What's your MGSF story?

[Departed]

My older brother was and still is a huge MGS nerd, so he told me about MGSF and I joined up in 2007 when I was 22 years old.  I was a prick for a while and then an endearing prick and then less of a prick.  Then I left the forum when I got married, came back a few years later after I got divorced because getting married in my early 20's was a mistake.  And by that point, I was pretty much there to stay.

I hopped around a bunch of different orgs until I eventually made my own with Dirty Duck.  For some reason, we changed it and then I think changed it back.  Throughout that time, I became pals with a bunch of you.  At some point, I became an admin for a bit, right around the time MGSV was coming out and we got an invite to the bootcamp event.  I remember, CBJ and I would banter constantly in moderation chat and I'd get a kick out of everyone telling me how wrong all of my MGS opinions were.  It was a lot of fun, and I remember abusing my power by editing everyone's posts to basically pull a Bruce Almighty.

Then I was doing those crudely drawn comics for a while and people seemed to genuinely enjoy them, which was cool.  I toyed around with actually making a crudely drawn game that just played like a straight faced stealth game but with really bad sprites and animations as part of the joke.  Dunno if I'll ever do anything with that but we'll see.

After MGSF died, I went on to make my own youtube review channel that initially had my sorta quick-jabby snark vibe but steadily got more nuanced and analytical (a fancy term for long winded).  I still run that channel and do reviews of games, mostly MGS related stuff.

For half a year, I was teaching basic screenwriting in an afterschool program for high schoolers who were on the spectrum but had a passion for writing.  Loved those kids and loved teaching but education is grossly underfunded and so are the arts, so about six months in, the program was cut along with a few others.  These days, I'm a delivery driver by trade, mostly for all of the gig apps and I'm shockingly making more than I ever did with my other jobs.

And now, here I am, forty years old, and all I can say is...