STEROLIZER
Noob
Greetings TYM, this post is also going to unceremoniously serve as my introduction post. On that note, even if I’ve never posted here before, I’ve still been pretty involved in the community. I’ve attended every single EVO in person since 2014, and met a lot of other members in person. Some years I’ll cosplay as Johnny Cage for the grand finals.
Been in the MK Online Community since the mid-90’s back when alt.games.mk was a thing. Was pretty involved with Threshold, MKNightmares, and MK5.org back in the day. The latter having morphed into Mortal Kombat Online while I was in high school, those guys are super cool, still hang out with that crew from time to time.
I’m privileged enough to always be industry adjacent with my work, so I get to go to E3, GDC, and the other insider events. I was lucky enough to attend the MK11 Hollywood reveal back in the day. So I’m a true old school MK fan.
As I’ve gotten older tho, adulting has limited my online presence, so for the most part I’ve only posted on GameFaqs and nowhere else for the past 15 years or so. For better or worse I was known as the defacto “face” of the MK Boards — as if that means anything
I even book a couple of hotel rooms in Vegas every year for EVO to split amongst the other GameFaqs users so we can have a makeshift meet up. Unfortunately, as the years have gone by the number of users who participate has dwindled significantly, as more and more Kombatants leave the platform for greener pastures.
GameFaqs has really gone downhill significantly the past decade, but they really expedited their own demise in the past two years or so, where everyone is pretty much encouraged by the administration to treat each other with hostility — as all the moderators seem to be getting through this pandemic by living vicariously through politics at the moment.
As such the entire platform is just full of toxicity, and every damn topic degenerates into some terrible political argument.
I’ve always been apolitical, and stayed out of that nonsense. I just want to play fighting games, talk about sports, comics, and occasionally make a shitpost. But the entire platform has shrank so much from the #81 ranked Alexa site that it used to be in 2010, to now hosting about 800 active users in total - 100 of them mods.
The other day I made the mistake of posting in a topic that was calling everyone “fascists” with the snide remark of “I’m so apolitical I don’t even know what a fascist is” and that was enough to get my 20 year old account banned for trolling
Considering there is currently an ongoing list of people who’ve banned/suspended over the course of the past few years that is now nearing the thousands, I’m wondering how many of my former GameFaqs Kombatants have also migrated to TYM and now call this place home?
Any old GameFaqs users hanging around these parts?
Been in the MK Online Community since the mid-90’s back when alt.games.mk was a thing. Was pretty involved with Threshold, MKNightmares, and MK5.org back in the day. The latter having morphed into Mortal Kombat Online while I was in high school, those guys are super cool, still hang out with that crew from time to time.
I’m privileged enough to always be industry adjacent with my work, so I get to go to E3, GDC, and the other insider events. I was lucky enough to attend the MK11 Hollywood reveal back in the day. So I’m a true old school MK fan.
As I’ve gotten older tho, adulting has limited my online presence, so for the most part I’ve only posted on GameFaqs and nowhere else for the past 15 years or so. For better or worse I was known as the defacto “face” of the MK Boards — as if that means anything
I even book a couple of hotel rooms in Vegas every year for EVO to split amongst the other GameFaqs users so we can have a makeshift meet up. Unfortunately, as the years have gone by the number of users who participate has dwindled significantly, as more and more Kombatants leave the platform for greener pastures.
GameFaqs has really gone downhill significantly the past decade, but they really expedited their own demise in the past two years or so, where everyone is pretty much encouraged by the administration to treat each other with hostility — as all the moderators seem to be getting through this pandemic by living vicariously through politics at the moment.
As such the entire platform is just full of toxicity, and every damn topic degenerates into some terrible political argument.
I’ve always been apolitical, and stayed out of that nonsense. I just want to play fighting games, talk about sports, comics, and occasionally make a shitpost. But the entire platform has shrank so much from the #81 ranked Alexa site that it used to be in 2010, to now hosting about 800 active users in total - 100 of them mods.
The other day I made the mistake of posting in a topic that was calling everyone “fascists” with the snide remark of “I’m so apolitical I don’t even know what a fascist is” and that was enough to get my 20 year old account banned for trolling
Considering there is currently an ongoing list of people who’ve banned/suspended over the course of the past few years that is now nearing the thousands, I’m wondering how many of my former GameFaqs Kombatants have also migrated to TYM and now call this place home?
Any old GameFaqs users hanging around these parts?
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