Post by excalibong on Feb 3, 2014 10:26:12 GMT -6
And time for a sincere, if semi indulgent monologue.
First off I wish I could write this in a much more articulate and organized manner to best convey this wistful melancholy over years passed by on this community.
But screw it, word is bond and I"ll lay it out.
So it's been a while and years upon years have passed since I visited these forums, but here I am looking at them and reminiscing over this ghost town back when it was full of activity and so many people. I remember joining one of the early incarnations of the forums back when Vinnie's site was hosted on .tk domain. I remember being interested after being charmed by Hoy te Amo++ and watching some more of his flashes. You were my first online community when I young and was getting acclimated to web, and I remember being imprssed by the activity, the own little world of the creator and his contacts and more than a little envious at the various drawings and stuff the art people were making. it left a n impression and made me strive to get involved and make all these e-friendships I was seeing from the familiarity other users had with each other. But I never did. And as a parallel story which I won't get deep here with, things on my end got all sorts of complicated and while I hate to say it, I ended up losing interest and just dropped. And then some time passes and the first big forum change happens and I register and don't do too much. I just kinda drift form site and forums never really feeling at home or whatever then more time passes and then it gets updated and closer to this version. Same thing happens and I guess that's one of things I regret most; never like contributing or whatever you call it, to like become not like locally famous but rather like be a regular named face and do all that fabulous friendship stuff. It eats me up being unable to contribute aside from some half-assy things I did when I was younger like proposing some sort of MMO and something involving the role play section that didn't come to fruition on a preve forum, who I can't remember if I voiced to be made or something. Never even touched the IRC back when it still had people on too or other simple things. Also I guess for a lack of a better term, wanted to grow up with you peeps.
But enough of the past. Here am I am getting all misty eyed and reminiscing . And I'm looking at the forum and feeling kinda down, but it was inevitable wasn't it? On the first thing we all grew up, I believe a good chunk of the base were like kids roughly my age back in the day. And like me the quirky simplistic anime-ish character design with the fantastic Mexico city place hit some sort of sweet spot that drew in a bunch. Yeah there were some older folks like Nawa and that one guy (whose name escapes me outside of the fact he patrolled the Spanish section.) were mods and were college aged. And other hand Vin ain't our personal creator pet and in my memory there like some sort of drought going on with new material and seeing as the forum revolves around his CCC stuff the lack of material made the fire go cold. Sure there were some back story bits and world building he was tossing out which was cool and for me made me thirsty for me and others but did it go anywhere? And I guess eventually people ran out of things to talk about. And lastly and connecting to that, the community while active wasn't strong-strong in the sense it would be like self sustaining. If you excuse my assumption during my sporadic visits I never really got the presence of some sort strong leader presence or community demiurges that would keep things going with things to do and stuff in spite of any lack of new CCC stuff if you get what I'm saying. A forum community keeps going so long as there is energy being given back to mack more energy or something like that. What I'm getting with that is that there wasn't anything giving roots and making a deeper bases outside of the novelty of the works. But I could be very wrong maybe there was the above existed but I missed out and they burned out. But still I'm more than bummed out this place isn't so active and there's even older places still going twice as strong.
But enough of this weepy shit, I just want to shout out to all the lurkers and say a big What's up. As mentioned too many times it's been a long time coming but I'm back and again and curious as to what's been happening. I can only guess the mods who were older are married and with children. Also read about vinnie's pops and I'll keep short: Sucks and I hope it turns out better. Anyway what I'm looking for is if any of you guys still around wanna group up and have a chat and if there's some sort of mythical hangout the majority of you people are chilling at. And maybe on a more fantastical stretch, see there's something to do to liven this place up.
First off I wish I could write this in a much more articulate and organized manner to best convey this wistful melancholy over years passed by on this community.
But screw it, word is bond and I"ll lay it out.
So it's been a while and years upon years have passed since I visited these forums, but here I am looking at them and reminiscing over this ghost town back when it was full of activity and so many people. I remember joining one of the early incarnations of the forums back when Vinnie's site was hosted on .tk domain. I remember being interested after being charmed by Hoy te Amo++ and watching some more of his flashes. You were my first online community when I young and was getting acclimated to web, and I remember being imprssed by the activity, the own little world of the creator and his contacts and more than a little envious at the various drawings and stuff the art people were making. it left a n impression and made me strive to get involved and make all these e-friendships I was seeing from the familiarity other users had with each other. But I never did. And as a parallel story which I won't get deep here with, things on my end got all sorts of complicated and while I hate to say it, I ended up losing interest and just dropped. And then some time passes and the first big forum change happens and I register and don't do too much. I just kinda drift form site and forums never really feeling at home or whatever then more time passes and then it gets updated and closer to this version. Same thing happens and I guess that's one of things I regret most; never like contributing or whatever you call it, to like become not like locally famous but rather like be a regular named face and do all that fabulous friendship stuff. It eats me up being unable to contribute aside from some half-assy things I did when I was younger like proposing some sort of MMO and something involving the role play section that didn't come to fruition on a preve forum, who I can't remember if I voiced to be made or something. Never even touched the IRC back when it still had people on too or other simple things. Also I guess for a lack of a better term, wanted to grow up with you peeps.
But enough of the past. Here am I am getting all misty eyed and reminiscing . And I'm looking at the forum and feeling kinda down, but it was inevitable wasn't it? On the first thing we all grew up, I believe a good chunk of the base were like kids roughly my age back in the day. And like me the quirky simplistic anime-ish character design with the fantastic Mexico city place hit some sort of sweet spot that drew in a bunch. Yeah there were some older folks like Nawa and that one guy (whose name escapes me outside of the fact he patrolled the Spanish section.) were mods and were college aged. And other hand Vin ain't our personal creator pet and in my memory there like some sort of drought going on with new material and seeing as the forum revolves around his CCC stuff the lack of material made the fire go cold. Sure there were some back story bits and world building he was tossing out which was cool and for me made me thirsty for me and others but did it go anywhere? And I guess eventually people ran out of things to talk about. And lastly and connecting to that, the community while active wasn't strong-strong in the sense it would be like self sustaining. If you excuse my assumption during my sporadic visits I never really got the presence of some sort strong leader presence or community demiurges that would keep things going with things to do and stuff in spite of any lack of new CCC stuff if you get what I'm saying. A forum community keeps going so long as there is energy being given back to mack more energy or something like that. What I'm getting with that is that there wasn't anything giving roots and making a deeper bases outside of the novelty of the works. But I could be very wrong maybe there was the above existed but I missed out and they burned out. But still I'm more than bummed out this place isn't so active and there's even older places still going twice as strong.
But enough of this weepy shit, I just want to shout out to all the lurkers and say a big What's up. As mentioned too many times it's been a long time coming but I'm back and again and curious as to what's been happening. I can only guess the mods who were older are married and with children. Also read about vinnie's pops and I'll keep short: Sucks and I hope it turns out better. Anyway what I'm looking for is if any of you guys still around wanna group up and have a chat and if there's some sort of mythical hangout the majority of you people are chilling at. And maybe on a more fantastical stretch, see there's something to do to liven this place up.