Things That You Like About Being Broken

My first post at BF was something like my 12.000th post in an ongoing conversation, so that one hardly matters.

Mine included a rage cartoon that I'd edited in Paint. Obviously a sign of wonderful things to come.

My first post was in the Ristorante Amore LP on May 14 but I started lurking when I found Matt Bowyer's Hakuoki LP which he started on Feb. 18. So three months of lurking before I came out of the shadows, not bad for a fairly shy person!

Mine was in Elyscape's Shira Oka thread, and it was a boring post.
I lurked for approximately two days before making an account, which is a first.

My first post was on Mar 5, 2012 in Angie's Hatoful thread... I then made a post in the Book Thread that same day, before hopping back into the LP forum. I started really branching out once I found the Dark Souls thread, it seems.

I started branching out when I discovered that it wasn't possible for me to read every single LP thread, nor did I have the interest, and there was a whole other world out there that spoke of things other than games.
That was earlier this month. I spent a good 6 months in the LP subforum without really coming out (though in my defence, I wasn't here for the entire summer).

Mass Effect 3 is what made me really bust out of the LP forum, I think. I had a lot of things to say and elected to say a lot of them here. :P

See, I can't do that. I have that bit of wanderlust, I meander and poke at everything. I like forums and doing any less is beyond me.

Oh, confession time: I was a lurker for five days before I officially signed up. During those five days I trawled the entirety of the forum and kind of stalked people hither and thither before I played it cool and sidled into the official registration area. And then I eased my likes over the next few days as though I was "just discovering" all the intelligent hilarious n'aaww adorbs bits. And then kind of internally flailed when they started talking to me. Actually, why are they still talking to me, I'm a fraaauuud my whole membership is a lie!

Btw, my life would have been so much easier had someone linked me here so doing that now.

That's hardcore, man.

You would. You sap. What post? Also you did well, if'n I recall correct. Great passing resemblance of a regular, un~

Oh and I also did a bit of digging into Qt3 beforehand. Wow, now that I've said all that I'm amazed at my creeper street cred.

And so the journey began.

My first post was complaining about getting screwed by dice rolls in Matt's tabletop RPG. Neeeeeerrrrrrd.

My first was pictures of my cats, and my third was in the beer thread. (Second was giving someone a compliment.) Predictable? Moi?

Pictures of cats is probably the best way to introduce oneself, I should do that in the future.

XD PROPS for taste. Awww yeeeah (just finished catching up with that actually, not two minutes ago)

Well I definitely know I got you beat because there was a list of <REDACTED> I had compiled.

ETA: NUTTERS, HOW COULD I- Oh. I wasn't signed in at the time. Oops. Must fix this.

My first post was awesome. It was in Angie's Matches and Matrimony LP and contained the phrase "Anna Karenina: the game".

Going through that thread is so nostalgic.

My first post here was in the Dark Souls thread.

Appropriate.

I like that [name redacted] just gave me a like for a 10-month old post. Let's Play -- truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Uh...what's with the Redacted things?

Huh. I didn't even notice that someone else had done it. I just didn't want to call out the person who gave me that overdue like. No biggie.

Elyscape's trying to cover up the identity of his target. He's a sooper sekret assassin climbing the ranks WHY CAN'T YOU ALL SEE

Security detail for Lum, stat!

I'm sure Lum has ways of shutting that down.

Apparently my first BF post was this:

I stand behind that assertion.

Don't make me come over there and chase a ball of yarn around.

I mean, I stand by my original note.

My first post was to correct Dan Lawrence's mis-remembering of when our relationship started, I initially went under the name "Dan's Girlfriend".

My first post was apparently to mock Hanzii for only coming here so he could have a new place to post his cooking stuff (which you need to do more of, Hans!)

My second was to kvetch about crazy married women on OKCupid. And it's only gotten weirder.

Mine was in the LP subforum (surprise, surprise) telling somebody in the Re:Alistair blind run to stop dropping vague spoilers in the thread.

Unfortunately, the general lax attitude towards spoilers here doesn't seem to have changed much since then. Can I just say that I really hate it in LPs (especially when somebody is explicitly doing a blind run) and people start doing things like "nudge nudge wink wink there's something awesome coming up in the next few minutes ufufufufufu" because that really takes all the fun out of watching people's honest reactions to the game. (It's even worse when I haven't played the game myself - you're basically spoiling the experience for me!) One of the worst offenders was the most recent Ristorante Amore blind LP.

And this is why even though I love that there's a dedicated community to LPing visual novels, and I love the community and atmosphere here which is generally more mature and intelligent and inclusive than the rest of the internet (seems like the majority of people here are liberals/democrats/atheists/feminists and I love it), I still go back to the Something Awful LP subforum when I want to read LPs by people who think that LPING IS SRS BUSINESS, even though I detest SA and everything it stands for. Ugh.

I gotta agree with Ana - I love doing LPs blind (because part of what I love about reading LPs is seeing people's reactions as much, if not more so, than the actual game itself). So it's tremendously bothersome when spoilers spill over into posts (discretely or otherwise). There's no guarantee an LPer will respond the same way other players have, and I like to see how their thoughts react to the game, not to the spoilers given by the readers of the thread.

Mine was a post of a horse, about a year before most other people started posting on these boards.

You guys have a Mod, Elyscape. Maybe you should talk to him about it.

Hmm... you're probably right. I never thought about it before just because this forum's attitude towards LPing in general is laidback and casual, and I do like that it has that quality... and I'm not sure that the whole "nudgenudge winkwink" thing is something that can be policed, since they're often not outright spoilers like "DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S DADDY". It's more of an attitude issue, the way I see it, and it relies on the participants of the LP being more mindful and considerate of people who haven't played the game in question and want to experience it unspoiled.

But yeah, I'll go PM Elyscape and see what he thinks.

My first post was straightforward Drama Llama-ing at that QT3-exodus stage where it wasn't clear where if anywhere everyone was going to end up at (there were a couple other refugee boards that were potentials at the time).

I really like that BF stayed around and has grown. I suspect I would have drifted away from the other place even if no other board had replaced it. Which might have been better for my productivity, actually. But I don't like productivity, so that just reinforces the things that I like!