Why do I keep coming back to NPF?
 

I do not know. I mean the original reason I joined was because I liked 8-Bit Theater so much, but that has been over for a long time. Most of the stuff that is talked about is boring, most of the stuff that I like is either dismissed or lampooned by the forum. Maybe it is my hope that someone might agree with what I say from time to time, I do not know. I guess in some ways I can relate with most of the regular members, even if I do not always agree with them. Maybe the rest of you can help, why do we keep coming back to a place that is almost never that satisfying to visit? :raise:

I swear to god this thread stays on-topic and gender indifferent or stab time.

Well, there's the door regardless.
 

In my own case, its the interesting people & discussion topics. Admittedly, I don't pipe up nearly as much as I used too, or actively take part in many discussions, but I still hang around.

Of course, given how infrequently I post (reinforced by the fact, that I've never been a big poster), I'm sure most think I'm a new user or something. Not a guy who's been around since the near onset of 8-Bit theater.

Heck, I recall when Shiney was known as Shiney Shine Shines & had a thing for eating faces.

Should I not have answered seriously?
 

The site is important to me because of the comics I post, and I hope some day they're as important to the forumites as 8-bit was (though I doubt that'll happen). But it seems as of now people are more interested in discussing the webcomics on other sites, or 8-bit, and aren't as interested in The Dreadful yet (though its threads have been picking up lately, and there are a lot of posts on them, so I'm definitely encouraged!). That makes sense because all that other stuff has years and years of content (and are probably better, though I think what I do is pretty good. I have fun at least.). It looks like I have a lot of work to do!

I also like looking around the forums because I like the discussions here and most of the people are cool. I've made some good friends in the short time I've been around. And I also think if I can know the audience better I can make more enjoyable stuff.

And I won't mention dicks so Snake will be able to keep the topic on its proper course :)

Man, MSperoni, I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of the setting but I'm totally a fan of HIKYM and your drawings are off the wall awesome.

Now, for the forum itself:

Hell if I know why I keep coming back.

Even I'm not sure how serious I'm being.
 

But Bob, ripping off your sprites made me appreciate the craft that went into making the art for the games I played as a whelp and minimalist art in general. You helped shape me into the awful, tasteless person I am today. How could I not remember the name that dragged me down to this lowly state?

And I come here because I like to pretend you guys are my friends. Much more convenient than real friends, since I don't have to talk to you.

Sado-masochism.

Actually it's probably just habit at this point, or even a necessity.

Would you quit going to the bathroom?

If I had a choice? Fuck yeah. Pooping is terrible.

I don't fucking know. Because you guys are hilarious, I like how some threads turn out, and we're already one big happy fucking family. Fifth is the daddy, shiney's the mommy, and Seil is the kindly uncle figure who dispenses candy to children.

Because you need something to passive-aggressively complain about.

EDIT: Why do I keep reading threads where the topic is "weh weh nobody agrees with my ignorant, wrong opinions".

Because I've been here as long as Bob and I've practically grown roots here. I mean, I've been on the forums for 10 years (EZ boards what!) and I can't really think of any significant amount of time I haven't been with NPF (not counting family vacations sans internets back in the day, or going overseas). It's a part of my morning routine and has been for years.

In other words: complacency?

Nah, I love you guys.

This is my thing now, fuck you.
 

Been here 9 years. It's like my internet home pretty much.

At this point, I'm only here because of that stupid Let's Play I still need to finish. Never really felt that close to most of you, and the few I did know where to find me in other places. It's just guilt and habit at these days.

But pooping is great!

Freud had something to say about this great debate.

If only he had settled the cake v. pie debate. And not been batshit insane.

I've been here seven years and haven't found a better community than this. Made some great friends, kept my faith in humanity from completely withering away at times, kept me sane through college, and kept me from accomplishing more in real life.


Wait.


Also, you guys are the reason I originally picked up TF2, Ghost Trick, Shadow of the Colossus, Bowser's Inside Story and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Thank you for showing me the best way to spend my money and time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...er/2804e51.gif

You're just all such smexy friends
 

Like am I supposed to be Mickey here, or the cat, or the bird?

EDIT: Am I... all of them?

Can you really have 49 best friends?

You can when you define "best friends" as "the people you most want to join you in a fifty person orgy."
And we all know the American Heritage standard definition of orgy requires EXACTLY fifty participants to work out.

Not true! You have an alt account I banned!

I suppose it's because I have no grasp of my own mortality.

LLLLIIIIIQQQQQQQUUUUUIIIIIIIDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!

I stuck in here initially because of a thread Fifth made making fun of Clark's terrible costume and go-go boots from season nine of Smallville.

