I recently noticed that SB was being blocked on the free wifi network my city provides in select public spaces. I knew from inside sources that the city was a bit overzealous with its firewall. I put in a ticket with them to try and get them to stop blocking us. As I waited for a response, I looked at this site and tried to see it as someone approaching it with no context and no video game knowledge would see it, and I thought “this person is going to be so confused.” Anyway, they did unblock us.
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lol sb2 has been around for my kid too wtf
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I love this place, what can I say. I started lurking in 2013 or so, and maybe I’m weird, but I read pretty much everything going back to the beginning (and even before the beginning) so sometimes I know about really old people & stuff that happened. I had never posted or even chatted with people online, other than people I know IRL (strict household/close monitoring of internet activity) so I still struggle a bit sometimes to Just Post. But selectbutton is so great it usually makes me want to post after all.
I’m reminiscing about how, like @OneSecondBefore, I tried to be on an episode of snexplorers to get myself out of my comfort zone and I was so nervous, never done anything remotely like that. Similarly and much more recently I played Billion Road with daphny, intentionally wrong, and minty, and that was the only time I’ve ever had a scheduled playdate with people online like that, could you tell I was nervous? I’d like to go to a meetup someday.
I just want to assert how good forums are and how discords and social media will never replace them. It’s just the right mix of private/public and permanent/temporary especially with the axe. I feel like no matter who comes and goes the character of the site and how we look at things through a critical lens never changes. I can’t even list all the things that this forum has introduced me to or ways it has made my life better. Thx selectbutton 
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you didnt seem nervous!!! i giggle to myself when i think about your dogs multiplying all over the board
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Searching my inbox to find my selectbutton registration email from October 2009 and realising that was 16 years ago feels pretty unreal. More then half of my life at this point. I think being part of the various podcasts are pretty big milestones for me as far as feeling like a part of the community. The first one being the Pokemon one of the official SB one in… 2012??:
::the selectbutton.net podcast::: Episode #52: Spring Green
Episode webpage: selectbutton podcast : Episode #52: Spring Green
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/selectbutton/Episode_52_Spring_Green.mp3?dest-id=16656
I still remember pretty clearly the lead up to this, probably because I was so nervous. Was visiting my grandma in the countryside and the only room where I could podcast somewhat undisturbed was the tiny upstairs bedroom. Since the back of the bed there is positioned right under where the roof starts slanting you can’t really sit comfortably in it so I did most of the podcast lying flat down on the bed.
Also that I recommended @Persona to download a Teamspeak app to his phone and use that to podcast after he was having some trouble with his computer mic. Still pretty sure this is somehow what led to him being mysteriously muted in the actual recording. Thought for sure the episode would be scrapped after we found this out. To once again show though how much work @B_coma put into that podcast they both got together in a studio later and recorded a bunch of stuff to fill in what was lost and then somehow edited that all together into something perfectly listenable.
Don’t think I was part of any others until Snexploration no. 10 with the listener choice where I picked Exhaust Heat. I don’t think those are available online any more but again was huge step in feeling like I wasn’t just reader of the forum but like maybe was actually forming a connection with people here even if I’ve never been too active of a poster.
If there was any doubt still then it was pretty thoroughly gone when I went to my first meetup of Branson ‘19. Still might be my favourite meetup one? Hard to live up to your first one I guess. Memories of waiting at the gate in an airport and being fairly certain that the person behind me was someone from the forum only to have it confirmed when someone else arrived, they start talking and I recognise the voices of at least @VastleCania . Feel like I sat there maybe for a full minute psyching myself up before finally turning around and greeting my first sbutts ever in person. Still felt a bit shy and awkward though as exemplified by that very flight when the wonderful @Rudie tried his best to break me out of my shell and get a conversation going which I knew I was bad at when after a long pause from his previous attempt he asked “So you see any movies lately?”.
All that still pales somehow in comparison to the most important thing SB did for me some 3,5 years ago. That’s when I first DMed @aislesgrises here which led to us talking more and 6 months later we’re moving in together. I really can’t say much else other then that she’s the love of my life. Only problem is that it’s led to me posting and even reading less since I can just talk to her about whatever inane video game thing I’m thinking about.
And to finish off, this is the first one I always think of when people mention memorable posts:
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Dang SB is that old?? 
