Hello-Operator

Friends, I think it's time that we start seriously considering the future of this forum. I think we can all agree that it has been dead for a while now, and I don't see any way that our activity can JUMP DRAMATICALLY without another spam post month.

Now don't get me wrong, I love this place. We've all had some great times, but I think at this point we should start considering how we want to lay our child to rest. 

I wouldn't really see a reason to LOCK THIS PLACE DOWN COMPLETELY, besides the fact that I still stop by here and expect new activity, besides the random spam post or WATCHU LISTENING TO post. 

Perhaps we could start a new very small forum, just so that we can still post and stuff when we get a little frisky, but I think a proper way to end this part of our relationship would be to lock the forum as is and deny any new users from joining.

I don't 100% agree with what you're saying, but I do agree that it might be important to have a discussion about the forum and where it's headed. I think a bit of a downsizing might make sense, but I don't understand not allowing new users to sign up.

As a side note, I would like to mention that I don't understand us as a group. We don't make sense. The activity of this forum after we all stopped playing transformice is so improbable and the fact that it actually happened is just bonkers.
I say this because we don't have shit in common. There isn't one interest that unifies us. This is a discussion board about fucking nothing. We just keep on going and I can't fathom why. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love you guys. It just doesn't actually make sense that we, as a group, still exist.

Because the lord helix has willed it.




Praise Helix.

Hey, maybe if we get like 20 new people to join they'll start posting and get some wickedsick necromancies going. Anyway yeah it's pretty bullshit we lasted 4-5 years, and I'd like to thank Based God Lil' B, Yeezus, videodonkey.com and Shrek for the time we've had together :') Also even if people stop posting here we all have eachother on steam and shit so yeah there's that

Tateos wrote:As a side note, I would like to mention that I don't understand us as a group. We don't make sense. The activity of this forum after we all stopped playing transformice is so improbable and the fact that it actually happened is just bonkers.
I say this because we don't have shit in common. There isn't one interest that unifies us. This is a discussion board about fucking nothing. We just keep on going and I can't fathom why. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love you guys. It just doesn't actually make sense that we, as a group, still exist.

yeah lol the only thing that connects us is we played a flash game once. now we're just internet strangers who get together to talk about stuff sometimes, and for some reason we're still around talking to each other almost four years later. once this forum disintegrates into nothingness i know for a fact that i will never talk to any of you guys ever again.

rip

I think a question that should be asked is: do any of us really care about the continuation of this place anymore?

I would be disappointed if the forum was discontinued; I'm only really friends with Tat and Walk but I enjoy logging in here from time to time and checking out what people have said and posted.

I was once told that friends are put in our lives for a reason, for a season, or for life. It's ok to not be friends with people when its over. 

When its over, that's the time I fall in loooove again.

But my vote is for I care if we come here and leave messages for each other sometimes :)

Tateos wrote:I think a question that should be asked is: do any of us really care about the continuation of this place anymore?

honestly i don't, but if this community is to finally die it should be natural.

I vote that just leave it open too, yo. Also if I didn't find you guys on Transformice and end up on this forum I wouldn't have found out about Homestuck until waaaay later and would probably not have met my current irl friends through it anymore, so thanks Hello-Operator for helping me meet my irl bff's :')

I can't say that this website hasn't done a lot for me, either. This place has allowed me to pursue certain interests of mine freely on a small scale while drawing me away from parts of the Internet that I was addicted to and creating the most meaningful relationships I've had with people on the Internet. Thank you guys for giving me your friendship and my playground.

thank you for allowing me to make 4340 posts i guess lol. when i joined i was an angry teenaged college sophomore student and now i'm a considerably chiller adult male grad student. not sure what kind of influence this forum had on my life but thanks for being cool people to chat with and not permabanning me within the first week for being a massive shithead

I'm at a point in my life where extreme changes don't come that fast... I'm more or less the same person I was when we met. Sure, I'm in a different apartment(2 miles away from where I started), and I'm no longer in school and have a job...but I like the exact same music, wear some of the same clothes, and believe in the same things. 