Lately, it's been the shitstorm that pops up around gender identity. That thread about that high school boy that wore a dress to school got fucking crazy. So yeah... The (often good natured) arguments y'all get into really bring me back.

EDIT:

Wait! Liz I totally respect your opinions and your right to be offended by shit that is, well, offensive. And Work It sucks.

Is it a good or bad thing that I'm not on that list?

And then Fifthfiend woke up from his coma.

That would be pretty messed up if NPF was all simply a hallucination in Fifth's mind.

Us all being the hallucination of Fifth's mind would simply help prove my "Fifth is the imperfect and evil demiurge" theory. Cancer? Fifth's fault. War? Fifth's fault. lolcats? Fifth's fault.

Probably nostalgia. I'm too filled with e-rage to really contribute to anything anymore. Actually I totally shouldn't even be here. Sometimes my wife points something out and I take a look at it.

Are you saying like, the windowless van owning kinda uncle, or the cool uncle?

You're Mickey, walker is the cat, and BitVyper is the goose.

...Pretty sure Mickey mutilates the goose in some disgusting way in the next scene, FYI.

The top villain always enacts a horrific death upon his second-in-command.

My first thought was Uncle John, no "-ny," who asks for two dollars then gives Pa the five in his boot, because two dollars is plenty to get drunk with. Then he goes across the street, buys two bottles of whiskey, downs one at the counter, then wanders off to drink the other one. I think that's how it went, anyway. Either way, the baby miscarries and he sends it downstream to those fuckers who own the canneries.

ITT: Snake retains the teenage delusion that everyone on internet forums is a smokin' hot grrrrL!1!lol69 instead of what has by large majority become a group of oddly shaped and overweight middle-aged men.

Oh, not at all.
I'm convinced that nearly all of you are overweight nerdy men.
I just want to have sex with you anyway.

<3 You all mean so very much to me!!! <3

Why do I keep coming back? Honestly I don't really know. Just here to be here I suppose.

And the comics are pretty good.

Who on here is Rose and who is being breastfed?

Middle aged might have been a little harsh. I think we're pretty much in like, our 20s and 30s?

I can't decide if Snake's constant cries for attention are cute like a sad puppy or scary like an uncle that likes to hug too long. Either way I'm glad he's here.

It's the adventure of Nique and the journey to the character limit. Recursive style!
 

Had?

I originally came here because of RaiRO, god help me.

I'm still here because I'm a routine addict and it's the third clicky thing on my row of clicky clicks that need clicked whenever I open this browser or else the world will end.

I'm pretty confident about this.
 

Seil is also Rose. Google Spider is the old man in the barn.

No bronies allowed for this beard ride. Give up that silly fascination and I'll show you some real friendship and magic. o bb.

I thought he didn't like me!
 

I don't care what this thread is about anymore. I was included in this list, so I am happy.

I'm here because yall were my first forum on here and all the other ones I go on have WAY to many people. I can hardly establish a relationship between any of them or keep up with their various ones.
Neather was I...And to think I Introduced MSPaint to Him!

I'm shocked most of my recent "cries for attention" aren't recognized as silly jokes.

I mean when I'm actually seriously crying out for attention, you will know it.

EDIT: The really sad thing about rereading that thread is how I went out with Girl B again, failed with her for reasons completely unrelated to those I was freaking about when writing that rant, then went out with over a dozen other girls over the course of three months, failed with all of them for various reasons, became so depressed about dating that I just threw my hands up into the air and gave up, and now am still just as single and lonely, only having lost hours upon hours of my time, caused myself untold amounts of additional stress, and wasted hundreds of dollars of monies.

I mean I just wish I could have stopped myself and told me to play Mass Effect or watch Soul Eater instead.

EDIT 2: And oh God do you know what annoys me the most?!? Those assholes who listen to my rant and respond to it with a sincere, emphatic "Don't worry, someday you'll find the one! She's out there somewhere! Just hang in there!" bullshit.
I'd rather you point-blank insult me for throwing a hissy fit over my failings. Telling me that she's out there and I just haven't found the perfect match is borderline insulting. First of all, relationships just don't work like that, and secondly, more than enough people in this universe are old and lonely have remained single all their lives to destroy any foolish notion that somehow everyone is merited or entitled to find true love someday.

It's particularly insulting from those in relationships, because it's like they're just on some other universe where they just pretend or imagine that just because they eventually lucked into love that everyone else can too, just by sitting on their asses and waiting patiently for the Love Fairy to stop by and visit. So when someone single is like "Shit, dating is hard," they conveniently forget just how difficult and painful it was before they found their precious love muffin and go on some rant of "No, it's not difficult at all, just hang in there, love will find a way!"

