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Wild that we all sort of have our neurons fire and think of our childhood hangout place. Life has been very intense with extended family. The foreseen perils of growing old include the people being older than you becoming even older and their milestones are harrowing. I have reached a peak of employment that I didn’t think or map my way to but am extremely grateful for it. Lifetime ago young me was 100% in on being a doctor, and that was my heart and soul. Did the undergraduate, got into a prestigious university and then had everything go wrong! Health, mental health, academic bullying, the works! Yay! I failed out, and the prestigious university was an absolute nightmare on the road to leaving. Yeesh. I got burned out pretty bad and it was ugly. Thankful for my wife for being my support through the hardest part of my life. Took a long time to end up where I am now, almost a decade later, in a job that is the best I’ve had and supports my family in ways my imagined life as a doctor never could. 3 kids, all wonderful little monkeys and single digit age. Two are voracious readers like their mom and dad and the youngest is extremely keen to be joining his siblings in “big school” next year. Current job is one that lets me WFH and flex on/off extra time so I’ve been able to attend anything and everything regarding school activities and sports and performances without negatively affecting my career. I’m probably thinking about the OB because, after a decade of basically nothing, I’m finally in a mental space where I genuinely am writing again. Just for myself for now, but with plans to quietly publish on RR once I’ve reached an internal word count for my favourite story I started here on the forum. I think I need the public publishing as an exterior reason to keep writing until the story is done. I may be in a better place but life still is a frequent struggle and I need that push (the fear of letting down anonymous RR readers) to keep posting and ergo keep writing. Glad this space still exists. Happy to read we are all still moving on despite the horrors of the current real space and the horrors of the digital age.

I heard a rumour that MySpace is making a return and it made me think about the internet I loved growing up, so I decided to check in on the boards. Imagine my delight that things are still live! The tl;dr version of the last 20 years: Moved to Sydney, met my now husband Moved to the UK with him and my best friends Eloped to Scotland during the pandemic Eventually had a wedding reception in Australia Found a job I really love working on and in cities. Have started paint by numbers in the past few months, and now am looking to go to an actual class and learn how to paint things myself. No kids, and may not have any -- I really admire those who do but I must admit that the state of the world makes me very nervous to consider bringing kids into it. And financially I think we would struggle. I don't understand how people make it work!

I cannot believe this computer still has my login saved. Love this for me. I am not a massive boardgamer but my husband really does enjoy them. I find I enjoy party games (think the Resistance, Codenames, etc) that don't require ongoing thought. I can enjoy a round of Catan or Carcassone, but if you are looking for strategy games then I am not your girl. I have been really enjoying Wingspan, though, which my husband was given for his birthday. I really like the gentle nature of it. My husband is currently playing Gloomhaven with friends, has finished Pandemic Legacy, and will quite happily sit down for several hours to play Terraforming Mars. So that's probably my vibe if anyone has any good recommendations for other games to try? Also it's my husband's birthday in two weeks so if you have any suggestions for his present they would be very much appreciate!

I keep forgetting to reply to this. I'm about to head to bed but here's a quick rundown! I moved to Colorado to be with my wife (10 years in September!) back in 2017. I inherited her two kids and now have one of my own who turned 5 last month. My friend and I who have been working together for the better part of the last couple of decades did a major relaunch of our site, The Spriters Resource, last August. I've been working in IT since December 2014. Not exactly new news but I'm still actually with the same company despite moving half way across the country. I think that covers the major stuff. Perhaps I'll eventually remember to expand on some of this but for now, I'm off to bed. It's great to still see familiar faces show up here though!

I'm definitely... not the same Shinje that used to frequent this board. I went from Christianity to Atheism. I'll spare you the details on that to avoid any intense religious debates that could possibly flare up (although us last surviving members tend to be a lot more chill now, eh.) I am teaching myself to become an artist in a world where Gen AI is making that path more and more ridiculously difficult each day. I have inexplicably climbed the ladder in a line of work I considered temporary, from trolley collector to night shift supervisor, not the path I thought I would walk, career wise but it's cool, it's a job, it pays well. I met my partner, Jacob. We've been dating for around 4 years now, which makes me happy. I am finally comfortable being me, and that is really the biggest change in my life since OB. It's nice to see some other people have stumbled back into the boards with a quick update, I hope more people come back to share what they've been up to and how their lives have changed since being regular here.

