if you like sokobans this is the most recent i’ve made. still very proud of the puzzle design. gets too hard for most people at some point, but if you’re into ssr it shouldn’t be much worse than that. downloadable version likely works better; the platform i made it for (tic-80) seems to behaving weirdly in browsers, recently.
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Oh hey, we share residence in a certain “thinky” space 
I remember playing Give Up the Ghost a while back and had an excellent time. And the level-complete checkmark sequence is suuuuch a nice touch
Definitely got tough for me: will have to tackle the full 50 puzzles on a nice rainy day…
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hi hi. forum culture tourist crittler; visiting from https://posting.cool/
elated to see somewhere appreciating ‘the art’ of the post, that also seems to have ancillary focus on games crit/dev. looks like a combo for me. know a thing or two about pushing pixels and code, but still setting things up with that so to speak.
curious in passing if you have anything written up or important to know in terms of site history, beyond archives - or things like ‘best of’ threads etc. also is there a button or hotkey to zip to the bottom of a thread, some of these are pretty winded
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the Lore is kept in a small apartment in Japan. a ritual summons the Keeper to a yearly gathering of posters, where you may ask one question per inch of raw selvedge denim you offer
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End on windows does this. I’ve yet to find an equivalent on Mac, but you can click on the number in the lower right and zoom to the end of the thread with the scroll bar.
Also, welcome!
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You can also click “show top replies” under the first post to get a condensed 100 post thread if you’re so inclined.
Also, welcome welcome!
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the ‘thread fighter zero’ subcategory in the axe is a good curated collection of some of the current forum’s finer moments
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oh my god another forum! how exciting
welcome welcome. idk if we have a written history but this started as an offshoot of the ‘insert credit’ forums around the time those first collapsed. i wasn’t there so i might distort the tale if i told it
I mean that happened in 2006. Feels like the history is this is a LGBTQ friendly forum with also a lot of Dads. Everyone feels like they do not like the same games The Forum likes.
At this point I feel like we can let the past claim Why the forum exists. Select Button Dot Net doesn’t have any connection with the other website. We are also free of its ghosts thankfully.
Welcome we like video games and human rights.
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tread carefully
OH WOW. OH WOW. THANK YOU I did not know this! ^^
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ty all. i did manage to figure out the clicking on the post-count trick
i did check out some of the thread fighter ones, or just other active things here. cool to see ‘vidcons’ or other ToG’s-ism’s - feel like the use of this term specifically is a neat culture signifier, or some kinda generational gap in indie game’s, not sure which. if it means what i think i feel like some of you here may be interested to hear gamingworld/saltworld forums are relaunching, im not sure this month but very soon. hopefully thats not this ‘Other Forum’ you are mentioning because i dont really care about or want to muck up drama. simply, the first thread fighter topic i stumbled into was 108 gaffing on about trying out cavestory the first time so my immediate impression was this place had a kind of Air Of Import that i should ask about, aha
my continued observation is that this is what has happened to every lasting forum. though i would notably add that the Dads inexorably have esoteric hobbies like wireframe sculptures or scenting their own custom pomades
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Thread carefully
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there are a handful of us here who were active on gw/saltw but we are similarly uninterested in drama and retreading the past all that much. rudie just means insertcredit, as mentioned by eska - there is probably some incidental overlap between the sites at this point but that’s about it.
I know all of us find the idea of trying to do it hideously embarrassing and exhausting but at some point maybe someone should actually try to write down a sociological history of sb, if only to link to curious parties in situations such as these.
Actually nevermind I already feel disgusting just writing that sentence
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Thread Carefully: An Ethnographological Hauntology of Selectbutton.net
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ok thanks and yeah, i only really entered forums as they died off in 2015 so all of it is not relevant to me in the first place. though generally my impression is that most the communities that stuck around or are resurfacing, people seem pretty remorseful about the patterns of behavior popular back then.
i mean not to be too forward, but if doesn’t feel too self-aggrandizing i do kind of have an idle interest in putting together a list of extant communities with some short descriptors, possibly for others that kind of do the same forum vagrancy. so if anyone does want to share a word or two (privately) it may be cool. though i can imagine it feeling pretty weird to try to story something that usually boils down to ‘large group of online teens condensed into smaller group of online friends’
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not too far off from it honestly. many of us might be hostile to cataloguing efforts because we’ve been here a long time and grown as people do. i certainly don’t have the same gender i joined with
welcome! your website is very pretty
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ah its not mine; i just hang out there and figured id show some solidarity between small sites.
edit: oh and yes thats absolutely the sort of thing to be respectful towards - more purely my interest in forums is like - what the origin is, the vibe today (if active), or if there are notable cultural exports (games, memes etc) that have roots there. but its also cool to just Chill out and Post
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is the copy on the ikaruga gamecube box a meme anywhere these days
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