| When you think about, it's MAL's way of saying to its userbase that it knows many of us have zero social skills so here's a place where you can socialize without having any skills whatsoever; everything is in place, just come and join the party; you can post here for months on end and still not know a single thing about the people you play with because that's not needed, and of course that would induce your social anxiety too. It makes perfect sense. The people there look suspiciously happy and one only need to click on their profiles to affirm the suspicions: it's all a playground for the truly miserable among us. Do you guys agree? I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't. |
| Forum games people believe it or not start recognizing each other and they form lasting relationships and such. |
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Lux_Lucis said: I've been posting on cd for a total of a few month (with a couple of year-long breaks from mal) and I still know nothing about the people. Some are personas (Where's @MechaKiryu?), some are contrarians for hell of it and most are just shit posters. I rarely even look in peoples profiles (I can count about 12-15 users that I actually looked in their profile [always monitoring @ClebardMan 's profile for possible accidental nudes]). What I'm saying is that you can be completely ignorant of the denizens regardless of the sub-forum. You are right however that "Forum games" is a petri dish for people who can't even find the courage to express themselves on other other sub-forums. Can't forget the people who have so little to do in life that they can actually spend time, pretending to ban the same people over and over, in a meaningless typing game. It's about knowing people's views on things. You don't necessarily need to know anyone's biographical details (wouldn't that defeat the point of anonymity in the first place?) in order to claim that you do 'know' this person. I see friendships on FG as little more than friendships based solely on the fact that you and I frequent the same place. And that's no friendship but merely a consolation thereof. Coolspot said: Forum games people believe it or not start recognizing each other and they form lasting relationships and such. Circlejerks aren't lasting relationships. |
| Eh, not really. FG is filled with more drama than all the other subforums combined. @Lux_Lucis Expect a selfie thread soon, I want to see your faces :-3 |
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| FG is like the kindergarten/elementary class of MAL at recess period, while we folks here at CD are the edgy high schoolers who really want to be taken seriously by adults even though we're still a bunch of angsty babies. One thing I can say is that regarding cybersex on sites which are originally not related to sex at all, MAL's FG board takes the cake as one of the biggest online orgy venues. |
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| can't speak for others but lots of FG users such as myself are part of discord groups. Very active on there and I know a couple of people very well :-/ it's more of a matter of approaching people to be honest. |
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| The truly miserable? Am I one of the truly miserable? :thinking: |
| It's true though. There's a sort of boredom event horizon that those who go to forum games have passed. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Forum games seems like a huge waste of time tbh. I feel like Recommendations is more of a safe space and at least you're helping people find something to watch/read. |
 "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
You heard it right, gentleman. demonskul777 said: The truly miserable? Am I one of the truly miserable? :thinking: Obviously. AnimoosFromChina said: can't speak for others but lots of FG users such as myself are part of discord groups. Very active on there and I know a couple of people very well :-/ it's more of a matter of approaching people to be honest. Is it that group which I joined and then was kicked out under a nanosecond because I hurt your people's feelings? LMAO |
| It's quite safe yh, so does recommendations. They're both good sub-forums to go when there's nothing else to do and bored. I feel like in general in forums you just don't need a lot of social skills though, not just FG. |
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Welshcake said: It's quite safe yh, so does recommendations. They're both good sub-forums to go when there's nothing else to do and bored. I feel like in general in forums you just don't need a lot of social skills though, not just FG. Really? I can bet that the most prominent members of any forum are extroverted people. I myself am very extroverted. It's just due to circumstances that I'm left to pester the cute MALers instead of real life people. |
| hmmm. What would you describe as true misery, though? As I see it many people have it worse than me and I'm in a fairly good and privileged situation, that many don't have. Calling a person such as me miserable seems as an exaggeration to me. However I'm sure that's not what you mean and you just chose a bad word. |
demonskul777 said: hmmm. What would you describe as true misery, though? As I see it many people have it worse than me and I'm in a fairly good and privileged situation, that many don't have. Calling a person such as me miserable seems as an exaggeration to me. However I'm sure that's not what you mean and you just chose a bad word. The very fact that you're willing to count yourself among the miserable, although better off than most of your co-dwellers of misery, says enough. One only needs a cursory look of your profile to gauge that fact. But I'll ask this one question: Are you happy with life? |
| Count myself as miserable? I literally just said I do not, though. Perhaps you should learn to read before you reply. I don't count myself as miserable at all. As I said, I'm in a good situation. All I say on my profile is that my life at the moment is a straightforward track that I can't really budge from. Is that a bad thing? No. Did I ever imply it is? No. I stated I was okay with it. Or am I miserable because I'm willing to help others out at the cost of my own behalf? Am I happy with life? Are you? Are you happy every second of the day? No, happiness is not a constant state of being, it is momentarilly and people are happy from time to time, while being neutral i general. Am I happy with life? Sometimes, sometimes I am not. I don't see how that is a question you are expecting a clear cut answer to, but as for the moment, yes I am. |
