my relationship with this website has been extremely unhealthy. if you check the stats page, you'll find that i am the most active user here by a significant margin. on top of being the #1 most frequent poster, with almost 50K posts since 2014, my overall time spent on this website is 787 days—over two full years, which is nearly DOUBLE that of the second most online user, and almost 7% of my total lifespan.

all that time spent, and what did i do? i posted a lot of negative shit. had lots of arguments. made a lot of people dislike or even hate me because of my lack of respect for them, or because of my capacity to "shit up threads" with my negativity.

i don't completely regret my behavior—if i were to think of myself as a character, i think i added a lot of good to the narrative of this forum, the way any dislikable asshole character in your favorite show might add a lot of entertainment value to that story. but i think i did go over the line rather frequently—particularly in 2016, which is where a lot of my most regrettable posts can be found.

almost 10 years later, i wish i could tell you that i'm an entirely different person now, but in many ways, i'm still the Verbatim you knew—i am still a bitter and resentful person with a chip on his shoulder for everything—but i have certainly mellowed out in a lot of ways. i do not spend nearly as much time arguing with people on the internet anymore, for a few reasons, but certainly not because i've lost the energy to do so. rather, i've lost the passion. i haven't become a full-on nihilist, but i've certainly become more nihilistic. i just don't really see much of a point to internet debates anymore, whereas before, in my post-adolescent naivete, i could still halfway convince myself that i really was contributing positively to the world by incessantly arguing about the morality of childbirth on a backwater internet forum to a group of disinterested center right gamers who just want to talk about how bad the new star wars movie is, or whatever the fuck.

this is one of the few online communities that never banned me permanently for being an asshole—which is really saying something—and honestly, i do need to thank Cheat for that. i have to imagine i've been on thin ice on a number of occasions, but you've always erred on the side of allowing me to express myself without any limits, often to my own detriment, and that is VERY MUCH appreciated. it was having this forum as an outlet that prevented me from posting in horrible places like 4chan or what have you. sep7agon really was all i had for a long time.

that being said, i'm almost 30 years of age at this point—i have more than sep7agon now. i don't know if i really need to join the new website. if i do, i have no interest in starting arguments or "shitting up threads" with my unwanted contrarian opinions, so you won't have to expect that from me. i'll likely just pop in here and there to throw in my two cents on whatever interesting topics happen to come up. or maybe i'll forget to join and you'll never see me again and this'll be the last post you read of mine.

if you appreciated my presence here, i hope to still see you around.
if you hated my guts this whole time, i'm sorry. i get it now—not that i entirely didn't before, but yeah.

we fought A LOT but i am a lot different person too. im somehow more mellow. bro sometimes i hear the name "verbatim" and think about our flames wars. back then i was dumb kid. this site is turning 11 now right? yea i'm 28 now and have fully expirenced a lot of ups and downs of life. 

yo... we still alive?

wait...

are brojobs gay now too?

always have been. unless you say no homo.

does that make me gay?

Quote from: Coomer on November 24, 2020, 01:23:37 PM

Did you know when I went to Vietnam, they put squid and corn on pizza?

And they give you ketchup packets to eat it with

I guess that's what happens after USA intervention.
Have you seen what they did to Japan and how it is now?!
Iraq will probably put mayo on their pizza unironically.

A third nuke wouldve fixed japan

Cancel me

i miss you

don't you remember the law of no homo?

Just say no homo and take the money.

do people still know or care about our existence?

Quote from: The Hån on November 02, 2019, 11:30:41 PM

I'm still working IT and got a raise not too long ago. i also bought a car.

that's hot, what car you get?

16 chevy cruze. gets good mileage, which is what i need

i peek in every so often. just to see who sticks around

queers

im back bitches

Yes I am.

beat my meat