It's been real. I've mostly lurked, but this was easily one of my favorite places to be on the web. Spent a lot of time here, even reluctantly so after certain shitty changes were made by a certain shitty someone. I was on here in '05 before the forum even made the change to vBulletin 3. Saw all the greats come and go, questionable systems rise and fall, and got banned a few times. I was very young and posted some delectably cringy and bad GMod "comics" edited using Paint and although I'm glad they're lost to time I still look back on it with a bittersweet smile.
Feels really fucked up to see it go like this, but I suppose it was always coming at some point. Maybe I was foolishly hoping it'd make it another decade or two.
I'll warily stick around for Knockout for a while and see if it somehow retains the spirit, but for those who are parting - and have already parted - I hope you'll be fine wherever you end up.
Thanks, (mostly) everyone who has been around here for making it an interesting, good and fun community.
And I also have to say thanks for making it all possible in the first place, Garry. I just wish you didn't have to also take it all away.
Since fp is going down, I guess this is my chance - maybe 8-9 years ago I watched some videos of a gmod contraption called “the mingebot” (I think), set to the rocky theme. Haven’t been able to find it since, anyone know of it?
I EAT ASS.
So much time spent here and so much learned. This place made me a better person. The days of being involved in the TF2 modding community are long over and I stopped posting so much, but this place was and will always be my original home on the internet.
My only regret is that over a decade of very real and rather important history will be lost once all our past posts get nuked, and I waited too long to save any of it for myself. I'm going to take some time to at least look through my old threads and posts, while I still can. You guys should too.
See you, space cowboys.
さようなら、ばか。。。
I don't like this joke
gmod is just a knock-off jbmod anyway
I have many regrets Dr. Garry.
This place might be gone by the time I wake up. Might as well get one more song in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA
Been a great long time. Goodbye, Facepunch.
I can't believe I spent a decade lurking around here. thanks FP, luv y'all.
I joined FP back in 2006(?) based off the recommendation of a friend who played GMOD. I personally only played GMOD for a couple of hours. I was quite active when I was younger on the forums with my posts and what not but became more and more of a lurker as I grew up besides some video threads about my FPARMA videos.
Facepunch was (still is until it dies I guess) my forum for most things. I would queue up tabs from the Videos section to play during my lunch break and read people's comments on the video, I would slowly browse through News and Polidick threads to get some basic News and to waste time whilst I was bored at work. Same with some of the General, Game and TV show threads. I always preferred Facepunch to something like reddit because I liked how stuff seems more toned down here in regards to the users and structure of the forum.
The forum, users and inside jokes which were present nowhere else...made me feel like I was a part of a little community and I did become part of communities because of it such as joining the Facepunch ARMA group for years.
Not really sure how to end this, never really had to say goodbye or anything to a forum/online community before. I'll be joining the Knockout forums and will mostly lurk on there as I've done here for many years. It won't be the same since I pretty much grew up from teenager to adult with this forum, but here is hoping to good new beginnings I suppose.
Goodbye Facepunch Forums and thank you for introducing me to good online friends (whether from a butterfly effect or directly on the forums) and giving me laughs over the years.
This place helped make my life just the littlest bit better. It really is sad to see it go. Feels like a safe place is just, gone. Thanks for all the years, at least.
We did it, fellas
https://i.imgur.com/pwrBNFu.png
The dream has been achieved, all thanks to the people who graciously donated to the cause!
good night facepunch
Good bye guys, we had a whole lotta fun but I guess it's time to grow up
Cr2142
2010-2019
i love you all and i'll miss all of you, i loved my time on this forum so much, it was my childhood and i've visited it every day since i got in to it <3
For years I had depression, at least I think I did. It was never diagnosed but I certainly wasn't right in the head. 7 years ago I joined Facepunch because I was a kid thinking I could give programming a go for Garry's Mod. I cant even remember how I found the forum, but I joined and asked questions, questions that I reflect upon and think "my god I was a dishonest annoying brat". But it kept me going because although I didn't become a more avid programmer for years to come, the other half of Facepunch quickly shielded me from my other side of life. I would come back from school, and jump on and check LMAO Pics, sensational headlines, and other threads I had interest in. I even checked Developer Discussion for Garry's Mod, regardless of how shit of a programmer I was back then. The forums simply distracted me from the bad parts of life.
Now that it is going, I don't know how I am going to cope with my afternoon routine. I mean, now I am a more healed person thanks to the Facepunch community but it just became another part of my life that I am not really ready to let go. It really makes me sad.
Been lurking here since probably around 2006. Good times, good memories. Goodbye.
Shout out to the old Deviantart Appreciation Station threads and the Videogame Urban Legends and Other Creepy Shit threads. Good times.
WAYWO was the start of my career. I'll miss you Facepunch
shit
shoutout to the What Turns You on the Most threads, I was never the same after them
I have one chance, one opportunity to make a final post here. What to do, what to do...I know!
Slurp my fat, greasy, shit-stained ass! You'll nevee take me alive!
Gentlemen. This is democracy manifest.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bookshelf.png
Bookshelf
I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone
later virgins
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