life update thread lol

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I sometimes check in on here to see if anyone has bothered to do the same out of nostalgia. I am generally curious how life has been treating you all. Any updates you want to share? Anything you remember about yourself from the golden days that you think would be interesting to share in contrast to how you are now?

This kind of sentiment pops up every now and then in random threads on this forum. Thought it would be nice to hear from everyone again.

[Nion]

I usually check the website from time to time just to check in and see if there's new art posted in the other thread but mainly I'm active on reddit. Still lurking through the Maple subreddit and with other things nowadays...

[icephoenix21]

Well Sparrow got a group 2 and best puppy in group at the last show we went to. Which is kind of a big deal. Some dogs never get a group 2 in their entire show career. An 11 month old dog placing above grand champions is a huuuge compliment from the judge.

So of course we had to do the cheesy photo

He needs 4 more points for his Canadian championship

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I'm back here after the Reddit collapse, haha. After abandoning Reddit, I've been slowly recalibrating my idea of online community, which reminded me of how nice it was to be part of a community here. I've been lurking Tildes, which has been really great because of how "old school" it is. Forums were a more pleasant time of the internet that I took for granted. It would be a pipe dream to get this place running again.

[sicnarf]

Decided to randomly pop back in here. It's been a while!

I'm still around the internets. Sometimes on reddit but not nearly as much as before. I downloaded MS sometime around 2020-2021 out of curiosity, logged in for like 30 minutes, then gtfo of there.

IRL I'm tired all the time and have two smol kidz but I WFH so I get lots of time with them

OKAY SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

[Throes]

Well holy sh*t, I finally remembered my password to this place.

I just finished reading my last blog entry from TEN F*CKING YEARS AGO, and wow. Life is... so different. Hope all y'all are doing well and taking care of yourselves.

I married Mr. Rebound. We have a kid. And still are happily married. My kid is so amazing, and I am so SO grateful that I had a kid with such an amazing man. Parenting is hard, but man if it isn't the most rewarding thing I've ever done in my life.

I left my soul-crushing retail job and work in design now.

I injured myself a few years ago at pole class and unfortunately never quite recovered properly so my pole gathers dust in the closet. Sadface. It's OK though, because my bones feel f*ckin' old now and I throw my back out if I even sit down in a chair wrong.

Over the pandemic I took up gardening, quilting, and knitting. For a while the YouTube algorithm thought I was an old lady (got some pretty funny ads.)

I actually had a dream just a few nights ago that I came back to SP and Fiel made me co-owner?

Anyway, I'm supposed to be working so just... take care of yourselves, guys.

[Dual]

Well holy sh*t, I finally remembered my password to this place.

I just recently had to go clear out some stuff from my Dad's house, and ended up finding my old laptop that had this place saved as a favorite on Firefox, along with my login info in an old .txt file. Kept checking in here every now and again late at night when I remembered, enjoying watching the ships passing in the night.

I actually had to look up how to get my text to be green. It feels weird; I used to be able to handle forums like a pro when I was half as old as I am now. Dunno how long this place is going to stay up, but it and Maplestory will always have a formative place in my heart. Every now and then I can feel the imprint of the many people I interacted with through this website, and how those small touches have dug deep grooves into shaping who I was and am.

Part of me wants to ask if there is another way to connect with you all, like a Discord, in case this goes down, but I don't know if it would feel the same as the old IRC, or how active it would even be. Regardless, always glad to see a post from any of you, and hope you feel the same way back. I'll always be here lurking...

[HellenzSin]

hi

[Nion]

It's like a pilgrimage for me personally to at least visit Southperry every once in a while now just to see how everyone is.

EDIT 20241225: Happy holidays and hope you all have a fantastic start to 2025.

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It's that time again where I post a random life update and then disappear for like a year!

I turned 30 last year. I don't know if I ever mentioned it to you guys around here, but I cosplayed as being 3 years older than I actually was for the entire time we were all active here; so, what I meant to say is that I'm 33 lol.

Anyway, it wasn't a traumatizing event like others my age have made it out to be. If anything, I finally felt my age when it happened.

I'll still randomly play a game every now and then, but not nearly as often as I used to. I'm still lifting and stuff. I was (indoor) climbing for the past 2 years or so pretty consistently, but I've since moved away from all the good climbing gyms around here, so I fell out of the habit. I'm starting to pick up running again instead. I guess the one negative of having turned 30 is that I actually wake up with random back pain sometimes, and I'll randomly hurt something while walking down the street. So, I've been shifting all of my training and activity towards a focus on longevity. I would like to not be hobbling around when I'm 50, so I guess wish me luck there.

I'm still doing software engineering. I actually just left my job for Reasons™; I'm currently taking a break. But I was doing engineering management for a while, which was okay - ultimately, though, I think getting back to actually writing code is what will make me happy.

Finally, the juicy part of the update: Some of you guys may remember that I was religiously obsessed with S4 League from like 2008 to 2012. Well, in 2022, shortly after moving to where I am now, I matched with someone on a dating app. On our first date, I mentioned that

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It's that time again where I post a random life update and then disappear for like a year!

I turned 30 last year. I don't know if I ever mentioned it to you guys around here, but I cosplayed as being 3 years older than I actually was for the entire time we were all active here; so, what I meant to say is that I'm 33 lol.

Anyway, it wasn't a traumatizing event like others my age have made it out to be. If anything, I finally felt my age when it happened.

I'll still randomly play a game every now and then, but not nearly as often as I used to. I'm still lifting and stuff. I was (indoor) climbing for the past 2 years or so pretty consistently, but I've since moved away from all the good climbing gyms around here, so I fell out of the habit. I'm starting to pick up running again instead. I guess the one negative of having turned 30 is that I actually wake up with random back pain sometimes, and I'll randomly hurt something while walking down the street. So, I've been shifting all of my training and activity towards a focus on longevity. I would like to not be hobbling around when I'm 50, so I guess wish me luck there.

I'm still doing software engineering. I actually just left my job for Reasons™; I'm currently taking a break. But I was doing engineering management for a while, which was okay - ultimately, though, I think getting back to actually writing code is what will make me happy.

Finally, the juicy part of the update: Some of you guys may remember that I was religiously obsessed with S4 League from like 2008 to 2012. Well, in 2022, shortly after moving to where I am now, I matched with someone on a dating app. On our first date, I mentioned that

(... alright, that's annoying, the post got cut off?)

... mentioned that I used to play shooters a lot. She asked me what kind, so I mentioned S4 League. It turns out she played too! So we started chatting about that. At one point, she asked me about weapon loadouts and stuff; the way she was talking made me immediately realize "okay, she really played S4".

I ended up asking her if she visited a particular competitive S4 forum; she did. I asked her for her IGN; I was shook at this by point, but I recognized it. I told her this, and she didn't believe me, because "it was really long and misspelled".

So I literally spelled it out to her. She was... taken aback.

It turns out the woman I went on a date on was someone I had met 12 years ago, on a random anime shooter.

... anyway, we've been together for 3 years now, and we're supposed to be getting engaged soon. Funny how life works!

That's my update! Feel free to PM me if you want to add me on Discord something. Otherwise, I'll see you all in 2026!