4chan is now 22 years old. What are your best memories of /v/ after all this time?
>>722172076SEGA and Xbox were console brands back then. Not anymore. Total Xbox death.
I member when you newfags weren't herecheck my join date on my profile, it says 2007
Honestly for me the funniest thing that makes me epic lol the hardest is being around for Undertale to get popular on /v/ before everywhere else, and get to see people performatively pretend to dislike it for a decade.
>>722172076my best memories were the months i didn't come here and started to enjoy vidya again
>4chan is older than the resident schizo
>>722172076>DON'T PANIC
>>722172076What an excellent time it was. A swan song for Web 2.0 style poll rigging.
>>722172494This happened with New Vegas as well. That game being better than 3 was gospel on /v/ before it was widely accepted.
>>722172717I always thought fallout sucked so I can't relate.
>>722172586>dountman.jpeg
>>722172076Playing cube world alpha with /v/ until 4am will likely be one of my favourite memories for a long time
I started posting here when I was 14, now I’m 28.
>>722172076the gay ass sceencaps are always peak reddit
>>722172717>That game being better than 3 was gospel on /v/ before it was widely accepted.that's still the case, the only people who say otherwise are literally being contrariansit's very different from undertalepeople genuinely tricked themselves into thinking they hate undertale, but when it comes to fallout, they fully understand they're shitposting
>>722172076When I was in attendance of AGDQ2017, I got turned into a meme.And I heard a Zoe Quinn joke get past the censors for donations.
>>722172494were you actually there because undertale had the homestuck fandom's ear literally, literally the first day the kickstarter demo was playable
I've been here since the beginning.
>that faggot lelouch finally stopped postingonly took him 15 years
>>722173105Yes, I was, what you're saying is basically a fantasy invented around a month after the game was already popular to try and convince people to not like it."The homestuck community" as a collective entity was way more preoccupied with something else that would be EXTREMELY obvious to anyone who knew what they were talking about.Not to mention the Halloween Hack song wouldn't be in the game until the full release.
>>722172076>What are your best memories of /v/ after all this time?Everything.
>>722173495Beautiful. How big is it?
>>72217207615 years ago when this site was majority white/asian and everyone used to post big titsNow for some reason americans are obsessed with big black asses
>>722173495pls dump
>>722172076Honestly not a lot, I just started coming here this year and it really doesn't live up to the hype. It's true what they say, 4chan is just where reddit goes to be edgy. I guess my favorite thread was that one with animal videos? Strangely wholesome amongst all the political banter.
>>722172494>/v/ hates Undertale for quite literally no reason>years later, starts defending OG Sonic 06You hate to see it.
>>722173645It's a big folder but not the biggest one. >>722173798When I kill myself.
wonder if he's still mad
>>722173984I can get the Sonic 06 thing since gaming has legitimately just gotten way worse since then and a lot of people were performatively acting like it was way worse since it was the "only" option for next gen sonic for a while and Chrischan would be discovered by the internet the following year.It's also pretty funny to me to see people going full circle from pretending the "rough transition to 3d" and people slowly going back to admitting that Adventure through Shadow were good and being able to admit it's fucking dumb to have to play Westopolis 21 times to unlock all the levels.
>>722172717nobody says otherwise except the pajeet spammer
>>722174058>It's a big folder4 U
>>722173126Most honest 2016 oldfag.
>>722172586i still have the .exe on my drive somewhere
Ok so I read the OP image and it's actual reddit cringe. Like, the exact kind of "wholesome chungus 100" shit we all hate and worse, it's not even /v/ but an /a/ screengrab. Fucking atrocious.
>>722174591who's "we" nigga
>>722174354>Still can't say 8ch even though it's been turbo dead for years>CAN get the laugh at Mark for begging a transgender gorilla on wikipedophile to shill his shitty cloneIt's a strange feeling.
>>722174478Is this the most wholesome /v/ has ever been?
the glory of Green vs Blue, Ace of Spade days. A simple minecraft-like FPS shooter where you'd capture the flag. Back when it was just the rifle and a randomly generated map. I remember spending an entire December weekend day in my room playing a single session for 10 hours with random people from /v
>>722174975I never understood why /v/ liked ace of spades so much
the classic
>>722175167Humanity loves to make and share silly maps.They yearn for it.That's why for as fucking unbearably dogshit minecrap is as a game people still want to play it so much.It's fun to build places.
>>722172076For me /v/ peaked with Japan Time.
>>722173984Contrarianism as a personality trait is one hell of a drug
Reading through the FWAB threads and seeing the sheer amount of OC made was fucking magical.
>>722175102You think tileanon still comes here?
>>722173984>no reasonThe reason is contrarianismragebait = more (You)sthe entire board functions on that philosophy, hence why /v/ has become a cesspool of retarded shitposting and trollingit's all just faggots desperate for attention because mommy and daddy didn't give them enough
i didn't think this site could get worse after 2020 and yet it did, far beyond what i could have thought was possible
>>722172076MK9 threads were great. The leadup to MKX and its subsequent generals on /vg/ were pretty good. More recently TLOU2 had the bonk edits and the parody of the sex scene set to "Take On Me" where every frame was a different artist. Oh also there was watching Lucifer start out as a trip on /v/ then move to /vg/ after the split and be so prolific and toxic that he arguably played a large role in the Dark Souls and Bloodborne generals dying. Then he moved onto the fighting game generals and got clowned on like the retard he is and left with his tail between his legs.The Ride.
>>722172076that i still miss h8te chan more
>>722175576People have been saying that since 2005.
April Fools jokes, Smash Bros speculating...good times.
>>722175408It's less contrarianism, more that people genuinely aren't old enough to be terrified of being Chrischan these days like the 16-25 year olds of 2007.That and gaming's gotten a whole lot worse.Yeah Sonic '06 is a buggy rushed mess but that's par for the course for modern gaming, and at that point you only really have perfomative substanceless shit like feigning offense over Elise kissing Sonic.
Watching Konami E3 2010 with you chucklefucks
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>>722175652and it's remained true
>>722175802tbf I wake up with a raging stiffy every single morning regardless of what my dream was about; I don't think there's any connection.
>>722172892how's it feel spending half your life here?I'm 32 and have been here since I was 12 or 13
The Shazbowl, hands down. But playing Ace of Spades with /v/ was always a hoot, too. God, I miss Tribes Ascend.
>>722175876E3 used to be a magical time...like a second Christmas.
>>722172494a lot of people are genuinely fucked in the head. take pedro pascal, everyone's hearthrob actor whom they loved for being such a wholesome chungus, an angel really.now they're all over social media calling him a creep, or perv or whatever even though he's the exact same person he was before.people will flip on you because they stop feeling special once the masses join in on their unique thing. 4chan as a whole is contrarian like that, most clearly observed in boards like /v/.
Gather around kids. It's time to retell a classic.
>>722176043what'd he do? fuck that tranny loving faggot
>>722175570>People pretend to hate undertale to make other people madMan it'd be great if that was really the case, but no, they pretend to hate it because they think it makes them "cooler" because they "dislike the right things". Not that you can't dislike Undertale, there's a ton of completely valid reasons to not care for it.But pretending to dislike a game to get strangers online to think you're cool is honestly one of the gayest things I can think of.
>>722176115
>>722175973>That time the cult of the lamb fags tried to copy the Ralsei memeIt was funny.
>>722176203
>>722176286
>>722172892Found /b/ at 12. I'm 27 now. Pain.
>>722176376
>>722172892>I started posting here when I was 14So did I.In 2006.I found /b/ through Newgrounds.
>>722172204>worlds.comI remember a thread where the OP claimed to be a guy who literally never left his house, he would hang out on worlds (I think it was worlds) and use his VR headset, and this was before the new wave of VR stuff so maybe two decades or so I think, like he had one of the first attempts at the technology, and he had a treadmill in his house which he said was all the exercise he got. He made money by working online doing surveys or something and he only ate a couple of pizzas a week, like he would get them ordered and then ration them over the whole week.
>>722172494I also remember how long before the release /v/ was hype for Undertale and how many anons said it would be the best thing to happen to Indies since Cave Story.
>>722175652yeah, you're talking about me, and i keep saying it to this day
>>722176403Same here, but I'm 31.It hurts more and more every day...
>>722176257>noooo you can't make a meme based on another meme, you just can't okay?deltatroons are so pathetic
>>722174058Hello Eigene>>722175356They should add exif data back for the next april fools
I chuckle to myself whenever I see tiles.
>>722176585Time to get out my REAL BIRD bird folder!
I miss mineralbro threads
>>722176638Not saying you can't.I'm just saying being desperate about it is funny in a pathetic way.
>>722172892I've been here since 08. Its true what they say.
>>722172494>performatively pretend to dislike it for a decadeYeah, performatively.I remember when AI was niche and a new thing, and then out of the sudden everyone became very oppose to it.Its all performative and there's never a deeper reason as to why people hate either thing. Nope, not at all.
>>722176635STOP IT, SNACKS
>>722176750People hate AI slop because it is literal data cancer, and nobody has liked cancer online everPeople pretend to dislike Undertale because they think that's what they're "supposed" to do to get strangers to think they're cool on 4chan.
