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Beveren_Rabbit
04/08/24 3:35:45 AM
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aren't very active anymore or left ?

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Hexenherz
04/08/24 3:38:13 AM
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you get old and have a family and priorities change

also the boards got dumb for a while, about the time i started to come back there were a handful of far right trolls who just kept getting banned and making new accounts and getting banned again, and the topics were pretty awful and inflammatory.

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VampireCoyote
04/08/24 3:39:35 AM
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they live in group homes theres a ps3 they share it

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Beveren_Rabbit
04/08/24 3:48:38 AM
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how many of you were active before 2008?

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PMarth2002
04/08/24 3:49:04 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?

Me

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Baron_Ox
04/08/24 3:51:17 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?

PMarth2002 posted...
Me


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Tora_Sami
04/08/24 3:52:42 AM
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PMarth2002 posted...
Me


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SomeLikeItHoth
04/08/24 3:54:58 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?
I can't believe 2008 was 30 years ago.

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Hexenherz
04/08/24 3:56:28 AM
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this was my main board before I hopped ship to a spin-off community

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GuerillaGorilla
04/08/24 3:58:02 AM
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With YouTube, textual guides, faqs, and cheats were not needed as much. And with the rise of social media platforms, the forums were not used as much. At least that's what I think.

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Beveren_Rabbit
04/08/24 3:58:56 AM
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You would be in your 40's/50's or at least late 30's if you were really active during the social board's conception.

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Kradek
04/08/24 4:05:30 AM
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Hexenherz posted...
you get old and have a family and priorities change

Also people die.

I've had this thought creep into my head over the years wondering how many people are assumed to have just left out of boredom/loss of interest when really they've passed and nobody they knew is on here and their family/friends didn't think it was a high priority to tell us.

The only confirmed death of a user I can think of was that one guy on WoT who took his life and his sister told everyone. I seem to recall WoT was also pretty shitty to her about it because her brother wasn't very well-liked, so they eventually drove her off the site.

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AbstraktProfSC2
04/08/24 4:29:07 AM
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i just here for like 2 minutes for karma for whatever reason
pure boredom hoping something cool happens or something

spoilers; it wont

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Beveren_Rabbit
04/08/24 4:39:09 AM
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why do people stop doing something they love just because they have gotten older?

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Zwijn
04/08/24 4:50:48 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?
Me, but not here. This board is a relatively recent but pleasant discovery for me compared to the idiotic system boards. There was also a long period where I was more active on 4chan and reddit instead because of their visual nature that made a classic forum like this feel very outdated, but I only lurk on those now sometimes.
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bnui_ransder
04/08/24 4:58:04 AM
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Meh

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Starrky
04/08/24 5:28:37 AM
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I was on this site every day until I discovered Reddit. When I came back I found out that LUE was closed and I missed the cutoff date so I lost interest and stayed on Reddit.

Ever since they forced people to use their terrible app I started coming back here, though. This site is much more pleasant to browse on mobile than Reddit.

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Zwijn
04/08/24 5:31:00 AM
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Starrky posted...
I was on this site every day until I discovered Reddit. When I came back I found out that LUE was closed and I missed the cutoff date so I lost interest and stayed on Reddit.

Ever since they forced people to use their terrible app I started coming back here, though. This site is much more pleasant to browse on mobile than Reddit.
If they didnt kill off Apollo I would be there much more too. Their own app is so much worse its barely usable.
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Starrky
04/08/24 5:35:27 AM
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Zwijn posted...
If they didnt kill off Apollo I would be there much more too. Their own app is so much worse its barely usable.

It's genuinely impressive how bad their official app is. It's like they tried to make all the wrong decisions.

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DKBananaSlamma
04/08/24 5:57:41 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?
Me >_>

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DKBananaSlamma
04/08/24 5:59:07 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

There was also foreman47 (sp?). He was a porn cameraman and would talk about what it was like on set and it was pretty interesting. He got killed walking into a gas station robbery

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TomClark
04/08/24 10:17:56 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
You would be in your 40's/50's or at least late 30's if you were really active during the social board's conception.

Yep

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BlueTigerLion
04/08/24 10:30:28 AM
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I know people may not want to think about this. But a possibility is some of them died and we didn't notice. Not every one is a mod or has connections where if they died/left people would notice and make a topic about it.

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Dakimakura
04/08/24 10:32:31 AM
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I didnt come to CE until like 2019 because every other board was dead. In the past, CE moved too fast for my liking. Now seems like a good pace albeit as numbers continue to dwindle maybe a bit too slow.

