After reading a lot of these I've actually changed my mind, I remember first getting into the forums from reading a couple posts. I feel like maybe the suggestion of having a members only section is a good idea, it might even get people interested.

The old web to me feels so cozy and like a second home. Melonland specically to me feels like home.

Another site that makes me feel cozy and nostalgic is https://covid2009.neocities.org/home Somethign about the theme, music and low tech vibes make me feel so happy.

Do you guys have any places on the web that feel cozy or like a "home" on the web?

I feel like forum culture has always been about the idea of communities, people can join if they want but if they don't feel like singing up then they probably won't want to be a part of the community in the first place. I vote for keeping it closed unless signed up but I'm open to hear other peoples opinions!

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Melooon is right, that is a completely separate decision that I won't bring here. I really appreciate the support and encourage these other conversations where they are appropriate. Love all you dorks

As someone who overthinks literally every new thread I make because of potentially putting in the wrong category, I love it

The recent thread about TV comercials has had me thinking about old TV bumpers, those weird clips that would play between shows and commercials or between programming changes.

One of my personal favorites has always been the early 2000s toonami bumpers. It was some of the earliest examples of Drum and Bass (the genre) being in mainstream media and heavily influenced my love for AMVs

My other favorites are the Adult Swim bumpers, speficically the ones that would play when switching to Adult Swim.

What was Purble Place? I have never heard of it.

It was the little minigame collection that came with windows vista and 7. you can still download it or play it online some places! Not Skyrim by any means but a fun little collection, cute style too!

(apologies if this is the wrong place, I'm pretty sure this is the right board.) I've been putting off telling this to anyone because of peoples reactions, I figured this would be a good place to start because of how supportive this forum and community has been to me. I am transitioning, I want to start going by She/her and I've been slowly growing to accept that this is me. I hope this doesn't change anything with anyone and I wish you all well!

There's something very satisfying about physical media, clicking, spinning, whirring and lots of wires. I also agree with supporting artists that you enjoy, while I do argue for the point of piracy it is still good to support artists who you enjoy, especially when more of the money actually ends up on their end and not a company. Another point in this is archival, physical media deteriorates (digital media can be lost as well but it's more common physically.) and when dealing with more obscure music, games or movies then I tend to enjoy making a digital copy of them to keep in case the physical version has something happen to it.

Damn all ya'll here making me want to try more pizza than just regular pepperoni lmao

thinking next time i order me some papa johns i'll add something extra to my pizza, like uhhh idk

peppers or something

Green peppers, mushrooms and chicken are pretty good places to start in my opinion

Hah, does anyone remember Purble Place?

That was 90% of my early gaming, I loved it!

This has inspired me to make a zine! Maybe I'll upload it to my website and drop the link here!!!