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Fundamentally Boring - etoven - 25th January 2006
Despite all the hipe about TC slowing down, I could still spend all night here.
Fundamentally Boring - Fittisize - 26th January 2006
This is my first post since December 31st and I only made 101 posts in all of 2005, yet I still read nearly every single thread and still spend a large portion of my internet time at this site.
I've never really contributed anything to this forum but I've always been happy to call this place home. Maybe it's because Tendo City was one of the very first sites that I ever logged on to. I was only 11 years old when I made my first post here. Hell, I can still remember it. It read, "Should I buy Donkey Kong 64?" (and sure enough I received it that very Christmas). I was the youngest regular in 1999 and I am still the youngest regular (do lurkers count as regulars?) in 2006. I went through the very formative junior and senior high years posting and reading here and I think that's why this place is so special to me.
Despite my low post count (less than 3000 spread out over seven years) and that fact that I have added basically NOTHING to this forum aside from the occasional emotional outburts ("rangsty"), anti-America/pro-Canada rants, drunken posts, proclaiming Ocarnia of Time to be the worst game ever, trying my damndest to anger some of the veteran members, and still more drunken posts, losing Tendo City would be like losing a good friend. I grew up on this forum and it still remains a nice escape from the harshness of reality that I so often need.
From time to time I'll read older posts that I've made here. Most of them are simply painful to read. I still cannot explain half the shit that I've posted here. The constant attempts to be funny/mean/political all seem very strange and un-characterstic me. Jesus looking at old posts I'm surprised that I could even illicit a reply. Reading old posts reminds me that at one point Korn was my favourite band of all-time (although I do still like them, but not nearly in the same light and for the same reasons as I did when I was 14) and that I had copious amounts of trouble beating a stupid-ass enemy early in Metroid Prime (not a boss, a damn monster that takes about three shots to kill). Heh and looking back at old posts I for some reason thought that this was very funny and clever:
![[Image: owned.jpg]](http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/Fittisize/images/owned.jpg)
My sense of humour has since changed since I posted that pic (off the record I was disappointed that it didn't gain the amount of controversy that I had hoped considering the time I put into making it and how I thought it was the cleverest shit ever). I'm not embarassed about posting that pic but dammit reading it over again is, once again, painful.
And it's for reasons like that that Tendo City remains so special to me. I can literally see myself growing looking back at old posts and even older archives. And I know that most of the members that still post here have a similar mentality. We all don't want to see it go because we all have so many shared memories. I have a better understanding of the personalities of a few members here than I do some of my friends that I've had for years. I have always used Tendo City as an escape and will continue to do so as long as it's around. And if it takes more members to keep it around then so be it, but I really don't think that's what's going to do it. Reading over this thread it seems that we are all disheartened that Tendo City isn't "what it once was". And while this is true, keep in mind that the same core group of people who emerged from ice-9's initial closure of the Nurb community are basically the same ones who post here today (with a few notable exceptions of course)...not much has changed in the past two or three years in terms of members, with some coming and going, but the ones that care the most staying. If this place is so boring because nobody posts here anymore, well let's do some work to find a shitload of new members if you think that will solve it. But I guarantee that in a year's time the ones that you have the most meaningful discussions and debates with will be the same ones that you are having now, even if we had a sudden increase in numbers. When a group of people have been around each other for so long it's difficult to bring new people in and for them to feel accepted...or to even accept them for that matter. And that's the bottom line. I think the reason why no large-scale efforts have been made to increase traffic to this site is because we don't really want it. It is easy to say that more members will keep this place afloat, but in a group like this, the only thing that will keep this place from dying is the strength and perservation from some of our veteran members. And if that ever goes away, then maybe Tendo City was destined to end.
Fundamentally Boring - Darunia - 26th January 2006
I barely pay any attention to the video games industry any more, since my attention has been waning since the N64 went out. There was always the Ramble and Debate forums for casual posting, and even these have gone dry and stale.
Fundamentally Boring - Geno - 2nd February 2006