In that thread people like Slaveless, Fuzzle Guy and Cullen Heath posted... please.

You are the worst newbies troller ever! :p

I miss MeechShrykull1029...

Every time I look at this thread title I read it as "Cornfused?!"

When I joined I remember being really iffy about signing up because I lurked for years before signing up and remember watching a lot of shit go down and for a short while it was just nothing but rude asses for miles around. Honestly, I'm fine with the current community because while there's still a lot of snark most people got off their cruelty horse.

I'm really not sure if OWI and JAW working on (sort of) new Oddworld junk has anything to do with that.

To be fair, we would have said the same thing about you two or three years ago...

What's your point?

That thread took me back to a happier time in OWF's history. Oddworld had been effectively dead for a few months and people were starting to become snappy, negative, trollish and cliquey. I hadn't even become a super moderator yet, but I'd been around longer than anyone, long enough that even 7 years later the idea of calling 2006 'the really early era' is a massive joke, and I was distraught at the way the community was turning.

But looking back I can see it was small fries compared to today. Look, people having fun with a harmless game on a gaming forum! Don't see that now. The pain the community's evolution caused me then, in retrospect, is so much better than the numbness I have towards this place now. There are a lot of you I like and respect, but the only interesting conversation here now is back in Oddworld Discussion, and even that's so painful and acidic that I don't want to go there.

All of this venting utterly aside, if I see you using a slur against autistic people again I'm giving you a week's ban without hesitation.

Is it really that bad around here right now? I seriously feel like it's improved significantly since I joined, though it will probably never be as upbeat and welcoming as it was way back when. And hey, once they start producing entirely new material, maybe there will be interesting conversation going on once more.

Hopefully the new content also fixes the issue with hostility around here.

Oh dang I didnt even realize that thing he said was a slur. You learn something new every day

I miss when we used to talk about every Oddworld's details in the Q&A thread... I think we discussed everything, can you remember Wil?

They all have great minds! They were all our friends here and they all contributed in making excellent discussions. That is only a thread, you can't use it to judge how OWF was back in 2006. Newbies always used to start threads like that because they are often young people who want to talk about Oddworld!

The current assiness in OT is less assy than it was when I first joined.

OD and FC are also much less friendly, so make of that what you will.

Who are you talking to?

Most of the assiness I see in regards to FC are towards it rather than in it. It gets tiresome looking at an introduction thread of a particularly quirky new member and everyone directing them to FC because they don't like them or it being bashed in casual conversation about the forum and its different zones.

Other than that FC is just quiet.

Yeah, and a quiet FC isn't a welcoming FC.

I don't think people really say new members with an interest in OW belong in FC any more.

The quietness could be easily remedied by people actually posting there every so often. I don't know why it's so looked down upon/laughed at, it's a pretty pleasant place overall.

And that's not really what I said. Every so often a new member will come along and we'll do our usual new member-bullying and a decent amount of the time if the member comes across as obnoxious in some manner you'll have the occasional post directing them towards FC, which usually gets glazed over anyways.

Because fan artists are the lowest form of life. Duh.

Seriously though, we don't even get that many new members any way, a lot of the people with interesting things to say aren't about as much, people on here are a lot less opinionated than they used to be and we've had the same debates so many times that there's no point in doing them again. For those reasons, the whole forum in general is quieter.

Not to mention that people are a lot less interested in forums now than they were five or ten years ago.

Wow, this thread has really put things into perspective.

And what about veterans age? We aren't kids now, interests change even Oddworld is always our favourite game (probably). We can talk about other stuff now.

Wil despises OWF and everyone in it.

Make me a moderator.

make him a moderator.

Of casual sex and beaches.

Dude, that's when I joined. I got yelled at by Nate.

According to WoF, things started getting better when you joined.

Wait... seriously?

What is it with all these members who remember me abusing them? I seriously can't recall this.

Can you at least remember abusing me?

I remember giving you an infraction once. But I think you've mentioned me yelling at you on a different occassion.

At least I do.

They're lying, Will infracted me once for downloading Abe's Exoddus! This is an abuse!

Right now I'm imagining me going to a bar, meeting an attractive gentleman, bringing him home... and mid-coitus being interrupted by AiN bursting in and giving me infractions.

EDIT: Going to the infraction list, the options are:

• Illegal Activity
• Inappropriate Language
• Insulted Other Member(s)
• Poor Grammar & Spelling
• Posted Spoilers
• Postorrhoea
• Signature Rule Violation
• Spam
• Thread Necrumancy
• Multiple Account
• Gorman Disenza Virus

I'll let you guys guess which ones he might have hit me for.




EDIT EDIT: Is it just me, or has this thread become exactly what the OP was complaining about?

Takeshi come back, we need to broaden the gene pool.

it's like the Aztecs all over again.

I hate postorrhoea!

Especially in the bedroom.

In that list you forgot exhuming MS1029 by the way.