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Please provide examples of this.
 
Here's one

I will destroy every living fiber of your being.
 

I'm like 2½ weeks late to this response, but E8S is probably the hardest Savage boss fight in the game since Midas/Gordias back in Heavensward, which were actually overtuned and later nerfed. I cleared Refulgence with a static and that was difficult enough, so I can only imagine your struggle if you tried doing it with PF. Light Rampant fun mechanic smile.

New raid tier seems easier but I haven't progged E12S yet, only seen E11S enrage so far, so maybe I'll have to eat my words when I get around to E12S.

never did get that clear of Eden's Verse: Refulgence (Savage) before 5.4 came out
sure did put a lot of fucking hours in party finder trying, though. I think I could clear if I had 7 other people who also knew the whole fight and weren't bad but that's a tall ask in party finder
i've never played WoW before but i defy anyone to show me any WoW content ever made that's as unforgivingly difficult as that shit

I've finally gotten around to playing doom eternal, it's fantastic but my pc can just barely handle it.
 
It has amazing enemy design and also the tentacle

WARNING: BLOG POST ABOUT VIDYA AHEAD
I decided to spoiler it so as to not take up too much space
 

TL;DR: Persona 4 Golden good.

I didn't even post all that much on OG SPUF and I still got invited here to the secret club because I was, by chance, friends with a lot of people who DID post a lot on OG SPUF. It's nepotism all the way down baby. I also believed I called them cringe for referencing a 'secret' forum on voice with me and then not wanting to go into detail about it when I pressed them on it. Fucking imagine.

For real though, I am pretty sad about the death of online internet forums. They still exist, of course, but it used to be you couldn't go to any game/server/guild/whatever without also being directed towards their forum because they were trying to build a community. I've browsed imageboards since I was ~15 years old, back in 2008 (and by imageboards I mean 4chan and not much else) and while I do prefer them over news aggregate sites like reddit, there's still something about 'normal' forums that is nostalgic to me. OG SPUF is a big part of that nostalgic memory, even if I mostly lurked. The only places left with that late 2000s/early 2010s style of forum community are here and Knockout.chat. This place is fairly insular and doesn't really get any new blood so it's pretty much just an old boys club that I have a nasty habit of forgetting about for months on end. Knockout spawned from the ashes of Facepunch and is pretty liberal/left-leaning politically, so I feel right at home there... Even though I still mostly lurk.

Don't forget the simple, black background. Really easy on the eyes. (SPUFDark gang rise up) All of those useful sticky threads in (almost) all of the class subforums. (God bless that high fps config, and Stabby's spy scripts). God I still remember the constant threads about class and weapon balance arguments, and wickedplayer's update threads.
 
Makes me wish I picked up TF2 (and PC gaming in general) pre-Uber update, so I could experience the excitement of all the class updates live.
iirc, wasn't that like, his whole shtick? To be an obnoxious wall of texter?
 
Oh yeah, it's dumb. Game forums, (at least the good ones) always had effort and detail put into them, along with proper organization with their subforums, and subforums for sub-forums. Now everything is streamlined like everyone is using mobile, thinking everyone has ADHD and can't keep a conversation going if the last reply was more than a day ago. Like Reddit or something.
 
Fuck I feel old complaining about it.

The most I remember from the forums were the badly disguised off-topic threads, Tommy Provolone, at least 4 Gunslinger threads on the front page and the events Huff and the boys used to do.
 
I remember when unusuals became a thing and then Valve gave a free key to everyone during Christmas. I unboxed my first and only (Burning Flames Mongolian).
Traded it for like 16 different hats, which was a good deal back then (keys were 2 ref, before people started the tf market page and manipulated the prices with "proof" every time they saw someone buying at X and selling at X+1).
 
I saw the birth of Demopan, the first Saxxy Awards (the only one that used the replay system), all the MLP threads (and all the stuff it brought along) and eventually all that led us to this forum.
Well, not THIS one, I remember that there was a different page address before.

Honestly, I don't miss it. Like i want to, message boards basically were my internet experience from the time that i was 12 to the point that I started only visiting here every 5 years. But I feel like they either end up a tightly knit community like ours, where you actually recognize the other posters and have a personality in your head associated with them, or they end up huge, where you're basically talking to an army of faceless nobodies because keeping up with everybody is impossible.

SubSPUF is the only message board i even want to come back to because I miss shitposting here. I'm not sure i would have even joined bigSPUF were I not so bored between classes my freshman year of college that I decided arguing with people about minigun spin-up time was fun. Maybe it's my introverted nature showing, but i don't feel a community that large can have that feeling of unity regardless of the medium that community uses to communicate. Things like missing discussions because you weren't there still happen, and it wasn't uncommon to see multiple threads about the exact same topic on the front page.

