which ilx poster has had the most transformative effect on your life?

aero, stevie and alex in MTL have all saved my life (literally) off-board. I knew aero before ILX but met the other two through this site. Thank you, site

Scott and DJP are my favourite posters and have most influenced my outlook on life

maura and katherine are two of my favourite writers

estela is my favourite comedy entity

alfred and lex's cultural digestive enzymes are so oblique to my own and it's been amazing to get their perspectives

Milton Parker and sarahel for challenging me on my bullshit

VG and emil.y for being compassionate and funny

I knew wgw before ilx also but he's always the entertainment and frankly his end-of-year compilations would keep me logging in til dead

Everybody else contributes so much there were some posters I didn't like but I don't see them much any more

just control-F'd this page and I'm kinda relived I haven't transformed anyone's life

la lechera and UMS!

tylerw too

ooh yeah tylerw has done the lords work on the Pink Floyd thread <3 <3

Rex Sweeney, a now mostly forgotten poster who confined himself to Ask A Drunk back when AAD was a living, breathing entity. He was the heart and soul of the place back when AAD was almost the only thing keeping me propped up and functioning.

dan m transformed my life

scott turned me on to an incredible amt of great records.

outic upper mississippi shakedown alfred tylerw sleeve joan crawford la lechera vegemite girl noodle vague calzino fgti mordy mh flopson and others even if "transformative" means finding others who like the same bad dylan album you do or a bunch of other small things that add up, thank all of you really

― marcos, Saturday, October 7, 2017 1:49 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

i'm a bit too shy to name names but i discovered this site when i was 16 or 17 years old and still read it daily 10 years later so u could say it had an impact ya

hopefully my answer is obvious

oh actually one that i'm not ashamed to say is that BradNelson has introduced me to like, a half a dozen of my favourite albums of the last few years, and in the process has gotten me to rethink and ultimately completely rewire my tastes in rock music, in a way not unlike how '07 era teenybopper/r&b crews did

frogs, clouds, nxd, brim, and everyone else on the vaporwave thread. I salute you

Number one for me is Aldo who challenged me on eating cheese on some terrible old thread about vegetarianism, and because my arguments just felt like rote bullshit, it led to me doing some actual research and really questioning my dietary choices, and as a result of that I went vegan. Have now been vegan for over ten years and apart from improving my health and introducing me to a shitload of excellent new foods, it really fucking rearranged my head and made me question so much more about the assumptions that my worldview was built on. My wife went vegan too so her life was changed as well. Maybe this would've happened anyway, but Aldo's was the hand that gave me the final shove through the door. Kind of ironic that he's a meat-eater I guess.

That aside there's a whole bunch of other people that have made me just plain *think more* and I'm really grateful for that. Don't want to start listing people cos there are many, but I do want to give a shout out to Kate and Lex, both of whose presence I miss

Sorry for earnest

miss lex so much </3

candidly I used to hate RJG for how clever and funny he was but he made me try harder (or lurk more)

I miss RJG and a bunch of the other mid-aughts UK crew a great deal

miss silby

i miss (person who probably still posts under another name and everyone but me knows about it)

silby still posts every day + is active on twitter

tim f, lex, and vahid had a transformative impact on my taste in music at an age when i was voraciously soaking up everything that altered my mind. i'm so, so thankful that they shared their opinions here and that i got the opportunity to be influenced by such incredibly intelligent people. but more than any specific person, the depth and sincerity of some of the conversation on ilx as a whole humbled me when i needed it and has made me a more empathetic, more thoughtful person

Qualx if that was directed at me I've been posting for over a year or so.

I am
A noob and longtime lurker

xp otm

one person i'm frickin pissed doesn't post here anymore is some dude

Been thinking about this and the honest sad answer is "none have" I think; I'm newish to the site and I don't think my life has transformed in any appreciable way since, certainly not positively

That's my fault tho, I can definitely name posters I ought to have learned from. Hoos, goon tie, noodle all sources of inspiration and wisdom.