I should bring that back
I forgot if I mentioned it or not but I made up half of them lol
UNTIL I started getting real juicy dark secrets, those were good
Oh yeah!! B_coma and I were at his work’s recording studio having beers and trying to remember what we were talking about last lol
I think I was broke at the time from Skullgirls not paying us so when B_coma brought beers for us, I was very happy. I also learned they recorded like all the lines for the Oblivion NPCs or something at his studio, along with a billion audiobooks.
My SB memories are redrawing like 80 avatars of posters for a previous anniversary? I forgot how I even chose them, maybe I made a thread asking people to post in there or something.
Also waaaaay back when gmail was new, we had an SB music sharing mail ring where we’d mail each other songs using up all 2gb (? Maybe more) of that free storage. It took me forever to delete them to free up space later.
Also for some reason, I had Toups credit card number for a while?? I don’t know why
Also when someone (sorry, I forgot who 
) made a custom servbot gif generator. I used that soooo much, it’s too bad it’s gone now: https://selectbutton.net/servbots/
I also remember making a livewatch thread of Turn A Gundam where I took screenshots and sneakily rearranged them to make bad jokes. I think that was lost in a server transfer and I regret not backing it up because I would always get a laugh out of it
Every now and then, I think about Dark Age Iron Savior and his Hard Gay avatars, though I forget if that was on ic or SB.
Besides that, I feel like I come here just to hang out, see what @Sleazy, @Rudie, and @Daphaknee are up too
ANYWAY HOPE Y"ALL HAVE A GOOD SBBDAY
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Oh wow, yeah this was always one of my favorite podcasts we did, even though I’ve never played a single one of these games that wasn’t Puzzle League. Making Persona explain weird factoids to me, getting on the weird tangent about my friend’s biker gang cousin, finding those weird Japanese TV clips with rips from GB Red and Blue Pokemon cries, @felix‘s Apollo 11 audio + having to glue it all together with extreme effort kind of makes it the platonic ideal of an SB Podcast.
Always loved hearing you on the podcast.
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I think you are thinking of TDS aka tedious aka The Drunkass Samurai
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is “unban DAIS” to the tune of Rock Me Amadeus a joke someone here made before or have I just been fantasizing about posting it myself this whole time
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top post
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every fucking time i look at my mr saturn tattoo i think yall yall earthbound yall. i cannot express how bad ive cursed myself with that stupid phrase
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oh god that pokemon podcast lol
i remember being like “we should do a pokemon episode” but not actually wanting to be on it because i didn’t really know how to talk about pokemon. but the way the episode was saved is still so good.
anyway happy 10th birthday sb2! it’s been cool seeing this forum be a more fully-realized version of its older incarnations. im sure i have more to say but it’s a little difficult for me
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Omg I’ve merged them in my head LOL
Sorry guys 
I also remembered when we made criterion collection style covers for video games and then the internet found them and stole them
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The criterion covers thread was so good.
I did not know they got stolen though.
ive got the Hott Stott Robot avatar gif looping in my head for some reason. What ever happened to that guy?
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Gonna say it is best we don’t talk about any of the 3 posters that were just mentioned.
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i heard of this this forum via osmosis from my friend @iguferon years ago but i didn’t really start posting until a few weeks ago. i’m glad i decided to give this forum a chance since i don’t need to mask here and i can just talk about stuff i actually like
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hard to believe that i’m still here 15 years later. i joined sometime in march 2010, and if you count the several months beforehand that i was lurking, i guess i’m yet another person who’s been around here my entire adult life.
there were a couple times where i was put off enough by this forum to take leave for a time, but i love you freaks and weirdos too much to ever leave forever. you feel like my people, and part of me is convinced i’m supposed to be here, whatever that means. y’all have been a real blessing in my life in ways i don’t know how to describe.
really funny to me that i joined this place (SB1 and SB2, actually) to comment on a metroid romhack, and all these years later that is still my beat. the only difference now is that i am the metroid
still can’t believe that y’all actually chose utah as a meetup venue after i offhandedly suggested it
that one local PNW meetup a couple years back was pretty fun, even if i was incredibly nervous the entire time
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o shit me too, i think. i was lurking since 07 but i joined in 08 so idk it it counts hah
ahaha me tooo
oh no this one might be me too a little ^^;
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I’m quite surprised I’ve been on this forum for almost 5 years now. I enjoy it. Although the forum system has been always updated to the latest version, grateful the vibe has stay the golden age. I’m not used to online relationship that involve personal, so I didn’t jump to offline or real life connection, I like to imagine the personality or they reaction though avatar in old school way. Anyway it’s great to see everyone treat each other kind here, hope it will last looooooong.
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