Post by Teh Chrisizard on Jul 30, 2017 21:52:44 GMT -5
jesus christ what the fuck
i wanted to have this big sappy post written up about how my life has changed in the 10 years since making this dumb ass forum but to be 100% for real it can practically be summed up as "same shit different day to the extreme" and also let's be real like no one will even read this
it's fuckin crazy, though, how many of you i still know. ten fucking years. jesus. i started this shit when i was 14 and now i'm 24. that's absolutely bonkers to me. imagine if we had actually kept this active this entire time? crazy. for those i still talk to these days -- we've fucking known each other for ten years. that's longer than i've known any of my friends in real life! that's fuckin crazy!
and for those i've lost contact with, the memories we shared during our comparatively brief time together still means a lot to me. every once in a blue moon i'll log on and go through a few old posts, even though my eyes may bleed at the garish color scheme i have selected and nearly all of the images we've posted are hidden because of some idiot's decision to restrict embedding images from photobucket a premium-only feature. (i mean, really, way to make your service even more irrelevant than it's already become, jesus)
to be honest, i've entertained the idea of trying to bring this place back (though, technically, more of a spiritual successor than actually bringing this specific forum back) but at some point i realized this place never really was about pokemon, was it? we abandoned the idea of a wi-fi league laughably quickly. and hell not like i could even do something like that these days since my 3ds has been permanently banned from online play since november and i don't feel like buying another one but that's another story for another day
no, the real point of this place was just so we could be a bunch of dumbass young teenagers online without neopets restricting us from being dumbass young teenagers. that's what this place really means. at least for me, that is. can't really speak for anyone else but i know that about after a month this place being pokemon-themed was more a legacy thing than anything else.
anyway i don't really have anything else to say. this was already much longer than i thought it'd be.
just wow. ten fucking years.
yes i know i'm posting this a day early i know my dumb ass will forget to do it tomorrow