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so here it is, the new thread.
this forum is on the edge of something new, definetely. with old established members leaving significantly, i wonder what will be left to it after all. if i think about the past there have been a few members whom i still remember well, and to whom i'd like to talk to again. what has happened to terria, skald or themindzi for example? maybe a few of you have an email adress or something, but i for one don't have.
what's troubling me is that i really made friends here on this very board, and not always only in the casual internet way of the word friend, but as if i had met them in real life. i don't want anyone to stay here against his or her feelings, but i also don't want it to break apart. what can we do to fix this forum, if we can do anything?
 
OMG!!! A new thread! :hotjump:
 
I am relatively new here, but it´s not the first community I joined. I experienced several times changing of "my" forum´s or mailing list (a list were I met really really good friends and which changed my life, seriously, and they are still my friends) and I also tried to bring the old times back to life. It never worked. It seems impossible to stop changes or to kind of push the "replay"-button. Second time it is never the original. :(

I have never experienced that the re-living something would have worked. I can understand you miss good-old-times. Maybe this time it can function?


....enjoy the good phases when they are there.
 
I was never especially involved in the community within this forum, but I did read and occasionally participate since 2001. The thing that was so nice about this place was the 'feeling' it carried. I almost felt like I wasn't worthy to post here, just because of how special it seemed. It was actually like an escape from reality for me, comparable to the effect of reading a good novel.
I often get that feeling of nostalgia when browsing here :erk: I think the sad truth is that it will never be like it once was, even though its still a pretty cool place
 
I can't really place my finger on it, but I don't feel coming here is as "important"
as it once was or maybe I am getting tired of all the online stuff or maybe I am
tired just in general, I know I should get more sleep thats for sure.
Of course there isn't as many interesting threads here as on some of the tech or
games forums I visit, but maybe thats just what I am into right now.
I do read here every day, but I don't feel so inclined to answer these days.
 
You know what? I think you guys need me and that I can't leave :p
Screw my self-imposed ban; when I have the time, I'm gonna post as normal. Let us go forth into a new golden-age of Cybertron in peace and happiness. Till all are one! :D
 
:) *hugs ben*
i hope this is not going to disrupt your studies and plans, but you made me feel better, and since this only happens once every 3000 years, i promise good things and stuff are headed your way.
 
Well to give everyone a reason why I left: I feel the sense of community I felt isnt what it was. Like Mark (gums) said this place was like an escape from reality. On this forum there were people who could understand me better than most of my friends in real life. I dont feel that anymore, I dont know if Im just bored with it or what. I'll be back some time, but I just need sometime away.

Nick
 
See ya soon Nicky-nick McNick of the Wolfman Alliance, find your way, take some time out, and return to us once more. Me and the Rahvy-meister will impose some good feeling community-ness with big sticks if necessary, all ready for you to come back.




And remember the lube lover-boy ;)
 
Sounds deep doesn't it? Let us discuss the mystery of cheesy pineapples. Of how they wilfully, yet in a lovely way, neglect us. Who here has not felt the delicious irony of being pricked by a pineapple's thorny hide? It's deliciousness so close, so tempting, yet the seductively alluring pineapple refusing to let us disembowel and feast upon it's innards...

But then again, I'm not sure this is what you're after. And after receiving Misanthrope's rage, I'm not inclined to make this thread in here ;)
 
i think i'll be the one starting it, then, in the hope people will flock in from all the boards on ultimatemetal just to debate such meaningful topics every single day for the rest of their mortal life. this way, pineapples will never be forgotten.
 
Hmm..

I had just decided last week to not post here anymore.
It's become a bit strange. I've always felt somewhat uncomfortable, like many other people have felt when facing this particular forum, but I still posted anyways. Recently though, I had just sort of given up.. in the sense that it seems everyone here who's not part of these apparent 'circles' or 'clusters' of friends just ends up being/feeling alienated no matter what. And the fact that there seems to be all this behind-the-scenes drama among these groups yet indirect indications and subtle discussion are made right here in the forum just makes that alienating atmosphere worse.
For me and some others it's just like walking into a house of a nice family who are living a life there.. but it's not your house, and it just feels funny being there and trying to talk/mingle instead of just quietly looking in..
And at the end, eitherway, whatever attempt you make to socialize, help, comfort, tease, share, or discuss is kind of left without much significance ..mainly because you really don't know anything of what's going on, it's not your house, it's not your family and there is so much more than what you see through the window and you're just a stranger..

I don't know if it's the best of metaphors to get a point across, but ehh!.. it's almost 6am

I have appreciated this board and its people though, and I honestly wish the best for everyone here whatever happens. \,,/
..even you bastards who don't like Opeth or Children of Bodom :p
 
believe me, mag, there's less behind-the-scenes than it might seem, and i'm pretty sure no one has the faintest idea about what's actually going on. i liked your posts and input a lot, so i hope you'll reconsider. just private message me: we crack a few jokes then come back here and subtly hint at those inner jokes in posts all day. ;)
 
rahvin: I don´t understand what you intend with those quotes. Not so really at least. Maybe there is something I didn´t get. I just know that you really never can bring back the old-times. Nevertheless, in this forum there is chances of something new and also good coming up; in contrast to my mailing list, which gotten horribly superficial and extremely stupid in large quantities. :( I mean here is a certain level, many interesting people who have something to say and a very strong history. That is worth something!
 
fireangel said:
rahvin: I don´t understand what you intend with those quotes.
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i intended to point out that i agree with both those statements, yours and tranquillian's.
yes, you can't bring the fabled, nonexisting golden age back. but i feel oddly focused on following any interesting project i see around me these days - as you might have guessed by yesterday's mail - so i'd like to know what anyone has in mind and, where possible, contribute/invent something with people. needless to mention, you're a candidate. so if you think we can squeeze some blood from this stone, just point the way. :)
 
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