Post by Geneva on Jan 20, 2014 3:35:10 GMT
Hey, Hive, how ya doin'?
Can I get a "Whoop whoop!" for generically named threads? No? That's okay.
So I realised something pretty nifty today. That a lot of the members here I still consider 'Newbies' have actually been around for a couple years. I guess that means ye're not really newbies after all. Which by extension probably means I'm finally in Old Guard territory. Or at least that's how it finally feels. Where was I going with this again? Ah, yes!
Realistically this is probably just another one of those soppy threads that pop up from time to time where a member waxes nostalgia for all the good times on this board and that sort of jazz but I feel a need to put this out there all the same. I love this board. I really do! Even though I'm not nearly as active as I once was and a lot of the members I guess I sort of 'grew up with' for lack of a better phrase have long since moved on. Still, a good few years have passed and I feel some dues are in order. I remember first joining up as a ditzy teenager with a badly painted 1,500pt Tyranid army and thinking, "Wow! These guys really know their stuff!". I remember seeing the old community thread and wanting to join in with the regulars but being too nervous to actually post on it and I remember dispensing stupid or obvious 'tactical advice' on threads just to desperately appear like I wasn't some clueless casual (which, admittedly, I totally was at the time.)
That all feels so long ago now though. And I realise just how comfortable with this board I've become. I've never actually 'stuck' with a forum quite like I have with this one and never really come to know members quite like I have here. True, we're all just avatars with bits of text attached and ultimately will always be more acquaintances than friends because of that limitation but I still have memories here and that's nice. Bizarre because the internet isn't a place I normally forge connections over but nice all the same. And I've learned more than just some 40k tricks too in my time here.
All the tactical wisdom I gleamed from Coredump, Westrider and Striogi. All the laughs with Hellbreaker, Alice, Polly, Tomato and Dangeresque. Seeing the (now not so) new members like Stingray and Space and the old vets who vanished before I familiarised myself with them like Koyori and Hyper Kinetic. The stupid dramas. The goofy threads. And of course Yoritomo whom I think is probably the one person here I've bickered with while also holding immense respect for in the process more than anyone on the board. (The amount of (please do not swear) that guy can take while still keeping an entire forum in line during it's most chaotic hours - he's basically TTH's Batman.)
I'm going to start wrapping up before this gets any gushier but, as someone who somewhere along the line unwittingly stopped thinking of themselves as an irregular upstart and began to feel at home here, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you guys. Whether you know me as the Gorillaz guy or the Pony guy or just that guy who couldn't make a single post without walls of text; thanks for the jokes, the advice, the appreciation, the debates, even all the drama. For an online forum I occasionally log onto every couple of days just to see how things are going, this place has been pretty great. Now get outta here before I start to regret posting this thread in the first place!
Also, since this is already pretty much peaked in regards of embarrassing spaghetti, I was actually super chuffed when that little ranking thing finally hit Hive Tyrant status on my profile all those years back.
Death to Ward, long live the Poni and watch out for communist cacodemons!
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