die. I was one of the last active members. When I came to college, I gave it up on the spot and didn't want to hang out in a graveyard anymore. It was called Loreaon, and I haven't checked it in three years. Too scared to.
>golivewire
No idea if anybody went on there, and I barely even remember how I found the place; I think it was by googling "teen forum" and hitting on the first one that looked nice.
Unfortunately, it was basically dying when I found it. It still had enough activity to keep me entertained with more or less like minded peers, but after a couple of years most people dipped out, and the dude who ran the site didn't give a single fuck so he never tried to rekindle interest in it. Last time I was there, there were really only a handful of posters. The most active one was this frumpy, hyper religious middle aged stay at home wife that spent her time shitposting and arguing with teenagers that weren't even old enough to smoke. It was then that I decided to bail.
I went back a little while ago, and the site looked identical, except the posting speed was literally like ten times a day, and none of the people I'd liked on there had logged on in years.
This thread makes me wonder when 4chan will die.
I frequented a forum where people created their own languages, and got really into it. I'm not talking about some fantasy Eragon bullshit, but as realistic as you can get. I remember I did a spelling reform for the romanization of some obscure Asian language...completely insane now that I think about it, especially since I was 13-15. But this was back when /b/ was still a force to be reckoned with, and being the newfag I was, I would spout memes all over that forum. Real cringy shit that got me banned. Of course, I made other accounts but the community was so small, everyone knew it was me. I was so annoying I became a meme in their own community. I deeply regret the whole thing, probably could've been a lot more productive than shitposting ORIGINAL comments on /r9k/.
>>27989978
>physically
You mean mentally, its just a thoughtform that you use to organize memories
>>27992208
It can and (when created properly) does gain consciousness outside your own though.
I dont mean you create a lifeform, but your brain is simply able to "fragment" (in quotations because not physically) and create another thoughtform that does have its own thoughts, opinions, and in general separate from you.
The thing you described was called a "servitor" when I was active in the tulpa community. Just a non-conscious entity you could make do stuff (like remember things for you and organize your thoughts)
not really a community but in i used too have a group of 6 friends that I would play with everyday for years. 2009-2012 were great. Then we all just kinda slowly faded away. I still keep in contact with 1 of them, but i haven't really talked to him in 3 months. It fucking sucks to see my 1 last remaining friend from the group fade.
I miss those old days
>>27982215
I was in a tight as fuck minecraft factions server called NOVScraft. Some irl friends and I played before the artists swarmed.
I was into the whole atheist/freethinker fedora scene between 2008 and 2010 before it died due to SJWs.
I used to post on the League of Reason Forums that AndromedasWake made before he disappeared. Used to watch DPRJones streams as well.
After all the creationists left it just got really uninteresting and the SJWs poisoned the community with Atheism+.
>>27992661
thats probably the worst
seeing all of your good friends slowly fade over the years, and you just sit in your room thinking about all the great times in years past, knowing you'll never experience it again
the worst
>>27983056
That's how I discovered 4chan
Rip the flood
Circa 2006 to 2011, Yahoo ID's trading/selling/cracking IPB forum, this ID's were called rares, because they had forbidden (since early 2000's) symbols/uppercase/spaces in them
I had a lot of fun, I was an user to a few forums, even moderator/jr-admin/admin to some others
Yahoo made it a lot more complicated to crack their ID's and all the communitys began to decay, and they completly died after Yahoo started to delete this rare ID's
I knew some nice people who I hope they are doing ok in life now
>>27982215
Metagame.com gave me all my Yugioh news. I was ranked 20th in the world for a day or two.
>YFW its all thieves and little kids now. It won't ever be the same as it was
A Garry's Mod forum for a server called Innervate. We were all Australian and it was cushy as fuck, but for reasons I forget I got the shits with the admin. I still wonder about those guys
Shockingbeyondbelief before that fagget lanza made the board get taken down by shooting those kids.
I wish there was somewhere like that again. If only i could find it lol. Funny thing is i interacted with him on there a few times. Gave him shit and called him a pedo fagget alot
Was on a certain raid website that its againts the rules to directly name a few years ago. Ended up getting hacked. Luckly i didnt have anything on the pc since it was a burner. I destroyed the hard drive and trashed the cpu. Reworked all of my internet stuff and started using a vpn along with a few other things to be safe. Im super paranoid on the internet now and never fuck with those sites. Furthest i go now is 4chan actually lol.
