MissCommunication said:On old SC it was not uncommon to have 40 fucked up, intellectuals online at once fighting tooth and nail. The trolling was psychological and smart and fun. We knew each other and we e-punched each other in the face regularly and we lol'd. And in between that we helped each other. T'was glorious.
When was this?
SC's typically been on the slower side, and I can recall multiple times that it's been significantly slower than this.
Not simple CP posts and neo-nazi, ironically mainstream, edgy-ness.
We've always had that.
What's really changed is that a lot of our old cast is too soft to keep playing the game, hence this pseudo-pacifism and loads of fake hate on the dramas to distance themselves from them.
When someone's all like "Man I don't really hate anyone", "Why can't we just get along", "Say one good thing about a forum member", then we have a pussy trying to steer things, and they actually do the most damage.
I'm not sure when you joined. Anyone who is OG SC can see this is the final gasp of a weird and glorious community that formed in a small corner of the world, in a brief moment in time. It was a memorable prolonged moment that lead many of us to be SC addicts but alas, that moment passed (in 2017 tbh). I'm among the last to accept it.
Do you even know how many times SC has quote unquote "died", just to come back even more active than before?
This thing's an undercover phoenix. While having no real current means of regenerating the user base definitely sells stagnation to me, we've come back from slower sadder times.
While we never were pure socios our community was pro-sociopathic and it was fun. Now it is a soft, vanilla wafer to nibble warily while one passes a long, dark night... perhaps I just entertained myself here too long and I ache for the golden days.
The "golden days" are just nostalgia glasses with an older cast, more patience to type out their thoughts, and less memes. Only part I really agree with is over how everyone's too soft and guarded now, but I couldn't call times of our glorious past "golden days" without reminding myself of all the slow times way back when (there was a time that SC was just three people RPing).
If you want to contribute towards the older ideals, though, then you need to be less lazy and more brave/direct.
The people who frequented this dark corner of the web meant a lot to me. They were funny, cruel and kind and they kicked the shit out of me during my darkest days. I miss them. It was a moment.
Which ones in particular?
