Rip Sep7 1.0

Once I was a mod, now I just pop in here and there.

Weird that posting on B.net forums in high school business class in 07 led me to here18 years later.

Ever since I got paralytic blackout drunk on my 21st, I haven't worried about it.

It was stupid to get that drunk, naturally, but with the accompanying memory loss and total lack of feeling, you've metaphorically died. Between that time of stumbling around slurring your words and being passed out unconscious/asleep on the floor, you're already gone.

It's just black (or rather the absence of anything perceptual). In a sudden death you won't get the time to process or know it's happening, you'll just stop.

The first thought that woke me from that event was 'Hang on, I need to get my coat'. That was 13 hours later at home on a couch, 2 miles away from where I previously was (I didn't get home under my own power). The only difference between that, and death perceptually, is that you won't have that revival.

(For the record I don't believe 'we' go anywhere afterwards either)

Started on Bnet around 2008, on and off.
Kind of crazy we're moving onward to yet another offsite.

What I think is insane is that the Forum will actually 'retire' instead of dying a slow death or being host-banned a week from inception. I don't think anyone could have anticipated that happening when it started out, since most of us were wondering how the last 2 offsites had imploded days apart from each other.

This is the longest surviving forum I have been on. I was about and around a fair few game company's forums back around 2008, and a significant amount of them had already been forcefully closed by the time Sep7 started. For 5 years there was even another 'offsite' from an entirely different group of people, it had less infighting and drama, had more people to pool discussions from, and even then it died a faster death.

There must be something about the starting point, clearly - the other offsites are still ticking away with their own little cliques, their own rules about behaviour, their own odd characters and 'lore'. It's insane how many Bungie inadvertently created, and how there's still at least 4-5 of them in varying states.

Across 11 years of time here, there's been music rooms (rip Plug.DJ), movie shares, fucking MSN/Skype groups, and a lot of people and events which for better or worse has escaped my memory. It's mad to see the changes on the internet and internet culture whilst this place has remained unchanged. Against my own personal history, also.

This place has existed before I moved home, 5 times. Before all my original pets died. Before I moved country, before I had 2 fucking degrees, before I found my long term partner (who's aksed what I'm typing about 'on some old ass website'), before my parent's terminal diagnosis. When I was closer to 15 than I was to 30 (and that's terrifying). I can't say Sep7 has been a part of all those events, but it's weird when I come to post and get memories of those different pasts every so often whilst I browse.

I'm not really going anywhere with this, but I never really did that with things I posted here anyway. I should probably move the armchair.

Better find Jesus before you kick that bucket. People who don't have faith always fear death....