I also used to be apart of this /a/ IRC group sometime around 2008. We watched + discussed shows together, and it was surprisingly good at staying anonymous. RIP old friends. ;_;
Oh, there was also a group of us who basically used to orbit Keekihime. This was in 2011? 2010? I don't remember, but that was sort of fun as well. Pretty sure one of the guys died of cancer, though.My favorite though was an old scans group that I used to typeset for though. Most of our communication was over IRC, but it ended up devolving into a shitfest of drama and I essentially just disappeared one day.
tl;dr /a/ and /a/-related things used to be fun during the 2000s.
>>27982402
Basically this too. Now I find myself with not much to do.
Played league of legends a few years ago about 4or5 maybe longer with my in real life freind and a group of people he became freinds with over League. We played alot. Like hours on end. Eventually some fag and his gf joined are group. It made us a full team of 6 but they started so much drama. Worst part was this guys girlfriend was a huge kser and even when she got fed alot she lacked the skill to beat other teams strong players. I started calling them out on this bs. Fucker even stole my top feom me regularley even though it was the only lane i played. And i was pretty good at it. Anyway a bunch of drama later all but me amd my real life friend and one guy fell out of contact. I played alot of steam games and other shit with the one guy but i ended up cutting off all contact for some reason idk. I still hang out with my friend in rl but he recently started playing league again and is bothering me because his team( The old group of people) is back toghether and he wants the old team carrier to come back. Fuck that shit. I havent touched that game in atleast a year and a half i dont plan on it now
>>27991949
I will genuinely miss this place when it happens
digibutter.nerr
It was basically a mario roleplay forum filled with OCs that I spent way too much time there. I wasn't really friends with anyone besides like two other members but I really liked the sense of community the place had.
>>27993602
I think it's already happened, anon. I mean, the website is still up and people are still here, but most of the current boards have very little life left. Previously fast boards have slowed down considerably, and a lot of old posters have definitely moved on. I can't speak for all boards but I feel like a stranger on here today.
Board for a website about flash games. (This one definitely hurt when it died)
Spanish Neopets neoboards, the English version is surprisingly still alive.
Synchtube/instasync
Or more specific babby/bibby
Used to be alot of fun watching videos with bunch of other people but the synchtube died and while instasync was created and prolonged that room people just generally started coming less and less. Also just feel out of place thier or what remains of it.
>>27991949
I can't be the only one that WANTS 4chan to die. I hate this hole but I lack the willpower to leave. If it died I'd finally be free.
>>27993653
Nah, man. When there's only a new post every 2 months on a board that used to be popular then you will know true suffering.
Used to play a p2w chink mmorpg when i was younger. Like 13. Started it when it just released. Played it for awhile with my good friend then we quit. About 2 years later we start playing again. My friend and i end up getting really stronk. He joins the best legion in the game. I decide i want to be a solo guy i hate legion drama and am a big pvper. I end up killing someone a few times who is in a allied legion with his legion. Him being really important and good friends with the people in his legion says he will talk to me for them. Ends up in me pretty much being kos for the top few legions in the game because i broadcast that there ldrs are fagget niggers. I sold my items and quit shorty after. About three years ago i decide to play again. I was a bored as fuck person at this point and decided i wanted to become a top 5 player. About 2 months later and 5k in usd later im in the top 15. A huge waste of money but i have a good job so it wasnt that big of a deal. By this point im basiclly buddy buddy with nimber one and two in the server. They hate number 3 because she scammed them to get to that position. So i cut a deal with number 3 behind 1 and 2s back. The plan was for me to buy a fuckton of stuff to make certin things stronger and become the top player right before legion war. We would join forces and fuckout the top 2. Then we would have power. About a day before it was to go down i had second thoughts. I decided i was just being a weebo faggot and decided to start working out and stop wasteing money on a lame chink mmorpg. I started lofting and have never went back. I wonder if anyone remembers me or what happend there. Oh well im better off not knowing.
