When is someone going to host The Chudding Room Floor so we can post unused stuff in games without the threat of being banned from being referred to it from the wrong website?
Then again, this is something I've sort of realized. Any niche internet gaming community, hell, even any niche internet community, is always, inevitably, going to be controlled by those who spend the most time online maintaining it. And when you spend more time online, the more averse you will be to reality, and the more addicted to fantasy (pornographic or otherwise) you will become.
When the internet is your entire identity, when delusions become your identity, when anyone dares to challenge it (say, someone saying a pride flag is a little unbecoming of a previously neutral video game archival website), you exclude them, because how dare someone even slightly challenge who you are, even if what you are is a eunuch whose only claim is powertripping on a niche internet wiki?
These people live in such an isolating world that their paraphilias, their fetishes, they become central to their very being. It'd honestly be fine if they admitted that it's a quirk of them, it's just a vice that they have, but it's never enough. It's a hill that they need to die on.
It's been exacerbated since I'd say the popularization of the smartphone, because why go outside to the real world and be subject to social pressures when you can subsist on the comforts of modernity, cooped up in your apartment or your coddling parents' basement? No one was like this twenty years ago because the internet was this second place for hobbyists, not central to your entire existence, and even the weirder people who used the web still had a sense of reality to them and had to go outside often to meet people or get food or whatever.
Video game archival is essentially just reliving the past, too. Wanting to preserve everything and understand all the minutiae about your favorite childhood game, in hopes some future generation will have the same experience and seek the same knowledge. Because these people really haven't grown up past the bittersweet memories they've had playing them, and it becomes, again, central to their existence. I saw a video recently saying that "nostalgia is a drug" and I'm inclined to agree.
Guess I'm gulity of these things, too. I edited quite a few pages on TCRF. I've got my own games and memories I deeply obsess over. I appreciated the site's quirky presentation and breadth of information about some of my favorite games. But, well, womp womp. I was referred to it from the incorrect website, one of the only websites on the net that acknowledges reality rather than denying it.
XKeeper will browse this thread, and snicker at all of these HATEFUL BIGOTS and CHUDS who won't be able to edit the website. Know this: you will continue to alienate and deny people, even long-time contributors, because they think being required to worship your fetishes is a little weird and inappropriate. Your website's population will flounder because you'll find out that people, even potential editors, might not always see eye to eye with you on things. Eventually, there won't be any more funding coming in, either from you or your cadre, because time will come for us all, and well, there goes a once-beloved website, and your legacy.
If a troon or an "ally" ever wrongs you, remember: you can reproduce, and they can't, lol.