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Sansoldier
04/08/24 10:33:04 AM
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I visited Gamefaqs since ~2000 or maybe even before, but didn't create an account until a few years later. I'm 32, so I imagine others are that age or older.

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YUNASBFGIR
04/08/24 10:33:57 AM
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I'm in my mid 30's and have a full time job/life.

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Alucard188
04/08/24 10:34:49 AM
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I still roll by daily, but my posting frequency is down significantly.

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BlueTigerLion
04/08/24 11:04:37 AM
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I edited the post to reflect my point. What was discussed was the exact opposite the well known users.

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tripleh213
04/08/24 11:05:22 AM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
how many of you were active before 2008?
Me

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KaZooo
04/08/24 11:05:52 AM
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Some people just aren't about that life anymore. As it is for myself, I don't really play much. Of course, there are people here who probably started when they were adults in the 90s and are literally grandparents or passed at this point. Some probably don't attach themselves to the internet all that much.

Also, dedicated forums have become more prominent and are perhaps a stronger resource at this point since online gaming involves more detailed coordination for events sometimes. That, and sometimes the FAQs are more like full blown wikis at this point.

GameFAQs was prime when times were simpler. It is a double edged sword, because the simplicity of this site is arguably what still makes it better than most other forums. Like we wouldn't want to be flooded with media and overkill graphics. As it is, the presence of ads to start is very below our standards.


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Kradek
04/08/24 2:08:49 PM
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Wasn't aware of any of those names, I appreciate your contribution and RIP to them.

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MrMojoRising
04/08/24 2:10:24 PM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
why do people stop doing something they love

let's not get crazy here

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Resident_Hill
04/08/24 2:12:16 PM
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I lurked for a couple years and made my account in 2007. 42 here.

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super_felicia
04/08/24 2:14:43 PM
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There was a Felicia (and fjorm) fan who was so nice, happy and not depressed at all who vanished as Covid happened its so suspect since he would probably not just leave so suddenly one day with silence I think he died yknow

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BlueTigerLion
04/08/24 2:15:13 PM
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KaZooo posted...
Some people just aren't about that life anymore. As it is for myself, I don't really play much. Of course, there are people here who probably started when they were adults in the 90s and are literally grandparents or passed at this point. Some probably don't attach themselves to the internet all that much.

Also, dedicated forums have become more prominent and are perhaps a stronger resource at this point since online gaming involves more detailed coordination for events sometimes. That, and sometimes the FAQs are more like full blown wikis at this point.

GameFAQs was prime when times were simpler. It is a double edged sword, because the simplicity of this site is arguably what still makes it better than most other forums. Like we wouldn't want to be flooded with media and overkill graphics. As it is, the presence of ads to start is very below our standards.

Yea. I barely play games anymore. And for pretty much every social and special interest niche I am interested in Reddit has a way more populated sub for it than all of CE. To give an example if I want to talk about Chess. It better to go to r/chess than make a topic on CE. I imagine many of those that felt that same are long gone by now.

One of the things I often do is instead of coming to CE with a personal question I google the question and add Reddit and they have a thread already.

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Beany
04/08/24 2:15:45 PM
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VampireCoyote posted...
they live in group homes theres a ps3 they share it

lol

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bluezero
04/08/24 2:16:33 PM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
aren't very active anymore or left ?
Everything is political now

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SiO4
04/08/24 2:17:37 PM
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DKBananaSlamma posted...

There was also foreman47 (sp?). He was a porn cameraman and would talk about what it was like on set and it was pretty interesting. He got killed walking into a gas station robbery


Wait, what?
Is that what happened to him?

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VeggetaX
04/08/24 2:18:07 PM
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I'm still very active

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RetuenOfDevsman
04/08/24 2:18:23 PM
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Some of us just have different accounts

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DKBananaSlamma
04/08/24 5:21:42 PM
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SiO4 posted...
Wait, what?
Is that what happened to him?
Yeah sadly. I forget what year it happened

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Jiek_Fafn
04/08/24 5:24:24 PM
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Probably because lot of people here are very mean to others. Words hurt

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
04/08/24 5:25:29 PM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
aren't very active anymore or left ?
Maybe they got their account stolen?

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C_Pain
04/08/24 5:25:46 PM
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I believe I started posting on CE in 2006

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Anony1125
04/08/24 5:26:19 PM
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did this place even exist before 2008?

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DKBananaSlamma
04/08/24 5:27:58 PM
#50:


Anony1125 posted...
did this place even exist before 2008?
At least in 2006 it did. LUE was the big social board before SteriLUEzation happened tho.

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