Jesus Fucking Christ God Almighty.
What he fuck happened? Thread started out great and turned into a flame war.
So here goes. Why don't I post like I used to? Quite a few things really. I'll cover a little of it.
A couple years ago, some personal shit went down, my closest "friends" here know about it. I took a break and also cut my gaming back by a huge margin. When I returned, a lot of new members had joined, who were pretty regular posters it seemed. I felt I didn't know them, I had been gone a little while. During that time some of my "besties" left the site. While I feel that I still know a good bit of members here, it has just never felt the same for me. My crew pretty much all left. I still post/shout to the memebers still here that I knew from before, but nowhere near the level i used to.
For me it is nothing to do with articles, posts, threads, etc.
For me, it is like my group, my time/era, is ended. I mostly lurk now, and if something actually sparks a response, I give it. Hell, I even gave away my intro post. Mike does it now, because I knew my time on site was declining massively. I even basically single handedly killed the trade thread, by failing to update it regularly.
I have 2 boys in sports and a full time job, life gets in the way a lot now.
That said, some of my favorite threads ever from my heyday:
Whats behind YOUR Gamertag Just as it says. A thread to explain why you chose your identity on XBL.
To NOAH9000 Messing with a good friend, and I miss him greatly around here.
call of duty 3 boosters needed LOL, the times we had, those of us who tormented ourselves with this. And my dumbass went through it twice because I promised a friend i would help him complete the game.
Then there were the threads that almost got the original Mike and me banned, lol. Those were the times.