It's strange, making a post. I guess I've just been nostalgic for simpler times here and there. This website got brought up with an old friend group and some memories got in. I got nostalgic, remembering the days when I was young and too stupid to figure out how to install ROMs without destroying my computer and causing the wrath of my abusive mother. I remember getting excited when I could 'purchase' a console. But even more, I remember how excited I was posting all over the place. Even when people were less than pleasant to me, which... fair. Can't say I'm happy about it, but can't say I don't get it. As a kid it wasn't anything I wasn't used to, anyway. Bullied in school, bullied at home, bullied online- but online was a place with video games and people who put up with me better than real life did, so the choice was kinda obvious. Traumatized me, of course, but reminded me of the good in the world - I have the inbox message from my now-best friend begging me to come back to the chatroom I was bullied out of because I was a stupid kid surrounded by teenagers with issuesNow I'm 26, laying in bed, wishing I had been diagnosed with ADHD and autism sooner so I might have gotten the help I need without relying on the comfort of fickle strangers on the internet.

I'm still with my abusive mother, but I'm moving out in a month. For good, this time. I got away from her for college and it was the best four years of my life, minus the debt... now I'm finally breaking free from a dead end job and moving in with my sister so I can finally move on with my life.

I got a girlfriend, too. She's the most wonderful thing that happened to me in the years of broken hearts and misguided attempts at 'relationships' in my teenage years. Yet I'm still terrified that I'll somehow screw it up. I've done lots of screwing up and I'm sure I'll screw up more, but... that's life, I guess.

I hope I'm not the only one who remembers ~sakura~. I think that was the first time I really had to confront death and how unfair life was. It's strange- I don't remember much of anything from this forum despite how glued to it I was (then again, I repress a lot of my childhood years, thanks mom). But I remembered ~sakura~. Because I was a kid, I was so confident there'd be a miracle and she'd come back. It's not like she was my best friend or anything, but she was someone familiar. Someone kind in an unforgiving world. So why, why did she have to be taken from it? Of course, I've had plenty of experiences seeing death since then- my grandpa, some of my uncles, my sister's cat who I had known since preschool... And I live on, wondering what happens when I die. What might have happened if I died, for some reason or another.

I'm gonna be honest with you all, I don't know who this post is for. Maybe it's for the friends I made, or the people who always got annoyed with me for tooling around the forums. Honestly, I think I'm just screaming into the void, wondering if someone might answer. Totally chill if no one does. Might be better that way too, I'm not sure if I'll come back to this thread tomorrow or in another fifteen years.

Super cool that David has kept this running, by the way. I figured I owed this place that much, being the last forum that I think exists from my childhood (minus the Roblox forums but I'd rather take my chances here than with actual children).

I'm gonna go to bed now and probably forget I wrote this. It was a hard day and I just wanna put it all behind me. But I'll be okay. There's always a light at the end of the tunnel; we just don't always see it, so we don't believe it's there.

If you're reading this, whether you skimmed or read every word (thank you, by the way), whether you remember me from the past or never heard of me until now, whether you hated my guts because I was a stupid and annoying child or you still cared about me despite all of that.

I believe in you. Because I've learned the hard way that a lot of people don't believe in each other.

But even though I've been jaded, I won't stop believing that there's good in everyone so long as they try. There are evil people out there, yes, but we don't have to be like that.

Please remember to be kind to everyone you meet, even if they get on your nerves a little (though if they do something that really insults you, punch their lights out if they aren't listening to reason). You never know what someone else is going through- they might be an undiagnosed child with nowhere to call 'home', as the two places they went to every day were nothing but hellish.

I believe in you.

Thank you for reading my story.

Yeah, you remember the MS-DOS? Had all those cool games on floppy disks?
I think it would be really great if Vizzed implemented an MS-DOS emulator. There are quite a few games I'd like to play on there, ESPECIALLY Sim Ant. No, not the SNES version, the good MS-DOS emulator. I think it would be a cool idea, it could run off the normal keyboard and mouse.
What do you guys think? MS-DOS for Retro Game Room when we get enough donations?

I get banned for a completely arbitrary reason.
But not before I throw the ban at the below user!

Nintendo 64. It has a mass variety of games that are fun, while pretty much most of XBox 360's games are just FPS games.

Nobody has said Vanniluxe yet?
VANNILUXE IS A FREAKING ICE CREAM CONE WITH TWO SCOOPS!
But yeah, I'd eat a Vanniluxe.
*licklick*

Scatman. Such a great person. His songs just make me get hyped and rushed.

HeartGold and SoulSilver, because there's many other things to do, like Pokewalker, Pokeathlon, Battle Frontier, plus you can capture Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, and there is remixed music and revamped graphics.

I don't really use hacks or glitches mostly, so I'm all good.
But one time, I was using hacks to get me a special pokemon to play through the game with on my ROM, and I encountered a Level 40 Bad Egg instead of the Zigzagoon I was supposed to fight.

Shadow, hands-down. I don't really need to explain why, do I?

We can be friends! We're really nice!
Oh, and remember to post really often today, which is what I'm doing which is rare, because today is ~sakura~ day, and today we honor a great member who we most likely lost to Leukemia by trying to get 1000 posts. We're also trying to beat the post record of Vizzed, 2000 posts.

Action 52. 52 games of pure suck. All here for either 200 dollars, yes thats the exact price, or on Vizzed.

I am nothing like a Bad Dog.
I play on the computer too much.
I'm a geek.

If Minecraft became Free-To-Play, I'd be happy since less people would use Mineshafter.

You must ignore her, as she is actually lieing. Go to the first trainer on the bridge and talk to him to find out Misty's Staryu actually ran off to the

My first one was Final Fantasy for the NES. It was actually the main reason I came here.
Me: *your everyday gamer* Wow! The original Final Fantasy on the NES!? MUST! PLAY!
*later*
Me: NESCafe is really slow..Maybe I could find it somewhere else.
*later*
Me: Vizzed has Final Fantasy! AND MANY OTHER GAMES! TIME TO GET NOSTALGIC!

sonikku : This entire project is dead. LordVanya hasn't logged in for a LONG time. And I mean a LONG time.

*DANANANANANAAAAAA!*
YOU GOT THE ROPE!!!

Thank you.

I throw a Redead below me.

I'd give a really long explanation why Harry Potter is better than Twilight, but do I need to even say why? Harry Potter has a world of magic, a lot of awesome stuff in it, Twilight is just a sucky romance book where Vampires SPARKLE IN THE DAYLIGHT. Seriously?

My favorite Fossil Pokemon, and favorite non-legendary Pokemon altogether, is Rampardos. Everyone may think Rampardos stinks due to it's low speed, but just hear me out. First off, my Roblox username is Rampardos. Second, it is a DESTRUCTIVE BEAST, HAVING THE SECOND MOST ATTACK POWER EVER, losing to Attack Deoxys. Third, if you raise Rampardos's EVs to Max Speed, and Max Attack, have Rampardos's personality as an attack or speed boosting personality, with IVs maxed in that, and give it a Quick Claw, Head Smash, INSTANT KO MOST LIKELY.

You stay away from the sea, in fear of a Zora shooting you.