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[Bulbasaur]

PXR remains one of bookmarks on my new tab page so I open it reflexively often enough, if nothing else. I poke around on occassion, but I've always been a lurker even when the forum was active. Discord's cool or whatever but man it's got nothin on forums (besides the fact that they're apples and oranges).

(Man, I've been missing the ASB lately.)

I miss the ASB as well.

[Elbub]

PXR remains one of bookmarks on my new tab page so I open it reflexively often enough, if nothing else. I poke around on occassion, but I've always been a lurker even when the forum was active. Discord's cool or whatever but man it's got nothin on forums (besides the fact that they're apples and oranges).

(Man, I've been missing the ASB lately.)

I miss the ASB as well.

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

[Neo Emolga]

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

Trust me, I feel bad for every Stalker RPG season that never finished as well. A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me. It was like "oh crap, we've been at this for four months now and they still have a ways to go..."

Given, I wish I discovered the formula for Stalkers RPG way back when during earlier times (many ideas of mine crashed and died prior to it). I would have liked to get more successful millage out of it and start it back in like 2006 rather than 2016 (instead of writing a ton of meh fan fiction that I'd probably never revisit). There were a lot of members of the PE2K community that came and left that never experienced it and I think they would have liked it.

But yeah, events and ideas like these... impossible to run on Discord. With forums essentially dead, I'd have to get an idea like that programmed into an actual fan game with menu interfaces and graphics and all that stuff (and I'm not a programmer). That's a HUGE undertaking. And the reward for being successful and famous with something like that is you get copyright strikes from Nintendo.

It was good fun while it lasted, though. It at least beats the reality that it was possible I could have never tried this idea and it wouldn't have happened at all. So I'm glad it had a good few solid years to shine and people enjoyed it for the most part.

[[Desolate Divine]]

Trust me, I feel bad for every Stalker RPG season that never finished as well. A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me. It was like "oh crap, we've been at this for four months now and they still have a ways to go..."

Given, I wish I discovered the formula for Stalkers RPG way back when during earlier times (many ideas of mine crashed and died prior to it). I would have liked to get more successful millage out of it and start it back in like 2006 rather than 2016 (instead of writing a ton of meh fan fiction that I'd probably never revisit). There were a lot of members of the PE2K community that came and left that never experienced it and I think they would have liked it.

But yeah, events and ideas like these... impossible to run on Discord. With forums essentially dead, I'd have to get an idea like that programmed into an actual fan game with menu interfaces and graphics and all that stuff (and I'm not a programmer). That's a HUGE undertaking. And the reward for being successful and famous with something like that is you get copyright strikes from Nintendo.

It was good fun while it lasted, though. It at least beats the reality that it was possible I could have never tried this idea and it wouldn't have happened at all. So I'm glad it had a good few solid years to shine and people enjoyed it for the most part.

Honestly I've done some discord programming and making bots. The next few months are gonna be 50+ hour work weeks but after that if you have any ideas for games running on discord let me know

[Bulbasaur]

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

It's all good! I'm not sure how much longer it would have been active anyway, given the forum decline.

[sammy0295]

A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me.

oh it me... I never made it to the end of a Stalkers season even though they were super cool :(
(I did come back to read the end though)

It's all good! I'm not sure how much longer it would have been active anyway, given the forum decline.

Agreed.