Why do people leave ILX for good?

Not twenty but you get the point. Place is much chiller

ILX is not 20 just yet

the older I get the less I think anyone really learns anything significant or has their minds changed tbh. Everyone just seems to get stupider and more set in their ways

i learn every day, and change my mind every week. i have learned things from you and you have changed my mind :)

20 years ago I was scared of this place and people called me damaged goods for liking tori. Now it’s chill

― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 06:48 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's amazing how these slights can stick with you. The poster who said that left ilx almost immediately afterwards and probably has no memory of ever being here.

The IDGAF-ness of getting older dovetails nicely with the increasing chillness of ILX (which is probably a function of ILXors getting older). Like the insecurities of youth would have prevented me from admitting as much, but goddamn it I love me some Basia. Eat it, hipsters.

the chillness of ilx as with the universe is due to a decrease of activity of any note and the death of any superstars

save us deems, you’re our only hope

rip

YSI?

entropic heat death ftw

I'm worried Brad left Facebook because of what I said about the Chili Peppers :(

hey Ross, I was going from mostly lurking to actually posting back then and you creating that thread was something that helped pull me out of the woodwork!

no one blame Ross for my posts, please

It's okay, Ross. It's not your fault.

lots of great posts in here! <3s all around. it's almost like this is a real community =)

Old Lunch otm on "The IDGAF-ness of getting older"

I'm worried Brad left Facebook because of what I said about the Chili Peppers :(

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 4, 2018 5:19 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. also it’s just temporary, facebook really try to discourage you from permanently deactivating. but my ilx/general internet experience feels way calmer already

You’re gonna leave us hanging with that dope screenshot countdown

Got a wife, family and barely a job, so free to post as much as I want/need (clearly). But I like the community, and it's gotten to the point that my wife occasionally asks me to hit up ILX to get answers/advice/recommendations, etc. I think it helped that when we went to Montreal and Toronto last year all the guidance I got from ILX panned out, which sort of won her secondhand trust. Why it took her almost 20 years to recognize I was posting here so much, who knows.

Anyway, yeah, there are barely any other websites I hang around, let alone post on. ILX is where it's at, quirks and characters and all. Sometimes feels like a weird family of autodidacts.

I’m damaged goods it’s cool y’all

Mh what do you mean bud? Re woodwork

I don’t think we’re all set in our ways. My ideal would be we all share our disparate passions and there’s no right or wrong. Show me yer passion and I’ll cheers ya

I’m damaged goods it’s cool y’all

― Tosser full of secrets (Ross), Friday, May 4, 2018 10:33 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

New borad description plz.

I was lurking and was thinking, hey, these people really know how to talk about music, no way can I weigh in

and someone just being honest and reflective like that, hey.. I can post too!

Insert poster who loves school yard BS

in case it's not clear I was the first one to respond to your thread

Mh your response was totally cool

ILX is not 20 just yet

holy shit I've been posting here longer since the 10th anniversary FAP than I had been before it. I rescind everything above, I've wasted my life

I'm fine with the slow entropic heat death of ilx. I just put on a sweater.

Cheers to sic still goin strong in the decomposition dept

Sometimes feels like a weird family of autodidacts.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 4, 2018 6:46 AM

my sense too

Why it took her almost 20 years to recognize I was posting here so much

sign of a healthy marriage, mayne

weird autodidacts may not make the best doctors or lawyers, but they do make for interesting conversation on a wide range of topics

Word

the older I get the less I think anyone really learns anything significant or has their minds changed tbh.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, May 3, 2018 7:22 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess it depends on the guise. Politically speaking, I can see someone evolving. From a music or film perspective, I'm not quite so sure.

That post saying I could never be respected as a tori fan tho

Ha, tbf, your own post was expressing shame and a fear of taint from still having CDs like hers and most of the responses were defending your own collection to you!

Srsly, I admire you for even having the balls to link to one of your posts from that long ago. Mine make me cringe more than your Feist CDs probably did for you.

I definitely cringe at that thread

I always learn something new from you assholes.
I’ve changed a lot since I started posting here.

is it maybe that a lot of the ppl you used to react to in a certain way have left, tho

:o

not meant in a bad way!

Even if I stopped posting, which I get the feeling would make a lot of people happy,
I’d still lurk on ilm. So many discoveries and favorites discovered in the past 15 years or so

why cant i quit u ilx

I can’t...quit you...babe

Xxp

You’re one of my favourite posters

Never stop posting calchiefo

Oh word ? Well thanks

yea man I always dig your posts

i like your style calstars

woop woop!
Thanks bros and right back at yous ✌🏻

ya man

i mainly gave up ilx for twitter. this is a a far better place for talking about music, but in terms of all the content-feed and range-of-opinion stuff i used to get from ilx, twitter lets me curate more of the stuff i want, and get less of the same old boring things i disagree with that are expressed at boring length. ilx refights the same battles over and over, each time more rotely than the last -- with twitter or something there's always a new mix at least.