Okay, I’m not Slinker but I am filling in for him today! I hope you have all had a great start to the week if, like me, you are working. If you’re lucky enough to be on holiday, I hope you are enjoying that.
Speaking of Slinker’s inspirational Skeletor memes, they were something I looked forward to each week and was one of those little things that kept me coming back to TAY back in the days before I started posting. I don’t know how many years it’s been, but at some point the Skeletor memes stopped and I don’t think I noticed until much later.
I think what made TAY so addictive was it gave me a space to talk about the video games I loved with people who possibly also enjoyed them, and I got to read about all sorts of different games and this in a way broadened my horizons leading me to try new games that I otherwise may not have. I didn’t really have any gamer friends IRL, even now very few of the people I call my friends are gamers. I guess you could say I found the community I needed, and have had some cool experiences in doing so.
The new site has been a bit of a learning curve, but I’m glad we pretty much didn’t miss a beat in the transition. I’d also like to apologize for missing my forum yesterday, thanks to Aikage for filling in!
Anyway, today’s questions!
- Was there anything in particular that kept you coming back to TAY?
- Has TAY ever motivated you to try a different kind of game than you would usually play?
- Do you have many gamer friends IRL? What sort of games do you play together, if you do?
- How has your experience been with the new site?
- As always, feel free to Talk Amongst Yourselves!
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**_Was there anything in particular that kept you coming back to TAY?_**
For me, it was all of the cool articles and features that I would find on the original TAY site. I used to lurk constantly on **_Kotaku_** on a regular basis, and when I learned about the TAY community, I decided to start lurking on the TAY page as well to see all of the user-generated content being created on a weekly basis. I took interest in reading all of the Open Forums, reading @peepso_user_45(DisturbedShadow)''s Spacemon articles, and checking out some of various anime-themed articles (the **_AniTAY_** stuff). After lurking for a year, I finally decided to become active in the TAY community by commenting on articles (usually the Open Forum posts). I do plan to one day contribute to the site with a few written posts each year, but for now, I am just here for the ride (reading, commenting on articles/posts).
**_Has TAY ever motivated you to try a different kind of game than you would usually play?_**
As of now, not yet. It has opened my eyes to a few games I was unaware of, but I have yet to play any of them.
**_Do you have many gamer friends IRL? What sort of games do you play together, if you do?_**
Sadly, I don't have any as of this post. My home internet (crappy and unreliable AT&T DSL) since April of 2018 has not allowed me to play games online (connection too unstable to play games online). This is why I have not played any of the online games I used to play (**_Team Fortress 2_** and **_iRacing_** on the PC, any online multiplayer game on the PS4) since then. Major bummer, but until I move somewhere that has better internet, it is something I have to put up with.
**_How has your experience been with the new site?_**
So far, it has been pretty good on my end. Love having a proper profile page with a banner image (_IJN Musashi_ from _Kantai Collection_), the site has been much faster since swapping to the current format (loads in less than 2 seconds), and I enjoy spending time with the awesome people on here. @peepso_user_20(Aikage) has done some excellent work getting the new TAY up and running the way it is, and I appreciate his hard work. Hopefully one day we can get a lot of active members to help grow our small community into something we can all be proud of (with a ton of great user-created content and interesting discussions).
Have a great Wednesday, everyone!