>>722176742>here since 08>tripfagging on le /v/
>>722174591>>722174651
MGSV hype (and the following disappointment) threads come to mind. The years leading up to Death Stranding were fun, Caramel was a great lolcow. Certain April Fools events were really fun, but not much good has happened here in the last 6 or 7 years. It really is getting exponentially worse every few months
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>>722172076Robot Unicorn Attack
>>722172076This is still one of the all time funniest threads to me. The thread was posted early in the morning for my time and it was like the first thing I saw when I opened my computer. I absolutely lost it when I heard the songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGf-4dNriBo
>>722176143what's he up to nowadays?
>>722177340Oh god, yes...
I gave moot the idea of using the ? Block from Mario as a spoiler tag. Then I got banned for a month for calling /v/ - Shit
>>722176257Wait what does this image mean? What nigga who made edits of the image?
Fuck been here from PS3 has no games to the PS5 has no games. Been here since 07-08.
>>722177651It's a Long Story.
>>722176908Undertale is a deconstructions of the JRPG genre. When you play the game like you're suppose to play a JRPG, kill, loot and gain experience, you're essentially punished for it.Its not like moon rpg, Drakengard and LIVE A LIVE already did that in the past, They were not indie games but at the core of it - it was also a deconstruction of JRPGs.Then deltarune came out and suddenly if you don't fight back you'll eventually hurt yourself and your love ones? i can't understand toby fox and his team.It comes off as pretentious when you see the mother interview and all he has to say is "i don't like games where the heroes kill every monster and somehow they're treated as the good guys"pic unrelated.
>>722177763My name is Freddie Francesco and I am rich enough to buy 1 PS3 game.
>>722172494this also happened with FNAF, there used to be daily threads of people trying to squeeze lore out of it before it became its own youtuber video essay industry
>>722176468Classic.
>>722176257I don't get this meme
>>722177997i've seen this picture many times but for some reason this time it got me good. i'm crying.
>>722178489I'll admit that I actually hadn't seen that one until a few months ago, i was also almost in tears. I've had this shit saved for more than a decade, though
and this may be the thing that got me to come here in the first place, a friend showed it to me one time and i had to learn more.that was a mistake.
>>722178670I miss Lapfox Trax
>>722176039Best we can do now is /v/3
>>722172892I started when I was 11 and am now 30. I read /b/ first and also read /a/.I fucked off for a few years when "the gamers died" but of course came back.
>>722177480Making curry, wearing the same bib.
>>722178970lmao
Will he be back in TES6 /v/?
I don't know if anyone remembers this fucking game, but my introduction to 4chan was some retard on here posting links to /v/, /b/, and /x/ threads in group chats. And then from there I would stay up really late at night trying to read /b/ threads on my DSi because I was grounded.I miss those days.
its been a fun time
>>722172076It's not the best moment, with regards to /v/ culture, but my favorite was when kyle got fuckedFake leakers, especially smash rosterfag fake leakers deserve to be shoved in a closet sized microwave
never forgetti
>>722172494Bull shit.
>>722179062Maan, now you got me nostalgic for this shit.there is a fan version, whirled club, but that shit is empty nowadays.Also this was vrchat before vrchat, and easier to create stuff for as well, since flash in my desupinion is easier than making models.
>>722178828nta, but most gamers that left are still goneThe void has been filled by tourist "gamers"
>>722178694this doesn't sound believable but i still laughed
>>722178084>Put something to cook>Just don't set an alarm to get reminded to stop the stove>Not only that but go to your room, lay in bed and just close your eyes when you're severely sleepyHonestly, I'm surprised the landlord didn't get him out of the house, sometimes people really have luck on their side
>>72217289227 here, started when I was 12 I think I ended up here after reading tard-story posts from /b/ on FunnyJunk or some shit
>>722179249I wish I was more into flash creation when I was younger, because funny enough I am making VRChat avatars as a side hustle these days. I used to mess around on Whirled with this one avatar called "flipbook animator" which had some Paper Mario icon and let you animate a bunch of sprite sheets as characters you could play as. Much, much simpler times.
>>722172892This but 15 and I'm 35 now. I also remember when /v/ was super fucking angry and would flay people alive for being retarded casuals pretty much reflexively, sage bombing was a daily occurrence. Then retards migrated here from /b/ and later /r9k/.
>>722179171i was there
>>722173038CHAIR SNIFFER IS THAT YOU?!
>>722172494Oh and also before I forget.>Some retard got so lost in the sauce he spent $2000 on scat porn trying to get it banned>It didn't work
one more before i go play vidya
>>722176569Same more or less. I got here late 2005/early 2006 through Something Awful, which I got to from the lemondemon eBaums world dot com video on Newgrounds front page. Whole thing took place over the course of a month or so.
>>722176569I miss newgrounds. I onow it's still around, but killing flash killed a lot of the good ol' internet I especially miss that flash peach game where she fucks goombas and whatnot to defeat them
>>722172076I've been here since 2006, and honestly don't remember a lot of it. My main "happy memories" from this place are:>Mann vs Machine first comes out in Team Fortress 2>Playing it with a bunch of random dickheads from here>Still have a bunch of them on my friends list well over a decade laterAlso, playing Risk of Rain with /v/ and Mariel constantly being the Bandit class and fucking everyone over like the fucking Mexican he is.For some reason I vividly remember a thread from the early days of TF2 where some anon was raging over a Spy player called Bames Jond with a black guy as his steam avatar. He keps posting "WHO'S THAT POKEMON!?" along with deathcam shots of Bames cloaking after killing him.
STILL HAVING FUN
>>722179892>honestly don't remember a lot of itDo you remember this?https://youtu.be/l94UPjZXE-QAlso I vividly remember when demons souls came out(this was insane) and also minecraft. Also remember playing shitty games like melty and soku with /v/. I don't much care for playing with 4chan these days.A bunch of my friends use 4chan whom i dont really talk to much any more, but I never kept anyone I added from 4chan on my friends list.
4chan has been shit for at least 3 years for me hardly learn anything here anymore
>>722172076Playing the English translation of Yume Nikki right after it came out is a memory I will probably cherish until I die. I'm very grateful to this stupid website for showing it to me at such a young age.
>>722180640nta but I saw the thumbnail of the video you posted so here's the gif that I've had since apparently 2010. Don't even know what it's from but I do know it's from a "dance" thread since the very next image is the anon dance gif.
>mfw Vidya Intarweb Playlist is completely filled with trash that shouldn't be on there at all>even straight up REMOVED both Terranigma tracks from the listFUCK YOUUUUU
>>722177458Oh fuck I remember this. I felt bad for the guy but was too busy laughing as this piece of shit played.
>>722181158>Don't even know what it's fromhttps://youtu.be/SbjSorUp8bw
>will ALWAYS be a 2010 eternal newfagI’ve been here for over half my life. I never got to see the website’s fabled golden age, but I’ve still made some great memories in my time here. Cheers to another year.
>>722172717One of my favourite /v/ musical songs is the Newvegas song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbtBKG6Bhd4
>>722177458Haha, I was in that one too.
>>722180793
>>722181470Seen this gif forever but never knew the source, thanks anon
>>7221815262010 to 2012 was pretty fun.
>>722177340always.
>>722181592It's kinda weird how 4chan forgot about SHAFT.
>>722176115OH shit, I remember this one. I miss old /v/. The part that always killed me was when he was raiding the bins and some anon posted his face with "I AM THE LIGHT AND DARKNESS" or something like that.
Ace Attorney threads on the trial dates were kino. Anyone have other screencaps?
>somehow find ED when I was 11 back in 2005 (I think I was looking up an e-whore or something)>inevitably find a bunch of memes made from 4chan>check out 4chan>get overwhelmed by a bunch of text and stuff I didn't understand>go back to browsing ED>didn't start actually lurkin until around 2008 when I gave 4chan another shot>first thread I ever made was a "successful" candle jack thread on /b/>mfw I could've been a certified oldfag instead of just a newfag if I had ju
>>722181860Aw man I remember those I think i missed them when it became time for the dark age of the law, wish I could've seen Wright getting proved as a fraud live
>>722172494>game releases>is super popular>play it>don't like it>post on /v/ that I don't like the game>replies accuse me of being a contrarian who only says things to disagree with everyone>time passes>the same dislike I espoused becomes more mainstream>post on /v/ that I don't like the game>replies accuse me of copying opinions from others and being a group followerThis has happened multiple times now. Basically, fuck you anon, and fuck everyone who shouts "contrarian" at every single negative opinion.
>>722172892I'm 31 now, found this place when I was 12 or 13 because I somehow stumbled across Encyclopedia Dramatica while looking up mudkips on google. God damn that painted-blue harlot, luring me into this place during my years of pubescent weakness.
>>722181470Neat, thanks.
>>722180640Oh, I remember when Minecraft came out and people were obsessing over FLAOT
>Things will never get better>The website will continue declining >I still won't leave
>>722174919>LITERAL FUCKING NES-LEVELS OF DEPTHAnd? NES games were fun.
>>722181621/v/ was objectively in its worst state those years. Yet it was fun in its own chaotic way.
>>722180640Do people still host soku?
>>722182878No!
