What is sad day. I remember first finding the forums in 2009 after DA:O came out. Google kept sending me to different threads to answer all of my gaming questions. All of the users had such great advice. So I hung around and started reading some of the threads. Eventually I made an account to have better access. I started to recognize users and know whose posts would be most helpful. And after a few years, I even started posting. I've never been the most vocal poster, and my activity here has dropped substantially since off-topic closed, but the BSN was an internet home for me. I've made friends here. And maybe one or two archenemies - you know who you are. I've managed to keep up with some on other sites, but this move will just cause more fragmentation and I'm rubbish at social media so I won't be able to keep up with all the alternate sites. I don't use Facebook and I don't have a twitter account. I don't like or use reddit or tumblr. I'll miss everyone whom I only saw around these boards. And I'll miss the great gaming knowledge that these boards provide. I've tried new things and learned so much from the community. And it's not even limited to gaming. It's such a shame to destroy a reduce like this.

I'm disappointed but not surprised.

Two weeks as of tomorrow.

 

 

Hmph.

So still no change, I see.

Boooo-urns!

I've posted from an eliptical before, but that's user driven speed.   I can't imagine trying to keep up with the the belt speed and use my hands and brain at the same time. I mean, I can't even read subtitles while working out.  Tread mill posting?  That takes skill, man.

Do you know how unbelievably happy it makes me to even see you pop your head in here?

Well I'm still pretty upset about how this all went down. 

Plus, solidarity.  Lurking in this thread does no one any good.  BW should know how many people have been affected.

 

I'm over at the VSN now, but I'm still having a hard time keeping up with friends, and more importantly, it's a pretty self-selecting group.  I don't have the opportunity to meet other people who happen to wander by with shared interests and new perspectives and fun things to introduce me to.  I'm still shocked that off topic was shut down and I haven't figured out how to handle it.  This used to be a one stop shop for me, now I'm maintaining a presence here and trying to follow everyone else over in the alternate forums.  Can't blame you for holding out.  I miss the community we had here and it's nice to have another place to go for it.

Just dropping back in to see how things are going and to continue to bemoan the loss of off topic.

I don't have the time I'd like to dedicate to fighting the good fight, but I'm here in spirit.

I don't intend to ever throw in the towel. I'm not tapping out ever.

Remember that time they "temporarily" closed the ME3 character forums to work out a new format and solution to issues...

At least they aren't stringing us along this time?

I'm sorry you got to the RWBY thread so late. I was ready for you to be here for Volume 3.

Yeah me too!  I am not impressed.

 

 

We'll find a new home.

 

I thought this might be somewhat appropriate for me to post.
 

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To the theme of Every Rose Has Its Thorn

*snip*

And that is the most fitting elegy for Off-Topic yet.

RIP song parody thread.  You were too beautiful for this world.

Shutting down off-topic is a terrible idea.

Until it reopens, I guess we can just stage a peaceful protest here.

I fully expect this to be a very short-lived experiment, for reasons including, but not limited to the above.

For Mouse.

 

Post things that make you smile.

 

 

Make all the ridiculous threads you want about Let's Plays you'll never finish, dating advice, current events, when you're planning on leaving (or not), or strange thoughts you had while you were high. 

 

Some special interest groups will find their own homes, but for everything else, there's this place.  It's like a new Lobby.

 

Tell your friends.

 

Edit: Or better yet, just go here.

Post your selfies here.

Y'all know how this works.  I'll start things off.

 

Alicia Silverstone - Clueless

I like how I got a reasonable amount of discussion from all the regulars, but few people actually liked the chapter.

It's because you killed me off.

An epic string of handles

Meanwhile I'm watching a stream of Summerslam.

Everyone is doing it right today!

I was gonna go to the gym... then I decided I'd rather lift this 32 oz. stout to my lips instead

Today I went to yoga class, watched an episode of sense8 on the elliptical, drank coconut stout while playing Witcher 3, and had dinner with my grandma. I'd call it a good day. Next up, bourbon and Fear the Walking Dead.

Also guns. Everyone loves guns. 

False.  Guns are way more contentious than bacon.  I mean, even most vegetarians I know admit they cheat for bacon.  Or at least miss it.

You're perfectly entitled to like them, though.

 

17% alcohol by volume so I imagine it'll get someone weak drunk.

 

And I liked dragonfruit before it was cool.

So you're, like, a dragonfruit hipster?

Bruce Willis - Unbreakable

Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine

Maya Rudolph - Away We Go

Why does your shoe look like Tali? 

It does?

 

 

Anyway, just had a several hour conversation with my stepfather where I gave him advice regarding my eldest stepbrother and events going on in his life.

 

We finished all that with tall glasses of

 

Why does it say imitation liqueur?  Does it only pretend to get you drunk?

I hear dragon fruit is hot right now.

 

Dayum, so many fitness aficionados here. Y'all...

We have a myriad of interests.  Fitness, fashion, dinosaurs...
It's a normal day behind the monitor.

Working has interfered with my gym schedule.  Of course, it's also interfered with my eating schedule so I'm not any any danger of having to buy new pants yet.

Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love

Getting drama already, how soon is too soon?

It's never too soon for drama!!!