it’s been ten years of sb2! use this thread to get nostalgic. what are your favorite moments? do you think about anyone’s post a lot? DO YOU WANNA GET SENTIMENTAL??
congratulations on being the only internet community to not completely fall apart. the only one
“chompers po pable” wafts through my mind like an idle stim about once a month
it’s cool we can still make something with and of internet without going berserk
If I wanted to honor SB2 in the style of SB1, I would post only an image of a giant hogweed, or perhaps a directionless monologue about some inane forum minutiae. But I’d rather just say that select button was a bright spot in a bad decade and to thank you all for sticking around. I’m going to play some more Dragon Quest X to celebrate.
am however forever salty we can’t have massive avatars like sb1
that was such a utility for freakin
I’m only gonna say this for the 100th time but the worldwide support network of sb and sb2 has immeasurably changed my life for the better. from actual material help to just curating good culture to plain staving off boredom and making me not need to rely on other sites for being social online, which is my actual favorite thing. I LOVE CHATTING
so nyah
sincerity
eat it
MAKE YOUR SIG HUGE
I want big avatars too hahha
it’s not the same, though haven’t interrogated the why
actually maybe it’s just missing someone with a huge av posting like a single word answer and being energised by the profligacy of that gesture
I get that way when someone makes a one word reply and their sig is six times the height of their words it rocks
Happy bday sb2!
I think just feeling the gradual merge into the fabric of regular posting has been the most pleasant thing. I am a relative baby (oh actually I’ve been here half the lifespan nm). I remember when I first joined Father Torque congratulating me on finding the best place on the internet (not a lie so far) and people being very patient and encouraging to my first shaky Bambi leg posts.
10 more years!
stop bloodpotioning the OP and post damnit!
i remember lurking sb1 in that dungeon of a computer lab at ucsd waiting for a TA to come help me with my programming assignments and i probably would have lost it if i didn’t have sb to lurk on back then
it’s bananas to think that sb2 has been around for my marriage and will (hopefully) be around for my divorce lmao
couldn’t have gotten through a lot of stuff without y’all fr thank yo
when’s selectbutton 3???
i dont really post anymore but SB2 literally changed my life. i met the people who convinced me it was possible to be trans, i ran a podcast that i’m tremendously proud of, i embraced my interests in a way i had never done before, i have gone to several mysterious cabins and not been murdered, and i’ve been through a hell of a fuckin lot knowing that there are people out there who know me and didn’t immediately reject me.
that means a lot.
plus i made some of my closest friends here. without SB2 i wouldn’t have met @daphaknee in person and understood that we’re kindred spirits, agents of chaos, hyper enthusiastic about being alive. I might not have quit smoking for real, even.
I wouldn’t have gotten to know @AutomaticTiger through the podcast, wouldn’t have shared hours of nerdy conversation, personal revelation, weird furry bullshit.
and of course the dozens of others of you that i’ve shared time, interests, feelings, conversation, ideas, laughs, even some tears with. I’d have to ping half the fucking forum to even get into that.
I am who I am because of the people I was surrounded with. I am eternally grateful for this silly little forum about video game inanity. This place is alright, huh?
okay time to not post for several months bye
I am very thankful for SB and this community. Though I don’t feel I post or contribute that much, it’s nice to have an online community like this I can check in on several times a week.
You all have been a part of my life since 2004, so basically my whole adult life. I graduated college that summer and started reading IC sometime around then, as I was bored at a shitty filing job I had at a doctor’s office and once I got bored of trying to sneak things past the office internet filter (which eventually got me fired from that job). And I’ve been around here ever since.
We had the semi-mandatory forum history gossip conversation at the last meetup (and I feel growingly embarrassed about my karaoke freak-out at that meetup, but yeah, my mental state has not been great), but I’ve been hanging out with various members of this place in person since like 2006, traveling to a lot of places I would have never been otherwise, and getting to know a lot of really cool people. Some of my best friends are from this place, and I am happy to know all of you more all the time. I am a better person because of this place, and yes that includes even the shitty fighting and drama of SB1; I learned a lot, but I also still don’t like Half-Life 2.
So yeah, thanks for existing SB. Happy birthday. Fuck I am old.
This is probably the longest I’ve ever posted on the same forum. I think I posted on the gmod forums for around six years, but I have been a member of this one for almost seven.
Hell YEAH do i want to get sentimental, no need to ask twice!
Posts i think about a lot, hummm:
and many others. let me think about that for a while…
meanwhile, with 10 years on the road, can we officially claim now that SB isn’t cute anymore