I love you guyshttps://www.4chan.org/flash?file=mootykins.swf
>>722174975>>722175990>Ace of Spades with /v/Jesus fuck I miss it so much
I don't remember the last time I saw good OC on a thread....
>>722172076Secret. You wouldn't lol anyway
>>722183115The last time I posted any myself was last year... :x
>>722175293Same.Staying up late at night just to get another shitty blog update and see /v/ flooded with tears and OC was so great.
>>722183115There was an excellect Super Duper Sumos edit yesterday. I wish I had saved it.
>>722175990Posting it.
>>722178851Crazy how good some of these are.
>>722172494>Hating shit cause it's popular That's just the 4chan way now
Not /v/, but I like the song
>>722175293>>722183284Fuck me, I would check the Dojo for updates obsessively.
20 and began browsing when I was 14. I wish I could've come earlier.>>722183115I saw some in a Code Vein 2 thread the other day, didn't save it sadly.
Bloodborne release and Wojak/never ever/whirrr posting. Platform wars were wild back then.
>>722172892I'm 29 and first got here back when i was 14. I always moved back and forth between/a/ and /v/, ocassinaly getting into other boards.Time flies
>>722183354I think my favorite is the STALKER one
>>722177341>I'm such a thirsty fuck I found this insanely hot and the bear oddly attractive in some of the images.I hate this place so much and I cannot leave.
>>722172892I learned english by lurking here when I was 10, one of the most grim facts about my life by far.
I remember the last time everybody called out the reddit scum and told them to fuck off.Now you can post >le all fucking day and its fine and dandy.And then there's the frogjack cancer.Best memories are 2006 /b for sure. The most freedom and fun I have ever seen.
>>722183470>I saw some in a Code Vein 2 thread the other day, didn't save it sadly.>Code Vein 1 came out>I wasn't hugely into it and didn't finish the gameBut those OCs. The Marge Simpson and Daft Punk ones were 15/10.
>>722172076How old is 22 years old?
Anybody happen to have one from the dragon's dogma 2 announcement?
>>722183836too old
>>722183698there is no other alternative, and there never will be. remember how anons kept saying that they found better chans while this place was out? even then, they still kept coming back.
>>722183765Remember the old Habbo Hotel raids? I once managed to close a pool for two hours and nobody came to stop me.
>>722183115I get if you dislike it, but the Deltarune fags recently drew a bunch of shit to prove they were real to each other.Mostly shitty ms paint drawings of characters they like.
>>722175293It was all downhill after that. Where does the time go?Recently things are so bad I don't even like being here at all anymore but I still refresh the catalog habitually. I need a new source of social interaction.
>>722184008I had fun hanging out on their shithole website for a week, where every thread I read was invariably some flavor of>omg do u guise think big bro will finally notice me
>>722176569Shalom, Newgrounds Oldfag
>>722183765I remember people would make fun of you for replying to a post that was an hour old
>>722183919>there is no other alternativeI left /a/ for another site, not even an imageboard, and I will never ever go back. If things get bad enough (and it's pretty bad now) better alternatives to /v/ will pop up as well. That's just the truth of it dude.
>>722184003Never contributed to them but glimpsing them was so fun.How about trolling tom green or that old radio show jackass who ended up being some controlled opposition fbi plant?
>>722176403Did you ever figure out what it was
>>722183919>remember how anons kept saying that they found better chans while this place was out? even then, they still kept coming back.True. I genuinely do think some of those places are better than here, but as comfy as they are all the posters are here. Yes, there are a bunch of trolls, Indian marketers and fucked in the head gen Zs who want to spread misery, but this place is still my internet home. Moot said he'd be the last one to leave, but in reality it's going to be the last of the oldfags to die or the government shutting this place down for good that'll wrench us away.
>>722184008the webm that LITERALLY destroyed 4channel (i liked it before that day, and still do)
>>722184120It's the unfortunate reality of most alt chans.A lot of people don't get the point and inevitably it just turns into a forum with only one prolific member to try and seek the attention of.Doesn't help that the average age of poster on the shart is fucking 4 to 8
>>722184247Functionally speaking I'd say 8ch was objectively better, but the guy that owned /v/ was a total fag and the site got glow opped to death and now there's nobody there.Helps that there was a secret second /v/ you could go to when Mark was being a fag
>>722184273>spoiler I know thats hyperbole but it genuinely wouldn't surprised me if most posters were under 14
>OP's screenshot4chan will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever again have even 1 percent of soul it did before the 2 elections and covid.
>>7221843958ch still exists. At least the moe version which is pretty comfy. I hid out there during the hack and other than its /v/ being fairly slow I had fun. It almost reminded me of the old days.
The AI generated /v/ board thread was fun. Also those initial AI voice threads were fun
>>722184492>I know thats hyperboleI fucking WISH it was.>>722184567Fuck off mark your alt chan is shit, and you're why the actual 8ch is dead.
>>722179387They don't make tard stories like they used to
>>722178076>Then deltarune came out and suddenly if you don't fight back you'll eventually hurt yourself and your love ones?Haven't played DR yet, isn't mercy still a staple mechanic in the game?
>>722184618Nah, this is the worst thing that has ever happened to 4chan
>>722184816>Fuck off mark your alt chan is shit, and you're why the actual 8ch is dead.I have no idea what you're talking about, but in all fairness I never went to what you consider the "real" one. What did he do?
>>722184816>I fucking WISH it was.Do you have a single fact to back that up?, maybe I'm coping but there's no fucking way it's that grim
>>722184816The altchan itself is good but his retard ass b& me for "low effort" posting when I was discussing vidya on the vidya board>>722184618>AI generated /v/ board threadThis is pretty much indistinguishable from the actual catalogue at this point
>>722185043>This is pretty much indistinguishable from the actual catalogue at this pointThat thread was comedy gold. Every image generated was spot on post-2019 catalog slop
>>722184962>>722184997Holy shit, it actually is Mark. Stop banning people during your autistic melties if you want your board to move faster.
>>722184106I think most of us are still here out of habit and because there aren't many better places to go of similar size. I'm also just much more used to be anon than having some username and being slave to some upboating shit.
>>722185276Yeah, for as bad as /v/ has gotten (and it's gone through some ups and downs over the years, hoo boy) I still return to this place because I like being able to call a retard a retard and because I don't need to deal with community drama.
>>722185224>You're poopdick schizoAnon, I only wanted a QRD. My only knowledge of 8ch is going to what currently exists after the hack, I have no clue what you're talking about.
>>722174303I love the adventure games but shadow just has some terrible design choices that completely ruin the game. Half of the evil route objectives being 'loop the map seven times until you finally hunt down the last 3 enemies that glitched into a wall or something', half the neutral route objectives being 'make it 1/3 of the way through the map and then just randomly get pulled out of gameplay because you entered a room and that achieved the clear condition'. The entire point of levels in games is clearing challenges and getting to the end, and shadow completely misunderstands this.
>>722178828>>722172892are you disappointed to see what the website has become and what it will continue to devolve into? you ever think now would be a good time to spend your passing leisure elsewhere?
>>722185674not those anons but im in the same boat where I started using 4chan in 2009 or so and am almost 30. there arent any other sites I know of where I can just have flat discussion without any strings attached. even sifting through all of the garbage posts you can still get genuine discussion sometimes.
>>722185276I don't know man, 4chan's gotten exponentially worse to the point where I can barely relate to anyone here anymore, and I know that's because the few good posters that are left are so demoralized that they just lurk out of habit.
>>722185437Who are you quoting?
>>722185674First guy here.>are you disappointed to see what the website has become and what it will continue to devolve into?Certainly so. I've felt that way about this site for a decade. I still enjoy it more than most forums and definitely more than any altchan I've ever read.>you ever think now would be a good time to spend your passing leisure elsewhere?I do most of my browsing while I'm at work nowadays, and I don't read the site every day. I'd certainly feel like I was wasting my time if I were completely glued to the site.
>>722172892I started posting here when I was 18. Now I am almost 40. See you in 20 years in a similar thread.
>>722186368Alright then, keep your secrets.
>>722186654>Alright then, keep your secrets.Go back
>>722186740Why so upset, anon?
>>722186632>in 20 yearsIf this place will even exist by then.
>>722172892i found 4chan when i was 7 back in 2004. ive been here ever since. 21 years of this fucking site and im almost 30if you think you got it bad, just know that im here to remind you that it could be worse, and if it wasnt for my early self-awareness id be a true disaster of a person.
>>722187258>7How are you a functional human being.
it's a great placeit'll never stop being great
>>722172076I've been on 4chan since 2007 but I only really started browsing /v/ in 2016. I do remember some old things though like The Sims 3 leak and Harmony Day.
i appreciate the cosmically unlikely coincidences
>>722172076i drew this
Speaking of topical games.
>>722187120We are formless. As long as internet exists, so will we.
>>722188694You know, that might actually be true. Godspeed.
>>722187475i ask myself this often. i consider myself obscenely lucky
>>722187258>7My god...
going from /f/ to /v/ just before the cave story patch hit, wondering what the threads were excited about. i also enjoyed when you could get banned for weeks at a time and instead of just resetting my router I could just join the IRC and talk to some random mods about hentai and convince them to let me off early.
>>722172076I have dementia
>>722188734Godspeed anon.
