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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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happy birthday @Still Me

@1pooh4u we have almost ascended

Yes per scoob these are generally solicited by the lawyer/client/'s family to influence sentencing after conviction.

Happy birthday @Icarus27k!

toddler football spiked a souvenir snowglobe as soon as we got home that my father and his gf got her on their vacation at this point in my day I am modestly cranky

Wanted to share this famitsu interview, very interesting even though it's run through Google translate: https://s.famitsu.com/news/202309/06314767.html The main headline point is that no DLC is currently in development and there are no plans to make another direct sequel in this same world (though one could materialize if there were a gameplay-based justification). But there were a bunch of other tidbits that jumped out at me, maybe others that might jump out to you. It really seemed like a significant bulk of effort was focused primarily on the the ultrahand physics. I recall reading that this started out as a BOTW DLC concept that turned into a sequel due to the scope, so that kinda checks out for me. It seems that the depths were primarily auto-generated in a short timeframe, with some locations of interest dropped in. That kind of conforms with their priority as above by not focusing so much man hours on new locations. I don't quite want to call it an afterthought to pad out the came, but it also kind of makes sense as a player because the depths do feel very samey and unrewarding to explore after a short while. Do not take a comprehensive franchise timeline seriously, they are very frank that they don't and you will never see a happy resolution beyond fan theories. phone being weird so I'm just gonna submit the post now

I lost everything I typed when the mobile text box had a brain fart so I'll try to restate my original post in brief. I haven't really played much recently just due to life. I think I've finished all the main quests save diving into the final confrontation. I've got a bunch of minor side quests to close out and a few shrines left to track down. A lot of lightroots left and X marks to track down too. At this point I am a little over halfway into the "hero's path" bar, not sure how that translates into gameplay hours.

ahh ok so you see the embed, but if the text is truncated to fit or if you want to see the images, you can't open the full thing to get the full picture man, literally the one good thing about twitter was the convenience of the embeds...

what does that embed look like for you

happy birthday @wacky1980!

your sig

why go camping in connecticut when you could go kayaking in kentucky

Georgia passed a law recently that would allow a Republican-dominated commission to basically fire any DA with the Governor's sign off. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1697290817197551650?s=20

how ruuuude

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https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1697314897187532992?s=20

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-powerless-complain-about-china-claiming-russia-territory-1823513

https://twitter.com/WSJPolitics/status/1696975982916186394

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/marijuana-review-move-to-schedule-iii-00113493

a tree is kind of like a house, for squirrels and birds

https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1696700668730339636