MFGG is 20 years old!

[Kritter]

I'm not stopping long, but I might as well tell a story for those who like a bit of history. Shortly after the move from IPB, a retirement home for former MFGG admins (and some other old people) was set up, and I was there for some reason. It lasted a few years before naturally coming to an end (which means we retired from retirement(?)), but it was a really good time with some really good people. I'll probably never meet Shadsy or Kritter or Retriever II or Techokami or Trasher/Kins/Scods in real life, but they are the bestests. There has never been a better topic than "things that exist".

Way to spill the secret beans! That was a great time, it think it sort of started out as a bit of a "we'll start our own forum, with blackjack and hookers" moment, one of the few online forums/communities where I genuinely felt like I could be myself around a group of people who "got" me. Even Joey ended up being a really cool friend for the brief time we were all there. We also had a few great Minecraft servers, which was the hot new game at the time.

Oh and MFGG was a cool time too. It definitely gave me something to do in my late teenage years and I'd like to believe my contributions added something but I've become so detatched from this place in the last few years I 100% honestly forget it exists and only get reminded from time to time on twitter or the like. A lot of wasted hours here though, hundreds of hours spent ripping sprites and putting them in Clickteam "libs" that I'm positive nobody uses, 10 years making a game only for it to end up a buggy mess and having my HDD crash, losing any chance at "finishing" it properly though nobody really played it anyway, and far too much time spent mucking about in a place that outgrew me years before.

I could never join the Discord or whatever you crazy kids are using these days, stuff like that just isn't for me. Nothing beats the old days of forums, hundreds of users posting a mile a minute, every F5 was a new adventure and people were just thrilled to be a part of a community of like-minded people.