I'm getting too old for this shit.

[NulWillBecomeTranny]

HRT makes you sterile

 

[JambledUpWords]

I recommend taking a break for a while like everyone else has said. Also, an option you can implement would be to create buttons in personal settings that can block all A&N and Happenings, so only lolcow related stuff is visible to those that want it. This is one of the few places I truly feel like I can say what I want and I’d be sad if it goes (but I’ll survive). I get that this place has become more political over time, but that has been inevitable due to the censorship on other platforms. Do whatever you wish, but that’s just my 2¢.

 

[Bloitzhole]

To borrow your own words: “You must find reasons to enjoy life, even when there are enemies trying to bring you down”

If the upkeep of the kiwi farms is interfering with your personal love (and happiness) quest to such an extent, that you feel it is draining more from you than it’s worth, then the logical conclusion is to either hand it off, or let it die. While there are quite a few matters on which I disagree with you ideologically, that is utterly irrelevant – I have not walked in your shoes, I have not lived your life. It is not my place to question your conclusions as to how you might achieve personal fulfillment, I can only wish you the best of luck for whatever path you choose.

While various ideas on how to keep the Kiwi Farms alive without you come to mind, no doubt you too have already thought of all of these, so here too, I have little to bring to the table. Thanks for doing what you have done thus far – and whether the farms and your other boards close today or stay open, they, and the community you have built through them, are an achievement in and of themselves, regardless of how your perception of their worth has changed over time. Regarding dying on any hill:

Sed si vir es, suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantis.

One who attempts greatness, is to be admired, even if he falls.

 

[FrickleMyPickle]

Why can't the woman financially support him?

Is he even interested in a woman or just wants the whole "making a mark on the world by having kids" shtick?

I could black pill null hard on how it might backfire on him but since that would risk torches and pitchforks my way I'm just going to suggest just by-pass the marriage if null want kids and just adopt.

Black pill nothing, having kids because you think it's what you're supposed to do and you'll be out a legacy if you don't is the fastest way to end up with fucked up kids who can't wait to stick you in the most crooked, urine sodden nursing home they can find.

 

[LolNoIPLeaksEvenLMFAO]

You know I’ll say that one thing I’ve always loved is that not even subforums, but threads in them have their own personality. Seriously take a vacation dude and hope this isn’t a hint at getting a NSL.

 

[usernames can change now!]

null should troon out and be the gf

 

[Gus]

Just move on if it's best for you, dude. For everything you did, you don't owe anything to this place. If anything, you owe it to yourself to do what is right for you. Let someone else take your place. If the magic's already gone, who cares if the place crashes or loses itself? Nothing lasts forever. You said it yourself - falling is just a part of the imperial cycle. You can't bulwark fate. Time rolls over everything, so roll with the times. To loosely paraphrase St. Augustine: the City of Man is mortal, but the City of God is eternal.

Meaning that although the things we do and build are suspect to time, there are universal truths we can always rely upon. The truth is that you had it within yourself to do something great, once, when you believed you had nothing. Now you know there's something to you, so why not give it another go? You'll always be just as human as you were seven years ago.

The CWCki Forums may not last, but you'll last a little longer. "There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams, and plenty."

 

[YourUnclesDad]

It's time to retire. Every day is one more day doing this and one less day doing literally anything else.

edit: if you're going to be selfish, leave a kid out of it. You and everyone else knows fully well that your wife, kids, dogs, anyone close to you would live in extreme danger because of obvious reasons. It would be cruel and fucking stupid to have a kid at this point. Didn't some big dude come to your door with a weapon while you were shitting? Fuck that

Also, I don't see what's so great about the genetics of any member here that's worth passing down.

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

Why can't the woman financially support him?

Is he even interested in a woman or just wants the whole "making a mark on the world by having kids" shtick?

I could black pill null hard on how it might backfire on him but since that would risk torches and pitchforks my way I'm just going to suggest just by-pass the marriage if null want kids and just adopt.

I meant most of that first part in jest but I originally wrote a whole separate essay about why his weirdo obsession with creating a family was gay and would end up fucking him over if he wasn't careful and doing it for the right reasons. I thought it would be autustic to screech my worldview at him like that so I omitted it.

He's just having a mid-life crisis, he'll get over it though a girlfriend and some irl friends would probably do his mental health some good.

