Quite curious what everyone was up to! Nobody else made the thread, and the "Users that you miss" felt like an inappropriate place to discuss the topic.
I think I disappeared from MFGG around... early 2010? After the move to the new forum software. I felt like a lot of the community I was around for disappeared.
And my own social contacts shifted - mostly towards TASVideos, and a separate community. I had contacts on Ragnarok Online, particularly from a server that I remember Raie recommending - she never forgave herself for that, I know
. Which contributed to me disappearing from MFGG, even after Yggdrasil Online shut down in late 2009.
I actually became a staff member for TASVideos - actually, around late 2009 for that, but it was 2010 when it was all under full swing. I became a Publisher. Whoo! Always wanted to be a staff member at a site.
I found the furry community around late 2009, which contributed to me disappearing from MFGG totally later - there are several MFGGers that were responsible for me investigating the community.
There's also some stupid s*** that I said to certain MFGGers that I wish I never said - they know who they are. I am so sorry.
I also managed to gain ownership of an unrelated site in mid-2010. Whoo! I always wanted to run a site. I won't elaborate what ended up happening here. But there is a lot of regret in it.
I mismanaged the place so badly for the next 9 years. I've finally shed my responsibility of that place. Whew.
I managed to enter my first relationship in very late 2009.
I think sometime around... 2012, my relationship with TASVideos went south. I probably shouldn't elaborate what happened. It wasn't pretty.
Still sour over that. Which is a shame.
The artform still interests me, but the community is absolutely toxic.
I confess that my tenure there was far from great, either. I did a lot of bad things. But I still stand by my opinion over the site.
I ended up joining a Ragnarok Online server around late 2011, called Ret-RO, and met some very lifelong friends there, and re-discovered some other friends that I never let go of since.
I started trying to get into actually drawing, but I never got very far. I never got good at drawing solo.
I worked with other artists, to produce colourizations of their works. I always felt rotten and dirty doing it, but a lot of people seemed enthused that I went to the effort to care about their art.
I ended up ending that first relationship around 2012-2014ish, and entering a new one. Learnt a lot about how people are, and what I wanted in life.
Tony Abbott got elected Australia's Prime Minister in 2013.
f*** Tony Abbott. He has set a precedent that I think is extremely toxic, and the aftershocks only continuing to intensify.
I probably shouldn't discuss politics too much. But I became more politically active as I grew older.
Met some more friends from various communities, particularly TCRF.
My interpersonal life slowed down a bit in the mid 10s - for personal and external reasons.
My family life became a dumpster fire.
I learnt some powerful lessons in managing interpersonal chemistry between people I knew - and that I can't solve every problem I see. I learnt that in some painfully difficult ways.
So, basically - I withdrew a lot. I mostly consolidated myself to a few small communities and people.
I do regret that I became such an isolated person.
After 2015ish, well...
My colourization output really died down - this is for a few reasons. I guess it's not worth discussing them. Part of it was burnout, a fair chunk of it was feeling working on colourizations was a terrible idea.
As a whole, I burnt out from a lot, lot of things.
I did end up beginning work on a video game project in 2016, in some extremely unlikely circumstances.
Of course - as many MFGGers will know, development hell ensued. It's still a coming thing, I promise!
2017, 2018, 2019... not much.
...
So, anyway! That's an extremely compressed summary of what I've been up to for the time that I disappeared!
I do wonder - what have you all been up to? I am most curious.
I know some of some people's stories, but certainly not all of it.
It's wild that my 3-4 years at MFGG affected me for an entire decade afterwards, however.
I think I disappeared from MFGG around... early 2010? After the move to the new forum software. I felt like a lot of the community I was around for disappeared.
And my own social contacts shifted - mostly towards TASVideos, and a separate community. I had contacts on Ragnarok Online, particularly from a server that I remember Raie recommending - she never forgave herself for that, I know
. Which contributed to me disappearing from MFGG, even after Yggdrasil Online shut down in late 2009.I actually became a staff member for TASVideos - actually, around late 2009 for that, but it was 2010 when it was all under full swing. I became a Publisher. Whoo! Always wanted to be a staff member at a site.
I found the furry community around late 2009, which contributed to me disappearing from MFGG totally later - there are several MFGGers that were responsible for me investigating the community.
There's also some stupid s*** that I said to certain MFGGers that I wish I never said - they know who they are. I am so sorry.
I also managed to gain ownership of an unrelated site in mid-2010. Whoo! I always wanted to run a site. I won't elaborate what ended up happening here. But there is a lot of regret in it.
I mismanaged the place so badly for the next 9 years. I've finally shed my responsibility of that place. Whew.
I managed to enter my first relationship in very late 2009.
I think sometime around... 2012, my relationship with TASVideos went south. I probably shouldn't elaborate what happened. It wasn't pretty.
Still sour over that. Which is a shame.
The artform still interests me, but the community is absolutely toxic.
I confess that my tenure there was far from great, either. I did a lot of bad things. But I still stand by my opinion over the site.
I ended up joining a Ragnarok Online server around late 2011, called Ret-RO, and met some very lifelong friends there, and re-discovered some other friends that I never let go of since.
I started trying to get into actually drawing, but I never got very far. I never got good at drawing solo.
I worked with other artists, to produce colourizations of their works. I always felt rotten and dirty doing it, but a lot of people seemed enthused that I went to the effort to care about their art.
I ended up ending that first relationship around 2012-2014ish, and entering a new one. Learnt a lot about how people are, and what I wanted in life.
Tony Abbott got elected Australia's Prime Minister in 2013.
f*** Tony Abbott. He has set a precedent that I think is extremely toxic, and the aftershocks only continuing to intensify.
I probably shouldn't discuss politics too much. But I became more politically active as I grew older.
Met some more friends from various communities, particularly TCRF.
My interpersonal life slowed down a bit in the mid 10s - for personal and external reasons.
My family life became a dumpster fire.
I learnt some powerful lessons in managing interpersonal chemistry between people I knew - and that I can't solve every problem I see. I learnt that in some painfully difficult ways.
So, basically - I withdrew a lot. I mostly consolidated myself to a few small communities and people.
I do regret that I became such an isolated person.
After 2015ish, well...
My colourization output really died down - this is for a few reasons. I guess it's not worth discussing them. Part of it was burnout, a fair chunk of it was feeling working on colourizations was a terrible idea.
As a whole, I burnt out from a lot, lot of things.
I did end up beginning work on a video game project in 2016, in some extremely unlikely circumstances.
Of course - as many MFGGers will know, development hell ensued. It's still a coming thing, I promise!
2017, 2018, 2019... not much.
...
So, anyway! That's an extremely compressed summary of what I've been up to for the time that I disappeared!
I do wonder - what have you all been up to? I am most curious.
I know some of some people's stories, but certainly not all of it.
It's wild that my 3-4 years at MFGG affected me for an entire decade afterwards, however.
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