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no just wait @Rogue_Alphonse

There were three times in my life where I came close to fixing it. Twice on school breaks where I had no time commitments, I literally just pushed myself to stay up later and later every night/day until I rounded the horn and was organically waking up at 7am and I held onto it for a couple weeks before falling back into a routine. When I started a job fall 2016, I was just so stressed and withdrawn that everything was forced out except my physical needs. So I'd just like drop what I'd be doing practically mid-sentence and just walk to bed. That went away once I got over the shell shock. I'd recommend #1, but it's virtually impossible for most anyone to find a two week block of time with minimal obligations where you have the freedom to sleep or wake up at any hour of the day.

i am a summoner too, see watch: @Rogue_Alphonse

lol that wasn't exactly the solution i was looking for BUT I'LL TAKE IT

Thanks tsar, but my real objective though is kinda more to spin the future out to everyone. The collective. The hivemind.

case closed!

yes but does "stress out" normally mean "coat the walls and ceiling in diarrhea"?

I sent you a message

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1702079358964510923

No it is definitely but those words just like did not exist to my eyeballs

He is kind of up there in age where a six year term is a serious consideration, especially given the dysfunction and sitting in the minority. I believe his seat is his to lose, he's not at risk of losing in a Utah primary compared to any other state, but effectively being an island of one has it's limits.

My brain completely missed the "for another country" line, just like completely zeroed it out. But yeah that's my guess, that it's a show to express solidarity against western hegemony.

I'm fairly certain ASMB was my first internet community, anything I tried to break into after was just not the same and never clicked.

I'm pretty sure it's the reverse, NK offered to arm Russia for the war on Ukraine.

Every time I hear about a NK missile test, my first thought is always "do they really have enough missiles to be wasting them on show launches?"

An old board member (I can't remember his actual handle) speculated 10+ years ago that every one of us had a little hole in our lives that this community filled and that's why we all stuck around. I think there might be some truth to that, but I also think there's probably awful metaphors to make about the people who stuck around the longest having the largest holes. And I would never go there.

cidz protip you can tag people with the @ key like this @Cidz and it'll tip you off as to who has made an account here. bonus points if they see the notification and reply!

Also lol https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-doj-assist-biden-impeachment-probe-00115393

Trump is a driver on the impeachment train, this is bound to end well https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-privately-discussed-biden-impeachment-with-house-gopers-00115357

I think the 20th anniversary board was pretty neat, just an absolute refreshing blast of nostalgia and old faces popping in to say hi or reintegrate into that message board life. It was just a great vibe all around. A big thank you to all the volunteers that helped, and thank you to everyone who stopped in and joined the conversation. Particular shoutouts off the top of my head to @LoverDemon for dropping in with that absolute OG energy, to @romana for raising outside awareness, and to @eklipse just I think for being a wonderful human being (which in retrospect has nothing to do with the event but shut up). Also - major props to @scoobdog for hosting the ASMB Survivor game and congrats to @discolé monade for taking home the prize! We will be archiving the event folder soon, but if anyone has ideas on how to carry that vibe onward, we're all ears. Beyond the anniversary event, it's worth noting that it's been about a year since we did the site reset. From my perspective, I think it totally shifted the tone of the site in a positive manner. To the extent that things slowed down at that point, it slowed down due to the lack of drama. Which I think is an inherently positive trade and the shift in vibe genuinely made it a more pleasant user experience (at least from my own perspective). Like merging Toonami/[adult swim] and empowering the new helpers just made sense from a content perspective, and I think there is a wider range of content there now than a year ago to show for it. I'd like to make a better emphasis externally to highlight that area of the site, because I do believe it's an anchor to draw people in from elsewhere. And I really liked divorcing CE/GD from the old paradigm and making them more neutral environments. Like I was always a current events poster but the old Rants was genuinely terrible by the end, because the folder in concept was a quarantine for terrible attitudes and political arguments, so it was just geared up to be purposely miserable from the start. Shoutouts to @matrixman124, @Jman, @tsar4, and probably a few more who just really nailed what the new tone of Current Events and even legacy folders should be from the start. And frankly GD really needed the folder consolidation to be more of a genuine catch-all "water cooler" folder, instead of the IB-Lite that FFA had turned into because of how many other topical folders used to exist. I think there may be things in CE that might be more GD-appropriate, and I'd bet we have too many "post your thoughts on X" megathreads that probably shortcut fuller content/conversation, and maybe we'll recalibrate to try to balance it out, idk. But I think the foundation of it all was a good base to grow out from as folks trickle in and decide whether its worth sticking around. Honestly I want to keep namedropping people for their contributions and and energy and I like have a genuine mental list but I don't want to leave folks out and it wasn't even the point of this post. But moving forward, we don't really have any magical dates or landmarks to keep our eyes to and I think it's worth talking about where to go from here. A lot of our energy and collective persona is built into our cloak of ASMB nostalgia - and I think that's important! But I think we're also at a point where it's worth maybe looking forward and trying to go beyond that. We've seen a fair few "new" faces over 2023 and the new energy people bring in is what sustains us and makes it all worthwhile. I'm not saying we're looking for a hail mary strategy to open the floodgates, but I think it's important that we're positioned where people within a reasonably scaled niche can both see us and want give us a shot when they see us (whether to add our tab to their list of communities or because they're quitting ubiquitous social media). And to Sheem's comment: I also want to figure out if there are ways to get existing folks to engage more often and frankly not forget we exist. Obviously we're not doing push notifications and we send out an eblast probably twice a year at most. Like for example I see a lot of ASMB people complaining about facebook/mainstream social media but needing it purely to keep in touch with their e-friends, and I'm like "you guys, UEMB is both off the grid and right here, and we even have both profile/club posting if you don't want to do the whole message board thing" so obviously there's a lot of room for our external improvement in that regard. I'm definitely rambling at this point, so I'll pause and let some of what I wrote hang out there before I come back. I would have been more organized in my thoughts if I had finished getting them out before I hit the brick burnout wall a month ago, so y'all just gotta deal with my scattered thoughts sorry not sorry.

happy birthday team

all of them?

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