Also lurkers PM me, we can have a jolly good natter and maybe even a mutually agreeable nosh.

Does anyone have a blimp?

No. It needs is current members to wipe their vaginas and post more.

Wouldn't want to use their keyboards after they post though.

Plan gets in the way again!

I'm 42 and still posting shit. Tbf I've had a bit of a gaming renaissance since visiting here so it's all good for me. Tried to get a mate to join who is into his games but don't think he has.

b0r1s wrote:

I'm 42 and still posting shit. Tbf I've had a bit of a gaming renaissance since visiting here so it's all good for me. Tried to get a mate to join who is into his games but don't think he has.

Same here mate, this place got me back into gaming.

I still love this place and its members. But It's extremely quiet compared to what it used to be like and regulars are dropping like flies.

Diluted Dante wrote:

So you don't want to be g.man you mean?

Lol

G man is fine, he has a life away from here. What I meant was, I planned on being married, having kids and a career by the time I was in my 40s and that I thought I would need my head testing if I was spending too much time using Internet forums rather than doing real stuff.

Now I am married with a son and a half decent job, I sort of realise its actually alright having hobbies as well. I dunno, I take stuff too seriously at times I guess.

Imagine a forum where everyone's a pensioner sitting around waiting to die. Imagine the thread of the dead posts. "Skerret and DS went last night. Why couldn't it have been SG? I've hated that bastard for over forty years. Oh dear, I've just soiled myself again."

I think THAT THREAD killed off quite a few people.

I don't get the google thing though. I'm sure you can block certain spiders, so just allow Googlebot in and block all the spammy ones. I've never heard of Google killing a website due to it's crawling.

Another way may be to promote the B&B Twitter page. Every couple of days pop some thinks to populate threads on Twitter. Follow people who are into gaming and they may follow back.

what happened to outlaw, she was entertaining and had some thoughtful posts.. seems to have gone awol or not posting so much. 

I always like fresh fish. Most of us started as 18yr old yappers but were broken in by the rules of the forumz. 

We should hold a bring a friend day  

Also, i love Reg but as far as I remember he's run off with our sponsored animals

It's my old business partner. He knows about this place, he knew about Edge. It moves too fast here, I think. It's a common complaint.

b0r1s wrote:

I think THAT THREAD killed off quite a few people.

It was an accelerant, but things were already heading that way for those concerned. I'd hate to see this place fade away, but we've enjoyed a nicer atmosphere in recent months. A lot of our classic-era volume was aggro-filled. Not to say that it wasn't fun at times.

I think we just don't enjoy wholesale gaming as much any more. Quite a few of us were green to online gaming when we joined Maroon (that's why a lot of us joined), and we established a few happy wee gangs. And we were lucky, because most of us were already in our twenties even then; 'cept Boy Petey.

Families, careers, loss of interest and Twitter happened. Twitter's no good to me because I can't waffle. No wafflin', no thinkin'. I'd appreciate Twitter if I didn't live in society's shed at the end of its garden. I like the people here, and it's my only outlet from the dire grips of farmmanistic life. Somerset's as depressing as it is beautiful.

New members, though, yes.

Sasukekun wrote:

beano wrote:

It's my old business partner. He knows about this place, he knew about Edge. It moves too fast here, I think. It's a common complaint.

People who think this place moves too fast obviously haven't tried to scroll back a page of threads on NeoGAF.

Isn't Twitter a fast moving clusterfuck of random outbursts? I'd have thought it would have been easier to keep track of our threads, even if they do move fast. Can't say I've noticed any really quick moving threads of late anyway.

This place moves pretty slowly unless it's a popular/car crash thread.  I like the fact it's not NeoGAF (that place is fucking horrible - full of dribbling PlayStation fanboys looking for any piece of evidence that the Xbone might fail, so so sad.)

I would hate this place to turn into that kind of thing - but a few new members wouldn't go amiss.