 

[equationquadratic]

An existing imageboard owner who runs several other alt-tech services.

I hope you genuinely know this person, know their character, and trust them. If you give it to the wrong person who fucks it all up you will be partly blamed. Would this person mind you giving us some brief information about him like what other imageboards does he own for example?

 

[redcent]

I meant most of that first part in jest but I originally wrote a whole separate essay about why his weirdo obsession with creating a family was gay and would end up fucking him over if he wasn't careful and doing it for the right reasons. I thought it would be autustic so screech my worldview at him like that so I ommitted it.

He's just having a mid-life crisis, he'll get over it though a girlfriend and some irl friends woukd probably do his mental health some good.

Meh I was the same, I just got chickenshit at the backlash I might have gotten. But I agree. Dog dude should take a break and see the world outside the interwebs.

If he really wants to immortalise his genetics, he could always get a mozzie that sucked his blood and stick it in tree sap. The resulting amber will be found by a civilisation eons later and they will clone him to make an amusement park of human autism

 

[Carpenter Trout]

There's nothing I could say that wasn't already said at least twice.
I agree with the others that said that you might need to take some time off the site and to talk to a psychologist (the meds part is needless, I think).
It would be reluctant to say how much I like the site and everything else, I would feel like an ass licker stating the obvious (especially after a lot of people described their love for this site in much greater detail than I could).

maybe there's a need to have back ParkourDude/DeagleDad420 as an assistant for null

 

[Wraith]

Just a counter thought:
Maintain ownership and control of Kiwi.
Pass the leadership baton to someone you trust. Understand there will be a period of adjustment for that person.
Then do what you want and realize whatever you may think of this place, you put your footprint on history.
Only participate when you damn well feel like it.
This was you don't fall into disrepute like someone like Christopher Poole, you achieve what you want, and you can use any profits from Kiwi to buy Wraith-brand key chains, pet rocks, Christmas sweaters and socks, and executive pen and desk sets.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Fuckin' lol, it's still going. Page after page of speds offering 'deep' advice.

Guy already has a plan to implement, and ppl still going "Yeah man, sounds like you need a break".

 

[KiwiJoe]

So does anyone know other web sites that are like an alternative to the farms if Null truly delivers. I already deleted my reddit and Voat is too much of a lost cause to use.

How is Lolcow.Farms? How does it compare to here? I heard of it before for sure.

 

[ditto]

So does anyone know other web sites that are like an alternative to the farms if Null truly delivers. I already deleted my reddit and Voat is too much of a lost cause to use.

The Voat MDE board was still alright and had the spirit of the Reddit original. But that shtick gets old pretty fast.

How is Lolcow.Farms? How does it compare to here? I heard of it before for sure.

https://lolcow.farm just gives me a 403 through Tor.

 

[Haramburger]

Blueballs: The Essay. The irony about feeling the need for a kid/kids and a family unit, while the site you made and community you've nurtured grows and transforms into something you're not sure you signed up for, is palpable. Even if you were wed tomorrow and knocked her up, in 10 years you'd be wondering why your wife put on weight, why your kid likes [NEW THING] and how it isn't like [OLD THING], and where the spark went that got you into this fucking marriage and mortgage this decaying fence that keeps the dog in but she won't stop bitching that the paint's peeling and DON'T CLIMB ON THAT SAMMY!

You could shut down this site any second and walk away, no real legal repercussions or morality holding you down. But consider how you might wed a woman, sire children, create a family, and feel depressed and sick of them down the road because they didn't turn out like you expected they would. Sure, web community =/= family, site =/= baby, but hitting 30 and wondering why you did or didn't do things right is going to keep happening when you hit 40 and 50.

Hope you figure things out, or at least start de-escalating your stress regularly. Families feel good when you start, but they're they're own problem and not the Answer™ for what's troubling you. Neither is pills or vodka. You probably need a new sock account and someone to talk to who likes the same video games and movies as you.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

Closing the site down long before we get a chance to make the inevitable lolcow thread on HAPA Josh Jr. is probably a good idea.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I just want to say that I love you and I love this site.

 

[William Tell Underpass]

Getting a wife because you feel you need a wife is how you wind up with either a costly divorce or a head in a jar in your fridge.
Please rewatch your stream on Mumkey Jones so you don't turn into him.

I love this stream, it's a magical eCeleb oracle.