>>27993699
Don't kid yourself you'd just find a new community.
>>27993716
I wonder were all the oldfags who people claim left went. I only stumbled upon 4chan in 2011 so in a newfag and even back then people said all the oldfags left.
>>27982215
Second Life
spent the whole time listening to music in a place where no one ever went
would just spawn a chair and chill
deleted my account not long ago but i had it for six years or something like that
miss it, sometimes
>>27993744
Oh ill add i did kik and skype with a girl i met on here last year and she claimed to of been here since 08. She would of been like 14 or somthing at that time though
jiggmin.com/forum
it was a forum that was originally for a flash game called platform racing 2. a lot of the regulars grew out of the game, but kept posting for years- i was one. that forum was my life growing up. i didn't really have any irl friends, so coming home from school and hopping on the skype or steam group always made me feel at home. i was banned for most of my time there, and posted through alt accounts which would always get discovered after a few hundred posts. i'd make my identity increasingly possible to figure out, adopting different personalities for each account, but eventually i'd get bored and give myself away.
i met a girl from there in real life. she was my first kiss, i couldn't believe it. being a useless faggot all through high school paid off. we started dating, then i blew it real quick. i still miss her a lot, three years later. trice, if you're reading this, i'm sorry.
the forum was shut down for good a few months ago. for five years my life was centered around something that no longer exists. feels surreal, man.
dotastrategy. com
OG DotA was fucking great. I'll never relive those experiences in MOBAs today.
>>27993700
That's a different sort of dead. That's a completely dead board. 4chan feels dead in spirit.
this thread makes me regret not finding replacement irc channels to lurk in
ISB
Was started after we splintered off from the Mortal Kombat boards. Named after Impaled, Slayer, Behemoth. Never had more than 100 members, was a small tight nit community. I miss it.
I'll never forget you Ceph or Eamonn.
>>27993765
I know I came here in like 2009 when I was underaged and just lurked.
Me and my brother used to post on the tranformers forum for the Autobots and Decipticon games on the original DS. We didnt have our own computer so we used our 1st gen wii's browser. Our handle was like Jowee (####), musta been around 7 or 8 years ago.
>>27994035
Honestly i probably would have but i mever hear of the place until 2011 like i said lol. Shit ive noticed a decline in quality of posts since then i cant imagine if i was here since 2007or2006 how shitty i would think this place is
R9k minecraft server with Pepe and wojak as the map. It was fun, but eventually I was the only one logging on. I built my last settlement on wojak where it was constantly snowing. It was lonely.
wc3c - A modding community for warcraft 3. i did some custom skins. It was all around a nice community full of creative people. Rather small community but probably the most important at the time.
The Palace - Some weird visual chat thing. There were servers which all had rooms you would navigate like a real place by clicking on the doors. People got really creative with their avatars. It was nice as a lonely person to feel like there are other people in the same room as you. There's a certain sense of physicality and people would often cyber with each other by going into a private room and equipping a naked avatar and doing this hilarious mashing of arrow keys to show humping. There was this Prep Hate drama where goth kids would pick on casual players who wear prep avatars.
Numerous. None of which I were proud for.
>Neoseeker
I used to just post normally in various boards. Met some people, played many games with them, never heard from them again. The community there is still existant, but to me, it's dead.
>Nsider forums
Those were the shit. I remember them getting shut down the very night wi-fi was confirmed for smash bros brawl.
>Wii clans(yes, those were a thing)
There was this one clan I was in that I joined just for the social aspect(I have no one to play games with). It was actually pretty successful and lasted for a few years. Everyone moved on with their lives and are doing successful things. As for me, i'm just shitposting imageboards.
I fucking miss my early teenage years.
In 1991 I was accepted in to Legion of Doom, sad to see it go... Any other phreakfags out there?
>>27986288
>Blade Symphony
this game looks really fun, im sorry
>>27982215
narutospriteshop.ucoz
They were a huge community of fags. I mean it was cool, you could get a lot of custom sprites there (I make games) but people are so vain and possessive when it comes to their intellectual property.
>>27982215
2010
I played runescape and I think dungeoneering came out around there, I loved that skill so much I a clan with my 5 good friends in rs.
