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SA has been a weird ride for me. I started the internet with the intention of forever being hidden and lost on it, and I plan to end it that way, and apparently this has paid off for me in spades. I joined back in '03 with my cousin's help, after lurking since 2002, and there was something that felt cohesive and apotheotic about the entire place. The rest of the internet at the time was a disparaging collection of colorful little islands full of weird, loud, enthusiastic dipshits. SA made a difference by collecting the dipshits in once place with every topic, and blasting the ones who get too gently caress headed, which is why I'm still here a horrifying 15 years later, as the internet quickly dissolves away into another money-maker failed venture in human self-destruction. But yeah the early days, I feel, actually were often as good as biased memory recollects. But in the sense that, in the day to day people were dumb boring shitheads, but there wasn't quite the same edge of malice in every single topic and overall societal pressures and fears, and before Helldump. You could laugh a little easier and more often. I lurked in majority because talking online is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea, and got to silently watch a lot of the fun stuff that went down. I still remember Chaos Night, from right before my 2004 discovery of TG, which became a regular haunt for me. It was amazing to play games that were finally curated enough to be fun, instead of the disgusting ruin that all face-to-face games had been. I even played in a Metroid game! My first genuine campaign finish as a player. I even allow myself the single solitary ego-assumption that Prime 3 was inspired by one of our scenes. That was part of SA's overall magic I loved - a sensation of "Hey, all humans are loving dumb and we all inspire each other online in bits and tics, all in this together" - I trucked there for a few years and then dropped out, since TG and SA was starting its rapid shift to a more political environment and a lot of the regulars vanished. Though funny enough, a lot of those regulars are also coming back now since... there is sincerely nowhere else on the internet I want to go, as bad as this place has been. It's not loving safe out there anymore and I'd rather be an incorrigible rear end in a top hat with you all here than fall screaming into the increasingly chromatic noise of social media. It's such a weird and unprecedented thing. I fully believe SA will survive despite its best efforts, and that we're going to be growing older together as we post on and ever on. Think of that. We're among the first digital communities. And we survived. We have an actual cohesive identity and ethos that goes past just the subforum ponds we hide in. Does this amount to a lot? No. But it still amounts to a legacy of people together for nearly 20 years, all of it still there to look back on as well as archives and threads like this allow. We get to live something eerie that few other people before everyone got online can understand or care for. Nothing else will ever be like SA for me.
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I mean look just have a yearly donation drive I will loving pay into it, Moses loving the burning bush dont dump is out into that cold mad HELL
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Nov 30, 2017 01:57
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YCS was a goddamn ride and my one regret about not really posting is that I didn't do it in there when it was hot But damned if I didn't have enough sense to tell it was TOO hot to dive in
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That's another one of the small things I remember about the forums, mostly because it made me laugh especially hard for no reason, was suddenly noticing all the Dr. Videogames names popping up. That got me as time went on. Noticing mass changes of names and avatars relating to this or that. Sometimes seeing avatars over and over and more pop up got me to check out what was going on. In one case, that led me into getting into Homestuck right as it got really good and right before it got really bad (sometime in like what, hell, 2010? 2011?). I can credit SA for saving me in the same breath though, as I dove into that mess of a community, I could have gotten big in it from stuff I wrote, but knew from dogged experience here to just walk right the gently caress away and then whole thing burned up around 2013. SA is pretty good for litmus testing entertainment well, once you're experienced enough to read a thread for a clear idea.
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Nov 30, 2017 08:21
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Ludicrous Finances
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Nov 30, 2017 10:57
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Schmorky was such a strange and sad thing to see happen. Obvious in retrospect, but god drat if we don’t see the years go by and start to eat some of us alive.
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Nov 30, 2017 21:40
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Fat Twitter Man posted:In the internet of 10 years ago people just put their AIM handle in every single online profile they had and thought nothing of it, so you could look at a guy’s forum profile and find his livejournal with his real name, work, and school and also his anime porn account. Googling names was considered a black art. I remember when people would use the term "Googlefu" Christ
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Orkin Mang posted:in this age of trump i find myself using ask jeeves krav maga a fair bit Bing Crane Style ever strong
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