that also made me laugh out loud and a lot.
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i think about this post all the time
and this one
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I feel like I found my ttrpg forever group thanks to sb
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also also, someone made and sent me on of these
and i’ve been proudly keeping it on display since … idk when, a long time!
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I still have the magnet from this, though the art fell off a long time ago. The sheet of one line reviews that came with it has been on my fridge ever since I got it.
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I believe this was shrug
I still have the same magnet on my fridge
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It wasn’t me, but it was based on an av/sig combo I had for a while.
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Maybe wourme?
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it is thanks to ic/sb that I skipped uni tutorials that one morning to play earthbound snes.
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I used to lurk IC and SB1 sometimes back in the day, but I was 2 scared 2 post. I’m naturally a lurker by inclination, so I’ve gotta give this community a LOT of credit for getting me to JUST POST. Only SB has been cool enough to make me act like an actual member of an internet community!
I’ve said this before, but the day I felt like I was really a member of this community was the day I went on the first episode of Super Nintendo Exploration Squad. I’d never gotten on a voice call with an internet stranger before that!! I love that we do community projects like that. My own documentary series wouldn’t be what it is at all without the brilliant advice, ideas, and participation of this community.
Maybe it’s corny but I still do think of this place as the Cahiers du Cinéma of video games. A collection of sardonic wits whose discourse and experiments in a new medium reverberate across that medium in subtle and unexpected ways. @u_u coined the term “icebergvania”, and @Father.Torque coined the term “lawnmower sim”, and @Tulpa coined the term “too much cake”.
More important than all that, we’re a group of ACTUAL friends on the ACTUAL public internet, friends who support each other with care and mutual aid and self-consciously work to build a vibrant counter-culture community.
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This place is somewhere between twitter and bluesky for me
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No, that one wasn’t my work.
But that reminds me, I still have about 25 of these bookmarks left. If you weren’t at the meetup and are comfortable direct messaging me your address, I’d be happy to send you one. Free worldwide shipping.
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also can I just say, our logo evokes tetris, super mario brothers, and sonic simultaneously and I love it
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I think I started my account here in December of 2017. I was in Peace Corps, living in Namibia at the time. I don’t think I really posted until months later. I really like having this place and you people in my life. There’s stability there, but potential for something new. I think I’d be much less comfortable with myself if I didn’t fit in here.
It was really cool when we did select & button poll of the films. I still pull from that list when I want to watch something good (shoutout Ishtar and Conspirators of Pleasure, two that I saw most recently).
:genki: THE 501 GAMES OF ALL TIMES :genki: rocks. fashion thread owns. compelling trash action is a joy. I love ITS LEMON PIG TIME I wish I could remember specific posts. I should probably start using the bookmark function for that.
I feel so happy anytime someone humors me and posts in one of my threads. Thank you. It really is a high point of my day when it happens.
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This isn’t even from that long ago, but the fact that I could say
“Yo I’m driving 7 hours to go see an art exhibit does anyone want to meet up” and like 8 people assemble to get together? Amazing stuff, actually very little on this earth has made me feel more loved in the last few years
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I spent my 20s being sentimental and now I’m jaded but I do still think often about the posts and posters of yesteryear:
The antics of General Sherman and his thread “dick sucking university” he made when someone approached him to do porn.
The time when Baron Patsy went to college and was in that music video.
Either Father Torque or Flylighter talking about the first time they played FFVII they named Barrett C-Murda.
Spinach’s YouTube’s singing about Galactus and the one where he read that post I made about how we Americans love the smell of our own shit.
The tragic arc of Hot Stott Bot when he ruined his brain huffing and left those unhinged messages on Mister Toups’ voicemail.
The people we lost like Ray (lick_meth) and teepf (was that the right spelling?) and probably a couple others I’m shamefully forgetting.
I started lurking IC in 2003 and started posting January 1, 2004. So like Booji I’ve spent half my life making you all a regular part of my browsing habits. I’ve forged connections with people and let them wither. I’ve seen people come and go and return. I’ve mostly lost track of who’s who with all the name changes and haven’t really kept up with the various discords and stuff. I’ve even dipped out for extended periods once or twice to see what life is like without you and I always come back.
It’s a privilege to be living a life that has you in it, Select Button. Let’s keep it up for the decades to come.
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i’ve said before that sb is the longest unbroken constant presence i’ve had in my life. it has becomevery important to me, and though i’ve never met another sb poster in person, i still have nice offline memories.
buying saturn games from rudie in like 2008, and he sent extra games for free, plus some tokusatsu flyers
a poster named ben, who i don’t think is around anymore said “make me an offer and i’ll probably take it” on a bunch of games because they were moving state and wanted rid of as much as possible, so i got a bunch of rare pc engine games for a ridiculous pittance.
dylan sent me a big pile of jp ps1 games and some comics!
i don’t know if my benefactor wants to be named, but someone sent me the money to buy sonic frontiers on release day because they wanted to know what i would have to say about it
my selectbutton fridge magnet is unfortunately missing, which really upset me when i realised it, but i do have “a visit from st. hogweed”, plus a few bachelor soft zines, which i treasure.
decinoge made awesome graphics for my blog, totally unprompted!
there’s a ton of other acts of kindness that have made my life a little better over time, too. looking through my messages reveals lots of times when people have reached out to make sure i was okay, tell me they liked something i wrote, and more. even some people with whom i don’t have a lot of interactions!
there were a bunch of factors that led to me writing a blog about obscure videogames. but it was selectbutton posters who made me stick with it and start updating it regularly. this is probably a contributing factor to my still being alive today. it’s definitely a contributing facotr in my having a little extra income on top of my government-issued pittance, plus i’ve written magazine articles (he was never on sb, but tragically, nick thorpe, the guy who was a friend and mutual of mine on several other sites, and who helped me get my in there tragically died earlier this week. he was a year younger than me.), i’ve been cited as a source on wikipedia and in printed books, and an uncredited source of inspiration for so many youtubers!
sb is pretty good. even on sb1 when one or two guys were obsessively trying to get me to leave or maybe worse, the good of the community outweighed those dickheads. i hope it continues to be a presence in my life
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Whoaaaaa. I woulda swore it was @azurelore …
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Possible I’m misremembering!
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If I didn’t invent it my memory is also wrong lol
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