>>722172494same with when Five Nights was posted on a Steam Greenlight thread and everyone actually thought the premise was weird but interesting, before pewdiepie or other youtubers made them hate it a few months later.
>>722187258I was about 13 or 14. I often wonder too how I'm not completely dysfunctional. Though I suppose faith was always my saving grace (pun intended)
>>722177480death from obesity
>>722188281I'll treasure this anon. Will remind me that real people still posted here
>>722174975>>722183023God I miss Ace of Spades
>go through nostalgic chan thread >full of screen cap collagea>cant read a single fucking one of themWhat the fuck os the fucking point? Why even make a collage if you're just going to fuck up all the text therefore rendering your collage useless
>>722191752have you tried browsing on PC
>>722191752lol
>>722172494Same happened with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
>>722191752>>>/out/
>>722193670What a perfect reply that would have been to kill this thread
>>722172494This place had already been infested by tumblroid faggots like yourself by the time tumblrtale came out.
>>722180652Got links https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722066975/#q722071775
>>722172494It's insane how shitty 4chan has become in the last 5 to 10 years. I wasn't there for its beginning but I've heard from people who were. It's a shell of its former glory. I miss when we used to be able to talk about video games on a board meant for video games instead of all this other miscellaneous shit
There's a lot, the largest folder on my computer is filled with years of /v/ shit I look back positively on in the way boomers do with actual life experiences, but the thing I always think back to was being over 25 in order to play that game.
>>722195610>covid tourist bitches like he's an old fag
>>722196151Your the one who doesnt belong here. The fact that you snap at me for no reason is proof you're either a redditor or a jeet. The quality of all threads have just been constantly been going down. Im not an oldfag.
>>722195870could be worse, the largest folder on my PC is pokemon porn
Never 4get the Shazbowl!
>>722197116
>>722174975>>722191512>>722183023Ace of Spaces with /v/ was kino.Green 4 lyfe!!!
>>722172494I did dislike every major character in it for one reason or another, except Papyrus.
>>722174105he should be with how shitty the attempts at saving that dead franchise were
>>722195870>that treegod, i forgot about those threads.
THE RIDE, when /v/ storytimed the entire Sonic Archie comics was a fun time. I'm happy that the mods let it happen. Also the Crash Bandicoot Retold threads on the weekend were hilarious too.
>>722188281nice
>>722197864I was here before GG (still a massive newfag), but I honestly look back the most positively to the 2017-21 era for whatever reason. Everything in the humor and culture just clicked. I miss lol threads so much bro.
>>722172076Meeting some good bros while playing Monster Hunter and Titanfall, probablyNot that any of them talk to me anymoreIt's true what they say, that you don't need to have superpowers to be invisible
>>722172076i joined in 2020 so i don't really have a good sense of what the site was like before, but i do share nostalgia with certain things. i really like when this site makes neat OC, threads centered around it always hit the mark for me, which is why i usually go for the draw threads now (not the abhorrent request ones). i also think this site is the reason why i'm an artist now, so i'll give it that.if someone made 4chan but only for art discussion, i'd join it in a heartbeat.
>>722172076The comfy, serious discussion threads about games
>>722181794SHAFT hasn't been relevant for years. Specifically, since the disaster that was Fate/Extra Last Encore. That was about when they seemed to just kind of peter out and stop doing anything aside from monogatari.
>>722176750>it's been almost five years since AI dungeon threads
>>722183431Always has been.Fuck, I still remember when there were a select few games that were pretty much untouchable and received universal praise on /v/. Like MSG1&3, Half-Life 2, and Homeworld. I imagine there still are games like that here but I still remember when /v/ slowly turned on Half-Life 2. IDK, I left 4chan for a while after that so I don't know how much the board's opinion's have changed.
>>722181470All 3 OP's are great
nobody has asked me if i like mudkips in years :(
>>722199972God, I haven't seen that meme in years.Well anon, do you?
>>722199972>>722200049Here you go
>>722178670>Escape is impossible and non-desirable
>>722199081>that picThat used to be a big forced meme back in the day on /jp/https://warosu.org/jp/thread/10666268https://warosu.org/jp/thread/10676474
>>722173038Are you the guy who ran away from the cameras? Are you the Crash Bandicoot taunt guy?
>>722172076learning blender with the vros once 2.8 came outfuga threadsthe art threads
>>722172076Remember the time when people would prank GameStop for Battletoads?
>>722172076Without /l I would never have experienced how good lgs feel, and without going for it qould have never met my now wife. Lolicon cleanses the soul.
>>722172076the "theatres are closed" vegeta post was the only big /v/ thread I was in
>>722199972this halloween will be the 20th anniversary of the post that spawned the meme
>>722172892This but I was 12, now I'm 26.>bored one day>huh wonder what's going on in this four chan website>still stuck here to this day
Judging from this thread I say that underage bans should be retroactive because Im willing to bet the quality of posters declining over the years has something to do with the fact that way too many of you grew up on this place and have really fucking shitty personalities because of it. You were groomed, plain and simple.
>>722202107Nah /v/ is shit because the admins are a bunch of turd burgler AIfags that ban niggas that make quality posts and original content because they're mad they can't.t. got a multiple month ban for posting a doodle and calling the admins a bunch of fags that can't even open up ms paint.
>>722202107anyone who wants to get banned should just post some cp, that's how we did forum suicide back in the day
Everything in this image is dead now.
>>722172892I was here back in 2015
>>722173495that old android UIzamn, I feel old zoomgods...
>>722202107Yeah but i'm one of the good ones.
>>722176721For me it's that minecraft player guy who runs 32 instance of minecraft and pretend it's terraria with AGI NPCs
>>722172076The day Loss dropped. Holy shit it was chaos.
>>722202390I miss E3 on /v/. It was a magical time of the year for the board.>Report Card threads.>Bingo Cards>The Streams and watching Band Geeks and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist with fellow /v/irgins between conferences.>Prediction threads.>Snack threads.Sure E3 got shit toward the end but it was Fun and we really didn't know how good we had it.
>>722174734They're on General #4500 or something but they've lost count and started over several times
>>722174734>13 years agoFuck I miss 2012
>>722202107This place was created by a 15 year old
yeah.Galo Sengen
>>722203425Moot self banned himself from this place when he realized the very truth I posited in my post anon. Most people who "grow up" here without a shit ton of therapy are probably mostly going to really shitty people. Think about it like this: would you let YOUR kids grow up on 4chan?
>>722176158He gets away with hugging (married) women
>>722203506Yeah fuck no. This place is shit and the attitudes here are miserable. I try to be more optimistic about life despite this place.
>>722203506I think you might be shocked by how not retarded and horrible someone who grew up with this website could be.
>>722203506>would you let YOUR kids grow up on 4chan?Today? No.Back then? Sure
>>722203579Back then it was more fun and games and people just came here to be retards but the content was more extreme. A lot more gore and cp than there is now.
>>722203505ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWA!!
>>7222035064chan is unironically safer than insta and trooncord. I'm dead serious.
>>722203669You're right and I also wouldn't let my kids on there either.
>>722203669Yeah, it's more that the entire internet is a radioactive shithole now.
>>722203505KINOKO WO TABEMASHITAAAA(GO GO GO GO)TORANSU KIKIMASHITAAAA(GO GO GO GO)CHOSHI AGATTE KITAAAA(GO GO GO GO)MINNA GA DAISUKI DAAAA(GO GO WOOHOO)
>>722184997
do people even make OC any more
>>722203506Nigger I wouldn't let my kids on the internet at all anymore. 4chan wasn't exactly good for you back then but holy FUCK, the whole goddamned internet is genuinely poison for the mind now. If you think the kids who grew up on 4chan in the 10s are bad, just wait until the kids who grew up on tiktok and instagram are coming into their own in like five years.
>>722172076The MGSV threads before the game came out
GEE GEE GEE GEE BABBY BABBYGEE GEE GEE GEE BABBY BABBY
>>722203959Deltarune niggas did >>722028396Of course they did this to try and figure out how many real people are in their thread, but they DO do it from time to time.
I remember when webm first became supported on the board. The /v/ went bananas.
>>722175183
happy birthday /v/half the time you were tolerable
>Gamespot poll rigging>E3>Harmony>Synchtube>ragtag /v/ team led by a furry and a BR with 140 pingTears in rain...
>>722176057Those are all great.
>>722204617>>ragtag /v/ team led by a furry and a BR with 140 pingthe start of the end
>>722176057Nowadays half that thread would be faggots screaming incel and chud at anyone joking about it.
>>722204837sad but true
>>722176585Everything worlds related was a total larp
>>722172494This is disingenuous, /v/ was excited for it when the demo dropped because it seemed fun and had a goat milf in it babying you. It got unpopular after it became mainstream and a fanbase of faggots swarmed all over it, but even at release people here were bitching at the lesbian shit and retarded pacifism messaging.
>>722176057>a third of them aren't vidyaThe rot was already there.
>>722204993/v/ always had off-topic shit. Stop pretending like you were around back then.
>>722204985In these old reminiscing threads people just write flat out revisionist history about the site hoping nobody will call them out as its newfags baiting newfags.
>>722205068That's the year I started using.