Some of the best times.
2012 playing realm of the mad god with the melee militia clan, the mumble group was awesome. Techemically it was multiple clans like DDMB,wutang, but we all had our own groups but still played together
KimmoA (guy who hosted anontalk) had a gaming forum (powerplay.nu or something) back in maybe 2002 or so. I used to go there. They had a 15+ rule and I was 9.
I really liked that forum. IRL I didn't have anyone to talk to about videogames. I had similar tastes. One time I admitted to not being allowed to play any FPS games because my parents didn't let me.
That was the straw that broke the camels back. I was obviously not that good at communicating at that age so I had already gotten a fair few warnings.I don't remember all that much about it so I asked KimmoA if I could have my old posts since the forum was taken down. He was pretty paranoid so he just confirmed there was an old forum he used to run/be a mod on that was focused on videogames.
I then went to loading.se. A gaming forum which had reddit status on powerplay. Eventually got sick of them because of the issues mentioned on powerplay.
Went to fuska.se a far more relaxed forum, did avatar/signature work there for forum points. Fun stuff.
Found newgrounds forum from there. Then found 4chan in 2006. Worst mistake of my life.
>>27985054
>>27994885
>Nsider
MY BROTHERS
I used to play Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal with a bunch of really fucking dedicated players on ps2. That's pretty much it since most of the people I've met online I still talk to to some degree.
One time, when I was 9, I went to this little chat box on some crappy spongebob fan club website and I got aroused because one of the smileys had boobs. It was so hot though, I still fap to the memory to this day. Hold up, I am gonna try get a picture for you. Also, back when I was 8 I took this guy up on this offer to "cyber" on whyville. Its just avatars that are heads, so we got creative and made them "dance" on each other. Both cases were probably grown ass men.
>>27995668
Omg the website is still up! It looks horrible but yeah the chat is gone, sadly. This was posted there though. I think they know what I used to be up to
http://spongebob.net/safety.htm
I was a pretty active ROBLOX player back in the day. I was a part of a clan that was really just the older kids ganged up to shit on the rest of ROBLOX.
We were always 1/20 the size of clans we fought but always kicked everyone's ass.
It was pretty cool. We RPed hardcore and acted like the totalitarian evil in the clan community.
Here's a wiki page someone wrote on me. Didn't even know it existed until a couple months ago when a friend sent me the link.
http://vaktovianempire.wikia.com/wiki/Basalisk
>>27982215
A group of my 2 friends and their 5+ each friends who only knew half of each other, so like 10-15 maybe people, got together to play modern warfare 2 and talk about random shit for hours and hours. Closest I got to ever having a clique. Even for a shit console game it became x100000 more fun because of the company and the imbalance in the gameplay (being a douchebag and running around with a riot shield and throwing knife, basically making you invincible on certain maps, unlimited grenade launcher etc.)
Fun times going into an online game with a full team cooperating and talking.
>>27982953
Which board? I often wonder how those small boards exist, never thought they talked outside 8ch.
>>27995604
Dungeoneering was like 2014 m8
I used to be pretty big in the club penguin youtube community back in the day. I made CPMVs (Club Penguin Music Videos) and club penguin comedy sketches. I used to log in to club penguin and everyone would always want to come to my igloo and party with me. No one ever caref for me as much as those internet penguins did. :(
>>27984067
Are you the real keemstar?
>>27984206
That sounds like an incredibly niche community.
The demo for a niche game on a Microsoft console.
Sounds cool though man.
>>27982964
nice (You) bait there but it was too obvious, nobody will believe that actually happened
>>27982215
I used to post extensively on tilt.tv (old finnish video game tv-show) WAP-forums around 2003-2005 with my trusty Nokia 3510i. I can't remember what it was that people actually talked about in there, I think it was more of a general discussion forum than strictly video game related. I wonder how many people even know what the hell WAP was nowadays, makes me feel kinda old.
>>27995940
I think I once used WAP on my HP PDA.
People were really interested in what was essentially a smartphone in 2004.
>parents had hopes for you to learn programming applications for it
>expected me to set up a developer environment for it without assistance
>eventually managed to make some shitty app
>didn't understand enough to progress
I wish my parents gave me real attention.
