Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
You're always going to 'meet' people that have different visions and values than what you do.
If you can look past that...
If you can look past that...
I couldn't disagree more.You're always going to 'meet' people that have different visions and values than what you do.
Gen X were always invisible and ignored no matter what they did, especially now they are middle-aged. The most effective invisibility cloak ever made is the "middle age" suit.Yeah it's like the oldest crowd is the facebook boomers, then it's probably the message forum millennials. Wonder what happened to the gen x'ers, they pretty much created the internet.
Forums and I'll be more specific, GAF was all it took as the final push for me to get off social media. Same bro, this is the only platform other than LinkedIn which I have to use for my job. I hope to see everyone here when we're all over 80. Tell them kids a thing or two.I was an avid lurker on GAF since about 2009 and decided to join recently.
Ignoring the obvious boring console wars there's a caring community which keeps me grounded and informed like no other platform can.
A lot of you have tremendous knowledge & intellectual curiosity and you don't even realise it
GAF is all I need.
more about endorphin chasing.
In my life I find if I'm always finding something about about "it" then it's probably a good time to step back and take a break. One thing the OP (this is something I and everyone else deal with) may be coming to terms with is that we can not go back to the good old days. As we get old the old doesn't stimulate us the way it did when it was new.I'm going to be honest with you OP,
I think you're depressed and need to see someone about it
I've noticed your name appear a few times over the last month making new posts, and honestly you're not happy, and looking (admittedly very quickly) through your posting history, I don't think you have posted a single positive thing about....anything
Maybe spend less time on the Internet, and trying a new hobby other than gaming, and like I said, maybe talk to someone about how you're feeling
I used to browse the Penny Arcade forum.I remember when egm had a forum way back in the day.
Hah, same. Every few years I pop in there and yep - still people posting!I used to browse the Penny Arcade forum.
Holy shit it still exists
Gen x'er here who worked on the first smartphones. For the past 5 or 6 years I see everyone staring at their phones everywhere I go and I think, what have we done? I was so proud when we started rolling them off the line and I freakin loved working on them. But now, I don't know....
It's not millenials. Millenials are fine with forums. It's Gen Z. And it makes sense as forums don't lend themselves best to a mobile phone. Not to mention shitty ass Tiktok killing attention spans across the board doesn't help much either.t's like either I've been growing out of them, or the people using them have never grown up, because it doesn't seem like forums caught on with the younger generations, with most users being millennials
I'll bet you're right because come to think of it 99% of the time I've ever heard of them it was always relatively successful content creators on youtube saying "Join my discord server and sign up on my patreon!"The way people adopted Discord seemed almost inorganic imo. It was pushed everywhere. Someone might've been spending a ton of money to propagate it over the net.
Why didn't you just use an ESP32??? WOW! Look at this guy, wasting a Raspberry Pi on such a trivial project!"I made a controller for garden irrigation out of a raspberry pi, a couple of arduinos, and some sensors. It works well."
Response: "Ugh, your first problem is that you used a raspberry pi instead of [obscure device] and there's no way your idea will work. Why would you think a stupid idea like that would ever work?"
MF'er, I just told you that it works. I don't need your approval.
It's fucking chat rooms.I heard it had something to do with Discord servers. I'm so old, I literally have no idea wtf a Discord server even is.
Yes! That's the guy! Or when I mention my Plex server runs on an older Dell Optiplex and Windows 10 I get "Ugh, Windows? Really? That's your first mistake. Why would you choose Windows when FreeBSD...."Why didn't you just use an ESP32??? WOW! Look at this guy, wasting a Raspberry Pi on such a trivial project!
How are you reaching that conclusion do sites post age demographicsit doesn't seem like forums caught on with the younger generations,
I don't know when I first heard about Discord but when I tried the program it seemed to work well. What I found odd was the "spoopy whoopy" presentation of things from behind the scenes. When ever they gave updates on new features of the program they spoke in this weird childish language. Now that it's mainstream that aspect seems to be gone.The way people adopted Discord seemed almost inorganic imo. It was pushed everywhere. Someone might've been spending a ton of money to propagate it over the net.
To a degree. The wrong type of dickhead is on the banned list.This is the only place where you can be a dickhead and a legend at the same time. Where do you get that kind of freedom? Rhetorical question. Not many places like that left and you know it.
I've tried Discord and it wasn't for me. I much prefer a forum bulletin board.Reddit and then Discord basically killed forum communities. :/
That said, GAF is still a pretty great place to be if you're interested in discussing and getting the latest gaming news.
I miss the days of forum signatures. There was some really positive communities built completely around making those for other members. I'm sure a ton of millenials taught themselves Photoshop through things like that - I know I certainly did.
Given what's happened to Reddit's user base over the last 5 years, I'm glad they're there instead of on forums. If you have a member list full of those lunatics, you end up with... well... something else.Reddit and then Discord basically killed forum communities. :/
That said, GAF is still a pretty great place to be if you're interested in discussing and getting the latest gaming news.
Good thing we don’t have any toxic members here!