Garry's Mod Wanderings

[Janky]

Garry's Mod is such a weird place. Even having over 10k hours    , I still feel like I've barely experienced any of it! It's such a diverse community, even though it feels so dead. I know its public perception is one of criticism, and rightfully so, as there are some awful servers and people, but the stories I have reflect a different side of the game, stories from years ago from servers now all but lost to time.

I wish I were around during the early days when stuff like HL2RP was still a super popular thing, and stuff like the Gmod Idiot Box was new and interesting. What a strange time it must have been, before Gmod became mostly sandbox and darkrp!

[t]

i got like 806 hours on garry's mod but despite that i've never really wandered around on online servers (mostly because it region locks you by default, so i was locked to boring russian rp servers)

one of the few times i've went onto an online server was with friends on a (i think) ironic family guy darkrp server, where my friends ended up trying to make meth in church while there was a hidden fighting club underneath the pedestal. it was fun until everyone got stuck being spawncamped at spawn 

[Janky]

I'm not super familiar with DarkRP, never really got into it since it seemed far too complicated and every server was different in its mechanics. I stick mostly to vanilla-like sandbox servers and don't tend to wander from server to server. Cooking meth in a church sounds hilarious though!   

[Janky]

I recently departed the GMod community I had frequented for the past, idk 2 years? The culture was getting really toxic, and that says a lot since it's an anarchy sandbox server. It is toxic by design, but the veteran community has become more and more disparate and disjointed, and that is what bothered me. Nobody gets along like the old days.

Things just haven't been the same.

Now I am probably going to play mostly singleplayer, which sucks since GMod is a game best played with friends! Nobody I know other than people from that community play GMod regularly, so I'm a little lost. I guess the view is nice though.

[BlackMageGaming]

I'm really sad about the current state of Garry's Mod servers, specifically DarkRP servers. I used to frequent one almost 8 years ago. It was fun! I loved the grind, the roleplay, and the community. But unfortunately, one day the owner went off the grid, and the server went down permanently

It's a real shame that modern day DarkRP servers are just virtual casinos with a layer of racism and pay2win on top of them. I've always wanted to start my own servers for Source games ever since that old server died.

Nowadays, I don't play as much Garry's Mod as I used to, but I sometimes go back into my old saves and just wander in the worlds I've long since created. Sometimes piecing together what mods I had at that time, or going through the error infested nightmares. I was obsessed with liminal spaces, except specifically the idea of people finding ways to survive inside of them.

I have a few old screenshots of stuff I made back then, either just for fun or maybe a render for a friend. Garry's Mod has played a very important role in my life, heck, it's the first game I ever put on my Steam account!