RE: The Great 2016 MSPAFA people remalgamation thread
03-05-2016, 01:35 AM
That's the thing, everyone's gathering around the pot of fun, because everyone else came around. But if you want to keep a community going, you gotta keep pouring into the pot of fun or else people disperse and the remaining will wonder if its worth it to keep stirring up the pot.
If someone could do an Eaglecast, that'd be great, but such a thing might not last if we don't have anything to talk about. I'm absolutely no buttface to talk, being a procrastinator extraordinaire on my projects, but we gotta have a village of people doing things, and different things at that, worth continuing to talk about. That's why we want a Webcomics corner, and my fellow gamemaker peeps, and the old adventure standby, and even just silly Forum games. You can ask Schazer, I came out of Sheep Fatigue to run another round of Sheep because I thought a well-populated (and easy to join/play) game would be a good step for community retention. Which, incidentally, if you want to play and don't know what I'm talking about, there's plenty of time in Round 5, links at the bottom of this post.
I was not around the Eagletimes for like two years once I had met my future (and future ex) fiance, because there seemed to be this sudden shift of importance, where my frequented internet community was slow-as-dead at the same time my real life had gained something that took my attention. Places die, internet communities especially, not just because other things get in the way, but because people stop thinking there's anything left to do or say. When a community flourishes, then, even when you find something else that demands your attention, you'll find it still worth it to spend at least some of your time returning to the pot of fun, even if its not as much as it used to.
So every idea floated to keep Eagletime running with stuff and thangs is worth considering, probably worth trying, and only worth throwing away when it proves to not be worth the time.
Here's how to Sheep: https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=1266
Here's the questions for the latest round: https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?ti...#pid114918
If someone could do an Eaglecast, that'd be great, but such a thing might not last if we don't have anything to talk about. I'm absolutely no buttface to talk, being a procrastinator extraordinaire on my projects, but we gotta have a village of people doing things, and different things at that, worth continuing to talk about. That's why we want a Webcomics corner, and my fellow gamemaker peeps, and the old adventure standby, and even just silly Forum games. You can ask Schazer, I came out of Sheep Fatigue to run another round of Sheep because I thought a well-populated (and easy to join/play) game would be a good step for community retention. Which, incidentally, if you want to play and don't know what I'm talking about, there's plenty of time in Round 5, links at the bottom of this post.
I was not around the Eagletimes for like two years once I had met my future (and future ex) fiance, because there seemed to be this sudden shift of importance, where my frequented internet community was slow-as-dead at the same time my real life had gained something that took my attention. Places die, internet communities especially, not just because other things get in the way, but because people stop thinking there's anything left to do or say. When a community flourishes, then, even when you find something else that demands your attention, you'll find it still worth it to spend at least some of your time returning to the pot of fun, even if its not as much as it used to.
So every idea floated to keep Eagletime running with stuff and thangs is worth considering, probably worth trying, and only worth throwing away when it proves to not be worth the time.
Here's how to Sheep: https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=1266
Here's the questions for the latest round: https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?ti...#pid114918