Barn Burner Ranch
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Mod where people know what I am talking about half the time.
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ive known you over half my life and i still need to have that mod installed
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I have changed my avatar with a Kevin Mcallister sprite to reflect this anecdote. it was probably a physics 101 tutorial. Srsly college kids are so flippant about science one time we just measured plancks constant (experimentally) with like plus/minus error bars. The lab demonstrator was so casual about it! “He’s like yep thats it thats the independenat variable. It’s h. Ok great work.”
That was one science tutorial that I went to. Otherwise I was punkin’ dudes in Twoson most of the time, and absorbing American ennui via NGJ.
Education!
Happy BDay SB
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When ever Im like “heh, what ever happened to THAT guy?” Im not asking a real question and the answer should be a loud eyeroll.
I love the blood cakes, good choice whomstever.
Select button is enough of a feature of my life no one akss questions when I mention my videogame forum
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I grew up on forums and finding a good one 10 years ago or so was a great boon. I was never on a video game forum before this one and have been exposed to a lot of cool games and other stuff here. Definitely a positive influence. Happy birthday to all of us!
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I blame SB for my immersion into video games beyond the PC. I don’t think I would have known as much about consoles or non-mainstream releases if there hadn’t been a consistent place to talk about it in semi-serious ways with people who look beyond the surface level and enjoy the games they play.
And then the community itself has been great and kept changing for the better, learning from the history of IC and SB1. If I didn’t have kids keeping me home I would have kept coming to the meetups. Lots of warmth and the sort of automatic cooperative engagement to keep people fed and welcome, it’s a wonderful relaxing break from the world.
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This community is valuable to me, and I often check this site first thing when I get on my computer. If it didn’t exist, I wonder if I’d be tempted to use some inferior platform like Twitter.
It’s been interesting to see the core community evolve since I discovered Insert Credit in 2003 because E_Megas (who I’d never met at the time) posted a link to my personal Web site there.
Among other benefits, participating here has exposed me to important creative works of all types that I likely would have missed otherwise. To name just a few random examples of many, music recommendations from Baseballkappe and Starblood, anime and book recommendations from Tulpa, and those Game Boy cartridge movies a while back. Even an occasional video game.
The meetups are a good tradition, and I’d recommend attending one if you haven’t yet and are tentatively interested and in a position to do so. Even if the idea of it goes entirely against your nature (as was and still is the case for me).
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I don’t know how I ended up rakestepping my way into moderating this place over and over again but as a deeply lazy person at least I can say with relief that you all make it pretty easy to do, all things considered.
My favorite thing about sb2 is the slow trickle of new posters. We’ve all outlined our videogame opinions so many times that sometimes it feels insulting to repeat them, like I’m calling you an idiot for not knowing how I feel about jrpgs or whatever already, but new blood changes the mix, makes things electric again. May it be always so.
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these days social media broadly feels like a drain on both my energy and time and has long since been a wasteland for anything resembling meaningful connections for me personally, but i’ve always enjoyed checking SB pretty much every day since like 2008, both SB1 and 2. And I’ll probably continue to post here until everything blows up.
I have said many times before how much the community here has really has shaped this dipshit cishet white old man into being a more empathetic and understanding person, while also getting exposed to lots of art and culture that I would’ve never come across otherwise, and at the same time, SB has given me knowledge to be more annoying about SEGA stuff than I could’ve ever possibly dreamed of on my own.
lots of really extremely creative and hilarious people who make this place feel alive and fun and now pretty much my only good “online social experience” that isn’t direct Discord chats with IRL friends. i brag to people IRL about stuff i’ve found and the people i know on here!
so honestly and truly thank you to all the posters, past and present. even the weird meltdown times, even the times where i would embarrassingly post cringe stuff I made because I felt comfortable enough to do so.
too many fun threads and posts to pull from hazy memories, but i also wanted to shout out the romm comm tuum Hallmark movie thread, just really excellent write ups about so many trash movies that my wife and I do love to devour and we found some great recommends through there. that thread always makes me want to do my own Write Up/Review threads for things, so I still think about it occasionally.
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No; no. Nope. No. All your stuff is awesome. I think about: 1. Sex Tonight; 2. Old People; 3. deeeeeep draaaaaaag “ain’t no point to the game”; literally weekly.
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appreciate that cuba, thank you! i still love all that shit too. SB was a good place to work through that stuff, even fine tuning it. gotta get back into making stuff for fun
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I’m very glad to have been here for the last ~14 years. I was only around for the tail end of SB1, by which point it didn’t feel toxic in the ways people mention. I remember visiting here and there in the 2005-2010 zone and being intimidated at the idea of joining in, but eventually, I just posted, and then just podcasted, and now we’re in our third or fourth or eighth tabletop campaign (some concurrent, some years ago, some years-long, some just a few sessions)
grateful for all the people whose tech work keeps us stable and looking nice & old (villain, osb, doolittle, felix, etc), for the people organizing virtually and meatwise who facilitate cool stuff for us to work on together, and for all posters, especially the thread-makers
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Blessed are the threadmakers…
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bit soon to declare your allegiance in the next admin war but i admire the confidence
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It’s for a now defunct Denim and Amekaji store in central Texas! Just a coincidence, nothing sinister.
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You can thank @jsnlv for me being on here at all, I believe he linked me here at one point on the forum we both frequented. From there, I largely read the Polygon Fetishism threads, and grew to love the community bit by bit. Gary, then Bib, and Diplo reaching out a decade+ for the Boston SB crew to meet was what really pulled me in, though. Glad I caved to Bib’s prodding on showing up to an SB Con, really amazing finally putting a lot of faces to names I known for years.
And yeah, I’ve been in and admined several communities over the years, many of them centered around videogames, and SB is one of the best-moderated, most creative, funniest, and most interesting I’ve ever seen. A very rewarding group of friends to engage with and contribute to.
All-time favorite thread is still Draw a Maereo
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I’m in a Discord for my town’s tabletop game store and I just saw people offering their game awards predictions and lamenting that it conflicts with weekly d&d, I forgot people like this actually exist, thank fucking God for Select Button, holy shit
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I thought about actually going to the show this year just to seethe in person but the cheapest StubHub seats are like $300
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