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I'm sorry, @SeñorAmor , I swear these other people mean nothing to me!
Also, sorry guys. Me reacting to geebs is what drove him away.
Also, motherfuck I hate that pooro is gone and why.
Glad people enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words.
I have no loyalties.
For years I thought that Elvenshae was stalking me and reacting to my posts with inordinate frequency.
Every time I looked at my reactions, Elvenshae Elvenshae Elvenshae...
Turns out, it's entirely ordinate for Elvenshae.
edit: Didn't realise they'd already posted.
Gee, can you tell when MW:O hadn't crashed and burned their goodwill yet?
Excellent, right on time for me to be dead!
Thoughts from that include:
Huh, that’s a different shape from most people.
The upper bound on my Y axis is 700, which is like, the bottom or 2nd mark for a bunch of other people.
I was playing and talking a lot about Guild Wars 2 from 2014-17… and then I mostly stopped both of those things for a few years.
The bars from 2016 onwards probably shrink quite a bit if you exclude the epyc threads.
Thank you @Elvenshae @Bucketman @Kristmas Kthulhu @ouzaru and @Tofystedeth for clicking on my posts all these years.
@Elvenshae reactions has been my constant companion these many years.
I really did go full lurker for a couple years there.
Fascinating.
I got a job in IT in 2007.
2012 was probably when I really went mobile with a cell phone with a data plan.
2014/2015 was probably when I stopped having time for video games and started playing board games more often with friends/family/kids.
2020 on had to really cut back the time I spent here.
Outside of a high of 7 posts/day, on average probably more like 4 posts. I guess I spent a lot more time lurking threads.
See if you can pinpoint when the primary Magic thread was no longer in CF.
EDIT: Oh, and I know exactly what happened in 2018, since that's the year my daughter was born.
Hmm, lurked for a while then joined to talk WoW, and I remember at the time WoW had its own subforum, as it wasn't merged into the MMO subforum until later. I think that spike in 2010 was during WotLK, when the guild I was in was pushing Icecrown Citadel.
2014 saw my family grow, which meant I had to go more casual (hence the massive slowdown 2015 onward) and you can see when I finally quit the game during BFA and picked up non-MMO games.
Somewhat surprised at my "most given reactions" list. At least a couple of those have to be leftovers from my WoW days.
It looks like my career as a lurker was pretty successful! It's wild to think that this place almost disappeared into the ether without me even noticing. You all have been highly entertaining and informative over the years, which I think is probably one of the best combinations of traits a community can achieve.
Hats off to everyone involved in the transition to the new forum. I plan to continue lurking until it/I/all of us pass into the west, so keep those posts coming!
It's funny, I've always felt very at home and welcome here but also wonder whether anyone else even has any idea who I am, or if it's all a parasocial thing. Hah!
So funny to see a lurker one that looks like others until you look at the Y Axis and realize it's only in double digits and not thousands.
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Think I can pretty well track this. I mostly lurked for a good long time when I wasn't even gaming that much, went to the second PAX AUS in 2014 (after having to sell my tickets to the first one), grabbed a Wii U after playing Splatoon for a bit there and that kinda got me back into gaming as a hobby - bought a Switch in 2017 and played that pretty heavily for a bit, and then got the other new consoles at launch in 2020 and I'd say the discussions here contributed a fair bit to my hype level for those.
In non-gaming chat, I think I felt a bit self conscious about posting in D&D for a good long while, where felt I could share things with less thought put into them in SE++.
Still class myself mostly as a lurker though tbh, and last year especially was quiet because it was a busy one at work where I tend to use the forums to help pass the quiet times.
PSN / Xbox / NNID: Fodder185
Huh, I posted in D&D in years of fate
My secretary will post for me once I have taken the throne of Africa
(yeah all right that was a fair cop)
I'm trying to remember what the hell brought back a resurgence in 2017 and I'm just drawing a blank
What's interesting about this is it doesn't show the whole picture. I spend a ridiculous amount of time lurking in D&D politics threads on the train
PSN:Furlion
Still working, yep!
Common issues: having a space between ! and summary, having a mistake and then DMing the request again in the same DM (need to start a new one as the bot scrapes the index, not the whole convo).
Clearly I was here early and then peaked early.
That's a lot of shit before the Edict.
What a fascinating reflection of what was going on in my personal life over the years. Thanks for this!
Hallo, fellow former Arcadian.
This is one of the issues i have. I read something, think of a great response, and two posts later someone said the same thing but better.
PSN:Furlion
PSN:Furlion
That 2011 bump must have been the summer where they had all of those mini-achievements and stuff for the Steam summer sale. That was a weird year for me, as it was when my (now ex) wife moved out (for the first time) and things were a bit manic.
I posted more in that 2020-2022 timeframe than I thought.
Anyway, thanks Infidel for this stuff. It’s an interesting snapshot of something that was a big part of my life.
Also huge thanks for helping us run the GOTY polls for a few years there, I haven’t forgotten all that.
I’ve transitioned to Discord for my day-to-day online discourse but I remember this place fondly… Maybe I’ll be more active on CoRe again.
This is a clickable link to my Steam Profile.
Easy enough (includes reactions not currently shown):
#1 is Eebs The New Rules post
#2 is Tube's The Rules post
We like our rules here
#3 is So It Goes's resignation: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/224366/farewell-from-so-it-goes
#4 is CrazyP in the Ukraine thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/45049701/#Comment_45049701
#5 is Khoo's resignation: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/35342904/#Comment_35342904
#6 is lhj responding to Eebs taking over: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43491756/#Comment_43491756
#7 is Eebs taking over
#8 is about turning reactions off: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/35314638/#Comment_35314638
#9 is Tube's resignation: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43446088/#Comment_43446088
#10 is also about Khoo's resignation: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/35341521/#Comment_35341521
Pretty much as expected