Holy fuck that avatar..

is there a higher resolution version of that

why have i never done this before??
 currently looking at gamingw.net/forums on the wayback machine

No stop before it's too laaaaaate

*black hole of nostalgia sucks Girl Bones in never to be seen again*

i don't really get nostalgic for old gw posts because i was an awful person back then and so were most of the rest of us

when i look back at old threads i'm just grossed out

haha, yeah pretty much. it's kinda fun to look at the parts i didn't touch, but when a post of mine rears its ugly head, uh oh

you guys too, huh

nah who cares.

all steel posts were good and some people were nice too but ofc i'm not included to that. and yeah fuck old gw. nostalgia might kill new sw than anything but looks like that might not become the case...

lol I got an old sansa at goodwill there were only 8 tracks on it but it was like Final Fantasy Advent Children OST Final Fantasy ocremix Bleach opening #2 matrix 2 trance hause tehcno

edit: also something that I thought was a real song/real music interests for a second but it's the Mirror's Edge theme apparently

I went to the mall in my hometown for the first time in years, and it's more depressing than I can express with words. I've been watching for outside opinions on "what is america" lately, and this is the biggest thing they're always missing. without exaggeration, half the stores were vacant with old signs missing letters, there were lots of people dragging around their crying kids by the arm or hitting them, a crazy guy said "let's get the fuck out of here, I ain't buying anything from the relation of a Jew", and all of this while that snow patrol song that goes "if I just lay here" was playing in the background. I think this is a better representation of the america I grew up in than anything else

From what you describe, that kind of thing isn't just the US. There is quite a lot of that kind of stuff in Scotland too. Replace the jew comment with a different group, since we don't have very many jewish people in Scotland.

Poverty, bigotry, ignorance, and suffering are pretty universal I'm afraid.

Well I just meant the specifically depressing nature of run down malls, retail parks and high streets. My hometown, Airdrie, has had a lot of places closing in its town centre and there are many vacant spaces. The few new businesses get desperate with offers and trying to appeal to the widest possible market quickly. There is an indian restaurant which started off being a proper kind of place and now it's got boards outside advertising two for one deals on chips and curry sauce and it is always empty they're fucked but it was a bad idea to start their business there I guess.

lol you guys should take a trip to Flint or Detroit MI if you wanna see the fuckin' dregs. It's nuts too cuz it used to be the industrial center of global capitalism.

maybe you're right jamie, tho "town center" throws me off. it sounds like there's still some sort of cultural legacy there, and besides there are no town centers here in the american suburbs except for the contrived ones you drive to from your mcmansion

also there are almost no jews in my hometown either and idk if the person was actually jewish. the guy was just nuts in a really american kind of way

lol you guys should take a trip to Flint or Detroit MI if you wanna see the fuckin' dregs. It's nuts too cuz it used to be the industrial center of global capitalism.

from what I've read detroit is pretty nuts and different from other postindustrial cities. like rather than having wealthy cores with poor areas in the periphery, you have these isolated wealthy properties floating around throughout the city. but that's still a postindustrial city OLD NEWS I'm talking post-suburban, the dregs of global shit that was already cheap and artificial before it got abandoned. this is the current trend, and unlike postindustrial urban centers aint nobody gonna revitalize shopping malls, big box stores and housing developments