Anonymous 06/28/2020 (Sun) 17:23:04 No.327 del
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>I used to make things in MS paint that were either topical and in response to the discussion or I'd jut make random characters and see how they play. But I think I grew out of it. Not to say it's juvenile but just because I don't have the energy because I've been focusing my creative energy on books I've been writing.
Obviously there are numerous ways of complimenting the culture as long as you try and put legitimate effort in. Even the smallest bit of effort can improve the place substantially. Interesting that you're trying to write a book because I was going to start one though I'm currently deciding whether to do it in first person or third person. I want to do third person but first person is so much more natural to me so it's quite difficult to adapt. I multi task a lot and I'm pretty scatter brained as well which just adds fuel to the fire of wanting to write something.

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I try and contribute thoughtful responses to threads here, but a lot of them are "how do you feel about X" and too low effort and open ended to generate much discussion. I offered some insights from Herodotus in the Babylon thread but that talk teetered out in a day.
I think the babylon thread teetered out mainly due to lack of interest. Majority of the threads here are made by me. Problem is though is that I'm more of the type who's better at responding to a side than actually starting up a conversation. I have plenty of idea's for threads but putting them up into cohesive thoughts is the difficult part. I think I should work on that more as well.

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One pitfall, I think, is to try and force imageboards to be like when we were teenagers and we had time to kill one Paint and Photoshop projects and our senses of humor were a bit more stupid and it was easier to entertain each other. We can allow the board to grow with us if we share thoughts we have during the day. Things are on our minds, I'm sure, but we rarely unload those things here.
The problem here is that a lot of us usually look at the past with nostalga, This naturally causes us to look at the past as a better time in comparison to today. Thus we simply want to return to the past and run away from our problems instead of confronting our issues outright and trying to fix them. That's one of the main problems that plagues imageboards in the modern era.