| I don't care about which thread it is, which board it is, if the title baited me, I will post there. Clebardman said: Eh, not really. FG is filled with more drama than all the other subforums combined. Care to PM some to me so I can laugh at it while I'm eating? |
demonskul777 said: Count myself as miserable? I literally just said I do not, though. Perhaps you should learn to read before you reply. I don't count myself as miserable at all. As I said, I'm in a good situation. All I say on my profile is that my life at the moment is a straightforward track that I can't really budge from. Is that a bad thing? No. Did I ever imply it is? No. I stated I was okay with it. Or am I miserable because I'm willing to help others out at the cost of my own behalf? Am I happy with life? Are you? Are you happy every second of the day? No, happiness is not a constant state of being, it is momentarilly and people are happy from time to time, while being neutral i general. Am I happy with life? Sometimes, sometimes I am not. I don't see how that is a question you are expecting a clear cut answer to, but as for the moment, yes I am. Many people have it worse than me -- I couldn't interpret that statement in a factual sort of way, thanks to the preconceptions I have of you. I'll take your word for it, then. I still have a hundred suspicions but I'd rather not reveal them. I'd rather play my own game with them. Am I happy with life? Sure as hell I am. Will always be, most likely. Do I get bored? yes I do. Do I feel sad? yes I do. But there's not a single situation you can put me in and expect me to despair. And that's what makes me truly happy. |
Trance said: Welshcake said: I feel like in general in forums you just don't need a lot of social skills though, not just FG. Really? I can bet that the most prominent members of any forum are extroverted people. I myself am very extroverted. It's just due to circumstances that I'm left to pester the cute MALers instead of real life people. I didn't say people here doesn't have any social skills. Not having them and not having to have to use them are different. You can be extroverted, but in forums you don't use a lot of social skills, because you don't have to use them. Typing and responding to people's questions doesn't really require a lot of communication skills. An introvert person can seem like an extrovert online, or vise versa. A shy introvert person can be a great writer as well, writing has nothing to do with in person communication. This is valid for all the sub-forums not just FG. But as I said FG and recommendations are definitely the safest. |
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Welshcake said: Trance said: Really? I can bet that the most prominent members of any forum are extroverted people. I myself am very extroverted. It's just due to circumstances that I'm left to pester the cute MALers instead of real life people. I didn't say people here doesn't have any social skills. Not having them and not having to have to use them are different. You can be extroverted, but in forums you don't use a lot of social skills, because you don't have to use them. Typing and responding to people's questions doesn't really require a lot of communication skills. An introvert person can seem like an extrovert online, or vise versa. A shy introvert person can be a great writer as well, writing has nothing to do with in person communication. This is valid for all the sub-forums not just FG. But as I said FG and recommendations are definitely the safest. You can usually tell from the writing style alone who's an introvert and who's not. If not the forum itself, you can take a step further and see what kind of conversations they have on their profiles. At that point, their orientation should become clear but if it doesn't, you can still take a step further and engage them in a conversation and see for yourself. But, all of that aside, my original point was that all the 'prominent' members of a forum will most likely (about 90% of the time) be extroverted. Online interaction is still interaction and the more easily you breeze through it, the greater the chances of your being an extrovert. |
| Having preconceptions is a bad thing though. They besmudge your vision of things. A hundred suspicions? I don't really know what you're expecting out of me, do you want to hear my life story and find out how amazingly average a person I am? :? There is not really much to suspect me of, I'm not depressed or mentally ill in any way. I'm not the most outgoing guy, but I've got enough friends IRL to make the college days less boring, and help me revitalise myself during vacations. I live with my parents and am atm focussing on my studies, but if those go bad I'll probably pick up a part-time job, so I won't be any more trouble for my parents than necessary. In my spare time, I read/write, play games and watch tv-shows, though lately I've been chatting with people a lot. And of course there is studying, but that's not "spare time", is it? :thinking: Uh, do you want me to descrbie my appearance and personality still? Want nudes? sure you want them to blackmail me. Why am I telling you this, idk, I kinda just keep going once I'm going and didn't feel like stopping and hell if i'm going to reread the crap i just wrote. i'm going to leave that up to you. |
demonskul777 said: Having preconceptions is a bad thing though. They besmudge your vision of things. A hundred suspicions? I don't really know what you're expecting out of me, do you want to hear my life story and find out how amazingly average a person I am? :? There is not really much to suspect me of, I'm not depressed or mentally ill in any way. I'm not the most outgoing guy, but I've got enough friends IRL to make the college days less boring, and help me revitalise myself during vacations. I live with my parents and am atm focussing on my studies, but if those go bad I'll probably pick up a part-time job, so I won't be any more trouble for my parents than necessary. In my spare time, I read/write, play games and watch tv-shows, though lately I've been chatting with people a lot. And of course there is studying, but that's not "spare time", is it? :thinking: Uh, do you want me to descrbie my appearance and personality still? Want nudes? sure you want them to blackmail me. Why am I telling you this, idk, I kinda just keep going once I'm going and didn't feel like stopping and hell if i'm going to reread the crap i just wrote. i'm going to leave that up to you. Preconceptions are pretty harmless as long as you are aware you espouse them. Thanks for being so open. It surely has re-ignited my interest. |
