MrPopo wrote:I don't think that many were "chased off due to the politics thread". But there was a chunk who left because we kept having the temerity to mix in retro game talk with modern game talk.
Unfortunately, I think they were both somewhat equally damaging, and also mildly interconnected. I also feel that a number of members began retreating into the Slack around a similar time period, and I think that's pretty much where we are now.
I don't think it really gets much more complicated than that, other than that a lot of the remaining members don't have as much free time, and have been through the 500 previous conversations about The Legend of Zelda, or Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't feel like my personal posting habits have necessarily changed too dramatically--I feel like I've always been a bit of a sporadic participant--but there are likely a lot more family men here than there used to be, and a lot less of anything else. It probably does end up being a fair amount of shouting into the void, because what else is there to say about the classics other than one's personal experiences with them, for the first time, or more likely the tenth time. That might even be why conversations now seem to stray more towards modern games; They're at least more fresh, and maybe more fertile grounds for conversation. I'm even kind of tired of denouncing the SNES RPG library, at this point, even though Earthbound is one of the worst games I've ever played in my life, and doesn't have a single redeeming quality.
If you asked me, caster--which you didn't, but if you did--I don't see any reason you couldn't still hang out around here. It's your life, though. Do what you want. I have to say that Luke's, and caster's posts probably highlight why I never spent a great deal of time in the off-topic section of the forum. All that aside, "Covfefe" is one of the greatest memes of the last decade, and I will not allow anyone to insinuate otherwise. It's up there with a certain someone having a dude's shoes thrown at him.