And that's all I really had to say tbh. I was gonna make this post on April Fools day, after they purged me for six months beforehand, and have it be my last post on CE - I have nothing but antipathy for this place, and now that the run-off from the politics board has infested the place and CE has gone private, I see no reason to stay.
I care enough to say goodbye, I guess, so who the fuck am I kidding - but I really want to emphasise that the final moment came when I saw a dude either miss the most blatant, dick-in-your-face trolling attempt I've seen in years due to their own piss-poor reading comprehension, or they decided that roleplaying as a moron who pretended to fall for other people's trolling in the hopes of getting the original troll to keep saying incendiary dogshit. Like there are people in their thirties who genuinely want to blur the line between looking like an idiot and simply being one, and it really put the years I spent trying to get through to someone - anyone - in perspective. I really wasted years of my life on this shithole.
Regardless, I did meet some cool people. Johnny Nutcase is a cool guy, and his usual drinking compadres are pretty good too. Teep is a mensch, anyone who doesn't get along with Teep doesn't get along with me. CyricZ is just a genuinely cool, friendly person; I've spoken with him a fair few times, and he's just a great guy imo. Shit, I even broke bread with bok choi after initially fucking hating that guy (we're talking like eight years ago now, I've known him for like six or seven at this point. Not saying anything about like tinychat days, that shit was before my time and it's a chapter of history I choose to intentionally stay ignorant of because the Bok of today is the Bok I'm friends with, not the guy he was back then).
So yeah, I wasted my life here and so are you all. Get help and get better. I can't really claim that I'm doing either, but fuck dude I'm trying. Enjoy RI 2.0 or whatever the fuck