(09-29-2019, 01:19 PM)Ding Dong Wrote: I still really hold a lot of fond memories of a lot of you guys over here at MFGG and I'm sorry again for what behavior I demonstrated as a wonked up youth. I'm glad the site has stayed strong over all this time and that so much of the community still exists.
I was talking with @Bungalo a while back about how a couple of your stories on Oney Plays or on stream lined up with the time frame that we were active on the site, so I had guessed that you were who you were. I was gonna leave well enough alone 'cause I figured nobody wants their activity from when they were still in grade school pinned on them nearly 20 years later. I'm amused that my guess was right, but more importantly, I'm proud of the person you became despite all the trouble you faced growing up. I'm sorry for antagonizing you so many years back and invariably compounding whatever stress you were experiencing in your own life.
I know for a lot of members I may have been viewed as nothing short of a chaotic incomprehensible shitposter, or maybe entirely forgettable to others. But if anyone else's experience was anything like mine, then a lot of us probably didn't think too much of it at the time, even if our relationship was adversarial. To me, that's just how you were, and I had accepted that. Everything was in good fun, and everyone was just part of the gang. [Image: https://i.imgur.com/1yrWZy1.png]
to a broader extent
I'm proud of everyone for what they chose to do with themselves. Whether it be sticking to their guns and following their dreams or doing something more practical. The world is very different now from the one we grew up in -- and so is the Internet. Everybody gets points just for making it, y'know? I don't think people have the same sort of patience as had for each-other back then. The same sort of compassion to see each other though our struggles we shared in public or confided in one-another. It is a lot easier today for people to telegraph their struggles or whatever turmoil haunts their lives, and even easier for everyone else to turn a blind eye to it. During the most critical and intense periods of some of our lives we made ourselves vulnerable in some ways and gotten hurt, but in others we shared a bond that for some carried all the way into our adult lives. I wish the best for everybody that I ever came in contact with. Whether we left on a positive note or a sour one. I try forgive anyone for lacking the clarity of mind to act better in the moment, and hopefully, you can find it in yourself to do so too.
I know I have @Retriever II and @CuteYoshiGirl to thank for my livelihood at the moment, all it takes is one person willing to show you how to do something and another to give you the resources to express yourself -- and years down the line server operation and web technology in general is my career and with those skills I'm never without a warm place to sleep for too long at a time. There aren't words to express the true depth of my gratitude. The same goes for anyone that spoke to me during the times that I never thought I'd live to see the day where anything of the sort would happen. Life is complicated, and long, but we're stuck in it together -- and I don't want anyone ever feeling like they want out.
So thank you, everybody, for sharing something special with me. Something incredible, unforgettable, and unmistakably human that will live on in my heart for as long as I can remember it all.