And said "Love will find a way!" rants inevitably contain no actual useful advice whatsoever, it's akin to you asking me for advice on how to write a novel and me responding that you should just open up a Word Document and type a bunch of random letters and eventually you'll happen, through sheer probability, to write a complete sentence. You know, as opposed to me teaching you how to write.

Like, constructively critique my dating habits, that's helpful, or give me genuine advice that's actually applicable, OR even tell me I'm a hopeless case, but don't do what I just described, that is ridiculous.

Either someone is taking something seriously or the joke is becoming far too meta

Oh no, they're all separate things.

Like it was originally a joke, then to prove it was a joke I contrasted it to something seriously full of silly angst I wrote in the past, then reading what I had written in the past led me on an unrelated rant.

The thread title is exactly the question I asked to both akaSM and Dracorion the other night. Guess I just like peeking around at all the fun little things going on here. Then when I feel all 'srs mode', I like to check out the News or General threads for stuff to ponder about.

As for what I think of NPF? NPF is like a D&D group that gets together every month because the DM rather go to work then deal with those idiots. Nothing great or important ever gets done because two of the stooge players want to get their 'groove on' and keep asking if the elf npc is a guy or a girl and whether or not they're hot. Then you have mister 'I have to use every book available' and force you to pause just to look up the rules. Last but not least is the newbie who doesn't know what the hell they're doing because nobody bothered to teach them the rules.

At least, that's how NPF looks to me SOMETIMES.

Obviously not me!

Sweetie, if you want me to stay in your closet, that's fine. I just wish you would clean sometime, it's getting gross in here.

If Snake ever got laid, would it mean that he wouldn't write wall of texts?

Like this is an important question.

The more important question: Who's going to take one for the team?

It's funny because the clip leads into gay innuendo right off the bat.
 

There is nothing positive about anything any of you do.

Finally, some recognition.

Well, shoot, here I was, being all lurking and shit, and Snake had to be awesome and include me in the... list-orgy? Lisorgy. Yes, that is now a word.

[Oh noes serious]I suppose I stay around here because people I genuinely consider good people post here, and at least one of them is totally a friend. Like, an actual friend. For someone who only has literally one friend in RL, this is somewhat important.

Also, watching anime(and Kamen Rider Kabuto) in chat has been the highlight of my days for a lot of days. I look forward to coming into chat and watching stuff. Actually socializing with people is something that almost never happens to me enough in RL, and is kinda-sorta-rare online. That I can do this here is just... fuck, it means a hell of a lot. Really, for those who genuinely put up with me, thank you.[/Oh noes serious]

Of course, I'm also totally too lazy to change to another forum, but eh, whatever.

Man, let's screw all convention; let's have that 50-person orgy and then all fall in love with eachother AT THE SAME TIME and form a sexy love-commune or something.

Yup! If I get laid, I'd stop writing walls of text.
You all now have an important life objective!!!

I don't know. It's... It's just that you seem tiny without them. :/

But I guess some like them small. It's not the size that counts but how you use it. And some of us have tinier screen than others after all.

I met my husband because of NPF, so I guess this place must be doing something right.

Mostly I'm too lazy to do anything else in my spare time and I'm too much of a homebody to actually bother with people IRL.

I thought you didn't like me! Why you gotta be all nice and be my friend, huh?!?!

...I mean yay friends!

You are the most half-empty motherfucker I've ever seen jesus christ

Hey, it's not like dates can be enjoyable experiences in themselves or anything.

or stepping stones of learning...

or part of the factual conclusion that you will fail at ALL of your dates untill you meet that on person whom you will spent the rest of your life with, and you will say it was worth it anyway cause that is what happens to everyone since the history of forever.

Also, sometimes you get real close to talking as if you were this guy

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/...Untitled-1.jpg

He appears to be crying tears of joy.

...
...How exactly did you procure that photo of me?
Freakin' NPF stalkers.

I dunno, I always pictured Snake more as an FUUUUUUUUUUUU- kinda guy.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/...icture_2_c.jpg

e: Maybe like a silent FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-?

If we're gonna have to put him into shitty 4chan meme boxes he has to be longcat. Because y'know, a lot of his posts are long. And longcat is long. And Snake probably likes cats. Unless he's a terrible person.

I'm a dog person, actually.

Why do i keep coming back to this thread?

But but but... that doesn't mean you don't like cats, does it?

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Cats are stupid.

So are misplaced apostrophes.

stop picking on the ESL kids

YOU'RE a misplaced apostrophe!

You are stupid.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You are stupider.