Well, admittedly I didn't log in for nearly 4 months, but seeing no new messages is a bit disappointing. Maybe Discord is the way to go nowadays. I will probably pop in here when the mood strikes me, but it seems like this is pretty much the end of the road.

Let it be known that i'll move in my own appartment at the end of February. It's been a struggle, but I feel like I'm gonna make it.

Thank you C-R and everyone who finds this message. I'm expecting it could be the last one I write here.

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Whoops, I haven't posted since May.

Lost my job back in September. My contract just ended, so that sucks. Been taking it easy for the time being but I should probably get to searching soon. Time for my least favorite time of the year, I guess. Hope you all had a good thanksgiving (if you're American).

Once again, I'm also on discord and twitter and stuff.

Happy Holidays to those of you that still come here every now and then~

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Merry Christmas! :)

Merry Christmas, everyone--though it's already the 26th in most of the world...

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My further descent into madness has given me great comfort. I spent the majority of this year doubting that I was worthy of love, and time and time again God has shown me more kindness than I would have ever thought I deserved. I'm 31 years old and approaching mine and Maya's 15th anniversary.

I got what I wanted for Christmas, what did you all get?

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Got some Switch games, some Nintendo-themed socks, and a lot of junk food. I also bought some foam staircases for Max. At ninety-one in cat years, he can't jump as high as he could when he was younger, so the stairs will help him get onto some of the higher furniture.

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I'm glad you hear your cat is still kicking. My pit bull chocolate lab is getting old too. But she's still got light to her eyes and I know she's happy.

I know 4chan isn't to everyone's taste, but for the past 10 years, anons on /v/ would gather to make an album, the songs are Weird Al-esque parodies. I wrote lyrics for a lot of different songs. It was more writing than I had done in a long time and it was a lot of fun. Three of the re-writes I wrote were sung by other people.
It's 4chan, no gamer words but all the lyrics were for 4channers so it's going to have a bit of spice to it.
The Nofun Vidya Board, Amemeoweh, and Why Don't You Go Back To /vg/?
I appreciated all the people singing and commenting on my works, but I'm still sad I never got anyone to sing my parody Of Freak Kitchen's Freak of The Week




I even did a one for Persona 5's "Beneath the Mask"

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I guess that makes this the first post in here of the year? Wild. Well, I'm still unemployed. Sucks. Not really sure what I'm doing at this point.

Ace Attorney 4-6 got announced to get ported today, so that's cool. The funny thing is that there's nothing on the forums about it at all. No news post, no new threads, no nothing. Funny and sad, honestly.

We're eating good tonight folks!

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Gotta assume a lot of people ported over to Reddit, but I don't think I've ever removed CR from my bookmark bar on Chrome. Sat there for a solid decade at this point, I think. Wild to think I started on the old Invisionfree backup that long ago at this point.

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It's never fun to see an online community gradually shrink. While I don't expect the main site to go away, the forum doesn't get enough activity for most users to have any reason to stick around. I suppose we could always make things worse and start locking previously-free functions behind paywalls...

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And Discord, don't forget discord. I've already shown my distaste for what the community became, no reason to reiterate it here.




An embedded fan case player would make the website more popular, so long as you don't try to monetize it (and maybe use fan made Faya Mey characters) you'd avoid C&D letters.

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I'm certainly willing to run it by Henke, but considering our current troubles with getting a frontend developer who isn't constantly overwhelmed by offline stuff, I don't expect it to be a priority.

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Mind, I just googled to see if this exists, and this popped up, download at your own risk; and I'm no programmer, but the infrastructure for browser based visual novels already exists, I've no clue how easy it would be to use, but it exists.

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Oddly it wasn't even the 456 remaster news that had me thinking of this place. It was playing the new Zelda game and thinking "Cat would have hated this."

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I think about this thread pretty often, actually. Makes me think about the days where I would post on here at school (when I should have been working on assignments) or check the thread in the morning before I'd get ready. Good times.

Yeah I can see that. This used to be my primary Internet hangout spot, and some days I wish it still was. Of course I've changed so much as a person since then that thinking about some of the stuff I've said here just makes me physically recoil.

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That's just part of maturing, anyone who doesn't look back and think to themselves "I probably could have done that better" haven't matured.
I may have some of the worst examples, but I know my principles are good. Maybe I could have explained things better, maybe I could have been nicer. But it's all behind us now, you can take comfort in knowing that chances are, no one but you remembers the things you're the most ashamed of. If you ever want to talk, you could always reach out.

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Yeah I pitched the idea of a skype chat aaaaages ago, but I think its just a bridge too far for some. Maybe we should set up a discord server or something, but I still can't see that getting a lot of use. We're all much different people from who we were ages ago, and sometimes things just end. Depressing to think about, but that's life.

I'm probably going to be a mess emotionally for a while. I suppose one advantage of this forum getting so little activity these days is that the odds of my mental state interfering with my ability to moderate are negligible.

