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I always feel weird about affiliating like

It's me basically saying hey my site is worth putting up on your site and we're not gonna die soon.

I feel like that's strong language for a new site and that's why I waited five months to start asking. I realize probably nobody else on this planet cares about that stuff, but I was afraid of cursing myself or something if I did it too soon. Maybe five months was too soon and I get smited by a meteorite or something now. Life is unpredictable.
last edit on Jul 10, 2019 6:55:30 GMT by wolfe
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Idk about y'all, but I'm a dinosaur when it comes to this and I notice I have these thoughts when I go to do new stuff like 'X admin I used to work with would hate this' or 'Y member base would never stand for this and it'd be a shitshow' that limits me sometimes even though it's irrational.


I've worked with a lot of people over the years who had very specific and intense dislikes, and I'm instantly reminded of them every time I do something I know they'd be vehemently opposed to. As time passes more and more of those things tend to be outdated, but some of them aren't yet. I still remember when people used to have heated arguments over whether installing a chatbox would kill a site or not, now everyone has discords. My side wins!

Come to think about it, I wonder if there are some random people I've worked with in the past who are similarly nostalgic/jumpy whenever someone mentions the word scenario. Scenario boards have been the hill that I would die on for years, even if they never really took off. Enabling member-ran events on a large scale was the way I saw forums moving forward, but I lost that one at least so far.

I also vehemently hated Chatango, but that particular pet peeve isn't really relevant anymore. That being said, if any of y'all install a Chatango chatbox on your site I am hard judging even harder than before because now we have Discord.
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Left a Disboard link up for about a month and a half. Got about 40 spam bots that randomly DMed people and never talked in chat so it was a pain in the ass to get all of them. I did get one member out of it, but overall I would not recommend. They weren't even good spam bots either, some seemed to go weeks without DMing anyone or maybe it's just the fact that I have the filter enabled on my discord.
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Just for the sake of avoiding monotony I need to start writing some clever stuff in these bumps.

Like, nobody reads these anyways so I can literally type whatever I want. No matter how controversial or terrible it is, it's essentially a space to where there are no repercussions no matter what I say. If that's the case, I'll air out the most controversial hot take I have this week.

As an anime only watcher who just started binging One Punch Man last week, I have no idea why people hate Season 2 so much to write these huge rants about it. It's just really bizarre.
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Honestly I'd like to see someone make a One Punch Man 'verse site work just to see how they did it.

Like I could definitely see it working in a 1x1, but I'm not quite sure how it'd work in a group and it'd be neat to see someone give it a try. Do you just hand wave a city being exploded/vaporized/stepped on/attacked by aliens every week or what?

I do miss the original supers fad, though. That was a fun time, and I'd love to see one that had a solution to the inevitable power creep that just ended with characters as strong as Superman x 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 into infinity that successfully apped themselves as 'the strongest villain in da world'.
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i just realized i probably really confuse my work friends with how i am about my lactose i tolerance like

If we're gonna eat out and hang i gotta avoid dairy because we will die but if its the last stop before we all go home its okay because then i can just die at home and i feel like i should probably explain this to them at somepoint

Or i can just least myself as a senseless mess for awhile longer instead



Don't do this to yourself. Nothing is worth dying at home over.

Except pizza. I've gotten really good at self-control except for pizza. Also get some lactaid pills and stuff them everywhere. Your backpack, your pants, your spare pants, your car, your cat. Everywhere.
last edit on May 27, 2019 5:01:29 GMT by wolfe
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i thought i would like coffee as i am making some espresso brownies for my coworkers since my last day at retail is tomorrow

i took a sip of this really nice coffee i made in case i needed it ---

i died and went to spit out everything in the sink


i don't know how you all deal with bean juice, unless someone changes my mind i will stick to hot leaf water
To quote one of the great philosophers of our generation, Paige Alena:

good bean juice tastes like chocolate make me go fast
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tfw people bombard you with the latest drama of a site you left six months ago

I love drama as much as the next person, but it's really weird when people assume you'll be happy just because people who treated you badly get booted or whatever. I do this hobby to have fun writing cool stories, not sit there and tally all my grudges and cackle maniacally when others fail. I know how it feels to lose an RP home you felt like you'd stay in forever, and knowing that even someone who did that to me is now going through the same thing doesn't bring me any joy. If anything, it makes me sad that animanga will likely lose another very capable administrator due to drama that I learned a lot from despite our (sometimes very heated) differences. I firmly believe those will always occur when you have passionate people with different visions of how to move forward. I also think that to some level differences are healthy, so I never took it personally when people disagreed with me. If we're both acting in good faith we both want the same thing in making the site better, we just both think our way is the best way. I've been wrong before and will continue to be wrong sometimes in the future too, it happens. Experience does not always equal competence, it just means you've been alive in the community for longer which is not really an achievement in and of itself no matter how much I like to take about ye olden days with glasses as rosy as they come.

The situation just means that both of us lost our investments into the same site, just at different times. It's like a breakup of a long term relationship that got toxic, you cry your eyes out and feel like shit for a week or two but then you move onto something better and know a bit more about yourself and what you want. It ended up being a huge reality check for me and learning that there were some things out of my capability to 'fix' and are simply out of my control. If the foundation of a house is unsustainable, trying to yeet a mansion on that unstable and unsustainable foundation is always going to end in heartbreak. Going all in on that mansion and having the roof fall on your head or the ground open up beneath your feet heckin' sucks, and I'm sorry anyone has to go through that.

Putting your heart and soul into something for a year and a half and then having it all crash down sucks something fierce and it's a damned shame that it's basically a rite of passage for RPers. You not only mourn the loss of the community, the site, and the time invested but also what could have been. The half-finished arcs, the great writers you didn't get to really play with, the shit you were planning down the road that never came to fruition... Shit's like going to a funeral.
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