If anything, I like the air of chatrooms better. I know this is gonna be hilarious coming at the end of this wall of text, but i don't miss writing paragraphs on message boards. The more free form conversations of chatrooms just feels nicer to me.

Don't worry, you'll always be the young new guy to me. When I die, you can start to worry.
 
 
Was there? I can't remember. I've had this place as the leftmost tab in my browser since 2011 so I don't often need to type it in.
 
 
I think SPUF was a good example of a medium-sized community. There were people you knew and there were also people who were either new or just infrequent contributors you didn't know. It was kind of a golden mean between "friend group" and "screaming into the void". Now a forum can hardly exist in such a moderate state forever, sure, but in the long run we are all dead anyway.
 
It's a matter of scaling... no medium can hold together 7 billion people into one cohesive community, but I feel a forum can sustain a much larger community than, say, a Discord. And you could have a bunch of threads on the same topic, but usually there'd be time between them, and if not, you could at least call the people starting them idiots without feeling bad. When I used to browse SPUF regularly, I would almost always read posts/threads that happened after I got off the night before, which you can't really do on a Discord.
 
Unless it's with my close friends I don't really like chatrooms. I take a good amount of time, honestly too much, to think about what I'm saying so generally by the time I've formulated what I want to say the topic has already moved on. Then I look like a fucking chump as I delete my message and my "is typing..." line disappears.

Chatrooms are great with a small group. I know a group that probably only survived because of a chatroom keeping a continuous stream of jokes/memes/random stuff in a more freeform format that couldn't really happen on a forum. But once the group gets too large you get the "discord room collectors" who may as well not be there unless you @ them, and the chat moves far too fast for you to really get much of a discussion, OR everything gets divided into subchats and everyone ends up just checking the one they care about and essentially removing themselves from the rest of the community anyway.
 
FSPF had a decent spread of people that wasn't too insular (an issue subSPUF had once SPUF died, oops) but groups of people still knew each other. When I first started browsing I saw all the stuff you guys did and was fascinated with the culture that had built up. Like Raison said, it was a great "medium" sized community. I can get a decent feel for what a "large" community is with how the Apex subreddit is and it really is shouting into the void. Things move so fast that only the mega upboat ideas circulate (also doesn't help that it's reddit but still). It may have also been some kind of latent high school desire to be a "cool kid" in a group who gets recognized that motivated me to get "in" with the SPUF crowd. But either way it was fun, I enjoyed my time back then and I still like y'all now.
 
I don't really know where I was going with all this, I just wanted to talk about it I guess. I think chats are really best for an insular group so you can share your sick injokes amongst each other, but forums let you get a much more coherent conversation going that can actually last for more than an hour or so before everyone goes back to looking at anime tiddies and stops checking the chat.

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Don't watch the Killstream.

thoughts + reviews now
 
 
 

JIKAN DESU! JIKAN DESU!
 
Another year of anime has passed us by and it wouldn't be right if we didn't do a bit of reflection of the year 2018! 
Here's the template for our trusty chart!
 
 

I can never do charts for these because I will often just not watch any shows from a season for no particular reason.
Will I watch more than four seasonal shows this year?!? Hopefully, but I've got an entire year to figure that out. I know I've got Monogatari in the next two months, Non Non Biyori Vacation in probably three months, as well as the Psycho Pass movies later on. My figure collection has grown two-fold since last year - I just hope that doesn't keep up.

JIKAN DESU! JIKAN DESU!
 
Another year of anime has passed us by and it wouldn't be right if we didn't do a bit of reflection of the year 2018! 
Here's the template for our trusty chart!
 
 

Not watched enough anime to comment but Hero Academia still good (movie good too) and Zombo Land Saga good and Yuru Camp good

I might do this, but only as a "best of what I watched." That would include three shows form 2018 I think?
 
Patlabor anime of the year though.

I'm biased, fight me. PopTeam was also great. Hope Mob and One PunchMan season 2 come soon.

fuck yeah! another year, another oversized image! I went easy on memes this year since I actually took it halfway seriously.
 
 
 

JIKAN DESU! JIKAN DESU!
 
Another year of anime has passed us by and it wouldn't be right if we didn't do a bit of reflection of the year 2018! 
Here's the template for our trusty chart!
 
 

JIKAN DESU! JIKAN DESU!
 
Another year of anime has passed us by and it wouldn't be right if we didn't do a bit of reflection of the year 2018! 
Here's the template for our trusty chart!