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  1. Drama continued around here in different forms the whole time I spent here. It's just that 2012-13 drama was different than 2014-15 drama, etc, because the community had changed. It's something I have come to expect from a community of this nature. But hell, all communities have some form of it. Didn't expect to see @Sorryman54 pop up, either. What got your attention? Maybe we should make an Oldfags thread if we want to continue this, rather than get too deep in unrelated conversation inside of a PR...
  2. Wow. Color me surprised too. Would not have expected that. Also yes hi Kadoh. Already sent a PM. I just happened to check in at a very opportune time it would seem. Wild to see you here again. Yeah, those are some big names for me, as well. LucidAcid was a real cool guy. It was painful to personally delete his account and anonymize his posts. As Luminesce said, Glitch is still around on the Discord, but Josh and Yot haven't been around in a while, and I miss Tealeap like hell. The people I talk to most often to this day are people I met in this community. This community is a very interesting one, and there are some types I don't mesh with, but some of the best friends I've ever had I met here, and I kind of wish I had more of an excuse to stick around, sometimes.
  3. Believe it or not, Knapp actually crossed my mind just the other day, even after all these years. She was cool. She was an important part of the community at the time. Would have loved to have had her around all this time. She's still missed.
  4. By popular demand, I've finally gotten around to changing the gross, white-on-black look the guide has had going on. I don't know what I was thinking and actually intended to change it several years ago. I'm sure there are other things I could do to improve the look, but this is all that I can be bothered to do for a guide that I wrote almost 8 years ago and think is not very well-written to begin with. Enjoy. I hope the people who actually still read this won't get as many headaches now.
  5. Hi Lumi. I'm afraid the giraffesona has been officially retired. I was just going through the new black metal releases and saw that one, and it naturally made me think of you folks.
  6. https://natanas.bandcamp.com/album/tulpa-is-taking-over-suicide Who's the trve kvlt black metal-er with the malevolent tulpa?
  7. I am resigning and will be taking my leave of this community shortly. It's been fun. Take care, everyone.
  8. What were the usernames you were trying to create accounts for?
  9. Kiahdaj

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    A record still only sounds as good as the speakers/headphones you listen to it with. There's a lot to be said about record player/setup too, when it comes to reducing noise and such. Personally, when I buy vinyl, it is for the artwork, and or because I feel the particular album is well suited to vinyl. Plus, I'm the kind of person that really appreciates having the physical form of things, so if it's an album I love (and especially if it's nice to look at), it's nice to have the vinyl as well as the CD. I have a few records framed on my walls. The artwork can make for great display. Also, I almost never like colored vinyl. I find it kind of tacky. I think plain ol' black looks the best. I only own one colored record, and I didn't know it would be colored when I bought it. It was ~$10 on Amazon, so I went for it, and it turned out to be white. Oh well.
  10. Our email sending is borked at the moment, so you don't receive the confirmation email when you attempt to change email addresses. Considering this, using a different email won't do you any good right now, because you're not going to be receiving any emails from us, but PM'ing anyway.
  11. This thread is essentially "Make long posts, replacing periods with commas". Grammatical correctness went out the window by the end of the first page. The last several posts are rife with comma splices. Also, semicolons are kind of cheating, too (and not strictly correct).
  12. The fundamentals of this guide are based on things which I feel are much too abstract. You are instructed to let go of the balloon and let it fly upwards to where your tulpa is located in your brain. This is quite a counter-intuitive concept here, suggesting that your tulpa does in fact reside in a specific, physical area of your brain. It doesn't, and unless you've already come to associate a particular area of your head with your tulpa, this part of the symbolism won't be very significant to you. What's more, if the balloon traveling upwards to a specific area in your head where your tulpa is is important, then you would also have to have associated a specific part of your brain with you/your wonderland or something, right? Otherwise, it would be going up towards your tulpa, from a non-specific location. If you're going for symbolism based on symbolic, physical travel throughout your brain, you're missing half of that equation, if you don't have a firm association with where you are starting. Moreover, does that mean your tulpa has to be located somewhere in your brain higher up than where you are located? Otherwise the balloon would be going in the wrong direction. I'm being pedantic here to show that the symbolism that this guide is based on does not appear to be particularly well thought out, and that a person following this guide would probably have to have pretty specific associations to these concepts (that are in-line with your own) for it to be useful to them. You could expand the guide to explain the general concept you're going for—really explain what you're trying to achieve with the symbolism—and perhaps detail multiple different ways that the reader can incorporate your method into their own symbolic associations. A paper airplane could be used instead of a balloon, so that it doesn't have to travel upwards. Something could be thrown over a wall, if the reader has chosen to imagine a wall as a symbolic representation of their disconnectedness from their tulpa. Maybe it would be just as helpful to someone for them to merely imagine giving their tulpa a note or something, containing the idea. Maybe even just hand them the balloon. If you are both present in your wonderland for this, it wouldn't require having associated you/your tulpa with specific locations in your brain, which a lot of people (dare I say most) have not. Those were just a few random examples off the top of my head. The idea is that you should be explaining it in such a way that the reader can choose their own symbolism that works for them, and hopefully giving them a few different examples to help solidify the concept, or spark their creativity. In my opinion, the best guides that involve symbolism are ones which take an idea—in this case, representing the transmission of a thought through a physical medium, through space—explain what the underlying concept is to the idea, and in essence, help the reader to build their own symbolic method. This way, you do not presuppose the reader's own symbolic associations and constructs; you are merely proposing an idea that they can use with their own "tools", so to speak. If the guide is based too heavily on a single symbolic idea, it will be helpful to only a small subset of readers, whose ideas of symbolism match your own. Symbolism is a very subjective thing, and it is only helpful if the symbolism being used is something that resonates with the user.
  13. Maybe it's just a crappy bot that didn't fill out the sections properly. I considered that it intended to put its spam in its signature, but it was not yet visible, because they didn't have 5 posts; however, I would think I would be able to see it in the admin CP, even if it hadn't been "activated" yet, but there was nothing. So I guess my bet is on crappy bot.
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