>>722205068most off topic shit was good natured silliness or cool shit like the deep sea and space elevator threads, nowadays it's off topic ragebait spammed all over and the jannies defend it
>>722204985>This is disengenuous>States the case as presented>Realizes that you forgot to assert the shit that didn't start until the game got popular off site and stapled it onto the endlol>>722205080They sure do.
This month is my 20th straight year here. It's actually unbelievable to think about.
>>722205080I think that the worst ones are the posts that pretend that /v/ was always full of gigantic faggots that hated things out of principle if they got popular.
>>72220522619 years for me. I don't know why I still come here.
>>722178851I wanna see the originals, they're really good.
I witnessed the rise of Homestuck, I was there for the rise of MLP, I saw the rise of UndertaleEach of these autism fests started off with mixed reception, some liked Undertale, some wanted it to to stop being spammed, some hated it
>>722176721>didn't show up when Ruri Rocks was airingHe's dead Jim.
>>722183656I like the duke nukem one with the LARD pig.
>>722205383People almost unanimously hated Homestuck and MLP. It was a small but extremely vocal group of faggots who spammed that shit.
>>722205383Wrong, everyone on 4chan always agreed with me on everything that ever has and ever will exist until someone from a different website invaded and started to disagree with me.
>>722205226could've been akari reaction picdissapointed
>>722205494I agree,
I'm gonna get called a faggot here but I feel like /v/'s overall taste in vidya declined heavily around 2015ish and onwards. This place used to rave about stuff like Deus Ex and Planescape: Torment while frothing at the fucking mouth at anything even slightly "casual friendly", filled with anti consumer business practices and, especially after GG happened, anything politically charged, but nowadays that attitude seems to be gone. I see lots of unironic "old bad new good" type posts and a large chunk of the catalog is dedicated towards stuff with microtransactions like gacha games, blurry TAA smeared AAA games and people defending obvious SJW influence by trying to downplay it./v/ used to be a great place to find out about some obscure Japanese game from 20 years ago with innovative mechanics or a fuckweird story or something like that, hell I'm pretty sure the only reason series like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Dark Souls got as big as they did is largely because of this board, but that nerdy aspect of /v/ feels gone these days. Seeing stuff like E33, BG3, SH2 Remake etc. being praised here is bizarre.
>>722205494Not-mes are the WORST! They are so Reddit dot com and hugboxy.
Anyone else grow out of anime long ago and hate the average weeb content but everywhere else fucking sucks to chat about stuff so you're stuck in this weeb hell?
>>722205536So I'm not the only one who feels that way, good to see
>>722205523See, this guy is a real 4chan poster.
>>722172586I was in that original thread and almost downloaded it. Luckily I wanted to finish reading the thread first and I began to see the guy posting pictures from people's webcams and ordering Dragon dildos for them.I'm still curious about the actual game part of it.
>>722205193I don't know what you are trying to say but you type like you are in debate class and you should stop doing that.
>>722205536GG killed that. It recruited an entire new generation of posters to fight a culture war, not to play and discuss video games.
>>722205536>Seeing stuff like E33, BG3, SH2 Remake etc. being praised here is bizarre.Explain how that's any different than the endless mass effect threads that flooded the board.
>>722205597I will forever maintain that early 2000's 3D games look beautiful and that clear concise visuals with low poly models and low resolution textures look INFINITELY better than blurry, smeary washed out bloom riddled lens flare post processing color corrected ocular nightmares with high poly models and high resolution textures.I seriously feel like I'm looking at modern games with dirty glasses on sometimes.
>>722205536generals stole a lot of discussion away from the average organic thread
>>722205570Sometimes I think I've grown out of it but really I just think my attention span is fucked.I'll refresh boards on 4chan for hours on end not really doing anything at all and kinda be fine with it. Sit down and watch a few episodes of the top animes that have come out over like the last 15 years? Get too bored.
>>722205740The ones that were laughing their asses off at the RGB endings?No but seriously, it wasn't. ME was always a series that had a lot of promise it never really delivered on but people forgave it anyway for having endearing characters. Very few people who praise ME here talk about the gameplay.
>dig into my old image dumps to see what sort of /v/ related stuff I saved a decade ago>2011Ah, if only I knew how good we had it back then, before TORtanic, paid shills, /vpol/ and every insult replaced with the word "troon".That being said, I still come back here and will keep coming back here because this is one of the very few precious places on the Internet where you can still find people speaking their mind. It might occasionally be a completely retarded mind, but it's genuine in ways the other overmoderated shitholes were never able and will never be able to match.
am I the only one who frequented /b/ and it just turned shittier until it wasn't worth going to anymore and just landed on /v/ as my new home board?
Sound threads were fun.
>>722205872The worst part is that you can't even discuss shit in the generals because /vg/ is just an asylum for the worst schizos to go nuts in.
>>722205880That's me with vidya
>>722205929I think most people started with /b/
>>722181470Cool.
>>722179360SOVL
>>722172494pretty much. there's 1 anon shitposting on SS threads about hating the game, probably the same anon that shitposted ritualistically on every single opular game ever for the last 16 years. in a few months SS will mysteriously become a "/v/ hates it!!" game for some unknown reason which might be related to everyone moving on but that anon repeatedly shitposting SS until the next big hit comes.
>>722205929I did the same, I still check /b/ out at least once a day but I don't remember the last time I posted there. Probably years ago.
>>722205885>The ones that were laughing their asses off at the RGB endings?No, i'm talking about before third game came out. It was so popular that the header was changed at one point to reference how fucking popular it was here. You don't remember that?
>>722205961Oh I know, but for years I've been a /vg/ schizo
>>722205929I read both actively and just got bored with /b/ around 2008.I hung out on /r9k/ for a couple weeks when it first opened but got bored of that too. I was pretty surprised by what it became.
>>722205918You may be an eternal newfag, but you're still better than the majority that came later
>>722206043Imo the shilling for Silksong, assuming this is what you're talking about, is pretty annoying, but I don't especially care for metroidvanias so I'm not super opinionated about it.It's especially heinous given other games and stuff that came out in 2025 was intentionally smothered by the administration.
>>722180712https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU1bwC4ZGNE
>>722206074I get wanting to shitpost every once and then but just shitting up a thread 24/7 is such a pointless activity
>>722205918You know, on one hand you are right and I hate that I have become as politically obsessed as I now am. I hate the fact that trannies piss me off. But on the other hand I hate that this shit infests videogames in general, I want it gone, I don't want "anti woke" any more than I want woke shit in my vidya at all.An anon recommended a horror game called Alisa to me the other day, played a few hours and loved it, started looking up the guy who made it to see what techniques he did to replicate the pre rendered background visuals so well - and discovered a character in the game is voiced by that Sphere Hunter tranny, and now when I play it the knowledge of that is bothering me.I know I shouldn't let it bother me or even care at all, I'm just so tired of this shit in general.
>>722206148Oh yeah the actual insane schizos that are in their general every day just posting insanity need to be banned. But the janny fears the general.
>>722205929Nope that's about how it went for me
>>722206070I think the series' peak popularity was when ME2 came out, the entire board was just filled with ME2 threads from page 1 to 10.I'm actually somewhat puzzled by the modern sentiment of "akshually ME2 was the worst game in the series". You were lapping it up and begging it for more back then, you disingenuous little shits.
>>722206043I don't post in those threads but I feel like a megasperg about the game because I have zero problems with the difficulty at all, but the fact that they specified Hornet is not a virgin pisses me off. Yes, I want every single last female character in every videogame as pure as freshly fallen snow so I can fantasize about her as my waifu, fuck off with your used goods shit.
>>722206152>You know, on one hand you are right and I hate that I have become as politically obsessed as I now am. I hate the fact that trannies piss me off. But on the other hand I physically can not restrain myself from taking the bait and letting people who don’t give a shit about me toy with my emotions and waste my time:|
>>722206152Don't feel bad anon, no matter what people say it is incredibly hard to separate the art from the artist
>>722175186
>>722206261I didn't like ME2 even back then. I played the first and I loved it but I was disappointed by the sequel that I never even bothered with 3. It seems I dodged a bullet.
>>722206284I'm tired anon, tired of being annoyed but tired of stuff that annoys me being there in the first place when it didn't used to be. 90% of what I play these days is older stuff released before like 2010 purely because I know I can play anything from then without worry.
>>722206310I don't really think it's an unreasonable thing to not want to spend your money on mentally ill assholes you don't like.
>>722206152This is because you spend all of your time on a website that constantly screams at you about all of this. Get off of the internet.
>>722206336He's right. Shilling is only bad when the game is shit.
>>722206478Ignorance is bliss but it doesn't get these faggots out of my vidya hurr durr.
>>722206489I mean, advertising just as a concept isn't bad, no but the shit that's been the case on /v/, especially recently where the literal ENTIRE fucking board is flooded with paid posting and the thread creation limit is lifted to slide non-ad threads off the board is pretty inexcusable.
>>722206152just let it go, brotha. it's not going away. its always been there. play the game, if you're having fun great. if you aren't drop it. you don't have to dig into the dev, voice actors, whatever the fuck to justify a disliking of it. That kind of obsession is going to make you ill, speaking from experience.
