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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#14926: Jan 25th 2023 at 3:35:08 PM

It might taken off if the redesign was done several years back.

Sort of related but I miss the little community things we used to do back in the day.

Macron's notes
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#14927: Jan 25th 2023 at 3:57:43 PM

Sometimes it feels odd knowing that I took significantly longer than the other mods to make a single post on the forums (since I joined in 2008, but only stayed on the wiki until I branched out to ATT and the forums in 2017), and I think my work on wiki-adjacent parts of the forums is why the longtime mods even knew I exist by the time I was promoted.

My first forum post, for those curious. Apparently I retracted the original contents, and I don't even remember what I originally put there. Either way, I clearly still had a lot of room for improvement, and not just for someone who ended up moderating that part of the forums.

Edit: Well, this post was the first post I made after the ones I made in that Fandom Berserk Button thread that went nowhere, and it's not as bad because I can't disagree with my past self that "fiction has a tendency to depict this place in these ways" and "this is what this place is actually like" are indeed what separates location-based tropes from location-based Useful Notes. (And that page did indeed get moved to Useful Notes.)

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 25th 2023 at 6:09:21 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14928: Jan 26th 2023 at 4:56:41 AM

[up] God you're old (for this site, anyways)

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#14929: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:11:59 AM

I made my first account in 2009 but I have been an active troper since 2010. I know several people that have been around since 2004-2007 that are still here today.

The site is going to be 20 years old next year so that's fun.

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Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14930: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:14:08 AM

Just a little over a year and our site can finally drink alcohol in the US

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#14931: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:15:28 AM

If the wiki went and got drunk, oh that would be a spectacular mess for the clean-ups afterwards.

My musician page
RallyBot2 (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#14932: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:29:35 AM

I've been around since '08-ish (though my account is only about a decade old.) Things were... different back in the day.

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#14933: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:41:36 AM

I've joined in 2017, and things both feel different yet not that different... It's diminishing returns due to stuff becoming more solid. Like with console generations these days, six years on this wiki doesn't make as much of a difference as it used to in terms of feel. I probably would have felt a bigger whiplash between 2011 to 2017.

Edited by Piterpicher on Jan 26th 2023 at 3:48:06 PM

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#14934: Jan 26th 2023 at 6:53:51 AM

Registered 2019, active since 2020 for me. With a hiatus from late September 2021-November/December 2021.

Been reading since roughly around 2014, though I’d read the site beforehand.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jan 26th 2023 at 9:54:17 AM

Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#14935: Jan 26th 2023 at 8:06:38 AM

Our first wiki edit on our original account is in September 2011... though we lurked without an account for some amount of time we can't remember anymore and can't think of any reasonable method of checking, so we've definitely been around even longer than that.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#14936: Jan 26th 2023 at 8:38:51 AM

Someone brought up inability to use the scroll wheel in ATT queries occasionally and I confirm that it did happen again and I had to reload the page.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#14937: Jan 26th 2023 at 8:50:23 AM

Jesus, it does not feel like it's been almost 20 years since the website began.

Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14938: Jan 26th 2023 at 8:52:02 AM

I hope it lasts another 20 years. I need somewhere to go when I wanna nerd out or bully my friends. Or both.

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#14939: Jan 26th 2023 at 8:54:50 AM

I hope so too. Especially since I like to do fun things on the 20th of October. grincool[awesome]

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#14940: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:05:18 AM

I got my account in 2018, but I started lurking wiki side... god, over ten years ago, probably

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA
Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14941: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:06:49 AM

I never thought to make an account since I only used it to browse things I like. I've probably been on here since... 2015 or 2014

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#14942: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:15:03 AM

Getting déjà vu here.

Been here since 2015, pretty sure I made an account fairly quickly, so I was not a lurker for long. First forum post was in late 2019, this was apparently what I did during quarantine. I forgot already, seems so long ago now.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 26th 2023 at 2:15:22 PM

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#14943: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:18:38 AM

I lurked for a long time before making an account... probably in 2017. I could check but I don't feel like it.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#14944: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:28:14 AM

This is the second time this month I started a discussion I wasn't trying to start. Not to long ago, I called myself uncreative and used the fact that I've used the same username for 20 years as evidence, then that started username discussion, and this time I brought up the fact that I started posting on the forums well after the other current members of the mod team did (before we were mods, obviously) and then that started discussion about account age, even though I was talking about how long I've been on the forums specifically and the fact that I had been on the site for nine years at that point was a side note to illustrate how long I took to set foot on the forums.

Edit: Maybe the third, actually. There was one time I made an offhand mention of my current avatar and that started yet another avatar discussion that wasn't in the avatar thread (because people really like those discussions), even though that wasn't what I was trying to discuss.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 26th 2023 at 11:31:46 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#14945: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:36:34 AM

But yes, apparently joining the forums was my quarantine hobby. The dates don't lie. How about you?

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#14946: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:48:52 AM

[up]I think that's accurate, plus the timestamps are particularly wonky for the posts I made during quarantine because at the time, I had no reason to stick to any sort of sleep schedule. I apparently didn't post at all the day quarantine started here (March 15), but I made a single post the day after that and started posting more often after that.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 26th 2023 at 11:52:10 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
AnotherOnlinePersona Killed by Chills from Harlequin Forest Since: Dec, 2022
Killed by Chills
#14947: Jan 26th 2023 at 9:56:14 AM

I had been lurking for about ten years and change before I joined. I even made a couple of fan works as I considered joining but wanted to wait until I had a properly published original work before joining.

The publishing was most recently intended for New Years Day (it was initially intended for 2017), just before going back to class, but that turned out not to happen (though I still hope to have it ready within the first half of the year). It's intended to be published under a pen name, with the intent of trying to be as close to anonymous as possible, and based loosely on my personal life during my high school years. I also intend to use the pen name to put together a series of Batman fics and get more involved in online communities with the intent of making it easier for people to find my work. I might create a separate creator page for my pen name if I have enough published material under it.

Edited by AnotherOnlinePersona on Jan 26th 2023 at 9:57:21 AM

good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#14948: Jan 26th 2023 at 10:06:46 AM

While I understand that the same page cannot have endless links to Image Pickin' threads, an inconvenient thing is how said page becomes BUKIS with enough threads that failed to find images. The impressions is that the image is right as it is, but sometimes it's simply that no one genuinely managed to find a more illustrative example in the timeframe. I myself am terrible at finding images, where do people usually get them? Streaming sites often don't allow screenshots.

Edited by good-morning on Jan 26th 2023 at 3:07:09 PM

oh hey how are you doing?
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#14949: Jan 26th 2023 at 10:22:27 AM

Online Trading Card databases mostly. Sometimes I take screenshots from my Switch.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#14950: Jan 26th 2023 at 10:22:47 AM

I mostly just download images off GIS.

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