I am brand new here. I was a big time forum kid as a teen but I only posted on BZPower (which, shockingly, still exists??) and other Bionicle themed forums… I was a mod on a one of them as a 12 year old, haha, moderating a bunch of other 12 year olds. Truly a personality-forming experience!! I posted a bit on the IC revival when it launched because I know some of those folks and desperately wanted to return to being a forum poster, but rapidly realized that I do not know or care enough about old games to fit in. I was clued into this place by @Tegiminis and @ellaguro whom I’ve each known in some capacity for years thanks to occasional IRL things and work stuff. I like posting here because being a big forum poster was such a huge part of my identity as a teen and I find the rhythm of forum conversations, the deep context you can create, etc. much more rewarding than social media.
I live in California, I like growing plants, and I’m into mechanical keyboards… I’m in my 30s and grappling with a very not-what-I-expected career as a writer/editor, and trying every day to not burn out entirely. I watch a disgusting number of movies a month and post about all of them on letterboxd. The only game I’ve played every year for like the last 7 years is Caves of Qud. My husband and I make games together a few times a year and have dreams of making truly bizarre unsellable games forever together……. That is pretty much my whole deal
Thanks for having me here, this place is pretty chill
I’m Felix. I run this website, mostly because I was the only one here in 2015 when our last PhpBB incarnation was starting to lose momentum who was willing to pay the bills, configure the software, recruit a new moderator team, and reset some other expectations. I have since gotten much grumpier and lazier but luckily everyone else is very good at picking up the slack nowadays.
I also started running an annual meetup for this place in 2017, which imo everyone should come to, people seem to have a pretty nice time at those.
I live in Vancouver but I do not respect it at all. Officially I am a professional writer right now but in the recent past I have also been a software developer and an archivist. I love toxic masculinity but I’m very fussy so I’m not always as toxically masculine as I would like to be.
I can do a real intro. I’m daphny and I started posting on sb1 in early 2007 because I was reading over my then-boyfriends shoulder and I saw 1. an incorrect opinion I had to call someone names over and 2. is that Josie?!?!!?!
I’m an admin somehow, which is great because it feels good to prove everyone wrong about being not fit for that kind of thing
I’m pretty much a disabled ball of trauma that ran away from said trauma by making bad decision after bad desicion and very publically sharing each and every bad desicion throughout my teens and twenties before I realized there’s an actual human inside me and not someone who suffers for laffs so you don’t have to
I have very little applicable skills but I know how to work a fuckin crowd
every day I post here though I feel less and less different from those around me. its home
howdy! i go by yarusenai on here and i don’t remember how i found sb. i joined right before sb1 closed and moved over here when everyone else did. i cycle between long periods of lurking and short periods of posting a lot. no matter where i am in my activity cycle this is the only place on the internet that feels like home.
i like video games for the spaces they contain within them and the ability to explore those worlds. if heaven exists then my heaven would be the ability to walk across the world invisibly, invincibly, slowly, experiencing infinite landscapes while taking photos and writing. i can’t do that so i play video games instead.
i think final fantasy xi is the most beautiful video game there is. i think beatmania iidx is the best video game there is.
i am 29 years old and just moved into my own space for the first time, a basement apartment with no windows. i have no furniture except for one small table i took from some house’s trash. i sleep on blankets on the floor. i have a bunch of japanese video games and art books stacked against a wall, a nice camera, a journal, a laptop, a 25lb dumbbell, two pvms, a closet full of expensive clothes, and a fridge full of 35mm slide film and coke zero. not much else. i feel cocooned in this space with all these carefully chosen artifacts that hold deep meaning to me and i hope to be able to more tangibly convert them into output. i’m sending 8 rolls of film off for development sometime in the next few weeks. on the whole, i’m really happy with where i am right now.
Hello, I’m Sakurina. I joined SB1 in 2012 when returning to video games after years playing solely beatmania IIDX throughout high school and college. I mainly enjoy games with good system design, satisfying tactile feedback, or when the aesthetic is just right. Storytelling is (with few exceptions) not what I come to video games for.