>>722206553There was never a time where everyone working on every game was someone you would personally like in real life. The only difference is that nowadays you go out of your to look up every single person who worked on every game after you play it because your brain has been poisoned by the internet.
>>722186343I very rarely post too because whenever I make an effort post or a reply I realize that the original effort posters in that thread have fled and I only get bait replies from newfags
>>722206705Try reading the post first feller.
>>722206420Same wavelength anon, but there’s no sense in being despondent about it. That’s all I mean.I avoid the Sphere Hunter too, but that’s as far as it gets for me. There is no sense in dwelling on this stuff.In fact, if you ask me, dwelling on it only serves to legitimize a lot of the virtue signaling that the people who annoy you do. You’re giving them the negative attention they crave, validating their narrative of oppression.Do yourself a favor and turn that despondency into patience or at least apathy. A cabal of ideologues doing annoying shit for attention is a problem that’s hardly unique to the medium of video games. It won’t last forever.
>>722206341ME3 is a vast improvement as far as gameplay goes and is probably the first time it felt like a mechanically solid game in its own right rather than a rebadged KOTOR or a half-assed GoW clone.Just imagine how utterly awful the original ending was for people to remember ME3 chiefly for how hard its story shit the bed at the very end and not for any of the preceding 90% of the game. Or for its multiplayer, which is a rare case of a seemingly obvious tacked-on online feature suddenly turning out to be one of the game's strongest suits.
>>722172494I only remember like an initial excitement for it though. After that I didn't pay much attention because I thought it was a shitty earthboundlike and assumed it was ass because of it being associated with tumblr similiar to how depression quest on twine was. Jesus there was so much retarded shit back then
>>722185276I have no social media accounts for that reason.>>722184169Based. They're finally releasing a new Gretel and Hansel game btw. After so many years. Maybe it's relevant to other newgrounds fags ITT:https://gretelandhansel.com/
>>722206018True for oldfags at least>>722206052I rarely check it anymore it's such a shithole now. I used to go there daily from 2008 to around 2017 and then just took a break from 4chan altogether then came back few years later.
>>722179387>2010 was 15 years ago
>>722206739The worst part is that the bait is low effort too. It used to be very clever bait.
>>722205929Nope, that's pretty much how it worked back then. /b/ was the old ante-chamber of 4chan. Everyone who came to the site typically first went to /b/. This of course lead to it's own problems when folks got tired of /b/ and looked at the other boards. After GG, 2016 and the dawning of the culture wars, the ante-chamber changed to /pol/. My primary board progression went /b/ > /v/ > /tg/
>>7221840084chan getting hacked was a better and funnier april fools compared to april fools jannies gave us. Also fuck waiting 120 seconds to post. What the fuck is this gay nigger shit.>>722184120I remember going on sharty /pol/ and those little shits thought posting Ukrainian guys asshole (Yeah I'm talking about nickocado avocado guy) would shock us and make us go away. That's literally nothing, I've seen worse shit.
>>722206763I don't want to be apathetic though, I used to be passionate for vidya but I feel like I can't anymore because if I ever look beyond the surface I find disgusting things I cannot stand. It bothers me at a fundamental level knowing that the person who made a game I'm enjoying hired, and by extension likely supports, a narcissistic paid content creator who puts on makeup and pretends to be a woman and has done porn where he takes it up the ass before. I hate having this knowledge at all, but it sickens me even slightly being associated with it by any extension at all.The closest comparison that I can think of is that I used to really love the movie Jeepers Creepers, thought it was one of the best original horror movies of the 2000's, and then I found out the director was a pedo. It just makes the entire work feel tainted.>>722206705>>722206724This is good advice but at the same time I feel like I could reasonably get along with the types of people who used to make vidya, any disagreements I would have would be minor when it comes to people like Gaben or the id software crew, but now the industry is pervaded by people that I cannot respect at a basic human level, and it especially perturbs me because it feels EXTREMELY pervasive. If this was a rare thing I would probably care a lot less but it seems damn near unavoidable at this point.
>>722207236I wish you stayed over there.
>>722207223>/tg/I'm sorry for your loss
>>722206989Goddamn that takes me back
>>722182495This. It doesn't fucking matter if you play the game when you under shipfags and fandom dick suckers accusing you of not playing the game because these niggers take criticism of their favorite game as a personal attack. Shit happened with me on Coffin of andy and leyley threads an anon seethe infinitely because I proved I knew what I was talking about how the mom actions don't make any fucking sense vs. the way she was potrayed
>>722205780Damn right. Some of these may not be early 2000s but I feel like it fits.
>>722195870Mine isn't the largest but it's pretty big at 78k pics.
>>722207317Nah I don't like hanging out with 12 year olds, also the website apparently has cryptominer at least that's what I recall from kiwifarms.
post your oldest image and prove you're not a zoomergo to your /v/ folder, sort by date, oldest images at bottom, right click properties, date modified is the timestamp from when you saved something
>>722207410Why were lush tropical islands the dominant aesthetic back then?
>>722207223It feels weird looking back at all the old images that depict /v/ as some eternally pissed off super gatekeeping ragelord and now /v/ is full of the exact type of scum it used to hate.
>>722174919it should be illegal being this fucking based
I remember 9gag being the butt of the joke of everything and being the most popular normie meme site.
>>722207457/v/ is the only board that gatekeeps at all. There's a reason that woke devs are eating shit left and right, and shit like MTG is still going strong.
>>722207508I remember when it was eBaums
>>722207457unfortunanely GG and 2016 attracted so many retards its not an exaggeration they probably outnumbered actual anons 1 to 14
>>722207428
>>722207249>I feel like I could reasonably get along with the types of people who used to make vidya, any disagreements I would have would be minor when it comes to people like Gaben or the id software crewThat's called a parasocial relationship and it's unhealthy. You never knew any of these people. You never knew what any of their opinions were on anything besides the occasional game magazine interview. At no point did you ever have total knowledge of every single person working on a video game because social media didn't exist yet.
>>722174919It's insane to me how all that people took from the Souls series is DUDE EPIC HARDCORE SUPER ASSRAPING DIFFICULT COMBAT LMAO when it's clear the combat is a janky afterthought done by jap devs who don't have a good handle on what they are doing and the whole atmospheric immersive rpg angle is relatively downplayed.
>>722207428this shit is gay unc and if you read most of the posts here you realize most of us were underage b& and grew up here and>implying we still have our foldersbut fine..yaranaika
>>722207559>/v/ is the only board that gatekeeps at allThis is one of the most normalnigger newfag boards in all of 4chan, retard
>>722207580
>>722207656Now read the rest of my post, tranny.
>>722203579I agree. Back then this place wasn't constantly spammed by discord troons, furfags and nazi larping trad /pol/tards.
>>722207249>I don't want to be apathetic though, I used to be passionate for vidya but I feel like I can't anymore because if I ever look beyond the surface I find disgusting things I cannot stand.I’m not asking you to be apathetic about video games, just identity politics.>It bothers me at a fundamental level knowing that the person who made a game I'm enjoying hired, and by extension likely supports, a narcissistic paid content creator who puts on makeup and pretends to be a woman and has done porn where he takes it up the ass before. I hate having this knowledge at all, but it sickens me even slightly being associated with it by any extension at all.I don’t support transgenderism, but you lose me with the affected disgust and complete disdain for transgender people. A lot of those people are victims, and I don’t doubt that the Sphere Hunter regrets doing porn.And setting that aside, I have to say that this problem isn’t nearly pervasive as you insist. You make it sound like there’s a complete dearth of games not made by people who don’t disgust you, and that just isn’t true.
>>722207616I'm not saying I'm literally imagining myself being friends with them anon, what I'm poorly trying to convey is that whatever I could find distasteful about them would be minor shit that wouldn't bother me at all. John Romero isn't a wig wearing tranny taking it up the ass while reading wikipedia articles into a camera for money.
>>722203669Way safer than short form content brain rape apps even with all the gore and porn. It used to be better back then because it had fewer newfags and none of those newfags came from MKULTRA brain rape apps.
>>722207428I lost my entire 4chan folder when my HDD died, I swear
>>722207426>kiwifarms tooYucky!
>>722207559>/v/ is the only board that gatekeeps at all.if /v/ gatekept you wouldn't be here
>>722207791>genderYou're one of them.
>>722204121my first exposure to kpop, it also gave me an azn fetish. I still listen to kpop from time to time.
>>722207580Lol imagine still being assblasted about gamergate, get a real job you failed journo faggot.
>>722207791>but you lose me with the affected disgust and complete disdain for transgender people. A lot of those people are victims, and I don’t doubt that the Sphere Hunter regrets doing porn.You need to leave.
>>722207236>nickocado avocado's assholeHave they've been to modern /pol/? A lot worst shit get's posted there
>>722207321Used to be, you didn't even need any other boards. But not anymore. I don't think there's a more miserable landfill of a board on this site than today's /tg/, barring the usual suspects of course. I miss it so much, man.
>>722181721I WANT TO BE WITH YOU
>>722205494>>722205565>blaming outsiders for why a community is bad>too lazy to think of the real reasonsthat's a pretty natural response t b h
>>722207864I’m not. I don’t like to play divide and conquer games, just video games and board games.