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I'm sorry to hear about your cat's health continuing to deteriorate, I hope the bump is nothing and that you still get a few more years with him.

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There may be hope regarding Max's situation. The bump has shrunk noticeably since the time it was first discovered. I don't think I'll have full peace of mind until it's gone, which at least one source I found says could take another couple of months, but I now find it much likelier that the biopsy result was a false positive.

Either way, our course of action--or rather inaction--remains the same.

September 26 update: Bit late to bring it up now, but Max's bump is either gone or so small that I can't find it anymore. I think it's safe to say at this point that he did not have cancer.

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I finally got a job. After nearly unemployed for nearly an entire year, I finally found work. It's a warehouse job, which isn't exactly a step up from my last job in software, but I've gotta do what I can to earn money. It is what it is. Also, I turn 24 next week. Crazy, I've been here for like 10 years. (I missed my 10 year forum anniversary, so that sucks. Oh well.)

I've also started writing again. It's been very relaxing to have creative hobbies, even though I do tend to switch between them fairly often. I was doing 3D art in blender up until recently, and I do plan on returning to that, it's just that my PC's performance makes my workflow very...slow. I'll get back to it soon, but writing has been very fulfilling with very little frustration.

That's about it, I think. Hopefully any of you that are still here are doing well, and I wish you all the best. Once again, I'm active in other places and for any of you who would like to reach out, just let me know.

Take care.

(I wonder who made all these Smilies...I guess I never thought about it until now. Huh.)

I suppose one upside of the forum getting so little activity these days is that I probably don't have to worry about my emotional state leading to me handing out unjust punishments for rulebreakers.

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Once again, making the first post of the year. I suppose it's a little sad, even now. I still come back and check the forum every once in a while, but I always find my way here at some point or another. That's a lie, actually. I pretty much just come back to this bookmark I made. Some of my bookmarks still have the "new rule" amendment that was in the thread subject for a few years (and was removed a few years ago).

I'm sorry to hear about Max, Luigi. 19 and a half years, though? That's a damn long life for a cat. No matter how you feel about the situation, know that he lived a full and loved life.

I don't have anything profound or interesting to say, but I figure I ought to at least check in every once in a while. I've talked about myself so much through all the posts I've made in here. I'm half-tempted to go back through all my own posts and see if I can't put together an actual journal for all those years. I sure treated this place like one. I wonder what I talked about and was stressing about, cuz I certainly can't remember. Probably complaining about being lonely, which I did *all* the time, and you guys are saints for putting up with me for that. Or like that one time I posted something slightly suggestive and got a three day ban? Man, crazy times. Well, good thing I can't go back in time and talk to my past self because I think seeing how little things changed would have seriously worried little past-me. Although maybe the threat of it would have sparked something in me to try harder. Can't dwell on the past, I suppose. (EDIT: went back to late-2014 and GOD IT WAS WORSE THAN I REMEMBERED. YOU DONT NEED TO SAY HOW LONELY YOU ARE AND TYPE *sigh* EVERY SINGLE POST, MY DUDE. Man, I really just said all that so you guys would be nice to me, didn't I? How terrible. Some people say that if you cringe at your past self, it means you've grown. That doesn't make it any less painful, SHEESH. Also I talked about yuri a creepy amount. Like, it's a little weird for a then-15 year old to be talking about yuri so much, isn't it? I wanna bleach my eyes, but I know I'm eventually gonna go back and pick through all my old messages one of these days. Gross.)

Anyway, you know that job I talked about in my last post? Yeah, well, I got fired. A week before Christmas, too. Feels kinda bad, but I did hate it. The worst part is that I knew it was coming. Um...let's see...I'm still writing. Finished a long term project last month. That was pretty cool. Uh...Persona 3 Reload and Like a Dragon 8 come out in a few weeks, and I'm pretty excited about those. Although I can't really think of much else to be excited about these days, games or otherwise. I guess that's what getting older is like. Or maybe that's just having mental issues. Eh, one of the two. Or both. Or neither? Bah.

Like I said in my previous post, I hope you are all doing well. I still hope that. There's something to be said about the relationships you can build on a platform without a word limit.

Take care.

The continued enshittification of the Internet is making me think back to this place. It wasn't perfect, nothing ever is, but it was consistent.

Hope you're all still surviving this strange, strange world.

Antways I just wanted to say that after playing FFXIII for myself, I can respect it even if it didn't achieve all its goals.

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I find myself hopping back on here every once in a while. It's kinda nice to see that I'm not the only one.

It's been a while since I've updated y'all. I've been living in Canada for about 6-7 years now and I became a Permanent Resident in 2022 and I'm working towards becoming a citizen. I've been drawing a lot more lately and have my own style now which is nice.
In October I'll be seeing ATARASHII GAKKO! and I'm soooo excited. I haven't been to a concert since like 2012 lol
I hope yall are doing okay~☆

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At least I finally get to play Investigations 2 after all these years :3
I used to be Kay's age when I played the first game. Now I'm about Gumshoe's age, and I hate it OTL

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