What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

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The graphics forum died because people who actually used to request things all left, the only remaining active members either don't care and just have the same set forever or they just make their own. Since there aren't many requests any more and that's all that really ever happened there... M'yah. Its why I haven't updated the tutorial thread in ages either.


Anyway I came here to rant a little bit. Because I was just talking to a friend, she was feeling a bit stressed because of money and I was like "Well you know, there's more important things in life etc." But then it turned into one of those lectures people give me about how "Oh well its easy for you, you have money. You don't need to worry about anything."
Oh really? So mental things, health, family, loneliness etc? I'm not allowed to feel bad about anything ever because on the grounds that I'm not poor?
Plus I know what its like, its why I'm so left wing government, I like to help the people who need the help.
Its not like I don't work for it, I have two and now three jobs, three things I do that provide income. So yes I can save money pretty quick if I want to. I'm going to Florida in two weeks and only booked it out of the blue a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't say I'm "rich" but I will say I'm better off financially than a lot of other people, sure.

But yes I'm not going to rant too much about it but the short version of it is that try to remember that everyone is a human, having money or not is just another number that means nothing more than any other number. Plus I spend it because having money in the bank doing nothing is pointless. I still have problems, everyone has some stuff going on in their life and to think that just because that one part of my life is good that suddenly means everything else is good in my life is just stupid.

[Queen Elsa]

He's yelling? Telling him tonight is going to be a mess if he's like this all day.

[Si-Amber]

I just walked 13 miles. So gonna regret that in the morning!

[FireAndSun]

Boredom galore. I need a job.

[KopsTheTerminator]

I think we've also lost a good few graphic artists over the years like LadyAislynn, TeenSimba/CheetahCat and Jaynr. It's pretty sad.

[FireAndSun]

Man, I really need a haircut. My hair is starting to look super weird.

[Buffy]

My last day as a 21 year old. Some pretty amazing things happened in my 21st year... I met Amy, KK, Shadowfax, Jamie, Si, RayCat and MusicLion101... AMAZING TRIP. Little Annabelle was born (wasn't there to see it but it's still relevant to my life lol). I got a new dog! Django has brought so much love to my life again. And I've made some incredible new friends at work. So yeah... Gonna work and by the time my shift ends at midnight I'll be 22.

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[quote="Kops"]I think we've also lost a good few graphic artists over the years like LadyAislynn, TeenSimba/CheetahCat and Jaynr. It's pretty sad. [/quote]

Yep but I mean... Who can blame them? MLK is, I mean The Den is still fun to post around in and chat to people in (being that most of the posts every day are made here) but for those who want a community of TLK fans who all talk together and create fan projects and RPs etc? Not so much. MLK kind of fell apart under the weight of its own crap decisions and people who just got so fed up with it that in the end they either left or got themselves banned.

[quote]Hello! Moderators have been noticing an increase in the amount of general "chit chat" in forum topics. This can be harmful to forums and bloat the forum with unnecessary discussion. In an attempt to reduce this, we're going to move the chatroom to the index page of the forum. Please use it instead of creating topics that are borderline spam.

We hope this will streamline the forum a little more and keep posts that are borderline spam in the chatroom.

We've also opened the chatroom up to members who have an approved post in the forums.[/quote]

^THIS was written by Moka in 2012.
Since then he, and the moderators have: removed member dens and let everyone have their own den in Member HQ, thus the forum has multiple areas dedicated exactly to spam.
Opened the World Issues forum (which used to be called the smarty pants forum LOL) wherein people can discuss things like abortion, politics, war and every topic that has started an argument ever... Which is pretty amazing for a forum that has a NO POSTING STUFF THAT WILL PROMOTE ARGUING rule.
Has decided that post count should now go up everywhere in the board instead od just in the TLK sections, so now there's nothing more to be gained from actually contributing to relevant threads than there is from telling everyone that you ate a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast this morning.
And also removed the chat from the front page and now as a tiny link on the bottom that takes you there.

So yeah, weird decision and negative reactions from the community are what ruined it. I may not have a forum of my own, but if I ever do, I will always use this as an example of how not to run it and turn it into a place built for off topic discussions just themed after a certain film.


Ad for those who HAVE joined within the past three years or so and weren't around that long ago: you can still enjoy this place of course and use it for what its intended for OR for just posting what you are thinking RIGHT NOW. But I'm just saying there was a time where it WAS more active and was actually geared towards TLK discussion and fan projects. I'm not even really saying that it sucks now, there's some really lovely people here and I wouldn't be here still without those people being here but I think every long time member would agree that it definitely has changed and not in the good way.
People didn't just suddenly go "I hate TLK" and leave. It was constant bad decisions and constant negative reactions from people (that the mods wrote off as "trolling") that did it. At least that's the answer I keep coming back to.

[Tsuki]

Wow. I've done so much power walking this week. I feel ready for the walk on Saturday . But I hope my partner can keep up with me. It's not a race but I've become a bit of a fast walker

[FireAndSun]

Boring Saturday commence.