I used to play a ton of Blockland way before Badspot ruined it. the role play community was actually really cool and diverse, the game sucks now and the largest mod source got shut down
soldatforums
>they're still updating it
What the fuck.
A zetaboard forum that was a spin off from the "Rants" section on the RuneScape forums in like 2009. Maybe 30 of us? I was underage at the time so I made a lot of autistic posts, but it helps to read them sometimes (I have severe memory loss thanks to PTSD and I forget a lot about my past).
I loved that place, but it died with the game over time.
If the site you used to browse or post on is no longer an active domain, check archive(org). They usually have cached pages throughout the years.
>>27985130
I'd love to know what game so I could buy it anon.
I used to participate in fursecution raids in a group 07-09
Who knew the degeneracy would fuck up my porn tastes though
He who fights monsters...
>>27986973
Haha I've seen those before, funny stuff anon.
I used to be on a community on Color Burst PTRO and xKour like 4-5 years ago.
>>27982215
I used to be hot shit on a Free Rider 2 forum about 8 years ago. Bitches loved my tracks. The forum is toast, I tried to visit it for old times' sake a while ago and it gave me virus. But I found a few of my tracks copied to other sites that are still up
>>27988554
Feels anon. The feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKSpx64k6R0
>>27990086
You post on 4chan though senpai
W-we're good r-right?
>>27990838
3 years ago? Fuck I haven't used FJ in like 10 years. It's still around too - fucking hell man.
>>27991016
Have any tips for a 21 year old?
>tfw you join a community as it's just starting
>over time everyone becomes good friends
>24/7 skype calls where there's 3 to 10 people always in there
>watch movies together all the time
>play games together
>only time I've ever been able to actually bee myself and talk without anxiety
>overtime new people start to join
>they're not as good as all the original people, but they're still nice
>even more people start joining
>there are full blown attentionwhores in there now
>people begin falling for their bullshit
>drama everyday
>everyone's always arguing or you can't talk with others because everyone's orbiting a few attentionwhores
>one gets on cam
>there had been no cams up until this point
>wow look at that, she's painfully average looking girl
>everyone starts going crazy over her
>all the guys start going on cam
>more girls start going on cam
>originals slowly leaving
>one day there's about 7 people in the chat
>no one's really talking except me and another guy
>he mentions something about how he misses the people that left
>respond something like "Yeah, now this group's just a pool of orbiters"
>two people pipe up "Woah dude I'm not an orbiter are you sure YOU aren't orbiting her and you just don't want her talking to us more than you?!??!?"
>since 30 seconds after she joined I had ignored her existence completely and the only time she tried talking to me was to rope me into her orbit
>log out, uninstall skype, and don't talk to anyone online for nearly two years
>>27995843
(not guy you replied to)
Funnily enough, it had a pretty decently sized community. (I'd say at least 1k+ people on at all times/I might be downplaying that/or maybe it was more)
When I first got an Xbox, I only had a game or two so the demos were a blessing.
I put a good chunk of time into that demo, even though I rarely actually played the game, I just talked to people and fucked around (it had text chat if I remember correctly).
Thinking about these old times just gets me sad...
I was a truly happy kid back then; extremely social online, a few friends at school. And I was fine with it.
>>27994083
How old are you?
Original post
Super original post
>>27995829
Reading this out loud is post hilarious and depressing.
>>27982215
Feenix vanilla wow, fairly recent but I was a long time player until the TBC disaster.
This place
http://www.ign.com/boards/forums/the-vestibule.5296/
I can't even tell if it's active or not because this bug kept on happening where you could only post in submited topics. I miss this place.
>>27996296
Quality post anon.
Original comment.
>>27996717
You just described the mainstream Internet perfectly.
>>27996296
>they asked to have it removed so waybackmachine did remove it
So mean.
>>27996783
Not sure if you read the post about modern warfare 2, but that was me. Online friends and offline friends who would arrange to play halo 3 or cod/gears of war. I don't even play online games anymore but those experiences will never leave me.
>>27996783
So yea, I relate to the end of your post about being happy and social, and having it fade away as people stopped gaming/moved to newer consoles.
