Only reason why I go on the Forums atlot is because ether A I don’t have much of a life, B I don’t have much Friends in the Real World, or C I just want to talk about whatever is on my mind.
Yea sure there’s Discord Servers, and Twitter and etc but I continue coming back here. I don’t know why.
Welp for me, it’s because im manically depressed, feel trapped in my life, have no friends anymore other then my boyfriend, feel alone all the time bc he’s not always around (which i understand), and have little to no motivation or energy due to my vast array of crap, and of course my constant anxiety.
The forums temporarily takes my mind off of ALLLLL that. It’s not completely effective, i still feel like poo… but it’s better then forming an awful habit to cope and end up being damaged by it, right?
someone who is less apathetic will no doubt come along and do it.
…do you understand that posters are expected to follow a very basic set of rules when posting here?
what’s the point in complaining when you knowingly break those rules?
cause i’m at the point i no longer care really. If the community majority consists of people who deny freedom of expression and speech because they can’t handle a differing opinion then its a community i no longer want to take any part of. Soon you wont be able to express your emotions without the risk of some sort of penalty if it continues on as it is now.
All ideas and opinions are welcome, we celebrate diversity … unless you disagree or say something provocative then free speech loses it’s meaning and you MUST be silenced.
Define provocative I say because 80%+ of what the forums contain ‘for me’ is eye rolling at best and probably 19% of the remaining is down right insulting …
I’ve been playing most of 13 years, and most of the time I’ve been playing I’ve been visiting the forums. I like that it’s a large forum and it’s hard to get noticed. I just say my piece then don’t post for a few days and no one cares. It’s familiar, gets me writing little essays, I’ve tried to get into other forums but they are either modded like crap (I’d rather have the laxity here than the neckboot mods of other forums), full of people even worse than here, and just generally make me feel weird. Like I joined a collectible forum and it was so tightly modded you couldn’t say anything that was even an opinion. Conversation seemed stilted and uninteresting as a result.
So here I remain. I don’t have many friends, social anxiety and a heap of other ailments, and just my brother plays so he’s the only person I can talk to this stuff about, and he lives on the other side of the country. So I do this. The fact it doesn’t really matter is precisely why I do it, it’s a fun release of hot takes and it’s pretty hard, though not impossible, to trigger my anxiety here.