Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

sry

i do sort of wonder if the current ilx lull is about the internet more generally. i am too old to keep up with tumblr/twitter/etc though (probably these are not even the things anymore! probably there is something new), so i will probs continue to contribute to the current ilx lull.

i do miss some old posters.

every time I get fatigued/tired of ILX I trawl through old excelsior threads looking for posts that made me laugh back in the day and I stumble across gems like this:

i know i have many times threatened a mouthrape/arson sat nite but who hasnt think abt it apocalypto is an amazing movie

― ice cr?m, Monday, July 12, 2010 2:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and then I trace them back to their source threads and then I look up and a quarter of my work day has passed

nothing boring about I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

― max, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― thomp, Friday, August 10, 2012 12:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait, what do you mean?

nothing boring about I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

― max, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― thomp, Friday, August 10, 2012 12:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait, what do you mean?

― kanye shiwen (dayo), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:01 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, you know ...

twitter is p amazing imho but Ilx stands apart from all the social stuff in that it's for conversation, which is something the whole Internet has been aiming for forever but barely exists anywhere

every time I get fatigued/tired of ILX I trawl through old excelsior threads looking for posts that made me laugh back in the day and I stumble across gems like this:

i know i have many times threatened a mouthrape/arson sat nite but who hasnt think abt it apocalypto is an amazing movie
― ice cr?m, Monday, July 12, 2010 2:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and then I trace them back to their source threads and then I look up and a quarter of my work day has passed

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, August 10, 2012 1:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol took me sec to figure out what was going on here

nothing boring about I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

― max, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― thomp, Friday, August 10, 2012 12:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait, what do you mean?

― kanye shiwen (dayo), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:01 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, you know ...

― thomp, Friday, August 10, 2012 1:01 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark

wait, how did you italicize all of that

same as it ever was

Twitter has the ease of access - you can start a converastion with anyone, but it's just you two in general, you're making interstng shapes with water in a river.

Tumblr's okay for conversations but no way to really get into it - if people don't follow you then no-one's ever listening. Also watery in its own way - no way to find out that thing that someone was saying about Prometheus unless you remember who.

twitter has an ease of perceived conversation where you can tweet at people you don't know and maybe they respond, whatever, because they don't have to buy into the conversation

on ilx, if you click on a post, you are ~in the conversation~

twitter is p amazing imho but Ilx stands apart from all the social stuff in that it's for conversation, which is something the whole Internet has been aiming for forever but barely exists anywhere

― lag∞n, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:02 AM (7 minutes ago)

what the internet seems to demonstrate is that most people don't really like conversation. they like talking.

re: the politics thread

post-gabbeb (RIP) and tombot/dandy don weiner there's a bit of a more limited range of viewpoints, primarily aligned along the lefty nihilist axis (Morbz) and lefty "pragmatist" axis (most other people). This polarization/isolation is largely reflective of political realities in the US.

that being said I don't really go to the politics thread for an exchange of viewpoints, I treat it more like a news stream.

I feel like its not really fun now is my complaint basically it used to be more fun this is an unfun complaint I know I am totally to blame

yeah p much

ilx would be much less boring if I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX were more active

its also likely that i am more boring now too

xp - yeah, they're rolling threads

ilx would be much less boring if I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX were more active

its also likely that i am more boring now too

― Lamp, Friday, August 10, 2012 1:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I used to make gifs rip

no harsh hardman feelings intended but srs lolz that the guys complaining about ilx being boring r posters who have made little impression on me at all

sorry we couldn't entertain u bros more

makes u think huh

makes me zzzz

u might just be stoned tho

entertainment!

i'd zing w something personal about u but i got nothing.

mordy, ilx poster

when you could start a new board without special permission, those were the damn days. Chairman Meow -- Best Cat Name?

mordy, ilx poster

― Lamp, Friday, August 10, 2012 1:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one of u two used to post as icecream?

mordy.ilx

oh now he know things, so coy this one

shhh mordy finds u boring

More like Bored-y

what the internet seems to demonstrate is that most people don't really like conversation. they like talking.

― contenderizer, Friday, August 10, 2012 6:12 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you are there confusing "most people" with "you", which

Chairman Meow -- Best Cat Name?

I like Anderson Pooper

which one of u two used to post as icecream?

lagoon

nah it was lamp iirc, im nude spock

you guys are all boring the shit out of me right now, fyi

see dumb shit like this is why I've stuck with the same (admittedly stupid) ID since I got here. the "who's who" schtick is so tiresome

xp A friend had a three-legged cat he called Battlescar Galacticat, that's a pretty good cat name

Been lying to everyone the whole time. I'm Alan McGee.

Nah, Alan McGee has been ghost-written by Doomie for the past 10 years. You're an impostor.

as a pretentious teenager I named our cats Sanctus and Benedictus; my mother hated these names with a passion and called them BC (for Baby Cat) and Benny

after years of perspective, my mom OTM

Our 6th grade class voted the class guinea pig to be named "Demon Child" and it was made "Squeaky" by teacher fiat.

which one of u two used to post as icecream?

lagoon

almost posted icecream on the ilx milk carton recently, shit is hard to keep up w/

np: shirley ellis "the name game"

as a pretentious teenager I named our cats Sanctus and Benedictus

Haha wau that is literally the most pretentious thing I have ever heard.

my cats name is mittens - some ilxor

some people really get off on being bored - it makes them "wet"

xp Really I think those are pretty awesome cat names
Might've gone too far in naming your children Gloria and Angus tho

I think you are there confusing "most people" with "you", which

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:49 AM (12 minutes ago)

there you go, zing cru style

ILM doesn't exactly give off an enthused and excited vibe

Then you're reading the wrong threads.