So long.TheFlatline wrote:
I found my link so... So long and thanks for all the fish?
Where do we go from here?
Moderator: Moderators
Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!
Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!
Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.
]I want him to tongue-punch my box.
The divine in me says the divine in you should go fuck itself.
While I have never been accused of paying attention to the here and now. Wow.
I mean, I hadn't even realized Frank had left for this long already... and then, we all have had more pressing things on our minds... like immediate survival and impending societal collapse, so I just thought "the place is really slow as of late, figures." And then I notice the Trump thread is gone, get curious, check on the About subforum, and...
So, this is it.
It's sad to chalk the Den as yet another casualty of 2020. It was the last place with genuine dialog I knew. Hell, even when it was so d20-centric, most of the discussions applied to other systems too or could be extrapolated. I won't say Frank was the Den, but the community was a formula, a formula that required specific elements to work (even a Shadzar!). That formula is now gone, it was even before the owner slammed the last nail in the coffin acknowledging he no longer has the energy.
Oh well. I'll be at MPSIMS creating a no reason spam thread. I want to see at least what title was awaiting for me at 1000 posts.
See you on the flip side.
I mean, I hadn't even realized Frank had left for this long already... and then, we all have had more pressing things on our minds... like immediate survival and impending societal collapse, so I just thought "the place is really slow as of late, figures." And then I notice the Trump thread is gone, get curious, check on the About subforum, and...
So, this is it.
It's sad to chalk the Den as yet another casualty of 2020. It was the last place with genuine dialog I knew. Hell, even when it was so d20-centric, most of the discussions applied to other systems too or could be extrapolated. I won't say Frank was the Den, but the community was a formula, a formula that required specific elements to work (even a Shadzar!). That formula is now gone, it was even before the owner slammed the last nail in the coffin acknowledging he no longer has the energy.
Oh well. I'll be at MPSIMS creating a no reason spam thread. I want to see at least what title was awaiting for me at 1000 posts.
See you on the flip side.
-
Desdan_Mervolam
- Knight-Baron
- Posts: 985
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
I have not posted here regularly in six years
I have not posted at all here in two years
I have, about twice a year, poked in and looked at what's been going on, mostly to look at old threads and because a part of me gets morbidly curious or morbidly nostalgic. I have to admit that openly, because its obvious; it's why I'm writing this post right now, 802 days since my last post.
The reason I quit posting and also quit reading regularly is because the board has/had a community that I felt is toxic, which actively discouraged discussion and, more damningly to my mind, began to actively poison the interest I had in my favorite hobby. It was like this long before I quit. I had to take a long break from this board at least once before.
Honestly, I would love a place where I can go and talk about games, the campaigns I'm playing in and the campaigns I'm running, and get feedback and advice about stuff. I've never really found a place that's good for that, but the Den was certainly not that place, and really never was. This is the board where you tell people who have the bad judgement to like a game you don't and the bad luck of saying so in public that they are inherently morally deficient.
I have plenty of thoughts on Frank, most of them are... shall we say, uncharitable. I thought about writing those thoughts out here, but I think MoFo has made it pretty clear that he doesn't really want people to do that, and Frank clearly has no particular interest in other people's opinions of him.
I have not posted at all here in two years
I have, about twice a year, poked in and looked at what's been going on, mostly to look at old threads and because a part of me gets morbidly curious or morbidly nostalgic. I have to admit that openly, because its obvious; it's why I'm writing this post right now, 802 days since my last post.
The reason I quit posting and also quit reading regularly is because the board has/had a community that I felt is toxic, which actively discouraged discussion and, more damningly to my mind, began to actively poison the interest I had in my favorite hobby. It was like this long before I quit. I had to take a long break from this board at least once before.
Honestly, I would love a place where I can go and talk about games, the campaigns I'm playing in and the campaigns I'm running, and get feedback and advice about stuff. I've never really found a place that's good for that, but the Den was certainly not that place, and really never was. This is the board where you tell people who have the bad judgement to like a game you don't and the bad luck of saying so in public that they are inherently morally deficient.
I have plenty of thoughts on Frank, most of them are... shall we say, uncharitable. I thought about writing those thoughts out here, but I think MoFo has made it pretty clear that he doesn't really want people to do that, and Frank clearly has no particular interest in other people's opinions of him.
Don't bother trying to impress gamers. They're too busy trying to impress you to care.
I have found more insightful game design advice and contributions on this board than any other. For the most part I’ve learned all I’m probably gonna learn without serious rededication and I have coasted for years on the enjoyment of discussions with personalities I’ve come to know. Sadly a lot of them have left or quieted, or become irksome enough that I don’t bother clicking to read their posts. But not all gone so I’ll continue to check in.