I actually did revisit it last winter around time of release. If anything, my lack of ability to summon up interest in it was one of the starting stepping stones of my realization that gaming just ain’t it for me anymore.

I don’t dislike it, mind you - neither gaming nor DF - it just doesn’t fulfill like it used to, nor possess the same attraction.

I agree with lots of what's already been said and haven't got much to add to those extant conversations, so let me try to add in some that I've not seen:

RuneScape is a candidate. I started way back with RS Classic (the sprite-based one!).

Oh, and Dwarf Fortress too. That began in 2009.

Achaea and/or Lusternia are way up there but I don't imagine anyone but me can share the experience.

Oh, as well, Mount & Blade: Warband. Quite the adventure(s).

I don't really game anymore. But this thread did dredge up some memories, old and new.

Thank you.

Only a dozen?

Kinda tired of hearing about Linux tbh

Amberlynn Reid reactions/ commentary.

Never the woman herself, mind you. Ew.

It was, though not in the way you may be thinking - even so, Okinawa was a US territory until the seventies and still houses several bases.

But did you know about the nearly 50% reduction in Threads users???

Since I rarely have coins handy, I use a clock (if I don’t know the current time, obviously): “If the minutes are odd, yes. Even? No.” (Eg. 2:53 = yes, :54 = no).

“Subtly”

It means this person is trying to grind their 'keyboard warrior" skill, which to my mind is a waste of spec points but maybe they’re running some gimmick build.

bUt bACoN tAStE GuD

In my early life I was raised in Kansas fundie hell. I graduated to 4chan. To call me racist would have been an understatement; “proud white supremacist”, more like. (LOL I used the term “race nationalist” then)

Perhaps my proudest personal achievement has been unraveling that disgusting tapestry of who I was.

While I will exhaust all local alternatives first, Amazon is my pinch hitter when I can’t find The Thing anyplace else.

Same. Hard to see it as a problem because “exercise is healthy!”

While workouts feel nice, failed attempts at rest days just are awful. I haven’t had one for months. I can’t stop.

Haven’t seen this before, but my step-cousin said the same thing once!

Really? I wasn’t aware there even had been a buyout since I hated both wikia and fandom and tried to avoid them both, so wasn’t aware of a takeover. I thought they were just two equally-horrible “services”.

It was never usable, to my mind.

There won’t be a “we” to look back on them, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

I was just the right demographic and everything for Halo. Had an Xbox. Had the game. Had 4 brothers to couch co-op with. Was a weird backwards military-obsessed family.

Played it a bunch. A BUNCH. But while I enjoyed it, it didn’t really leave any kind of impression. I thought its story was shallow and its characters unremarkable caricatures even at age 13. Years later when I saw people going on about how DEEP its world-building was and how BADASS Master Chief was and how ICONIC the game was I was just kinda…nonplussed? Whole game was just mediocre to me. I mean, that’s not to say I didn’t like it or whatever, but it wasn’t groundbreaking for me the way it was for (apparently) many others.

Make of that what you wish!

A while back I showed Arfenhouse to a gen-Z student of mine who was curious about what early-00’s Internet culture was like. Prior to that I hadn’t watched it myself in so, so long.

Yet the whole time it was going I was wondering what about it I found funny even as a teen. Should’ve stuck with The Demented Cartoon Movie, which I do still enjoy even now, though less so.

I also noticed that certain trends in that style of humor (mainly the absurdism) are carried on in things like, say, Tim and Eric’s stuff, particularly Tom Goes to the Mayor (which on lookup actually came out in '07 – I thought it was more recent than that, but nope…!), which I love so dearly that it’s basically a core part of my personality. I guess what I’m saying is that it comes as no surprise that my sense of humor evolved in that direction.