I work on a video series where I play Bandai WonderSwan games chronologically and have amassed a lot of useless knowledge about 90s era C-tier Japanese game developers as a result. In my spare time, I get mocked by my 12-year-old cousin for reading manga that has no plot or conflict and for not having seen Jojo.
i should make a non-jokey intro now. also, if it’s possible / not taken can one of the @moderators change my name to @cigarette? thanks. i literally cannot stand having this current name anymore. i will probably ask for more name changes in the future btw. i sincerely doubt anyone is looking for my posts but i like to accessorize!
anyway, hi. i love to bug the mods with my aesthetic problems like name changes. i’m always the one who comes up with my user title which kinda sucks in way but i also think that maybe i’m cool enough to do that so i just go for it. like for this one i’m gonna with ’ shoujo souvlaki ’
i’m ashe and i started posting on sb 1 right before it died. i was invited by a friend who happened to be my first friend on the internet when we were teens. they wanted to make games together. i protested for awhile before i finally gave in to at least joining the forum. the end result is i’ve made a lot of new friends after the other stopped posting. i don’t think i’m the easiest person to know so if you’re a long time poster and you’re like ’ wow, idk anything ab ashe ’ then i’d like to let you know that that is on purpose!
i am still learning how to not put walls up when i’m around other people. i am learning that i don’t always have to be ’ cool ’ or ’ aesthetically put together ’ in order to fit in and have pple give a shit. i put up barriers because i’ve been hurt very badly in the past. this is one of the few places i frequent online that feels ‘safe’, even if i may be feeling or showing some particularly cantankerous feelings.
besides mostly lurking and learning all sorts of things ab game development and video games in general, i also got to learn a lot about myself since posting to sb 2. i am on #teamgender here. i figured out i was trans around 2008 but didn’t come out to myself or anyone else until around six years later. the transgeneral thread has been a real boon to me in the sense that i could finally find other trans pple to relate to. i never feel the need to censor myself there and am met with just as much care as i would like to put out to pple.
this is a nice place for the most part. i’m glad i could be apart of it and i’m glad it’s here.
i’m an occultist and writer. i dabble in photography and one of my secret dreams is to be a musician. i really like anime and spent a large portion of my life completely dedicated to a particular extremely popular video game company. i am currently reeling with the fact that i hate the current state of video games and one of the reasons i never kept up and considered myself such a good curator is because. . .i never paid attention after like 2008. i am very much that person who will still praise sotc or journey because of the impact they had on me. i have a love hate relationship with testuya nomura. final fantasy xii is one of the greatest games of all time.
ahem.
anyway.
i know i’m a hipster but i’m not up my own ass ab it.
it’s mostly funny. i like to laugh ab it.
i am a very frustrated creative person who is still trying to figure out how to survive in this late stage capitalism hellscape. an ’ artist ’ who is very much starving. hi! bye!
Hey I’m Mr. Mechanical. I’m one of the old timers who basically grew up here. I discovered Insert Credit sometime in 2002 or 2003 while still in high school and started lurking but didn’t start posting until after the whole Square-Enix “we will proceed to the legal step” affair. I made my account and started posting on January 4th, 2004 when I was 19.
I hung around through the various incarnations of this community over the years. After IC blew up in 2006 I posted on SB1.0, LargePrimeNumbers, The Gamer’s Quarter and briefly at Don’t Press Start. At TGQ I was a moderator and regular contributor to the zine. Those days were a blast and I had ideas about being a writer back then but could never figure out how to actually make a decent living it at so I shifted my attentions elsewhere.
These days I work in the transportation industry as a design tech drafting plans at a civil engineering firm in their structures department (primarily bridges and drainage structures). Been doing that for over six years now so I might just make a career out of it. It wasn’t really what I expected I’d end up doing with my life but I’m good at it and it enables me to support myself, my mom and my sister.