A bit late, but my god I cannot believe this place is still here when most other sites are distant memories. I just happened to remember the name while talking to someone about old roleplays and how these days its become impossible to do long form story.

She recently played catan Jr and LOVED it

Sup! Long time since the last Board Games thread here 8D Go!

I approve of your Kiddo's hobbies!

I've been listening to big bang lately. Ugh... Their reunion is coming up

Okay okay....I'm here. Kiddo is five, homeschool, ballet, lowes and home depot crafts and swedish cultural club take up her, and my time these days. I work homecare part time but I'm trying to apply for disabilty. Health and disability is worse with mobility and chronic pain. My hobbies have greatly reduced due to time and health but I do love to cook and garden. I've also gotten pretty holistic too when it comes to remedies since covid. Kiddo is totally my mini me. Loves to read and cook (and loves board games and learning chess @Boo). She's also very creative and artistic. As for me, I run a few facebook groups for my neighborhood and also the social media manager for my local neighborhood council. I have a super cute chihuahua miniature pinscher named Sancho Panza (Our dumb little sidekick) I've gotten pretty skilled at a lot of Japanese food. I'm trying to learn Korean food next. I also want to make flour tortillas and sourdough bread. I did learn how to render my own pig lard. Man I have gotten old and boring.

Yeah man totally rad

The Dear Hunter too 🤠

Yooo, both A Perfect Circle and Karnivool are touring again! Who's going?!

🩻 @JoelEchoER: Patient came in from subway incident. No visible trauma. Arm felt… off. Like a bruise that happened hours ago. Checked vitals, imaging confirmed microfractures. Weird. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: My ER brain says: "don’t overthink it." Hands say otherwise?! Ever get that feeling where your body knows before your tools do? Is this what people mean when they talk about Intuition?! 🤯 I figured I already knew that feeling, but... I guess not! 🔉@georgie_lowend: Anyone else ever feel like the subway shows up before you hear it? Standing on the platform and I swear I felt the train coming through my boots first. Stockholm transit hits different? 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Second patient tonight, same incident. Same sensation. Like a pressure wave passed through muscle and bone, then vanished. Charts don't love that description. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: no, I’m not diagnosing by vibes!!! Scans backed up the calls BEFORE I posted about the cases. I just… get there faster lately, I guess? 😅 🩻 @JoelEchoER: At this point I would like to clearly point out that I am tweeting this as an individual and in no way am representing the hospital I work for!.. 🤐 ♥️ Tweet Liked by @NYCMercyUTH 🩻 @JoelEchoER: We train for car crashes, falls, blunt force. This feels different. Distributed. Like the injury didn’t start at a point but in the space around them. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Third case now and my hands were buzzing?! ⚡️ That’s new. Gonna hydrate, step out for a minute. If you were in the NYC subway incident tonight and feel "fine but not fine," please don’t ignore that. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Not trying to scare anyone. Just saying bodies keep receipts. Sometimes they take a while to print. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Update: admin asked me (politely) to stop tweeting “speculation” during shift. Fair. Last one for now. 💊 @MedStudentRina: Re carefully but I assisted on 2 of those cases. Same station. Same 'nothing obvious, something wrong' vibe. Imaging matched your calls. Thought it was just me. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Appreciate you saying that, @MedStudentRina. Document everything. Even the parts that feel dumb. Especially those. 🚆 @NYC_TransitWatch: JUST IN: NYPD and MTA investigating brief service disruption on multiple subway lines this evening after reports of "unusual vibrations." No derailments. No confirmed cause. Service restored. 📰 @LocalNewsNY: VIDEO: Commuters describe a "deep rumble" moments before trains arrived. Officials stress there is no danger to the public. Full clip at 11. 📺 @CableCityNews: Authorities downplay reports of a "subway vibration event" affecting several Manhattan stations tonight. Medical officials confirm a small number of ER visits with minor injuries. No link established. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: For the record: patients didn’t report falls. Or impacts. They reported feeling "shaken" while standing still. 🎧 @IndieLiveClips: Crowd video from a Stockholm show is going around—watch the mic stand during the low end 👀 Probably just bass physics but… comments are wild. 🩻 @JoelEchoER: Logging off. Hands still buzzing. That’s not normal for me. Will write it up the boring way and let smarter people argue. 📢 @STHLM_NewsNow: Following reports of vibration-related incidents in multiple cities. Experts caution against drawing connections at this stage. 🌚 @RandomReplyGuy: So the subway did it? Or the concert? Or the gas? Or nothing? Cool cool cool. 🩻 @JoelEchoER:Last thought before sleep: different cities. Same feeling. If that’s coincidence, it’s a very specific one. Right? RIGHT?!!?!

