I'm bored and looking at some forums talking about their size, I look back at this club, and the account I had that was shadowbanned and I can only help but think to myself:

"Damn. Those were some of the best days ever."

I look at the creativity a lot of people had with the minigames, their actions, their "tricks", everything. It had so much time and effort intricated into it all and it was so captivating to be a part of. And the fact that I even was once a huge part of it (okay, not really, but noticable enough to be mentioned in a parody of We Didn't Start The Fire) just is so cool to look back on.

But the more I look, the more I miss it too. I look at all the members who used to I assume mainly would log on and only dedicated their chess.com time to seeing if their sword attack landed or not, and I start wondering what everyone is doing with their lives now. For goodness sake, I did what I thought was impossible for me and I got a girlfriend. I move out of my house I grew up a staple of in a literal week. I've been slowly dedicating myself to the very board game I love and made an account on a website called chess.com for. I start life so soon. Tomato hasn't been online in years, what is he up to? Is he dating anyone, is he living on his own, is he dead? How's Hitthepin and ChessNerd doing with their lives? Hows AustinJetX and NubbyCheeseKIng? RyChessMaster is a national FIDE master, he could beat me 300 times over before I so as little put him in check. So many lives i've communicated with on the countless screens just now doing their own thing after the silly little forum game ended. So many times, and even last year I want and tried to revive this forum game in clubs (I actually got one working! not for long.) because I miss it, but now that I look back, maybe it's better off that way. I don't say that to be grim, but in retrospect I realize nothing, and I mean nothing, lasts forever. It can last 400 years or 20 minutes, everyone and everything will come and go. And it's beautiful. I love it so much. I remember this quote by I believe Doctor Seuss, I quote it all the time. It goes:

"Don't be sad it's gone. Be happy it was here."

It's probably not the exact quote, but it's something of the sort. Simply put, i'm no longer clinging onto the false hope I can see KOTL revive or the chance a member of the community comes back, i'm glad I was a part of it.

And I just wanted to say thank you. All of you.

I don't care if anyone bothers to read the notification for this, but I just got bored and typed all of this.

Also BTW this is @toxic_ness_main, the guy who like was obsessed with Nintendo shit and the sort when these were popular. It still kinda is like that, just it's died down a lot. I remember basing my games off of splatoon a lot, and if i'm being honest, had things kept going and i really wanted to, it would have been Fire Emblem I would have based it all on.

Anyways

I pray whoever reads this has a nice day.

(PS: If anyone has like HorribleTomato's discord instagram anything i'd love to reach out)

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