Originally Posted by Synthgirl

I dunno what to tell you, I've always just been a bit of a shy person when communicating over text with strangers. I had very low self esteem when I was younger and strayed away from sharing my opinions. I'm not antisocial, I'm just generally pretty reserved, even IRL.

I also grew up in the "tits or GTFO" era of the internet and that did a pretty large amount of psychic damage.

I'm working on myself, meeting my partner over the past year has helped a lot with my self confidence.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well the best thing I can tell you as someone who dreads social interaction IRL and always assumes that eventually "They" will find out what a piece of **** you are and cast you out, and I include MB in that, but here I am over a decade later cause as long as you don't talk about how much you want to **** children then people will tolerate you.

Originally Posted by Synthgirl

Sounds good! I'm getting over my apprehension with posting, thank you for approaching this with understanding.

Originally Posted by SGR

Which mix of The Stooges' Raw Power do you prefer though?

Originally Posted by Synthgirl

Honestly not sure which mix I've heard. I'm way more of a The Idiot kind of gal.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by jwb

Who were the people you were scared of in the years 2007-2010? I can't help but think these people shaped your entire MB trajectory, and may continue to shape it still.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

There's the original mix, the Bowie mix, and the Iggy mix which Iggy mixed himself in the 90s by just turning all the knobs up to 11. The latter is the mix we're waiting to kill you if you don't prefer.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Synthgirl

I mostly just remember them posting stuff like saying in the classical forum that their favorite classical composer was Mariah Carey.

Perhaps I unfairly lumped them in with the others, just a weird member that stuck in my mind.

Originally Posted by Synthgirl

Oh yeah, another member whose posts I always loved was Franco Pepe Kalle. I hope he's doing well.

Originally Posted by SGR

The internet was the wild west in the late 90s/early '00s. It's become both better and worse since then.

Originally Posted by Synthgirl

I dunno what to tell you, I've always just been a bit of a shy person when communicating over text with strangers. I had very low self esteem when I was younger and strayed away from sharing my opinions. I'm not antisocial, I'm just generally pretty reserved, even IRL.

I also grew up in the "tits or GTFO" era of the internet and that did a pretty large amount of psychic damage.

I'm working on myself, meeting my partner over the past year has helped a lot with my self confidence.

Originally Posted by SGR

In some ways though, you'd think communicating over text anonymously with strangers would allow you to be yourself more, wouldn't you? Besides the whole "tits or GTFO" thing which we'd never countenance around here.



I don't know, I didn't view it as just that, I'm also thinking about how web design as a whole has become much more sanitized and uniform - every successful website copying everyone else - the rise of search algorithms propping up sites based on ad revenue, bla bla bla. I'm sure you remember when the design of different websites seemed to be completely unique - you'd have flashing graphics in weird places, ugly color contrasts, hyperlinks to random crap everywhere. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but the internet back then felt more unique, DIY and genuine.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well the best thing I can tell you as someone who dreads social interaction IRL and always assumes that eventually "They" will find out what a piece of **** you are and cast you out, and I include MB in that, but here I am over a decade later cause as long as you don't talk about how much you want to **** children then people will tolerate you.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yeah the indie dweebs are gone and it's much more about your idiosyncratic music taste even if there isn't a ****load of people here to talk about how much you all like the Arctic Monkeys or whatever.