Has any part of you changed since you started RPG Maker?

[Archem]

Also as weird as it sounds, Freddie and Lucas have been my friends longer than anyone I know in real life.

Aww...

[Osmose1000]

I think I enjoyed Charas the most when I was a crazy admin merely trying to keep the forum afloat. I mean, you can say what you want about these days being easy and all of us being able to chill and that being the ultimate goal of any online community, but back then, when we were getting spammed by forum trolls and I was tracking down other forums they had hit that were dried up rotting husks, well, thing seemed a lot more lively. I really WANTED to spend a lot of time on Charas because it needed a lot of help.

Since then, I've never had the togetherness that you all apparently have now. I haven't felt like a part of this community in three or four years. There's not much incentive to really care. We don't even make many RPGs. The few people that had ideas on how to spruce things up, like Gem and Moose, seem to have wisely chosen other, easier battles and moved on with their lives. It's saddening.

I agree with not feeling like a part of the community, although for me it's mostly because I'm just not drawn to the site as I once was. Something has changed for me that makes posting on forums not very appealing anymore. It also doesn't help that I never really was into RPG Maker itself (I joined to learn how to sprite).

I've definitely changed since I started visiting Charas, but that's to be expected. I joined in 2004, 7 years ago, during the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school. At the time, I had done little programming beyond small game-maker related languages, was sort've interested in websites, and spent the majority of my time playing video games or watching Adult Swim. I was insecure and didn't deal with my anger very well, often taking it out on others online.

Now I've got a B.S. in Computer Science, I'm gainfully employed doing web development, I'm legally married (although a ceremony is still a ways off when I can better afford it), and rather than trying to find something to do that wasn't browsing the Charas forums, I find it increasingly difficult to find time to read the Charas forums.

I have not, however, chosen a wiser path of moving on, but rather have chosen the unfortunate path of working full time. While I love my job, it's hard to program for 8 hours a day, come home, and then program for another 4 to 6 hours. The unfortunate fact is that Charas' development hangs low on my list of priorities. Yet it does not leave the list, for I still retain hope that someday a new Charas will be someday be born.

Whether it is me who will bring that about is yet to be seen. But I still hope.

[HobomasterXXX]

Well since I started posting here I've learned how to type. Jesus christ so many obvious fuckups in my old posts. Also, apparently this is my fifth year posting at charas. Time flies.

[Archem]

I've learned to be incredibly dyslexic and an awful typist. So many red lines. It didn't used to be like this.

[coreystranick]

I've never really felt close to the community as I generally stalk more than I post, hell I haven't touched rpg maker in a long time, last time was when I was making that western game...and I started to learn how to code things but just never got the hang of it, I actually have notes sitting in my room about making a shooting abs and wrote the code for on the paper have yet to even try to see if it works. I'm getting away from spriting a lot like I used to and getting more into cars and fixing them up, and of course I work three jobs right now so I barely ever have time to post things or even draw for that matter.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Well, I really like children now.

[Natako]

Well, I really like children now.

In the same sense that Archem does?

[Cerebus]

I love little girls, they make me feel so good.

[fruckert]

They make me feel so...bad.

[Archem]

I don't think that's legal where Zeek lives.

It's not really legal here, either.

And yeah, basically my theme song.

[Cerebus]

I particularly love his facial expressions and the poor traumatized little girl at the end.