>>27982215
I used to go to this Iced Earth fan forum called iced-realm.de. Nice place, not a lot of elitism, just a good atmosphere. Some teenager, one college student that used to call everyone who made a mistake "dumbass" but he was funny in a Maddox way. Then there was this drama between this 40-something woman from the States and a 40-something biker guy from Holland, they had apparently gotten together IRL then broken up. Also the webadmin of the real Iced Earth website posted there, I think he was Greek.
How did it all die? Eventually the admin of the forum and site started getting more into Kreator, then finally he announced he didn't want to run the site anymore since Iced Earth isn't his favourite band anymore and I guess it was costing him money. That was it.
I used to also go to the Cossacks European Wars official forum, that's gone. People always arguing about winged hussars and whether they're strong enough or not strong enough in the game. A lot of their stupid ideas got put into Cossacks 2 which is probably why it failed.
And the history.ca forums (Canadian History channel forum), back when the history channel was actually good and showed war movies, not bullshit about ancient aliens and cheap entertainment. That got shut down for some reason. First forum I ever went to.
>>27982323
Good times.
>>27996852
Explain? I just started on Nost before the shutdown.
After Runescape was updated and got rid of free trade and the wilderness,I put loads of time into private servers.
I hopped from server to server looking for the perfect one, some would get shut down within a month of being open when they didn't get money, and others would be completely empty but still be sort-of fun. Sadly I can't recall the names.
I remember a few of them more than the others, there was one in which a few friends were some of the first to join, we became friends with the owner, managed to be the richest people on the server, overall fun. Not too sure why we stopped playing, but I do remember going back a few months later and being underwhelmed, I remember fighting whilst risking everything before quitting and begging my friend (who had no longer been playing it) to give me his stuff, but he never did...
Another server I remember was the true cancer server in which most of the items were custom shit you'd expect a 9 year old had drawn (I dont remember the name exactly, but it was something along the lines of Rainbowscape)
I remember being lured by what I think was a mod, into a inconspicuous area which you'd have never imagined to be dangerous.
There was another server which was as close to the current runescape at the time (2008/9) except without the grinding; these guys basically had a perfect private server, sadly they would get invaded by hackers every other hour. I remember staking a guy who just teleported out of reach from me and started using mage or range on my ass.
Finally the server which I know I spent most time on (Had thousands of posts on the Forums) Near Reality, this one had custom items, but it was a good amount, not an overdose of them, different tiered Whips (Lime being best for some reason), Wings, etc. This game got me addicted to gambling, I spent hours staking people for banks, and at one point I was at least in the running for top 50 richest. Sadly Jagex closed the server down because it was too popular.
>>27996962
Do you feel the impulse to gamble the way a smoker feels the need to light up?
>>27997021
To clarify, my father is a gambler but I've only been a nicotine addict so I find it hard to imagine an impulse to risk money. Do you get a rush when you win?
>>27997021
I'd say it's pretty close, but not that bad recently.
This lead me into highschool gambling in which I managed to find a group of "friends" who'd be willing to bet massive (for a kid) amounts over minuscule things.
We were doing $100 coin flips; literally just flipping coins all year long. One day I managed to turn $100 into $700, then I managed to lose it all, I felt truly sick to my stomach experiencing what it was like to lose it all.
This then led to playing online poker, but I've managed to take a break.
I say addicted but recently its more of a: when i start I dont stop, not really a "i must do it all the time"
I have no interest in turning $100 into $1000, I keep going until i lose it all. I have no end-goal. I do not value money. If I have some, i might as-well use it for something.
Luckily I'm only 20 so I haven't done in-person gambling at a casino yet, but we'll see what happens in a year.
>>27997141
Might as-well add that I think I've deposited around $5-7.5k into various poker-sites since around age 16, a hundred every other week adds up. I don't think any of my balances are above $100, but I haven't played in awhile.
But don't think I just lose it all because I'm bad, it's a up-and-down situation, I turned $100, into $3k+ at one point, but I just kept playing and a couple of losing streaks will fuck anyone over.
Transformice. 2010. r9k mice.
>>27997141
Have you considered using virtual/fake currency or just betting really low amounts like a few dollars? Or is the thrill to really go big and hard.
