It feels a bit rude of me to register, post, and then likely not post much again after this, but Vitiman told me to pop back in and wish the forum a "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Birthday" or something.
Honestly, while I started toying with fangames via Sonic stuff, I don't think I ever would have stuck to it if it wasn't for MFGG, which is what slowly led me to eventually joining the games industry for real. It's kinda distracted me from actually doing any sort of fangame type things nowadays sadly, but it's good to see this place is still around!