>>722207842I don't like kiwitrannies either I just took refuge there when the website was down.
>>722207986Then stop using their made up words.
>>722177458I was fucking in that thread it was so glorious. I have that audio as an mp3. >What the jews heard during the holocaust
>>722207912Feel called out?
>>722207792>whatever I could find distasteful about them would be minor shit that wouldn't bother me at allBut how would you even know that? You don't know anything about any of these people. Did you know that the co-founder of interplay trooned out in the 2000s? No, because there was no social media where you could look up his twitter accounts with his disgusting face. Can you tell me anything about every programmer who worked on deus ex? No because they had no social media back then. You made assumptions about people you never met or knew anything about.
>>722199606I miss Maria x Holic so much, man
>>722207986Expressing empathy for troons makes you lower than dog shit. Get out and don't come back.
>>722207912I mean, that post told no lies. You didn’t have to be a journo to be annoyed with GG.I remember looking around at the board while it was happening and seeing a lot of people who didn’t have any interest in identity politics gradually becoming obsessed with them.
>>722207993I lurked there too, but your cancer is inoperable if you made an account.
>>722207946I haven't been there in years, but what happened? What can be worse than consisting of quest threads with a token 40K thread here and there, like it was before /qst/?
If you don't remember the first Harmony you don't belong here
>>722207993Your whole thing seems to be disliking shit. Hope I’m wrong.
>>722205536I agree with everything you said in your post except BG3 but granted I'm good at ignoring faggotry and focusing on the good parts of a game. But yeah playing and posting about dark souls and stalker in the early 2010s was pretty damn comfy and I was about to mention those as I was reading your first paragraph. Too bad DS got flanderized in DS2 and DS3 as a boss rush git gud game.
>>722208046Blasting your personal life on social media at all is reason enough to hold contempt for someone.
So /v/ did he divide us?
>>722207912>Lol imagine still being assblasted about gamergateMake no mistake, watching it happening live was really funny, but its undeniable GG was ground zero for every single fuckery that has been happening in vidya and media in general
>>722208058I’ve probably been here longer than you, and my BFF Jesus Christ wouldn’t agree with you.
>>722207993I went there when the hack happened, it's a godawful shithole as bad as reddit. I actually like forums, but that place was just a circlejerk session around their fat retard admin.
>>722208221>but its undeniable GG was ground zero for every single fuckery that has been happening in vidya and media in generalAnd that's why eunuchs won't stop bringing up the issue in every single internet history thread.
>>722208224Even if that were true it just means you've been a piece of shit longer than most. Get out and never come back.
>>722205536I still find niche stuff here sometimes but I feel a lot of the people who like really niche games moved to boards like /vrpg/.
>>722208324I shan’t.
>>722208058>>722208324>tranny derangement syndromesad
>>722208369>kick in your door>shit on the floor>everybody walk the dinosaur>"wow you sure are obsessed with me lmao"
im such an oldfag rawr x3 p3ngu1n 0f d00m!! so rand0m i rember you had to download mods from the gmod site
>>722208308>I went there when the hack happened, it's a godawful shithole as bad as reddit.It’s like Reddit and SA has a baby with fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s hilarious.
>>722205536You sound like some low IQ poopbrain. Your whole post is garbage and highlights your stupidity by the way.
>>722208135Quest threads were at least something. Now all we have are generals, culture war bullshit threads, bad iterations of D&D and Magic hollowing out any discussion of them by appealing to the worst fucking people imaginable, a retard from Reddit making nonstop inane question threads and zombie bumping them for months, a paid WotC marketer derailing threads, and content net threads for Youtuber assholes.
>>722208453>GUYS REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE SHIT ON THE FLOOR LAST WEEK??
>>722207931I feel like some of them have never been to 4chan.
>>722208453>NOOOO BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TWITTER SCREENCAPS I SEE ON /v/get off of /v/ and the twitter screencaps will go away
>>722207321Generals really did a number on the board but I still like it. Definitely not as much OC as there used to be.
>>722206126not that anon but I've been lurking and posting here since 2006-2007 and I deleted my 4chan folder many times since then, mostly because I was paranoid about embedded sea pea (I even unwittingly saved a few sink pics) and I was a tech illiterate kid so I didn't know how to write a script that sanitized my shit. I think my oldest pic must be from 2014 or so (except the ones I got from archives) and kinda regret deleting everything
>>722208524>LAST WEEK??Uh oh, eunuchs in pretend-we-don't-exist-and-wait for-goyim-to-forget mode!
>>722208529If you read a bit of their site, this becomes obvious very quickly. They think it’s a much scarier and more hardcore website than it is.
>>7222074282011>>722207572eBaums was based though.
>>722205929/b/ used to be worth lurking and posting in before the bbc and celebrity babecock spamI still don't know what the fuck a "babecock" is
>>722207428I don't have a /v/ folder.
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>>722205961not to mention the faggotry and unironic transgenderism and insane levels of ERPing
>>722208369OMFG SO FUCKING TRUE XISTER!!!! THESE FUCKING CHUDS ARE OBSESSED WITH US TRANS QVEENS WE LIVE RENT FREE IN THEIR HEADS LMAO BTW IM ABOUT TO GET BOTTOM SURGERY
>>722208467I reinstalled gmod last year and was super bummed when I realized that garrysmod.org or whatever the url was is no more.
>>722172494More like>play Undertale/deltarune >Don't like the game and gameplay and explain thoroughly why>get called a contrarian by an underage xitter stans and fags who shit and seethe that you would ever have an opinion on what is essentially a friendslop like tumblr gamesglad the mod ban the threads those faggots genuinely deserve it
Being here for a long time doesnt make you smarter or more knowledgeable, in fact some people watch 5000 films each year and are still dumb about what is a good film and what is a bad film.In the same way there is some old farts here who still have no clue what makes a good game and even worse they have been surpassed by the average gaming enthusiast that dont even come here. The diagnosis for this ofcourse is brainrot, since the old fart becomes stuck doing the same thing over and over, his brain stops evolving and it may even start to devolve. We have a lot of cases in this thread.
fine ill spoonfeed you newfaggots all those weird codes that were posted were for motherless
>>722208790>brainrot post
>>722208739you are the one going to reddit and taking screenshots of these people. are you retarded? just stopping looking these people up you stupid faggot
>>722208862NTA but I think the issue is that these people have infested gaming in general.
>>722207223yep it was the gateway drug. That and newgrounds, encyclopaedia dramatica (remember the offended page?), ebaums world, something awful, ytmnd and a bunch others. I introduced a few friends to 4chan in the late 2000s that I'd met in mmos and various online games and forums. One of them kinda hates me for it lol but in the end we consider it a nice experience
>>722208862Found Alicia.
>>722208850I'm sure if you play Planescape 3 more times you will transcend your intelligence.
>>722208862No, no. You and I are eunuchs for wanting to talk about video games on the video games board instead of transgender, sorry, transsexual people. Also literally reeeee get out lol
>>722208903In what way?
I wonder what happened to that nutcase who kept shilling his board here, Anon Talk or something like that. I think he was the main reason captcha got first implemented.
>>722205383The Homestuck pseudo-general in /co/ was easily the most autistic thread I have ever seen in this website, and I have been here daily since 2008.
>>722208963kimmo? he's still around being a schizo on twitter.
>>722208917>encyclopaedia dramaticathat site changed domains so many times ugh
>>722206052I'm surprised real people still go there. I check it out about once a year to see the utter state of it and every time it's full of insane porn generals where mentally ill fags (or bots?) repost the same pics every day. I assume they do it to bait people into posting real (revenge) porn of their exes? That babecock shit is so fucking stupid.
>>722208983Can you spare a moment of silent contemplation for an anon who just thought he was gonna read another fun comic by the guy who made Problem Sleuth?
>>722208983The Glitch cartoon threads are slowly getting there.
>>722209012>dude the trannies are after me i cant get away from them!>anyway i saved a bunch of pictures of trannies in my tranny folder i have on my pc
>>722209049>they do it to bait people into posting realtop zozzle more proof that /b/ was never good, they're been doing that since forever>post things no one else knows anonfed
>>722205506last few times i replied it was actually or konata
>>722205880doesn't help that japs love to overuse tropes and have the most unoriginal stories ever >>722205570I used to hate weebs back when death note was released and people were talking about one piece, naruto, etc. but then I had an animu phase and watched some of the classics. I tolerate it today but I'd watch older anime if I had the time. I wanna rewatch Akira.
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>>722209207That's nothing, they used to speak with typing quirks like the trolls do in the comic.
>>722209205Do you not understand that it's your fault for seeking these people out? Normal people do not have a tranny folder.
>>722209204What was up with the hateboner on anime back then even? I used to be an edgy kid and post it to piss people off but still
>>722209304Then why are these people in the vidya industry?
>>722209304>seeking these people outYou're not fooling anyone anymore, you jew-brainwashed eunuch.
>>722209204Thing :|Thing Japan :O Is what really irks me, like yeah Japan has some stuff that it does better, but just because something is Japanese doesn't mean it is good, let alone superior.
