why do you come to OT?

someone needs to break up the circle jerk of lamecheese_game619

laughs, the community, news, discussion (when it's possible)

the very special people

why do you come to OT and why do you return after leaving the site?

it can't be because the topics intrigue you because all the topics here must be boring or the mods will lock/purge them.

 

my guess is that people enjoy discussing religion and politics and then complaining that all they see are religion and politics topics.

4myAmuzumament

The truth? I dunno. It's just there on the list of GS subforums. If OT was at the very bottom, I probably wouldn't know it existed. The farthest down I usually go is the PS3 subforum. 

Been asking myself that for damn near 10 years after multiple rage quits. 

Boredom AussieePet

[QUOTE="AussieePet"]Boredom Toph_Girl250

to get depressed.

I come here to OT to post with a good group of posters even though there a few bad ones thrown in.

It's an epic tale, it's going to take a while, it happened long ago....

It started out years ago during a weird turning point of my life where things were getting deep and I was reflecting on myself, not liking the person I was becoming I started looking into communities, looking for new friends basically and tried out various online forums for things which I was interested in. I've always had a thing for gothic subculture and I've carried gothic tendencies with me since early teens, I've never been hardcore (you won't see me in all black) but I found myself wanteding to delve into that side of me more. So I started out in this site called VampireFreaks to discover if there was any scenes in my area, to meet new people with similar interests, plus I was single at the time and getting bit desprate (mega dry spell, actually this is probably the real root of the problem). With all this I may begin to sound like a bit of a loner but that was never the case, I just didn't like the townie, larger louts I was beginning to find myself asosiated with. Anyway, VampireFreaks turned out to be full of pricks, so I abandoned that place.

I want to shorten this so I will skip the fact I eventually found myself at Gamespot forurms, having been using Gamespot as a source of my games information for some time before discovering it had such an active forum, I ended up joining in topics quite often acting the antagonist, often going against the grain on purpose because as clique as it sounds I could never stand to conform or to pretend to have a compasion for tragidy to strangers. I realised this often made me out to be a troll, which wasn't my intention.

I ended up finding what I was looking for in the end, it all happened all a sudden. I met up with a girl online, just the type I was after, piercings, rock music, dressed like a trashed slut and bisexual as a bonus. Been with her since, going on 4 years now. As we stuck together we started to meet more and more people like us and so a circle of friends grew. At the same time as all this, I had also taken up surfing from which an entirly different community grew and eventually they both merged together.

So why do I still take part in the Gamespot forums....

I don't know....

Maybe because my visits here during that weird time I found some confort, I felt like I was part of some community. I found some satisfaction of being commenting on, even if it was some guy slagging me off I enjoyed the attention the fact somebody had read something I wrote, and those times when people praised my opinions or complimented me on a story, it was like a minor orgasim. I was devloping a persona, but I carried that persona with me into real life, adn with that I was less confused, my life improved.

When I'm crap reading on the net with an early morning coffee or an evening beer, I find myself drifting here time again.

Obviously to get the lastest news on games! haha I mostly come here to kill time.

Generally, it's just to expose myself to points of view other than my own and to hear the rationalisation for those points of view. No matter the thread, there's always someone saying something interesting. I won't always agree, but it always interests me.

boredom_kills