I like to draw, make art, make things and do creative stuff. I’ve got a comic book I’m working on that’s kind of on hiatus right now and I’ve dabbled in making video games but programming isn’t my strong suit. I prefer making pretty pictures. I’ve posted some of my output here and there in some of the threads but I don’t have a website or anything though I would like to put one together at some point.
I don’t post nearly as frequently (or as verbosely) as I did when I was younger. Partly this is because I’m older now and my time gets taken up with other things but also I think it’s because mostly I only post from my phone or tablet and not a desktop with a keyboard. I am a lot more wordy when I’m using a keyboard because tapping on a screen to type is still not my preferred way to type.
I strongly believe in self improvement and think we all have the capacity to make ourselves better if we want. Like a lot of other people here I’ve had some turbulent periods in my life. Ups and downs with mental health and the material living situation etc. I’m very grateful to be a part of this community and am proud of what it has become. We’re all here for each other and that’s what it’s all about (or should be).
I’m Sam and I’m @physical 's wife! She and I met because of IC/SB, even though my only personal experience with an online forum is the 17 minutes I was signed up for a Sailor Moon thread on IRC in 1998.
I’m here now because she says asking for updates about y’all’s lives third hand is inefficient, and also because she doesn’t say that it’s creepy but definitely thinks it. To even the playing field, here’s an efficient list of things about me:
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Painting and otherwise Making Things
Dogs
Bad tv
The pre-worn comfort of living vicariously through other people’s social arrangements
cue the “oh i didn’t realize we had this thread til just now” post
i’m kali, you’re better off not trying to wrap your head around my whole gender deal. you may know me from my posts where i’m very funny, as well as my posts where i use far too many words because i’m extremely neurodivergent and have a crippling anxiety around being misunderstood. you may also know me from doing the following in photographs:
haley introduced me to SB not too long after the migration over to 2, and then i lurked for a bit until i didn’t. i have very passionate and idiosyncratic opinions, particularly on video games, which coincidentally made it very easy to fit in here. i do work in … a lot of mediums and i think i’m pretty okay at most of them, but also i’ve basically never finished anything. backlog king. one day i’ll have literally anything to show as a body of work, probably
I’m shrug. I’ve been around. I’ve spent most of my life paralyzed by indecision and fear, hiding from the implications of my capitulation. Eventually I got sick enough in a way enough to take a lot of potential decision away and now my regrets have a whole new context. Always tired. Always thinking I should use my limited energy to do one of the three things I’m good at; almost never doing them. I drift through phases. Sometimes I’m very good at writing things down and other times I doubt I was ever literate. Nothing but instinct, so when it errs I’m lost at sea. This rule applies to most of my life.
I’m obsessed with period whaling and the weird history of western Christianity, because they’re both gross and bloody things that I can count on to defy taste and reason. I have two very good cats that are beautiful and hate being brushed. They’re the best of me. I’m probably in love with you, but I’ll never, ever say. I’m sorry for everything. Not enough. Not yet.
Maybe soon.
I’m not as posting as I used to be. I guess it’s phases, again, but this place has been home enough, off and on, and I’ll always be haunting (A-B-C) as possible.
i was never a part of early SB - I came here in 2019 - but i did post a lot on early forums and irc. i’ve been obsessed with games for as long as i can remember. not a game in specific, just, the concept of games, the ideal of games, the medium of games. so pretty much all of my internet presence has revolved around games in some way. i like most games, although i prefer jank or novelty over well-executed pablum (AAA stinky).
also i’m a furry (fursona name: dragonmaw/succendo), i was really active 2005-2012 but generally stopped after 2015. i kinda wanna get back into it but it’s hard and the community feels fifty times larger. everyone kinda knew each other in 2008 and i miss that?
everything else about me is a dissociative haze of white noise. i’m traumatized but keep going. i’m set off by condescension and shitty bad faith attitudes and i’m really, really sensitive to text tone after three decades online completely poisoned my brain.
i really like it here and i recommend this place to basically every responsible adult i like. everyone cool should post here.