@aisha_patterns: Seeing a lot of questions about whether recent anomalies are connected. Short answer: unclear. Longer answer: systems rarely fail independently. Correlations don’t announce themselves loudly. Something I wish more people understood: models don’t suddenly become wrong. They "drift". Residuals widen. Edge cases multiply. It feels like standing on a floor that’s still solid but no longer level. @aisha_patterns: Permafrost thaw isn’t just about volume. It’s about composition. We track the usual gases well. Trace compounds less so. That gap matters more than people think. @DrEliasKade: Caution here, @aisha_patterns. Trace anomalies at low concentrations are expected during rapid environmental change. Again: We shouldn’t imply causality without evidence. @aisha_patterns: Agreed, @DrEliasKade. Though historically, many causal links were first noticed as persistent "rounding errors" before instruments caught up. This might sound abstract, but if your model residuals suddenly make you uneasy - even when diagnostics look fine - don’t ignore that! Double-check assumptions. That’s often where real shifts hide. @DrEliasKade: And that’s exactly why structured review matters. Intuition is useful, but policy has to be grounded in verifiable data. @aisha_patterns: Absolutely. Intuition isn’t a conclusion. It’s a prompt to look closer. Preferably before thresholds are crossed. @STHLM_NewsNow: Experts agree: recent gas anomalies unlikely to cause harm. Full analysis from leading climate scientists. #ClimateWatch #Permafrost @aisha_patterns: Quick clarification: no one said "no risk." Nuance matters. Residuals are widening. Trace compounds exist. Statements like "experts agree" misrepresent discussion. Let's hope your readers' media literacy is sufficient to think ab @TrollBot_9000: LOL @aisha_patterns experts agree vs residuals widen…sounds like someones afraid of losing their funding $$$!! Can we trust any of these "scientists"? 🤖 #GasGate

@georgie_lowend Stockholm is all gray water + clean lines. Played Debaser tonight, crowd polite but listening. After load-out my fingers are buzzing like I never took my bass off. Cold maybe? Or jet lag. Tour brain. 🎸 @NordicRiotMag Tonight at Debaser: touring indie trio STATIC LINES delivered a set built on restraint and tension. Bassist Georgie M. anchored the room—low end you didn’t just hear, you felt. Stockholm crowds noticed. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ @georgie_lowend Anyone else ever feel like the subway shows up before you hear it? Standing on the platform and I swear I felt the train coming through my boots first. Stockholm transit hits different? @georgie_lowend Ok this is dumb but I plucked one string in the hotel room and the desk lamp started rattling. Not loud. Just enough to notice. Please tell me old hotels do this and I’m not losing it. @georgie_lowend My ears are weird tonight. Like I can mute background noise if I focus? AC, hallway voices, traffic… gone. But the bass note in my head is LOUD. Is that a thing or am I just tired @georgie_lowend If I accidentally break something tomorrow by playing too hard, no I didn’t. Also if Stockholm collapses due to excessive low end, I apologize in advance. 😬🎶 @ScienceFrontiers 🧵THREAD: As Arctic permafrost melts at unprecedented rates, researchers are increasingly concerned about the release of long-sequestered atmospheric gases. Some are well-known (methane, CO₂). Others are not. Early studies suggest trace compounds—previously locked away for tens of thousands of years—may interact unpredictably with human biology. While most people will experience no effects, scientists caution that rare physiological responses cannot