It seems like time has barely passed since the creation of this forum... but I gotta remember that quite a few of us were 12-14 and are now adults moving out. A lot of who I was and what I believed in changed from 12-14 to adult, I was a different person coming out of my teens than I was going in. A lot has changed for you guys, but not much for me. Thank you for growing up with me in your lives, it has been fun and I look forward to see what you guys do when you're all grown up. 

I'm sure some of us will keep in contact with each other, though I dunno how to get in touch with jon if this place ever for some reason isn't here anymore...but I think he's the only one I don't have on steam.

I have a confusing situation on steam though, everybody has names I don't recognize so i'm not sure who I'm talking to half the time lol.

I love you guys.

Rahvin wrote:I'm sure some of us will keep in contact with each other, though I dunno how to get in touch with jon if this place ever for some reason isn't here anymore...but I think he's the only one I don't have on steam.

i know for a fact that once this is over i'll never speak to any of you again. and to be honest, i'm okay with that. you're all very good people, but it'll be nice to just have closure on this so maybe i can finally move on from the internet entirely.

dweezil wrote:i know for a fact that once this is over i'll never speak to any of you again.

If you're ever on anything on the internet after this I'll make sure to hunt you down and bug you until you talk to me just so you're wrong, yw :')

The internet is still a lot like the wild wild west, but like the wild wild west it has to end sometime.

 I've been replaying Red Dead Redemption, and when I play it I think if Ptero because the first time I played through it he and I talked about it quite a bit. I remember Ptero said Mexico was one of the prettiest places he'd experienced in a game, and I remember him commenting on how the song that plays when you get to Mexico is the only real soundtrack the game has. That being said, I see things as the west is ending.

When the internet was starting there were many small domains, little villages and towns... but as resources depleted and people lost a reason to be at that town or village, the town or village was abandoned, making ghost towns... HO has no reason NOT to be a ghost town other than we like each other. We have no cheese to hunt, we have no fancy hats to buy, we have no time or motivation to go to any weekly gathering such as church(some metaphor for gaming together).. there's no reason for us to be together other than that's what we do.

Having been married as long as I have, I often experience similarities with my wife. We have grown apart in time, I like things she doesn't like, I don't like the things she likes. I don't dislike them, but we really don't have much in common anymore... but we're together because we love each other and want to support each other. I've got that "in-it-for-the-long-haul" mentality in life, and I carry it over to the internet. This place doesn't have to die because we have nothing in common, the fact that we know each other and care about each other should be enough to keep this place alive.

I agree that if we die, it should be a natural death...but I care too much. This is still my number 1 visited site on the internet, and I intend to visit it like a coma patient long after its gone.. because of love. I've come to love each and every one of you, some more than others, and I look forwar to the time when you have something to tell us. Some day, someone will have something to say, and I'll be here watching over the place. I'm hellllla bad at keeping in touch with people, but I always come back...

Anyway, yeah, we're not who we were when we started, and we're not who we were a year ago, and that's ok. Nobody should feel obligated to check in....but feel free to check in. 

Also, tat, if you need any $$ keeping our domain name just hmu.. I'm willing to help out any way I can.

TurntSNACO wrote:If you're ever on anything on the internet after this I'll make sure to hunt you down and bug you until you talk to me just so you're wrong, yw :')

i try not to use the same name anywhere so you'd never know it was me. plus i think i'll be done with the internet after this

wow you're leaving forever

As much as I will miss your presence, that would probably be really healthy for you.

TurntSNACO wrote:wow you're leaving forever

not now, but i'll only keep stopping by as long as this forum stays here.

I enjoy telling random people what I'm listening to and quoting song lyrics in my signature; I'll still be around.

>done with the internet
What a concept...

Hopefully Hussie will finish Homestuck before this place dies so we can flip out at eachother about the ending

I've never read homestuck, perhaps I should read it.

How do I even start doing that? 

This thread is no longer a sentimental goodbye thread, this is now a rebirth-around-rahvin-reading-homestuck thread.

Well it has about 6851 pages, but if you really feel like going through all that then here's where you'd start :')

Or if you'd like to read his shorter story which is also really cool first to see what they're like that'd probably be a good idea