Has Era had an impact in your life?
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So many people complaining about how horrible this place is, why do you come back?
serious question.
Some threads are out of control but there's a lot of good and fun here too.
serious question.
Some threads are out of control but there's a lot of good and fun here too.
OTs are fun, and the place is a good aggregator of news on both gaming and random stuff.
But the glowing fun period post founding has long since worn off and it's now largely a misery Thunderdome.
I think it's made me a better person. Understanding so many different perspectives of a topic is a necessity if you want to be an accepting person.
It has had a positive impact on my life. :) You guys are great and it's good for me to have my social fix here.
I'm worse in the sense I get less done because of it.
I don't think it has made me more cynical, but I could see that happening to some people.
I don't think it has made me more cynical, but I could see that happening to some people.
I end up ignoring threads because of the pile-on i would get for sharing opinions not terribly welcome here. It isn't worth it. It has gotten too narrow minded in a lot of ways
I'm pretty much the same person. I have not allowed the toxicity and negativity to get a hold of me. I think if I allowed myself to truly get inundated by this mood, I would have become a far worse person.
I now just try to limit myself to very specific threads.
I now just try to limit myself to very specific threads.
I'm trying to determine if these are self-demonstrating examples or self-fulfilling prophecies... :D
That's probably the one net positive I got from here was OTs introducing me to some killer music.
The Star Wars talk is pretty killer too...
A thread at the previous place introduced me to what would become my two best friends in college and I'm still incredibly close with them 17 years later. Definitely changed my life!
I mostly come in here to fuck around in sports threads and get gaming news. That continues back to the old site. I have definitely learned shit about games and even sometimes sports because of the excellent posters in the threads I visit. But not much.
But not sure how to quatify that as an impact on my life. Definitely had some good times. Probably moreso at the older place because I could get away with a lot more in the sports threads.
But not sure how to quatify that as an impact on my life. Definitely had some good times. Probably moreso at the older place because I could get away with a lot more in the sports threads.
it's mostly the same people under new usernames as to not be connected with their exit strategy on GAF
Why would it be different? ERA is the old GAF under a different moderation.
I got to mass quote a bunch of doubting Thomas' during the Chiefs Super Bowl run. So it's a net positive.
I agree with the other posters saying that this place is a cesspool of negativity and sorrow. but ever since I started excersising that ignore feature, I can actually browse the forum without rolling my eyes into the back of my fucking head. But no, I'm still the same old me.
Mostly the same. Any real change I experienced came from my time at GAF. I was always a Democrat but the experiences on that forum changed my entire world view. It was my time there that got me so heavily invested into politics.
It was similar here for a bit but now OT is just full of misery most of the time and I am a lot less active, which is honestly a good thing.
It was similar here for a bit but now OT is just full of misery most of the time and I am a lot less active, which is honestly a good thing.
Sometimes I get stressed and angry when I think about it, not that I'd ever dare risk saying exactly why here. It's the most selectively aggressive site I visit with any frequency. Plus, the overt hostility you find on other sites has been replaced with impressively shameless, vicious passive aggression here that's generally worse. It has taught me a lot about the gaming scene.
That said, the news is good and there aren't any Nazis.
That said, the news is good and there aren't any Nazis.
I definitely get my dosage of political extremes from Era that I can't get anywhere else.
Sometimes I wonder how some people on here can function outside of Era without pushing people away.
Sometimes I wonder how some people on here can function outside of Era without pushing people away.
It's pretty obvious most people just use the internet to vent stuff , there's really no fears of real repercussions to you online, and I doubt most people here would say what they say here in real life (I just can't see it personally).
Yeah it's just some. The most concerning thing I've seen are a few threads where people ask how they should interact with someone who doesn't align with them politically. For example: "I'm meeting with someone who's a Trump supporter tomorrow, what should I do?"
Thankfully a lot of replies to these types of threads just tell them to behave like a normal human being.
Worse. I got introduced to Wario64's Twitter through this site and I've been buying more games and other crap than I'll ever play.
It has taught me alot from reading other peoples perspective, perspectives that I don't get to see or hear in my day to day life. And I appriciate it, it made me a better person. No doubt.
Other than that, no not really. I love this place, donating and helping a guy with cancer, that thread was beautifull.
I do miss the weird threads we used to get, but I love it here and the negative news doesn't affect me really.
Other than that, no not really. I love this place, donating and helping a guy with cancer, that thread was beautifull.
I do miss the weird threads we used to get, but I love it here and the negative news doesn't affect me really.
Sometime I'm questioning the moderation in here too (I'm getting ban for this, right?)
I lurked in the weightloss challenge thread for a year and it kept me motivated to also keep working out. In the end i went from 250 lbs to 180 and even got a little jacked and juicy. Shout out to the weightloss challenge thread. 🏋️♂️
I was much more of an antagonistic pseudo Libertarian edge lord doucher than I'd care to admit when I first joined GAF eight years ago.
Not sure how much of a role this community played in me heading in the opposite direction as I matured or if it was just life in general, but I'd like to think I havent completely wasted my time exploring these boards.
Not sure how much of a role this community played in me heading in the opposite direction as I matured or if it was just life in general, but I'd like to think I havent completely wasted my time exploring these boards.
Because this site aggregates gaming news better than most places.
Because as far as gaming news and discussions go you don't have any better options anymore.
Twitter/Facebook/Reddit sure as hell ain't any better and most other similar gaming forums are either dead or have turned into alt-right hives.
There's a lot of smugness, hive mind mentality, passive aggressiveness and dogpiling going on in this forum. Sometimes this can be a very unpleasant place to be. It's not all bad though, I consumed a ton of gaming news on this site and had some fun and even heated discussions with people.
Better now, but GAF and ERA OT kind of did a number on me for many years. Made me quite the angry young man, frustrated at everything and everyone. Then I started trying to actually live like a normal person and I'm a lot happier and have a lot more friends lol.