| Don't see why I shouldn't be open. Like I'm pretty shy IRL, but I try my best to communicate. I honestly started off in AD myself, but just found that it didn't really made me meet any of the people here, since it was mostly just shitposting and the like down there. I won't deny that FG is a form of time-wastery and escapism, but I'm having fun talking with the people I got to know through it. I mean, right now I have just been kinda active on FG because I've been bored throughout the exams, and never really felt like doing any of my other hobbies while not studying, since I couldn't really enjoy them because I'd go "i actually have to study...". (with not studying i mean during my breaks, of course.) I mean, sure there are a lot of depressed people there, but being depressed doesn't make them bad people, whatsoever. |
| I have befriended some users playing forum games... |
| The board itself is irrelevant you see. The thread is more useful. For as long as I can post witty banter and make jokes, life is good. |
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| Well, some People have it easier to socialize through playing Games with each other. For others, it's just what it is - an Action to pass the Time. |
Trance said: Did you get hit by a bus and are now a quadriplegic?I can bet that the most prominent members of any forum are extroverted people. I myself am very extroverted. It's just due to circumstances that I'm left to pester the cute MALers instead of real life people. |
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| I used to post on forum games a lot during late 2015 and early 2016 and i really liked it... nowadays i just post there at times, since there are a lot of shit posting and people trying to have conversations on the threads. Even tho i met my 2 MAL best friends on FG.. so i'm glad i used to post there, lol ^^ |
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Valium said: Did you get hit by a bus and are now a quadriplegic? I don't know about the quadriplegic part, but some sort of massive head trauma is a given. No other way to explain this thread. While trite, the forum games are more interesting than just about any of the shitposting on CD. |
RP59 said: I think Trance has an ego I'm afraid his physiological parameters just can't support, somebody needs to break it to him, I don't have the heart ... he tries so hard.Valium said: I don't know about the quadriplegic part, but some sort of massive head trauma is a given. No other way to explain this thread.Did you get hit by a bus and are now a quadriplegic? |
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| Its a fine section. Sometimes seems like a battle of egos though tbh. |
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| I've barely spent anytime in Casual Discussion, and today I decided to take a look-see. There I found a guy talking about how he despises body mods, and how if he saw a girl with nose piercings he would gladly rip it out of her nose and gleefully listen to her pain. Yeah. As far as I can tell, Casual Discussion is for shit posting, bait threads, and a place for the outcasts of society to hang. No disrespect, but that's what I saw today. And that whole nazi body mods guy wasn't the only psychotic thing I saw either. TLDR; The title is correct for the most part |
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Kagami said: Seems like a lot of people in there are just trying to find some kind of identity, what you're seeing there is probably just the flare up from that. Me thinks.Its a fine section. Sometimes seems like a battle of egos though tbh. |
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Valium said: That and it seems like people try and unleash their disdain for people by using forum games to do it.Kagami said: Seems like a lot of people in there are just trying to find some kind of identity, what you're seeing there is probably just the flare up from that. Me thinks.Its a fine section. Sometimes seems like a battle of egos though tbh. |
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worldeditor11 said: Yeah, people on MAL and politics go great together. Oh gee, I always thought the 'safe space' was in Current Events board. The introductions section is where it's at, 99% chance your posts won't even be quoted, it's like playing at kindergarten with an M1 helmet. |
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| What's the most fun game in the Forum Games? |
| i always post in forum games and if anything it just garners hate from random strangers lol |
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| It's not as safe as it might seem. A valley of knives, danger at every turn. At least in Casual Discussion you can kind of just sit around and not say shit lol. |
| I CELEBRATE myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. |
| and now there's sudden need justifying yourself for wasting time lol |
 la critique de l'intention pure |
| I don't know what a "safe space" is, but I'd have to agree FG is rather relaxing place. Other than that I think you are looking too much into things. It's just forum and people are here/there to waste time. Other than maybe few individuals nobody tries to achieve any special goal by posting on forum. |
| For me, forum games is a place to pass the time when there's nothing else going on without requiring any brain activity. |
| Every subforum is better than Games, Computers & Tech Support, where dude bros who know nothing about technology spew uninformed shit about technology. |
IpreferEcchiFeb 4, 2017 3:52 AM
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| i know that misery loves my company who needs weebs of forum games |
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| Everyone likes me and thinks I'm great IN MY SAFE SPACE (MY SAFE SPACE) People don't judge me and haters don't hate IN MY SAFE SPACE (YOUR SAFE SPACE) |
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| Can second this. There is a lot of drama in FG, though it has died down over the past few months, for sure. CD seems to be where the people who can't spell gather. |
  WORK IN PROGRESS ~The frog leapt forth to my lilypad memory.~ I was indoctrinated by an inamorata rabbit, Adenomata affronted. It was the verecund, dismissed creatures That I jubilated in most. This rabbit I would nurture, At the aiguille of esse, The anneal of noblesse. ❤️ Birdie ❤️ |
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