Leon Massey is a great gaming video essay guy that you should follow.
This video is about the guys who stayed online while Halo 2 was shutting down its multiplayer in 2010. Leon tells the story of what these folks were thinking, what observers were saying, and what it means as a snapshot of how digital spaces go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-m8TK73MQ
Made me think of this forum for two reasons. First, forums play a prominent role in the video. Second, this forum specifically feels similar to what we see in the video, though not entirely so. The forum is also a corner of the internet that most folks don't know about where some of us, at least, go to experience what the internet used to be like. It made me grateful that a space like this does exist, and makes me want to enjoy it while it's still around.
But also this place is a cool not dying place, don't get me wrong lol
Halo 2 & The Long Goodbye
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Re: Halo 2 & The Long Goodbye
This was some brilliantly done storytelling and editing, I meant to add this to my watch later and close the tab but it totally hooked me in from the get-go, watched the whole dang thing. Really bittersweet ending too
And yeah I get what you're saying about the forums. We're hanging in an echo of what things used to be and trying very hard to keep that echo bouncing around, if that makes any sense ahaha
And yeah I get what you're saying about the forums. We're hanging in an echo of what things used to be and trying very hard to keep that echo bouncing around, if that makes any sense ahaha
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Re: Halo 2 & The Long Goodbye
That was a cool video recommendation. Some of the last quotes from the video hit me hard, how these 14 players were hanging on to the past just to keep a world and memories they were fond of, alive.
And yeah, we can all agree that forums are, in some way, a remnant of the past, a little encapsulation of what the internet was 12-25 years ago, it really hits close to home, just like @QueriesNTheories said.
We're not alone on this endeavor though, there's plenty of forums out there trying to keep things going, some of them attracting new users tired of this recent centralization of the internet. Who knows how the internet is going to look like 10-15 years down the line, but here we are, preserving what made the internet unique for a long time.
I'm worried I might never know, considering how privacy on the internet is getting eroded as we speak, and it's unlikely I'll be scanning my ID in order to use the net at all. Not to mention how AI is corroding what's left of the public internet and destroying social media from the inside out.
Are forums going to be the next Halo 2 before they're no longer accessible?
And yeah, we can all agree that forums are, in some way, a remnant of the past, a little encapsulation of what the internet was 12-25 years ago, it really hits close to home, just like @QueriesNTheories said.
We're not alone on this endeavor though, there's plenty of forums out there trying to keep things going, some of them attracting new users tired of this recent centralization of the internet. Who knows how the internet is going to look like 10-15 years down the line, but here we are, preserving what made the internet unique for a long time.
I'm worried I might never know, considering how privacy on the internet is getting eroded as we speak, and it's unlikely I'll be scanning my ID in order to use the net at all. Not to mention how AI is corroding what's left of the public internet and destroying social media from the inside out.
Are forums going to be the next Halo 2 before they're no longer accessible?