In case you're wondering what the fuck is going on with facepunch (recap thread)
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Also like the implied "time to move on" as a reason. Like you cant go to FP when you're an adult. We have members on here who are married and have kids, you don't see them "move on".
Is FP like a retarded kids next door club or something?
by the way don't take my word as absolute on this, if someone with an actual twitter account wants to go check to make sure his posts aren't just hidden or something that would be great. just don't want garry to come back like "wtf im not depressed lol"
Happy 50th birthday
This was bound to happen someday given Garry's personality not actually being interested in the forums about his own games.
There was a lot of creative shit in the subforums here for his games, but he never has really fostered content creation to a big degree. I bet if he had modding competitions and actively pushed people to get creative we would have more content on garrysmod, rust etc.
I reckon garry needs to focus his effort on community engagement, and a sequel to what made him a bunch of cash.
@Hezzy have you been able to check in on Garry's mental health? His behavior these past few days has been pretty concerning
I’m too tired now to come up with a good post, but I want to say that I can understand @garry . Creators are held responsible for maintaining their best work, and expected to care about it as long as others do. Users don’t talk about it unless there’s a problem, and don’t always see how hard it can be to motivate yourself about something you don’t love so much anymore. They feel entitled to what‘s familiar.
But familiarity is silently appreciated. People don’t see the amount of active work, only the passive result—it’s why you don’t always think of saying you love someone until they’re gone, because your presence shows it passively.
If you want to keep working on the forums, try not to make this as personal as we do; just try to do the right thing. And if the right thing to do is to pass this project on, so be it. The forums must live.
In the Discord, Hezzy said Garry is okay.
Dude, your math seems a little off.
You joined in 2005.
They seem pretty gone. The only things not visible by default are a couple of pretty unremarkable replies to Tesla-related tweets.
Have you been asleep for several years? It's 2022 now.
so we gone or what?
Yes, the forum is gone. You're dreaming right now. It's time to wake up.
I post quite a lot of "unpopular opinions" lmao and have had some pretty heated arguments over various topics. The reason I have mostly checked out of political threads is that I work a lot more these days and have less time for the forums altogether. I don't feel the need to "hide my real opinions."
Kartoffel, Ilikecorn, Albert Wesker, there's three I could think of immediately. The conservative posters that are still around like them don't end up being shit on because even when their views are unpopular they're not unreasonable about them. The ones who catch flak constantly don't catch flak for having unpopular viwes so much as the way they argue those views. Typically by being evasive and intellectually dishonest rather than showing an honest effort to engage people on level ground.
You'll grow up to be a drunk too don't worry
If Facepunch goes down, I'm going to still be typing the site into the address bar every morning out of muscle memory for weeks before going "oh yeah..."
Probably JoeySkylinx too, I don't think he's been shit on too hard.
I was considering mentioning him too but his prepper attitude at the very least does tend to get some flak thrown his way. Personally I think he's largely fine otherwise though.
Good to see you back again man, I was one of the users that used to hang around with you, Foghorn and Publius back in the day in video chats, although my username was different. Best times for me on FP.
Maybe the Wurm Online FP invasion ranks up there too.
I was thinking that too, but the only one who seemed to give him a lot of shit for that was BDA iirc, and a lot of people called him out on that.
There was a time when I was really really rude to him. I don't even remember the exact specifics of the conversation but I've felt sorta' bad about it ever since.
I get you man, but reddit is not the same. Everyone jokes that FP is a hivemind, but if anywhere is a hivemind, its the various subs of reddit. Its too easy to shutdown people who don't agree with the group think, by just having the majority downvote anything they don't like. Yeah, FP has ratings, but those ratings don't hide posts at all, you still see the post even how much majority people disagree with it.
There was a guy in this thread that posted about how FP is a hugbox. I don't think it is, but I do know, reddit breeds them by design. You post on a subreddit, get downvoted into the ground, you never get the chance to discus shit there, so you find a sub that agrees with you. Bam, hugbox.
Also, in all my time on FP, I really feels like this is a community. I might not interact with people on other FP related stuff like the discord and various game servers as much as I would like too, but I still feel like I belong to a community.
Now i just feel like im rambling. I really don't want the community to go, Even if Inacio or someone makes the software for a new forum, I'm afraid that a lot of people won't transition over to them.
Also, my real life friend got his boyfriend through Facepunch. Even tho he doesn't use FP anymore, they been together for years.
My god it's one of the horsemen of the apocalypse, this world really is ending
My best friend has been together with an FP member for years too dude. We all live together also.
Reddit is bigger, but it's not better. It simply does not feel like a community there, it's the design. There's no avatars, no real personailty. The only way I've been able to recongize users on reddit is with a third party addon (RES) that shows me what my net rating to them is. As others have said, if you do deviate from the norm instead of a discussion you get down-voted, or ignored, when the more popular idea gets a lot of upvotes and stays at the top. It's not a good place for actual discussions, and while I've been flamed and snarked on here before, it's been far worse on reddit.
i was told not to listen to DRUNKS
I'll always have these to remember the good times by
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107265/97711793-cb9a-47c4-ad17-7d77e8cfc32c/image.png
I'm not sure why Reddit is being floated as a solution in a non-sarcastic tone of voice. Its threads are a borderline-unreadable mess in comparison to the apparently-outdated and obsolete concept of posts being listed in chronological order. It's frankly self-sabotaging.
Garry let one of your kids take over the site
You'd probably have better luck calling in Archive Team to back this entire forum up.
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