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  1. Oh, I already knew that responses would probably carry an 'either' or 'forum' bias for that reason, though given that there's a Discord server associated with the forum I thought there might be a chatty sort or two that pop in from time to time that could make a pro-chat response. WAITING ON Y'ALL, COME ON, DON'T BE SHY. I will destroy you. I'm in a very similar boat. I got my start in relatively forum-like things around 1998 at the same age. Since then I've usually been a member of some community or another, often smaller ones that don't have eleventy zillion members and posts per day*. The technology has improved by ridiculous leaps and bounds, to say the absolute least! And yeah, I have nothing against chats or such, and do keep up with friends via IM, I just don't tend to look toward it for community stuff. As for social media... eh... I somewhat grudgingly use Facebook to keep up the folks I know that don't really do other forms of internet communication, though I'm blisteringly selective about who I add to my friends list there... I cannot count the number of cousins (plus one aunt) who's friend requests I've blocked with zero hesitation, for example. Somehow missed this in my response. Dammit. I don't have anything against Twitter, though having used it in the past I can't really say that it was for me - keeping myself from being long winded is a bit difficult, so the character limit really kills me on it.
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  2. As much as I hate to admit it I've come to prefer Twitter over almost everything else despite being one of those "ew twitter" people when it first got super popular. It's a nice inbetween, it has the sometimes fast moving timeline and DMs for something longer and more structured. And that's soomething I like. Chat rooms (and this is including IMs and VOIP servers) are good for fast, fun, usually stupid chat. Forums are good for something that's a bit more engaging and requiring a bit more thought and structure. Like this for instance, the question is something you can either give a short response to that doesn't fully explain your side or you can write something long out that gives readers insight to the topic. Had I been asked this over discord my response would be much shorter and less satisfying both to write and read. It's what's so great about both forms of communication. Were someone to write out something huge on an IM people would either ignore it or mock the length. In voice something like that is especially uncommon. What OP said about topics as well, I'm similar in that in IMs unless there is one topic I'm interested in or I'm talking to a couple people one on one about dumb things I'm usually in the background reading it quietly. Forums are much easier to seek out and discuss specific topics you're interested in. Not there? Make a new thread. Maybe people will reply, maybe they won't. Either way the discussion is out there and who knows maybe a month or two down the line someone pops up and replies. Definitely can't do that in an IM. tl,dr: I like Twitter.
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  3. I suppose it depends for me... Forums really run deep with me since I have been frequenting them since I was about 13 years old (now being 25). I have some close friends I met through forum communities much like this, that I still talk to even today- we did move to instant messaging after some point in time, but for many years talked via email, PM, and forum discussion before hand. I am not huge on social media. I prefer more intimate discussion. But I'd have to say that overall, I prefer forums and PM, and then chat. It mostly depends on my moods. Some days I just fancy getting into a chat and being idiotic. Other days I want to have in depth conversations.
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  4. Hey everyone my name is Costa but online i go by the name of 'Cozzie'. I have been watching anime now for about a year and a bit. I enjoy all action animes and stuff like that. I have watched attack on titan, sword art online and fairy tale so far and hopefully gonna watch some more! Hopefully my time on the forums are fun and i get to meet heaps of new people - Cozzie
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  5. Oh my goodness, Please no. First you rejected me and now you wanna destroy me?!
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  6. What did I, what'd I just read. That went so South so quick. Hahaha.
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  7. So many new members lately. Does... does this mean that I'm no longer considered a newbie? ... ahem ... Welcome to the forum! It's a fairly fun and pleasant place filled with lovely and wonderful people, apart from that one guy that smells like old pickles and sits around in the corner talking to himself while fiddling around with a spork... but we don't talk about him, or pay him any attention. He's harmless, I think. Probably. Probably.
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  8. New wallpaper/WM. Will probably keep this for quite awhile.
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  9. I can second this. I'm not a full-time proxy user, but I do make use of PIA for accessing Youtube content that's blocked in the US, as well as on my infrequent forays into torrenting. Zero complaints about their speed or anything else.
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  10. I felt the same way when I first started using it but once you get used to the inconvenience of having to break your very long rant into 140 characters it's not too bad as a whole. Although while I do prefer it over everything else I think it's best used *with* a forum or blog. If writing things on the internet is your hobby having just a microblog isn't going to be very satisfying. You can't really write a 5 page essay on why Clannad is the greatest anime of all time on Twitter, even with breaking it down to 140 character sentences.
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  11. Yep, I (usually) use a VPN, only times I don't is when I'm logging into an account that panics whenever you sign in from an unrecognized device/hates VPNs (like stupid Netflix). Word of warning though to anyone that may read this, if you're going to use a VPN (and I highly recommend you do), don't use something free. That's worse than simply not using one. Your data is collected, it's sold, and you're much less secure. Go buy PIA if you want something ridiculously cheap.
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  12. Personally full metal alchemist came to an end quite quickly but i think fairy tale after 8 or so seasons ended quite weirdly like there is gonna be another season but i haven't heard of a new season so
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  13. I've moved forward a lot, I'm pretty sure I'm near the end of chapter 4 now and my characters are nearly at level 50. I haven't had this much fun with a new RPG series in a while, which is funny considering how goofy this game is. Either way it's still fun, so I'm sore sure going to be playing more of these after I finish this one. Thanks again for the advice.
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