Ages ago, I wrote what was easily my most vitriolic post on the board in response to a shitty attack post by someone I subsequently spent ages thinking was a total dick and who I now think is a pretty cool dude and poster. ILX clearly demonstrates that bridges can be mended if one posts from a place of openness and love. Namaste.
Same and otm.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
yeah, that's happened to me more than once too. and a lot of the times it goes the other way, too, where i was being a complete dick to someone for no reason and then gradually realized that the other person was a human being who was actually really interesting
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
I still hate everyone I ever hated ftr.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
my posting has slowed down a lot, or it feels like it has. i peaked years ago! i don't really have much to talk about on here these days nor much to contribute. i'm not disinterested, but i'm beginning to feel like i want to hang on for one last big poll and then get out. like a heist movie. except I'm heisting music recommendations.
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
lots of the posters i was pals with back in the day i don't really talk to anymore, but that's maybe bc I'm not one who's ever met anyone IRL (except JBR for about a minute, and she's great!)
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
I do believe that every ILXor I've met IRL has been gone from the board for a decade+ at this point.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
now i just post GIFs to watch their fuckin' expression change etc
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
I keep misreading this thread titles as "Why do good people leave ILX?"
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
dear god, why does ilx happen to good people?
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
there's people you thought left years ago but are still around in a new username that everyone but me knows who it is
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
Sund4r hates people? A new facet haha
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
02-03 were fun years for me
w/r/t recruitment, i have done my part by both speaking with people in person and virtually
have successfully gotten a handful of people on board but they all give me the same feedback
also i think these are good but different times
people get nostalgic for the past or for what can't be had
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Who was infinity symbol
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
meanwhile, i still don't have the slightest idea who the infinity symbol is
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
dmac u and i will never agree on socks just tellin u rn bud
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
I mean is that a clue I mean
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
Way I'm feeling rn I'm just gonna disappear and come back as '?'
what are your positions on socks?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
Mine?
Hmm we could extrapolate I spose
Just thought I can't come back as ? because jay batman would kick my ass
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
I'm against socks I think it's a silly business.
Online like.
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
One of my favourite genres of ilxor is people who have been here for like 15 years, always with the same username, and yet are subtle enough to slip under the radar
NZ's own 'etc' being one of the finest exponents of this
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
xp i certainly can't read either of your minds! and i did ask.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
Sometimes yes, but I was joking there tbc.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
i have no desire to connect my various usernames to previous ones bc i don't treat this message board the same way others do, and never have, if people want an explanation
i do think i've gotten old too and am much less profane than before
just livin for the moment and chilin in lyfe now
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
other: when they tore the statscock down
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
Ok guys
Who was infinity
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
Srs now
chexy obv
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
who?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
c21m50nh3x460n, but that doesn't explain who he was back in 02-03
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
but like he says, now chillin in lyfe.
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
oh come on he's not crimso
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
who the fuck is crimso?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
not him that's for sure
― Evan, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
jaymc to thread plz
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
I'd be surprised if chexy wasn't new as chexy tbh
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Who is the sockpuppetmaster of ilx
TWU what's happening to me
He Do the Posters in Different Voices
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
the seemingly decline in big cultural tentpole moments is a factor for me. a lot of what made ilx fun for me was participating in those threads. although i guess a new star wars can be relied upon to come out every year. i think this is especially apparent on the music side. i mean just look at what was #1 for the tracks poll! a song nobody loved.
maybe that's another way of saying lots of good discussion can be found somewhere else, and also maybe that i'm less interested in engaging with the 'culture' nowadays. i will say ilx is nice though in that it's often a refuge from the hysteria present on other social media like twitter, the politics thread is often a good splash of cold water from trump fear.
also unfortunate is the number of shitty posts blanketing the board from posters like infinity symbol which makes finding the good stuff that much harder.
anyway! ilx is dead, long live ilx.
― 龜, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 1:40 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Like online or on our own time?
― Evan, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Dyao so help me
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
it's these two kids:
https://i.imgur.com/cX2mKYS.jpg
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
Johnny Mathis and Mark Cuban
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
Write in vote for I save my best comments for secret ilx chat room bc tbph the ppl there are cooler sors
― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
😮
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Head spinning now
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e4/99/0b/e4990bf906ca52606033de1d330698c3--infinity-quotes-fun-quotes.jpg
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
yea I admit I spent a lot of time trying to rile people up in the old days and a lot of my opinions were flat out dumb. one big moment for me was when I used the word "uppity" in the "is this racist" thread and a lot of people gave me shit for using such a "racially charged word". but I *honest to God* never remembering hearing the word in that context (or just didn't realize it at the time) so I thought all you guys were trolling me so I kept trolling back even harder, and then I looked it up and it turns out it IS a racially charged word, and I wanted to go and say "my bad" but wound up with 68,000 SBs and couldn't post for a while
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
lol I tried to get into the discord chat the other day and I guess it's gone or something. I don't understand the new ways of using the internet.
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
ilx declined when I stopped lurking and started posting regularly
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link