Darragh and Louis I can disagree with forever but stick us in a room and I think we're on a wavelength - that prob goes for most of you fucks to a lesser extent

wins otm

one person i'm frickin pissed doesn't post here anymore is some dude

― flopson

yeah, I liked his take on popular music, he pointed me towards some cool Bmore DJ stuff

Oh and the poster I'm most like "wait are we sure this isn't me?" might be a passing spacecadet

Week of Wonders (Ross)
Posted: 8 October 2017 at 00:50:47
wins otm

And I like Ross, who I'm afraid I never really noticed before the twin peaks thread. Corny as it is I feel fondly toward everyone I shot the shit with over those three months when that show was airing, I guess that's my equiv of that eagles thread.

aw Wins :)

and yes i'm a spacecadet

yeah twin peaks thread meant tons to me

:-) just to be clear tho the first para is referring to the ilx poster "a passing spacecadet"

Every post on this thread that doesn’t mention me just makes me want to work harder

wait ross are you a passing spacecadet?? (xp)

also agreed re some dude, i would visit ILM more than once in a blue moon if he still posted there

Also a couple of years ago when I made fb acquaintance with a certain Joan Crawford he said the kindest things to me that I didn't deserve

Xp no aps and Ross are not the same

i think of tombot every time i hear 'jailbreak'

tim f, lex, and vahid had a transformative impact on my taste in music at an age when i was voraciously soaking up everything that altered my mind. i'm so, so thankful that they shared their opinions here and that i got the opportunity to be influenced by such incredibly intelligent people. but more than any specific person, the depth and sincerity of some of the conversation on ilx as a whole humbled me when i needed it and has made me a more empathetic, more thoughtful person

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:29 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

cosign this post 100% (though i didn't interact with vahid as much on the music threads back in the day i don't think). i'm a stubborn asshole so i don't always admit when someone on ilx has changed my mind, but it happens frequently, and i honestly have no idea what my life would be like if i hadn't had ilx. i love you all

and yeah, some dude too. i don't really post on ILM much anymore so i hadn't even noticed he left! he's still on twitter tho

"I thank you" as the vaudevillians said, Shakey, Ross, marcos

just control-F'd this page and I'm kinda relived I haven't transformed anyone's life

― I want to change my display name (dan m)

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

I'm naming my firstborn "rushomancy"

"Transformative" is too melodramatic a word but the answer for me is probably imago, since this is I think the third website we've both found ourselves on (he's been here a lot longer than me though obviously). He's introduced to me a lot of great music over the years and generally seems a good dude. But uh, I'm not great at compliments.

A lot of my favourite ilxors I've never actually come into contact with directly since they tend to comment on things I don't really have anything particularly pertinent or insightful to say about (i.e. basically everything)

right back at you marcos!

El Tomboto I have turned to for hot reads on the Trump administration and being able to break down the breadth of the shitshow that it is into practical terms, have learned a lot from his posts in the threads this year...

the Metal thread regulars practically helped me reintegrate within the genre when I dove headfirst back in after not listening to metal for a few years and being out of touch with the scene...

DJP's posts frequently make me re-examine myself....

too many of y'all to name really

dylannn's missives from japan are one of my favorite things on ilx

I'm naming my firstborn "rushomancy"

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins)

my firstborn's middle name will be "wins". their first name will be "1010".

note: i am never having children

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:54 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:54 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feeling this, and perpetually in the midst of therapeutic engagement as a result of feeling this.

There are lots of folks here who have transformed me. Just being here for a decade and a half and engaging with a gaggle of people who have demanded more of me than I might've demanded of myself in isolation has been transformative. I know I'm pretty much a gag poster to those who even notice my presence, but I'm undoubtedly a better writer and a better thinker and, yes, even a better person because I've spent an unreasonable amount of time in this particular haunt rather than any number of other online hellscapes. I'm genuinely grateful for this place and pretty much everyone who engages with this place.

pvmic most of these entries aren't really transformative

I'm talking changes in my daily routine, serious dedicated changes.

Suzy usually has good lifestyle tips

idk I'm trying to think of one single thing I started doing because someone on here recommended it, coming up empty tbh

There must be something that I just can't think of.