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My final post

radiantHero23
radiantHero23 Member Posts: 5,230
edited October 30 in General Discussions

It's time.

The forums are about to close, so I wanted to say some final things.

I've never been good with words, so pls excuse me.

I'm known here as a Pig and Sadako fanboy. When I started playing the game in late 2020 - early 2021, I would have never thought to actually leave a mark on this game by helping Sadako to her 3rd rework and Piggy to get her RBT back. Yes, I still believe, that my post campaigns had at least a bit of an impact on these decisions. Maybe I'm delusional, but it feels good to have the feeling of actually have an inpact in something.

I met a lot of people here on the forums. Some of them have become people that I consider my best friends now and who I wouldn't want to lose in any way.

The forums have been a great place until a certain point in time when things changed drastically. Garbage us VS them, which was always present but never encouraged, was favored over constructive critisism because engaging with trolls risked a ban.

I always try/tried to be as nice as possible to every person I interact(ed) with, as I see no value in pointless conflict. Respect is something I value highly, and as my late dad once said: "if you don't have anything nice to say, try not saying anything at all."

These values felt ill placed after some point in time.

I'm grateful for everything I was able to achieve on these forums. I'm grateful for the memories I got to make here, both good and bad. I'm the most grateful for the friends I met while playing this game and discussing it here.

While I wasn't as active here over the last year, I will still miss this place a lot. The forums were often my place to deal with social anxiety and mental health issues, as I was able to just jump on a thread and take my mind off the horrible things and situations happening around me. 2024-2025 was particularly bad for me.

I will miss this function of the forums in particular, but I now have a great bunch of friends that I can talk to when things get rough. Still. A great personal loss. To all the people that made my time here worthwhile and gave me wonderful, and sometimes not so wonderful, posts to read and comment on: Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.

Now that things come to an end though, I want to say some words to one person in particular.

Dear Balrog. You might think, that we had it out for you. We didnt. You had it out for us. You are responsible for the downfall of these forums with your garbage moderation. Your time here made the forums feel like a dictatorship, where most people got afraid to post anything at all. The thread on December 12 was made BECAUSE OF YOU and instead of taking it as criticism you doubled down and, supported by the rest of the moderation, banned a majority of the people that I not only valued highly, but that also kept these forums running. You cannot expect to keep these forums in high demand when you throw out the most loyal and active users in favor of trolls and rule breakers.

I don't know why you did things the way you did, but, maybe even unbeknownst to you, you created a system/environment that can't be criticized.

A SYSTEM THAT CAN'T BE CRITICIZED IS A BROKEN SYSTEM THAT SHOULD BE CHANGED OR ABOLISHED.

Did things ever change after you and the moderation got done with the ban wave? No. You said you would change things, but that never happened. Now look how this turned out. The forums are closing. Maybe you care, maybe you don't. It doesn't matter anymore anyway.

You did a horrible job as a moderator on these forums and you played an active part in the destruction of a place that was, and to some extend still is, dear to my heart. Thanks.

Sorry to end this on a bad note, but it had to get out.

Goodbye dear forums. Goodbye my fellow forum members. May we meet each other again. Maybe in the fog. Maybe in another game.

One final boop for all of you and the legends we lost along the way.

👉🐽

RadianHero of the pig crew.

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