Not really on topic but oh well... haha...

I went to Electric Forest not this past year but for the 2 before that, and plenty of other events including one festival so far this summer... honestly I'm just getting burned out on that festival/rave life. In my teens and 20's I was all about it... traveling around to shows and getting crazy f@#!ed up and hearing bands and dj's and stuff but while I'll always be a rave / festi kid at heart, I just don't have the heart for the lifestyle anymore lol. Not only do I feel old as f@#! going to those events (even though there's plenty of people my own age or older) I just don't experience the novelty anymore. I can definitely see why some people would love it though, especially if they are younger, more social, and/or less experienced. 

Toxic, I do agree with you on the U.S. EDM 'bass music' thing though. EDM sucks and most of the popular shit played at events these days is craaaaap… Europe definitely has a better electronic scene IMO. And Japan. And basically anywhere but the U.S... the U.S. scene has good stuff, don't get me wrong, but it's just drowned out by crap like dubstep and big room house and other stuff that I can't stand. I DJ here at house parties occasionally in town and I'm literally the only dude in town who plays techno, who plays electro, who plays breaks, who plays acid, trance, goa, psytrance, etc. 90% of the DJ's here play dubstep or some dubstep subgenre. There's one guy who plays D&B/jungle/neurofunk, and like 2 guys who play some decent house although not not 100% the kinda house that I'm into, which is proper deep house (not this new shit pretending to be deep house), acid house, New Jersey / New York house, etc. This is a problem in most of the places I've been in the last several years as well, which are mostly in the Midwest since I don't travel too far anymore. (Can't afford it!) The scene has become very homogenized, bland, myopic, cookie-cutter, rehashed... in my opinion. I still have a bunch of buddies who go to every event they possibly can and save money all year long for summer so they can go rage out. To that I say: meh.


Anyway, just rambling here but I guess I just wanted to chime in and say that it sounds like you're having a lot of fun Toxy but I couldn't do it. I'm not into any drugs anymore whatsoever aside from shrooms once in a blue moon and I also have found myself disliking being around huge crowds of people more and more the older I get... last summer I ate shrooms probably once a week for the whole summer and while it was kinda fun at first, by the end I found myself thinking that I just wanna be done with it all because - as surprising as it is for me to say this given my past - I think that sobriety is actually way more fun than being intoxicated, especially when you've already experimented with basically all of the drugs lol. I think that one of my two main gripes about most big events are:

1. the people - basically they either ramble on incoherently about dumb revelations they're having while tripping balls, or they do nothing but talk about drugs, where to get the drugs, who has the best drugs, what drugs they have, what drugs they've done... ffs who cares

2. The productions are way more theatrical than they used to be. When I think of a rave I don't think of gigantic screens and 10 million watt lasers and shit, with effigies and animatronics and whatnot. I think of a super dark room that is fogged out with very minimal lights that are sporadic... I don't wanna be able to see 3 feet away from me. Dark and smoky, baby. I wanna feel like I'm lost. Like I'm alone. I don't wanna be looking at a bunch of sweaty wooks grinding their teeth and smoking blunts lol

I have a bunch of great memories from festivals and stuff though, met some cool people, had some very shady and unprotected sex, took part in lots of shenanigans... it was a good time but at this point in my life I am definitely appreciating HOME. Peace and quiet. No more living on the road! Fuuuuuck that. Being homeless is wack. I've been homeless a couple of times and the shit sucks.

I see no problem with submitting any replay at any point as long as the challenge is still technically open.

That said, I thought that it would be fun to try one of these challenges but I only gave it 4 attempts before giving up. I am not used to roping for several minutes at a time and by the end of the map my hands are in total agony. I love Big RR (it's my favorite scheme, in fact) but doing a whole map in one go? Nah. Can't do it. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome + mild Arthritis = nope. My best time was actually my second run, where I hit 182 something and had a ton of mistakes along the way. By the time I finished my 4th attempt I had to go grab some Ibuprofen.

I remember in the past posting in forums, whatever league it was, and nobody would give me the time of day.

That's how it's been for me forever lol... some people think that if you don't play ranked then you're just a scrub and not worth consideration. Honestly, some of the most epic matches I've ever had with people were who either rarely play for rank or don't at all. There's plenty of players who don't play for rank who are just as good as league players, but that's just my opinion.

As far as past players not self-aggrandizing... ehhh, I dunno about that. They might not have posted publicly about it here but I have definitely had some ego-fueled conversations with some of the people mentioned in this thread (and plenty of others), but that's old news and I don't care. I think that a certain degree of egoism comes with playing a game for so many years and competing at a high level. The good news is that ego tripping seems a LOT less prevalent than it used to be. I don't know if that's due to the fact that activity has died down a lot or if people have simply just matured to a point by which they don't feel the need to act in such a way.

These days I am simply happy to just play and practice and work on weaknesses, and hopefully have some cool conversations while doing so.

Gotcha… although I don't understand why some people feel that a game has to be for rank for it to be exciting. As long as I have good competition I feel tension. I think that the added stress from it being a ranked game kind of saps the fun out of the whole experience, but obviously I'm the minority here. To each their own.

What are you guys meaning by "tense game?"

Quote from: skunk3 on June 15, 2018, 04:57 AM

[attachment=1]

The 2nd image is a collab between me and Kat

Awesome, I stole it from the Team17 discord.

I used to enjoy this game and this community, reading stuff like this makes me glad I escaped.

You should play the game anyway. If TUS irks you, just ignore the site. I largely ignored this site for many years, as you can see by my post count. All in all, there's only a handful of players who I truly cannot stand. Everyone else is fine, even if people can be dicks sometimes. (Myself included.) Most of the people who I dislike the most don't seem to post here very much anymore from what I can tell. I've tried tons of games and nothing keeps me coming back like W:A. I have tried all of the most popular new games and nothing hooks me. W:A is always fun even if I get burned out on it sometimes and need a break. If a bunch of older players came back and started playing frequently it would be even better.

I've been having a lot of fun these past ~2 months or so. My only real complaint is the lack of old schoolers. There's some promising newer players though but who knows if they will stick around. I think my time zone is the main reason why I don't see too many people.