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.

Received the invite today signed up, forgot about this site again, but never truly, I’ll try to be on septagon more like the good old days of me being a 12 year old moron.

Hey uh

What happens to this old place when the Alpha becomes Beta and officially 3.0?

Shutdown? Will the domain change or will both take you to the current septagon.net?

Not asking for archive reasons but wondering in general.

Once we are either out of beta or suuuuper close to being stable, I will make this forum read-only and then attempt to get the wayback machine to archive everything.

Eventually this site will close and the domain will redirect to the new site. The server for this environment is actually SUPER expensive compared to the decentralized setup I have for 3.0.

>print button
Fucking based

Fun fact: roles are tied to items in your inventory. The print button is what gives you the "Original" role.

If you didn’t get an invite lemme know.