>>7222059184chan is overmoderated today compared to the 2000s. Remember the sea pea spam on /b/? You get banned if you upset one of the jannies or mods or if some butthurt anon reports you for racism. It's still better than signing up on Mr. Shekelstein's data mining privacy raping MKULTRA mind rape attention span obliterating golem plantation and interacting with actual normal people and women.
>>722209363Did the trannies force you to have a tranny folder?
>>722207451Probably to show off how good they can make the water look. Helps that it's a universally appealing setting.
>>722208523Trvth Nvke.I remember when /tg/ would shit out whole game systems because a thread got enough anons interested.I remember helping out writing lore for CATastrophe such as The R.I.G. and The Tekomacer. Pic related was some OC someone made during those threads.Also bait threads getting derailed into the weirdest shit possible was the best. I remember a furry bait threads that got derailed into speculative culture and biology for rabbitfolk because some anon mentioned that rabbits can naturally abort their pregnancy and reabsorb the fetuses back into her body if she feels the warren is overcrowded.
>>722209438Literally, yes. It's the only way to get you faggots to be uncomfortable. Every time, without fail, you faggots become obsessed with me posting these images. Because the mirror cuts to your core.
>>722209537>no dude it's part of my plan to fight the trannies and also uh you're secretly a tranny out to get me too!You sound like a fucking lunatic.
>>722208135I don't know what exactly happened, but somewhere along the lines the board just degenerated into some sort of sludge. - A roster of schizos to rival /vg/- Generals as far as the eye can see, you can f5 for an entire hour and see nothing but generals on page 1- Each and every thread imaginable being hijacked by Amerislop culture war bullshit from the first reply- A board culture that now flat out shuns storytimes, AARs, and general anecdotes out of a miserly fear that youtube vultures will steal the story to make a quick buck- What few threads aren't generals are divvied between WotC garbage and GW slop, with nary a thread in between about a system any more obscure than fucking PathfinderUsed to be, you'd be on /tg/ and have the feeling of sitting around a campfire under the dim light of twinkling stars, listening to unlikely strangers argue on about shit you didn't even know you could be interested in, shit you didn't even know existed. You'd hear passers-by sitting down and telling tales that in all likelihood were half-truths at best, but you didn't care because they were fully entertaining the whole way, and sometimes they'd hit you with the proof that it was all real that would just cement it into your mind as one of those stories you'd tell your kids. There was a sense of camaraderie amongst strangers, everyone was there to enjoy what you could find around the fire. It's all the same shit as the rest of this godforsaken site now. I'd wish for the quests to come back now, but I know they'd end up corrupted too.
>>722209612https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophreniaYou sound like a jew.
>>722184008the chicken jockey that shut down 4chan...
>>722209680>you're a tranny and also a jew Am I in the illuminati too? Do I park black vans outside of your house to spy on you?
>>722206152>still falling for engagement bait type politics and trolling
>>722209764Well you're not denying it.
>>722209729your selfies belong in >>>/soc/
>>722206336it's like what that twitter ceo said, if you post on forums or talk about games you're shilling it and doing it for free. I don't have a discord account but I imagine devs tell their fans to shill their games for free (in addition to hiring armies of jeets and bots).
>>722209813I'm not a tranny. But what's the point when you're clearly a paranoid schizo who's going to accuse me being part of several conspiracies?
What a great way to end this thread. I genuinely hate some of the people who use this website.
>>722209894Oh, so you are a jew.
>>722208917>encyclopaedia dramatica (remember the offended page?)Hell yeah dude! I used to be an editor on that wiki. I actually discovered 4chan via ED. It got me up to speed on the lore and culture of the site. I wonder if my old userpage is still up.>>722209000For real. I remember when they either accidentally lost the domain or had a coup by one of the mods/admins and it got temporarily got changed to "Oh Internet" by some blue haired feminist.
>>722206763in fact politics is founded on divide and conquer and distraction and falling for it is like willingly taking the bait when you're trolled on 4chan and seething uncontrollably and thus feeding the troll. It's a submissive act.
>>722208717I miss Ace of Spades.
>>722209907Alot of newfags come here to shit post instead of discuss
>>722209941I'm not a jew or a tranny or any of the fucking boogeymen you obsess over. Take your meds.
>>722209795Why is it in my vidya in the first place?
>>722210026>Take your meds.>>722209680
>>722207189Yeah I wouldn't mind if it were clever banter but nowadays they just bait you into writing an effortpost and then they give you some tldr/kys troon response.
What are some tips on mass filtering threads for /v/? Trying to get rid of Nintendo/console war threads
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>>722209972>some blue haired feminist.lol, she was the founder of ED
>>722210071That is by (((design))).
Do you guys remember video games and having fun online
>>722210224Do you remember when people here didn't try to defend trannies?
>>722210271I’ll take that as a no. I remember people thirsting for Linetrap.
>>722210224Fun is a distraction from fighting the trannies.
>>722210106Yeah, that's right. I'm hazy on the details because it was close to 20 years ago when that shit went down and I was a teenager at the time. Like I said, I remember it being one of the admins that did it. I couldn't remember the details surrounding it. I remember hang out in the IRC chat and just shitposting with folks all the time though.
>>722210332This, but the jews, who use their eunuchs as a distraction.
>>722207451simple to render (compared to a city or forest) and quite aesthetic and exotic plus it fit the aesthetic trends of the 2000s so it felt trendy
>>722210316Why the fuck are you replying with anything except an acknowledgement that they don't belong in videogames? This is what I'm talking about, there should be no defense of this, only universal disgust and hatred towards them. Why the fuck are you here?
>>722210447>Why the fuck are you here?Well you see there was a time when 4chan wasn't obsessed with trannies so he probably got here before then.
>>722210447Why should I hate them? I pity them.>Why are you here?To post about video games, but the annual nostalgic about 2000s 4chan thread caught my attention.
>>722172076Gamergate.
>>722210548Pitying narcissists who despise you and are actively trying to make your hobby worse is suicidal behavior.
>>722207792you don't understand that even though a person may be generally unlikeable, incompetent or even vile or dangerous (even to you), he or she can still produce things that you can use or enjoy. It's not like it will infect you like a virus.
>>722210512THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU DEFENDING THEM YOU DISINGENUOUS NIGGER>durr I just want to post about videogames :^)THEN WHY DO YOU COME CRAWLING OUT OF THE FUCKING WOODWORK TO DEFEND THEM
>>722209617Even the situation with the tg wiki is shameful. I wish the mods would put the wiki back up in the sticky. IDK why they haven't done that yet.>You'd hear passers-by sitting down and telling tales that in all likelihood were half-truths at best, but you didn't care because they were fully entertaining the whole way, and sometimes they'd hit you with the proof that it was all real that would just cement it into your mind as one of those stories you'd tell your kids. Going back through the suptg archive is the best. So many GOATed threads from the old days that are a treasure to read through.
>>722210627This, most trannies are batshit insane to the point where they would murderer you for misgendering them.
>>722210674That's true, but I don't want to support people like you describe in the first sentence.
>>722172586kek I still can't believe how many retards fell for this and cornelia
>>722208148it's a forum for mentally ill people hating on other mentally ill people.
>>722210682Holy shit calm down.
>>722210627I seem to be weathering it just fine. I can think of maybe one or two other groups or organizations that make my life much worse, much more often than annoying transgender game developers. Those organizations might even be hoping I get more hung up on the trans game devs than them, hint hint.
>>722210781>If I cover my eyes and stick my fingers in my ears then the problem isn't there!You shouldn't have to. They shouldn't be there in the first place. The fact that you can get banned on any site outside of here for calling these freaks out should bother you.
>>722209617>Used to be, you'd be on /tg/ and have the feeling of sitting around a campfire under the dim light of twinkling stars, listening to unlikely strangers argue on about shit you didn't even know you could be interested in, shit you didn't even know existed. You'd hear passers-by sitting down and telling tales that in all likelihood were half-truths at best, but you didn't care because they were fully entertaining the whole way, and sometimes they'd hit you with the proof that it was all real that would just cement it into your mind as one of those stories you'd tell your kids. There was a sense of camaraderie amongst strangers, everyone was there to enjoy what you could find around the fire. It's all the same shit as the rest of this godforsaken site now. I'd wish for the quests to come back now, but I know they'd end up corrupted too.Well said.
I can't wait until this culture war shit ends. Left, right, what the fuck ever, both of you get the fuck out of my hobby already.
>>722208308I suspect most of those people are cluster a mentally ill fags. Basically the troon/lolcow archetype.
love you guys 4evar
>>722210965I try to keep in mind that a lot of these guys are probably teenagers.
After digging through old files I found an old shitty screencapture lol
Why didn't you listen?
>>722210965>implying you aren't part of the tranny army trying to psyop me into giving up my righteous crusadenice try
>>722208467I still remember being butthurt about garry banning me on facepunch
>>722210978same but not in a gay way
Eternal reminder
>>722208903they'd KYS themselves if they got no positive or negative attention
>>722211023I did! I got so fed up with the site that I quit it entirely for years, but then the rest of the internet started running laps around it with regards to posting the dumbest, most inane shit imaginable nonstop.
>>722210965>I can't wait until this culture war shit ends.Anon, I don't think it's gonna end, like ever...Well, what makes you say that in the first place though? Can't say I'm optimistic like you sadly, I expect things to get worse.
